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Trump ally Kris Kobach accepted donations from white nationalists
The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas has accepted thousand of dollars in donations, and has for over a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views
The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas has accepted thousand of dollars in donations, and has for over a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views
quote:The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, Kris Kobach, who has close ties to the Trump administration, has accepted financial donations from white nationalist sympathizers and has for more than a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views.
Recent financial disclosures show that Kobach, a driving force behind dozens of proposals across the US designed to suppress minority voting and immigrant rights, has accepted thousands of dollars from white nationalists. Donors include a former official in the Trump administration who was forced to resign from the Department of Homeland Security this year after emails showed he had close ties to white supremacists and once engaged in an email exchange about a dinner party invitation that was described as “Judenfrei”, or free of Jews.
Currently the Kansas secretary of state, Kobach is running in a tight race against the Democrat Laura Kelly. The election has drawn the concern of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), after the single polling place located in Dodge City was moved outside the town, in what some claimed to be an attempt to suppress the Hispanic vote.
Kobach, who was vice-chairman of the Trump administration’s now disbanded election-fraud commission, is known for his zero-tolerance approach to undocumented migrants and his staunch support for voter ID laws, which critics say unfairly and illegally target minority voters.
But Kobach has gained less attention for his long history of associations with groups that espouse white nationalist views and the significant financial support they have given him since he launched his political career in 2004.
Public financial records show Kobach received political contributions from US Immigration Reform Pac, a political action committee closely affiliated with John Tanton, a retired ophthalmologist who is known as the founder of the modern American anti-immigrant movement.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Filmpje in tweet.twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 15:30:24 Abrams: "It's a little late for [Kemp] to repudiate racist remarks given that he stood with someone wearing an anti-Islam t-shirt. He refused to denounce the same man earlier who accused black veterans of not being people who should support our country." https://t.co/Ic976JXfHG reageer retweet
Abrams: "It's a little late for [Kemp] to repudiate racist remarks given that he stood with someone wearing an anti-Islam t-shirt. He refused to denounce the same man earlier who accused black veterans of not being people who should support our country."
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Ik hoopte op een aardig verhaal, maar het enige uit dit filmpje is: De economie draait wel goed en de belastingen zijn laag.quote:Op maandag 5 november 2018 15:55 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Ook leuk, waarom veel gematigde republikeinen toch Trump blijven steunen.
Voor de rest is Trump een onbeschofte hork die niet goed is voor 'unity' in de VS.
Midterms test whether Republicans not named Trump can win by stoking racial animositytwitter:mviser twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 02:15:03 The 2016 election confirmed that a potential president could run — and win — after stoking racism. Now, in their closing days, the midterms are shaping up as a demonstration of whether the entire Republican Party can succeed by following his lead.https://t.co/GcQzlkvJk9 reageer retweet
The 2016 election confirmed that a potential president could run — and win — after stoking racism. Now, in their closing days, the midterms are shaping up as a demonstration of whether the entire Republican Party can succeed by following his lead.quote:The fierce battle for control of Congress and the nation’s governorships has turned toward blatant and overtly racial attacks rarely seen since the civil rights era of the 1960s.
A new robo-call going out to voters in Georgia features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey and calling Stacey Abrams, who is running to become the nation’s first black woman elected governor, “a poor man’s Aunt Jemima.” In Florida, the Trump administration’s secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, urged voters not to elect Andrew Gillum, who would be the state’s first black governor, with a colloquialism widely seen as having racial connotations: “This election is so cotton-pickin’ important.”
Some Republicans suddenly scrambled, following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, to distance themselves from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). The moves came after King said a far-right Austrian party with historical Nazi ties would be Republican were it in the United States. Other King comments have drawn little criticism.
The 2016 election confirmed that a potential president could run — and win — after stoking racism. Now, in their closing days, the midterms are shaping up as a demonstration of whether the entire Republican Party can succeed by following his lead.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Viel mij ook beetje tegen, RTL niveauquote:
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Ik hoopte op een aardig verhaal, maar het enige uit dit filmpje is: De economie draait wel goed en de belastingen zijn laag.
Voor de rest is Trump een onbeschofte hork die niet goed is voor 'unity' in de VS.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Latest CBS News-YouGov House model midterm estimates: Seats: Democrat 225 / Republican 210 Vote: Democrat 52.2% / Republican 46.7%
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
As Trump Spreads A Fog Of Falsehoods, His Fans Believe Them And Make Excuses For Himtwitter:ddale8 twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 16:26:32 Good and useful story by @svdate on how Trump voters rationalize and dismiss his incessant lying, or reject the fact that he is lying at all. https://t.co/KTtGNqJLzR https://t.co/sSUy9iXTls reageer retweet
Good and useful story by @From the greatness of his trade deals to the status of his ‘Great Wall’ to the real name of the Democratic Party, Trump’s lies are as good as gold to his base
quote:Last Wednesday afternoon was typical for Donald Trump over these past weeks: The president was en route to a rally where he would let loose a torrent of falsehoods and outright lies about everything from trade to immigration to even the name of the opposing party.
Just don’t bother telling that to the lady who wore the New England Patriots socks at the very front of the line to get into Hertz Arena on the outskirts of Fort Myers. Presented with a short list of Trump’s most frequent falsehoods, she countered with a homemade placard with a photo showing Louis Farrakhan with former Democratic President Barack Obama and demanded to know why the media wasn’t covering that.
She added that she was not interested in whether or how many times Trump might lie that evening. “I don’t care if he sprouts a third dick up there,” she said.
(She declined to give her name or to elaborate on her views of the president’s anatomy.)
Her response, though, was typical of fans so committed to Trump that they take time off from work and spend hours in the rain or under a blazing sun to listen to his speeches. And it highlights the other half of the president’s destruction of the truth: As Trump has passed through the looking glass into a make-pretend world of invented facts, legions of his fans have happily followed him.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:ddale8 twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 16:48:20 23 minutes apart: Trump baselessly accuses of CNN of manipulating polls to suppress his turnout, Trump baselessly raises the spectre of cops at polling places in an attempt to suppress minority turnout. https://t.co/ggaB4X5Vvd reageer retweet
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Brzezinski: Trump said he knew Obama ’birther’ theory was bad, ‘but it works’
People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you,” - Donald Trumpquote:MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said Monday that President Trump once privately told her that the so-called "birther" theory he helped perpetuate about former President Obama was a harmful, yet effective message.
"We confronted him about 'birtherism,'" Brzezinski said on "Morning Joe," referring to the theory that Obama's birth certificate may be illegitimate. "We said its bad, it’s wrong. And he said in a low voice, 'I know it’s bad, but it works.'"
"Racism in his mind works. That’s what he told us," she added.
Her comments came as a panel discussed Trump's rhetoric about immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections. As Trump tours the nation to gin up support for Republican candidates, he's increasingly made the issue a focal part of his speeches.
The president has continued to voice outrage over the group of Central American migrants traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, going so far as to label it an "invasion."
He also released an ad last week that showed Luis Bracamontes, a deported Mexican immigrant who returned to the U.S., bragging in court about killing police officers.
The ad features a narrator asking, "Who else would Democrats let in?"
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) called Trump on Sunday to ask him to focus on the economy in the final hours before Election Day, according to Politico.
But Trump reportedly bragged that his focus on issues related to immigration had electrified his base.
Trump acknowledged in September 2016 that Obama was born in the U.S. But The New York Times reported in 2017 that Trump continues to question the authenticity of the former president's birth certificate.
The Hill has reached out to the White House regarding Brzezinski's comments.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Trump's border deployments could cost $220 million as Pentagon sees no threat from migrant caravantwitter:SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 16:38:44 A quarter of a BILLION dollars for a STUNTImagine what that money could have done for America https://t.co/qLuVc2vKwV reageer retweet
A quarter of a BILLION dollars for a STUNTImagine what that money could have done for America quote:• President Donald Trump's move to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is shaping up to cost $220 million, according to two U.S. defense officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.
• Trump, who has made the caravan one of his prime targets in campaign speeches, said he is prepared to send as many as 15,000 troops to the border.
• A Pentagon risk assessment found that the caravan did not pose a threat to the United States, a source said. This person also said that the caravan would take about a month and a half to get to the U.S. border.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Ik begrijp niet dat ze nog met die Pelosi op de proppen komen. Op een gegeven moment moet je als politicus een keer weten wanneer je tijd voorbij is.
Natuurlijk is Trump niet Hitler.quote:Op maandag 5 november 2018 08:26 schreef TheJanitor het volgende:
Trump is Hitler en zijn supporters zijn nazi's. Dit blijft een raar topic.
Hitler meldde zich als vrijwilliger voor het leger.
Wie is "ze"? Het is allesbehalve zeker dat Pelosi tot speaker gekozen zal worden.quote:
Ik begrijp niet dat ze nog met die Pelosi op de proppen komen. Op een gegeven moment moet je als politicus een keer weten wanneer je tijd voorbij is.
Oke, iets te gemakkelijk vanuit gegaan dat die in de lead wasquote:Op maandag 5 november 2018 17:54 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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Wie is "ze"? Het is allesbehalve zeker dat Pelosi tot speaker gekozen zal worden.
Maar ik hoop dat een overwinning een fris gezicht krijgt. Ik vraag me af wie nou nog op Pelosi zit te wachten.
https://thehill.com/homen(...)irst-time-in-decadesquote:Retirees donate more to Dems than GOP for first time
Retirees donated more to Democrats than Republicans so far in the 2018 midterm cycle, in a break from recent years.
Donors who marked "retired" as their occupation gave 52 percent of their $326 million in total contributions through Oct. 17 to Democrats, and only 48 percent to Republicans, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
This is the first time since the Center for Responsive Politics began tracking donations in 1990 that retirees have backed Democrats over the GOP in a midterm election, according to the Journal.
In 1990, 76 percent of retiree donations went to Republicans and 26 percent to Democrats.
That advantage has steadily declined, and by 2002, 63 percent flowed to the GOP and 36 percent to the Democrats.
In 2010, only 55 percent went towards Republicans, while 44 percent bulked up Democrats.
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
De VS zou wel heel dom zijn als ze nu allemaal Democraten gaan stemmen en dan een gridlock krijgen, nadat ze eerst Trump in het zadel hebben geholpen.
Met een beetje pech krijg je 2 jaar impeachment drama en draait de hele economie weer de tering in.
Met een beetje pech krijg je 2 jaar impeachment drama en draait de hele economie weer de tering in.
Het weerhield ze er in 2010 ook niet van om Obama ermee op te zadelen.quote:
De VS zou wel heel dom zijn als ze nu allemaal Democraten gaan stemmen en dan een gridlock krijgen, nadat ze eerst Trump in het zadel hebben geholpen.
Het is echt oliedom. In Nederland zijn we meestal zo slim om de 1e en 2e kamer een beetje in 'balans' te houden, zodat niet de hele boel dichtslibt.quote:
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Het weerhield ze er in 2010 ook niet van om Obama ermee op te zadelen.
Is geen conspiracy ze wilt niet dat de pers aanwezig is bij haar townhalls.quote:Op maandag 5 november 2018 14:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
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BNW is een paar deuren verderop.
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/constitution/quote:
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Kun je mij even uitleggen wat die dsa is waar je bang voor bent? Wiki helpt me niet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSA
Edit: ok deze DSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America
Ja dat is een heel vies woord in de USA, socialist. Waarom zou ze trump munitie geven door daarover te praten.
Waar zijn toch die tax returns.
Wil ze geen corporate donations? Maar dan is ze niet om te kopen.
Lees je eigen even in, het is een socialistische beweging die graag een einde aan het kapitalisme willen zien.
Het heeft niets te maken met de sociale democratie wat we hier hebben, laat dat duidelijk zijn.
Het is ook vrij gebruikelijk. Voornaamste probleem is dat moderates grotendeels verdwenen zijn, bipartisanship een vies woord is en partijdiscipline een steeds dominanter rol speelt.quote:
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Het weerhield ze er in 2010 ook niet van om Obama ermee op te zadelen.
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