[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #384 Op bezoek in Texas

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 03:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 07:39 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Dat is 8.3 miljard dollar aan economische waarde. Deals! Deals! Jobs!

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But he took some pictures this week with black people. He can't be racist! /s

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 03:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 16:44 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ze zijn dus even aan het peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt. Wat ik tot nu toe lees wordt het wel geaccepteerd.

Gaat ook een theorie rond dat die 6 maanden goed uit pakt voor Trump in verband met de primaries voor het Congres. Republikeinen moeten dan kiezen tussen virtue signalling of steun aan Trump. Democraten moeten het dan in debatten hebben over immigratie in plaats van economie, terwijl ze eigenlijk vooral op economisch beleid vooruitgang moeten boeken.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt? Trump schuift de beslissing gewoon voor zich uit nadat er (ook vanuit de Republikeinen) veel weerstand kwam tegen de afschaffing ervan.

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Trump’s decision reportedly includes a six-month delay which would give Congress a window in which it could step in before the protections expire, one White House official told Politico.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on the president not to end the program, with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) saying he believes it's something "Congress has to fix."

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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But administration aides concede that Congress may be unable to agree on a legislative fix, given the headwinds that previous legislation has run into for years. It is unclear exactly what would happen after six months if Congress does not act.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt? Trump schuift de beslissing gewoon voor zich uit nadat er (ook vanuit de Republikeinen) veel weerstand kwam tegen de afschaffing ervan.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 08:32 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Mooie reactie op reddit hierover in combinatie met de foto's van zijn bezoek aan Houstion:

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:50 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ze aan het peilen zijn omdat het lijkt alsof het plan toevallig gelekt is.

De persoon die de beslissing over rechtszekerheid voor deze personen voor zich heeft uitgeschoven is Obama natuurlijk. Net zoals het Noord Korea vraagstuk heeft de beste man niets gedaan aan permanente oplossingen, maar heeft hij slechts doorgemodderd met deze hybride vorm van burgerschap en illegaliteit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:50 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ze aan het peilen zijn omdat het lijkt alsof het plan toevallig gelekt is.

De persoon die de beslissing over rechtszekerheid voor deze personen voor zich heeft uitgeschoven is Obama natuurlijk. Net zoals het Noord Korea vraagstuk heeft de beste man niets gedaan aan permanente oplossingen, maar heeft hij slechts doorgemodderd met deze hybride vorm van burgerschap en illegaliteit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 00:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
'I will handle North Korea!'

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:56 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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DACA was ingesteld door Obama, die heeft dus helemaal niks voor zich uitgeschoven maar heeft het geregeld. Je weet dus weer niet waar je over praat.

President Obama To Donald Trump On DACA: Think 'Long And Hard' On Endangering Dreamers | NBC News

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willripleyCNN twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 16:30:16 #breaking U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council that North Korea's Kim Jong Un is "begging for war" reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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In August 2017, CNN reported on the existence of a now-defunct blog that Clovis had maintained primarily between 2011 and 2012. In blog posts accessed via the Wayback Machine, Clovis was critical of President Barack Obama and the progressive movement, accusing Obama of being a socialist and writing that progressives were "liars, race traders and race 'traitors.'" A USDA spokesperson responded that Clovis "is a proud conservative and a proud American. All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic."[15] Clovis has said that homosexual behavior is a choice and that the sanctioning of same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of pedophilia.[16]

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 19:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Oke, dit moet peak 'Murica zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 19:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Oke, dit moet peak 'Murica zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:56 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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DACA was ingesteld door Obama, die heeft dus helemaal niks voor zich uitgeschoven maar heeft het geregeld. Je weet dus weer niet waar je over praat.

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DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 20:24 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Dat is precies wat ik zeg. DACA houdt in:

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Hier staat bijna letterlijk dat je 0 rechtszekerheid krijgt over de toekomst als dreamer. De beslissing over deportatie wordt letterlijk vooruitgeschoven.

Het is één van de vele zwakke optredens van een man die professor had moeten blijven.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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“It’s not about the policy; it’s about the Constitution,” said Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, who accused Mr. Obama of abusing his power by circumventing Congress to create law. “The fact is, there is no statute authorizing this.”

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 20:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zou eerder wijzen naar congress ipv Obama. Het wegkijken bij deportatie van kinderen die aan deze situatie ook niet veel hebben kunnen doen en daar als wetgever decennialang niks aan doen verdient denk ik niet bepaald de schoonheidsprijs; op deze manier was er iig een weg vooruit, hoewel niet ideaal en mogelijk ook niet legaal nu met Gorsuch ingezworen.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

Verder wil ik niet mee doen met de mensen die zeggen dat Trump in dezen heel erg fout is oid. Door Obamas actie en nu Trumps actie wordt congress geforceerd duidelijk stelling te nemen; in 6 maanden moet toch wel iets besloten kunnen worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Ook daar hebben ze nog niet over nagedacht tijdens 8 jaar Obama

Het komt ze wel allemaal rauw op hun dak vallen hè?

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Je kunt je deportatiemiddelen natuurlijk maar 1 keer inzetten, dus dan lijkt het me verstandig om dat te doen bij individuen met hogere prioriteit (criminelen bv.) ipv kinderen, wiens ouders weliswaar voor de status gezorgd hebben, maar wie het zelf niet aan te rekenen zal zijn.

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De problematiek van kinderen die mogelijk niet eens de taal spreken van het land van herkomst van hun ouders, en er mogelijk niet eens een geheugen van hebben daar ooit geweest te zijn.

Dat constaterende is het daarmee dan een keuze om weg te kijken en deze kinderen wel of geen toekomstkans te geven; deportatie lijkt hoe dan ook niet heel waarschijnlijk voor deze groep. Ik heb verder ook geen goed idee over hoe dit op te lossen is, maar het idee dat je een groep mensen straft om wat hun ouders misdaan zouden hebben vind ik an sich niet heel fair.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:32 schreef dellipder het volgende:
DACA is in 2012 ingesteld.
Bovendien is in 2015 hierover een rechtszaak gevoerd.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ja en er zijn vele versies geweest, de eerste DREAM Act bill dateert uit 2001

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:38 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Schuld van Trump!!

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:39 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Nee hoor. Hij heeft beloofd om alle (illegale) minors uit te zetten. Waarom doet hij dat niet? Gewoon weer een EO-tje tekenen, fluitje van een cent.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:43 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Omdat deze regeling op een goede manier moet worden beëindigd. Sinds zijn aantreden hebben al meer dan 100.000 gratie gekregen. Het Congres is nu aan zet en anders neemt de president zijn beslissing (of de rechter).

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ah ja dat zal het wezen!

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:47 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Wat jij wil!

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

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Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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For the first time since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Aug. 25, the Coast Guard did not have to carry out rescue missions in storm-ravaged Southeast Texas on Sunday. Instead, the service began moving a number of helicopters out of Texas and into Puerto Rico, Florida and Georgia, in anticipation of another landfall threat brewing for the U.S. coast: Hurricane Irma.

“As soon as one ends, we need to make sure we are ready for the next event,” Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said Monday as Irma, which had become a Category 4 hurricane by late in the day, churned in the Atlantic.

It is still too early to determine exactly where and when Irma will hit, but model forecasts indicate it is increasingly likely to affect the United States. The National Hurricane Center warned in a 5 p.m. update Monday that Irma could impact the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Cuba. A significant percentage of model forecasts have Irma striking the U.S. East Coast as early as Saturday or Sunday, with tropical storm winds arriving in Florida as soon as Friday.

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Since his indictment more than two years ago, Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence, and last week he reiterated that. “I am going to be exonerated,” he said in a brief interview on Wednesday with reporters following a rally protesting President Trump’s immigration policies.

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Mr. Menendez is charged with 12 corruption-related counts, including six counts of bribery and three counts of honest services fraud.

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The legal case revolves around whether those gifts were permissible as gifts a friend could give to another, or whether they were part of a longstanding bribery arrangement where Mr. Menendez would intervene to protect the financial and personal interests of Dr. Melgen in return for his gifts and donations.

“That’s one thing that makes this case interesting: It asks the existential question as to when friendship ends and corruption begins,” said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark.

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In a Friday night news dump, the White House announced that President Donald Trump Plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), a climate science denier to be administrator of NASA.

Bridenstine is a politician without any scientific credentials, unlike previous NASA chiefs

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:46 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Wat een ontzettende mongool is het toch ook. Na Pruitt "nee er zit geen gif in het water nietes kijk maar Breitbart zegt van niet" als nieuwe leider van de EPA zonder wetenschappelijke achtergrond, en Betsy deVos op onderwijs, gaan de Reps ook NASA mollen. Idiocracy 2.0, (of Day Zero 2.0?) gewoon iedereen die slim is uitschakelen zodat je in de toekomst nog stemmen krijgt.

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MikeScarcella twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 02:50:03 *The Attorney General will not be taking questions following the briefing.* #DACA https://t.co/n995gVUrxx reageer retweet

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KFILE twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 21:42:50 https://t.co/9cNA96kEUe reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:46 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Wat een ontzettende mongool is het toch ook. Na Pruitt "nee er zit geen gif in het water nietes kijk maar Breitbart zegt van niet" als nieuwe leider van de EPA zonder wetenschappelijke achtergrond, en Betsy deVos op onderwijs, gaan de Reps ook NASA mollen. Idiocracy 2.0, (of Day Zero 2.0?) gewoon iedereen die slim is uitschakelen zodat je in de toekomst nog stemmen krijgt.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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"Russia condemns North Korea's exercises, we consider that they are a provocation ... (But) ramping up military hysteria will lead to nothing good. It could lead to a global catastrophe," he told reporters.

He said it was “ridiculous” that the US first slapped Russia with sanctions carried in the same bill that penalised North Korea, and “then asked us to help impose sanctions on North Korea."

"This is being done by people who mix up Australia with Austria," he added.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:31 schreef speknek het volgende:
Putin heeft ook nog wel wat woorden over voor de Trump administratie.

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http://www.news.com.au/fi(...)66b2ab3103120143ab71

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:31 schreef speknek het volgende:
Putin heeft ook nog wel wat woorden over voor de Trump administratie.

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http://www.news.com.au/fi(...)66b2ab3103120143ab71

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:32 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Tsja, je kunt ze geen ongelijk geven.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 13:02 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Hun bemoeienis met de Amerikaanse verkiezingen heeft al geleid tot een 'global catastrophe', dus ze moeten niet zo zeiken.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 14:28 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 14:04:43 Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA! reageer retweet

Ik gok dus dat de gelekte informatie juist was. Ideaal natuurlijk, want nu kan hij het congres de schuld geven als het niet lukt binnen 6 maanden.

Ik lees trouwens wel een transcript van Sessions' persco, kan de man niet aanhoren.

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OPINION | Don't slam Trump for sending DACA back to Congress

President Trump’s expected announcement that he is terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has met with widespread criticism over the potential cost to roughly 800,000 children of undocumented parents. While I agree with the same concern over the status of these individuals, I do not agree with the same criticism of sending DACA back to Congress. DACA was unilaterally ordered by President Obama after Congress refused to approve the program.

Some of us criticized the action as a circumvention of the legislative branch that undermined our system of the separation of powers. But because they liked the result, Democratic members yielded their institutional power to the White House and helped create an unchecked presidency. With Trump using the same authority to pursue his own policies, Democratic leaders now want to radically expand the powers of the judiciary to block an uber presidency of their own making. They have become constitutional short sellers who dump core principles as soon as they raise political costs.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) announced that they would challenge Trump’s decision in federal court. While they declined to give details of this extraordinary challenge, they would presumably be asking a court to say that Trump could not use the same power to rescind DACA that Obama used to create it. Since the power is the same, what remains is the merits of the policy, something courts have long avoided under the political question doctrine. They would have to say that undocumented individuals can be allowed to stay but not ordered to leave by executive order.

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During the previous administration, I testified repeatedly about the dangers of the unilateral actions taken by Obama (whom I voted for in 2008). Two years ago, I even wrote a column warning that Democrats should consider the prospect of these same powers under health care and immigration being wielded by a President Trump rather than a President Obama. Yet, in one of the strangest demonstrations in history, Democrats rapturously applauded when Obama said that he would simply circumvent their branch because Congress did not yield to his demands for DACA and other measures.

From a constitutional perspective, it looked like a mosh pit of self-loathing members, politicians eager to be declared a functional non-entity in our tripartite (now bipartite) system. Unable to yield more authority to the executive branch, these politicians would now inflate the power of the courts to check a president. Imagine if a federal court gave Schneiderman what he wants. A federal judge could simply declare that an executive order is “gratuitous” or too “devastating” to be allowed. What would have been the reaction if a federal judge declared DACA to be gratuitous or cruel to those who are awaiting entry into the country legally? We would have uber judges to match our uber president.

I am admittedly a Madisonian scholar and a constitutional formalist. I believe strongly in the role of Congress in legislation and clear lines of separation between the branches. The separation of powers protects us from the concentration of authority in the hands of a single president or a few jurists. James Madison saw Congress as a way to force majoritarian compromise out of our factional divisions. Sometimes when the country is deeply divided, less gets done until we can reach a consensus. It sometimes takes time, which is a finite and dwindling commodity for presidents. The process is not pretty or easy, but it has one thing to recommend it: we are still here. It is the balance of the three branches that has brought us stability through economic to social to political upheavals.

Trump’s decision will return this question to where it should have remained: Congress. Presidents do not have the option to go it alone in our system. Obama failed to pass DACA in Congress, and he was left with only two choices. He had to either compromise or change Congress. Sometimes when the country is politically divided, less gets done until we can reach a consensus. However, that consensus is found in the legislative process, not through presidential or judicial proclamations.

Where Obama used this authority to circumvent Congress on DACA, Trump is using it to return DACA to Congress. After failing to pass this program earlier, members may now be able to succeed by reaching a compromise with their Republican colleagues. Regardless of the outcome, however, the importance of re-establishing an equal legislative branch is paramount for our system and our future. As for Schneiderman, he should rethink his challenge before more constitutional short sales turn a great Constitution into a worthless penny stock.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 15:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Hillary Clinton’s subtly savage takedown of Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton's book is due out next week. And judging by a page that was just tweeted by one of her staunchest supporters — not to mention plenty of other evidence — it's likely to include a heaping dose of score-settling.

That includes with Bernie Sanders.

In the passage that was tweeted out Monday evening by Tom Watson, Clinton attacks some of Sanders's supporters for being “sexist” and suggests the Vermont senator doesn't have the Democratic Party's true interests at heart. Most notably, she also intimates that he may not have even cared that his underhanded (in her opinion) attacks on her helped Donald Trump become president.

“When I finally challenged Bernie during a debate to name a single time I changed a position or a vote because of a financial contribution, he couldn’t come up with anything,” she wrote. “Nonetheless, his attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s 'Crooked Hillary' campaign.

“I don’t know if that bothered Bernie or not.”

Clinton continues: “He certainly shared my horror at the thought of Donald Trump becoming President, and I appreciate that he campaigned for me in the general election. But he isn’t a Democrat — that’s not a smear, that’s what he says. He didn’t get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House, he got in to disrupt the Democratic Party.”

At the end of the page, Clinton concludes by saying: “I am proud to be a Democrat and I wish Bernie were too.”

This, needless to say, isn't likely to help the Democratic Party heal any time soon. I've argued before that Clinton's decision to dwell upon the many allegedly unfair reasons for her general-election loss — Russia, James B. Comey, misogyny, debate questions, etc. — are likely to distract from the truly difficult work Democrats face in determining how they lost the Rust Belt to a historically unpopular nominee in Trump. Clinton seems to have far more interest in pointing the finger at everyone but herself. Perhaps her reasons are justifiable. But it also suggests that her and her party's serious shortcomings were unimportant.

Given the book's “What Happened” title and this past, it was clear Clinton would be doing a fair bit of blame-sharing in the book. What wasn't as clear was how much she would dwell upon Sanders's shockingly competitive challenge to her in the Democratic primary.

This passage doesn't exactly read like a take-no-prisoners accounting; it's more understated than that. Much of it is technically true. The tactics of the “Bernie Bros” were indeed often sexist. Sanders still isn't a Democrat, and he never claimed that his campaign was about helping the party — a party he long derided as insufficiently progressive. He clearly wanted to “disrupt” it to some extent. And the seeds of the idea that Clinton was corrupt were indeed planted and tended to in the primary.

But inside the measured language are some pretty harsh judgments of Sanders. She's not just suggesting he's not a Democrat; she's suggesting he doesn't truly care about the party or that he may have played a hand in electing Trump. She's suggesting he doesn't appreciate the party. She claims his attacks were out-of-bounds and unprincipled.

“Because we agreed on so much, Bernie couldn’t make an argument against me in this area on policy, so he had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character,” she said.

Maybe that's just politics, you might say! Well, the Sanders-led opposition to Clinton always considered itself to be about principle, whatever the costs of taking that principled stand (even President Trump).

Clinton is not-so-gently questioning that entire conceit, saying Sanders's reasons for causing that upheaval weren't justified. She's suggesting his campaign was about political expediency and getting elected and doubts there was truly much difference between them.

For a candidate and a base of supporters who were adamant about their cause and those differences, that's going to sting. And linger. It's the equivalent of throwing gasoline on the embers that remain from the 2016 primary.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 15:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Yet, in one of the strangest demonstrations in history, Democrats rapturously applauded when Obama said that he would simply circumvent their branch because Congress did not yield to his demands for DACA and other measures.

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

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peterdaou twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 13:17:41 Some people don't comprehend the need for @Verrit, but those who've been harassed and invisibilized know EXACTLY what it's for. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:01 schreef Puddington het volgende:
Obama heeft ook gereageerd op het besluit van de DACA: https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155227588436749

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Trump’s key priority in the DACA debate hasn’t involved any sort of policy goal at all. Instead, he’s been making a dual effort to avoid an open breach with Sessions and his network of nativist politicians while also trying to avoid becoming the face of the turn against DACA.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Kinderen/ jonge mensen hun kansen op een toekomst ontnemen onder het mom van handhaving van wetgeving. En dan Sessions het woord laten doen. Bah wat een laf figuur

Trump isn’t delivering his own DACA policy because he’s cowardly and weak

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

Trump the great unify-er .

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

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Haley: Leaving Iran nuclear deal is 'tempting'

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday laid out an argument in a speech Tuesday for President Trump to potentially declare Iran in violation of the nuclear deal later this year.

Haley detailed the “many flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal, though several of the examples occurred before the agreement was created. She also said that Iran was using the deal to “hold the world hostage to its bad behavior.”

“The truth is, the Iran deal has so many flaws that it’s tempting to leave it,” she told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

“The deal was constructed in a way that makes leaving less attractive. It gave Iran what it wanted upfront in exchange for temporary promises to deliver what we want. That’s not good.”

Haley then insisted that, while she has discussed such issues with Trump, she does not know what decision he will make.

The White House every 90 days must certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S. and international powers.

If Trump decides to decertify the deal in October, it would put the administration a step closer to pulling out of the agreement.

But Haley pressed that if Trump “chooses not to certify Iranian compliance, that does not mean the United States is withdrawing” from the agreement. She added that Congress could potentially re-impose sanctions on the country, pointing to the ongoing standoff over North Korea's nuclear program as an example.

“If you look at North Korea now, the reasons we’re pushing for so many sanctions — do we think more sanctions are going to work on North Korea? Not necessarily. But what does it do? It cuts off the revenue that allows them to build ballistic missiles,” she said.

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GOP rep: Send DACA recipients to serve in the Peace Corps

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) suggested Tuesday that recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should serve as members of the Peace Corps in their home countries, now that President Trump has decided to rescind the Obama administration program.

Attorney Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that Trump would rescind the program, which offered protection from deportation to people brought into the country illegally as children.

“Former DACAs will make great ‘Peace Corp’ volunteers in home countries. None would take more hardship or risk than we ask of Peace Corp,” King tweeted.

However, only U.S. citizens are allowed to serve in the Peace Corps. It is one of the only two requirements needed to be eligible for the volunteer program.

King earlier slammed Trump after it was reported that Trump would end DACA on a six-month delay, calling the move, which leaves open a potential legislative fix, “Republican suicide."

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 22:56 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

Langer statement van Trump zojuist:
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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:12 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)e-in-the-peace-corps

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Vrijwilligers die onder leiding van het Department of State ontwikkelingshulp doen in het buitenland, min of meer...

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yashar twitterde op woensdag 06-09-2017 om 00:39:16 Must-Watch: Senator Menandez' trial starts tomorrow and the stakes are high for Dems and GOP. @LauraAJarrett reports https://t.co/xET0QEwq0Z reageer retweet

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President Trump didn’t even have the guts to do the job himself. Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country that the administration would no longer shield from deportation 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.

Mr. Sessions, a longtime anti-immigrant hard-liner, was more than up to the task. In a short, disingenuous speech, he said a program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012 — known as DACA, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — was a lawless policy that “yielded terrible humanitarian consequences” and denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. (Mr. Trump echoed these claims in a statement released by the White House.) Mr. Sessions called DACA “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” and said “failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.”

False, false, false and false.

DACA recipients are not threats to public safety or national security; to the contrary, they must have a nearly spotless record to be eligible in the first place. They do not receive legal status in this country, only a two-year, renewable deferral of deportation along with a work permit and eligibility for other government benefits down the road. And they are not taking jobs from native-born Americans, whose declining levels of employment can be chalked up to other factors.

As for the policy’s legality, there’s no question that the president has the authority to set immigration-enforcement priorities. Presidents of both parties have done that for decades, and President Obama did it by focusing on people with criminal records and not on those brought to this country as children. For most of this latter group, the United States is the only home they’ve ever known. About 9 in 10 are working taxpayers, and deporting them could reduce the gross domestic product by over $400 billion over the next decade.

In short, DACA is morally right, legally sound and fiscally smart policy. It was also the only humane choice Mr. Obama had in the face of Congress’s failure to pass any meaningful immigration reform in the last two decades.

If all that weren’t enough, DACA remains overwhelmingly popular among Americans of all political stripes. Polls put its approval rating at roughly double that of President Trump himself. Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually a reliable backer of the Republican legislative agenda, called the decision to end DACA “contrary to fundamental American principles.”

The only bad thing that could be said about DACA is that, because it was a presidential memorandum, it was always vulnerable to being undone by a shortsighted administration playing to its base.

Now that that has happened, 800,000 people — all of whom gave their personal information and immigration status to the government, believing it would not be used against them — face the prospect of being shipped back to a country they may have no connection to or even remember.

This wouldn’t be a concern if Congress had done its job and passed the Dream Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for people brought to this country as children, and which has kicked around Capitol Hill for 16 years. Even though it has been stymied mainly by Republican opposition at every turn, it’s still theoretically on the table. But there’s little sign the dwindling Republican moderates in Congress have the stomach to confront their party’s nativist core. Mr. Trump called on Congress to act, but didn’t have the courage to tell it what he wanted it to do.

Contrast that with President Obama’s willingness to defend a policy that has always had detractors. “Ultimately, this is about basic decency,” Mr. Obama wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. “This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be treated.”

Mr. Trump has no good rejoinder. That’s partly because there isn’t one and partly because, as is so often the case, he doesn’t fully understand the scope of what he’s done. One would hope that the widespread outrage at Tuesday’s announcement, and the impending suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who’ve done nothing but try to become contributing members of society, might impress it upon him.