[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #403 Yes but No but Yes but No but

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2017 18:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waarom is er nog geen onderzoek dan? Naar Niger bedoel ik. Vier doden. Vier Amerikaanse doden. Net als in Benghazi.

Dat is toch wel een onderzoekje waard, nietwaar?

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In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong

When White House Chief of Staff John Kelly condemned a Miami congresswoman on Thursday for sneering at President Donald Trump’s condolence call to a soldier’s widow, the retired general recalled when the two attended a somber ceremony in Miramar to dedicate a new FBI building named after two slain FBI agents.

Kelly criticized Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson for claiming “she got the money” for the new building during the 2015 ceremony while he and others in the audience were focused on the heroism of agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove, killed during a 1986 shootout with bank robbers south of Miami.

Thursday night, Wilson said Kelly got the story flat-out wrong. In fact, she said Washington approved the money before she was even in Congress. The legislation she sponsored named the building after Grogan and Dove, a law enacted just days before the ceremony.

“He shouldn't be able to just say that, that is terrible,” Wilson said of Kelly’s remarks in the White House briefing room, the latest volley in the controversy over Trump’s condolence call to a military widow from Miami Gardens, an area Wilson represents. “This has become totally personal.”

In 2015, Wilson won praise from Miami Republicans for sponsoring the bill to name the long anticipated federal building after two agents who became legends in local law enforcement.

At the dedication ceremony, James Comey, then director of the FBI, lauded Wilson’s legislation, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama three days before the April 2015 ceremony.

“Rep. Wilson truly did the impossible, and we are eternally grateful,” Comey said in his remarks.

On Thursday evening, an administration spokesman issued a statement that said: “The White House stands by Gen. Kelly’s account of the event.”

http://www.miamiherald.co(...)rticle179869321.html

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Pijnlijk was ook dat de president niet aanwezig was op de luchtmachtbasis in Dover, waar de lijkkisten, bedekt met de Amerikaanse vlag, aankwamen. Obama en Bush deden dit regelmatig. Waar Trump dan wel was? Hij was in zijn golfclub in Virginia.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 08:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 10:15 schreef Re het volgende:
hoe wilde je als burger trouwens een boycot uitvoeren... geen olijfolie meer of dadels eten uit Israel of zo?

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 10:15 schreef Re het volgende:
hoe wilde je als burger trouwens een boycot uitvoeren... geen olijfolie meer of dadels eten uit Israel of zo?

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It was the kind of utterance that makes professional transcribers question their career choice:

"...there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself - and the Russians, zero."

Trump was not always so linguistically challenged. In interviews he gave in the 1980s and 1990s, he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans.

Now, he repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one.

"People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it... you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage... The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall."

Some sentences would, if written, make a second-grade teacher despair. "We’ll do some questions, unless you have enough questions," Trump told a February press conference. And: "When I did this now I said, I probably, maybe will confuse people, maybe I’ll expand that, you know, lengthen the time because it should be over with, in my opinion, should have been over with a long time ago."

The decline is also obvious in two interviews with David Letterman, in 1988 and 2013. In the first, Trump threw around words such as "aesthetically" and "precarious," and used long, complex sentences. In the second, he used simpler speech patterns, few polysyllabic words, and noticeably more fillers such as "uh" and "I mean."

John Montgomery, a psychologist in New York City and adjunct professor at New York University, said "it’s hard to say definitively without rigorous testing" of Trump’s speaking patterns, "but I think it’s pretty safe to say that Trump has had significant cognitive decline over the years."

meer: https://www.statnews.com/(...)ng-style-interviews/

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 11:47 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
En aangezien het nog steeds actueel is...

Hoewel George W. Bush regelmatig met zijn zinnen in de knoop zat ("Is our children learning?"), bleven zijn geestelijke vermogens op hetzelfde peil. Van Trump kun je dat helaas niet zeggen (ingekort voor Fok!-gebruik):

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 11:00 schreef Stefanovich het volgende:
Tis wat...dat land zit compleet in de greep van een stel achterlijken. En een aanzienlijk deel van de bevolking faciliteert/steunt hen ook nog Het keerpunt in onze ontwikkeling/evolutie is bereikt in de VS

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LuisSantana twitterde op donderdag 19-10-2017 om 23:18:33 Video of @RichardBSpencer supporter getting sprayed by pepper spray after leaving the speech at the Phillips Center… https://t.co/UAzudcfmEQ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 13:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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V oor een übermensch schreeuwt hij wel hard.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 10:20 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

FULL SPEECH: Former President Obama Rally Speech 10/19/17 Campaigns for Ralph Northam in Virginia

Obama laat zijn gezicht weer zien en is campagne aan het voeren voor Ralph Northam in Virginia.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 13:56 schreef Szura het volgende:

Maar de Democraten hebben nieuwe gezichten nodig, wie oh wie??? We zijn onderhand een jaar verder en er is eigenlijk niets te zien van een nieuwe strategie of gezichten bij die partij.

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The AP (10/19, Werner, Fram) reports that on Thursday, the bipartisan bill which seeks to stabilize ACA marketplaces “gained momentum...when enough lawmakers rallied behind it to give it potentially unstoppable Senate support.” The measure’s sponsors, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), “appeared together on the Senate floor to announce 24 sponsors, divided evenly between both parties, for resuming federal subsidies to insurers that [President] Trump has blocked.” The article says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) indicated all 48 Senate Democrats would vote for the bill, and that number, combined with 12 GOP sponsors, would give the measure 60 votes, enough to defeat a filibuster.
The Washington Post (10/19, Eilperin, Sullivan) reports that on Thursday, Democrats in the Senate “pressed...to advance a bipartisan bill that would preserve subsidies for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act amid a new show of cooperation, even as Republican leaders suggested that they would need greater concessions before bringing it up for a vote.” Alexander warned that conservatives who refuse to support the bill “were ignoring the ‘chaos’ that could ensue if the federal government did not provide the cost-sharing reduction payments that Trump cut off this month.” Meanwhile, Murray insisted “Congress would ultimately pass the measure because Americans are beginning to grasp that the impasse in Washington has translated into higher insurance rates for 2018.”
USA Today (10/19, Collins, Groppe) reports that the authors of the last Senate effort to repeal the ACA, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), joined the group of co-sponsors of the bill.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 14:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik denk dat hij maar eens moet gaan tweeten over de fake senate, en of hij niet het recht moet hebben hun licensie af te nemen.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 14:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Omdat ze eerst gewoon focussen op de midterms. Ze kijken wat Trump ervan bakt. Daarna zullen er wel kandidaten opstaan.

Kamala Harris Vs. Elizabeth Warren On Medicare For All

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NBCNews twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 06:18:33 Speaker Paul Ryan roasts President Trump at Al Smith dinner. Read more: https://t.co/C6yskrwuzU https://t.co/erfbk1pJLY reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 15:36 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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NBCNews twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 06:18:33 Speaker Paul Ryan roasts President Trump at Al Smith dinner. Read more: https://t.co/C6yskrwuzU https://t.co/erfbk1pJLY reageer retweet

Paul Ryan brings the fire

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 15:42 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Hij moet immers ook weten dat Trump niet tegen geintjes kan.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 15:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Zat net te lezen dat de Tax Reforms er komen.

Het budget is al goedgekeurd, nu nog een vote voor de Tax cuts waarover de enige republikein die tegen het budget was (Rand Paul) al heeft laten weten dat hij voor gaat stemmen.

Het platform van Trump:

- SCOTUS ✓
- Tax Cuts ✓
- The Wall (prototypes being build) ✓
- The Military (700 billion) ✓
- Veteran care ✓
- Repeal and replace Obamacare (pending)
- America First Foreign Policy ✓
- Destroy ISIS ✓

Het gaat soms met horten en stoten, maar Trump krijgt veel gedaan in zijn eerste jaar.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 15:53 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Wat heeft hij op zijn hoofd? Een dooie platvis?

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 15:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
- Destroy ISIS ✓

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In August 2016, Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, who was the ground commander for the fight against ISIS, said the US-led coalition had killed an estimated 45,000 ISIS fighters.
About a year later, at the Aspen Security Forum in July 2017, the commander of the US Special Operations Command, Gen. Raymond "Tony" Thomas, said that an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 ISIS fighters had been killed since the US-led campaign against the terror group began in August 2014.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 12:31:50 Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe! reageer retweet

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Donald Trump has erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in the UK to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter.

“Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror.’ not good, we must keep America safe!” wrote the US president.

The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), in its quarterly update on crime on Thursday, reported a 13% increase in all police-recorded offences across England and Wales.

The ONS said police had recorded 5.2m offences in the year to June, including gun crime, knife crime, robberies, sexual offences, stalking and harassment, burglary and car crime.

The report barely mentions terrorism other than to refer on one occasion to the impact recent terrorist attacks in Britain had on the headline murder rate. Thirty-five people were killed in the incidents in London and Manchester.

The president’s attention to the crime figures will not please Downing Street, as there were aspects of the ONS report that would have sounded political alarm bells, namely the acceleration in the rise in the number of police-recorded incidents of violent crime in the past two years. There were double-digit increases in certain types of violent crime, such as gun crime, knife crime and sexual offences.

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Others criticised Trump for linking the crime statistics with a rise in Islamist extremism.

Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary general at the Muslim Council for Britain, who campaigns against misrepresentation of Muslims in the media, called the tweet “incompetent”.

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miqdaad twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 13:28:26 Is this a totally incompetent interpretation of the crime figures or is that too generous? https://t.co/dxu7GTbu9U reageer retweet

The Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, likened the post to a hate crime.

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tom_watson twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 14:08:59 Officer, I’d like to report a hate crime. https://t.co/piD5sotK3P reageer retweet

Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat MP, accused Trump of spreading fear.

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joswinson twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 14:16:59 Stop misleading and spreading fear. Hate crime is up and it is fuelled by the kind of populist xenophobia you peddl… https://t.co/cDdBpv6a7H reageer retweet

Caroline Lucas, the Green party co-leader, challenged the prime minister, Theresa May, to condemn Trump.

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CarolineLucas twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 13:19:02 OK @theresa_may, this is a test. Will you publicly condemn this outright fearmongering? https://t.co/RVl8bSV7VN reageer retweet

Yvette Cooper, Labour MP and chair of the home affairs select committee, called the tweet “ignorant”.

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YvetteCooperMP twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 14:40:04 Hate crime in UK up 29% - sadly encouraged by ignorant tweets like this. Not good POTUS https://t.co/MATvVAz48q reageer retweet

Trump’s concern to “keep America safe” comes at a time when gun control is once again on the political agenda after the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual on US soil.

Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas with one of 23 legally purchased guns he had in his hotel room.

Trump has previously exaggerated the impact of so-called radical Islamism on life in Britain. During his presidential campaign, he suggested that police in London feared for their lives because of the significant number of radicalised individuals in the capital.

In remarks made shortly after he called for a “shutdown” of Muslims entering the US, he said: “Look at what happened in Paris, the horrible carnage, and frankly, if you look at Paris, and I hate to do this because the Chamber of Commerce is going to go crazy, but Paris is no longer the same city it was.

“They have sections in Paris that are radicalised, where the police refuse to go there. They’re petrified. The police refuse to go in there. We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.”

The England and Wales data published on Thursday included a 27% rise in gun crime to 6,696 offences, a 26% increase in knife crime to 36,998 offences, robberies up 25% to 64,499, sexual offences up 19% to 129,700, and stalking and harassment up 36% to 243,086 reported incidents.