[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #439 Kushner het bokje?

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:13 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Aldi? Da's duitse humor. Zou ik vanaf blijven.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 11:05 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Volgende week wordt Mueller ontslagen.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:21 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Mooi. Ik ontkurk de popcorn alvast.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:11 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ik hoor dat ze bij Aldi een special hebben deze week, gevoel voor humor met 33% korting. Zou het doen als ik jou was.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:24 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Juist ja... humor... tis niet alsof pullup serieus was en er gigantisch naast zat.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:07 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Bord staat goed hoor. Rechter witte Toren op wit.

En het is Barron.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 19:49 schreef MrRatio het volgende:

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Ik denk inderdaad dat het bord een kwartslag gedraaid is. De Trumpjes blijken ongevoelig voor wit of zwart.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaken

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 20:13 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het bord staat toch echt goed hoor, de stukken staan er correct op. Ze zitten er alleen vreemd naast, want photo-op.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 20:21 schreef MrRatio het volgende:

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Het is te zien dat de zwarte pion van H7 op een zwart veld staat. Als het bord volgens de spelregels neergezet zou zijn is H7 een wit veld. Het is niet belangrijk, het maakt voor de taktiek en strategie niets uit.
En je vergeet nog dat een aanvullend stukje bewijs is. De Trumpies leren schaken, Russen schaken ook graag...... connect the dots.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 20:42 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Er staat geen pion op H7.
De meest linker zwarte pion op de afbeelding staat op A7, waar je hem zou verwachten. De meest rechter zwarte pion staat op H5 een geldige plek na minimaal 2 moves. Rechter witte toren staat op H1, rechter witte bischop staat op F1. Beiden hun startposities. Zo ook de witte pionen op B2, C2, D2, G2, en H2. Het enige vreemde dat ik kan vinden op de afbeelding is dat wit (barron) de Castling move verkeerd heeft uitgevoerd. Daarbij hoort de koning niet op B1, maar C1. Tenzij beiden de koning en toren nog 1 stapje naar links hebben gedaan naderhand.

Bord staat dus gewoon goed, zoveel is wel duidelijk. Voor de rest offtopic, dus laten we het maar daarbij.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 21:13 schreef MrRatio het volgende:

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Excuses, je hebt bij nader inzien toch gelijk, toch nog maar een keer eens extra gekeken.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 21:19 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Alsof je dacht dat het na Moore niet erger kon worden: https://www.huffingtonpos(...)471de4b07ff75afe6ffd

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“Redpilled,” a reference to the Matrix movie trilogy, is used to describe an awakening to white supremacist teachings. “RR” stands for “race realism,” and “JQ” stands for the “Jewish question,” the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews have undue influence over the media, banking and politics.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 20:21 schreef MrRatio het volgende:

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Het is te zien dat de zwarte pion van H7 op een zwart veld staat. Als het bord volgens de spelregels neergezet zou zijn is H7 een wit veld. Het is niet belangrijk, het maakt voor de taktiek en strategie niets uit.
En je vergeet nog dat een aanvullend stukje bewijs is. De Trumpies leren schaken, Russen schaken ook graag...... connect the dots.

Dit vind ik zelf relevanter:
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Thanks to Lisa Bloom, spawn of Gloria Allred, we now know that Trump accusers are paid $750,000 by top Democrat donors to accuse the billionaire president of sexual abuse.
With Democrats it’s all about power by any means necessary.
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The Red Pill: Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 21:19 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Alsof je dacht dat het na Moore niet erger kon worden: https://www.huffingtonpos(...)471de4b07ff75afe6ffd

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Scoop: Mueller obtains "tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails, including sensitive emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.

• Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said.
• The emails include 12 accounts, one of which contains about 7,000 emails, the sources said.
• The accounts include the team's political leadership and the foreign-policy team, the sources said.

Why it matters: The transition emails are said to include sensitive exchanges on matters that include potential appointments, gossip about the views of particular senators involved in the confirmation process, speculation about vulnerabilities of Trump nominees, strategizing about press statements, and policy planning on everything from war to taxes.

• “Mueller is using the emails to confirm things, and get new leads,” a transition source told me.

How it happened: The sources say Mueller obtained the emails from the General Services Administration, the government agency that hosted the transition email system, which had addresses ending in “ptt.gov,” for Presidential Transition Team.

Axios has asked the Special Counsel’s Office for comment and will update this story with the response.

• The transition sources said they were surprised about the emails because they have been in touch with Mueller’s team and have cooperated.
• “They ask us to waive NDAs [nondisclosure agreements] and things like that,” a second source said. “We have never said ‘no’ to anything.”

The twist: The sources say that transition officials assumed that Mueller would come calling, and had sifted through the emails and separated the ones they considered privileged. But the sources said that was for naught, since Mueller has the complete cache from the dozen accounts.

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Op zaterdag 16 december 2017 21:46 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dellipder?

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Republicans are paying for a permanent cut for corporations with an under-the-radar tax increase on individuals.

Senate rules require the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act not to add to the federal deficit after 10 years. Failing to meet that window would result in legislative defenestration, as it would require 60 votes in a Senate that has only 52 Republicans.

The bill aims to cut corporate taxes in perpetuity, under the theory that to do anything less would be to create uncertainty for corporations. But to do so and still have the bill not be a money loser after a decade, they need to raise extra funds somewhere.

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The bill starts by repealing something that was unpopular to start with: the requirement under the Affordable Care Act that Americans have health insurance or pay a fine. The elimination of this provision will increase federal revenues by $53.3 billion in 2027. (If people do not sign up for health insurance, they won’t get federal subsidies available under the ACA.)

It’s easy math for Republicans. Wipe an unpopular rule off the books and get a chunk of change toward corporate tax cuts.

The next move is a little fuzzier but also far-reaching. The bill changes the way tax brackets are indexed to inflation. The bill adopts an inflation measure that economists regard as more accurate, but as the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip recently explained, it’s one that doesn’t increase as quickly.

That effectively means people will enter higher brackets faster. Consider a hypothetical: If a tax bracket for a married couple had topped out at $45,000 in 2000, it would be about $64,300 under the current system, but only $61,350 under the new inflation measure. That means any family earning between $61,350 and $64,400 would have found themselves in a higher tax bracket under the new measure, even if their income had grown at the same rate.

Over time, this effect grows in ways that hit the lower and middle class harder. The wealthy don’t jump brackets as often because there aren’t as many income breakpoints up in that rarefied air. In fact, once they’re in the top bracket, it’s no longer even a concern.

Changing the inflation measure gets Republicans another $25.6 billion.

And both bits of budget jiu jitsu are built to last. These aren’t benefits that are sunsetting, like many temporary individual cuts; they’re just tax hikes that always will be tax hikes. The inflation trick will actually gain steam over time, Batchelder writes — the JCT only scored the bill for the coming decade, but the structure of the other inflation measure almost always guarantees it will be lower.

There are two significant caveats, however. First, a number of analysts argue that it’s wrong to consider the loss of insurance related to the end of the ACA mandate a tax increase, because it reflects individuals’ choice not to get insurance.

Second, most Republicans say they expect Congress to extend the individual tax cuts when they expire in 2025. And indeed, in the short term, the vast majority of Americans won’t see a tax hike — according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center’s evaluation of the Senate bill on Dec. 4, only 7 percent of filers will see an increase in 2019. In 2027, that would rise to 47.5 percent if Congress didn’t intervene.

But nobody knows what the future holds, and that’s a gamble the GOP was willing to take.

As a result, when all’s said and done, the net effect of all individual provisions in the tax bill, according to the JCT, is to raise taxes on individuals by a cumulative $83 billion in 2027.

Meanwhile, businesses are getting a $49.4 billion cut that year.