Dat vroeg ik me bij James T Kirk ook altijd afquote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 13:03 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
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Dan vraag ik mij wel af hoe de fuck je vice-admiraal word met dat soort gedrag.
Dat hij ongeschikt is als hoofd van de VA op grond van zijn gebrek aan kwalificaties was allang duidelijk.
Die had Mr. Spock nog als sidekick.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 14:28 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
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Dat vroeg ik me bij James T Kirk ook altijd af
quote:Colorado's state Supreme Court ruled Monday that GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn cannot appear on the primary ballot in his district because of a problem with his ballot petitions.
The court ruled that a petition gatherer working for Lamborn's campaign did not live in the state at the time, rendering the signatures he gathered invalid and moving Lamborn below the threshold for ballot access in his conservative district.
"Therefore, the supreme court holds that the Secretary [of State] may not certify Representative Lamborn to the 2018 primary ballot for Colorado's Fifth Congressional District," the court ruled.
quote:He was once reported to the police in Illinois for stashing an AR-15 in the trunk of his car and then diving into a public pool wearing a women’s pink housecoat. There was the time he complained to an officer that the singer Taylor Swift had demanded a rendezvous. And then last July he was grabbed by the Secret Service when he tried to force his way on to the White House grounds.
Travis Reinking, 29, was on the radar of law enforcement well before he was taken into custody on Monday and accused of barging into a Nashville Waffle House over the weekend and opening fire, killing four and injuring four more.
Yet even after the Illinois police revoked his firearms license and ordered that his guns be transferred to his father, Mr. Reinking got them back, including the AR-15 used in the Tennessee shooting, the police said. His case raises questions over how such a troubled individual could have legally carried weapons for so long and could have continued to carry them even after he was ordered to give them up.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.
Maar die waren niet blank, dus who cares?quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 15:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Tot hij vier mensen doodschoot was er niet veel aan de hand.
quote:Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Or so that narrative goes.
A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters weren’t driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.
“It’s much more of a symbolic threat that people feel,’’ said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. “It’s not a threat to their own economic well-being; it’s a threat to their group’s dominance in our country over all.”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.
quote:Tuesday is Election Day in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, where Democrats have mounted a serious bid to flip a GOP-held House seat in a district Donald Trump won by 21 percentage points.
Democrat Hiral Tipirneni, a health care advocate and physician, is battling Republican Debbie Lesko, a conservative former state senator, for a seat representing an area that encompasses a swath of Phoenix’s western and northern suburbs.
Although national Republican operatives privately profess their confidence in a Lesko victory, the party brass is investing heavily in the race to guard against another embarrassing defeat. Three national GOP arms ― the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican National Committee, and the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) ― have together spent more than $1.2 million on Lesko’s behalf.
In addition, President Donald Trump recorded a robocall for Lesko, and several Republican leaders have traveled to the district to campaign and raise money for her. The GOP would suffer a blow to morale from even a narrow win in the solidly Republican seat, which explains why national GOP leaders are not taking any chances, according to Gina Woodall, an Arizona State University politics expert.
“If this very safe Republican seat flips, then anything goes at the state level and at the federal level in November,” Woodall said. “Republicans have a tremendous amount to lose in Arizona.”Overigens verwacht eigenlijk niemand dat Tipirneni het gaat halen (Trump - Clinton was daar 57-36, voorganger Franks won destijds met 68 procent en van buitenaf zijn er mega-bijdragen in Lesko's kas gestort), maar er waren de laatste maanden wel meer kansloze kanshebbers die niet bepaald krap bij kas zaten.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.
(Okee, ik vind Tipirneni leuker en ze is een echte dokter, dus ik blijf hopen.)
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twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 15:42:33I'm still waiting for someone to offer an explanation as to why Trump lying to the FBI on a fact material to a pending investigation is not a violation of federal criminal law. Mueller has already indicted several Trump compatriots for less egregious versions of the same conduct. reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 15:46:022/ It's not complicated:(1) Trump learns from the FBI that they have a pending investigation into allegations made in the Steele dossier.(2) Trump, having just been told the allegations involve him, manufactures an exculpatory alibi he knows is false and gives it to the FBI. reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 15:48:113/ The government must also show the president knew his lies to the FBI were unlawful. I'll check the dates again, but wasn't Trump already aware of the trouble Mike Flynn was in for violating the very same statute at the time he lied to the FBI? That would establish knowledge. reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 15:52:184/ The Trump-Comey talk fits the statute, as a discussion with the FBI on a pending investigation. It doesn't matter if Trump was sworn, because the statute doesn't require that. And faking an alibi is worse than lying about a discussion (Flynn; Papadopoulos; the Dutch lawyer). reageer retweet
quote:On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether President Trump’s nationality-based travel ban may continue. The case is important to every American and, indeed, the integrity of the republic, because the ban threatens a cornerstone of our system of government: the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.
All presidents push the limits of the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches. President Trump’s travel ban tears the fabric.
The legal question before the court is this: Does a president have the authority to ban immigration and travel, based on nationality, in ways that contradict limits set by Congress?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.
twitter:AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 16:07:23BREAKING: Senate committee says it has delayed Wednesday's confirmation hearing for Trump's VA nominee Ronny Jackson. reageer retweet
quote:WASHINGTON — The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Trump’s nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician and allowed the overprescribing of drugs, according to congressional officials briefed on the committee’s work.
They have also received claims that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson drank too much on the job.
The allegations, which have been under investigation since last week, forced the postponement of Dr. Jackson’s confirmation hearing, planned for this Wednesday as senators scrutinize the nominee’s time leading the White House medical staff. Officials familiar with the allegations against Dr. Jackson declined to offer precise details but said that they suggest a pattern of behavior, not just one or two isolated incidents.
quote:President Donald Trump has been hinting that he might try to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible criminal wrongdoing related to Russian election interference and matters related to it, such as the firing of former FBI Director James Comey. As Trump put it last Monday when asked about his plans for Mueller, “We’ll see what happens. Many people have said, ‘You should fire him.’”
Although Trump claims he can fire Mueller directly, many legal scholars disagree. They contend that a special counsel can only be subject to firing for a valid legal reason by the attorney general, and since Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation, Mueller’s fate would fall to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. But even on this understanding, Trump might pressure Rosenstein into sacking Mueller by threatening to fire Rosenstein himself. Or he might simply replace Rosenstein with a more compliant supervising attorney. If Mueller is removed and his investigation thwarted, the public might never learn what misconduct, if any, was uncovered by the special counsel’s probe.
Fortunately, while he retains his position, Mueller has a powerful tool at his disposal: the “sealed,” or secret, indictment. If Mueller indeed determines that he has a strong case against Trump, a secret indictment returned by a grand jury will help protect the integrity of his investigation even if he is fired, while also avoiding the risk of provoking Trump to try to further impede the probe.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
quote:The first full term of the Supreme Court in the Trump era is wrapping up with a lawsuit that epitomizes the nature of the person occupying the Oval Office.
On Wednesday the justices will hear oral arguments in the final and perhaps biggest case of the term — Trump v. Hawaii, a challenge to the legality and constitutionality of President Trump’s travel ban, which indefinitely bars 150 million people, a vast majority of them Muslim, from entering the United States.
The ban, now in its third iteration, is ostensibly about protecting national security, but it has been steeped from the start in the reactionary xenophobia at the heart of Mr. Trump’s campaign and presidency. It was issued with a procedural sloppiness and lack of attention to detail that Americans have come to expect from an administration that can’t issue even a news release mourning the death of a former first lady without getting the date wrong. And the limits continue to be hawked as a necessary defense against terrorist attacks despite the lack of any evidence that they would improve on the careful legal framework Congress adopted to handle national security issues related to immigration.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.quote:Could the president be privy to information the rest of us are not? Of course he could. And yet somehow it’s hard to have confidence that a man who appears to get his daily intelligence briefing from “Fox & Friends” is particularly concerned with the details of the global war on terrorism.
twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 16:43:22.@jonkarl asked Trump just now if he was considering a pardon for Cohen. Trump replied angrily: "Stupid question." reageer retweet
Omdat hij denkt dat het voor iedereen overduidelijk is dat hij dat gaat doen?quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 16:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 16:43:22.@jonkarl asked Trump just now if he was considering a pardon for Cohen. Trump replied angrily: "Stupid question." reageer retweet
Inderdaad. Een man van eer die Kim. Een voorbeeld voor ons allen.quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says North Korea wants meeting 'as soon as possible,' praises Kim Jong Un as 'very open' and 'very honorable'
Hij was al een admiraal voordat Trump aan de macht kwam dus dat probleem is al ouder.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 13:44 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Je hoeft alleen maar "loyaliteit" aan Trump te geven, dan is je toekomst verzekerd voor maar liefst een paar weken.
twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 16:55:59Another Manafort employee cooperating with the FBI...The employee gave the bureau information that helped agents secure a search warrant on Manafort's VA condo last summer https://t.co/AYcmziZ5I0 https://t.co/l0mwFbnYf5 reageer retweet
Er stond een aantal dagen geleden al een analyse in de Volkskrant die stelde dat Kim niks heeft te verliezen en alleen maar kan winnen, zelfs als er helemaal niks uit die onderhandelingen komt.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 18:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump krijgt waarschijnlijk de belofte dat de testlocatie (die van dat ongeluk) buiten gebruik zal worden gesteld en nog wat betekenisloze bull en hangt daarvoor de vlag uit.
Wat een sucker.
Het is in ieder geval wel een 'stable' genius. Ik zou al blij zijn met iemand die minder labiel is.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 18:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Inderdaad. Een man van eer die Kim. Een voorbeeld voor ons allen.
Trump noemde hem vandaag een eervol mens. Dus tja, gewonnen heeft hij al. Hij heeft er niets voor hoeven doen.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 19:25 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
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Er stond een aantal dagen geleden al een analyse in de Volkskrant die stelde dat Kim niks heeft te verliezen en alleen maar kan winnen, zelfs als er helemaal niks uit die onderhandelingen komt.
Precies. Het meest dictatoriale regime ter wereld wordt gewoon gelegitimeerd hiermee. Precies wat Kim Jong Un Dos Tres wilt. Kernwapens opgeven hoeft ook niet eens aangezien dat geen vooropgestelde eis was van Trump voordat hij het aanbod accepteerde. Geen wonder dat z'n casinos failliet gingen. Beetje poker is al te moeilijk voor hem.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 19:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Trump noemde hem vandaag een eervol mens. Dus tja, gewonnen heeft hij al. Hij heeft er niets voor hoeven doen.
Macron is een hele slimme. Die heeft Trump in een half jaar volledig ingepalmd.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 19:06 schreef Stabiel het volgende:
Trump kust Macron tijdens persco en zegt 'I like him very much'.
Yep. Kim laat mensen in stadions executeren door ze met een mortier of luchtafweerkanon te beschieten als ze geluk hebben, en met een vlammenwerper bij pech. Gebruikte VX tegen zijn halfbroer. Vermoordde zijn oom. En dan heb ik het niet over de kampen.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 19:35 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
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Precies. Het meest dictatoriale regime ter wereld wordt gewoon gelegitimeerd hiermee. Precies wat Kim Jong Un Dos Tres wilt. Kernwapens opgeven hoeft ook niet eens aangezien dat geen vooropgestelde eis was van Trump voordat hij het aanbod accepteerde. Geen wonder dat z'n casinos failliet gingen. Beetje poker is al te moeilijk voor hem.
Though cookie. Moeten we respect voor hebben.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 20:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Yep. Kim laat mensen in stadions executeren door ze met een mortier of luchtafweerkanon te beschieten als ze geluk hebben, en met een vlammenwerper bij pech. Gebruikte VX tegen zijn halfbroer. Vermoordde zijn oom. En dan heb ik het niet over de kampen.
Inderdaad een toffe peer. Wat is Trump een domme klapjosti.
Macron heeft een blik alsof ie zojuist iemand keihard getrolled heeft. Wat een baasquote:
Dit is tijdens/direct nadat de vraag gesteld werd over een eventueel pardon en dat Trump aangaf dat hij de vraag stom vond.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 21:38 schreef Falco het volgende:
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Macron heeft een blik alsof ie zojuist iemand keihard getrolled heeft. Wat een baas
twitter:CBSNews twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 21:20:03Adm. Harry Harris, the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, who was President Trump's pick to be U.S. ambassador to Australia, will instead likely be nominated U.S. ambassador to South Korea instead. https://t.co/mjnrivHaYC https://t.co/VUU0N2r37f reageer retweet
Trump discussed adoption policy with Putin one day before ‘dictating’ son’s statement about ‘adoptions’twitter:NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 21:46:19Another overlooked data point: Trump said he discussed "adoption" policy with Putin—one day before dictating Trump Jr.'s misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting https://t.co/COP7SVsshl reageer retweet
quote:President Donald Trump personally “dictated” a misleading statement about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer last year that said they primarily “discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children,” The Washington Post reported Monday.
The initial statement Donald Trump Jr. provided to the press, which was reportedly dictated by his father, read:
“It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up. I was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance, but was not told the name of the person I would be meeting with beforehand.”
The statement did not mention that Donald Trump Jr. had been offered compromising information about Hillary Clinton in exchange for taking the meeting. And it was crafted by the president one day after he discussed “adoptions” with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a dinner at the G20 summit.
Asked about that dinner later, Trump told the New York Times that he and Putin “just talked about things. Actually, it was very interesting; we talked about adoptions.”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
Manafort interviewed twice by FBI before joining Trump’s 2016 campaign, new documents showtwitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 21:58:49Another reason the FBI would have eyed the Trump campaign for treacherous collusion long before it saw the Steele dossier—not only had the FBI previously interviewed Trump's Campaign Manager, it had deleterious Russia-related intel on 40% of the first adds to Trump's NatSec team. https://t.co/TUxZL51mD2 reageer retweet
quote:Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was interviewed by the FBI twice while he was working as a political consultant for a Ukrainian political party — several years before he was named a top adviser to Donald Trump, newly filed court documents revealed.
The documents filed late Monday by prosecutors in the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, show that the FBI had interviewed Manafort in March 2013 and again in July 2014. Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates, who also held a top role with Trump’s campaign, was interviewed by the FBI in July 2014, the documents show.
The information raises fresh questions about how closely the Trump campaign vetted staff members and whether Manafort and Gates told officials about their interactions with the FBI.
Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, declined to comment, citing a gag order imposed by the judge in Manafort’s case.
A lawyer for Gates did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did Michael Glassner, executive director of Trump’s campaign committee.
Manafort ultimately resigned as Trump’s campaign chairman in August 2016 after a series of stories about his work in Ukraine, including a New York Times report that alleged he had received more than $12 million in off-the-books payments from Viktor Yanukovych’s political party.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:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 21:36:022/ Glenn Greenwald of @theintercept called me "a conspiracy theorist" (August), "deranged" (November), and a "charlatan and con artist" (December) for calling the evidence of collusion "strong"—and itemizing it on this feed. Now The Intercept *also* says the evidence is "strong." reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 21:21:522/ I think the difference between The Intercept and others in digital media is we spent months looking at the evidence and concluded the case was strong--whereas The Intercept spent months *not* looking at the evidence and denying it. And now they *look* and see what all of us do. reageer retweet
quote:WHEN I BEGAN this series of columns about Trump and Russia for The Intercept, I believed that evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow was thin. Collusion, I thought, was the weak link in the middle of the larger Trump-Russia narrative.
At that time, I believed there was much stronger evidence that the Russians had intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump win through a cyberoffensive targeting the American political system. I also thought there was powerful evidence that Trump and his aides had engaged in efforts to obstruct justice and impede Mueller’s investigation. Further, I suspected that congressional Republicans were engaged in a similar conspiracy to obstruct justice in Mueller’s inquiry. I was much less convinced that there was compelling evidence to show that Trump or those around him had actually conspired with the Russians to win the presidency. Like many others, I was willing to believe that Trump and his aides were too haplessly disorganized and incompetent to have coordinated with the Russians.
But as I’ve dug deeper into the evidence made public so far, I have become convinced that the case for collusion is much stronger than I thought. There are still plenty of unanswered questions, but that case is getting more persuasive as new facts come to light. (On Monday, the FBI raided the office and hotel room of one of Trump’s lawyers, although it’s unclear whether that will yield evidence of collusion.)
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Trump en Macron hebben er plezier in.twitter:BChappatta twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 19:08:14just watching a Treasury auction and then this: https://t.co/8NoMUInoOI reageer retweet
twitter:AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:29:16BREAKING: Watchdog report says VA nominee Ronny Jackson, in power struggle with rival doctor, exhibited 'unprofessional behaviors' reageer retweet
twitter:AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:33:17BREAKING: 2012 inspector general report suggested removing VA nominee Ronny Jackson and rival from White House roles after finding 'severe and pervasive lack of trust in the leadership' reageer retweet
Iets zegt me dat Trump Obama de schuld gaat geven van het niet goed vetten van Trumps VA secretary nominee.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 22:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
twitter:AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:29:16BREAKING: Watchdog report says VA nominee Ronny Jackson, in power struggle with rival doctor, exhibited 'unprofessional behaviors' reageer retweet
twitter:AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:33:17BREAKING: 2012 inspector general report suggested removing VA nominee Ronny Jackson and rival from White House roles after finding 'severe and pervasive lack of trust in the leadership' reageer retweet
In algemene zin niet... voor potentiele Democratic kandidaten had WaPo er een maandje geleden een artikel over: https://www.washingtonpos(...)s-for-2020-ranked-2/quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 23:19 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
Hey ik moet morgen 5 minuutjes over een random onderwerp dat je interesseert een presentatie geven.
Ik ga het denk ik houden over, wie gaat er winnen in 2020 en waarom.
Iemand die toevallig nog wat aardige artikels heeft om me wat informatie te geven?
Thanks.quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 23:29 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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In algemene zin niet... voor potentiele Democratic kandidaten had WaPo er een maandje geleden een artikel over: https://www.washingtonpos(...)s-for-2020-ranked-2/
Oh, die had ik nota bene nog gelezen...quote:Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 23:32 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
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Thanks.
https://fivethirtyeight.c(...)-worried-about-2020/
Ik had zelf dit alvast gelezen mocht het je interesseren.
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