[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #531 Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 13:33 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Hopelijk. Maar in de tussentijd wordt de schade steeds groter.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 13:40 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je denkt dat Pence een heel ander beleid zou voeren oid?

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vicenews twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 13:01:00 Google the word "idiot" https://t.co/XBMjzcpzCO reageer retweet

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Trump: 'Ready to go' with $500 billion in tariffs on China

President Trump in an interview that aired Friday said that he's "ready to go" with $500 billion in tariffs on China after already slapping the country with a series of tariffs.

Trump said in an interview with CNBC that the U.S. is "down a tremendous amount" in terms of trade with China saying that China "can't match us because otherwise we're always going to be behind the 8-ball."

"I'm not doing this for politics. I'm doing this to do this right thing for our country. We have been ripped off by China for a long time and I told that to President Xi," Trump said.

Bloomberg reported that about $500 billion worth of Chinese goods were imported into the U.S. last year.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that the U.S. has been taken advantage of by China on trade.

The Trump administration imposed tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products last month, which China quickly matched with tariffs on the same value of American goods.

The administration then announced that it would impose another series of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.

China has promised to retaliate for the latest round of tariffs and has filed a challenge with the World Trade Organization.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 13:39 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Dat ook ja Ik denk alleen persoonlijk dat het Rusland verhaal hem niet de das om doet. En het hem ook niet tegenwerkt bij herverkiezingen.

Focussen op het afnemen van rechten van de gewone Amerikaanse burger daaraantegen wel...

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 13:41 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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vicenews twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 13:01:00 Google the word "idiot" https://t.co/XBMjzcpzCO reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 13:30 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Kamp Trump heeft een nieuwe stok gevonden om mee te slaan rondom Manafort.

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http://www.foxnews.com/po(...)t-paul-manafort.html

Mind you, de bron is Tucker Carlson en geen enkele andere bron heeft het overgenomen, maar thegatewaypundit en t_d kunnen er vast hun lol niet mee op.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:02 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Het klopt, als ik "idiot" google en afbeeldingen vraag, is het een en al Trump dat de klok slaat.

En dat terwijl hij over Google twiiterde "The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google."

Benieuwd of hij nog lang bij die mening (one of our great companies) blijft.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Russian firm indicted in special counsel probe cites Kavanaugh decision to argue that charges should be dismissed

Die Russen weten echt iedereen te trollen.

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In the case of the foreign national decision, Kavanaugh said the government would have to prove that foreign nationals had knowledge of the law’s restrictions before seeking criminal charges. And he said the ban did not include foreign spending on “issue advocacy and speaking out on issues of public policy.”

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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SenSchumer twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 14:27:00 Judge Kavanaugh’s ruling would allow unfettered Russian money to pour into our elections on behalf of President Trump. We need a Supreme Court that protects our democracy and elections, not expose them. #WhatsAtStake https://t.co/5UNCJ1lJlr reageer retweet

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The Supreme Court affirmed the decision in 2012 in a one-sentence order, without noted dissent or scheduling the case for a hearing.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:38 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ucten-uit-china.html

Trump dreigt met importtarieven op álle producten uit China

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 14:43:05 China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day - taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 14:51:45 ....The United States should not be penalized because we are doing so well. Tightening now hurts all that we have done. The U.S. should be allowed to recapture what was lost due to illegal currency manipulation and BAD Trade Deals. Debt coming due & we are raising rates - Really? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:58 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Wat bedoelt ie met debt coming due?

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Geen idee. Bovendien was een sterke dollar zijn plan.

Trump says dollar will get 'stronger and stronger,'

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 12:50:00 Republican Rep. Will Hurd (an ex-CIA officer): "Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them." https://t.co/atSW38OiXX reageer retweet

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Over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the C.I.A., I saw Russian intelligence manipulate many people. I never thought I would see the day when an American president would be one of them.

The president’s failure to defend the United States intelligence community’s unanimous conclusions of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and condemn Russian covert counterinfluence campaigns and his standing idle on the world stage while a Russian dictator spouted lies confused many but should concern all Americans. By playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands, the leader of the free world actively participated in a Russian disinformation campaign that legitimized Russian denial and weakened the credibility of the United States to both our friends and foes abroad.

As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 14:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 14:43:05 China, the European Union and others have been manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower, while the U.S. is raising rates while the dollars gets stronger and stronger with each passing day - taking away our big competitive edge. As usual, not a level playing field... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 14:51:45 ....The United States should not be penalized because we are doing so well. Tightening now hurts all that we have done. The U.S. should be allowed to recapture what was lost due to illegal currency manipulation and BAD Trade Deals. Debt coming due & we are raising rates - Really? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Geen idee. Bovendien was een sterke dollar zijn plan.

Trump says dollar will get 'stronger and stronger,'

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The president has criticized Federal Reserve policy in the past, as a candidate, and he has also voiced his concern about the strength of the dollar. His criticism of the Fed was largely aimed at former Fed Chair Janet Yellen during the election.

Trump has commented on dollar strength in the past. One of those times was as president-elect, when he gave an interview to The Wall Street Journal just before the inauguration, saying the dollar was too strong. He also pointed to its strength against the Chinese yuan as a concern, and at the time the dollar moved lower.

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U.S. intelligence officials and security experts have spent years urging states to shore up their elections’ digital defenses, and the latest indictments from special counsel Robert Mueller drew fresh attention to Russia’s cyberattacks on the 2016 presidential election.

But less than four months before the midterm elections that will shape the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency, most states’ election offices have failed to fix their most glaring security weaknesses, according to a POLITICO survey of all 50 states.

And few states are planning steps that would improve their safeguards before November, even after they receive their shares of the $380 million in election security funding that Congress approved in March.

Only 13 states said they intend to use the federal dollars to buy new voting machines. At least 22 said they have no plans to replace their machines before the election — including all five states that rely solely on paperless electronic voting devices, which cybersecurity experts consider a top vulnerability.

In addition, almost no states conduct robust, statistic-based post-election audits to look for evidence of tampering after the fact. And fewer than one-third of states and territories have requested a key type of security review from the Department of Homeland Security.

Almost none of the 40 states that responded to POLITICO provided full details of how they plan to spend their shares of the money.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that meetings between U.S. and Russian presidents should become “normal” again.

Merkel’s comments Friday came after President Donald Trump invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House. Earlier this week, the two had a meeting in Finland.

Merkel said that “in principle it’s always good for everyone when there are talks, particularly when there are talks between these two countries.”

She said: “I think it must once again become normal for Russian and American presidents to meet.”

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:22 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.apnews.com/71(...)_campaign=SocialFlow

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The Russian government is pushing for the release of a gun rights activist accused of being a covert agent in the U.S., calling her arrest a “farce.”

The Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, told a conference in Moscow that the accusations against Maria Butina are groundless and that American authorities tried to “break her” and refused her consular visits for the first few days after her arrest.

Russian Embassy representatives visited Butina in Washington on Thursday, and said in a statement that she is in good health but “has difficulties in adapting to prison conditions.”

Antonov said Moscow is working to return her to Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry started an online campaign to “Free Maria Butina.”

U.S. federal prosecutors accused Butina this week of being a covert Russian agent and working to infiltrate U.S. political organizations, including the National Rifle Association, before and after Donald Trump’s election as president.

Butina, 29, denies wrongdoing.

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Young voters are flocking to register to vote in key battleground states in the wake of the February school shooting at a Parkland, Fla. high school, according to a new analysis from Democratic data firm TargetSmart.

The report, released exclusively to NBC News, shows that young voters between the ages of 18 and 29 years old make up an increasing share of those registering to vote in a handful of key states.

Pennsylvania has seen the sharpest increase—61 percent of new voter registrations come from young voters, compared to 45 percent before the shooting.

Virginia, Indiana and New York have all seen an increase of about 10 percentage points in the youth share of new voter registrants, while Arizona and Florida have seen gains of about 8 percent. All of these states are home to some key Senate or House races that will play a crucial role in deciding control of Congress.

Other key battleground states—like California, North Carolina and Ohio—have seen more modest increases. And in West Virginia, home to one of the top Senate races on the map, the youth share of new registrants fell 11.5 percentage points.

Democrats are boosted by the general upward trend—TargetSmart found a 2 percent uptick in the share of youth registrants across the country—considering young voters skew more liberal and are more supportive of enacting new gun control measures. The February shooting in Parkland, where 17 people were killed, has served as a motivator for activists looking to make the case to pass new measures like expanding background checks and restricting access to certain weapons

Take a look at how the share has changed in each of the 38 states (plus the District of Columbia) that have updated their voter files since the shooting on Feb. 14 (states shown in grey haven’t publicly released new voter registration data over this span) on the graph below. And TargetSmart has all of the data here.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:19 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Maar blijkbaar vindt hij dat die tijd nog niet gekomen is... Voor z'n aantreden zei hij trouwens dat de dollar te sterk was.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Montenegro: We're too small to start a new world war

Het is wel dapper van zo'n klein land om Trump tegen te spreken.

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