[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #531 Sic Semper Tyrannis

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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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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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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 15:04:44 Farmers have been on a downward trend for 15 years. The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the Election. A big reason is bad (terrible) Trade Deals with other countries. They put on massive Tariffs and Barriers. Canada charges 275% on Dairy. Farmers will WIN! reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 15:10:27 Front page of the Des Moines Register last month: Iowa soybean farmers could lose up to $624,000,000 as a result of Trump's tariffs, an economist at Iowa State University told The Des Moines Register. https://t.co/fr6bllbd98 https://t.co/7JsyP84IX5 reageer retweet

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Perhaps Iowa farmers' biggest fear is becoming a harsh reality: The escalating U.S.-China trade dispute erupted Friday, with each country vowing to levy 25 percent tariffs on $50 billion in goods.

U.S. and Iowa agriculture is caught in the crossfire, with farmers selling $14 billion in soybeans to China last year, its top export market.

Soybeans are among hundreds of U.S. products China has singled out for tariffs. The U.S. has an equally long list that includes taxing X-ray machines and other Chinese goods.

Iowa farmers could lose up to $624 million, depending on how long the tariffs are in place and the speed producers can find new markets for their soybeans, said Chad Hart, an Iowa State University economist.

U.S. soybean prices have fallen about 12 percent since March, when the U.S.-China trade dispute began.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 15:51 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Trump negeert weer eens doodleuk de miljarden aan landbouw subsidies in de VS op soya bonen die de prijs drukken. Maar goed, zal wel weer too complicated zijn voor hem

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 15:26:19 I have known Rev for almost 20 years. No one better to talk to! https://t.co/3XEoHqhQyU reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 16:42:23 Here's an article by a guy who's given this feed a lot of sh*t since Trump's inauguration. https://t.co/EqJi5NXCrb reageer retweet

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When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor, I mistyped.

What I meant to write was that I wasn’t skeptical.

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NatSecGeek twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 17:12:48 Today, I'm releasing a searchable transcript of over 285,000 #Manafort text messages that #WikiLeaks wouldn't publish. You can find the what, why and where at: https://t.co/SXFm4kxRg9 reageer retweet

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AndreaChalupa twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 16:30:38 Russian firm indicted in special counsel probe cites Kavanaugh decision to argue that charge should be dismissed https://t.co/wXKZG24gHY reageer retweet

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A Russian company accused by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of being part of an online operation to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign is leaning in part on a decision by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh to argue that the charge against it should be thrown out.

The 2011 decision by Kavanaugh, writing for a three-judge panel, concerned the role that foreign nationals may play in U.S. elections. It upheld a federal law that said foreigners temporarily in the country may not donate money to candidates, contribute to political parties and groups or spend money advocating for or against candidates. But it did not rule out letting foreigners spend money on independent advocacy campaigns.

Kavanaugh “went out of his way to limit the decision,” said Daniel A. Petalas, a Washington lawyer and former interim general counsel for the Federal Election Commission.

A motion filed by the Russian company this week repeatedly cites Kavanaugh’s decision, bringing new attention to his rulings on campaign finance laws and regulations during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 17:32 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Ik snap de importheffingen tegenover China echt niet.

Dat gaat zo belachelijk veel schade doen aan de VS. en vooral de kleinere bedrijven, maar zeker ook de grote franchises.

Al dat handeltekort is toch niet negatief, dat betekent gewoon dat je goedkoper in het buitenland koopt. So fucking what? En Trump heeft nooit anders gedaan, petjes, goedkope mexicaanse arbeiders om zijn torens te bouwen, etc etc

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 17:41 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:
Wat me vooral schadelijk lijkt, is dat continue veranderen van importheffingen en beleid.
Bouw je net een bedrijfje op, komt Trump met zijn 400% verhoging van importtarieven.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 18:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1020333479761006592?s=19

Lordy, there is a tape....And the FBI has it...

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When The Wall Street Journal revealed the existence of the payment days before the election, Mr. Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said, “We have no knowledge of any of this.” She said Ms. McDougal’s claim of an affair was “totally untrue.” NYT