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Heeft verder niets met Trump te maken, ik zie niet in hoe dit hem aan te rekenen is.quote:Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 19:09 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
"You're the enemy of the people, and we're going to kill every f------ one of you," the caller said. "Hey, why don't you call the F, why don't you call Mueller, maybe he can help you out, buddy."
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Maar goed, zoals velen ben ik ook wel erg benieuwd waarom Trump juist vandaag moet zeuren over dat het interview met Holt nep zou zijn. Het komt bij hem zomaar uit de lucht vallen.
Niet direct aan te rekenen, maar dit soort maffies volgen zijn voorbeeld.quote:Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 21:11 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
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Heeft verder niets met Trump te maken, ik zie niet in hoe dit hem aan te rekenen is.
quote:President Donald Trump has repeatedly lashed out against the press and called the news media an "enemy of the people," using the phrase as recently as Thursday on Twitter.
Carpe Libertatem
Uiteraard, het was sarcasme, m'n post.quote:Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 21:16 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Niet direct aan te rekenen, maar dit soort maffies volgen zijn voorbeeld.
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Volgt iemand het account @realDonaldTrump nog? Ik lees zijn tweets alleen nog via @UnfollowTrump. Lijkt me genoeg eer voor die tumor.
He's simple, he's dumb, he's the pilot.
Ik lees ze alleen maar hier.quote:
Volgt iemand het account @realDonaldTrump nog? Ik lees zijn tweets alleen nog via @UnfollowTrump. Lijkt me genoeg eer voor die tumor.
Als je goed om je heen kijkt zie je dat alles gekleurd is.
Soms heb ik hem wel eens open op een tabje als er weer eens een tweetstorm gaande is. Dan zie je vanzelf een eentje verschijnen als er weer wat opgeborreld is bij hem.quote:
Volgt iemand het account @realDonaldTrump nog? Ik lees zijn tweets alleen nog via @UnfollowTrump. Lijkt me genoeg eer voor die tumor.
Nee, maar ik mijd Twitter dan ook omdat ik het een infantiliserend medium vind en dat account is zoals de Amerikanen zeggen "Exhibit A".
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Ik vind het juist wel echt een handig medium. Maar dan wel slechts als je een gecureerde lijst met accounts hebt. Veel beter dan een RSS-feed met nieuws zeg maar.quote:
Nee, maar ik mijd Twitter dan ook omdat ik het een infantiliserend medium vind en dat account is zoals de Amerikanen zeggen "Exhibit A".
quote:Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 21:06 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Laatst vroeg ik (jullie ) hoe het ervoor stond met de jeugd en voter’s registration sinds Parkland.
Blijkbaar wordt er flink geregistreerd.
http://thehill.com/homene(...)r-registration?amp=1Moeten die millennials wel een keer op komen dagen anders heb je er alsnog niks aan.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.
Hier is wel een interessant artikel over de Britse verkiezingen na de Brexit en Trumpverkiezing over de jeugdstem: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42747342quote:
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Moeten die millennials wel een keer op komen dagen anders heb je er alsnog niks aan.
Ze noemen een hogere jongerenopkomst hierin een mythe, vanwege de fout. Strikt genomen heel leuk, maar de kans dat de jongeren een aanzienlijk hogere opkomst hadden dan voorheen is wel serieus hoog:
En dan bedoel ik met jongeren ook nog vroege veertigers ... *waves fist at babyboomers*
De EU stelt voor alle tarieven op auto's op te heffen, Trump wijst het voorstel af...
Inmiddels heeft het Appellate Body van de WTO slechts 3 rechters meer (Uit de US, China, India), het minimum vereist om een zaak te behandelen. Binnen enkele maanden verdwijnt de volgende en valt de WTO volledig stil.
Het begint erop te lijken dat Trump simpelweg af wil van de WTO, zodat hij de economische macht van de VS kan gebruiken om landen te dwingen aan z'n wensen te voldoen.
Hij heeft het met Z Korea gedaan, nu met Mexico, benieuwd of het met Canada zal lukken.
http://thehill.com/policy(...)-car-tariffs-to-zeroquote:Trump rejects EU's offer to drop car tariffs to zero
President Trump on Thursday refused an offer from the European Union to lower car tariffs to zero.
“It’s not good enough,” Trump said of the offer that came earlier in the day from Brussels during an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News.
“Their consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars," he said.
Earlier, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told the European Parliament
that Europe would be willing to cut car tariffs to zero if the U.S was willing to do the same.
Trump again compared the EU to China, where he has ramped up a trade war with Beijing by imposing billions of tariffs on each other's goods.
“The European Union is almost as bad as China, just smaller,” Trump told Bloomberg.
Besides imposing another $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports into the United States as early as next week, Trump has asked the Commerce Department to determine whether auto imports endanger national security.
Many in the auto industry likely expect that the Commerce Department will say that those foreign autos do put U.S. security at risk.
Inmiddels heeft het Appellate Body van de WTO slechts 3 rechters meer (Uit de US, China, India), het minimum vereist om een zaak te behandelen. Binnen enkele maanden verdwijnt de volgende en valt de WTO volledig stil.
Het begint erop te lijken dat Trump simpelweg af wil van de WTO, zodat hij de economische macht van de VS kan gebruiken om landen te dwingen aan z'n wensen te voldoen.
Hij heeft het met Z Korea gedaan, nu met Mexico, benieuwd of het met Canada zal lukken.
are we infinite or am I alone
Het is maar amper gelinkt aan Amerikaanse politiek, maar Alex Jones gaat hopelijk flink uitgekleed worden door rechtszaken aangespannen door familie van Sandy Hook-kinderen (en een man die door Infowars ten onrechte als dader is gedoxxed). Het vuil stuk vreten heeft geprobeerd de rechtszaak te dismissen, maar daar was de rechter het niet mee eens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)?partner=rss&emc=rssquote:A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, in a ruling released on Thursday.
The lawsuit was filed in state district court in Austin by Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, parents of Noah Pozner, who was 6 years old when he was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
On his radio broadcast and in videos, Mr. Jones for years spread bogus claims that the shooting was a “false flag,” an event staged by the government as part of an effort to confiscate Americans’ firearms, and that the parents of the children killed were “crisis actors.”
After Mr. Pozner succeeded in getting an Infowars video casting doubt on the shooting removed from YouTube, Mr. Jones showed his audience Mr. Pozner’s personal information and maps to addresses associated with his family, court documents say. Mr. Jones also falsely accused Ms. De La Rosa of participating in a faked interview with Anderson Cooper of CNN after the shooting, according to court documents.
Subsequent death threats and harassment have forced the Pozner family to move seven times. They currently live in hiding.
17 staten hebben naast "civil" ook "criminal defamation" wetten, Texas is er jammer genoeg niet bij...quote:Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 01:06 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Het is maar amper gelinkt aan Amerikaanse politiek, maar Alex Jones gaat hopelijk flink uitgekleed worden door rechtszaken aangespannen door familie van Sandy Hook-kinderen (en een man die door Infowars ten onrechte als dader is gedoxxed). Het vuil stuk vreten heeft geprobeerd de rechtszaak te dismissen, maar daar was de rechter het niet mee eens.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)?partner=rss&emc=rss
are we infinite or am I alone
Dus wat Trump wil is dat we verplicht Amerikaanse troep gaan kopen hierquote:“It’s not good enough,” Trump said of the offer that came earlier in the day from Brussels during an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News.
“Their consumer habits are to buy their cars, not to buy our cars," he said.
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Dus wat Trump wil is dat we verplicht Amerikaanse troep gaan kopen hier
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Ik wacht nog even met dit oordeel tot ik de Trump twitter feeds van woensdag 7 november kan lezen.quote:
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization
Lastig hoor. Dan moeten er nog meer deals worden gemaakt, en dat kan de man niet,
Lastig hoor. Dan moeten er nog meer deals worden gemaakt, en dat kan de man niet,
Lijkt me top, dan kan de rest van de wereld weer normaal via het WTO werken zonder die Amerikanen die de boel daar frustreren.quote:
Trump threatens to pull US out of World Trade Organization
Lastig hoor. Dan moeten er nog meer deals worden gemaakt, en dat kan de man niet,
Hoeren neuken, nooit meer werken.
Ik heb er ook niet veel problemen mee.quote:Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 10:54 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
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Lijkt me top, dan kan de rest van de wereld weer normaal via het WTO werken zonder die Amerikanen die de boel daar frustreren.
Chuck Todd Says Mueller May Drop Something Big: ‘I Wouldn’t Miss Work Tomorrow’
Geen idee of de man gelijk heeft, maar Trump was de afgelopen dagen wel idioot bezig. Iets zal hem getriggerd hebben, en het is vrijdag.....quote:MSNBC’s Chuck Todd thinks all signs point to special counsel Robert Mueller making major moves on Friday.
President Donald Trump on Thursday called the inquiry into Russian meddling “an illegal investigation.”
“This is the president feeling like there’s a lot happening around him, the walls may be closing in on him, and I think he’s lashing out,” said Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily.”
Republican strategist Brad Todd, however, said Mueller has a “responsibility” to know when “he’s gone past the time limit of when he has credibility with the public.”
“What time limit are we at?” wondered Todd.
Todd said everyone who’s worked with Mueller believes he would’ve ended the investigation already if there was no evidence of collusion.
He also said Mueller would “keep quiet” between Labor Day and November’s midterm elections so as not to be accused of interfering politically.
Daniella Gibbs Léger of the Center for American Progress predicted Mueller would drop big news in January as a result.
But Todd said it could be a whole lot sooner.
“I’ll be honest with you: I’m not missing work tomorrow,” he said, referring to Friday, the last business day before Labor Day. “I wouldn’t miss work tomorrow.”
He later added: “Not to be totally cliche, but 5 o’clock tomorrow is a big deadline, isn’t it?
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Chuck Todd Says Mueller May Drop Something Big: ‘I Wouldn’t Miss Work Tomorrow’
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Geen idee of de man gelijk heeft, maar Trump was de afgelopen dagen wel idioot bezig. Iets zal hem getriggerd hebben, en het is vrijdag.....
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
1 big thing: Mueller's secret files
quote:With speculation hot among the president's legal team that today could be a day for action by Bob Mueller (last working day before Labor Day), remember all the evidence the special counsel has — or could — that we haven't seen:
• President Trump's tax returns.
• Trump bank records, which are more valuable than tax returns.
• Internal Trump Organization records.
• More recordings from Michael Cohen.
• Cellphone records (metadata showing calls placed/received and duration) related to the Trump Tower meeting.
• White House and campaign emails and text messages. (Trump's legal team said in January that the White House had produced more than 20,000 pages of materials, and the campaign had provided more than 1.4 million pages.)
• Contemporaneous notes of White House staffers from meetings with Trump.
• A full reconstruction by former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who made a plea deal, of his conversations about Russia and subsequent lies.
• Scores of hours of testimony of Trump insiders (including at least 20 White House personnel) about his private dealings, much of which is unknown to POTUS and the public.
• National Enquirer files revealed by today's N.Y. Times: Trump and Cohen "devised a plan to buy up all the dirt on Mr. Trump that the National Enquirer and its parent company had collected on him, dating back to the 1980s."
• As MSNBC analyst Matt Miller summarized: "Basically, everything!"
Why it matters, from Bob Bauer, former White House counsel to President Obama, and now an NYU Law professor:
"Investigators have the skills and resources to turn up evidence, including witness testimony, that goes beyond what anyone on the outside can imagine in the daily speculation about the Mueller probe."
Artikel over Patten uit april:twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 16:15:02 New: Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten has been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, Bloomberg News reports. https://t.co/Y5w7oLDani reageer retweet
New: Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten has been charged with failing to register as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, Bloomberg News reports. A Suspected Russian Spy, With Curious Ties to Washington
A longtime Republican operative has been in contact with a suspected Russian intelligence agent for nearly two decades. What does it mean for Robert Mueller's investigation?
quote:A longtime Republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign team also has a nearly two-decade-long friendship and business relationship with a suspected Russian intelligence agent, Konstantin Kilimnik, who has landed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's crosshairs.
The Washington-based operative, Sam Patten, would not tell me whether he has been interviewed by Mueller's team as part of their investigation into Russia's election interference and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. But Patten said that his relationship with Kilimnik--a former officer in Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) who worked closely with Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, for over a decade--has "been thoroughly explored by relevant government entities."
Patten's long friendship with Kilimnik--which stems from their time working together at the International Republican Institute in Moscow between 2001 and 2003--would likely be enough to draw scrutiny from Mueller, who appears to have homed in on Kilimnik as a potentially significant link between the Trump campaign and Russia. The special counsel's office alleged in a court filing late last month that Kilimnik still had ties to Russian intelligence services in 2016, and that his conversations with Gates in September of that year are relevant to the investigation. Manafort and Gates's arrival to the campaign team coincided with the most pivotal Russia-related episode of the election: the release of emails that had been stolen from the Democratic National Committee by hackers working for the GRU, Russia's premier military-intelligence unit.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.
[ Bericht 40% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 31-08-2018 16:27:50 ]“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:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 16:25:05 Sam Patten, the man who Mueller's team just charged with a FARA violation, has a nearly two-decade-long friendship and business relationship with suspected Russian intelligence agent Konstantin Kilimnik, @NatashaBertrand reported in April. https://t.co/mMZxjsMZ6t reageer retweet
Drukke agenda misschien?quote:
Wat is Trump stil vandaag. Is er geen Fox & Friends?
“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
Op 
Hij is de hele dag een beetje aan het reizen, dan heeft hij juist tijdquote:
https://factba.se/topic/calendar
Carpe Libertatem
Former Vice President Al Gore had a blunt message for President Donald Trump: "Resign."twitter:Elex_Michaelson twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 20:48:38 .@algore to @realDonaldTrump ? "Resign!"The fmr VP is hosting @ClimateReality teaching 2,000+ activists to persuade climate change skeptics. "Take it from Mother Nature! Every night on the TV is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation!”More https://t.co/jaAzVJ3i0O https://t.co/7yPgapugIG reageer retweet
.@algore to @quote:The climate change advocate sat down with "Good Day L.A." this week for an interview about his upcoming Climate Reality Project event, a gathering of some 2,000 activists in Los Angeles. When co-host Elex Michaelson asked if Gore had any message for Trump when it comes to climate change, his response was simple.
"Oh, my only message would be: resign," Gore said, laughing.
"I don't mean to be flippant about it," he added. "I don't think he's prepared to listen to advice about the importance of clean air and clean water."
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quote:New York’s attorney general says Trump Foundation bankrolled political campaign, pursues lawsuit (PBS/AP)
NEW YORK — Lawyers for President Donald Trump asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against his charitable foundation by New York’s attorney general, arguing that it was politically motivated.
In the motion Thursday, Trump attorney Alan S. Futerfas argued that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “made it his stated mission to ‘lead the resistance’ and attack Mr. Trump whenever possible” and “used his public antipathy for Mr. Trump to solicit donations for his own re-election campaign and advance his career interests and aspirations.”
Trump very publicly announced his intention to dissolve the foundation and donate all of its remaining funds to charity, but the AG “actively stonewalled dissolution,” Futerfas wrote.
“At the same time, the NYAG turned a blind eye to serious and significant allegations of misconduct involving the Clinton Foundation, including claims that it, and its subsidiaries, violated New York law by failing to disclose $225 million in donations from foreign governments,” Futerfas wrote.
Schneiderman began investigating the Trump Foundation in 2016 following Washington Post reports that its spending personally benefited the presidential candidate. Schneiderman ordered the foundation to stop fundraising in New York.
Schneiderman resigned in May after allegations that he physically abused women he had dated; he denied the claims.
His successor, Democratic Attorney General Barbara Underwood, filed the lawsuit in June, claiming the Trump Foundation “was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality.” The suit seeks $2.8 million in restitution and the foundation’s disbandment.
The filing said Underwood continued the “inflammatory rhetoric, stating publicly that she considers her battles with the President ‘the most important work (she) has ever done’ and has vowed that such ‘work will continue.'”
Trump’s lawyers also argued that several impermissible donations by the foundation were due to clerical errors and were all corrected when brought to the attention of foundation officials.
In a statement Thursday, the attorney general’s office said it won’t back down from “holding Trump and his associates accountable for their flagrant violations of New York law.”
“As our lawsuit detailed, the Trump Foundation functioned as a personal piggy bank to serve Trump’s business and political interests,” the statement said.
Massachusetts Schools Getting Buckets, Hammers To Fend Off Shooters
Wat een onzin. Wat is er mis met thoughts & prayers?quote:Florida’s Parkland student activists are focusing on gun control to stop multiple shootings in schools. But Massachusetts schools in Brockton are getting buckets, tape, hammers and ropes to help protect students from bullets.
More than 1,000 of the buckets filled with supplies for a barricade or lock-down situation will be distributed to classrooms in the coming weeks.
The supplies were the brainchild of the Brockton school district, the mayor’s office and the Brockton Police Department. Workers have been filling 5 gallon blue buckets provided at a discount by Lowe’s with a wooden wedge (to keep classroom doors shut), a 1 pound hammer, a 50 foot length of rope and a roll of duct tape.
The hammer could be used to break windows for escape, and the tape could seal doors in case of smoke, said officials. Buckets could be used in an “emergency bathroom situation,” Brockton Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Mike Thomas told the Brockton newspaper, The Enterprise.
“If something bad happens, you have to think quickly on your feet,” Thomas said. “Teachers can’t be running around the room looking for cords, or looking for something to smash a window. Now they know exactly where everything is.”
A Lowe’s store manager noted that there’s “no better way to give back than to the kids of the future.”
Students told CBS Boston that they’re OK with the buckets. “It’s kind of weird, but it’s for safety, so I’d do anything for safety,” a student said.
Mogelijk, maar kan ook mogelijk te maken hebben met het feit dat de uitvaart van McCain bezig is?quote:
Kellyanne Conway is er aanwezig trouwens:
Ik verwacht een tweet over "First Man", National Review heeft al kritiek geleverd:quote:
Wat is Trump stil vandaag. Is er geen Fox & Friends?
Neil Armstrong Movie Leaves Out the American Flag Planting
Rewriting history to own the patriots
"rewriting history"
Ze hadden de film ook kunnen eindigen met de vlag liggend in het stof, ze werd omver geblazen toen ze vertrokken...
are we infinite or am I alone
Is dat de uitvaart met speech van Obama?quote:
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Mogelijk, maar kan ook mogelijk te maken hebben met het feit dat de uitvaart van McCain bezig is?
Kellyanne Conway is er aanwezig trouwens:
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Hm lijkt me niet erg waarschijnlijk, tijdens de Memorial gisteren was hij ook druk aan het twitteren...quote:
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Mogelijk, maar kan ook mogelijk te maken hebben met het feit dat de uitvaart van McCain bezig is?
Kellyanne Conway is er aanwezig trouwens:
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Hij moet vandaag centjes ophalen voor NC kandidaten.
Dure fotootjes....quote:President Donald Trump will apear at Charlotte’s Carmel Country Club Friday to headline a fundraiser for two North Carolina congressional candidates.
As Tennessee Volunteer fans head to the Queen city for the season opener against WVU, there may be some road closures in place for the President's arrival and travel.
Trump will attend a lunch reception at the southeast Charlotte club. An invitation says a “round table” and photo with the president is $25,000 per person. A photo alone costs $10,000 per couple and the luncheon itself is $1,000 per person.
The event is private. No public events with the president are scheduled.
Bron
“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
Ik meen van wel ja al ben ik niet zeker. Niet dus.quote:
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Is dat de uitvaart met speech van Obama?
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Nee die is morgen:quote:
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Is dat de uitvaart met speech van Obama?
Vandaag:quote:On Saturday, September 1, at approximately 7 a.m. Arizona time, a national memorial service will take place at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Senator McCain’s family, friends, congressional colleagues and staff, as well as U.S. and international leaders have been invited to attend and participate.
quote:On Friday, August 31, Senator McCain will lie in state at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. A ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda will begin at approximately 8 a.m. Arizona time.
“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
Zou ie een move maken tijdens de uitvaart, Sessions ontslaan ofzo? Of nieuwe tarieven tegen de EU aankondigen?
Lekker zuipen, lekker dansen en daarna lekker neuken.
Arizona timequote:
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And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
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John Dean of Nixon fame to testify at Kavanaugh hearing
quote:The Senate Judiciary Committee has added former Solicitor General Theodore Olson and former White House counsel John Dean to the list of witnesses who will testify next week in the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.
Olson served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration. He’s one of the country’s best-known lawyers, having argued the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that stopped Al Gore’s recount in the 2000 presidential election. He’ll offer backing to a former colleague in the Bush White House. Kavanaugh served as legal counsel and later as staff secretary for Bush.
Dean ultimately cooperated with prosecutors and helped bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency, though he served a prison term for obstruction of justice. He has been a harsh critic of President Donald Trump and is listed as a Democratic witness. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Dean will “speak about the abuse of executive power.”
Democrats trying to defeat Kavanaugh’s nomination have asserted that Trump chose him for the court because he would protect the White House from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Kavanaugh has written that it would be appropriate for Congress to pass a statute that would allow lawsuits against a sitting president to be deferred until the president’s term ends. He said Congress should consider doing the same with “respect to criminal investigations and prosecutions of the President.”
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and attorney Lisa Blatt will introduce Kavanaugh when hearings begin Tuesday.
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, will also testify as a Democratic witness later in the week.
“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
Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada
quote:WASHINGTON—High-stakes trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. were dramatically upended on Friday morning by inflammatory secret remarks from President Donald Trump, after the remarks were obtained by the Toronto Star.
In remarks Trump wanted to be “off the record,” Trump told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday, according to a source, that he is not making any compromises at all in the talks with Canada — but that he cannot say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”
“Here’s the problem. If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal ... I can’t kill these people,” he said of the Canadian government.
In another remark he did not want published, Trump said, according to the source, that the possible deal with Canada would be “totally on our terms.” He suggested he was scaring the Canadians into submission by repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs.
“Off the record, Canada’s working their ass off. And every time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala,” Trump said, according to the source. The Impala is produced at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario.
Trump made the remarks in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg. He deemed them off the record, and Bloomberg accepted his request not to reveal them.
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 17:18:52 (THREAD) PLEASE RETWEET this Trump-Russia news: Simon & Schuster has just listed for pre-order PROOF OF COLLUSION—the book that finally gathers into *one* narrative the *hundreds* of reliable major-media reports on Trump-Russia collusion. Read on for more. https://t.co/9df18S6arZ reageer retweet
(THREAD) PLEASE RETWEET this Trump-Russia news: Simon & Schuster has just listed for pre-order PROOF OF COLLUSION—the book that finally gathers into *one* narrative the *hundreds* of reliable major-media reports on Trump-Russia collusion. Read on for more. 
FAKE BOOK!
“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
AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
quote:A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence believed it had Donald Trump “over a barrel,” according to multiple people familiar with the encounter.
The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.
The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.
They add to the public understanding of those pivotal summer months as the FBI and intelligence community scrambled to untangle possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. And they reflect the concern of Steele, a longtime FBI informant whose Democratic-funded research into Trump ties to Russia was compiled into a dossier, that the Republican presidential candidate was possibly compromised and his urgent efforts to convey that anxiety to contacts at the FBI and Justice Department.
The people who discussed Ohr’s interview were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the closed session and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had said that Russian intelligence believed “they had Trump over a barrel,” according to people familiar with the meeting. It was not clear from Ohr’s interview whether Steele had been directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele’s research dossier.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
Ben benieuwd of Trump zijn frustratie binnen kan houden en niet tweeten tijdens en vlak daarna.quote:
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7:00 GMT-7 = 16:00 GMT+2. Even live kijken dus.
Carpe Libertatem
Tja, Trump is enkel bezig met z'n achterban. Daarom wil hij ofwel:quote:
- klagen over hoe unfair de US behandeld wordt, en hoe andere landen profiteren.
- deals die hij kan voorstellen als "victories". De inhoud interesseert hem niet, enkel de indruk dat de andere partij gecapituleerd heeft is belangrijk. Nadat de Canadezen zeiden dat ze enkel een deal zullen afsluiten die goed voor Canada is kan dat niet meer.
are we infinite or am I alone
twitter:kpolantz twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 13:32:26 SCOOP out this am: Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office—and not for political reasons/wrongdoing. Mueller now using 15 attorneys for Russia probe https://t.co/SIGnD630ib reageer retweet
SCOOP out this am: Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office—and not for political reasons/wrongdoing. Mueller now using 15 attorneys for Russia probe 
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