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De VS krijgt idd dat apartment. Weet niet wanneer het overgedragen wordt. Misschien kunnen ze er een stukje van de secret service huisvesten ipv wat ze nu huren in Trump Tower?quote:Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 08:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trouwens.... Nu Manafort al zijn bezit heeft opgegeven is het dan zo dat Mueller nu de beschikking heeft over zijn appartement in Trump Tower?
http://thehill.com/homene(...)artment-in-plea-deal
Nike doet het trouwens goed sinds ze Kaepernick als boegbeeld hebben. Andere bedrijven zullen dat ook wel zo zien. De toorn van Trump is dus ongevaarlijk.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Of een vergaderruimte voor Team Mueller. Lekker dicht bij de boekhouding.quote:Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 08:59 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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De VS krijgt idd dat apartment. Weet niet wanneer het overgedragen wordt. Misschien kunnen ze er een stukje van de secret service huisvesten ipv wat ze nu huren in Trump Tower?
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Maddowquote:Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 06:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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twitter:MaddowBlog twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 03:27:03 Manafort guilty of an illegal, foreign-funded smear campaign against Hillary Clinton for not being sufficiently pro-Russia? Hmmm.... https://t.co/aRwanCO0bS reageer retweet
Manafort guilty of an illegal, foreign-funded smear campaign against Hillary Clinton for not being sufficiently pro-Russia? Hmmm.... 
the transcript... the details...the judge...the questions...the answers... judge: ...“ the longest and most detailed summary” ...
Someone must be going mad.
Niet Mueller, gewoon de Staat.quote:
Trouwens.... Nu Manafort al zijn bezit heeft opgegeven is het dan zo dat Mueller nu de beschikking heeft over zijn appartement in Trump Tower?
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Tja, Fake News verspreiden is de MSM goed in. De damage is done mensen hebben de originele headline gezien, maar de rectificatie zal niet zoveel aandacht krijgen.
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 13-09-2018 om 14:37:27 3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000... reageer retweet
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000... twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 13-09-2018 om 14:49:12 .....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico! reageer retweet
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:05:02 “When Trump visited the island territory last October, OFFICIALS told him in a briefing 16 PEOPLE had died from Maria.” The Washington Post. This was long AFTER the hurricane took place. Over many months it went to 64 PEOPLE. Then, like magic, “3000 PEOPLE KILLED.” They hired.... reageer retweet
Wanneer de man waar je het, puur om te trollen, voor op neemt de dood van duizenden mensen misbruikt, is het dan nog lollig?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:23:26 ....GWU Research to tell them how many people had died in Puerto Rico (how would they not know this?). This method was never done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many people were killed. FIFTY TIMES LAST ORIGINAL NUMBER - NO WAY! reageer retweet
Het voorspelbare patroon (Trump tweet een bizarre en schokkende leugen, outrage!!!, Trump doubles down, zijn aanhangers vinden het prachtig) blijft zich tot.in den treure herhalen. Hoe ontsnappen we toch aan deze vicieuze cirkel. 
Verder heeft de plea deal van Manafort mogelijk zijn eerste slachtoffer gemaakt.
Federal prosecutors weigh charges against Democratic powerbroker in Manafort-linked probe
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Federal prosecutors weigh charges against Democratic powerbroker in Manafort-linked probe
Van Der Zwaan, de NL advocaat die al shuld heeft bekend in een eerdere zaak, was zijn collega. Leesvoer: https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)stigation/index.htmlquote:CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to sources familiar with the matter.
In addition, these sources said, prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York are considering taking action against powerhouse law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where Craig was a partner during the activity under examination. Prosecutors are considering a civil settlement with the firm or a deferred prosecution agreement with Skadden, these sources said.
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twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:40:46 NEW: People who worked with MANAFORT in Ukraine think his real value to MUELLER may be flipping on the oligarchs, the pols they funded & the Western firms/operatives who assisted them, including ones he recruited, like TONY PODESTA, MERCURY & @SKADDENARPS. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweet
NEW: People who worked with MANAFORT in Ukraine think his real value to MUELLER may be flipping on the oligarchs, the pols they funded & the Western firms/operatives who assisted them, including ones he recruited, like TONY PODESTA, MERCURY & @Kijk eens aan.twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:42:28 Allies of PODESTA & MERCURY are seething at MANAFORT right now. They blame him for misleading them into FARA violations back in 2012, & now they're concerned that he's going to help MUELLER frame them for work he orchestrated. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweet
Oligarchen zou ik kunnen geloven. Slechts wat lobbyisten als Podesta oid, daarvan lijkt het me sterk dat het hoog genoeg de boom in gaat om een grote deal over te kunnen sluiten.quote:twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:40:46 NEW: People who worked with MANAFORT in Ukraine think his real value to MUELLER may be flipping on the oligarchs, the pols they funded & the Western firms/operatives who assisted them, including ones he recruited, like TONY PODESTA, MERCURY & @SKADDENARPS. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweetKijk eens aan.twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:42:28 Allies of PODESTA & MERCURY are seething at MANAFORT right now. They blame him for misleading them into FARA violations back in 2012, & now they're concerned that he's going to help MUELLER frame them for work he orchestrated. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweet
Het zou ook verklaren dat hij expliciet aangaf dat zijn familie veilig moest zijn.
Hoe dan ook heeft hij aangegeven met willekeurig wat hem gevraagd wordt mee te werken, dus we gaan zien wie er allemaal onder de bus gegooid worden.
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Antwoord eens, je template van een tweet met een smiley eronder wordt saai.quote:twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:40:46 NEW: People who worked with MANAFORT in Ukraine think his real value to MUELLER may be flipping on the oligarchs, the pols they funded & the Western firms/operatives who assisted them, including ones he recruited, like TONY PODESTA, MERCURY & @SKADDENARPS. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweetKijk eens aan.twitter:kenvogel twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:42:28 Allies of PODESTA & MERCURY are seething at MANAFORT right now. They blame him for misleading them into FARA violations back in 2012, & now they're concerned that he's going to help MUELLER frame them for work he orchestrated. https://t.co/eubx2gJzfq reageer retweet
Het gaat om vrij prominente mensen en advocaten bureau's.quote:
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Oligarchen zou ik kunnen geloven. Slechts wat lobbyisten als Podesta oid, daarvan lijkt het me sterk dat het hoog genoeg de boom in gaat om een grote deal over te kunnen sluiten.
Het zou ook verklaren dat hij expliciet aangaf dat zijn familie veilig moest zijn.
Hoe dan ook heeft hij aangegeven met willekeurig wat hem gevraagd wordt mee te werken, dus we gaan zien wie er allemaal onder de bus gegooid worden.
Tony Podesta is de broer van John Podesta. De campagneleider en beoogde Chief of Staff of Minister van Buitenlandse zaken voor het kabinet van HIllary Clinton.
Het wereldje is vrij klein. Mueller zelf speelde nog een rol in de Uranium 1 deal. Russische en Oekrainse oligarchen hebben nog steeds veel macht. De ene met meer directe bemoeienis vanuit Moskou dan de andere. Bij dit soort zaken blijkt meestal dat er van top tot bottom van alles niet deugd. Manafort dacht dat alles wat hij deed 'legaal' was. Kortom, niemand heeft zich aangemeld als 'foreign agent' terwijl ze dat wel hadden moeten doen en dan moet de geldkwestie nog komen.
Wel interessant opiniestuk (m.i.) over waarom deze auteur van mening is dat een pardon op dit moment voor Manafort onwettig zou zijn:
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quote:Trump cannot use a pardon to stop Manafort’s cooperation (WaPo)
By Paul Rosenzweig and Justin Florence
Paul Rosenzweig is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a policy research organization and a former Whitewater prosecutor under Kenneth W. Starr. Justin Florence is the legal director of Protect Democracy and a former White House associate counsel in the Obama administration.
With a plea deal announced Friday in the second trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, the possibility that President Trump will issue a pardon to prevent Manafort's future cooperation with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III warrants fresh attention.
Trump's supportive tweet about Manafort after his conviction in August on eight felony fraud counts, praising him for not cooperating with prosecutors, was widely interpreted as a hint of future presidential leniency. Trump has insisted on his "absolute" power to pardon even himself, and his lawyers in a secret January memo to Mueller asserted the president's complete control over federal investigations as the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
Trump and his team have tried to lay the groundwork for pardons to protect him from criminal charges. But can he use the pardon power in that way? Not in our reading of the law. A self-pardon, or a pardon that is self-protective and serves the same purpose as a self-pardon, would be an abuse of power that violates the Constitution and, as such, could warrant impeachment.
If the president can use the pardon power to protect himself from prosecution, it would effectively transform him into an authoritarian ruler, incapable of being limited by law or any other branches of government. In constitutional terms, using the pardon power in this way would appear to violate Article II, which requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." To honor his oath of office, in other words, the president must act faithfully to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" to the best of his ability.
A president's first obligation is to the Constitution and its faithful enforcement — not to himself. He may not act, or fail to act, for corrupt or self-interested reasons. And he must enforce the laws Congress has enacted, not subvert those laws to his own interests or those of his cronies.
The president's powers — even seemingly unfettered ones, such as the power of the pardon — must be exercised within the parameters of other legal requirements derived from the Constitution or enacted by statute. To see this most clearly, consider a diverse group of people: the class of people who violated the Selective Service laws during the Vietnam War by burning their draft cards, fleeing to Canada, or through other, nonviolent acts of protest. President Jimmy Carter used the pardon power to grant clemency to everyone who had broken these laws in protesting the war — a merciful gesture by Carter, whatever your view on the merits of the conflict.
But what if, say, Carter had granted the same clemency but limited it to Caucasians and excluded all people of color. Or if he afforded clemency only to Catholics, but not to Protestants, Jews or Muslims. Americans would surely say that the pardon power could not be used in that way — and that using a lawful power to violate another law (in this case, the right to equal protection) would render the pardon itself illegitimate and unlawful.
The principle would also apply to self-protective pardons; the power itself cannot reasonably be read to allow its use to further violations of other laws — in Trump's case, that might mean laws against corruption, obstruction and conspiracy.
The Office of Legal Counsel, which sits in the Justice Department and provides the president with opinions on executive actions, has the view that the president cannot self-pardon. As part of the executive branch, the OLC is very much in favor of executive power.
But on the issue of self-pardons, the OLC has been more restrained. In a 1974 opinion, written four days before President Richard M. Nixon resigned, the head of OLC wrote that the president cannot pardon himself, under "the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case." That is a rare example of the executive branch articulating a limit on its own power, and it shows why a president's use of the pardon power for others to obstruct an investigation and to immunize himself from liability would be legally suspect.
The OLC's opinions are binding only for subordinates in the executive branch. A president is free to ignore them, as some presidents have. But if the president were to issue a self-protective pardon, as in the case of Manafort, that would be a novel, untested act that would run counter to the precept that in our country, nobody is above the law.
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Die tweets zijn echt walgelijk inderdaad. Nintex wat vind jij van deze tweets?quote:
[..]twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 13-09-2018 om 14:37:27 3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000... reageer retweettwitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 13-09-2018 om 14:49:12 .....This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico! reageer retweettwitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:05:02 “When Trump visited the island territory last October, OFFICIALS told him in a briefing 16 PEOPLE had died from Maria.” The Washington Post. This was long AFTER the hurricane took place. Over many months it went to 64 PEOPLE. Then, like magic, “3000 PEOPLE KILLED.” They hired.... reageer retweetWanneer de man waar je het, puur om te trollen, voor op neemt de dood van duizenden mensen misbruikt, is het dan nog lollig?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 04:23:26 ....GWU Research to tell them how many people had died in Puerto Rico (how would they not know this?). This method was never done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many people were killed. FIFTY TIMES LAST ORIGINAL NUMBER - NO WAY! reageer retweet
De boosheid van Trump snap ik wel als ze inderdaad gezegd hebben dat er maar 16 doden waren gevallen. Daarnaast faalde de lokale overheid en Puerto Rico natuurlijk gigantisch. FEMA heeft alles geleverd wat ze moesten leveren, maar het bleef daar staan in de havens en opslag plaatsen.quote:
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Die tweets zijn echt walgelijk inderdaad. Nintex wat vind jij van deze tweets?
Ongeacht wat Trump er van vind moet dit natuurlijk uitgezocht gaan worden, maar dat zal in het huidige Amerika wel niet gebeuren.
Wat je ziet is dat Trump meer de 'baas' van het bedrijf Amerika is dan een politicus of bureaucraat. Dat wil zeggen dat hij iemand aanwijst die het probleem moet oplossen op basis van zijn aanwijzingen, maar dat hij verder niet heel diep de detail induikt. In de politiek werkt dat toch heel anders.
Fixed that for yaquote:
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De boosheid van Trump snap ik wel als ze inderdaad gezegd hebben dat er maar 16 doden waren gevallen. Daarnaast faalde de lokale overheid en Puerto Rico natuurlijk gigantisch. FEMA heeft alles geleverd wat ze moesten leveren, maar het bleef daar staan in de havens en opslag plaatsen.
Ongeacht wat Trump er van vind moet dit natuurlijk uitgezocht gaan worden, maar dat zal in het huidige Amerika wel niet gebeuren.
Wat je ziet is dat Trump meer de 'baas' van het bedrijf Amerika is dan een politicus of bureaucraat. Dat wil zeggen dat hij iemand een vriendje met weinig tot geen kennis van zaken aanwijst die het probleem moet oplossen op basis van zijn aanwijzingen, maar dat hij verder niet heel diep de detail induikt. In de politiek werkt dat toch heel anders.
Betsy de vos zit er om scholen voor iedereen te slopen ze is puur priveschool gericht en is dat altijd geweest.
Iemand die altijd tegen de EPA strijd de leider daar van maken is een walgelijk statement. Natuur is kut, en een vijand van de vrije markt en de energy lobbyisten.
Als zodanig snap ik ook dat je hem geweldig vind, hij is jou maar dan leider van de vrije wereld.
Een uber troll.
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Natuurlijk snapt zwakzintex de boosheid van Trump wel, maar zijn onkunde om te snappen dat er nog steeds slachtoffers vallen als direct gevolg van Maria omdat ze geen schoon water hebben, geen elektriciteit, etc. door het rampzalige optreden van zijn overheid onder hem zelf weer niet.
"Bleach is healthy. It's mostly water. And we are mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach."
Het is net als met 9/11. De doden die geteld worden zijn niet slechts de doden die in de ingestortte gebouwen zaten en direct op dat moment gestorven zijn. Net als met 9/11 doen mensen onderzoek naar dat soort dingen en dan krijg je hogere cijfers, maar geen precieze aantallen. Zo moelijk is het toch niet om dat te snappen?
Trump is wel stil over Mueller ineens.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
https://www.politico.com/(...)-trump-pardon-825751
Waarom een presidentieel pardon zinloos is: Manafort praat al. Verder worden een paar punten die op Staatniveau ook strafbaar zijn niet genoemd in de deal. Dus accepteert Manafort een pardon dan pakken de Staten hem.
Briljant schaakspel van Mueller.
Waarom een presidentieel pardon zinloos is: Manafort praat al. Verder worden een paar punten die op Staatniveau ook strafbaar zijn niet genoemd in de deal. Dus accepteert Manafort een pardon dan pakken de Staten hem.
Briljant schaakspel van Mueller.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Arkansas heeft 4000 mensen uit Medicaid getrapt. 11000 staan er op de nominatie.
Benieuwd of dat ook Trumpstemmers zijn.
Benieuwd of dat ook Trumpstemmers zijn.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ondertussen in The War on Science:
https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/129193300
Dinosaurussen zaten op de Ark van Noach. Nou ja, alleen de jonkies, volwassen exemplaren waren te groot.
https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/129193300
Dinosaurussen zaten op de Ark van Noach. Nou ja, alleen de jonkies, volwassen exemplaren waren te groot.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Stukje over individuele district polls die je nu steeds meer ziet (o.a. van NYT Upshot):
Democrats may have more polling upside in House races than GOP
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)ng-upside/index.html
Komt er in het kort op neer dat individuele polls per district in een wave year in dit stadium vaak de uiteindelijke prestaties van de partij die meelift op die wave onderschat. M.a.w. een poll die nu een gelijke race laat zien is naar alle waarschijnlijkheid een stuk slechter nieuws voor de Republikein dan voor de Democraat.
Democrats may have more polling upside in House races than GOP
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)ng-upside/index.html
Komt er in het kort op neer dat individuele polls per district in een wave year in dit stadium vaak de uiteindelijke prestaties van de partij die meelift op die wave onderschat. M.a.w. een poll die nu een gelijke race laat zien is naar alle waarschijnlijkheid een stuk slechter nieuws voor de Republikein dan voor de Democraat.
Je link werkt niet.quote:
Ondertussen in The War on Science:
https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/129193300
Dinosaurussen zaten op de Ark van Noach. Nou ja, alleen de jonkies, volwassen exemplaren waren te groot.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Nu wel. Blijft toch een hardnekkig fenomeen in de VS die war on science vanuit christenfundamentalistische hoek.quote:
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https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/1291933002
Probeer nog eens.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Dit ook:
Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
quote:The State Board of Education in Texas voted on Friday to eliminate several historical figures, including Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, from the state’s social studies curriculum.
Barbara Cargill, a Texas Republican and member of the board, told The Dallas Morning News that "the recommendation to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton was made by [Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills] work groups.”
“However the board did vote to agree with the work groups' recommendations,” Cargill pointed out. "In speaking to teachers and testifiers, they did not mention these specific deletions."
The decision made by the 15-member body reportedly came as part of an overall effort to "streamline" the state’s social studies curriculum.
Texas high school students have been required to learn about Clinton after the former first lady made history in 2016 by becoming the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party.
Texas third-grade students have also been required to learn about Keller, who went on to become the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and later led a life of activism.
Members of the volunteer work group that made such recommendations to the board said the state requires children to learn about too many historical figures.
So, the volunteer work group was tasked with creating a rubric for grading historical figures to deem who was "essential" to learn about and who wasn't. The group would ponder things like whether the historical figure triggered a watershed change or if he or she were from an underrepresented group.
Clinton reportedly scored a five on the 20-point grading rubric, and Keller scored a seven.
Though the vote on Friday was preliminary, the board, whose members are elected to represent specific geographical areas, is scheduled to cast a final vote on the decision this coming November.
“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
In NWS vinden ze het geweldigquote:Op zaterdag 15 september 2018 21:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Dit ook:
Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
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Niet in staat in te zien dat na een paar honderd jaar mannelijke kandidaten de aller-allereerste vrouwelijke kandidaat gewoon als losstaand feit best een paragraaf in een geschiedenisboekje waard is, ongeacht wat je van d'r vindt. Maar nee. De fokkertjes aldaar... intellectueel zo verschrikkelijk arm
beter een knipoog dan een blauw oog
Ze hebben echt geen idee van de agenda van dit bestuursorgaan, de invloed die ze hebben op het hele onderwijssysteem in Amerika en de doortraptheid waarmee ze hun opvattingen erdoor weten te douwen. Jaren geleden volgde ik de afleveringen van The Atheist Experience vanwege de discussies/ argumenten mbt creationisme en Intelligent Design en daarbij kwam dit bestuursorgaan regelmatig aan de orde.quote:
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In NWS vinden ze het geweldig
Niet in staat in te zien dat na een paar honderd jaar mannelijke kandidaten de aller-allereerste vrouwelijke kandidaat gewoon als losstaand feit best een paragraaf in een geschiedenisboekje waard is, ongeacht wat je van d'r vindt. Maar nee. De fokkertjes aldaar... intellectueel zo verschrikkelijk arm
Zie net dat er onlangs nog een aflevering aan gewijd is
“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
Diep in hun hart zouden ze het liefst de eerste zwarte president ook willen verwijderen uit alle boeken. Maar ja.. gelukkig is een presidentschap niet zomaar uit te vlakken.quote:
Dit ook:
Texas State Board of Education votes to erase Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
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twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 22:40:03 Lambda Legal and American Oversight filed a lawsuit seeking to compel HHS to produce docs related to Brett Kavanaugh's work in the Bush admin, "particularly his involvement in policies that discriminated against LGBTQ children, families and relationships." https://t.co/FLeTf67Ayy reageer retweet
Lambda Legal and American Oversight filed a lawsuit seeking to compel HHS to produce docs related to Brett Kavanaugh's work in the Bush admin, "particularly his involvement in policies that discriminated against LGBTQ children, families and relationships."
“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:NBCNews twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 22:46:01 Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones. https://t.co/msofYwxIma reageer retweet
Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones. 
Mijn God. Zit je op je dak in een overstroomde stad, krijg je een smsje: "Witch hunt!"quote:twitter:NBCNews twitterde op zaterdag 15-09-2018 om 22:46:01 Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones. https://t.co/msofYwxIma reageer retweet
Maak me er meer zorgen over dat de oranje gek politieke boodschappen stuurt tijdens verkiezingsdag.quote:
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Mijn God. Zit je op je dak in een overstroomde stad, krijg je een smsje: "Witch hunt!"
Toch handig voor die mensen die om wat voor reden dan ook de propaganda van Fox News gemist hebben dat de idiot in chief ze vervolgens alsnog via een ongevraagd berichtje kan bijpraten.
Ik mag aannemen dat zo'n systeem alleen tijdens noodgevallen in werking wordt gezet. Maar waarom zoiets via de president moet gebeuren begrijp ik ook niet helemaal.quote:
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Maak me er meer zorgen over dat de oranje gek politieke boodschappen stuurt tijdens verkiezingsdag.
Chavez gebruikte op het eind zijn cadenas, eenzelfde soort bevoegdheid, om ongeveer drie keer per dag in te breken in de reguliere uitzending om een speech van een uur te gaan houden. En als tv station ben je dan verplicht dat uit te zenden.
Stel je voor, ben je Dr Phil of andere trash tv aan het kijken en zie je ineens Trump's hoofd: "NO COLLUSION!".
Stel je voor, ben je Dr Phil of andere trash tv aan het kijken en zie je ineens Trump's hoofd: "NO COLLUSION!".
"Attention haters and losers. This is an emergency message from your favorite President. My poll numbers are up again, also I've never seen a thin person drink diet coke. Bye!"
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 16-09-2018 om 01:25:19 Trump is increasingly souring Jim Mattis, NYT reports. Why? In part, because Trump thinks Mattis is secretly a Democrat. He also wants Mattis to be a vocal political supporter, like Mike Pompeo, but Mattis refuses to go on Fox and praise Trump's agenda. https://t.co/Pj9h5ikbUw reageer retweet
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 16-09-2018 om 02:20:57 William McRaven, the retired four-star admiral who led U.S. Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014, has resigned from the Pentagon's technology advisory board following a public critique of Trump, Defense News has learned. https://t.co/OAEUKBdGII reageer retweet
“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
http://thehill.com/policy(...)a-as-early-as-mondayquote:Trump to announce $200B in tariffs on Chinese goods as early as Monday: report
President Trump will announce $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods early next week, despite his administration's ongoing trade negotiations with Chinese officials.
The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that Trump administration officials are prepared to make an official announcement as early as Monday or Tuesday.
A White House spokeswoman declined to comment to the Journal on a potential announcement, instead pointing to a Friday statement encouraging China to address trade issues with the U.S.
“The president has been clear that he and his administration will continue to take action to address China’s unfair trade practices. We encourage China to address the long standing concerns raised by the Unites States," the statement reads.
The news comes days after Trump met with top economic advisers to discuss trade moves against China. On Thursday, the president tweeted that increased pressure was having an effect on China's economy.
"They are under pressure to make a deal with us," Trump tweeted. "Our markets are surging, theirs are collapsing. We will soon be taking in Billions in Tariffs & making products at home. If we meet, we meet?"
Previous back-and-forth measures imposed by the two countries have totaled more than $50 billion in reciprocal measures, as China has retaliated against U.S.
Hundreds of billions more in tariffs have been proposed by Trump, but those measures have been delayed while officials determine a final list of products.
Last week, Trump threatened a third round of tariffs on another $267 billion of Chinese imports, covering more than total Chinese exports to the U.S.
Past American tariffs have targeted manufactured Chinese goods including electronics and medical devices, while Chinese tariffs have targeted exports from Republican-held states such as various grains and pork.
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Gisteren een GOP mega-donor in Ohio die de partij verlaat (Leslie Wexner), nu ééntje in New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut) die de democraten steunt...
http://thehill.com/blogs/(...)erms-democracy-is-atquote:Ex-GOP donor urges support for Dems in midterms: 'Democracy is at stake'
Former GOP mega-donor Seth Klarman urged voters to support Democrats in the coming midterm elections and said in a recent interview that he believes “democracy is at stake.”
“One of the reasons I’m willing to come out of my shell and talk to you is because I think democracy is at stake,” Klarman said in an interview with The New York Times published on Saturday. “And maybe I’ll be able to convince some other people of that. And get them to support Democrats in 2018.”
Klarman, who was previously one of the biggest donors to the Republican Party in New England, told The Times he has donated $4.9 million to nearly 150 candidates.
Some of the Democratic candidates who have received Klarman's cash in this election cycle alone are Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D), Texas Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a potential presidential candidate. But, as Klarman puts it: “I’m not a Democrat.”
“We need to turn the House and Senate as a check on Donald Trump and his runaway presidency,” Klarman, who donated more than $2.9 million to Republicans in the 2016 election cycle, said.
The hedge funder said he feels “betrayed” by “spineless” Republicans who he says have been “profiles in cowardice.” Now, Klarman says the only option is to “act as a check and balance.”
“If one looks at my past giving, one might think that several million, 5 or 6 million, might be a lot in a cycle,” Klarman said. But he added that he is “stretching far beyond what I usually do” in the current cycle.
“By the election I think I’ll have spent between $18 and $20 million,” he continued, which would make him one of the top donors for the Democratic Party this year.
“Think of it this way,” Brendan Quinn of the Center for Responsive Politics told the Times. “As of August, George Soros has given $12 million. I have no way of knowing how much more he’ll contribute this cycle, but it’s entirely possible that Klarman could end up giving more than him.”
Klarman called the current state of Washington an “emergency” and suggested voters consider the price tag for democracy in the coming midterm elections. “It seems like the answer should be a huge amount,” Klarman said.
Klarman, who has a history of slamming President Trump, also accused Republicans of giving a huge tax cut “largely to rich people” and slammed them because they “were supposed to be the fiscally responsible party.”
“Whatever irresponsible fiscal things the Democrats do won’t be worse than what the Republicans have already done,” Klarman said.
Though Klarman said his interview with the Times “could conceivably upset a few of my clients,” he added that “it’s more important that I do what my conscience requires by speaking out.”
“There are things more important than making money,” Klarman concluded.
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Het begint er op te lijken dat jij van de cola af bent.quote:
"Attention haters and losers. This is an emergency message from your favorite President. My poll numbers are up again, also I've never seen a thin person drink diet coke. Bye!"
Vast, maar Trump zal wel bepalen wat een noodgeval is, en een tornado is dat vast nietquote:
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Ik mag aannemen dat zo'n systeem alleen tijdens noodgevallen in werking wordt gezet. Maar waarom zoiets via de president moet gebeuren begrijp ik ook niet helemaal.
Op woensdag 31 januari 2007 19:20 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:
Ik heb veel stomme posts gezien op fora, maar deze zit toch wel in de top 10 (voorzichtig geschat; het kan ook de top 5 zijn). Nou ik sta iig in zijn top 10
Ik heb veel stomme posts gezien op fora, maar deze zit toch wel in de top 10 (voorzichtig geschat; het kan ook de top 5 zijn). Nou ik sta iig in zijn top 10
Ik weet 100% zeker dat zodra Trump van het podium af is en er weer een type Jeb Bush aan het hoofd van de Republikeinse partij zit al deze miljardairs rechtsomkeert maken om weer een nieuwe belastingverlaging te krijgen. Maar voor nu is het leuk.quote:
Gisteren een GOP mega-donor in Ohio die de partij verlaat (Leslie Wexner), nu ééntje in New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut) die de democraten steunt...
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http://thehill.com/blogs/(...)erms-democracy-is-at
Natuurlijk, ze willen "normaal" conservatief beleid, niet wat de GOP en Trump nu doen.quote:
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Ik weet 100% zeker dat zodra Trump van het podium af is en er weer een type Jeb Bush aan het hoofd van de Republikeinse partij zit al deze miljardairs rechtsomkeert maken om weer een nieuwe belastingverlaging te krijgen. Maar voor nu is het leuk.
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Mwoah, wat de GOP nu doet is sowieso normaal conservatief beleid. Trump wijkt iets af met zijn blinde, naïeve handelssancties.quote:
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Natuurlijk, ze willen "normaal" conservatief beleid, niet wat de GOP en Trump nu doen.
De infantiele stijl van Trump is misschien niet "normaal conservatief", maar inhoudelijk zie ik niet zoveel verschil.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
John Kerry wist het bij Bill Maher wel goed samen te vatten: "Trump has got the maturity of an 8-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl."
Of zoals ze bij Politico schreven:quote:
John Kerry wist het bij Bill Maher wel goed samen te vatten: "Trump has got the maturity of an 8-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl."
https://www.politico.com/(...)augh-manafort-825300
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Je snapt er dus geen reet van. Boos dat er eerst 16 werd gezegd? Wat snap je niet aan het aantal doden?quote:
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De boosheid van Trump snap ik wel als ze inderdaad gezegd hebben dat er maar 16 doden waren gevallen. Daarnaast faalde de lokale overheid en Puerto Rico natuurlijk gigantisch. FEMA heeft alles geleverd wat ze moesten leveren, maar het bleef daar staan in de havens en opslag plaatsen.
Ongeacht wat Trump er van vind moet dit natuurlijk uitgezocht gaan worden, maar dat zal in het huidige Amerika wel niet gebeuren.
Wat je ziet is dat Trump meer de 'baas' van het bedrijf Amerika is dan een politicus of bureaucraat. Dat wil zeggen dat hij iemand aanwijst die het probleem moet oplossen op basis van zijn aanwijzingen, maar dat hij verder niet heel diep de detail induikt. In de politiek werkt dat toch heel anders.
Het antwoord op de belangrijkste vraag van alle vragen? 42!
Klopt. Ik ben ook bang dat wanneer Trump weg is, alles wat er mis is op Trump wordt afgeschoven ondanks dat ze gewoon GOP beleid hebben gevoerd.quote:
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Mwoah, wat de GOP nu doet is sowieso normaal conservatief beleid. Trump wijkt iets af met zijn blinde, naïeve handelssancties.
De infantiele stijl van Trump is misschien niet "normaal conservatief", maar inhoudelijk zie ik niet zoveel verschil.
Precies, ons aller nontexje riep ook regelmatig dat Trump echt een eigen koers zou varen en veel sociaal-liberaler zou zijn dan de GOP, maar ondertussen wordt de juridische macht gevuld met leden van de prairietaliban en wordt er flink werk gemaakt van "religieuze vrijheid", wat in de praktijk gewoon discriminatie met religie als excuus betekent.quote:
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Klopt. Ik ben ook bang dat wanneer Trump weg is, alles wat er mis is op Trump wordt afgeschoven ondanks dat ze gewoon GOP beleid hebben gevoerd.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Ik ben benieuwd hoe dat zich gaat ontvouwen. Er bestaat een kans op een diepe scheur door de Republikeinse partij als Trump er niet meer is als allesoverheersend figuur. Dan heb je aan de ene kant de Trump fanaten en aan de andere kant de gewone conservatieven. Als Trump zich na zijn presidentsschap niet afzijdig houdt maar zich met politiek blijft bemoeien wordt dat een hele lastige. Als hij zich wel afzijdig houdt gaan ze terug naar het normale conservatieve voorkomen inclusief het 'nette' en discrete racisme.quote:
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Klopt. Ik ben ook bang dat wanneer Trump weg is, alles wat er mis is op Trump wordt afgeschoven ondanks dat ze gewoon GOP beleid hebben gevoerd.
Het is wat dat betreft echt een wonder dat Obama ooit heeft weten te winnen. Nu vertegenwoordigd de GOP en het gristelijke deel van de bevolking niet de meerderheid, maar het blijft toch knap. Hoeveel tegenwerking moet die in z'n leven hebben gehad van allerlei goedbedoelende blanken.quote:
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Ik ben benieuwd hoe dat zich gaat ontvouwen. Er bestaat een kans op een diepe scheur door de Republikeinse partij als Trump er niet meer is als allesoverheersend figuur. Dan heb je aan de ene kant de Trump fanaten en aan de andere kant de gewone conservatieven. Als Trump zich na zijn presidentsschap niet afzijdig houdt maar zich met politiek blijft bemoeien wordt dat een hele lastige. Als hij zich wel afzijdig houdt gaan ze terug naar het normale conservatieve voorkomen inclusief het 'nette' en discrete racisme.
Dit is ook nog wel een mooi voorbeeld:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)8593a9faaa&tid=sm_fb
De zogenaamde fiscaal conservatieven zijn dat vooral als de Democraten aan de macht zijn.
https://www.washingtonpos(...)8593a9faaa&tid=sm_fb
De zogenaamde fiscaal conservatieven zijn dat vooral als de Democraten aan de macht zijn.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Welke grens? De grens met Ohio of de grens met New York? Of met Maryland, Delaware of New Jersey?quote:Congressman Keith Rothfus continues to do a great job for the people of Pennsylvania. Keith is strong on Crime, the Border, and our Second Amendment. Loves our Military and our Vets. He has my total Endorsement!
Het is jammer dat Trump daar niet duidelijker over is.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Was deze mooie nederlaag voor deVos hier al voorbij gekomen?
https://www.npr.org/2018/(...)0913&t=1537103480624
https://www.npr.org/2018/(...)0913&t=1537103480624
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Trump copy paste gewoon letterlijk iedere keer dezelfde tekst en past dan de naam aan als hij met zo'n enorsement komt.quote:
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Welke grens? De grens met Ohio of de grens met New York? Of met Maryland, Delaware of New Jersey?
Het is jammer dat Trump daar niet duidelijker over is.
Goldman Sachs zit in de problemen.
https://money.cnn.com/201(...)d-solomon/index.html
Het is geen 2008, maar dat een bank met deze economie en een pro-bank regering het slecht doet is zorgelijk. En mocht het misgaan hoef je niet te rekenen op adequaat ingrijpen door de overheid. Trump is niet in staat dat te doen.
https://money.cnn.com/201(...)d-solomon/index.html
Het is geen 2008, maar dat een bank met deze economie en een pro-bank regering het slecht doet is zorgelijk. En mocht het misgaan hoef je niet te rekenen op adequaat ingrijpen door de overheid. Trump is niet in staat dat te doen.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Het is tot Trump doorgedrongen dat hij te laat is om nog te kunnen voorkomen dat Manafort praat tegen Mueller. Ik verwacht meer van dit soort rants, hoewel het hem niet zal helpen.quote:The illegal Mueller Witch Hunt continues in search of a crime. There was never Collusion with Russia, except by the Clinton campaign, so the 17 Angry Democrats are looking at anything they can find. Very unfair and BAD for the country. ALSO, not allowed under the LAW!
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Oh, in het rijtje bizarre bullshit: de Texas Farm Bureau heeft haar personeel verboden om kleding van Nike te dragen.
Het zou snowflakes kunnen triggeren.
Het zou snowflakes kunnen triggeren.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Deze Brock Long?twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 16-09-2018 om 18:00:09 FEMA head Brock Long defended Trump's attacks on the Puerto Rico death toll: "You might see more deaths indirectly as time goes on," adding that "spousal abuse goes through the roof. You can't blame spousal abuse after a disaster on anyone." https://t.co/Tt9OOEEfe1 reageer retweet
White House Considered Replacing FEMA Chief as Florence Was Gathering Steam
Internal investigation is looking into Brock Long’s use of federal resources during frequent travel to his North Carolina home
quote:As Hurricane Florence was forming in the Atlantic, senior Trump administration officials considered replacing the head of Federal Emergency Management Agency amid allegations that he misused resources traveling to his home in North Carolina, according to people familiar with the matter.
FEMA Administrator Brock Long is the target of an internal investigation looking into frequent travel between the nation’s capital and his home in Hickory, N.C., according to people briefed on the probe. The investigation included surveilling Mr. Long as he was driven 400 miles each way on his commute, the people said.
Investigators have told administration officials that Mr. Long, while under surveillance, often left agency headquarters on Thursdays and traveled home with a caravan of federal workers, who stayed in nearby hotels for the long weekend, the people said. He has spent about 150 days in North Carolina since he took over the job last year, which included weekends and time-off, the people said.
Mr. Long declined, through a spokeswoman, to comment on Friday. He has previously denied any wrongdoing and he didn’t attend a pair of FEMA news conferences Friday afternoon about the storm.
The White House has begun discussing potential replacements for Mr. Long, a senior White House official said.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
Trump is hem al aan het verdedigen op twitter.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Klein inkijkje in de campagnetactieken van Cruz: een groeiend aantal mensen op sociale media klaagt over het feit dat hun ouders en grootouders brieven van Cruz ontvangen waarin om geld wordt gevraagd. An sich niet zo'n probleem natuurlijk, ware het niet dat men er alles aan doet om de suggestie te wekken dat het een aanmaning van de belastingen o.i.d. is, in de hoop dat bejaarden het verschil niet ontdekken en gewoon geld overmaken.
Voorbeeldje:
Je moet het maar durven, hè.
Hij deed het in 2016 overigens ook al:
Ted Cruz’s Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks
https://www.newyorker.com(...)tter_impression=true
Voorbeeldje:
Je moet het maar durven, hè.
Hij deed het in 2016 overigens ook al:
Ted Cruz’s Iowa Mailers Are More Fraudulent Than Everyone Thinks
https://www.newyorker.com(...)tter_impression=true
@TedCruz and @BetoORourke have agreed to three debates, per news releases from both campaigns:
- Sept. 21 in Dallas
- Sept. 30 in Houston
- Oct. 16 in San Antonio #txsen
- First debate: Domestic policy, moderated
- Second debate: Domestic policy, "town hall style"
- Third debate: Half domestic policy, half foreign policy; moderated #txsen
https://t.co/xBZANXjVS4
- Sept. 21 in Dallas
- Sept. 30 in Houston
- Oct. 16 in San Antonio #txsen
- First debate: Domestic policy, moderated
- Second debate: Domestic policy, "town hall style"
- Third debate: Half domestic policy, half foreign policy; moderated #txsen
https://t.co/xBZANXjVS4
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Gelukkig hebben ze de onderwerpen erg nauw gedefinieerd.quote:
@TedCruz and @BetoORourke have agreed to three debates, per news releases from both campaigns:
- Sept. 21 in Dallas
- Sept. 30 in Houston
- Oct. 16 in San Antonio #txsen
- First debate: Domestic policy, moderated
- Second debate: Domestic policy, "town hall style"
- Third debate: Half domestic policy, half foreign policy; moderated #txsen
https://t.co/xBZANXjVS4
Beto tegen een plastic trekpop. Cruz probeert mensen over te halen thuis te blijven.
This is gonna be good.
This is gonna be good.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Net zo nauw als in de Senaat denk ik.quote:
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Gelukkig hebben ze de onderwerpen erg nauw gedefinieerd.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Met een beetje geluk kan Tedje het volgende weer eens uitleggen.
https://www.motherjones.c(...)n-sex-devices-texas/
"I was against buttplugs before I supported them. The reason i'm pro-plug now is that Trump wanted to shove one in my rectum."
https://www.motherjones.c(...)n-sex-devices-texas/
"I was against buttplugs before I supported them. The reason i'm pro-plug now is that Trump wanted to shove one in my rectum."
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Geef mij maar lekker suffe NL-verkiezingen.
How do we turn this world-class fuck-up into a world-class learning experience?
Beschuldigster van Kavanaugh zoekt de publiciteit
https://www.washingtonpos(...)52dfe917b_story.html
https://www.washingtonpos(...)52dfe917b_story.html
Lekker zuipen, lekker dansen en daarna lekker neuken.
Nice...quote:
Beschuldigster van Kavanaugh zoekt de publiciteit
https://www.washingtonpos(...)52dfe917b_story.html
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
C/V please . Ben over de max per maand.quote:
Beschuldigster van Kavanaugh zoekt de publiciteit
https://www.washingtonpos(...)52dfe917b_story.html
Ik had nog wat krediet bij de WP 
"California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault"
//By Emma Brown, September 16 at 1:28 PM//
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.
Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”
Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.
Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. The therapist’s notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by The Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh’s name but say she reported that she was attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” The notes say four boys were involved, a discrepancy Ford says was an error on the therapist’s part. Ford said there were four boys at the party but only two in the room.
Notes from an individual therapy session the following year, when she was being treated for what she says have been long-term effects of the incident, show Ford described a “rape attempt” in her late teens.
In an interview, her husband, Russell Ford, said that in the 2012 sessions, she recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her and prevented her from screaming. He said he recalled that his wife used Kavanaugh’s last name and voiced concern that Kavanaugh — then a federal judge — might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.
On Sunday, the White House sent The Post a statement Kavanaugh issued last week, when the outlines of Ford’s account first became public: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”
Through a White House spokesman, Kavanaugh declined to comment further on Ford’s allegation and did not respond to questions about whether he knew her during high school. The White House had no additional comment.
Reached by email Sunday, Judge declined to comment. In an interview Friday with The Weekly Standard, before Ford’s name was known, he denied that any such incident occurred. “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way,” Judge said. He told the New York Times that Kavanaugh was a “brilliant student” who loved sports and was not “into anything crazy or illegal.”
Christine Ford is a professor at Palo Alto University who teaches in a consortium with Stanford University, training graduate students in clinical psychology. Her work has been widely published in academic journals.
She contacted The Post through a tip line in early July, when it had become clear that Kavanaugh was on the shortlist of possible nominees to replace retiring justice Anthony M. Kennedy but before Trump announced his name publicly. A registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations, she contacted her congresswoman, Democrat Anna G. Eshoo, around the same time. In late July, she sent a letter via Eshoo’s office to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
In the letter, which was read to The Post, Ford described the incident and said she expected her story to be kept confidential. She signed the letter as Christine Blasey, the name she uses professionally.
For weeks, Ford declined to speak to The Post on the record as she grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family — and what she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story.
She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
By late August, Ford had decided not to come forward, calculating that doing so would upend her life and probably would not affect Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “Why suffer through the annihilation if it’s not going to matter?” she said.
Her story leaked anyway. On Wednesday, The Intercept reported that Feinstein had a letter describing an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school, and that Feinstein was refusing to share it with her Democratic colleagues.
Feinstein soon released a statement: “I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” she wrote. “That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”
The FBI received a version of the letter with Ford’s name redacted, according to a Republican official with knowledge of the letter, and then sent it to the White House to be included in Kavanaugh’s background file. The White House sent it to the Senate Judiciary Committee, making it available to all senators.
As pressure grew, the New York Times reported that the incident involved “possible sexual misconduct.”
By then, Ford had begun to fear she would be exposed, particularly after a BuzzFeed reporter visited her at her home and tried to speak to her as she was leaving a classroom where she teaches graduate students. Another reporter called her colleagues to ask about her.
On Friday, the New Yorker reported the letter’s contents but did not reveal Ford’s identity. Soon after, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) released a letter from 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh when he attended high school from 1979 to 1983 at Georgetown Prep, an all-boys school in North Bethesda.
“Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity,” the women wrote. “In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day.”
As the story snowballed, Ford said, she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and, with the visits from reporters, felt her privacy being chipped away. Her calculation changed.
“These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid,” she said, explaining her decision to come forward. “Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation.”
Katz said she believes Feinstein honored Ford’s request to keep her allegation confidential, but “regrettably others did not.”
“Victims must have the right to decide whether to come forward, especially in a political environment that is as ruthless as this one,” Katz said. “She will now face vicious attacks by those who support this nominee.”
After so many years, Ford said she does not remember some key details of the incident. She said she believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.
At the time, Ford said, she knew Kavanaugh and Judge as “friendly acquaintances” in the private-school social circles of suburban Maryland. Her Holton-Arms friends mostly hung out with boys from the Landon School, she said, but for a period of several months socialized regularly with students from Georgetown Prep.
Ford said she does not remember how the gathering came together the night of the incident. She said she often spent time in the summer at the Columbia Country Club pool in Chevy Chase, where in those pre-cellphone days, teenagers learned about gatherings via word of mouth. She also doesn’t recall who owned the house or how she got there.
Ford said she remembers that it was in Montgomery County, not far from the country club, and that no parents were home at the time. Ford named two other teenagers who she said were at the party. Those individuals did not respond to messages on Sunday morning.
She said she recalls a small family room where she and a handful of others drank beer together that night. She said that each person had one beer but that Kavanaugh and Judge had started drinking earlier and were heavily intoxicated.
In his senior-class yearbook entry at Georgetown Prep, Kavanaugh made several references to drinking, claiming membership to the “Beach Week Ralph Club” and “Keg City Club.” He and Judge are pictured together at the beach in a photo in the yearbook.
Judge is a filmmaker and author who has written for the Daily Caller, The Weekly Standard and The Washington Post. He chronicled his recovery from alcoholism in “Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk,” which described his own blackout drinking and a culture of partying among students at his high school, renamed in the book “Loyola Prep.” Kavanaugh is not mentioned in the book, but a passage about partying at the beach one summer makes glancing reference to a “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” who “puked in someone’s car the other night” and “passed out on his way back from a party.”
Through the White House, Kavanaugh did not respond to a question about whether the name was a pseudonym for him.
Ford said she left the family room to use the bathroom, which was at the top of a narrow stairway. She doesn’t remember whether Kavanaugh and Judge were behind her or already upstairs, but she remembers being pushed into a bedroom and then onto a bed. Rock-and-roll music was playing with the volume turned up high, she said.
She alleges that Kavanaugh — who played football and basketball at Georgetown Prep — held her down with the weight of his body and fumbled with her clothes, seemingly hindered by his intoxication. Judge stood across the room, she said, and both boys were laughing “maniacally.” She said she yelled, hoping that someone downstairs would hear her over the music, and Kavanaugh clapped his hand over her mouth to silence her.
At one point, she said, Judge jumped on top of them, and she tried unsuccessfully to wriggle free. Then Judge jumped on them again, toppling them, and she broke away, she said.
She said she locked herself in the bathroom and listened until she heard the boys “going down the stairs, hitting the walls.” She said that after five or ten minutes, she unlocked the door and made her way through the living room and outside. She isn’t sure how she got home.
Ford said she has not spoken with Kavanaugh since that night. And she told no one at the time what had happened to her. She was terrified, she said, that she would be in trouble if her parents realized she had been at a party where teenagers were drinking, and she worried they might figure it out even if she did not tell them.
“My biggest fear was, do I look like someone just attacked me?” she said. She said she recalled thinking: “I’m not ever telling anyone this. This is nothing, it didn’t happen, and he didn’t rape me.”
Years later, after going through psychotherapy, Ford said, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with lasting impact on her life.
“I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years,” she said. She said she struggled academically and socially and was unable to have healthy relationships with men. “I was very ill-equipped to forge those kinds of relationships.”
She also said she believes that in the longer term, it contributed to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms with which she has struggled.
She married her husband in 2002. Early in their relationship, she told him she had been a victim of physical abuse, he said. A decade later, he learned the details of that alleged abuse when the therapist asked her to tell the story, he said.
He said he expects that some people, upon hearing his wife’s account, will believe that Kavanaugh’s high school behavior has no bearing upon his fitness for the nation’s high court. He disagrees.
“I think you look to judges to be the arbiters of right and wrong,” Russell Ford said. “If they don’t have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong, then that’s a problem. So I think it’s relevant. Supreme Court nominees should be held to a higher standard.”
//Staff writers Beth Reinhard and Seung Min Kim and researchers Alice Crites and Julie Tate contributed to this report.//
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"California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about her allegation of sexual assault"
//By Emma Brown, September 16 at 1:28 PM//
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.
Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”
Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.
Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. The therapist’s notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by The Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh’s name but say she reported that she was attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” The notes say four boys were involved, a discrepancy Ford says was an error on the therapist’s part. Ford said there were four boys at the party but only two in the room.
Notes from an individual therapy session the following year, when she was being treated for what she says have been long-term effects of the incident, show Ford described a “rape attempt” in her late teens.
In an interview, her husband, Russell Ford, said that in the 2012 sessions, she recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her and prevented her from screaming. He said he recalled that his wife used Kavanaugh’s last name and voiced concern that Kavanaugh — then a federal judge — might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.
On Sunday, the White House sent The Post a statement Kavanaugh issued last week, when the outlines of Ford’s account first became public: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”
Through a White House spokesman, Kavanaugh declined to comment further on Ford’s allegation and did not respond to questions about whether he knew her during high school. The White House had no additional comment.
Reached by email Sunday, Judge declined to comment. In an interview Friday with The Weekly Standard, before Ford’s name was known, he denied that any such incident occurred. “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way,” Judge said. He told the New York Times that Kavanaugh was a “brilliant student” who loved sports and was not “into anything crazy or illegal.”
Christine Ford is a professor at Palo Alto University who teaches in a consortium with Stanford University, training graduate students in clinical psychology. Her work has been widely published in academic journals.
She contacted The Post through a tip line in early July, when it had become clear that Kavanaugh was on the shortlist of possible nominees to replace retiring justice Anthony M. Kennedy but before Trump announced his name publicly. A registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations, she contacted her congresswoman, Democrat Anna G. Eshoo, around the same time. In late July, she sent a letter via Eshoo’s office to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
In the letter, which was read to The Post, Ford described the incident and said she expected her story to be kept confidential. She signed the letter as Christine Blasey, the name she uses professionally.
For weeks, Ford declined to speak to The Post on the record as she grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family — and what she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story.
She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
By late August, Ford had decided not to come forward, calculating that doing so would upend her life and probably would not affect Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “Why suffer through the annihilation if it’s not going to matter?” she said.
Her story leaked anyway. On Wednesday, The Intercept reported that Feinstein had a letter describing an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school, and that Feinstein was refusing to share it with her Democratic colleagues.
Feinstein soon released a statement: “I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” she wrote. “That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”
The FBI received a version of the letter with Ford’s name redacted, according to a Republican official with knowledge of the letter, and then sent it to the White House to be included in Kavanaugh’s background file. The White House sent it to the Senate Judiciary Committee, making it available to all senators.
As pressure grew, the New York Times reported that the incident involved “possible sexual misconduct.”
By then, Ford had begun to fear she would be exposed, particularly after a BuzzFeed reporter visited her at her home and tried to speak to her as she was leaving a classroom where she teaches graduate students. Another reporter called her colleagues to ask about her.
On Friday, the New Yorker reported the letter’s contents but did not reveal Ford’s identity. Soon after, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) released a letter from 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh when he attended high school from 1979 to 1983 at Georgetown Prep, an all-boys school in North Bethesda.
“Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity,” the women wrote. “In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day.”
As the story snowballed, Ford said, she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and, with the visits from reporters, felt her privacy being chipped away. Her calculation changed.
“These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid,” she said, explaining her decision to come forward. “Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation.”
Katz said she believes Feinstein honored Ford’s request to keep her allegation confidential, but “regrettably others did not.”
“Victims must have the right to decide whether to come forward, especially in a political environment that is as ruthless as this one,” Katz said. “She will now face vicious attacks by those who support this nominee.”
After so many years, Ford said she does not remember some key details of the incident. She said she believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.
At the time, Ford said, she knew Kavanaugh and Judge as “friendly acquaintances” in the private-school social circles of suburban Maryland. Her Holton-Arms friends mostly hung out with boys from the Landon School, she said, but for a period of several months socialized regularly with students from Georgetown Prep.
Ford said she does not remember how the gathering came together the night of the incident. She said she often spent time in the summer at the Columbia Country Club pool in Chevy Chase, where in those pre-cellphone days, teenagers learned about gatherings via word of mouth. She also doesn’t recall who owned the house or how she got there.
Ford said she remembers that it was in Montgomery County, not far from the country club, and that no parents were home at the time. Ford named two other teenagers who she said were at the party. Those individuals did not respond to messages on Sunday morning.
She said she recalls a small family room where she and a handful of others drank beer together that night. She said that each person had one beer but that Kavanaugh and Judge had started drinking earlier and were heavily intoxicated.
In his senior-class yearbook entry at Georgetown Prep, Kavanaugh made several references to drinking, claiming membership to the “Beach Week Ralph Club” and “Keg City Club.” He and Judge are pictured together at the beach in a photo in the yearbook.
Judge is a filmmaker and author who has written for the Daily Caller, The Weekly Standard and The Washington Post. He chronicled his recovery from alcoholism in “Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk,” which described his own blackout drinking and a culture of partying among students at his high school, renamed in the book “Loyola Prep.” Kavanaugh is not mentioned in the book, but a passage about partying at the beach one summer makes glancing reference to a “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” who “puked in someone’s car the other night” and “passed out on his way back from a party.”
Through the White House, Kavanaugh did not respond to a question about whether the name was a pseudonym for him.
Ford said she left the family room to use the bathroom, which was at the top of a narrow stairway. She doesn’t remember whether Kavanaugh and Judge were behind her or already upstairs, but she remembers being pushed into a bedroom and then onto a bed. Rock-and-roll music was playing with the volume turned up high, she said.
She alleges that Kavanaugh — who played football and basketball at Georgetown Prep — held her down with the weight of his body and fumbled with her clothes, seemingly hindered by his intoxication. Judge stood across the room, she said, and both boys were laughing “maniacally.” She said she yelled, hoping that someone downstairs would hear her over the music, and Kavanaugh clapped his hand over her mouth to silence her.
At one point, she said, Judge jumped on top of them, and she tried unsuccessfully to wriggle free. Then Judge jumped on them again, toppling them, and she broke away, she said.
She said she locked herself in the bathroom and listened until she heard the boys “going down the stairs, hitting the walls.” She said that after five or ten minutes, she unlocked the door and made her way through the living room and outside. She isn’t sure how she got home.
Ford said she has not spoken with Kavanaugh since that night. And she told no one at the time what had happened to her. She was terrified, she said, that she would be in trouble if her parents realized she had been at a party where teenagers were drinking, and she worried they might figure it out even if she did not tell them.
“My biggest fear was, do I look like someone just attacked me?” she said. She said she recalled thinking: “I’m not ever telling anyone this. This is nothing, it didn’t happen, and he didn’t rape me.”
Years later, after going through psychotherapy, Ford said, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with lasting impact on her life.
“I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years,” she said. She said she struggled academically and socially and was unable to have healthy relationships with men. “I was very ill-equipped to forge those kinds of relationships.”
She also said she believes that in the longer term, it contributed to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms with which she has struggled.
She married her husband in 2002. Early in their relationship, she told him she had been a victim of physical abuse, he said. A decade later, he learned the details of that alleged abuse when the therapist asked her to tell the story, he said.
He said he expects that some people, upon hearing his wife’s account, will believe that Kavanaugh’s high school behavior has no bearing upon his fitness for the nation’s high court. He disagrees.
“I think you look to judges to be the arbiters of right and wrong,” Russell Ford said. “If they don’t have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong, then that’s a problem. So I think it’s relevant. Supreme Court nominees should be held to a higher standard.”
//Staff writers Beth Reinhard and Seung Min Kim and researchers Alice Crites and Julie Tate contributed to this report.//
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"If flesh could crawl, my skin would roll off from my bones and run away from here, as far from God as heaven is wide, as far from God as angels can fly"
Denk dat dit te laat komt en te lang geleden is om nog invloed te hebben op de nominatie. Waarom hebben de Dems hier niet eerder werk van gemaakt? Dan hadden ze Kavenaugh hierover kunnen ondervragen.
Verjaard is het sowieso, maar de GOP heeft sowieso weinig moeite met kandidaten met dit soort aantijgingen tegen zich.quote:
Denk dat dit te laat komt en te lang geleden is om nog invloed te hebben op de nominatie. Waarom hebben de Dems hier niet eerder werk van gemaakt? Dan hadden ze Kavenaugh hierover kunnen ondervragen.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Die hele Kavanaugh hearing was toch wel een beetje voor de vorm. Ik denk dat als hij op de tafel was gaan staan en zijn broek had laten zakken er volgens de GOP nog niks raars was.
Jahaaa.. Mijn mening verandert vaak. Niet dat ik niet weet wat ik zeg. Maar ik houd mij liever niet vast aan oude denkbeelden als nieuwe beter zijn...
Drie debatten maar liefst in de belangrijkste swingstate! Sohee 
Aiaiai, ik kom nu met een boude voorspelling: dit gaat de ondergang worden van Tedje Cruz en de hele GOP in november. De verkiezingen van 2016 heeft mij geleerd dat er veel meer correlatie zit tussen de uitslagen van de diverse staten dan ik vooraf had gedacht. Dus als Texas flipt naar de Democraten, dan flipt Arizona en Nevada hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook. En wie weet Tennesse ook.
Aiaiai, ik kom nu met een boude voorspelling: dit gaat de ondergang worden van Tedje Cruz en de hele GOP in november. De verkiezingen van 2016 heeft mij geleerd dat er veel meer correlatie zit tussen de uitslagen van de diverse staten dan ik vooraf had gedacht. Dus als Texas flipt naar de Democraten, dan flipt Arizona en Nevada hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook. En wie weet Tennesse ook
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIl_jGh-LWE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Afleidingsmanoeuvre</a>
Nee, het is gewoon een partisan vote. Een SC nominatie wordt vrijwel nooit afgeschoten door de eigen partij voor zover ik weet.quote:
Die hele Kavanaugh hearing was toch wel een beetje voor de vorm. Ik denk dat als hij op de tafel was gaan staan en zijn broek had laten zakken er volgens de GOP nog niks raars was.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Ik moet heel eerlijk zeggen dat ik dit zelf ook onvoldoende zou vinden om iemand voor af te wijzen (los van iedere andere omstandigheid). Een misstap op de middelbare school. Je kan ook op iedere slak zout gaan leggen. Bovendien is het nauwelijks te bewijzen.
Maar als ik het goed lees heeft die vrouw zich direct na de nominatie al gemeld. Maar het komt nu pas naar buiten. Gemiste kans, ze hadden hem onder ede hierover kunnen ondervragen.quote:
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Verjaard is het sowieso, maar de GOP heeft sowieso weinig moeite met kandidaten met dit soort aantijgingen tegen zich.
In de tijd van #metoo kom je niet meer weg met 'iets doms gedaan op de middelbare school'.
Bewijsbaar of niet, als de SJW mob achter hem aan komt is het gedaan met Kavanaugh.
Het enige dat de Democraten voor elkaar moeten krijgen is dat mevrouw voor een paar miljoen bij CNN huilend haar verhaal wil doen.
Bewijsbaar of niet, als de SJW mob achter hem aan komt is het gedaan met Kavanaugh.
Het enige dat de Democraten voor elkaar moeten krijgen is dat mevrouw voor een paar miljoen bij CNN huilend haar verhaal wil doen.
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In de tijd van #metoo kom je niet meer weg met 'iets doms gedaan op de middelbare school'.
Bewijsbaar of niet, als de SJW mob achter hem aan komt is het gedaan met Kavanaugh.
Het enige dat de Democraten voor elkaar moeten krijgen is dat mevrouw voor een paar miljoen bij CNN huilend haar verhaal wil doen.
De tranen van deze mevrouw zijn het einde van Kavanaugh. Je hebt 1 camera en 5 minuten nodig en zijn positie is onhoudbaar. Althans, de GOP zal wel door willen, maar dan hangt Kavanaugh zelf zijn pet aan de wilgen.quote:
En er was ook direct een brief van 65 meisjes van zijn jongensschool dat Kavanaugh nooit iets verkeerd heeft gedaan.
Erg vreemd dat ze die binnen een dag hebben weten op te sporen.
Erg vreemd dat ze die binnen een dag hebben weten op te sporen.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Mjah Tom Nichols merkte al terecht op dat in D.C. je het verste komt als je een groot netwerk hebt. De meeste die in Washington rondlopen zijn onderdeel van dat netwerk en kennen elkaar nog van scholen en opleidingen. Het is een 'ons kent ons' wereldje, wat Trump 'the Swamp' noemt.quote:
En er was ook direct een brief van 65 meisjes van zijn jongensschool dat Kavanaugh nooit iets verkeerd heeft gedaan.
Erg vreemd dat ze die binnen een dag hebben weten op te sporen.
En in dat wereldje is er een regel waar iedere 'Washington outsider' tegenaan botst als hij aan de knoppen draait: "You don't drain the swamp, the swamp drains you"
Mja, dan krijg je een "do not recall" antwoord. Je moet ook voorzichtig zijn met aantijgingen die je onder ogen krijgt gelijk de publiciteit in te slingeren. De vrouw geeft nota bene aan dat ze het zelf liever niet in de publiciteit had gehad:quote:
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Maar als ik het goed lees heeft die vrouw zich direct na de nominatie al gemeld. Maar het komt nu pas naar buiten. Gemiste kans, ze hadden hem onder ede hierover kunnen ondervragen.
quote:Katz said she believes Feinstein honored Ford’s request to keep her allegation confidential, but “regrettably others did not.”
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Gee wat een suprise Net voor de midterms en voor de confirmation van Kavanaugh dan beslist dat wijf opeens te praten
Net voor de midterms en voor de confirmation van Kavanaugh dan beslist dat wijf opeens te praten
Misschien omdat je gewoon onschuldig bent ook al zit iemand wat te claimen.quote:
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Verjaard is het sowieso, maar de GOP heeft sowieso weinig moeite met kandidaten met dit soort aantijgingen tegen zich.
Je hebt weer eens het artikel niet goed gelezen. Ze heeft haar verhaal in juni al gedaan.quote:
Gee wat een suprise
Je weet dat het congress stemt over NATIONALE wetten en problemen?quote:
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Welke grens? De grens met Ohio of de grens met New York? Of met Maryland, Delaware of New Jersey?
Het is jammer dat Trump daar niet duidelijker over is.
Omdat die man uit een staat komt waar het niet grenst aan Mexico of Canada betekent niet dat je daar geen politieke mening over mag hebben. Maar dat is blijkbaar veel te hard om over na te denken.
Op de twee beroepstrolletjes ga ik niet eens reageren.quote:
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Je hebt weer eens het artikel niet goed gelezen. Ze heeft haar verhaal in juni al gedaan.
Volkorenbrood: "Geen quotes meer in jullie sigs gaarne."
Dan nog. In juni, juli, augustus. Waarom niet 10 jaar geleden toen hij rechter werd in DC? Niet belangrijk genoeg? Heel toevallig telkens vlak voor een belangrijke verkiezing beginnen opeens de verkrachting en aanranding verhalen te rollen van de pers. Heel vreemd.quote:
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Je hebt weer eens het artikel niet goed gelezen. Ze heeft haar verhaal in juni al gedaan.
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Stel dat Collins en Murkowski ineens ergens in een hoek een ruggengraat vinden en de nominatie uitstellen tot het FBI onderzoek is afgerond en het over de midterms heen wordt getild. Dat bespaart enerzijds de red state Dems in de senaat een pijnlijke stem. Anderzijds is het een extra motivatie voor hun tegenstanders om op de komen dagen. Hoewel ik betwijfel of er echt mensen zijn die vanwege een Supreme Court seat ineens wel naar de stembus komen.
In 2012 heeft ze het ook al verteld zowel aan haar therapeut en haar man, wat ondersteund wordt door aantekeningen van de therapeut en een interview met haar man.quote:
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Dan nog. In juni, juli, augustus. Waarom niet 10 jaar geleden toen hij rechter werd in DC? Niet belangrijk genoeg? Heel toevallig telkens vlak voor een belangrijke verkiezing beginnen opeens de verkrachting en aanranding verhalen te rollen van de pers. Heel vreemd.
Nou lekker veel bewijs manquote:
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In 2012 heeft ze het ook al verteld zowel aan haar therapeut en haar man, wat ondersteund wordt door aantekeningen van de therapeut en een interview met haar man.
She says he says. Je kan je therapeut wel meer vertellen.
Maar goed, je verhaaltje van dat ze nu plots ermee komt, klopt dus niet. Kunnen we dat vast stellen?quote:
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Nou lekker veel bewijs man
Trouwens, the Washington Post maakt hier geen nieuwsartikel over omdat een vrouw maar even wat roept ofzo. Dat bleek ook al toen Project Veritas ze erin wilden luizen en het ze niet lukte. Daarom is het denk ik verstandig om het artikel te lezen in plaats van in een reflex te schieten.
Ze komen wel vaker met nieuwsberichten van vrouwen die zogenaamd zijn aangerand. Echt concreet bewijs is er ALTIJD maar nooit te vinden.quote:
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Maar goed, je verhaaltje van dat ze nu plots ermee komt, klopt dus niet. Kunnen we dat vast stellen?
Trouwens, the Washington Post maakt hier geen nieuwsartikel over omdat een vrouw maar even wat roept ofzo. Dat bleek ook al toen Project Veritas ze erin wilden luizen en het ze niet lukte.
Je bedoelt foto's van de aanranding ofzo?quote:
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Ze komen wel vaker met nieuwsberichten van vrouwen die zogenaamd zijn aangerand. Echt concreet bewijs is er ALTIJD maar nooit te vinden.
Tja als she says genoeg bewijs is voor jou dan zal ik me maar zorgen makenquote:
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Je bedoelt foto's van de aanranding ofzo?
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