[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #568: Pocahontas & the Angry Orange

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rebeccaballhaus twitterde op woensdag 17-10-2018 om 05:36:10 Key detail from the audio Turkey shared U.S. and Saudi officials: It indicates Khashoggi was killed in the office of the Saudi consul general, Mohammad al-Otaiba. After Khashoggi is killed, a voice can be heard inviting the consul to leave the room. https://t.co/x741GVzcsc reageer retweet

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tedlieu twitterde op woensdag 17-10-2018 om 07:59:06 Dear @SecPompeo: Turkey provided to the US the audio of the murder of Khashoggi in the office of the Saudi consul general. What about this audio do you not understand? https://t.co/UqFDl4w0XJ reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 09:27 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Trump heeft gewoon geluk dat het een Republikein is, anders had Refragmental hem echt he-le-maal kapotgemaakt. Verder is het allemaal niet zo spannend.

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 09:28 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het aantonen van het hypocriete gedrag en de dubbele maatstaven die hier gehanteerd worden door veel users staat dus blijkbaar gelijk aan het verdedigen van Trump.
M'n stukje code staat nog steeds. Ik roep niet vaak genoeg dat Trump een dwaas is, dus ik ben pro-trump.

Maar laten we deze discussie kappen voordat ik straks weer beschuldigd word van topickaap.

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 09:34 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Verre van. Wat mij betreft verandert het daar in 1 grote glasplaat.

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It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist's last moments told Middle East Eye.

Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the Turkish source said.

Horrendous screams were then heard by a witness downstairs, the source said.

"The consul himself was taken out of the room. There was no attempt to interrogate him. They had come to kill him,” the source told MEE.

The screaming stopped when Khashoggi - who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October - was injected with an as yet unknown substance.

Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy, who has been identified as the head of forensic evidence in the Saudi general security department, was one of the 15-member squad who arrived in Ankara earlier that day on a private jet.

Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive, the Turkish source said.

The killing took seven minutes, the source said.(...)

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CBSNews twitterde op woensdag 17-10-2018 om 03:56:55 "Don't interrupt me, Jason," says Ted Cruz as the moderator tried to ask a follow-up question on the importance of remaining civil in debate.#TexasDebate https://t.co/zx11ahFiDT https://t.co/4gxaJK3vw1 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 10:38 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Beto Beto noemen, maar Ted Rafael.
Waarom de 1 bij z'n bijnaam en de ander niet? Niet echt consequent.
Of valt dit in het rijtje Obongo, Drumpf, Killary, etc. Expres verkeerde naam gebruiken om interessant over te komen.
Ik dacht dat je schrijver was.

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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has dug a moral hole through the middle of America's foreign policy -- and he's not sorry at all.

The President's reaction to the apparent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul offers the clearest evidence yet of his turn away from a foreign policy rooted in universal human values.
The crisis is instead showcasing Trump's radical form of "America First" realpolitik, his promise not to infringe other nations' sovereignty with lectures on human rights and his trust in the word of autocrats.
In his unrepentant conduct of American foreign policy, Trump is lurching from a path taken by every president since World War II, who all believed to various degrees that American leadership was needed to create a world safe for democracy, open commerce and freedom.
And it will be seen around the world as an unmistakable sign that there is no cost for heinous behavior -- after all it happened days after a US-based journalist for a top American newspaper was apparently killed before his body was reportedly chopped up in an official Saudi government building.
Washington often failed to honor its values -- in the carpet bombing of Cambodia, for instance, or its support for Arab dictators. And many in the Middle East saw post-9/11 foreign policy as deeply hypocritical.
But for 70 years, the United States has been a beacon for dissidents in totalitarian nations, acting as a guarantor of democracy and peace in Europe and Northeast Asia. It waged a Cold War to defeat Communism, enhancing its claims of benevolent foreign policy leadership.
It is that legacy of moral clarity that the Trump administration is burning in the mystery over what happened to Khashoggi.
Three days ago, Trump was promising "severe" punishments for Saudi Arabia after the journalist vanished, in an episode that flouts every conventional American principle on how governments should treat their people.
But now, the President has shifted his tone and is abetting the kingdom's evolving narrative on Khashoggi's disappearance.
Jarring footage meanwhile of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo beaming in photo-ops Tuesday alongside King Salman and ruthless son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS, encapsulated a closing of ranks with Riyadh.
The President told The Associated Press that blaming Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's disappearance was another case of "guilty until proven innocent" an echo of his rhetoric concerning the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
It all looked like an administration more concerned with insulating its relationship with the Saudi royals, key players in its effort to squeeze Iran, than seeking answers about what happened to Khashoggi.

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Ted Cruz (R-TX) was visibly flustered during Tuesday night’s Texas Senate debate when Rep. Beto O’Rourke linked the conservative senator’s vote to increase the budget deficit to accepting money from Political Action Committees (PACs) that represent corporate interests.

“He voted to add $2 trillion dollars,” O’Rourke said while answering a question about America’s debt, which has mushroomed since Republicans passed a controversial tax cut.

“And those tax cuts disproportionately will flow to corporations who are already sitting on record piles of cash, and the already wealthy — in a country that is already riddled with income inequality unseen since the last Gilded Age,” O’Rourke noted.

“Why?” he asked, rhetorically.

“In the days just before and just after that vote, Sen. Cruz accepted $120,000 from the Political Actions Committees who represent the corporate interests that benefited from this tax cut,” O’Rourke charged.

Cruz chortled nervously and began tapping his fingers — six times — on his transparent lectern.

“Follow the money,” O’Rourke suggested.

“I don’t take PAC money, not a dime,” he added. “I only represent the people of Texas.”

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 11:28 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Ik zou het wel leuk vinden als Cruz de midterms verliest. Zie het niet echt gebeuren, maar toch

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 11:36 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Ik heb minder moeite met Cruz als president dan met Trump. Cruz mag dan wel een corrupte lul zijn, maar heeft tenminste nog doorgeleerd.

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Op woensdag 17 oktober 2018 12:14 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

Is Ted Cruz "Tough As Texas"?

klare taal.