[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #571: ballots and bombs

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cwarzel twitterde op zondag 28-10-2018 om 22:33:05 here’s a fun sunday example of the twitter hellscape: person tweets *false* meme claiming george soros was nazi (not him) 6.5k RTs. Auschwitz Memorial acct attempts to debunk (1k+ RTs). Ppl report the account but no option for spreading false news. So account/tweet stays up. Fun! https://t.co/EqrGQpVgxz reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 29-10-2018 om 02:00:00 The president of George Soros's foundations responds to Matt Gaetz's attacks: "We would encourage Rep. Gaetz to get his facts straight and try not to fuel the climate of fear and hatred that is emboldening extremists and stoking threats of violence." https://t.co/6G55CBtA8l reageer retweet

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Provocative publicity machine Matt Gaetz has thrown up the nonsense theory that billionaire George Soros might be funding the caravan of migrants heading from Honduras to America. In response — just before someone put a pipe bomb in Soros' mailbox, the president of Soros' foundations, responded to Gaetz. Here is the response:

By Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz seems confused. Lately, he's been making a lot of false and misleading claims about George Soros and the Open Society Foundations, his philanthropic organization, which I lead. I thought it might be helpful for the people in his district to have a little more information to help them separate fact from fiction.

Last week, Rep. Gaetz tweeted out a video that he claimed depicted a man paying cash to people in Honduras to join a "caravan" of migrants headed for the U.S. He further suggested that the people were being paid by Mr. Soros to do so, and that the people in the video were coming to "storm" America at election time. President Trump amplified Gaetz's claims in a tweet of his own a day later.

Rep. Gaetz's tweet was wrong in nearly every respect. A caravan of people had formed in Central America and was making its way north, as reported by many news outlets. But the group of people in the video Reo, Gaetz shared were in Guatemala, not Honduras, as he had claimed. While the Open Society Foundations does support the historic U.S. commitment, honored by presidents of both parties until 2016, to welcome people fleeing oppression and violence, neither the foundations nor Mr. Soros was involved in supporting the Hondurans' efforts.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 29-10-2018 om 01:12:57 The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand! reageer retweet

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thehill twitterde op maandag 29-10-2018 om 03:21:01 Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism https://t.co/OpUuxLapv0 https://t.co/RxeKg2Rxul reageer retweet

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President Trump:

Yesterday, a gunman slaughtered 11 Americans during Shabbat morning services. We mourn with the victims’ families and pray for the wounded. Here in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood, we express gratitude for the first responders and for the outpouring of support from our neighbors near and far. We are committed to healing as a community while we recommit ourselves to repairing our nation.

For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday’s violence is the direct culmination of your influence.

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.

Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted. You have also deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. Yesterday’s massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities.

The murderer’s last public statement invoked the compassionate work of the Jewish refugee service HIAS at the end of a week in which you spread lies and sowed fear about migrant families in Central America. He killed Jews in order to undermine the efforts of all those who find shared humanity with immigrants and refugees.

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you cease your assault on immigrants and refugees.

The Torah teaches that every human being is made b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God.

This means all of us.

In our neighbors, Americans, and people worldwide who have reached out to give our community strength, there we find the image of God. While we cannot speak for all Pittsburghers, or even all Jewish Pittsburghers, we know we speak for a diverse and unified group when we say:

President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you commit yourself to compassionate, democratic policies that recognize the dignity of all of us.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 05:03 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Quote”President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.”

Wat een uitdaging voor de President...om wél te gaan.

Trieste zooi.

* neuriet Amazing grace.

President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)

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Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 16:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Sure, maar je hebt conservatieven en de Trumpers. Die laatste groep wil gewoon macht om het hebben van de macht. Ze hebben geen enkel constructief idee, maar zolang ze de baas zijn vinden ze het wel best.
Ik zie die twee groepen nog wel afscheid van elkaar nemen.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 00:03 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
https://www.salon.com/201(...)0000-georgia-voters/

Inkijkje in hoe de Republikeinen valsspelen. Frustrerend eigenlijk. Je kunt er niets tegen beginnen.

"The fact that millions of voters lost their registrations without notice that they’d been purged means that Democrats may have effectively lost any chance of winning key elections before a single vote is cast."

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 02:49 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 29-10-2018 om 01:12:57 The Fake News is doing everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country. Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 11:14 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
"both sides"

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Inderdaad: moslimterreur en alt-right wappie terreur.

En ja, een enkele linkse mafklapper.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 12:31 schreef archito het volgende:
We kunnen wel stellen dat de kans levensgroot is dat de Republikeinen de meerderheid in de Senaat behouden. Wat betekent dit voor de sneltreinvaart waarmee de Republikeinen rechters hebben benoemd? Hoeveel vacante plekken zullen ze nog in kunnen vullen in de komende 2 jaar en wat betekent dat voor het aantal door Trump benoemde rechters in de verschillende lagen van de rechtspraak?

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 12:43 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Het word nu officieel een bananen republiek met fundamentalistische trekjes.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 13:05 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Kwestie van tijd voordat de VS uit elkaar scheurt denk ik. Elk jaar zie je het meer.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 11:14 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
"both sides"

[ afbeelding ]

Inderdaad: moslimterreur en alt-right wappie terreur.

En ja, een enkele linkse mafklapper.

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Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists are the second deadliest group of terrorists by ideology and account for 219 murders and 6.6 percent of all terrorist deaths. The chance of being murdered in a Nationalist or Right Wing terrorist attack was 1 in 33 million per year. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the second deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history after 9/11, killed 168 people and accounted for 77 percent of the murders committed by Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists. Left Wing terrorists killed only 23 people in terrorist attacks during this time but 13 since the beginning of 2016. Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists have only killed 5 since then, including Charlottesville. Meanwhile, the annual chance of being murdered by a Left Wing terrorist was about 1 in 330 million per year. Regardless of the recent upswing in deaths from Left Wing terrorism since 2016, Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists have killed about 10 times as many people since 1992. Terrorists with unknown or other motivations were the least deadly.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 13:28 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Bron: Anti-Defamation League

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 13:37 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Leuk, maar dit neemt het feit niet weg dat de meeste terroristen in de VS Blank zijn en Alt - Right als politieke basis heeft.

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Op maandag 29 oktober 2018 11:14 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
"both sides"

[ afbeelding ]

Inderdaad: moslimterreur en alt-right wappie terreur.

En ja, een enkele linkse mafklapper.