[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #580: Still flipping house seats

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President Trump is surrounded by fools.

There’s that fool William H. McRaven, Special Operations commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the other fools in the U.S. military, who should have brought down bin Laden “a lot sooner,” because “everybody in Pakistan” — all 208 million of them — knew the terrorist leader was living in “a nice mansion.” Trump alone “predicted Osama bin Laden” in 2000 when “nobody really knew who he was.”(Were they waiting for Trump to give them bin Laden’s Zip code plus four?)

There are the fools in the CIA, who have concluded based on so-called evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered last month’s killing of Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. But Trump alone understands that we’ll never know the truth, because the crown prince denied involvement “maybe five different times.”

There’s that fool Chris Wallace at Fox News, who didn’t understand why Trump skipped Arlington National Cemetery on the Monday after Veterans Day after skipping a visit to a U.S. military cemetery in France two days earlier. But Wallace, if he were wiser, would have known Trump was “extremely busy on calls for the country” as well as “doing other things.”

There are the foolish Finns who, after Trump claimed Finland avoided forest fires because “they spent a lot of time on raking,” are now mocking him by posing with garden tools in the woods. But Trump knows Finnish forest-raking is real because Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto, told him about it just last week (even if Niinisto can’t remember this).

Worst of all are the fools in California — people who insist on calling the fire-destroyed town there “Paradise” instead of “Pleasure,” as Trump prefers to call it — who assert that the fires were caused by drought instead of their own mismanagement. As Trump well knows, “there is no drought” in California and there is “plenty of water.”

No one has suffered as many fools as Trump has. But this is to be expected when a “very stable genius” leads a “stupid country.”

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:28 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.78fc252747a9

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 08:10 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Lock her up. Ivanka doet een Hillary.
Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump last year used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released by a nonpartisan watchdog group.

The Washington Post reported Monday the White House conducted an investigation into Trump's email usage and that she used her personal email address for much of 2017.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)l-account/index.html

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:56 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
Maar Hillary moet nog steeds de bajes in en niet enkel voor het vergrijp m.b.t. de mailserver.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 06:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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MaddowBlog twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 03:43:29 In state after state, Republicans have tilted the playing field, perverting democracy to their advantage. https://t.co/xmF6vFfhrn reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het is wel een vertekend grafiekje, bv. in Wisconsin deden in veel races met een Democratische incumbent überhaupt geen Republikein mee. Dit heeft ook deels met gerrymandering te maken natuurlijk maar op die manier kom je wel al snel bij dit soort verhoudingen.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het is wel een vertekend grafiekje, bv. in Wisconsin deden in veel races met een Democratische incumbent überhaupt geen Republikein mee. Dit heeft ook deels met gerrymandering te maken natuurlijk maar op die manier kom je wel al snel bij dit soort verhoudingen.

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Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court documents show

Trump administration officials have privately discussed the possibility that in the future census information could be shared with law enforcement, according to documents filed in a legal challenge over plans for a new citizenship question on the 2020 survey.

The subject came up after a Democratic lawmaker asked whether responses to the survey could ever be shared with law enforcement agencies, something that has been strictly illegal according to federal law governing the census.

After a congressional hearing in May about the citizenship question, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) submitted a written query about whether the Justice Department agreed with a memo it had issued in 2010 saying the USA Patriot Act could not override the confidentiality of the census.

In a June 12 email, department officials discussed among themselves how to answer Gomez’s question in a way that left the answer open. Justice Department attorney Ben Aguinaga suggested to acting assistant attorney general John Gore that they not say “too much” in response to Gomez’s question, in case the issue were to “come up later for renewed debate.”

Confidentiality is considered a fundamental premise of the census and crucial to the success of the constitutionally mandated count, which surveys each household in the country every 10 years. That confidentiality is enshrined in the Census Act of 1879.

In 1954, Congress codified the rules, which say that the Commerce Department, which oversees the survey, cannot share the data with any other government agency or court. Violators are subject to up to five years in federal prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The law can be changed only by Congress.

The Justice Department email was included in documents filed in San Francisco federal court for a trial slated to begin in January.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:56 schreef Oostwoud
[b]Maar Hillary moet nog steeds de bajes in en niet enkel voor het vergrijp m.b.t. de mailserver.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:30 schreef archito het volgende:

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Ik zou het best frustrerend vinden om als Democraat in een diep Republikeins district te wonen of andersom, kun je je stem gewoon weggooien.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Als er gronden waren om Clinton te vervolgen, dan was dat allang gebeurd.

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Rep. Joe Kennedy III: It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level

The first recreational marijuana shops in the commonwealth of Massachusetts are opening their doors Tuesday, two years after Massachusetts resoundingly voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana. It’s a familiar trend across the country, where popular support for marijuana has surged. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have now legalized marijuana in some form — three on Election Day just this month.

I’ve remained skeptical.

My reluctance to embrace legalization stems primarily from one place: my ongoing work with the mental health and addiction communities. I’ve seen the devastating effects of drugs that are used and abused. I’ve met family after family torn apart by addiction. And I’ve heard — repeatedly — from mental health advocates on the frontlines who have grave concerns about what access to marijuana might do for those prone to abuse. They worry about research showing marijuana can be addictive, particularly for adolescents.

At the same time, I’ve heard from others who see marijuana quite differently. The parent whose epileptic child needs marijuana to calm her seizures. The veteran whose trauma it eases. The black teen arrested for smoking a joint while his white friends did the same with impunity.

Over the past year, I’ve worked to rectify these perspectives. I’ve read, I’ve researched, I’ve had countless conversations with people on both sides. One thing is clear to me: Our federal policy on marijuana is badly broken, benefiting neither the elderly man suffering from cancer whom marijuana may help nor the young woman prone to substance use disorder whom it may harm. The patchwork of inconsistent state laws compounds the dysfunction. Our federal government has ceded its responsibility — and authority — to thoughtfully regulate marijuana.

This needs to change. Given the rapid pace of state-level legalization and liberalization, I believe we must implement strong, clear, and fair federal guidelines. To do that requires us to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and legalize it at the federal level.

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who crossed the southern border illegally, saying the president violated a “clear command” from Congress to allow them to apply.

In a ruling late Monday, Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy, which President Trump has billed as an urgent attempt to halt the flow of thousands of asylum-seeking families across the border each month.

Several thousand migrants are now waiting to cross a legal entry point at San Ysidro, across from Tijuana. Many are from a caravan that drew Trump’s wrath in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, when he made illegal immigration his closing argument. He and his allies spread fear about the “Caravan heading to the Southern Border,” which, as he asserted without evidence in one pre-election tweet, included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” In another, he warned of “some very bad thugs and gang members.” Labeling the movements of Central American migrants a “national emergency,” Trump last month deployed active-duty troops to the border.

As a result of Tigar’s restraining order, migrants may once again seek asylum either at legal entry points or after crossing illegally onto U.S. soil.

The order that Tigar blocked was announced Nov. 9, though the White House had as early as last month floated dramatic changes to the way the United States affords sanctuary to people fleeing persecution in their home countries.

The judge’s order remains in effect until Dec. 19, at which point the court will consider arguments for a permanent order. The administration offered no immediate comment overnight but has routinely appealed adverse decisions.

Tigar said the president could not shift asylum policy on his own.

“Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,” wrote the judge, nominated to the federal bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama. He reasoned that the “failure to comply with entry requirements such as arriving at a designated port of entry should bear little, if any, weight in the asylum process.”

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 15:30:07 Chuck Schumer is calling on the DOJ inspector general to "conduct an investigation of whether any potentially unlawful or improper communications have occurred between Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the White House, and other entities." https://t.co/ILdc4L1Grx reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 16:30:22 Ethics watchdog American Oversight has sent a letter to the House Oversight and Senate Judiciary leaders demanding an investigation into Ivanka Trump's e-mail use. https://t.co/oAxljNFZHh https://t.co/dp8TFehodq reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 19:01 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Trump's statement, met maar liefst 8 uitroeptekens...

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018(...)ashoggi-killing.html