[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #595: Trumpidity

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Op maandag 28 januari 2019 15:08 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Howie Wolf is de man die Bloomberg overtuigde dat hij geen kans had als onafhankelijke kandidaat en hiermee alleen Trump hielp en mede hierdoor deed Bloomberg niet mee.
Als onafhankelijk kandidaat kan je wel de populair vote winnen, maar je haalt niet de 270 kiesmannen. Als niemand de 270 haalt, dan mag het congres de president en VP kiezen, die kiezen dan gewoon voor hun eigen kandidaat.

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howiewolf twitterde op maandag 28-01-2019 om 01:48:14 I have seen enough data over many years to know that anyone running for POTUS as an independent will split the anti-incumbent, anti-Trump vote. The stakes couldn’t be higher. We can not afford the risk of spoiler politics that result in Trump’s re-election. reageer retweet

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CBSNews twitterde op maandag 28-01-2019 om 04:54:23 Democrats to Howard Schultz: Don't do it https://t.co/xKpFqYddcZ https://t.co/kSL45vQtc8 reageer retweet

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washdems twitterde op zaterdag 26-01-2019 om 23:23:29 https://t.co/P1l4HeGYzv reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 14:56:00 ....a source of potential danger and conflict. They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge. There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school! reageer retweet

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The $10B Wisconsin Foxconn plant Trump touted - like the Harrisburg plant - was NEVER going to be built. It was a lie perpetrated by the company, Trump, Walker and Ryan https://t.co/The23jdtPy

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Op dinsdag 29 januari 2019 16:14 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me vooral een erg beperkte stukje projectie. Het gedeelte van het electoraat dat heel veel moeite heeft met 'zwarte vrouwen' en 'Afrikaans aandoende namen' stemt al never nooit niet op de Dems natuurlijk.

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 16:48 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Je kunt natuurlijk best denken dat de Dems allemaal veranderd zijn in activistische, hyperprogressieve lieden die stuk voor stuk globalistische ideeën hebben en de smeltkroes toejuichen. Ik denk dat de realiteit weerbarstiger is. Je persoonlijke sneer laat ik maar even voor wat het is.

Gillibrand is historisch gezien een vrij conservatieve Democraat, al papt ze nu een beetje aan met de meer activitische flank om brede steun te verwerven.

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 17:21 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Overigens gaat Clinton zich toch echt niet kandideren volgens Podesta:

https://www.politico.com/(...)020-election-1136435

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 16:48 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Je kunt natuurlijk best denken dat de Dems allemaal veranderd zijn in activistische, hyperprogressieve lieden die stuk voor stuk globalistische ideeën hebben en de smeltkroes toejuichen. Ik denk dat de realiteit weerbarstiger is. Je persoonlijke sneer laat ik maar even voor wat het is.

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 19:58 schreef Beathoven het volgende:
Trump heeft trouwens (en dit is geen grap) al z'n 'bold claims' uit deze film gehaald

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- Ranchers found prayer rugs at the borders
- [immigrants] have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have
- Women are tied up with duct tape on their faces, put in the back of vans

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Zet eerst mensen zonder werk en inkomen en steekt dan als POTUS een lulverhaal af van iets dat hij in z'n vrije tijd met een zak chips heeft zitten kijken.

Sicario, 2015. The Beast scene

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 20:12 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Neen.
Uit Sicario: day of the soldado (2018)komen die prayer rugs.

Je poster is van Sicario (2015)

Goeien filmpjen overigens.

Sicario, 2015. The Beast scene

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 20:16 schreef Beathoven het volgende:

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aangepast

niet mijn soort films.. maar aangepast

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2019 20:25 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Ieder het zijne

Aardige "wall" in fragmentje hierboven.

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A member of President Trump’s transition team was announced as a new board member of a company owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska as soon as the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Deripaska’s companies Sunday.

On Sunday, the Treasury Department lifted the sanctions on three companies owned by Deripaska 10 months after it imposed them, citing Russia’s “malign activity around the globe.” Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was also personally sanctioned because the government accused him of threats to rivals, bribing government officials and links to organized crime.

As part of the deal to have the sanctions lifted, Deripaska agreed to dilute his control of EN+, the parent company of the Russian aluminum giant Rusal.

Democrats strongly opposed the deal and voted in the House to keep the sanctions but the measure was defeated in the Republican-controlled Senate. The Treasury Department claimed that the deal required Deripaska to “sever” his control of the companies but The New York Times reported that leaked documents revealed a scheme that allowed Deripaska to retain majority ownership of EN+. The Times added that the deal could possible free Deripaska from “hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.”

On Monday, EN+ announced seven new board directors, including Christopher Burnham, who served on Trump’s State Department transition team and previously worked as an executive at Deutsche Bank. Burnham also previously worked as undersecretary general for management of the United Nations under George W. Bush, when Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton was the UN ambassador. A news release from EN+ cited his work in the Bush administration and at Deutsche Bank but did not mention his role on the Trump team.

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A major jobs deal President Trump has touted with former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker now looks uncertain: Foxconn, a supplier for Apple and other technology firms, says it’s scrapping plans to build a giant new factory in Wisconsin, opting to hire American engineers and researchers instead of a promised fleet of blue-collar workers.

“In Wisconsin we’re not building a factory,” Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn chief executive Terry Gou, told Reuters. “You can’t use a factory to view our Wisconsin investment.”

The Taiwanese technology juggernaut initially pledged in 2017 to construct a $10 billion liquid-crystal display panel plant and create up to 13,000 jobs in the state’s southeastern corner over the next 15 years. The positions would pay an average annual wage of $53,000, the firm said — a solid salary in the manufacturing realm.

In exchange, Wisconsin agreed to give Foxconn at least $3 billion in state tax credits and breaks, according to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, a public-private agency that helped negotiate the package. The deal drew criticism after it emerged that Wisconsin would not make money for 25 years.

Under the contract, however, Wisconsin would cancel some payouts if Foxconn did not stick to its word.

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StevenTDennis twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 18:19:26 On Senate floor Mitch McConnell rips a federal holiday for Election Day as part of a “power grab” by Democrats to win elections. reageer retweet

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MrDanZak twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 18:46:50 This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate admitting that, if voting were easier instead of harder, Republicans would be in trouble. https://t.co/J9Ul7pSHd2 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 21:25:09 New: Mueller's team says that discovery materials shared with defense attorneys associated with Concord Management (the company owned by Putin's Chef) appeared online in October in an apparent "disinformation campaign" to discredit the Russia investigation https://t.co/R9dM9CguJh reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 21:35:11 Interesting: Mueller's team notes that some of the discovery shared with Concord Management 'appears to have been altered.' https://t.co/3pDkzhFxCP reageer retweet

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nycsouthpaw twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 21:03:01 In a new filing in the Internet Research Agency case, Mueller's team says they've found evidence discovery documents were forged as part of a "disinformation campaign aimed (apparently) at discrediting ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the US political system." https://t.co/OC0YhfyQ1X reageer retweet

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Dow just broke 25,000. Tremendous news!

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EricTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 04:42:15 It is shocking that aside from their corporate office, @Amazon doesn’t use E-Verify for their 600,000+ employees yet we are attacked by the @WashingtonPost for a few golf properties. Hypocrisy at its finest. https://t.co/dYnFl5qram reageer retweet

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amazon_policy twitterde op woensdag 30-01-2019 om 23:11:43 @EricTrump @amazon @washingtonpost https://t.co/d6f1rzL8MC, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries use E-Verify in the U.S. for our more than 300,000 U.S.-based employees, corporate or otherwise. We enrolled in the program on May 17, 2010. We process E-Verify cases through an E-Verify Employer Agent. reageer retweet

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Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown say the new NAFTA needs big changes. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke and Amy Klobuchar, among others, haven’t yet offered firm opinions.

Their opinions now matter. Any one of these current and possible Democratic presidential candidates could determine the fate of the agreement, either as the party nominee or as the president.

Although the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico signed the agreement last November, this is not a done deal: there is a real chance more negotiations will be necessary to satisfy the Democrats, who now control the U.S. House of Representatives. And there is a real chance that the approval process will drag on into the next presidential term, which begins in 2021.

Congressional Democrats say they will not approve the agreement unless President Donald Trump, who calls it the USMCA, agrees to add language that would make it easier to enforce provisions on labour and on the environment. Democrats, like Trump, have long expressed concerns about U.S. jobs being lost to Mexico, where wages and labour standards are lower.

Politics are also a factor. Democrats are reluctant to give Trump perceived wins as the 2020 election approaches. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who used procedural tools to delay votes on George W. Bush trade agreements, will eventually start taking cues from the person who emerges as the party nominee.

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