[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #652 Remember Toledo!

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 17:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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State Senate. Nevada.

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DanLinden twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:44:42 Sadly updated again: Death toll now 22 in El Paso shooting. Another victim just died in the hospital, following the one earlier today. - @WillCarr https://t.co/KqjnrI7OXu#ElPaso reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 18:55 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
De beurzen vinden het allemaal niet zo leuk vandaag. Verwacht zo nog wel een tweet daarover van Trump...

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'It feels like something out of a bad sci-fi movie' (Politico)
A top climate scientist quit USDA, following others who say Trump has politicized science.

One of the nation’s leading climate change scientists is quitting the Agriculture Department in protest over the Trump administration’s efforts to bury his groundbreaking study about how rice loses nutrients due to rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Lewis Ziska, a 62-year-old plant physiologist who’s worked at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service for more than two decades, told POLITICO he was alarmed when department officials not only questioned the findings of the study — which raised potentially serious concerns for the 600 million people who depend on rice for most of their calories — but also tried to minimize press coverage of the paper, which was published in the journal Science Advances last year.

“You get the sense that things have changed, that this is not a place for you to be exploring things that don't agree with someone's political views,” Ziska said in a wide-ranging interview. “That's so sad. I can't even begin to tell you how sad that is.”

The departure follows several other government officials recently resigning from their posts over accusations that the administration is censoring climate science — reports that have raised alarm about scientific integrity in the federal government.

Last week, an intelligence analyst at the State Department said he left his postafter administration officials blocked his testimony to Congress about the wide-ranging national security implications of climate change. A National Park Service employee also stepped forward, alleging she lost her job after refusing to scrub mentions of human-caused climate change from a peer-reviewed paper that was set to publish.

A POLITICO investigation revealed last month that USDA has routinely buried its own climate-related science and other work on climate change that continues. POLITICO also recently reported USDA suppressed the release of its own plan for studying and responding to climate change.

[...]Zie de rest daar.

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 19:30 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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George Conway heeft ook voorspellende gaven.
Volgens George en vele anderen zal trump nooit lang zijn mond gaan houden en het tegenovergestelde gaan twitteren.
Kort draadje.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1158130542963019776

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:00:14 China is intent on continuing to receive the hundreds of Billions of Dollars they have been taking from the U.S. with unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. So one-sided, it should have been stopped many years ago! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 17:58:59 Based on the historic currency manipulation by China, it is now even more obvious to everyone that Americans are not paying for the Tariffs – they are being paid for compliments of China, and the U.S. is taking in tens of Billions of Dollars! China has always.... reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 20:24 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Maar dit gaat niet over de beurs toch? De beurzen zijn laag vanwege China die zijn yuan devalueert, een best wel hard schot in de handelsoorlog.

Dus we kunnen sowieso een tweet daarover verwachten. Vraag is wanneer en hoe.

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They arrive every year around this time: small beige envelopes from Ron Kaufman, the treasurer of the Republican National Committee (RNC), asking Republicans for a yearly contribution to renew their membership, support Republican candidates and prevent the Democrats from dismantling the great “positive vision” of this president.

The RNC reminded many of us, with dates varying, that “we have not heard from you since 05/05/2016.” The RNC is worried the obvious may be true — that we might have “deserted our president and our party.”

But they have it backwards. President Trump and the GOP leadership have deserted the traditional conservatives, the Republican agenda and the core values of the party.

Many of us joined because we believed in a strong defense, fiscal responsibility, close attention to the Constitution, and keeping government as small as possible. We were compassionate conservatives and looked to the Reagan and Bush teams for example, and to Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower for inspiration.

Today’s Republican Party, under Trump, is in another universe. It has two problems — the president himself, and what he has done to the party.

President Trump is a disgrace to his office. He is a sexist, a pathological liar and the first president in my lifetime who appears not to work hard to master the duties of his office. The only thing worse than his character are his policies. Trump has been anti-alliance and pro-dictator, a policy that defies benign explanation. The United States has stopped leading in international organizations. Our allies are adrift.

Trump has abandoned free trade and fostered an economic policy characterized by tariffs, a tax cut for the rich, no apparently controls on domestic spending, and the return to trillion-dollar-per-year deficits. Trump’s idea of fixing health care is to repeal ObamaCare without replacing it. The economy continues to do well, not because of him, but in spite of him.

His big fix on illegal immigration was to impose stricter enforcement that results in separating children from their parents at the border. The administration’s inhumane treatment of border crossers and asylum seekers is a stain on our national honor. Neither Mexico nor Trump’s own party would fund his wall, so he took the money from the defense budget.

The Trump administration has set a record for firing cabinet-level officials and for not manning senior billets subject to senatorial confirmation. The best of his appointees — James Mattis, H.R. McMaster, John Kelly, and now Dan Coats — have left office, apparently for telling Trump the truth about his abuse of the national interest.

If incompetence were an impeachable offense, Trump would be convicted, except for one fact: he has neutered the Republicans in the legislative branch. Knowing his popularity among “the base,” they have lost their courage and independence. A veiled threat of having a pro-Trump candidate run against them in a primary has created squads of toadies throughout the House and Senate.

The behavior of House Republicans during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony was similarly outrageous. Rather than engaging the witness or discussing the Russian threat to our elections, they took turns weaving conspiracy theories about obscure villains and how the president’s rights were trampled as he apparently tried to obstruct justice.

In times past, the lions of the Senate would insist on respect for the law and the Constitution. We remember the Republican legislators who came to the White House to tell President Nixon that he would be convicted of his Watergate-related crimes. He resigned forthwith.

The Republicans in today’s Senate — nicknamed, insulted and browbeaten by our vulgar president — are pliable and eager to please the “master tweeter.” Their nominal leader, Vice President Mike Pence, has become a joke even in this party of kiss-ups. The actual Republican leader, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), appears wedded to the president’s agenda. This great deliberative body has been reduced to being a transmission belt for Trump’s desires.

In the meantime, thousands of Republicans have left the party. The dissidence in the party is significant. When President Trump leaves the White House, he may well take what’s left of the Republican Party with him, destroying the two-party system.

Trump remains popular in his new party, but many rank-and-file Republicans will continue to opt for country over party. For them, 2019 will be another year that they don’t write a check to the Republican National Committee.

Joseph J. Collins is a retired Army colonel and Department of Defense civilian. From 2001-04, under President George W. Bush, he was a deputy assistant secretary of Defense for stability operations. For over 25 years, he taught strategy at West Point and the National War College.

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 20:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Deze?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:00:14 China is intent on continuing to receive the hundreds of Billions of Dollars they have been taking from the U.S. with unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. So one-sided, it should have been stopped many years ago! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 17:58:59 Based on the historic currency manipulation by China, it is now even more obvious to everyone that Americans are not paying for the Tariffs – they are being paid for compliments of China, and the U.S. is taking in tens of Billions of Dollars! China has always.... reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 21:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Wow:
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https://thehill.com/opini(...)ice-party-or-country
Hoeveel republikeinen zouden die mening delen?

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 21:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Wow:
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https://thehill.com/opini(...)ice-party-or-country
Hoeveel republikeinen zouden die mening delen?

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LindseyGrahamSC twitterde op dinsdag 03-05-2016 om 23:03:30 If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 20:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Deze?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:00:14 China is intent on continuing to receive the hundreds of Billions of Dollars they have been taking from the U.S. with unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. So one-sided, it should have been stopped many years ago! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 17:58:59 Based on the historic currency manipulation by China, it is now even more obvious to everyone that Americans are not paying for the Tariffs – they are being paid for compliments of China, and the U.S. is taking in tens of Billions of Dollars! China has always.... reageer retweet

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Team_Mitch twitterde op zondag 04-08-2019 om 00:35:40 The Grim Reaper of Socialism at #FancyFarm today. #FancyFarm139 https://t.co/KMKJifu3b5 reageer retweet

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AmyMcGrathKY twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:15:49 Hours after the El Paso shooting, Mitch McConnell proudly tweeted this photo. I find it so troubling that our politics have become so nasty and personal that the Senate Majority Leader thinks it's appropriate to use imagery of the death of a political opponent (me) as messaging. https://t.co/2x5kO5jwPi reageer retweet

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BetoORourke twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 22:22:42 This president, who helped create the hatred that made Saturday's tragedy possible, should not come to El Paso. We do not need more division. We need to heal. He has no place here. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 22:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Team Mitch, het campagne account van McConnell ppstte dit een paar uur na de slachtingen. Foto in de tweet.

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Team_Mitch twitterde op zondag 04-08-2019 om 00:35:40 The Grim Reaper of Socialism at #FancyFarm today. #FancyFarm139 https://t.co/KMKJifu3b5 reageer retweet

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AmyMcGrathKY twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:15:49 Hours after the El Paso shooting, Mitch McConnell proudly tweeted this photo. I find it so troubling that our politics have become so nasty and personal that the Senate Majority Leader thinks it's appropriate to use imagery of the death of a political opponent (me) as messaging. https://t.co/2x5kO5jwPi reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 22:14 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Het ziet er niet goed uit voor de NRA. Een organisatie die strengere wapenwetgeving wil en zich 'Moms Demand Action' noemt heeft inmiddels meer leden en ook meer geld in kas. Dus, einde verhaal voor de NRA lijkt me.

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(...)
The judge pointed to Trump’s claims that Mueller found “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, and the president’s insistence that he had been exonerated from a possible obstruction of justice charge. These comments, Walton said, appeared bolstered by Barr’s description of Mueller’s findings made during a DOJ press conference — before the public and media could read the document for themselves

“It’d seem to be inconsistent with what the report itself said,” Walton said. The judge also cited a letter Mueller’s office sent to Barr questioning the attorney general’s decision to release a four-page summary of the investigation’s conclusions that “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance” of the report.

Separately on Monday, Walton also raised questions about a DOJ submission defending the agency’s decision to black out large portions of the Mueller report.

“I also worked for the department,” Walton said. “Sometimes the body does what the head wants.”(...)

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Mimirocah1 twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 22:21:18 To those still weighing impeachment: a federal judge (appointed by Bush I) said he had “some concerns” about public statements Trump & Barr made about the report with the actual content of the report. Old news to many of us but significant that he said it. https://t.co/QuqEbBE2fi reageer retweet

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AndrewFeinberg twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 19:41:09 Holy Toledo, it wasn’t even on the TelePrompTer. https://t.co/vviFo7vqMw reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 20:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Deze?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 18:00:14 China is intent on continuing to receive the hundreds of Billions of Dollars they have been taking from the U.S. with unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. So one-sided, it should have been stopped many years ago! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 17:58:59 Based on the historic currency manipulation by China, it is now even more obvious to everyone that Americans are not paying for the Tariffs – they are being paid for compliments of China, and the U.S. is taking in tens of Billions of Dollars! China has always.... reageer retweet

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NBCNewsWorld twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 23:23:48 South Korea says North Korea again fires unidentified projectiles into East Sea, Yonhap news agency reports. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 23:21 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Dat tweede bericht heeft hij snel getypt.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 00:03 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
De handelsoorlog met China escaleert, Noord-Korea blijft doodleuk raketten testen en in de VS zwelt de kritiek aan vanwege Trumps retoriek in relatie tot de schietpartij in El Paso. Als de beurskoersen ook nog even blijven zakken is het feest compleet.

Trump moet dealen met een mini-crisis. Wordt interessant om te zien hoe hij ermee omgaat. Ik vermoed met heel veel vingerwijzen naar anderen.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 01:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 23:40:04 The NRA spent $1.6 million during the first half of the year lobbying Congress against laws that would enact stricter background checks for people looking to buy guns, according to disclosure reports reported on by CNBC. https://t.co/lNvTG3sguo reageer retweet

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Here's the House gun control legislation Mitch McConnell refuses to take up in the Senate after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton
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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 01:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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De laatste 2 jaar viel er meer te lobbyen denk ik, een aantal beperkende maatregelen onder Obama ingevoerd zijn intussen al teruggedraaid.

Bovendien lopen er een een aantal onderzoeken naar de NRA (financieel mismanagement/ banden met Rusland tijdens de verkiezingen) en is het cijfer van 1,6 miljoen ook van het eerst half jaar he.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 04:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Er staat nog een rekeningetje open

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TexasTribune twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 00:15:01 El Paso says Donald Trump still owes $569,204 for his February rally. https://t.co/K1qjZcSVfN reageer retweet

De burgemeester heeft er ook echt zin in:

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kaitlancollins twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 00:15:17 The El Paso mayor announces President Trump will visit Wednesday. "He is President of the United States, so in that capacity I will fulfill my obligation to meet with him." Adds he's received "emails & phone calls" about the visit and "that's why I'm saying what I'm saying now." reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 00:03 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
De handelsoorlog met China escaleert, Noord-Korea blijft doodleuk raketten testen en in de VS zwelt de kritiek aan vanwege Trumps retoriek in relatie tot de schietpartij in El Paso. Als de beurskoersen ook nog even blijven zakken is het feest compleet.

Trump moet dealen met een mini-crisis. Wordt interessant om te zien hoe hij ermee omgaat. Ik vermoed met heel veel vingerwijzen naar anderen.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 04:57 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Trump zal ook wel weinig animo hebben neem ik aan, hij zal zich in moeten houden. Tirades over invasies van stelende, verkrachtende, moordende en ziekte overbrengende immigranten lijken me niet erg gepast. Maar ja hij is de president....

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BarackObama twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 21:01:51 https://t.co/nNOVtQ50O4 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 08:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Obama's reactie.

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BarackObama twitterde op maandag 05-08-2019 om 21:01:51 https://t.co/nNOVtQ50O4 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 04:13 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Trump is van plan om woensdag naar El Paso te gaan. Zal vast een gezellige boel worden...

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 10:56 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Wanneer gaat hij naar Toledo?

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Mike Huckabee suggests 'lack of thought and prayers' behind mass shootings

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Monday suggested that a lack of thoughts and prayers is "the single biggest factor" behind mass shootings like the ones that took place in Texas and Ohio last weekend.

"Despite all those who are denouncing the idea of prayers for the victims ... I will continue to pray for the victims and their families and for an end to this mindless violence, and I hope you will, too," Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and 2016, wrote in a blog post on his website.

"In fact, amid all the finger-pointing and blame-laying and repulsive attempts to turn these tragedies to political advantage before the bodies are even cold, I would posit that the lack of thought and prayers is probably the single biggest factor in what is behind them," he continued.

Huckabee's comments came after a weekend in which mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left more than 30 people dead. The tragedies have sparked discussions about mass shootings in the U.S. and who or what is to blame.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 11:33 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)ehind-mass-shootings

Zo wordt satire wel heel moeilijk gemaakt.

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NateSilver538 twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 03:13:27 Tomorrow's NYT print edition.Not sure "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM" is how I would have framed the story. https://t.co/quOibXsp32 reageer retweet

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JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 13:36:35 NYT seems to have changed its headline. Just grabbed a paper at La Guardia. https://t.co/QztUegjFmw reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 augustus 2019 20:10 schreef Szura het volgende:
‘Trump wil doodstraf aanslagplegers’

Ik heb liever een doodstraf voor mensen die willens en wetens bloedgeld van de NRA aannemen en geen wetgeving tegen gun control steunen.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 11:33 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)ehind-mass-shootings

Zo wordt satire wel heel moeilijk gemaakt.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 16:37 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Huckabee. Dus, nee.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 16:47 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat "laten we vooral geen politieke maatregelen treffen" geldt kennelijk ook alleen voor binnenlands terrorisme. Als er een ander land met (licht) getinte bevolking moet worden binnengevallen of gebombardeerd, dan hebben dit soort Republikeinen daar toch beduidend minder moeite mee.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 13:00:00 Dallas Morning News update: "Ahead of a Wednesday visit to El Paso, President Donald Trump still owes the city more than $500,000 for his expenses related to his February rally." https://t.co/H2QcMlqgE4 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 11:33 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)ehind-mass-shootings

Zo wordt satire wel heel moeilijk gemaakt.

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 18:43 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Officers on horseback led a black suspect through the streets by rope. The chief apologized.

Social media explodes after Galveston officer on horseback escorts cuffed man with rope

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“I'll just have to say, we would never dream of blaming [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.] for the shooter who supports Elizabeth Warren," Gidley told reporters at the White House. "We would never blame — we would never dream of blaming Ocasio-Cortez for someone who perpetrated a terrorist attack on a DHS ICE facility because he used the same rhetoric she uses about concentration camps,” he added referencing comments Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made about the treatment of migrants at the hands of the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We would also never blame Barack Obama for the police shootings in Dallas. We wouldn't blame Bernie Sanders for the shooting of [House Minority Whip] Steve Scalise or other Republicans. And quite frankly, it's ridiculous to make those connect in some way.”

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Op dinsdag 6 augustus 2019 21:07 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley: We would never blame Democrats for other shootings
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https://thehill.com/homen(...)-democrats-for-other

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 06:42 schreef Szura het volgende:
De white supremacist in chief begint ruzie te zoeken met Beto, wordt echt een gezellige boel in El Paso.

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 06:50 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Bron/link?

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 06:42 schreef Szura het volgende:
De white supremacist in chief begint ruzie te zoeken met Beto, wordt echt een gezellige boel in El Paso.

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 07:35 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Je hebt de tirade van O Rourke de afgelopen dagen niet gevolgd dus? Trump is tenminste zo respectvol nog ff te wachten met een reactie op Beto zijn racistische bullshit totdat de lijken koud zijn.

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mikiebarb twitterde op woensdag 07-08-2019 om 06:31:57 24 hours ago, in front of a teleprompter, Trump said this:"Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside, so destructive, and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion, and love."Tonight on Twitter, he said this: https://t.co/Lur9v90nzo reageer retweet

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RepDeanPhillips twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 00:55:44 Uruguay today issued a travel warning to its citizens visting the United States of America, citing “growing violence” fueled by “racism and discrimination” that American “authorities are unable to prevent” due to “indiscriminate” gun ownership. Let that sink in for a minute. https://t.co/M0u6520caL reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 08:22 schreef De_Hertog het volgende:
Uruguay heeft een officiėle waarschuwing afgegeven over reizen naar de VS:

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RepDeanPhillips twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 00:55:44 Uruguay today issued a travel warning to its citizens visting the United States of America, citing “growing violence” fueled by “racism and discrimination” that American “authorities are unable to prevent” due to “indiscriminate” gun ownership. Let that sink in for a minute. https://t.co/M0u6520caL reageer retweet

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Democrats’ claims that President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia were tossed out Tuesday by a judge who noted there were no allegations that anyone from the campaign stole documents from the Democratic National Committee.

The lawsuit brought by the committee alleged that Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia, WikiLeaks, Trump’s son-in-law and others. Trump’s campaign and lawyers for the other defendants denied the allegations.

U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl said Russia was “undoubtably” the primary wrongdoer in the alleged criminal enterprise, but the country can’t be sued in U.S. courts except in special circumstances not present in this case.

Meanwhile, he said the actions of the Trump campaign and others were protected by the First Amendment.

“In sum, the DNC does not allege any facts to show plausibly that any of the defendants, other than the Russia Federation, had any role in hacking the DNC’s computers or stealing its information,” Koeltl wrote. “It attributes that conduct only to the Russian Federation.

“And the DNC does not dispute that the documents were of public importance. Therefore, the First Amendment protects the publication of those stolen documents,” the judge said.

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the American Civil Liberties Union had submitted written arguments supporting defendant WikiLeaks’ request that the lawsuit be tossed.

In support of his findings, Koeltl cited the Pentagon Papers case in which the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that The New York Times and the Washington Post were constitutionally protected when they published stories about a top-secret study that revealed the U.S. government misled the public about the Vietnam War.

Adrienne Watson, the DNC’s deputy communications director, said in an email that the DNC is still reviewing the ruling.

“At first glance, this opinion raises serious concerns about our protections from foreign election interference and the theft of private property to advance the interests of our enemies,” Watson said.

“At a time when the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress are ignoring warnings from the president’s own intelligence officials about foreign interference in the 2020 election, this should be of concern to anyone who cares about our democracy and the sanctity of our elections,” Watson added.

In emails, several lawyers for people and groups named in the suit reacted to Koeltl’s decision.

Grant Smith, a lawyer for longtime Trump friend Roger Stone, said he was pleased the judge “saw through the Democrats’ thin lawsuit. It was always a Hail Mary in the DNC’s attempt to hold people, and in particular our client Roger Stone, responsible for the loss of Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election.”

Caroline Polisi, representing ex-Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, said the lawsuit’s claims about her client were “particularly anemic and bordered on the absurd.”

Joshua Dratel, an attorney for WikiLeaks, said he was “very gratified with the result, which reaffirms First Amendment principles that apply to journalists across the board, whether they work for large institutions or small independent operations.”

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 09:37 schreef Smegma. het volgende:
Dat dit nog niet voorbij is gekomen in deze reeks, want eerlijk is eerlijk, dit is een kleine overwinning voor Trump, een grote overwinning voor WikiLeaks en een flinke dreun voor de Democraten:
https://www.politico.com/(...)a-email-hack-1441166
https://www.axios.com/dnc(...)0c-c3d00a364f37.html
https://www.wsj.com/artic(...)campaign-11564539167
https://www.cbsnews.com/n(...)st-trump-and-russia/

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)y.html?noredirect=on
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lkjtexas twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 02:29:51 @RepDeanPhillips Nice... https://t.co/KQNoc0Kvvv reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 07:35 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Je hebt de tirade van O Rourke de afgelopen dagen niet gevolgd dus? Trump is tenminste zo respectvol nog ff te wachten met een reactie op Beto zijn racistische bullshit totdat de lijken koud zijn.

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 08:22 schreef De_Hertog het volgende:
Uruguay heeft een officiėle waarschuwing afgegeven over reizen naar de VS:

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RepDeanPhillips twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 00:55:44 Uruguay today issued a travel warning to its citizens visting the United States of America, citing “growing violence” fueled by “racism and discrimination” that American “authorities are unable to prevent” due to “indiscriminate” gun ownership. Let that sink in for a minute. https://t.co/M0u6520caL reageer retweet

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The Consulate General of Japan in Detroit has warned Japanese residents who may be traveling to the United States in the wake of multiple mass shootings that took place in the country over the weekend.

In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan over the weekend, the diplomatic mission warned Japanese residents to “be aware of the potential for gunfire incidents everywhere in the United States,” which it described as a “gun society.”

The office also advised residents to “continue to pay close attention to safety measures.”

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 16:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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En Venezuela. Maar ik denk dat de waarschuwing van Japan hen meer toeristen kan kosten.
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https://thehill.com/polic(...)-united-states-after

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 16:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Hoe moeten we dit soort verklaringen eigen zien?. Is het een dikke 'fuck you' naar de Amerikanen of maakt een Japan zich oprecht zorgen over de veiligheid van zijn onderdanen?

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BillKristol twitterde op woensdag 07-08-2019 om 16:15:09 Trump just now: "I think my rhetoric...brings people together. Our country is doing incredibly well.” This is why Trump's likely to lose in 2020. Unlike in 2016, he'll have to defend his performance as president. And he'll have to make the case for four more years of this. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 18:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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BillKristol twitterde op woensdag 07-08-2019 om 16:15:09 Trump just now: "I think my rhetoric...brings people together. Our country is doing incredibly well.” This is why Trump's likely to lose in 2020. Unlike in 2016, he'll have to defend his performance as president. And he'll have to make the case for four more years of this. reageer retweet

Hij heeft gelijk. Hij brengt mensen samen.

Tegen hem.

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Op woensdag 7 augustus 2019 19:58 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
"Trump says critics of his rhetoric are looking for political gain."

Gewoon stug door blijven gaan met het herhalen van de typische Fox News talking points, dat komt vast goed over bij mensen die niet tot z'n vaste achterban gerekend kunnen worden.

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kevinomccarthy twitterde op dinsdag 06-08-2019 om 22:42:25 Targeting and harassing Americans because of their political beliefs is shameful and dangerous. What happened to “when they go low, we go high?” Or does that no longer matter when your brother is polling at 1%? Americans deserve better. https://t.co/PiFcifpxc1 reageer retweet

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Acosta twitterde op woensdag 07-08-2019 om 21:08:40 Trump live-tweeting Biden speech as he travels from one mass shooting scene to another. https://t.co/VnTMLqvQ0z reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 07-08-2019 om 21:01:41 Watching Sleepy Joe Biden making a speech. Sooo Boring! The LameStream Media will die in the ratings and clicks with this guy. It will be over for them, not to mention the fact that our Country will do poorly with him. It will be one big crash, but at least China will be happy! reageer retweet