[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