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Yups en intussen mag er van Barr geen onderzoek gedaan worden naar de financiele achtergrond van presidentiele kandidaten wat er natuurlijk op neerkomt dat Trump's financien tot na de verkiezingen geheim moeten blijven.quote:Op vrijdag 7 februari 2020 23:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Dat zou wel het ultieme bewijs zijn dat de DOJ gepoliticeerd is, voor zover mensen nog niet overtuigd waren die dit volgen.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Dat is niet gering te noemen;quote:Op vrijdag 7 februari 2020 23:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Guide to the Mueller Report’s Findings on “Collusion”
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"As many experts have noted, what’s missing from the Mueller Report is the Special Counsel’s counterintelligence findings'.
En dan nog de summary.. Valt me op hoe elke shitshow op kanten van het spectrum op dit moment zo'n ontzettend geval captain obvious is. uncanny gewoon
En intussen maar blijven roepen dat het allemaal een hoax is!quote:
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Dat is niet gering te noemen;
"As many experts have noted, what’s missing from the Mueller Report is the Special Counsel’s counterintelligence findings'.
En dan nog de summary.. Valt me op hoe elke shitshow op kanten van het spectrum op dit moment zo'n ontzettend geval captain obvious is. uncanny gewoon
En we moeten ook vooral naar het onderzoek naar de onderzoekers kijken dat aan de gang is! Alsof dat de uitkomsten van Mueller's onderzoek ook maar enigszins verandert.
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“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
En die van Bloomberg ..... naja, dat weten we wel denk ik.quote:Op vrijdag 7 februari 2020 23:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Yups en intussen mag er van Barr geen onderzoek gedaan worden naar de financiele achtergrond van presidentiele kandidaten wat er natuurlijk op neerkomt dat Trump's financien tot na de verkiezingen geheim moeten blijven.
Conspiracy, etc etc etc.. Ik bedoel, dit is allemaal niveau kleuterklas psychologie om vaak onvermogen te verdedigen maar ik snap niet eens waarom er nog moeite gedaan om wat het ook is te proberen te verbergen.quote:
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En intussen maar blijven roepen dat het allemaal een hoax is!
Sippenhaft hebben we ook al. Gaat lekker.
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:40:00 "His twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him." https://t.co/UWOt4unjby reageer retweet
"His twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him."
twitter:JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 23:00:37 It seems trivial to mention it at this point, but retaliation against a witness is a federal crime. reageer retweet
It seems trivial to mention it at this point, but retaliation against a witness is a federal crime. 
Joe Walsh' OpEd in de WaPo
When I announced my primary challenge to President Trump last year, I knew running against him for the GOP nomination was the ultimate long shot. Even now, after impeachment, after three years of vulgarities, inanities, betrayals and racist screeds, he has a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans in the latest Gallup poll.
My chances are slim — don’t worry, I know.
It’s been made even tougher by the party canceling primaries to shield the president from being challenged. And by Fox News, and the rest of Trump’s lapdog conservative media, denying me airtime. But I’ve been on TV, I’ve served in Congress and I hosted my own talk-radio show. I don’t need the airtime. More than anything else, what’s made this challenge nearly impossible — to a degree that I didn’t fully realize when I first hit the trail — is how brainwashed so many of my fellow Republicans seem to have become. I hate to say it, but the GOP now resembles a cult.
I was already sensing this, but I was slapped hard in the face this past week at the Iowa caucuses: Last Thursday, the president came to Des Moines for one of his narcissistic rallies. I was in Des Moines, too, so I tried to talk to some folks outside the event before they went in — makes sense, right? Here’s a captive audience of Republican voters. But it turned out to be one of the most frustrating (and frankly, sad) experiences I can recall. I asked dozens of people a very simple, straightforward question: “Has President Trump ever told a lie to the American people?” And every single person said, “No.” Never mind that thousands of his misstatements have been meticulously documented. No, they said, he’s never lied.
I brought up his years-old claims that, unlike President Barack Obama, if Trump ever became president, he’d be too busy to play golf. Most people responded by saying they don’t care whether Trump golfs. But three people said that Trump has never golfed since he’s been president. No one said that they thought he did anything wrong with Ukraine. No one knew that our annual deficits just blew past $1 trillion. Everyone believed hundreds of miles of new wall had been built. (Fact check: False!) When I asked whether they thought Mexico was paying for the wall, most people said yes but were at a loss to explain how. On and on it went: CNN was the enemy and Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), along with the rest of the congressional Democrats, were lying traitors.
I also phone-banked this week, calling potential Republican caucus-goers throughout Iowa. I always knew it when I got a strong Trump supporter on the line by the language they used and the tone that they took: They’d say no president has been attacked like Trump has or no president has had to deal with such hatred and opposition. (Again: Not true!) They’d get defensive and throw out more lies and half-truths: China is paying for the tariffs, Joe Biden was covering up for his son, and Russia didn’t do anything in the 2016 election were all popular. On and on it went: I ended my two hours of phone time each day pretty bummed out by the mis- and disinformation I’d heard.
Then came Monday night: I went to a caucus and gave a speech to about 3,000 Iowa Republicans. I’ve never been to a MAGA rally, but it sure felt like one. The president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, spoke first and underscored the Trump bottom line: Perfect phone call; Democrats bad; keep America great. Crowd goes wild. I then got up to make my pitch, and — as you may have seen — it didn’t go well. I got booed for saying that our party needed to do some soul-searching. I said the party is going to be a party of old white men unless we become more inclusive. More boos. I said we shouldn’t be okay with a president who lies all the time. I said we need a president who’s decent, not cruel. I said, you might enjoy Trump’s mean tweets, but most people don’t. I said we must be better than a president who makes every day about himself. Boos. And more boos. One woman yelled that she loves the president’s tweets. The crowd cheered her.
I reminded folks that I’m a conservative, but I said conservative policies aren’t good enough. Decency, honesty and compassion matter, too. But they wanted nothing to do with it. There was more booing, more yelling, and I caught a middle finger or two. I’m a big boy, and I can take a tough crowd, but leaving the caucus that night, I realized once and for all that nobody can beat Trump in a Republican primary. Not just because it’s become his party, but because it has become a cult, and he’s a cult leader. He doesn’t have supporters; he has followers. And in their eyes, he can do no wrong.
They’re being spoon-fed a daily dose of B.S. from “conservative” media. They don’t know what the truth is and — more importantly — they don’t care. There’s nothing that any Republican challenger can do to break them out of this spell. (Thanks, Hannity.)
Part of me was dejected. But part of me was still hopeful — that a conservative movement based on compassion, honesty, opportunity and inclusion can and will emerge someday soon. I may not always have appreciated that; I may not have always said it. But I’m not part of a cult! I try to learn from new information, and I think for myself. Clearly, that’s not the Trump GOP. I have faith, though, that there are enough principled conservatives out there who think like I do.
When I announced my primary challenge to President Trump last year, I knew running against him for the GOP nomination was the ultimate long shot. Even now, after impeachment, after three years of vulgarities, inanities, betrayals and racist screeds, he has a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans in the latest Gallup poll.
My chances are slim — don’t worry, I know.
It’s been made even tougher by the party canceling primaries to shield the president from being challenged. And by Fox News, and the rest of Trump’s lapdog conservative media, denying me airtime. But I’ve been on TV, I’ve served in Congress and I hosted my own talk-radio show. I don’t need the airtime. More than anything else, what’s made this challenge nearly impossible — to a degree that I didn’t fully realize when I first hit the trail — is how brainwashed so many of my fellow Republicans seem to have become. I hate to say it, but the GOP now resembles a cult.
I was already sensing this, but I was slapped hard in the face this past week at the Iowa caucuses: Last Thursday, the president came to Des Moines for one of his narcissistic rallies. I was in Des Moines, too, so I tried to talk to some folks outside the event before they went in — makes sense, right? Here’s a captive audience of Republican voters. But it turned out to be one of the most frustrating (and frankly, sad) experiences I can recall. I asked dozens of people a very simple, straightforward question: “Has President Trump ever told a lie to the American people?” And every single person said, “No.” Never mind that thousands of his misstatements have been meticulously documented. No, they said, he’s never lied.
I brought up his years-old claims that, unlike President Barack Obama, if Trump ever became president, he’d be too busy to play golf. Most people responded by saying they don’t care whether Trump golfs. But three people said that Trump has never golfed since he’s been president. No one said that they thought he did anything wrong with Ukraine. No one knew that our annual deficits just blew past $1 trillion. Everyone believed hundreds of miles of new wall had been built. (Fact check: False!) When I asked whether they thought Mexico was paying for the wall, most people said yes but were at a loss to explain how. On and on it went: CNN was the enemy and Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), along with the rest of the congressional Democrats, were lying traitors.
I also phone-banked this week, calling potential Republican caucus-goers throughout Iowa. I always knew it when I got a strong Trump supporter on the line by the language they used and the tone that they took: They’d say no president has been attacked like Trump has or no president has had to deal with such hatred and opposition. (Again: Not true!) They’d get defensive and throw out more lies and half-truths: China is paying for the tariffs, Joe Biden was covering up for his son, and Russia didn’t do anything in the 2016 election were all popular. On and on it went: I ended my two hours of phone time each day pretty bummed out by the mis- and disinformation I’d heard.
Then came Monday night: I went to a caucus and gave a speech to about 3,000 Iowa Republicans. I’ve never been to a MAGA rally, but it sure felt like one. The president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, spoke first and underscored the Trump bottom line: Perfect phone call; Democrats bad; keep America great. Crowd goes wild. I then got up to make my pitch, and — as you may have seen — it didn’t go well. I got booed for saying that our party needed to do some soul-searching. I said the party is going to be a party of old white men unless we become more inclusive. More boos. I said we shouldn’t be okay with a president who lies all the time. I said we need a president who’s decent, not cruel. I said, you might enjoy Trump’s mean tweets, but most people don’t. I said we must be better than a president who makes every day about himself. Boos. And more boos. One woman yelled that she loves the president’s tweets. The crowd cheered her.
I reminded folks that I’m a conservative, but I said conservative policies aren’t good enough. Decency, honesty and compassion matter, too. But they wanted nothing to do with it. There was more booing, more yelling, and I caught a middle finger or two. I’m a big boy, and I can take a tough crowd, but leaving the caucus that night, I realized once and for all that nobody can beat Trump in a Republican primary. Not just because it’s become his party, but because it has become a cult, and he’s a cult leader. He doesn’t have supporters; he has followers. And in their eyes, he can do no wrong.
They’re being spoon-fed a daily dose of B.S. from “conservative” media. They don’t know what the truth is and — more importantly — they don’t care. There’s nothing that any Republican challenger can do to break them out of this spell. (Thanks, Hannity.)
Part of me was dejected. But part of me was still hopeful — that a conservative movement based on compassion, honesty, opportunity and inclusion can and will emerge someday soon. I may not always have appreciated that; I may not have always said it. But I’m not part of a cult! I try to learn from new information, and I think for myself. Clearly, that’s not the Trump GOP. I have faith, though, that there are enough principled conservatives out there who think like I do.
They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential.
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Sippenhaft hebben we ook al. Gaat lekker.twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:40:00 "His twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him." https://t.co/UWOt4unjby reageer retweet
the hallmark of tyrants....twitter:tribelaw twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 23:14:49 “Colonel Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, also an Army lieutenant colonel who worked at the White House, was fired as well and escorted out at the same time.” Punishing even the relatives of one’s critics is the hallmark of tyrants. https://t.co/IZ8eP6fTpV reageer retweet
“Colonel Vindman’s twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, also an Army lieutenant colonel who worked at the White House, was fired as well and escorted out at the same time.” Punishing even the relatives of one’s critics is the hallmark of tyrants.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Voor wie Sippenhaft niet kent:quote:
Sippenhaft hebben we ook al. Gaat lekker.twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:40:00 "His twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him." https://t.co/UWOt4unjby reageer retweet
De Sippenhaftung (Duits, ongeveer 'aansprakelijkheid volgens verwantschap'; ook verkeerd: Sippenhaft) is een collectieve bestraffing van zelf onschuldige bloed- of aangetrouwde verwanten voor een misdaad die een familielid heeft begaan. De term stamt uit de Oud-Germaansrechtelijke traditie, en betekent in feite familie-, bloed- of groepswraak.
Erdogaanse praktijken jonge! Trump is nog niet klaar lijkt mij, die gaat alles doorlichten en eruit flikkeren.quote:
Sippenhaft hebben we ook al. Gaat lekker.twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:40:00 "His twin brother Yevgeny Vindman, a National Security Council attorney, was also fired and walked off the White House grounds alongside him." https://t.co/UWOt4unjby reageer retweet
Je mag hopen dat het personeel wat zich niet durfde uit te spreken er bij een andere president uitgegooid wordt.quote:
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Erdogaanse praktijken jonge! Trump is nog niet klaar lijkt mij, die gaat alles doorlichten en eruit flikkeren.
twitter:gtconway3d twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:57:17 What normally happens when a public official retaliates against a witness who testified about the public official’s criminal conduct is that the public official goes to prison. reageer retweet
What normally happens when a public official retaliates against a witness who testified about the public official’s criminal conduct is that the public official goes to prison.
Zo breng je tegenstanders tot zwijgen!
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Edit- spuit 11twitter:gtconway3d twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 22:57:17 What normally happens when a public official retaliates against a witness who testified about the public official’s criminal conduct is that the public official goes to prison. reageer retweet
They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential.
Haha, wtf ... zie die vid dan. Hoe absurd.twitter:Mike2020 twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 00:45:26 Trump was in rare form during his post-acquittal speech. https://t.co/jq8NTTn5yd reageer retweet
Trump was in rare form during his post-acquittal speech.
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Joe Walsh' OpEd in de WaPo
When I announced my primary challenge to President Trump last year, I knew running against him for the GOP nomination was the ultimate long shot. Even now, after impeachment, after three years of vulgarities, inanities, betrayals and racist screeds, he has a 94 percent approval rating among Republicans in the latest Gallup poll.
My chances are slim — don’t worry, I know.
It’s been made even tougher by the party canceling primaries to shield the president from being challenged. And by Fox News, and the rest of Trump’s lapdog conservative media, denying me airtime. But I’ve been on TV, I’ve served in Congress and I hosted my own talk-radio show. I don’t need the airtime. More than anything else, what’s made this challenge nearly impossible — to a degree that I didn’t fully realize when I first hit the trail — is how brainwashed so many of my fellow Republicans seem to have become. I hate to say it, but the GOP now resembles a cult.
I was already sensing this, but I was slapped hard in the face this past week at the Iowa caucuses: Last Thursday, the president came to Des Moines for one of his narcissistic rallies. I was in Des Moines, too, so I tried to talk to some folks outside the event before they went in — makes sense, right? Here’s a captive audience of Republican voters. But it turned out to be one of the most frustrating (and frankly, sad) experiences I can recall. I asked dozens of people a very simple, straightforward question: “Has President Trump ever told a lie to the American people?” And every single person said, “No.” Never mind that thousands of his misstatements have been meticulously documented. No, they said, he’s never lied.
I brought up his years-old claims that, unlike President Barack Obama, if Trump ever became president, he’d be too busy to play golf. Most people responded by saying they don’t care whether Trump golfs. But three people said that Trump has never golfed since he’s been president. No one said that they thought he did anything wrong with Ukraine. No one knew that our annual deficits just blew past $1 trillion. Everyone believed hundreds of miles of new wall had been built. (Fact check: False!) When I asked whether they thought Mexico was paying for the wall, most people said yes but were at a loss to explain how. On and on it went: CNN was the enemy and Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), along with the rest of the congressional Democrats, were lying traitors.
I also phone-banked this week, calling potential Republican caucus-goers throughout Iowa. I always knew it when I got a strong Trump supporter on the line by the language they used and the tone that they took: They’d say no president has been attacked like Trump has or no president has had to deal with such hatred and opposition. (Again: Not true!) They’d get defensive and throw out more lies and half-truths: China is paying for the tariffs, Joe Biden was covering up for his son, and Russia didn’t do anything in the 2016 election were all popular. On and on it went: I ended my two hours of phone time each day pretty bummed out by the mis- and disinformation I’d heard.
Then came Monday night: I went to a caucus and gave a speech to about 3,000 Iowa Republicans. I’ve never been to a MAGA rally, but it sure felt like one. The president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, spoke first and underscored the Trump bottom line: Perfect phone call; Democrats bad; keep America great. Crowd goes wild. I then got up to make my pitch, and — as you may have seen — it didn’t go well. I got booed for saying that our party needed to do some soul-searching. I said the party is going to be a party of old white men unless we become more inclusive. More boos. I said we shouldn’t be okay with a president who lies all the time. I said we need a president who’s decent, not cruel. I said, you might enjoy Trump’s mean tweets, but most people don’t. I said we must be better than a president who makes every day about himself. Boos. And more boos. One woman yelled that she loves the president’s tweets. The crowd cheered her.
I reminded folks that I’m a conservative, but I said conservative policies aren’t good enough. Decency, honesty and compassion matter, too. But they wanted nothing to do with it. There was more booing, more yelling, and I caught a middle finger or two. I’m a big boy, and I can take a tough crowd, but leaving the caucus that night, I realized once and for all that nobody can beat Trump in a Republican primary. Not just because it’s become his party, but because it has become a cult, and he’s a cult leader. He doesn’t have supporters; he has followers. And in their eyes, he can do no wrong.
They’re being spoon-fed a daily dose of B.S. from “conservative” media. They don’t know what the truth is and — more importantly — they don’t care. There’s nothing that any Republican challenger can do to break them out of this spell. (Thanks, Hannity.)
Part of me was dejected. But part of me was still hopeful — that a conservative movement based on compassion, honesty, opportunity and inclusion can and will emerge someday soon. I may not always have appreciated that; I may not have always said it. But I’m not part of a cult! I try to learn from new information, and I think for myself. Clearly, that’s not the Trump GOP. I have faith, though, that there are enough principled conservatives out there who think like I do.
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Susan Collins zal wel weer 'very troubled/ disappointed' zijn
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Maar laten we ons vooral druk maken over het verscheuren van een speech vol met leugens, beledigingen en onjuiste claims.twitter:ananavarro twitterde op vrijdag 07-02-2020 om 21:51:20 Republican Senators, you chose to acquit a petty, vindictive, unstable, corrupt fake-leader. Please spare us your meaningless responses about how “troubled” or “disturbed” you are. A man with shrapnel in his body just got escorted out like a common thief. You own this. https://t.co/CqhgWHGbxa reageer retweet
Republican Senators, you chose to acquit a petty, vindictive, unstable, corrupt fake-leader. Please spare us your meaningless responses about how “troubled” or “disturbed” you are. A man with shrapnel in his body just got escorted out like a common thief. You own this.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Nee, dat hoop ik eigenlijk ergens niet, ik waardeer redelijkheid. Ik heb al eerder geprojecteerd dat er door Romney nog meer republikeinen het laatste woord pakken en er mee gaan kappen voor dat Trump ze eruit kan mieteren... hoe dan ook, al deze mensen zijn geruïneerd en patriottisme is dood.quote:
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Je mag hopen dat het personeel wat zich niet durfde uit te spreken er bij een andere president uitgegooid wordt.
Ik waardeer redelijkheid ook. Het is me er niet om te doen dat mensen pro of anti-trump zijn, maar dat ze wel, als ze een dagvaarding krijgen van Congress daar gehoor aan geven of illegaal gedrag bespeuren daar melding van maken.quote:
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Nee, dat hoop ik eigenlijk ergens niet, ik waardeer redelijkheid. Ik heb al eerder geprojecteerd dat er door Romney nog meer republikeinen het laatste woord pakken en er mee gaan kappen voor dat Trump ze eruit kan mieteren... hoe dan ook, al deze mensen zijn geruïneerd en patriottisme is dood.
Ja integriteit is ver te zoeken in de VS op dit moment, ik heb respect voor republikeinen die op dit moment voor een democratie kiezen. Trump, de DNC zijn de grootste sell outs in de VS op dit moment en je gaat je onderhand afvragen hoe de VS er uberhaupt gaat uitzien in November.quote:
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Ik waardeer redelijkheid ook. Het is me er niet om te doen dat mensen pro of anti-trump zijn, maar dat ze wel, als ze een dagvaarding krijgen van Congress daar gehoor aan geven of illegaal gedrag bespeuren daar melding van maken.
Ik zie niet in hoe de DNC naast Trump past in die opsomming.quote:
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Ja integriteit is ver te zoeken in de VS op dit moment, ik heb respect voor republikeinen die op dit moment voor een democratie kiezen. Trump, de DNC zijn de grootste sell outs in de VS op dit moment en je gaat je onderhand afvragen hoe de VS er uberhaupt gaat uitzien in November.
Het zijn beide geen voorstanders van de democratie op dit moment.quote:
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Ik zie niet in hoe de DNC naast Trump past in die opsomming.
