[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #751 POTUS' Meltdown

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 00:22 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Oh, even over dat geen geld geven aan de WHO...de VS heeft een betalingsachterstand bij de WHO van 200 miljoen ofwel 2 jaar.

Toeval?

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ddale8 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 00:25:20 Pence: Some areas of the country need to continue with strong mitigation efforts; others will be given "guidance for greater flexibility." (Again, governors, mayors, school officials, executives, residents in all areas will make the decisions. The guidelines are non-binding.) reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 00:33 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:
Americans loves big fat checks with my name on it.

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 00:36 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Negeerde meteen de follow up over de vertraging terwijl hij zei dat het niet zijn idee was.

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 00:35:31 REPORTER: Why did you have your name added to coronavirus relief checks?

TRUMP: "Well I don't know too much about it, but I understand my name is there ... I'm sure people will be very happy to get a big fat beautiful check and my name is on it." https://t.co/u4cayuDeNk reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 00:45 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:

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Dat was natuurlijk een afgesproken 1-2tje met z'n vrienden van FOX.

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 00:58 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Volgens de PDF van de WHO heeft de VS een betalingsachterstand van 200 miljoen:

https://www.who.int/about(...)usa_en_2020.pdf?ua=1

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How much does the U.S. government contribute?

"The U.S. is the largest single government donor in the world," says Gostin, "so WHO's budget does rely very much on U.S. contributions."

For the two-year cycle of 2018 and 2019, U.S. contributions accounted for about 20% of the WHO's total budget.

The money comes in two streams. The U.S. contribution to the pool of assessed fees is $237 million. That's 22% of the total assessed fees, the largest share of any nation. By comparison, China contributes 12% of this pool of monies, and some low-income countries pay 0.1%.

In addition, the U.S. pledged more than $656 million for specific programs, according to the WHO's program budget portal. These voluntary contributions were earmarked for programs including polio eradication, health and nutrition services, vaccine-preventable diseases, tuberculosis, HIV — and preventing and controlling outbreaks.

In the recent past, the U.S. has also given the most money in voluntary contributions.

But as of March 31, the U.S. is behind in its payment of assessed fees. It currently owes $198.3 million in membership dues, including some amounts owed for previous cycles, according to the WHO's statement of account — a list of every country's payment status.

Bron

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Op woensdag 15 april 2020 21:41 schreef tjoptjop het volgende:

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"school shooting" is wel heel breed gedefinieerd trouwens. Als iemand 's avonds laat zich in de auto voor z'n kop schiet en hij staat toevallig geparkeerd op een parkeerterrein van een school wordt dat al gekwalificeerd als school shooting.

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ABC twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 00:39:41 Pres. Trump threatens to adjourn both chambers of Congress so he can make appointments to fill vacant positions and judicial slots.

“If they don’t act on getting these people approved,” Trump says, he will have to do something "that I prefer not doing.” https://t.co/KXv4M8zNFm https://t.co/M9IJLoCzI9 reageer retweet

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steve_vladeck twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 00:47:55 Article II of the Constitution gives the President the power to adjourn Congress if—and only if—the House and Senate cannot agree on a date for ending the current session.

But they have agreed—January 3, 2021.

There’s a reason why this power has *never* been exercised before. https://t.co/3536ThYuVT reageer retweet

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President Trump threatened to shut down both chambers of Congress to allow him to fill vacancies in his administration without Senate approval.

He spent several minutes of his daily coronavirus briefing Wednesday blaming Senate Democrats for blocking his nominations, even though most of the vacancies in the federal government are because Trump hasn't selected anyone to fill them. Several of his nominees haven't been given a confirmation hearing yet in the Republican-led Senate.

Trump cited a never-exercised power the Constitution grants the president to adjourn Congress if leaders of the House and Senate can't agree on whether to adjourn. The Senate often recesses but stays open in a "pro forma" session, which thwarts Trump's ability to make recess appointments that bypass the regular confirmation process.

"The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis. It is a scam. What they do, it's a scam and everybody knows it," Trump said.

Trump's gambit assumes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would go along with adjourning and even then it would still be nearly impossible to get the votes needed to formally adjourn.

McConnell's office declined to comment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) did not respond.

"They know they've been warned and they've been warned right now. If they don't approve it, then we're going to go this route and we'll probably be challenged in court and we'll see who wins," Trump said when asked if there's a timeline on his threat.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 01:30:03 The White House is snubbing HHS Secretary Alex Azar and installing Trump loyalist Michael Caputo in the department's top communications position, Caputo confirmed to POLITICO. Caputo is a longtime friend of Trump ally Roger Stone
https://t.co/HqPkHckNCU reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 01:22 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Waar het op neerkomt is dat Trump wederom geen zeggenschap wil in een internatoinale organistisatie. Succes daar mee. De USA rent weg van leiderschap onder Trump

MAGA,

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-04-2020 om 02:32:59 https://t.co/6fEymjTjUM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 02:21 schreef KI1234 het volgende:
Hij beweert nu:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-04-2020 om 02:32:59 https://t.co/6fEymjTjUM reageer retweet

Totaal gek dit.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 26-02-2020 om 14:03:21 Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov..... reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 02:45:33 The Navy is looking into whether it can reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier, who was removed from command of the carrier Theodore Roosevelt after he pleaded for more help fighting a novel coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship, Defense Department officials said. https://t.co/oabT57i6H8 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 03:15:32 When Trump publicly denied on April 3 that he wanted his signature on stimulus checks, Treasury Department officials were already secretly working on a plan to get his name on checks. Some senior IRS officials did not find out about the plan until Tuesday.
https://t.co/uZQfsMncBd reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 03:25:04 .@maddow: "If [Joe Biden] asked you to be his running mate, would you say yes?"

Elizabeth Warren: "Yes." reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 03:58 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Warren wil best VP worden

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 03:25:04 .@:maddow: "If [Joe Biden] asked you to be his running mate, would you say yes?"

Elizabeth Warren: "Yes." reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 04:21 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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New_Narrative twitterde op woensdag 15-04-2020 om 20:35:38 Sen. Collins says Trump has been "very uneven" on coronavirus

https://t.co/TRnKCQL3X9 https://t.co/qZTBVM8nPu reageer retweet

Collins is concerned and disappointed.

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HotlineJosh twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 03:48:52 Susan Collins, call your office.

Her Dem challenger Sara Gideon raises a whopping $7.1M in the first quarter.

Collins? Just $2.4M as a vulnerable senator.
https://t.co/ypIoibtm2w reageer retweet

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HotlineJosh twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 03:53:37 Senate math: Colorado, Arizona and Maine continuing to look awfully precarious for Senate Rs.

Even if Dems lose Alabama, a fourth state would make a 50-50 Senate (majority if Biden elected president). https://t.co/wUuJIar7Zr reageer retweet

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costareports twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 02:15:15 “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist... https://t.co/UfSc3Zyxjj reageer retweet

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President Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives in a push to reopen parts of society amid the coronavirus pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday, with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard and warning that more testing needs to be in place before restrictions are lifted.

The president spent much of his day hosting conference calls with company executives, industry groups and others that he announced Tuesday as part of a hastily formed outside advisory council devoted to the issue.

Advisers said the effort was aimed at building national momentum to reopen much of the country’s economy by next month. Trump said guidelines for such an effort will be announced Thursday.

“Today, I spoke with the leaders of many of our nation’s most renowned companies and organizations on how to achieve the full resurgence of the American economy,” Trump told reporters at the daily coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden on Wednesday evening. “. . . We want to get our country open again.”

But across the business world, there was private unhappiness with how the White House handled the announcement of the advisory council — which it has dubbed its “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups” — and others warned that Trump’s goal of a May 1 reopening date for much of the country was unrealistic.

Many of the chief executives urged the White House to focus more on mass testing, according to several participants on the calls. Public health experts have argued that widespread testing is a key prerequisite to reopening the economy because it would determine who is infected and needs to be isolated, giving Americans greater confidence that they can safely return to work and public life.

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morningmoneyben twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 02:36:17 One Wall Street CEO to me on Trump and the economy: "I really don't understand how they are communicating on this. He's got to stop talking about turning the economy back on and start talking about making people feel safe."
https://t.co/aWhKTQhjWF reageer retweet

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gtconway3d twitterde op woensdag 15-04-2020 om 20:45:56 On behalf of @ProjectLincoln , our endorsement of the next President of the United States, @JoeBiden.
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This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum.

Today, the United States is beset with a president who was unprepared for the burden of the presidency and who has made plain his deficits in leadership, management, intelligence and morality.

When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.

Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so.

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chriscmooney twitterde op woensdag 15-04-2020 om 20:20:32 As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff https://t.co/NBCVH7ruiO reageer retweet

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NickMiroff twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 01:51:53 NEW In the mad scramble for N95s, the Trump admin is buying masks for nearly 8 times the standard price, including a $55 million deal with “Panthera Worldwide,” which doesn’t sell medical supplies. SCOOP with ⁦@isaacstanbecker⁩ ⁦@desmondbutler⁩ https://t.co/N1WVVMOyHG reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 06:26 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 07:02 schreef kipknots het volgende:

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Logaritmische groei, ongeveer 200 * erbij keer maand. Zal nu wel iets afnemen, anders zit je volgende maand op 130.000.000 cases, dat lijkt mij ook niet realistisch.

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 04:56 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Man, man, man wat een gebakken lucht weer allemaal. Die lange lijst met namen van bedrijven die POTUS gisteren voorlas en die allemaal mee zouden meewerken aan de grand opening van de economie? Nou een groot deel daarvan heeft zo zijn bedenkingen en sommigen waren verrast dat hun naam genoemd werd in de Rose Garden

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costareports twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 02:15:15 “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist... https://t.co/UfSc3Zyxjj reageer retweet

Trump’s attempt to enlist businesses in reopening push gets off to rocky start
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Oh en ook nog een artikel in POLITICO:

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morningmoneyben twitterde op donderdag 16-04-2020 om 02:36:17 One Wall Street CEO to me on Trump and the economy: "I really don't understand how they are communicating on this. He's got to stop talking about turning the economy back on and start talking about making people feel safe."
https://t.co/aWhKTQhjWF reageer retweet

Daar heeft POTUS volgens mij ook helemaal geen idee van dat mensen zich in eerste instantie veilig moeten voelen. Hij kan zich daar helemaal niet in verplaatsen.

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 07:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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30k dood. 1% sterftecijfer.

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Op donderdag 16 april 2020 08:10 schreef Salina het volgende:
Ik moet de persco terugkijken dus, lees ik? Heb weer wat interessante dingen gemist? Aan de reacties te lezen wel.