[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #788 Tulsa Tik Tok

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 00:43 schreef Detoeschouwer het volgende:

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1%, 2% dat zijn vooralsnog marginale winsten.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 00:45 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Ik begrijp niet goed wat je bedoelt. Bedoel je de marge in North Carolina, Georgia en Texas?

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 00:43 schreef Detoeschouwer het volgende:

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1%, 2% dat zijn vooralsnog marginale winsten.
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De VS verkeert diep in de shit begrijp ik en de problematiek is best veelzijdig. Dan mag je je af gaan vragen, is het eerder onwil of onkunde om die op te lossen?

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 00:48 schreef Detoeschouwer het volgende:

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Ja. Dat kan nog steeds iedere kant op gaan. Zelfs met een onwaarschijnlijke derde ingeschrevene op het allerlaatste die onverwachts stemmen afpakt kan dat de eindbalans net wel of net niet in het voordeel van oftewel Biden oftewel Trump trekken en voila, niets is zeker. Daar is de verhouding gewoon te close voor.

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BenWeiserNYT twitterde op vrijdag 26-06-2020 om 01:06:26 "Barr spent weeks in the spring of 2019 questioning the prosecutors over their decision to charge Mr. Cohen with violating campaign finance laws." @benprotess @ktbenner @WRashbaum and I report. - Inside Barr’s Effort to Undermine Prosecutors in N.Y. https://t.co/haiOX8vyJs reageer retweet

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matthewamiller twitterde op vrijdag 26-06-2020 om 01:56:28 Why would Barr attack the legal theory underpinning the conviction of someone who had already turned on Trump? Because that same theory would’ve been crucial to charging Trump, his business, and one of his top execs. https://t.co/FlBRhxpByN reageer retweet

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Shortly after he became attorney general last year, William P. Barr set out to challenge a signature criminal case that touched President Trump’s inner circle directly, and even the president’s own actions: the prosecution of Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer.

The debate between Mr. Barr and the federal prosecutors who brought the case against Mr. Cohen was one of the first signs of a tense relationship that culminated last weekend in the abrupt ouster of Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan. It also foreshadowed Mr. Barr’s intervention in the prosecutions of other associates of Mr. Trump.

By the time Mr. Barr was sworn into office in February, Mr. Cohen, who had paid hush money to an adult film star who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, had already pleaded guilty and was set to begin a three-year prison sentence, all of which embarrassed and angered the president.

But Mr. Barr spent weeks in the spring of 2019 questioning the prosecutors over their decision to charge Mr. Cohen with violating campaign finance laws, according to people briefed on the matter.

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Op donderdag 25 juni 2020 23:02 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Of je betaald meteen. Of koopt niks dat je niet kunt betalen...

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soledadobrien twitterde op vrijdag 26-06-2020 om 05:19:02 The older @nytimes reporters really struggle to add context to their tweets. They frequently just quote the President’s lies—which is a weird use of one’s platform. The younger reporters understand how to report on what the President says, while simultaneously focused on context. https://t.co/ao75OhFIM9 reageer retweet

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ZhiZhuWeb twitterde op dinsdag 28-01-2020 om 19:01:14 When dealing with Trump/GOP lies...

LEAD WITH THE TRUTH

People unconsciously pay far more attention to what they hear/read FIRST.

Instead of sharing Trump/GOP lies first and then rebutting them.

State the #TruthFirst and then expose the lies.

#FactsFirst
#TruthMatters https://t.co/PFRJHeJR9m reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 07:54 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Voor wie (nog) interesse heeft:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1276322956839444481.html
#lieuponlie

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atrupar twitterde op vrijdag 26-06-2020 om 03:21:55 "He's gonna be your president because some people don't love me, maybe" -- Trump sure sounds resigned to losing to Joe Biden https://t.co/UQTrzJVSXR reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 07:25 schreef Deko het volgende:

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Zo werkt dat niet Whiskers. De ene dag heb je een goed betaalde baan waarmee je easy de hypotheek kan betalen, de volgende dag kan je niet meer functioneren door een onverwacht gezondheidsfalen en is je inkomen gehalveerd. Guess what, de hypotheek wordt niet gehalveerd..

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 08:57 schreef Szura het volgende:
Zelf niks klaarspelen rondom de zorg, na al je beloften, en dan maar naar het SC stappen .

https://www.google.nl/amp(...)ef/%3foutputType=amp

Ongelofelijke prutser

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 08:53 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Het verwachtte terugkrabbelmoment is daar:
Trump says push for less coronavirus testing was sarcasm

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 08:58 schreef GlennQuagmire het volgende:

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Heb gaan WaPoaccount, wat staat er in?

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall.” The administration’s argument comes as thousands of Americans have turned to the government program for health care as they’ve lost jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denounced the move.

“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” she said in a statement.

The brief was filed in support of a challenge to the ACA by a coalition of Republican governors. Trump had pledged last month to follow through on overturning Obamacare despite the ongoing pandemic.

In the new brief, Solicitor General Noel J Francisco argued that the individual mandate became unconstitutional after Congress removed penalties in 2017. Without fines, he contended, the individual mandate is an improper use of Congress’s taxing power.

He also argued that other provisions within the ACA are “inseverable” from the individual mandate — meaning that if the mandate is unconstitutional, the other provisions should be struck down as well. That includes provisions protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions and higher-risk medical histories.

“Nothing the 2017 Congress did demonstrates it would have intended the rest of the ACA to continue to operate in the absence of these ... integral provisions," he wrote. "The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate.”

A decision in the case may not come until 2021, The Washington Post reported last month, with oral arguments scheduled for later this year.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is leading a coalition of states battling to protect the ACA, said Thursday night that as more Americans die of covid-19, “this fight comes at the most crucial time.”

“The ACA has been life-changing and now through this pandemic, we can all see the value in having greater access to quality healthcare at affordable prices,” Becerra said in a statement. “Now is not the time to rip away our best tool to address very real and very deadly health disparities in our communities.”

White House spokesman Judd Deere brushed aside concerns that dismantling Obamacare could worsen the pandemic crisis, saying, “A global pandemic does not change what Americans know: Obamacare has been an unlawful failure and further illustrates the need to focus on patient care.”

Deere added, “The American people deserve for Congress to work on a bipartisan basis with the President to provide quality, affordable care.”

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The Trump administration proposed on Thursday to open more than two-thirds of the nation’s largest piece of public land to oil and gas drilling, removing wildlife protections for the Alaskan tract that have been in place for more than four decades.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management wants to allow fossil fuel extraction in roughly 82 percent of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the state’s North Slope. Less famous than the nearby Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it is one of the most ecologically valuable tracts of federal property — providing a critical refuge to polar bears as well as tens of thousands of migrating caribou and waterfowl.

The reserve, about the size of Indiana, is also one of the most promising onshore oil prospects in the country. A recent analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey offered a mean estimate of 8.7 billion barrels in undiscovered oil and 25 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Under the current plan, finalized in 2013, half of the nearly 23 million acre reserve is open to drilling. The new plan would increase the area open to development by about 7 million acres.

“President Trump has committed to expand access to our Nation’s great energy potential,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement. “Today’s action is one more significant step in the process of delivering on his promise.” The statement said the move was in line with a March 2017 executive order by President Trump.

The BLM posted notice of its Final Environmental Impact Statement on Thursday, and is expected to issue a final Record of Decision within 30 days. Environmentalists and some Alaska Natives, who have lived on the North Slope for millennia and depend on its game for subsistence, are likely to challenge the decision once it’s final.

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ConocoPhillips has already been exploring the site, known as NPR-A. Alaska’s largest oil producer, it holds a total of 1.1 million acres and has discovered oil in remote areas called Moose’s Tooth and Bear Tooth.

But many Alaska Natives living near the reserve object to further development, on the grounds that it could harm the animals that make up a significant portion of their diet. Teshekpuk Lake serves as molting area for one-fifth of the world’s Pacific black brant and calving grounds for tens of thousands of caribou each summer.

Facing catastrophic climate change, this Alaska Native village is torn over whether to quit Big Oil

The new plan shrinks the protected area around Teshekpuk Lake, a 22-mile-wide reservoir created by thawing permafrost, though it does restrict major construction activities using heavy equipment between May 20 and Aug. 20 unless authorized by federal, state and local officials so caribou can calve and seek refuge from mosquitoes. It also eliminates most of the protections around the Colville River Special Area, which was established in 1977 to protect raptors and other area wildlife.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials last year recommended the administration maintain the long-standing safeguards, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Wilderness Society. In them, the agency said it believes the “full protection of these areas is necessary to sustain the biodiversity and ecologic integrity of the North Slope/coastal plain, especially given the impacts of climate change including increased coastal erosion and permafrost subsidence.”

Caribou and geese at Teshekpuk Lake in North Slope Borough, Alaska.
Caribou and geese at Teshekpuk Lake in North Slope Borough, Alaska. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
Suzanne Bostrom, a staff attorney at the nonprofit environmental law firm Trustees for Alaska, said in an interview that the fact that BLM has devised a drilling plan that goes further than any of the options the agency outlined last year, which is poised to be finalized without public comment, makes it legally vulnerable.

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“We definitely have serious concerns about them adopting a new and even more harmful alternative that the public has not had a chance to consider,” Bostrom said.

Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska program director of Defenders of Wildlife, said in a statement that the plan “gives away critical habitat for imperiled polar bears and vital habitat for caribou and migratory birds to oil companies that will only exacerbate the climate crisis by expanding into a fragile frontier area with new drilling. It is bad for the Western Arctic and bad for the planet.”

President Warren G. Harding recognized the oil potential in the area and established what was then called the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in 1923. In 1976, the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act designated the roughly 23 million acre area specifically for oil and gas development, renamed it the NPR-A, and moved its management from the Navy to the BLM.

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In the 1976 legislation, Congress mandated that Teshekpuk Lake and Utukok Uplands receive “maximum protection.” And in 1977, then-Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus designated three “special areas” for that status. Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama all enlarged the special areas.

Other major leaseholders in the NPR-A include North Slope Energy, Borealis Alaska, Emerald House, and Repsol, a Spanish exploration and production firm.

Even though the Trump administration is clearing the way for oil and gas exploration in Alaska, companies face new financing obstacles. Five of the six largest U.S. banks — including JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s biggest lenders to fossil fuel projects, and investment bank Goldman Sachs — have announced that they would stop financing of oil and gas developments in the Arctic.

An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska.
An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
Pavel Molchanov, senior energy analyst at the investment firm Raymond James, questioned whether oil firms would expand drilling in Alaska even if the federal government makes more leases available.

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“At anything close to current oil prices, the industry has virtually no appetite for Alaska drilling,” he said in an email. Capital spending by global oil and gas companies in 2020 has plunged to multi-decade lows, “and nowhere is the decline more steep than in the U.S.,” he added.

Kara Moriarty, president of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, said in an email that some banks’ decisions to restrict lending had “yet to deter investment in Alaska,” but her members are more concerned about an initiative on the state ballot in November that “would drastically increase production taxes” between 150 percent and 300 percent, depending on the price of oil.

Alaska’s congressional delegation — GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young (R) — hailed the new plan as a way to bolster their state’s economy.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 10:15 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:
Trump tegen Hannity over de prioriteiten voor zijn eventuele 2e termijn:

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 10:26 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Biden is dement.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 10:26 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Biden is dement.

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Op vrijdag 26 juni 2020 10:15 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:
Trump tegen Hannity over de prioriteiten voor zijn eventuele 2e termijn:

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