[AMV] #971 Holle Bolle Frases over het Woke Linkse Narratief

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Op woensdag 12 mei 2021 17:10 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Het was de schuld van de media dat er geen National Guard was!

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Op woensdag 12 mei 2021 19:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Waarom moest Cheney dan opbokken?

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Op woensdag 12 mei 2021 02:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Liz Cheney in het Huis:

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I waited 20 years to see a Cheney get punished for lying and all I got was this lousy seeing a Cheney get punished for not lying.

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Op woensdag 12 mei 2021 21:38 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2021 11:03 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Die nieuwe partij gaat volgens mij helemaal niets worden. Blijft jammer dat de regressieven binnen de GOP het hebben gewonnen van de conservatieven.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2021 18:21 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Kan overigens ook zijn dat ze kiezers weg zouden trekken die zich genoodzaakt zien op Democraten te stemmen waar ze voorheen nog wel Republikeins stemden.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2021 19:34 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:

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Als ik zo de uitslag van Utah 2016 en Utah 2020 vergelijk trekt een (normale) conservatief voornamelijk mensen aan die anders op Democraten zouden stemmen idd.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2021 20:54 schreef AnneX het volgende:
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Mijn conclusie: de f.g. is ‘veroordeeld’ tot verblijf in Florida.
Dan kan DeSantis nog aanhouding verhinderen.
Enne…hóe lang mag hij daar wonen nog op zijn club?

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2021 21:58 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Een Cheney is geen "normale" conservatief.

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Most congressional Democrats have rallied behind a bill, known as the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, that would restore preclearance in a handful of states, while simultaneously making it easier to impose preclearance on new states and local governments that attempt to disenfranchise racial minorities.

But Manchin suggested on Wednesday that Congress should pass a much bolder attempt to roll back Shelby County. In an interview with ABC News, Manchin proposed making the John Lewis Act apply “to all 50 states and territories.” Thus, all states, not just the handful of states with the worst record on race, would be required to submit any new voting rules to federal review in order to make sure that the new rule will not target voters of color.

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Op vrijdag 14 mei 2021 00:00 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:
Zal wel naar de gallemiezen gefilibusterd worden toch?

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Op vrijdag 14 mei 2021 00:56 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Sommige Twitter accounts zouden geweerd moeten worden. Deze meneer ook, en wel hierom: Het artikel stelt dit: "Yet on Wednesday, Manchin proposed a solution to the congressional impasse over voting rights legislation that could be even more aggressive than a parallel proposal offered by Democratic leaders." Maar nee, hij maakt er een feit van.

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But Manchin suggested on Wednesday that Congress should pass a much bolder attempt to roll back Shelby County. In an interview with ABC News, Manchin proposed making the John Lewis Act apply "to all 50 states and territories." Thus, all states, not just the handful of states with the worst record on race, would be required to submit any new voting rules to federal review in order to make sure that the new rule will not target voters of color.

The John Lewis Act is just one of two major voting rights bills that Democrats hope to enact and that many Democrats view as essential to protecting American democracy. The other bill is the For the People Act, a sweeping bill that would take on campaign finance, expand early voting, implement independent redistricting commissions, and legally force presidents and vice presidents to disclose their tax returns, among other provisions.

Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Is Writing Voter Suppression Laws

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Heritage Foundation fellow Hans von Spakovsky, a former George W. Bush administration official who for two decades has been the driving force behind policies that restrict access to the ballot, spoke alongside Anderson at the donor summit.

"Hans is briefing governors, secretaries of state, state attorney generals, state elected officials," Anderson said. "Just what three weeks ago, we had a huge call with secretaries of state, right?"

"We've now for several years been having a private briefing of the best conservative secretaries of state in the country that has so annoyed the left that they have been doing everything they can to try to find out what happens at that meeting," von Spakovsky replied.

"So far unsuccessfully," Anderson said. "No leaks."

Though the bills shaped by Heritage have been sold as advancing "election integrity," they appear aimed more at helping GOP candidates take back power. "We are going to take the fierce fire that is in every single one of our bellies," Anderson told the donors in April, "to right the wrongs of November."

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In 2017, von Spakovsky joined Donald Trump's ill-fated Commission on Election Integrity, which was formed after Trump falsely claimed 3 million people voted illegally in California in the 2016 election, with the aim of unearthing evidence of voter fraud in order to justify new ballot restrictions. Von Spakovsky argued the commission should exclude Democrats and "mainstream Republican officials and/or academics" and helped Vice Chair Kris Kobach, then the Kansas secretary of state, draft a letter requesting sensitive voter data from all 50 states. The request was met with massive pushback, and the commission, facing a flurry of lawsuits, abruptly disbanded in January 2018 without finding any evidence of fraud.

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Though Anderson called von Spakovsky "the premier election law expert across this country," his work has not fared well in court. During a trial challenging Kansas' proof-of-citizenship law for voter registration, Kobach hired von Spakovsky to support his claim that illegal votes by noncitizens had swung US elections. But under questioning, von Spakovsky admitted he couldn't name a single election where votes by noncitizens had decided the outcome. A federal judge wrote that the court gave "little weight to Mr. von Spakovsky's opinion," citing "several misleading and unsupported examples of noncitizen voter registration."

Nonetheless, von Spakovsky's sensationalist claims about stolen elections and advocacy for policies that restrict voting have found an increasingly receptive audience among Republicans following Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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A network of conservative activists, aided by a British former spy, mounted a campaign during the Trump administration to discredit perceived enemies of President Trump inside the government, according to documents and people involved in the operations.

The campaign included a planned sting operation against Mr. Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and secret surveillance operations against F.B.I. employees, aimed at exposing anti-Trump sentiment in the bureau’s ranks.

The operations against the F.B.I., run by the conservative group Project Veritas, were conducted from a large home in the Georgetown section of Washington that rented for $10,000 per month. Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the F.B.I. employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.

The campaign shows the obsession that some of Mr. Trump’s allies had about a shadowy “deep state” trying to blunt his agenda — and the lengths that some were willing to go to try to purge the government of those believed to be disloyal to the president.

Central to the effort, according to interviews, was Richard Seddon, a former undercover British spy who was recruited in 2016 by the security contractor Erik Prince to train Project Veritas operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets. He ran field operations for Project Veritas until mid-2018.

Last year, The New York Times reported that Mr. Seddon ran an expansive effort to gain access to the unions and campaigns and led a hiring effort that nearly tripled the number of the group’s operatives, according to interviews and deposition testimony. He trained operatives at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming.

The efforts to target American officials show how a campaign once focused on exposing outside organizations slowly morphed into an operation to ferret out Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies in the government’s ranks.

Whether any of Mr. Trump’s White House advisers had direct knowledge of the campaign is unclear, but one of the participants in the operation against Mr. McMaster, Barbara Ledeen, said she was brought on by someone “with access to McMaster’s calendar.”

At the time, Ms. Ledeen was a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then led by Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa.

This account is drawn from more than a dozen interviews with former Project Veritas employees and others familiar with the campaign, along with current and former government officials and internal Project Veritas documents.

The scheme against Mr. McMaster, revealed in interviews and documents, was one of the most brazen operations of the campaign. It involved a plan to hire a woman armed with a hidden camera to capture Mr. McMaster making inappropriate remarks that his opponents could use as leverage to get him ousted as national security adviser.

Although several Project Veritas operatives were involved in the plot, it is unclear whether the group directed it. The group, which is a nonprofit, has a history of conducting sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians and advocacy groups.

The operation was ultimately abandoned in March 2018 when the conspirators ended up getting what they wanted, albeit by different means. The embattled Mr. McMaster resigned on March 22, a move that avoided a firing by the president who had soured on the three-star general.

Project Veritas did not respond to specific questions about the operations. On Thursday, James O’Keefe, the head of the group, said this article was “a smear piece.”

“Because The New York Times is losing to Project Veritas in a court of law, it is trying to smear Project Veritas in the court of public opinion,” he said. “I think the court, like me, may well be appalled at The New York Times’s continued pattern of defamation of Project Veritas.” He also released a video.

Project Veritas sued The Times for defamation last year over coverage of one of the group’s videos.

Neither Mr. Seddon nor Mr. Prince responded to requests for comment. Mr. McMaster declined to comment.

When confronted with details about her involvement in the McMaster operation, Ms. Ledeen insisted that she was merely a messenger. “I am not part of a plot,” she said.

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