Presidentsverkiezingen VS #74

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 06:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Tja dan moet je daar via wetgeving verandering in brengen, zo werkt dat ...

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 06:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Tja dan moet je daar via wetgeving verandering in brengen, zo werkt dat ...

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 03:13 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Het is onvoorstelbaar dat deze mensen ooit Republikeinen waren. Ze steunen openlijk een kandidaat die van mening is dat de staat moet beslissen wat je kind allemaal leert en vind dat de ouders daar geen inspraak in mogen hebben.
En om die steun kracht bij te zetten laten ze een paar knechtjes rondlopen met “tiki torches” in de stromende regen om Youngkin te koppelen met charlottesville want Trump of zoiets.
De wanhoop is goed merkbaar ieder geval.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 09:08 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:
Biden gespot in Virginia!
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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 08:13 schreef OMG het volgende:
Oef, dat slappe argument weer. En maar tegen CRT tekeer gaan en tegelijkertijd niks tegen minderheden hebben. En maar doen alsof je "slim" bent. .

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 06:39 schreef Basp1 het volgende:

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Trump en de rest van de gehersenspeolden op zijn orwells.
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 07:32 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

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Hihi. Die Democraten zijn maar wat blij dat ze hun ware aard voor de verandering eens in een simpelere wijze kunnen laten zien dan met pseudo-intellectueel marxiatisch gebrabbel.

Vergeet niet dat het de partij blijft van de KKK, de slavernij en het racisme. Waarden die ze nooit los hebben kunnen laten.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 10:07 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Ik ben erg benieuwd hoe je dit ziet? Jij denkt dus klaarblijkelijk als iemand tegen CRT is, die ook tegen minderheden is?
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Gehersenspeolden? All animals are equal but some are more equal than others? Dat laatste sluit wel aan op de Democraten, die blèren dat iedereen mondmaskers moet dragen en vervolgens zelf ongemaskerd losgaan op allerlei elitaire bijeenkomsten en feestjes.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 11:24 schreef Basp1 het volgende:

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hi hi honk honk.

Ja dan kun je beter gewoon als president een rosegarden feestje organiseren en een flinke infectiegolf onder de genodigden veroorzaken.

Schreeuwen over anderen hun belastingen maar zelf als president de aangiftes weigeren te tonen.


Do as i say not as i do. Neem nog een slokje bleekwater om covid te bestrijden.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 11:50 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Hi hi honk honk? Rosegarden feestje? Bleekwater? Kortom, een normale reactie zat er niet echt in, en je bent simpelweg weer eens een beetje op cholerische wijze aan het raaskallen. Betreurenswaardig, maar niet verassend.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 11:54 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

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Dat klinkt inderdaad nogal gehersenspoeld. Ik vraag me af welke verschrikkingen ze andersdenkenden aan willen doen.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 14:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Voor degenen die willen weten wat Trump in de doofpot probeert te houden:

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Curb Your Revolution

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 13:51 schreef Basp1 het volgende:
Wat een projectie wordt er door de rechtse indoctrinatie mannetjes weer getoond.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 14:33 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
En wanneer alles op tafel ligt van de draft speeches tot berichtjes naar zijn stafleden dan blijkt maar weer eens dat er weinig tot niets aan de hand was.

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REVEALED: Trump attorney continued to pressure Pence as rioters stormed Capitol calling for his execution
John Wright
October 29, 2021
REVEALED: Trump attorney continued to pressure Pence as rioters stormed Capitol calling for his execution
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Trump attorney John Eastman, the author of the so-called coup memo, emailed a top Mike Pence aide as rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, blaming the vice president for the insurrection and continuing to pressure him to block certification of Joe Biden's victory.

The Washington Post reports that Greg Jacob, who served as Pence's chief counsel, was under guard with the vice president in a secure area, when he described the ongoing riot as a "siege" in an email exchange with Eastman.


"The 'siege' is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened," Eastman wrote to Jacob, referring to Trump's false claims of widespread election fraud, as rioters tore through the Capitol, some calling for Pence's execution.

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Misinformation is the invasive species of 2021

Misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines has cost lives. Disinformation about the 2020 election threatens US democracy. Counternarratives about climate change allow countries and corporations to ignore the effect of their actions on the Earth's atmosphere.

Dangerous falsehoods, spreading like an invasive species, are emerging as a great challenge to society in 2021.

The election lie finds new life in GOP House candidates. We've written over and over in this newsletter about the threat of former President Donald Trump's false fantasy about the 2020 election. And we'll continue to do that as long as he repeats the lie that he won. But rather than becoming ostracized by Republicans, he's staying very much in their mainstream.

A new CNN report by Alex Rogers, Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju scrutinizes a crop of House candidates in a special program for "Young Guns" -- politicians showing promise. Read the report here. More than a third of these recruits from states across the country have, like Trump, sown doubts about the 2020 election or embraced his efforts to overturn it.

That list includes: Eli Crane and Walt Blackman in Arizona; Cory Mills and Anna Paulina Luna in Florida; Karoline Leavitt, Gail Huff Brown and Tim Baxter in New Hampshire; Jake Evans in Georgia; Tyler Kistner in Minnesota; Monica De La Cruz-Hernandez in Texas; Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin; and Jesse Jensen in Washington.

Specifics from the report:

When asked who she believed won the 2020 election, Leavitt, a former Trump press aide, said, "Donald J. Trump."

Baxter, a state representative, told CNN, "President Donald J. Trump is right, it's time for an audit in every state." Asked who won, Baxter responded, "The candidate who got the most legal votes!"

And Gail Huff Brown, a former TV reporter whose husband, former Sen. Scott Brown, served as Trump's ambassador to New Zealand, told a local ABC affiliate in September that "there were a lot of irregularities" in 2020 and "Covid won."

There are not two sides to this story. It is difficult to cover politics in an unbiased way at a time when so many candidates have embraced falsehoods.

"I think this is actually like a real challenge for mainstream journalism because you're taught there's two sides to every story," said Axios managing editor and CNN contributor Margaret Talev during an appearance Thursday on "Inside Politics."

She channeled my exact thinking on this.

"There's not actually two sides to the story," she said. "There's a knowable truth. The election was legitimate and Joe Biden ... is the legitimately elected President of the United States. The election was not stolen, so that's got to be the starting point. How do you interview a candidate when there is no baseline for truth, where the premise of the candidacy is built on a mistruth, on misinformation?"

She said it's a problem for political journalists, but it carries over to other parts of life and across the world where there are rising authoritarian movements.

"When the genesis of the candidacy is premised on a deliberate mistruth, it poisons the well fundamentally," she said.

Murdoch's media empire spreads the false claims. The same issue carries over to the media, where The Wall Street Journal published a long letter from Trump that pushed his false ideas about the election.

It was one thing to print his words when he was in office. He was the President of the United States. Now, however, as he tries to mount a political comeback built on the election lie, it is journalistic malpractice to hand him a platform.

Fox News, which like the Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, is promoting a new special, "Patriot Purge" with Tucker Carlson, that appears to push what CNN's Oliver Darcy refers to as "1/6 trutherism," or the silly idea that the insurrection was a setup.

It's hard to conclude anything but that Murdoch and his media empire are intentionally pushing the conspiracy theories.

Oil companies and climate change. False information was also the top subject at a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, although the topic was climate change and not the election.

Oil company executives from ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Royal Dutch Shell were assembled as part of an ongoing investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about whether they intentionally misled the public about fossil fuels contributing to climate change.

"Spare us the spin today. We have no interest in it," Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who's the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, said during his opening remarks. "Spin doesn't work under oath."

The hearing was framed as a Big Tobacco moment for Big Oil. The tobacco executives took part in a famous hearing in 1994 when they misled lawmakers about their knowledge of the dangers of smoking.

"They too faced a choice. They chose to lie under oath, deny that nicotine is addictive," Khanna said. "That didn't turn out too well for them."

Today's oil companies all acknowledge climate change and have embraced PR strategies highlighting that they'll be part of the solution.

"Exxon does not, and never has, spread disinformation regarding climate change," CEO Darren Woods said during his prepared remarks. "Its public statements about climate change are, and have been, truthful, fact-based, transparent and consistent with the views of the broader, mainstream scientific community at the time." Read more about the hearing.

Facebook is now Meta. The ultimate facilitator of misinformation and disinformation might be the great democratizer of information, Facebook. Under fire and facing possible new regulation, the tech giant rebranded itself Thursday. The overarching company will go by the name Meta, per founder Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook's namesake service will now, according to CNN's Samantha Murphy Kelly, be "just one of the company's subsidiaries, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp, rather than the overarching brand."

https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)t-matters/index.html

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 15:55 schreef Henry77 het volgende:
Een republikeinse president gaat er toch nooit meer komen, de demografische verandering zal in 2024 nog meer in het voordeel van de democraten verandert zijn. De populairvote ligt dan nog miljoenen hoger

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik mag hopen dat Pence en zijn hulpjes en de coupmemo-auteur onder ede gehoord gaan worden. Benieuwd of Pence het durft om de toorn van Trump op de hals te halen.

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The Lincoln Project roasted as 'deranged hacks' for orchestrating viral hoax to smear Youngkin
A stunt involving fake Youngkin supporters posing with tiki torches set Twitter ablaze

The disgraced anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project is facing intense backlash for orchestrating the viral hoax involving tiki torch-holding individuals associating themselves with the Youngkin campaign.

Twitter was set ablaze after images of a group wearing white shirts, khakis, baseball caps and sunglasses stood alongside the campaign bus of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin reportedly vocal expressing support for the Republican, according to local NBC affiliate anchor Elizabeth Holmes.

The imagery of the tiki torches was apparently meant to invoke the white nationalists who participated in the deadly events of Charlottesville in 2017.

The stunt was seized upon by the left, including staffers from Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign.

"The Unite the Right rally was one of the darkest days in the Commonwealth's history. this is who Glenn Youngkin's supporters are," McAuliffe spokesperson Christina Freundlich tweeted.

Now, after widespread suspicion from Twitter critics that it was orchestrated by Youngkin opponents, the anti-Trump group took ownership of what it called a "demonstration."

"The Lincoln Project has run advertisements highlighting the hate unleashed in Charlottesville as well as Glenn Youngkin’s continued failure to denounce Donald Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides.’ We will continue to draw this contrast in broadcast videos, on our social media platforms, and at Youngkin rallies," the group stated in a press release. "Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it."

"Anyone who continues to associate themselves with The Lincoln Project owns this. This is who you are," Fourth Watch media critic Stever Krakauer wrote.

"I do not think it’s out of realm of possibility that Lincoln Project is taking blame, because they have no shame and their reputation really can’t get any worse," Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher tweeted.

"Needless to say, right-wing groups that perpetrated a fraud like this -- causing media figures and campaign operatives to spend all day swamping Twitter with an outright racist lie -- would be instantly banned from social media," Substack journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted.

"Apparently, it's totally fine to dress up as tiki torch nazis as long as you play for the right team," Daily Caller reporter Andrew Kerr wrote.

"Lincoln Projects biggest grift is they aim all their stuff at liberal Twitter so their funders have no idea how unconvincing and juvenile it is. But it does help them afford the vacation homes," journalist Zaid Jilani quipped.

"How much more proof do we need that the Lincoln Project is nothing but a bunch of deranged hacks?" Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, asked.

Others questioned whether or not the Lincoln Project was actually behind the stunt and was simply taking credit, comparing it to ISIS taking credit for various terrorist attacks.

"What's more likely? That the Lincoln Project hired Democratic insiders in Virginia to hold the tiki torch stunt or that they're taking credit for it after it backfired to keep the backlash away from the McAuliffe campaign?" political commentator Josh Jordan wondered.

The statement comes as Twitter users began claiming they had identified the individuals participating in stunt allegedly having ties to Virginia Democrats. The group issued a statement denying they organized the stunt.

Following the hoax being exposed, McAuliffe campaign manager Chris Rolling tweeted, "What happened today is disgusting and distasteful and we condemn it in the strongest terms. Those involved should immediately apologize."

The Lincoln Project has managed to maintain its media darling status on the left despite multiple scandals that plagued the group, including allegations that its co-founder John Weaver had sexually harassed young men including minors and growing questions over its shady finances.

Virginia polls, which previously had McAuliffe in a comfortable lead, have not only tightened in recent weeks but appear to be giving Youngkin the edge. A Fox News poll released Thursday showed Youngkin a whopping eight points above McAuliffe among likely voters.

Fox: https://www.foxnews.com/m(...)-viral-hoax-youngkin
WaPo: https://www.washingtonpos(...)ottesville-youngkin/

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:42 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Haha, The Lincoln Project heeft redelijk wat woede op de hals gehaald door een paar lui bij een rally van Youngkin neer te zetten met tiki torches. En ja, je ziet het goed, daar staat oprecht een zwart persoon tussen.
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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik mag hopen dat Pence en zijn hulpjes en de coupmemo-auteur onder ede gehoord gaan worden. Benieuwd of Pence het durft om de toorn van Trump op de hals te halen.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:12 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Als straks blijkt dat de beschuldigingen aan Trumps adres compleet overtrokken waren en al dit alles niets oplevert wie ga je dan deze keer de schuld geven?

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 17:27 schreef theguyver het volgende:

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Word er nieuw onderzoek gedaan en als die niks oplevert nog een en als die niks op leveren 60+ rechtzaken..
En als dit niks oplevert.
Een leger cyberninja's.
En als dat niks oplevert dan ... Geen idee wat ben jij zo van plan..

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:11 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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De popular vote is totaal niet relevant bovendien ga je er van uit dat de psyop van de media effect blijft hebben.
Trump de meest racistische president volgens de media en de Democraten wist al een hoop minderheden aan zich te binden.
Dat is een trend dat zich voort zal blijven zetten zolang men maar blijft inzetten op America first. Latino’s en ook de zwarte bevolking zijn lang niet zo progressief als de blanke middenklasse in de VS.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 17:36 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Ik wacht het rustig af, zo ver je mijn posts heb kunnen lezen heb ik alle geduld en mocht er geen fraude aangetoond worden dan is er nog steeds geen man overboord.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:04 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Misinformation! Disinformation! .

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 18:17 schreef theguyver het volgende:

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Ik ook!
Hoe ver ben je ondertussen.
Zie onderschrift!

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 17:42 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Lullig genoeg vormt Trump de grootste bedreiging voor de winkansen van de Republikeinen.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 16:56 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Lol, die lui van de Lincoln project die sporen niet.
Ik begrijp overigens oprecht niet waarom ze Youngkin tegenwerken. Het zijn toch Republikeinen die tegen Trump waren of doen ze het om voor het geld.
Ongebreidelde Trumphaat betaald ieder geval goed.

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 20:23 schreef FLATTTENtheCURVE het volgende:
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nice!

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 19:38 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Hoe ver ben ik met wat?

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Op zaterdag 30 oktober 2021 20:23 schreef FLATTTENtheCURVE het volgende:
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nice!