[AMV] #1021 Hondse Reps en Kattige Dems

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Op maandag 16 januari 2023 22:37 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:
Jack Smith is traag met de vervolging van Trump.

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Op maandag 16 januari 2023 22:47 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Het is net 2 maanden geleden dat hij aangesteld is.

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Op maandag 16 januari 2023 22:50 schreef PaarsBeestje het volgende:

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Ik denk dat ze nog steeds hopen dat Trump per ongeluk zijn nek breekt over een drempeltje zodat vervolging niet hoeft. Duurt allemaal met opzet veel te lang.

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Op maandag 16 januari 2023 19:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Alleen vrij onwaarschijnlijk, want ze hebben daar zit naast een aardige olie- en gasindustrie ook gewoon Tesla en allerhande andere productielocaties voor groene zaken.

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Op dinsdag 17 januari 2023 16:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Zo te zien is Jack Smith hard aan het werk:

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Op dinsdag 17 januari 2023 16:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Zo te zien is Jack Smith hard aan het werk:

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Op dinsdag 17 januari 2023 21:24 schreef Bugno3 het volgende:

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“Stollen”
“Subpoenaing”
Genot

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When a couple hundred major donors to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s inauguration arrived at a candlelight dinner to the sounds of a solo saxophonist the night before his swearing-in last week they found a pair of surprises waiting for them.

In a departure from the pedestrian fare found at most political banquets, DeSantis, a food-lover with Italian roots, flew in the crew from Carbone, the trendy, New York-founded restaurant chain that moved to Miami last year, to both make a point about companies relocating to Florida and to offer a treat to contributors who gave at least $25,000.

Yet what was even more of a thrill to the donors than Carbone’s signature spicy rigatoni was what happened during the dinner: DeSantis and his wife, Casey, went table to table greeting and thanking the attendees.

Such a gesture would hardly be noteworthy for most politicians. But the early rap on DeSantis from his fellow Republicans is that, for all his smarts and shrewdness, he lacks charm, and is either unwilling or unable to submit to the longstanding rituals of retail politics.

So the mere fact that he table-hopped at a dinner in his honor — and that more than a few of his contributors were thrilled enough about the personal touch to recount it to me after the closed-press fete — is revealing.

The governor’s glad-handing illustrates that he’s absorbed the critique about his aloofness and is making an effort at rebutting it. The delighted response about an unremarkable show of gratitude demonstrates how little of it he’s done to date; and the relish with which his glancing interactions were recalled indicates how low the expectations bar is for DeSantis and what it means to an important constituency when he clears said bar.

He could use more such moments.

With the Republican hunger for an alternative to Donald Trump intensifying, and way-too-early polling suggesting DeSantis is the beneficiary of this ravenousness, anecdotes about the governor’s aversion to schmoozing are piling up like, well, so many order tickets at Carbone during Friday dinner rush.

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Op maandag 16 januari 2023 21:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Verzekeringen zijn blijkbaar ook al 'woke'

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Republican Ex-Candidate Arrested in Shootings Targeting New Mexico Democrats
The authorities in Albuquerque said that Solomon Peña, who lost his bid for a State House seat in November, was behind a series of recent shootings targeting Democratic elected officials.

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The sources familiar with some aspects of the special counsel's investigation further disclosed to me that prosecutors sought information regarding the following issues: the witnesses were asked about any conversations they personally had with then-president Trump or any of their White House colleagues about the Russia papers; they were asked about conversations between senior Justice Department officials and attorneys with the White House counsel's office, including two former senior lawyers in the office, John Eisenberg and Pat Philbin, regarding Trump's presidential order to declassify the Russia papers; and they also were asked about the circumstances surrounding a memo written by Trump's then Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, the day following Trump's declassification order, in which Meadows appeared to reverse course and related that the papers would not be released before the concerns of other agencies regarding the Privacy Act were fully assuaged.

"It was very clear from what they asked that their emphasis was on Trump and Meadows," one person said.

Miriam Baer, a former prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, who present day is a professor and Vice Dean of Brooklyn Law School, told me that it would be logical for the special counsel to focus his attention on Meadows:

"It's no surprise they are looking at Meadows. They are probably looking to him as a potential cooperator for the same reason that when you pursue a corporate prosecution, you would want to have a company's CFO [chief financial officer] as a cooperator. A CFO in in charge of a company's finances, has a front row seat to what the people in charge have said and done." Meadows, as a presidential chief of staff, Baer points out, played a similar role for Trump: "That's why you want Mark Meadows - as information flows inside and out of the White House, he is one of the major choke-points, and if you need someone to explain what happened and who knew what, that's exactly the person you want to sign up as a cooperating witness, assuming they also are willing to admit their own role in the wrongdoing."

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FLORIDA HAS BLOCKED the College Board from testing a pilot Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) curriculum in the state under Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE” Act. According to a letter obtained by National Review, Florida’s Department of Education’s Office of Articulation said the curriculum “is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

The pilot course, which has been tested at 60 schools across the United States, aims to expand the advanced coursework offered by the College Board into the study of the African diaspora in the U.S. The course has run afoul of DeSantis’ widespread ban on teaching “critical race theory” (CRT) in K-12 classrooms. CRT is an analytical framework that seeks to dissect the manner in which racism has shaped American legal theory and institutions. The concept has been co-opted in recent years by right-wing reactionaries to fearmonger about any and all discussions of race and discrimination.

The “Stop Woke” act, signed into law by DeSantis in 2022, essentially prohibits instruction on race relations or diversity that imply a person’s “status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex.” The bill also bans both schools and workplaces from “subjecting any student or employee to training or instruction that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels such individuals to believe specified concepts constitutes discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin.”

In November, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker issued a temporary injunction on a portion of the law that attempted to place similar restrictions on higher education. Despite several challenges to the law on grounds of First Amendment rights, Florida has continued to lead the charge against comprehensive education on the racial history of the U.S. Several other states have passed similar legislation, including Texas, Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.

DeSantis has centered his administration around governance through culture war grievances. The governor passed a similar law last year, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that granted the state broad powers to implement prohibitions on instruction on issues of gender and sexuality in Florida schools. Under the guise of his anti-CRT crusade, the governor is reshaping Florida education in the image of the far right, recently announcing a plan to forcibly overhaul the New College of Florida, and transform it into a conservative institution. With increasing pressure on teachers and professors to avoid topics like race and gender lest they face the wrath of the state government, that transformation is effectively taking place though government-enforced censorship.

DeSantis culture war on U.S. history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education

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Op donderdag 19 januari 2023 20:27 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
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Two years ago, Democrats voted to take the rare step and oust ultraconservative Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., from their committees after Greene made racist and anti-Semetic remarks in social media posts and Gosar tweeted an animation that depicted violence against New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and other Democrats.

"It does not serve as precedent or justification for the removal of Representatives Schiff and Swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior," Jeffries wrote.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2023 16:28 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Dit gaat McCarthy natuurlijk afwijzen als represaille en voorwaarde van de stemmen op hem als Speaker van MTG en Gosar die door Pelosi uit commissies werden verwijderd waar goede redenen voor waren.
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Benieuwd wat voor redenen hij gaat verzinnen bij Schiff en Swalwell.

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Op maandag 23 januari 2023 21:22 schreef GarlandBriggs het volgende:

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Bij Swalwell gaat hij dat lulverhaal van Fang Fang wel weer ophangen. Iets dat al duizend keer ontkracht is door de FBI maar het werkt nog steeds blijkbaar.
Bij Schiff moet McCarthy gewoon nog iets harder liegen. Zal geen probleem voor hem zijn...

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Op maandag 23 januari 2023 22:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Hij zal wel moeten idd. Ongelooflijk hoe diep hij gezonken is.

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Ieuw!

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Former President Donald Trump posed for picture with former Philly mob boss Joey Merlino at South Florida golf club

Former President Donald Trump's campaign won't say if he knew he was posing with the former head of the Philly mob for a photo at Trump's West Palm Beach golf course this month.

They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who “flip” to help federal investigators.

But former President Donald Trump and former Philly mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino don’t have much to say about how they wound up in a photo together at a South Florida golf course.

Trump posed for the photo with Merlino earlier this month at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach. The two, along with an unidentified third man, flash Trump’s customary “thumbs-up” hand signs and smiles while wearing golfing attire.

https://www.inquirer.com/(...)f-club-20230123.html

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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2023 01:37 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Ah, hij is er ook nog:
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Op dinsdag 24 januari 2023 18:46 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Hebben jullie al gelachen vandaag?
Dit is je kans:
https://www.nbcnews.com/p(...)diana-home-rcna67224

Quote:” A "small number" of classified documents was discovered last week at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to letters Pence’s counsel sent to the National Archives obtained by NBC News. ”