[AMV] #1087 - Kamala vs Weirdo

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Op vrijdag 30 augustus 2024 19:26 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Waarvoor? Hij is uit de race. Nu weet ik niet wanneer dit gemaakt is of online gezet is maar RFK jr heeft geen team meer, hij zit letterlijk en figuurlijk in Trumps team.

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Op vrijdag 30 augustus 2024 19:26 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Waarvoor? Hij is uit de race. Nu weet ik niet wanneer dit gemaakt is of online gezet is maar RFK jr heeft geen team meer, hij zit letterlijk en figuurlijk in Trumps team.

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Letting It Slide

When Will It Be Enough?

(By MARY L TRUMP)

Donald has very few skills, but one them is finding people even weaker than he is. For years now, we have seen a long line of Republicans, reporters, pundits, administration officials, and entire media outlets (looking at you, New York Times)cower before Donald, worried he’ll be angry with them. So, they pull punches. They let him play by different rules because standing up to him would keep them outside of the power structure they’re addicted to, or without the access they need, or some other bullshit reason that helps him skate consequence-free at the expense of the rest of us.

Those rare occasions when somebody actually does stand up to Donald inadvertently demonstrate why so many people take the easy (or at least the easier) way out. The latest example is the incident at Arlington National Cemetery I wrote about a couple of days ago: One of Donald’s campaign thugs allegedly assaulted a cemetery employee who was simply trying to do her job. The campaign wanted to make an unauthorized video, and she made it clear to them that that was against the rules. They didn’t care.

According to the New York Times, the woman, who was accosted by my uncle’s staff when she tried to defend the honor of Arlington and those buried there from Donald’s desecration, filed a report, but declined to press charges because she feared retribution from the people who assaulted her. How many times have we heard about this kind of thing? How many times do we pretend this kind of intimidation by a man who has one of the biggest platforms on the planet is no big deal?

Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman, said it was “ridiculous” that anyone would fear retribution from them—this after claiming the woman suffered from a “mental health episode.” Chris LaCivita, an advisor for the Trump campaign, said she was a “despicable individual” spread lies and was “dishonoring the men and women of our armed forces.” Why on earth would she feel targeted?

Donald habitually threatens judges and the juries that could decide his fate; he intimidates witnesses and their families. He likes it when his supporters get violent on his behalf and he gets off on the fear inspired by their violence. Threatening people into silence is at the heart of Donald’s “leadership” style. Bullying is often how he gets his way. But it’s also a tactic he uses to evade accountability. It’s getting harder to understand why this kind of sociopathic behavior continues to get normalized.

Every single Republican who laid the blame for January 6th directly at Donald’s feet has since either been run out of office, or become the most sycophantic of his enablers. Sen. Lindsey Graham has become the poster child for the latter.

In contrast to them, there are plenty of Americans, those not protected by holding public office, who are willing to stand up for what’s right, but they, understandably, are not interested in facing the consequences of doing so if it means Donald’s deranged supporters will doxx them, swat them, send them death threats, or worse.

It took real courage for the Arlington National Cemetery employee to try to enforce the rules in the face of Trump campaign threats and bullying. It’s understandable that she wasn’t willing to file a police report. It’s very possible that wouldn’t have ended well for her. And that’s the real story—that private citizens are afraid to do the right thing because the Republican nominee to be president of the United States is a low-life criminal who doesn’t care what happens to anybody but him—as long as he gets his way.

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‘It Was a Setup’, ‘Could Have Been The Parents’: Trump Tries To Blame Golden Star Families For Arlington Cemetery Scandal

In a contentious interview with NBC News’s Dasha Burns on Thursday, former President Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the ongoing controversy involving his visit to Arlington National Cemetery and the subsequent use of photos from the visit in his campaign materials.

When asked by Burns if his campaign should have released the photos and videos taken at Section 60 of the cemetery, Trump responded, “Well, we have a lot of people, you know, we have people, TikTok people, you know, we’re leading the internet. That was the other thing. We’re so far above her on the internet.”

When pressed on whether it was appropriate to share such images from a solemn location, Trump deflected, suggesting that the responsibility might lie with the Gold Star parents who had invited him, rather than his campaign.

“I don’t know what the rules and regulations are. I don’t know who did it. And it could have been them. It could have been the parents,” Trump said. “It could have been somebody else.”

Burns pointed out, “It was your campaign’s TikTok though, that put out the video.”

Trump responded,“I really don’t know anything about it. All I do is I stood there and I said, if you’d like to have a picture, we can have a picture if somebody did. If this was a set up by the people in the administration that, oh, Trump is coming to Arlington, that looks so bad for us,” further deflecting blame and alleging that the situation might have been orchestrated by others.

Trump claims Arlington cemetery incident was a 'setup'

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Op vrijdag 30 augustus 2024 19:23 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Haha, bijzondere tactiek, eerst je steun uitspreken naar DonOld en vervolgens een campagne gericht op de MAGA-wappies starten.

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Zijn plotse ommekeer toont de evenwichtsoefening die hij moet uitvoeren in aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen in november. Aan de ene kant moet Trump zijn conservatieve en evangelische achterban tevreden houden, terwijl hij tegelijk gematigder onafhankelijke kiezers en vrouwen in de voorsteden aan zich probeert te binden.

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 08:59 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Trump had donderdag dus in dat interview gezegd dat hij vóór een verruiming van de abortustermijn van 6 weken in Florida zou stemmen.

Maar afgelopen nacht heeft-ie op FoxNews die mening weer teruggedraaid.
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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 08:59 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Trump had donderdag dus in dat interview gezegd dat hij vóór een verruiming van de abortustermijn van 6 weken in Florida zou stemmen.

Maar afgelopen nacht heeft-ie op FoxNews die mening weer teruggedraaid.
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Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
The former president violated one of America’s most sacred places.


"The section of Arlington National Cemetery that Donald Trump visited on Monday is both the liveliest and the most achingly sad part of the grand military graveyard, set aside for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Section 60, young widows can be seen using clippers and scissors to groom the grass around their husbands’ tombstones as lots of children run about.

Karen Meredith knows the saddest acre in America only too well. The California resident’s son, First Lieutenant Kenneth Ballard, was the fourth generation of her family to serve as an Army officer. He was killed in Najaf, Iraq, in 2004, and laid to rest in Section 60. She puts flowers on his gravesite every Memorial Day. “It’s not a number, not a headstone,” she told me. “He was my only child.”

The sections of Arlington holding Civil War and World War I dead have a lonely and austere beauty. Not Section 60, where the atmosphere is sanctified but not somber—too many kids, Meredith recalled from her visits to her son’s burial site. “We laugh, we pop champagne. I have met men who served under him, and they speak of him with such respect. And to think that this man”—she was referring to Trump—“came here and put his thumb up—”

She fell silent for a moment on the telephone, taking a gulp of air. “I’m trying not to cry.”

For Trump, defiling what is sacred in our civic culture borders on a pastime. Peacefully transferring power to the next president, treating political adversaries with at least rudimentary grace, honoring those soldiers wounded and disfigured in service of our country—Trump long ago walked roughshod over all these norms. Before he tried to overturn a national election, he mocked his opponents in the crudest terms and demeaned dead soldiers as “suckers.”

But the former president outdid himself this week, when he attended a wreath-laying ceremony honoring 13 American soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul during the final havoc-marked hours of the American withdrawal. Trump laid three wreaths and put hand over heart; that is a time-honored privilege of presidents. Trump, as is his wont, went further. He walked to a burial site in Section 60 and posed with the family of a fallen soldier, grinning broadly and giving a thumbs-up for his campaign photographer and videographer.

Few spaces in the United States join the sacred and the secular to more moving effect than Arlington National Cemetery, 624 acres set on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River and our nation’s capital. More than 400,000 veterans and their dependents have been laid to rest here, among them nearly 400 Medal of Honor recipients. Rows of matching white tombstones stretch to the end of sight.

A cemetery employee politely attempted to stop the campaign staff from filming in Section 60. Taking campaign photos and videos at gravesites is expressly forbidden under federal law. The Trump entourage, according to a subsequent statement by the U.S. Army, which oversees the cemetery, “abruptly pushed” her aside.

Trump’s campaign soon posted a video on TikTok, overlaid with Trump’s narration: “We didn’t lose one person in 18 months. And then they”—the Biden administration—“took over, that disaster of leaving Afghanistan.”

Trump was unsurprisingly not telling the truth; 11 soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in his last year in office, and his administration had itself negotiated the withdrawal. But such fabrications are incidental sins compared with what came next. A top Trump adviser, Chris LaCivita, and campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung talked to reporters and savaged the employee who had tried to stop the entourage. Cheung referred to her as “an unnamed individual, clearly suffering a mental-health episode.” LaCivita declared her a “despicable individual” who ought to be fired.

There was, of course, another way to handle this mistake. Governor Spencer Cox of Utah had accompanied Trump to the cemetery, and his campaign emailed out photos of the governor and the former president there. When challenged, Cox did what is foreign to Trump: He apologized. “You are correct,” Cox replied to a person criticizing the event on X, adding, “It did not go through the proper channels and should not have been sent. My campaign will be sending out an apology.”

This was not a judgment call, or a minor violation of obscure bureaucratic boilerplate. In the regulations governing visitors and behavior at Arlington National Cemetery, many paragraphs lay out what behavior is acceptable and what is not. These read not as suggestions but as commandments. Memorial services are intended to honor the fallen, the regulations note, with a rough eloquence: “Partisan activities are inappropriate in Arlington National Cemetery, due to its role as a shrine to all the honored dead of the Armed Forces of the United States and out of respect for the men and women buried there and for their families.”

As the clamor of revulsion swelled this week, LaCivita did not back off. On Wednesday, the Trump adviser posted a photo of Trump at Arlington Cemetery on X and added these words: “The Photo that shook the world and reminded America who the real Commander in Chief is …August 26th 2024 ..Mark the day ⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ and weak ⁦@JoeBiden.”

The Army, which is historically loath to enter politics, issued a rare statement yesterday rebuking the Trump campaign, noting that ceremony participants “had been made aware” of relevant federal laws “prohibiting political activities” and that the employee “acted with professionalism.” The Army said it “considers this matter closed” because the cemetery employee had declined to press charges.

Meanwhile, an unrepentant Trump team kept stoking the controversy. Yesterday, LaCivita posted another photo of Trump at Arlington and added this: “Reposting this hoping to trigger the hacks at @SecArmy”—the Army secretary’s office.

It had the quality of middle-school graffiti, suggesting that Trump viewed the controversy as yet another chance to mock his critics before moving on to the next outrage. For grieving families with loved ones buried in Section 60, moving on is not so easy.

How old, I asked Meredith, was your son at the time of his death? “He was 26,” she replied. “He did not have time to live. I didn’t get to dance at his wedding. I didn’t get to play with grandkids.”

This week, all she could do was call out a crude and self-regarding 78-year-old man for failing, in that most sacred of American places, to comport himself with even the roughest facsimile of dignity."

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 09:53 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Why Trump’s Arlington Debacle Is So Serious
The former president violated one of America’s most sacred places.

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 09:53 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Voor de volledigheid, hier alles over Arlington nog eens op een rijtje. Sorry.
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https://www.theatlantic.c(...)ton-cemetery/679659/

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 10:51 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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En waarom ook dit niet uitmaakt: Het MAGA-volk aanbidt hem juist om zijn onverschrokken houding. Hij maalt nergens om en duwt iedereen aan de kant. Zoals, in hun ogen, een echte leider doet.

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They will STILL vote for Trump. Pearl clutching over his actions is a complete and utter waste of time. 90% of all the vehicles in my local AmVets parking lot have some form of Trumpfuckery artwork stuck to them. They DON'T care. They have had so much conservative bullshit pumped into their heads, they are never going to be reprogrammed. There is only one party and Trump is who they are. They didn't give one single fuck after January 6th and the expectation is that they will care now. Not Gonna Happen.

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 08:59 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Trump had donderdag dus in dat interview gezegd dat hij vóór een verruiming van de abortustermijn van 6 weken in Florida zou stemmen.

Maar afgelopen nacht heeft-ie op FoxNews die mening weer teruggedraaid.
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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 13:29 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Hij liegt natuurlijk gewoon. En de evangelicals weten dat. Dus die stemmen gewoon op hem. Zodra hij president is, verandert hij weer van mening. Ik hoop dat Harris hem hier in het debat op vastpint. In principe zou ze kunnen zeggen, we kunnen dit hier en nu regelen als jij het huis opdraagt om voor de policy te stemmen net zoals je hebt opgedragen om de oplossing voor de migrantencrisis tegen te houden.

Gewoon good old flipflopDon dus: neem alle standpunten tegelijk in, stand by nothing en alle stemmers pikken er uit wat ze willen.

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 14:58 schreef WheatWaffles het volgende:

Dat ze net geen teddybeertje meebracht.

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 13:47 schreef JAM het volgende:

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10 september, toch? Iemand al een linkje naar waar, wanneer en hoe dat in Nederland bekeken kan worden?

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Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2024 15:26 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:
Trump doet het sinds een paar dagen ineens weer heel goed op de goksites. Enig idee hoe dat komt?