Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2923

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2921

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Mueller’s indictment demolishes Trump’s narrative that Russian interference was a hoax
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"There is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity," he said. "There is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election."

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/16/polit...ence/index.html

Wie bei einigen bekannt, Trump und Co. sind Amerikaner.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2925

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Die Fake-News Anstalt CNN kriegt das, was sie verdient:

"The network was -30 percent in total prime time viewers, and -23 percent in total day viewers from last year."

http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/basic-cab...of-feb-5/357307

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Trump officially ranked worst president of all time
According to the “Presidential Greatness Survey” published Monday by the American Political Science Association, Trump is ranked 44th out of 44 presidents. The survey counts President Grover Cleveland’s non-consecutive administrations as a single presidency, thus sparing Trump from being ranked one spot lower.

The survey also ranked President Obama 8th overall, making him the the greatest living president, one spot ahead of Ronald Reagan.

https://shareblue.com/trump-officially-r...nt-of-all-time/

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2928

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Trump officially ranked worst president of all time
According to the “Presidential Greatness Survey” published Monday by the American Political Science Association, Trump is ranked 44th out of 44 presidents. The survey counts President Grover Cleveland’s non-consecutive administrations as a single presidency, thus sparing Trump from being ranked one spot lower.

The survey also ranked President Obama 8th overall, making him the the greatest living president, one spot ahead of Ronald Reagan.

https://shareblue.com/trump-officially-r...nt-of-all-time/

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2929

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2928

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Trump officially ranked worst president of all time
According to the “Presidential Greatness Survey” published Monday by the American Political Science Association, Trump is ranked 44th out of 44 presidents. The survey counts President Grover Cleveland’s non-consecutive administrations as a single presidency, thus sparing Trump from being ranked one spot lower.

The survey also ranked President Obama 8th overall, making him the the greatest living president, one spot ahead of Ronald Reagan.

https://shareblue.com/trump-officially-r...nt-of-all-time/

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Was wären wir nur ohne Rankings. :-)

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2930

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2929

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2928

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Trump officially ranked worst president of all time
According to the “Presidential Greatness Survey” published Monday by the American Political Science Association, Trump is ranked 44th out of 44 presidents. The survey counts President Grover Cleveland’s non-consecutive administrations as a single presidency, thus sparing Trump from being ranked one spot lower.

The survey also ranked President Obama 8th overall, making him the the greatest living president, one spot ahead of Ronald Reagan.

https://shareblue.com/trump-officially-r...nt-of-all-time/

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Was wären wir nur ohne Rankings. :-)

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Eine Lachnummer.

nach genau 13 Monaten zeigt die größte Steuerreform aller Zeiten erste Wirkungen:
"NY Times poll: Support for tax reform growing
Fifty-one percent of Americans approve of the tax law now, compared to 46 percent in January and 37 percent in December. "

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/domest...-reform-growing

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Damit der naechste Knall ja nicht zu lange auf sich warten laesst:

A decade after meltdown, Senate moves to roll back bank rules
That the legislation is coming 10 years after the worst credit crunch since the Great Depression has fueled passions around the debate.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/2...meltdown-416158

Den dann die Demokraten wieder aufraeumen koennen.

We Have a President Who Won’t Defend Our Nation
This is the first time across all the dust-covered years of our history, that an elected commander in chief chose to tweet instead of plan to defend the country.

It began Tuesday, when Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats informed the U.S. Senate intelligence committee that “frankly, the United States is under attack.”

Coats sat at a long table alongside the directors of the CIA, the FBI, and the head of the National Security Agency. All were in agreement: Russia had declared war on our country.
The president, Donald Trump, did nothing. This is the first time across all the dust-covered years of our history, centuries filled with courage and honor, that the elected commander in chief chose to tweet instead of plan to defend the country. ....

Then on Wednesday, a school door opened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, and the latest merchant of death, a 19-year-old man, stood in a corridor holding an AR-15. Within minutes, hallway floors were slippery with blood as the shooter roamed room to room with full magazines and a weapon that sounds like a cannon when fired indoors.
Students screamed. Ran. Died. The gunman’s appetite waned within minutes, and minutes were all it took to hang a casualty count of 17 on a disgraceful scoreboard filled with so many past massacres that the total is often lost.
The numbing reality is that the most powerful country the world has ever known is so weak it cannot stop murders committed with ease by people who simply have to show up and squeeze a trigger.
The president, Donald Trump, said nothing. He tweeted his sorrow and regret that more students did not come forward with warnings ....

Friday dawned with dead young students being prepared for burial in Florida. And in Washington, Robert Mueller, who has worn the nation’s uniform in war, headed a Homicide Unit, and changed the culture of the FBI in the wake of September 11th, announced the indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian business outfits for conspiring to conduct cyber-warfare against the United States. The men who sat at the table Monday in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee no doubt nodded in agreement.

The president, Donald Trump, did not. He began to tweet, an activity that would consume him most of Friday, through the weekend and nearly all Sunday morning. His tweets became increasingly deranged. ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/another-pr...out-a-president

GOP Asked People To Sign A Presidents Day Card For Trump. It Didn’t Go Well.
“How do you say ‘Happy Presidents Day’ in Russian?”

Sorry I can’t. I don’t know Russian.
— Caro (@carogonza) February 19, 2018

Does this form send my personal information directly to Moscow?
— MockHimUp 🌊🍊🤡 (@MockHimUp) February 19, 2018

Hahahahhahaha
Should I translate it or just sign in the native Russian?
— Alexander Hamilton (@lexhamilton76) February 19, 2018

How do you say “Happy President’s Day” in Russian?
— A. Nony Muss (@Oldmanriver05) February 19, 2018
pic.twitter.com/uyQLRSRnpL

— Least Popular POTUS (@NotDonnieTrump) February 20, 2018

We are celebrating 44 Presidents today
— Michele Karlsberg (@Karlsberg65) February 20, 2018
🖕 @realDonaldTrump 🖕

You’ll get my best wishes when the next “illegitimate president’s day” comes around!
— V (@StephanTokarski) February 19, 2018
pic.twitter.com/rRgWuNAOn6

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop...4b0a1d0e12c60e4


Auf der Twitter Seite sah das so aus:

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...3c2&oe=5B4BCEC0

und einige Antworten so:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWa2aWTW0AAJHeg.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWaxzU3W0AALvfg.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWaczNgVwAAQq-E.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWajo8PXcAEq4pY.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWa1WqcWkAANL63.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWbUaL0UQAAblh8.jpg

Und schon hat Mueller wieder einen am Haken. Diesmal sogar einen Lawyer.

Mueller Charges Ex-Skadden Lawyer With Lying in Russia Inquiry
An attorney who worked for a prominent law firm was charged with making false statements to federal authorities as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election.

Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged Feb. 16 with lying to the FBI and Mueller’s office about conversations related to his work on a report prepared by his law firm on the legitimacy of the criminal prosecution of a former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...-s-russia-probe


Mueller rollt sie alle auf -einen nach dem anderen.

Mueller Tacks On Another Guilty Plea In Russia Probe
A former lawyer for a major U.S. law firm pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Washington D.C., to lying to federal authorities in a case that is part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging Russia probe.

The guilty plea by Alex van der Zwaan, who worked at the firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLC until he was terminated in November, came as part of a plea agreement between Mueller’s team. The case is being overseen by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is also overseeing Mueller’s cases against former Trump campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/...n-mueller-probe

Ein "guilty plea", das als "part of a plea agreement" zustande kommt, bedeutet dass derjenige nun singen wird/singen muss wie eine Nachtigall. Um seinen Arsch zu retten.
Das fuehrt dann zu den naechsten Indictments und ggf. weiteren plea deals. Womit sich dann der Nachtigallen Chor laufend vergroessert.
Manafort ist darin wohl der naechste.

Manafort Under Scrutiny For $40 Million In “Suspicious” Transactions
As the special counsel investigated President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, authorities obtained details on “suspicious” banking activity that was first unearthed in 2014 and 2015. Those records were part of an FBI operation to track international kleptocracy that ultimately failed, but which Robert Mueller’s team resurrected.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/ma...zM7E#.jjdRG0Zza

Michael Moore participated in anti-Trump rally allegedly organized by Russians

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #2938

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Michael Moore participated in anti-Trump rally allegedly organized by Russians

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Why Thomas Friedman issued a 'code red' warning to America
Thomas Friedman doesn't scare easily.
The New York Times op-ed columnist is best known for his sober columns about foreign policy and technology.

That's why his Monday column stood out. "Our democracy is in serious danger," he wrote in the opening line. "President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy."

There was something about his last paragraph, in particular, that struck a chord. "This is code red," he wrote. "The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office."...

He said "there was something in Trump's reaction to Mueller that was deeply off." He called it "so unpresidential, it was frightening."
Trump's erratic tweets had assailed the FBI, the media, Democrats -- but not Moscow. "To me, it really crossed a line," Friedman said. While Trump has "broken many norms as president," these tweets were different. "He's no longer violating norms of the presidency, he's actually violating his oath to defend and protect the Constitution."

"Mueller told us the core of our democracy -- our electoral system -- had been attacked by Russia," Friedman added. "And Trump was focused exclusively on what Mueller's report said, or did not say, about him." ...
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/20/media/th...lumn/index.html

Democrat Linda Belcher Takes Deep-Red Kentucky Seat, the 37th Flip Since Trump’s Inauguration
Trump won this district by 50 points. Linda Belcher just took this Kentucky House seat by 36—an 86-point turnaround.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-f...ps-inauguration

Heh, mehr Lehrer mit Waffen sind echt cool! Da haben doch Spaghettimonster keine Chance mehr.
Trump wohl auch nicht... Hihihi....

Oh, pöse Denke!

Hans, der Typ ist verrückt und krank, wunder dich also besser über gar nix mehr. ( Frei nach Reuter, weiß grad nicht, ob nach Otto oder Fritz, ist aber wohl auch egal...)

Zitat von sayada.b. im Beitrag #2943

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Heh, mehr Lehrer mit Waffen sind echt cool! Da haben doch Spaghettimonster keine Chance mehr.
Trump wohl auch nicht... Hihihi....

Oh, pöse Denke!

Hans, der Typ ist verrückt und krank, wunder dich also besser über gar nix mehr. ( Frei nach Reuter, weiß grad nicht, ob nach Otto oder Fritz, ist aber wohl auch egal...)

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #2944

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Zitat von sayada.b. im Beitrag #2943

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Heh, mehr Lehrer mit Waffen sind echt cool! Da haben doch Spaghettimonster keine Chance mehr.
Trump wohl auch nicht... Hihihi....

Oh, pöse Denke!

Hans, der Typ ist verrückt und krank, wunder dich also besser über gar nix mehr. ( Frei nach Reuter, weiß grad nicht, ob nach Otto oder Fritz, ist aber wohl auch egal...)

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Erst geraten die Schüler ins Kreuzfeuer und dann rückt die Polizei an und geht gegen jeden Bewaffneten vor, ein toller Plot für einen Film von Quentin Tarantino. Auch Lehrer können Amok laufen, bewaffnen wir also auch noch jeden Schüler...

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Remember This Week: It’s the Beginning of the End of the NRA’s Reign of Terror
Yes, it’s been said before, and no, it won’t happen fast. But this time it really is different. And the Parkland Kids are leading the charge.

Shun the NRA. Shun the assault weapons manufacturers. Shame and vote out the politicians who take their money and do their bidding. That’s the strategy that activists for firearms sanity have finally seized on, after decades of losing to the most bloodthirsty lobby in America.

The rise of the Parkland students, and their #NeverAgain movement following the slaughter of 17 of their classmates and teachers by a 19-year-old former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County Florida, presents the most existential threat to the gun lobby in my lifetime. These kids, aged 15 to 18, have spoken more clearly, more forcefully, and more effectively than any activists or politicians, who for decades have pleaded for laws prohibiting the amassing of personal military-style arsenals by American gun fetishists.

What these young people have is special. They are too hurt and shocked and angry to be told to calm down. They are too social-media savvy to be fazed by bots and trolls and insane conspiracy theories. They were born in the post-9/11 age and are too fearless to be made to back down by bullies like the NRA’s resident Cruella de Ville Dana Loesch and her fellow travelers on the right. And they can easily spot the BS of a president, who has to hold a palm card to remind him to care when he speaks to them about their terrifying experiences.

And what they are demanding is so rational it’s impossible to argue against it: an end to the ability of a teenager who can’t legally purchase Sudafed, rent a car or buy a beer to obtain a weapon of war, and to turn his anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts into mass slaughter. ....

These children are united and determined. And they can win. Indeed already, the quarantining of the gun lobby has begun.
This week, the mayor pro tem of Dallas invited the NRA to find a new location for their bloody convention, and warned that if they do show up in his city, there will be protests. Governor Scott and Nevada Attorney General Paul Laxalt, both staunch pro-gun Republicans, won’t even publicly admit they plan to attend – a sign of how toxic the NRA has already become.

The Parkland students have called for a March 24 march on Washington. “The march for our lives” has already attracted millions of dollars in pledges and support from Hollywood titans like George and Amal Clooney and Oprah Winfrey. The march could put millions of people, young and not-so young, in the streets all over the country. ....

This is only the beginning.
The forces of rationality finally sense an opening. The gun lobby is weak and cleaving to extremists. The Parkland children are strong and declaring that they no longer want to be a generation practicing active shooter drills and afraid to go to school.
Parents are standing up and refusing to sacrifice their children so the gun lobby can stuff more money into their pockets. Their kids may be too young to vote, but they aren’t.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/remember-t...terror?ref=home

The Student Teachers
The teenagers from Stoneman Douglas are fearlessly reimagining how to effect change in the Trump era.

In one short week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have modeled power, eloquence, truth-telling, and hope. Because America seethes with dead-eyed monsters, they are being decried by lunatics as “crisis actors,” the tools of George Soros, and FBI plants. Despite the fact that these young people are now quite literally contending with death threats and mockery, as well as slammed doors, they are organized and organizing and we should all be taking notes.
I understand the twin temptations to shelter them from what’s to come and to lecture them about the ways they may be doing it wrong. But I, for one, have found myself humbled to near-silence by these brave teenagers, and not just because they are media savvy and seemingly without fear. They are extraordinary. With each spin of the news cycle, these students are offering a lesson for all of us about what protests can look like, and how we can reimagine social justice, in the Trump era.

1. Give Donald Trump Precisely 5 Percent of Your Mental Energy
These students aren’t wasting their time and energy on the president. Outside a handful of tweets on the day of the shootings, and a line or two in speeches and television appearances, the student protesters are modeling how to essentially ignore Donald Trump. They have no interest in talking to him or even about him. ...

2. Don’t Waste Time Fighting People Who Don’t Share Your Values and Goals
The Stoneman Douglas students don’t seem to be wasting their time debating or negotiating with the gun lovers on the other side. They are simply working to get gun legislation passed, to raise awareness, and to energize other young people. ...
They have work to do. If Wednesday night’s CNN town hall proved anything, it was that the National Rifle Association and GOP senators literally have no answers for them. They aren’t wasting time on gentle persuasion. They know when they are being lied to.

3. They Don’t Seem Hellbent on Having Leaders
While a handful of students clearly took the helm in the immediate aftermath of the shooting—including Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, and Cameron Kasky—they have been joined in recent days by Alfonso Calderon, Sarah Chadwick, Jaclyn Corin, and others. Together, they rotate on and off the cable shows; they march on Tallahassee, Florida; and they seem utterly content sharing the spotlight. I’ve yet to get the sense that this shared duty makes them nervous and very much suspect that it gives them huge comfort. I don’t know if 17 years old is pre– or post–monomaniacal egoism, but it’s actually refreshing to see these young people—of all genders and races and sexual orientations—bolstering and supporting one another.

4. They Expect to Win
The adults forgot to tell the kids at Stoneman Douglas that they can’t win against the NRA. ...

...And that’s the beauty of the Parkland kids. They don’t care. We scoff that theirs is a generation raised on reality shows, Instagram, and YouTube, but they are more aware of what is real and what is fake than the adults around them. Far from acting, or ritualized performance, these students have veered so far from any received post-tragedy script that, one week after the shooting, they are still dominating the news cycle.

...The kids of Stoneman Douglas really don’t much care what this president thinks, or what the NRA thinks, or even what we in the media think. The central mistake we have made this past week is trying to understand how this vast army of eloquent, purposeful, and clear-eyed students has been all-but-invisible to us until now. The better lesson we can take from them is that, thankfully, we have been almost entirely invisible to them. They are unconstrained by our norms and unmoved by our plight, and not really all that interested in our corny media tropes about childhood, suffering, and power. Good for them. It’s about time.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018...s-students.html

Poll: Support for stricter gun laws rises; divisions on arming teachers
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support stricter laws on gun sales, including an increasing number of Republicans, but the public divides on the idea of allowing more teachers and school officials to carry guns. Arming teachers draws partisan splits, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed, a CBS News poll reveals.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-suppor...rming-teachers/

GOP poll in Florida shows strong support for assault weapons ban
A poll commissioned by the incoming leader of the Florida Senate shows there is overwhelming support by those surveyed for an assault weapons ban. The proposals from lawmakers, however, fall short of that by only adding age limits and waiting periods to the assault rifle purchases.
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics...lt-weapons-ban/

Guess Who Thinks Arming Teachers Is A Really, Really Bad Idea? Military Combat Veterans.
“How to stand your ground when an aggressor is trying to kill you — that’s not something that comes naturally to people.”

“There is a gulf between being taught how to handle a weapon, and learning to fight. Those are two distinct things,” Brandon Friedman, a former Army captain who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and later served in the Obama administration, told BuzzFeed News. “And learning how to fight, how to stand your ground when an aggressor is trying to kill you, that’s not something that comes naturally to people.”

Learning how to fight takes training — military training.
“So in order to teach, now you have to be a soldier? That’s insane,” he said.

Many veterans are chafing at hearing such proposals from people like NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre who have never served in combat, he said.
“They have this Hollywood view of what a gunfight is like,” Friedman said. “Veterans know first hand (that) until you’ve been shot at, and seen how people react in these situations, you can’t wrap your mind around it.”

Underscoring that point was the news that a trained and armed Broward County sheriff's deputy stood by outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School made no effort to confront the gunman as most of the killing unfolded. ...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/verabergengruen...aAB2#.qjZ9za7KD