Amerika du hast es besser

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Unter dem Radar.

Der rechtsextreme Cuccinelli (#4516*, #4580) legt fest, was in der Verfassung steht (vgl #3646).

Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said Wednesday that ending birthright citizenship does not need a Constitutional amendment.

"I do not think you need an amendment to the Constitution. I think the question is do you need congressional action or can the executive act on their own," Cuccinelli said during a breakfast event hosted by Christian Science Monitor.
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-acting-immigration-director-claims-ending-birthright-citizenship-would-not-require-1465728

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Inzwischen sind es wieder 4 Millionen Kinder, die ohne Krankenversicherung sind.

The number of uninsured children in the United States increased by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018 bringing the total to over 4 million uninsured children in the nation.
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2019/10/29/the-number-of-uninsured-children-in-on-the-rise-acs/

Ursache: die Bemühungen der Republikaner, Obamacare zu killen, und die monatelange Verzögerung des Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). (vgl. #1458)

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* mit meiner Prognose, dass Cuccinelli keine Chance hat, hatte ich übrigens naiv daneben gelegen. Gesetze sind natürlich genauso wie die Verfassung dazu da, nicht beachtet zu werden.

NEW: The White House has found a way to bypass the Vacancies Act and tap the hardliner Mr. Trump wants to lead DHS. The route runs through the Office to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction. https://nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/politics/white-house-homeland-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Es steht ja eine Abstimmung über das Impeachmentverfahren nicht nur im House an, sondern auch eine im Senat, in der die Republikaner die Demokraten verurteilen wollen.

Aber hihi, sie stehen vor dem ,,gleichen" Problem wie die Demokraten:

A senior Republican senator predicted last week the resolution would never get a vote on the Senate floor because it would put vulnerable incumbents and GOP senators who have expressed concerns over Trump's conduct in a tough position.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/468029-senate-gop-in-bind-on-impeachment

Und den auch noch, gleiches Zentralorgan. Nachdem die verheerenden Wahlniederlagen der Republikaner nach dem Nixon-Rücktritt referiert worden sind, fährt der Text fort:

History may not repeat itself and it may not stammer, but it is making Republicans nauseous. Despite the span of time between the Nixon and Trump impeachments, two political rules remain unchanged. First, you stick with the president of your party through thick and thin. Turning on him risks depressing your base. Second, you turn on the president of your party when things become too thick. Sticking with him for a day longer energizes the base of the opposing party and loses swing voters.

No one on Capitol Hill wants to end up on the wrong side of history and, perhaps more importantly, on the losing side of an election.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/468068-specter-of-nixon-impeachment-looming-over-republican-party

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Unsere tägliche Dosis Korruption gib uns heute.

Washington (CNN)An internal government watchdog has flagged the lack of transparency in the Trump administration's tariff exemption process, saying it "contributes to the appearance of improper influence in decision-making."

A memo published this week by the Department of Commerce's inspector general said it found evidence that an unofficial appeals process exists and that communications with an objector prompted a change in the internal review criteria.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/30/politics/watchdog-steel-tariff-exemption-process/index.html

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The U.S. economy slowed to a modest growth rate of 1.9% in the summer as consumer spending downshifted and businesses continued to trim investments in response to trade war uncertainty and a weakening global economy

Matthew Dowd:
So job growth is slower under President trump than Obama's last three years. So is stock market growth. And now gdp growth is under 2%. All those folks who attacked Obama on the economy, what do you have to say about a worse one under trump?

Was soll diese Frage. Das ist doch vollkommen klar:

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It's the economy. For the stupid, too.

For years, coal boss Bob Murray said Trump would save his industry, and denied climate change exists

Yesterday, his company declared bankruptcy—and the filing document cites Trump's trade war and a climate-fueled monsoon season in India as two reasons.
https://heated.world/p/trump-caused-murray-energys-bankruptcy

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Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi
The current occupant of the White House says, 'Article Two says I can do whatever I want.'

That just isn't so.

Our Founders did not want a monarchy — that is why they wrote the Constitution. #LBJAward

The current occupant of the White House.

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Aaron Rupar:

Beyond parody

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House approves Trump impeachment procedures

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Susan Hennessey:
House Republicans, who have been harping about unfair process and procedures, just unanimously voted against additional process and procedures. The same people who have been yelling that closed hearing were illegitimate, now are saying they oppose open hearings.

Nicht alle Prognosen sind unsicher. Aber zugegeben, das war kein Kunststück. Die Verteidigung lastet immer mehr auf den Schultern von Hannity, Giuliani &Co.:

Translate Trump:
As Donald Trump struggles to defend his abuses of presidential power, more and more of his tweets are just direct quotes from @FoxNews  contributors or retweets of other people's talking points defending him.

BTW, Giuliani:

After he was named @realDonaldTrump's cybersecurity adviser,  @RudyGiuliani  went to an Apple store for help.
"He was locked out of his iPhone because he had forgotten the passcode and entered the wrong one at least 10 times."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rudy-giuliani-needed-apple-genius-help-unlock-his-iphone-after-n1074241

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Den noch. In der Umwertung aller Werte ist die Rechte stets bemüht, Begriffe zu erobern; eine beliebte Form des gaslightings. Ein aktuelles Beispiel:

"What we're seeing among Democrats on the Intelligence Committee down in the SCIF right now is like a cult!" he [Devin Nunes] charged. "These are a group of people loyally following their leader as he bounces from one outlandish conspiracy theory to another. And the media are the cult followers."

Kommentar:

Devin Nunes calling the Intelligence Committee's fact-finding mission a cult is dispicable. I know about cults. Cults are led by maniacal narcissists who expect complete adoration and relinquishment of independent thought. I suggest Mr. Nunes look elsewhere.

Sie weiß, wovon sie redet:

In 1978, Speier was shot five times as a congressional staffer trying to save people from the cult at Jonestown. She survived after being left for dead on airstrip for 22 hours. Speier almost never talks about the experience, so this is a real rebuke of Nunes.

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Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
To the Democrats I say this: Let THE PEOPLE choose the next leader of the free world. Do not dilute our democracy by allowing politicians to interfere in elections from their bubble in Washington, DC.

@RogueEPAstaff
BREAKING: House minority leader calls for end of the electoral college

Ups. So war das natürlich nicht gemeint. Gemeint war, dass die Demokraten das Impeachment aufgeben sollen.

[Peiresc]

Eine nüchterne Betrachtung über den Ernst der Lage.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/31/regime-cleavage-229895

Today, when Trump refuses to comply with the House impeachment inquiry, he makes plain his indifference to the Constitution and to the separation of powers. When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell argues that impeachment overturns an election result, he is doing the same. In the minds of Trump, his allies and, increasingly, his supporters, it's not just Democrats but American democracy that is the obstacle.

Sie zieht Vergleiche zur Zeit vor dem Bürgerkrieg, zu Chile unter Allende und schließt:

If we fail to agree on and abide by our common democratic principles, our emerging regime cleavage will harden, and the future for American democracy will be bleak.

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DONALD TRUMP'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-suggests-people-send-her-salary-775228

Damit ist sie für Regierungverantwortung hinreichend qualifiziert.

Paula White, Trump's Personal Pastor, Joins the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html

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ABC News
Verifizierter Account

@ABC
10 Std.Vor 10 Stunden

NEW: Pres. Trump's approval rating is 38% in the new @ABC News/WaPo poll.

Among Republicans, he's at a career low of 74%—down steeply from a career-high 87% in July.

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Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
63 million Americans put President Trump in office. Now 231 Washington Democrats are trying to reverse the results of the 2016 election.

Auch das intellektuelle Niveau der Republikaner nähert sich dem ihres Gelobten Anführers. Sie machen keine erkennbaren Anstrengungen mehr, in der Sache, zum Inhalt des Impeachments, zu argumentieren, m. a. W.: die ist verloren. Klartext: ein verlogener Dummenfang. Und selbst wenn man sich für einen Moment darauf einlassen mag:

Bruno Amato:
This is a REAL map showing who actually VOTED. Land doesnt vote. Nice try Kev.

[Daggi]

NYTimes zu Trump und twitter:

.....Once Mr. Trump arrives in the West Wing — usually after 10 a.m. — Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, takes control of the Twitter account, tweeting as @realDonaldTrump from his own phone or computer. Mr. Trump rarely tweets in front of others, those close to him say, because he does not like to wear the reading glasses he needs to see the screen.

Instead, the president dictates tweets to Mr. Scavino, who sits in a closet-size room just off the Oval Office until Mr. Trump calls out "Scavino!" Often, he prints out suggested tweets in extra-large fonts for the president to sign off on. (A single-page article that Mr. Scavino recently printed out for him ran to six pages after the fonts were enlarged, according to one person who saw it.).....

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter-presidency.html

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Sie machen keine erkennbaren Anstrengungen mehr, in der Sache, zum Inhalt des Impeachments, zu argumentieren

Und wer sollte ihnen das übelnehmen. Bauchlandung is'n Scheiß dagegen, wenn man es versucht:

[Fox News senior political analyst Brit] Hume quoted an editorial from the conservative Wall Street Journal, which is also owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. "Democrats want to impeach Mr. Trump for asking a foreign government to investigate his political rival for corruption, though the probe never happened, and for with­hold­ing aid to Ukraine that in the end wasn't with­held," the quote read.

Mimi Rocah, who served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, blasted the defense's flawed assumption. "Of all the ridiculous arguments, this is at the top. Guy who failed to rob the bank because he got caught is still a bank robber," Rocah noted.

Hume argued he was correct anyway because impeachment — which can only result in Trump losing his government job — is the "ultimate penalty."
"Dumb answer. Failed crimes don't get the ultimate penalties. Impeachment is the ultimate penalty," Hume argued.

Rocah noted Hume had inadvertently admitted that Trump was guilty.

"It wasn't a 'failed crime.' He got caught after he'd already done the act and abused his power. And anyway – you're basically admitting the crime but asking for leniency because it wasn't so bad which is remarkable," Rocah replied.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/foxs-brit-hume-gets-schooled-in-conspiracy-law-after-fumbling-attempt-to-defend-trump/