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No surprises there... Willem-Alexander rules supreme: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-netherlands-curfew/dutch-parliament-backs-night-time-curfew-plan-to-curb-covid-19-spread-idUKKBN29Q2GE We can't expect our dumb, deaf and blind media to explain what's going on! In a "normal" situation bills only become legislation, after the tweede kamer AND eerste kamer (lower AND higher chamber) approve of the bills proposed by the king. After the dictator has declared a "state of emergency", the despot can do as he pleases. If they would want to make the show convincing, the least they could do is to wait with the implementation, until after (also) the eerste kamer votes in favour. So far only a majority of the tweede kamer voted for it (with no intention to send it to the eerste kamer?!). Obviously weed and hard liquor are "essential" for brainwashing the nation: the coffeeshops and liquor stores remain open. So we can still get stoned and drunk (just about the only thing we're still allowed besides watching the telescreen)!

Trump had to deal with opposition from BOTH parties and with voters being manipulated by the media. The LIEbertarian fantasy that he could have just enacted perfect policy by fiat and not had every veto overridden like the last NDAA and without being impeached, convicted and removed or actually losing reelection without the most egregious fraud in American history is an insult to the intelligence of everyone they tell it to and is serious cause to question their real motives.

Congress increased spending, Trump ended wars and he kept his word far better than any other politician. Your lies are as pathetic as ever.

I have better things to do than cast pearls before swine and reality is preaching its own sermon quite well for now.

That's news to me.

When I think of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) I'm thinking about oil, the genocide of Yemen and Trump cronies. I never would have guessed that the UAE is one of the largest aluminium exporters to the US... On his last day in office, president Donald exempted the Emirates from the 10% tariff on aluminum. Instead quotas were placed on the UAE, that imports have to remain close to "historical levels without meaningful increases". The UAE is the third-largest exporter of aluminium to the US, after China and Russia, and also sells steel to the US. In 2020, the UAE were roughly 11.5% of total U.S. aluminium imports and about 14% in 2019 (in 2019, that was about 10.7% of total U.S. aluminum demand). https://archive.is/Ju3jV

Shalom Weiss, after lobbying by Alan Dershowitz, had his sentenced commuted by Trump. In 2000, Weiss was sentenced to 845 years in prison for an insurance fraud scheme that involved racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice. Weiss was initially offered a 5 years plea bargain, and later 10 years. Weiss played a large role in causing National Heritage Life Insurance Company (NHLIC) a loss of more than $125 million and hiding those losses from company executives and insurance regulators. After the jury pronounced him guilty and ordered him to pay a restitution of $125,016,656 and a fine of $123,399,910, Weiss fled the country and was only caught in Austria and bought back for his trial in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss Shalom Weiss had access to half of the $450 million he helped steal from/through National Heritage. Where did the money go?

Eliyahu Weinstein, another criminal of the Kabbalah Zionist cult Chabad-Lubavitch, defrauded Lubavitchers in his community in New Jersey, who trusted him. Trump pardoned him after he was supported by Alan Dershowitz. Eliyahu Weinstein pleaded guilty in 2 cases for which he was sentenced to 24 years in prison. One was a $200 million real estate Ponzi scheme, in which he milked his victims using a virtual portfolio of fake real estate investments. Weinstein to get their money lied that he had inside access to certain real estate opportunities so he could buy below the market price. He forged documents, including phony mortgages and deeds, and “show checks” that were altered to look like they were worth millions of dollars. While Weinstein was awaiting trial, he conned an investor out of $6.7 million by convincing him he had an inside track on shares of the Facebook IPO. In the civil lawsuits filed against him, Weinstein was accused of taking more than $470 million through complex real estate deals in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Great Britain and Israel that never materialised, and the money disappeared. Judge Pisano, who sentenced him, ordered Weinstein to pay $215.4 million in restitution to his victims and forfeit another $215.4 million to the government. The judge found that the defendant could pay $1,000 a month, which would take him more than 35,000 years to repay the $430 million.

David Tamman was pardoned by President Donald. Tamman’s pardon was supported by the Aleph Institute and former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Tamman obstructed a federal investigation, by falsifying financial documents to hide a Ponzi scheme when Tamman was an attorney for Newpoint Investment Services. Newpoint Investment Services was John Farahi’s investment company, who was perpetrating a Ponzi scheme upon unsuspecting investors. Tamman unsuccesfully helped Farahi to obstruct the SEC investigation into the fraud scheme. Tamman was sentenced to 7 years in jail, in a court case in which he was represented by none other than Alan Dershowitz: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/attorney-who-twice-helped-obstruct-investigations-22-million-ponzi-scheme-sentenced

So you support lying Donald "swamp draining" tactics of issuing pardons to his friends and family (including the father-in-law of Ivanka) and other white-collar criminals that have plundered hundreds of millions from "us"? Aleph-and-Dershowitz-lobby-for-Trump-pardons

Dave Clark was released from prison after his 40-year sentence was commuted by President Trump. Clark had been convicted of masterminding a $300 million real estate Ponzi scheme for his Cay Clubs. From 2004 through 2008, Clark and his co-conspirator Schwarz looted more than $30 million for themselves (where did the money go?): http://www.ponzitracker.com/ (https://archive.is/9okqN)

Michael Ashley (another Chabad-Lubavitcher, who doesn't even has a personal Wikipedia page) is another one for who President Donald commuted the sentence. Ashley was supported by the Aleph Institute and Alan Dershowitz. I don't understand... "in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008, when Ashley made $1.075 billion in loans, Ashley's compensation was $5.375 million". I read that he got paid $5.4 billion for a year's "work". In July 2019, Ashley was sentenced to 3 years in prison for his role in the 2009 collapse of Lend America and was ordered to pay $49 million in restitution and forfeit $800,000. In 2013, according to the US bankruptcy judge Ashley “diverted more than $50 million” from Lend America’s parent company... and only had to pay $49.8 million.

What's wrong with you?!? So you find an article that I linked to that is nothing more than a list of the scum lying Donald pardoned. You forgot to answer...

I've started a thread a while ago that includes the latest pardons by lying "drain the swamp" Donald. Aleph-and-Dershowitz-lobby-for-Trump-pardons

What do I have to do with ABC?!? So you support lying Donald "swamp draining" tactics of issuing pardons to his friends and family (including the father-in-law of Ivanka) and other white-collar criminals that have plundered hundreds of millions from "us"?

There are huge financial interests here either way. There have already been orders, deliveries, payments for steel for the Keystone pipeline. Did I misunderstand that part of it has been built (like the great Mexico wall)? Trump-Man-of-steel

I'm not sure if "gutless" is the correct word either. Maybe corrupt, liar or despot would be more appropriate! Aleph-and-Dershowitz-lobby-for-Trump-pardons

I get a "not found" 404 message for the original Whitehouse.gov statement on the last day pardons by president Donald: https://archive.is/TH54G Chris Young got the remaining of his 14 years sentence commuted by President Trump, with the support of the Aleph Institute. Maybe surprising that for once I agree with lying Donald. Chris Young was the victim of the 3-strikes-law. He was a relatively small-time drug dealer but because this was his third conviction he should have recieved a mandatory life sentence, which in a rare act of clemency by a Judge was overturned, by dishonourable judge Kevin H. Sharp (who also supported his pardon). Stephen Odzer, in 2005, pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding 3 New York banks of more than $16 million, using his company B&T Supply Inc. that owes Par Funding $91 million, for which he was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison. Where did the money go ($91 million or $16 million)? President Trump granted a conditional pardon to Odzer, after being supported by the Aleph Institute, and numerous members of Mr. Odzer’s religious community. Mr. Odzer pled guilty to conspiracy and bank fraud, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison: https://archive.is/Gzt3a

Salomon Melgen became the US's highest-paid Medicare doctor, between 2008 and 2013, by giving elderly patients unnecessary eye injections and laser blasts. Prosecutors accused Melgen of stealling $136 million. U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, who sentenced him, conluded that Melgen had stolen at least $73 million. In a separate case, Melgen was accused of bribing Senator Bob Menendez, to stop Medicare officials that were investigating his malpractices, and to obtain visas for his foreign mistresses. Melgen and Menendez simply argued that these were gifts (the jury didn't convict Melgen for this). What are friends for if they can't help each other out? It's just a coincidence that one of them was stealing $100 million through healthcare fraud, while the other was a congressman. After this case got some publicity, Menendez reimbursed Melgen $58,500 (perfectly normal for a congressman to receive gifts totalling that amount): https://archive.is/XnrUG

Or maybe this has nothing to do with sleepy Joe. In this way, the success of the not properly tested COVID-19 vaccines is guaranteed in advance.