Slechte opkomst voor republikeinen bij enkele speciale verkiezingen voor het huis (voorproefje voor 2018?):
https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...-for-the-surprisingly-close-race-in-kansas-4/
Estes’s underperformance in Kansas 4 should worry Republicans because special elections as a group have done a decent job of predicting midterm results over the past few cycles. Kansas’s result comes on top of Democrats’ doing 18 points better than the past presidential vote suggested in California’s 34th special election last week. In no midterm cycle since 2002, except for 2006 when Democrats took back the House, did Democrats outperform the past presidential vote in at least two districts as much as they did in California 34 and Kansas 4. Those outcomes are potentially indicative of a wave large enough for Democrats to take back the House in 2018.
En het is toch zover O’Reilly ligt buiten bij fox. De man die fox groot maakte en de meest populaire "politiek" programma had in de VS ligt buiten.
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/04/why-was-bill-oreilly-really-fired/523614/
Here are some of the things Bill O’Reilly has done, allegedly, to the women he has worked with throughout his two decades at the Fox News Channel:
approaching an African American woman whose desk was near his, referring to her as “hot chocolate,” and grunting like a “wild boar”
offering multiple unwanted sexual advances and lewd comments to a woman producer on his show, phoning her “when it sounded as if he was masturbating” and describing “various sexual fantasies”
suggesting that she “buy a vibrator,” “engage in phone sex or a threesome with him,” and listen to “the details of his alleged sexual encounters with a cabana masseuse, airline stewardesses, and Thai sex-show workers”
threatening to make any woman who dared to complain about his behavior “pay so dearly that she’ll wish she’d never been born”
De echte reden:
Another factor in the death of the Factor: 21st Century Fox’s pending takeover of Sky TV, the European pay-TV company, in a deal said to be worth $14 billion. “On May 16,” New York magazine reported, “the British media regulator Ofcom is set to judge whether the Murdochs are ‘fit and proper’ to own such a large media property.” And “removing O’Reilly could appease critics and help close the Sky deal.”What the company doesn’t say in its release, and what Murdoch also leaves silent in his talk of “trust and respect,” is that the firing seems to have been occasioned by so much more than “the allegations” in question—a string of events that have compromised The O’Reilly Factor as an (alleged) arbiter of American civic life, and also, relatedly, as a money-making juggernaut. There were the daily protests outside Fox News’s headquarters in New York, objecting to O’Reilly. And there’s the fact that several high-profile advertisers—more than 50 of them, in all—suspended the campaigns they had been airing on his show. The advertisers included, The Daily Beast reports, carmakers, pharmaceutical companies, financial and insurance firms, and many more, and many of them expressed particular concern about the allegations’ effect on The O’Reilly Factor as an agent of American morality.
Another factor in the death of the Factor: 21st Century Fox’s pending takeover of Sky TV, the European pay-TV company, in a deal said to be worth $14 billion. “On May 16,” New York magazine reported, “the British media regulator Ofcom is set to judge whether the Murdochs are ‘fit and proper’ to own such a large media property.” And “removing O’Reilly could appease critics and help close the Sky deal.”
Jij stelt het zwart/wit, "ik doe het, dus mag jij het ook", terwijl het in de werkelijkheid zoveel complexer is. Zoals ik dus zei, de VS is een democratisch land dat al tientallen jaren de wereld technologisch aan het leiden is en dus ook qua raket-technologie ja. Dit al die tijd terwijl het goede banden onderhoud met zowat 90% van de wereld en die eerder genoemde technologie gebruikt om de wereld zo goed als veilig te houden. Ik weet dat er ook donkere kanten zijn maar IMO is dat deel van onze wereld, net zoals België actief is met F16's in Syrië op dit moment. 
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