Dick Schoof oefent alvast even hoe hij vragen (niet) kan beantwoorden voor zijn volgende persconferentie.
Kijk #Plakshot vanavond rond 20.20 uur op NPO 3.
Zaterdag 3 februari is het weer Open Dag bij Hogeschool Leiden. Een hogeschool waar je gezien en gehoord wordt. En vlg studenten de beste in de Randstad. Kom langs en meld je aan: https://t.co/KYtN7q8WnB
Straks, als ze bij RC Lens - PSV na de rust het veld weer op komen, klinkt één van de mooiste stadionliederen, meegezongen door bijna 40.000 Lensois. Les Corons, van Pierre Bachelet. En nu maar hopen dat we daar op de Nederlandse tv iets van kunnen zien.
Robert De Niro’s full statement on Trump. Please read and let me know your thoughts:
I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men. I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.
I see an evil one.
Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.
Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.
We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego. We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership. We tried to warn the world in 2016.
The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination. Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.
The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior. That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.
Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.
So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.
Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.
And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.
So what do we do about it? I know I’m preaching to the choir here. What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls. We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice. Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.
Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect. Let’s not talk about “democracy.” “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. Let’s talk about right and wrong. Let’s talk about humanity. Let’s talk about kindness. Security for our world. Safety for our families. Decency. Let’s welcome them back. We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”
RC Lens is terug in de Champions League, en dus zingen ze zoals elke thuiswedstrijd met 40.000 man het prachtige ‘Les Corons’ van Pierre Bachelet, het officieuze volkslied van deze mijnstreek in Noord-Frankrijk. Zo ontzettend mooi.
Een leven lang leren is onzin, behalve als het zou gaan om het ontdekken van (oa) “Monty Python, collega’s aanspreken op wangedrag, Van Kooten en De Bie, zelfspot en wat topografie”. En nog meer! Dank voor dit pleidooi tegen jeuktaal @Japked@nrc vanochtend 😉
Heerlijk: zomervakantie! Werk jij door, of ga je lekker weg? Het is in ieder geval de tijd om te reflecteren. Terugkijken op wat je gedaan hebt. Wij doen dit met Edward Stigter in dit lange interview!
Lees het #interview hier: https://t.co/6ojvHYnl4O
De uitdaging is duidelijk: er moet ontzettend veel schone energie bij om Nederland klimaatneutraal te krijgen. Maar HOE dan? Gelukkig is er ook heel veel: ZO DUS! #vanhoenaarzo