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And limited intelligence sharing, on incoming middle attacks on Ukraine.
Whilst Russia is helping Iran targeting US targets and allies in the Middle East.
With what? Any videos or pictures can just be called "AI made" now. Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media ecosystem will defend him at all costs.
Nah, he's doing this because he's a power hungry fuck.
Trump is motivated by the money the Russians have paid him and tease will pay him in the future AND by whatever compromising things they have on him. Russians like the carrot and the stick.
Just the threat of defenestration is a pretty convincing stick. Especially for a narcisist - he can't fathom facing a consequence for anything, nor can he stand the thought of a world without him in it.
They could reveal that Trump has been propped up entirely by dirty Russian money and without that corruption he would be dead broke. To Trump his wealth is the cornerstone of his personality, and threats to his internal story of being a successful businessman are one of the things he just cannot tolerate. It would be devastating to his ego to be revealed as a fraud and therefore Russia will always hold power over him. And the pee pee tapes.
It’s the only thing that realistically would make an impact. He’s shameless and immune to Justice so long as he has enough money, being wealthy is also a core part of his public identity.
It’s the only thing he truly cares about. He’s either got all his money tied up in Russian assets and investments, or he’s being promised a shitload more
One of Trump's first moves as president was to declare that Russia wasn't a cybersecurity threat to the US anymore, and then cutting the budget for cyberdefense against Russia.
Ukraine hitting Yandex data centers is limiting Russia bot army, which would limit their social media attacks. Which would limit how much disinformation they can spread now online. And Ukraine has said they will continue hitting the data centers.
Sanctions story is top of page on NYT. Buried way down and with no connection is this story: “
Russia Appears to Step Up Efforts to Influence U.S. Voters”
OMG! I seen a lot of those videos. MAGA are so dumb it hurts. Brainwashed adults with no critical thinking coming up with batshit insane conspiracy theories and also playing the blame game. I would suggest people watch a few. It shows really who MAGA is.
I’ve been on the bandwagon for over a decade that they’re irredeemable, like they’re done. The amount of blowback from my circle and whatnot was astounding, oh people can change and that they’ll learn. Man, listen. They can’t read, write, nor have basic comprehension of societal skills. They aren’t coming back, we will live in different realities for the entire of our lifetime and our children’s.
Holy shit I got the “not a good look”
Or yeah I didn’t like that
But it’s always like they’re complaining about some popular kid at school that they so badly want to be friends with when he does something bad and they don’t want to admit it. It is unconditional love criticizing.
Not a whiff of it on the conservative sub, which usually delays addressing this kind of stuff for about 6-24 hours while they formulate their narrative around it and then push it via all their bot accounts.
A former conservative friend of mine (cut ties bc of politics) used to tell me he hoped that Putin and trump would save us from NATO - he viewed NATO as a pre-WWI style entanglement device and thought letting Putin weaken it would save the U.S. He was adamant the Cold War era was over and nothing in today’s world indicated Russia was an enemy, and that the real enemy are the democrats here. We are obviously no longer friends. Unfortunately his father is a federal judge and shares his views.
Section 115(a), titled “Waiver,” of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (H.R. 5334), signed into law September 18, 2026.
The exact language states:
“The President may, subject to subsection (b), waive the application of any sanctions provision with respect to a foreign person, any restriction with respect to a person, or any duty under this title.”
All he has to do is state why it is in the interest
Of the United States. The waiver does not have to be approved by congress.
I mean, this seems like a clear violation of the nondelegation doctrine. I doubt anyone has standing to sue over it... but theoretically it's probably an unconstitutional waiver power.
I don't think such a clause is actually valid though. Congress simply delegating power to the President with no factual requirements beyond it being "in the national interests of the United States" seems like a pretty clear violation of the nondelegation doctrine. I have no idea who would have standing to sue over this though...
What exactly would be the proper legal recourse if Congress passed a law saying that any and all other laws can be selectively waived by a Presidential determination that it's in the national interests of the United States?
It may not be a slim majority. Many republicans at least go on the news and say they are outraged by this. Whether that will result in any of them voting to stop it is another question.
Trump is a traitor. Once he's out of office he needs to be treated like one in every way a traitor and their family, money, assets, monuments etc have been treated throughout history
Hey hey. The gaggle of poor people who support the new York billionaire had to show the libtards somehow. All it cost them was their health care, ebt, family farms, raise in price in food and gas. But at least they don't have to hear a weird laugh
Haha... I was just showing my teen kid what happened to Mussolini just 2 minutes ago! Strung up from a gas station for all to see. Apparently the crowd cut his body down to spit on and kick further. That's what happens to fascists. It's going to happen to Putin eventually as well, and he knows this. The problem is that they take a lot of other people out until their last moment on earth.
The traitors to the country after the civil war went right back to their old jobs, including elected office. Most of their monuments remained. Their battle flag still flourishes. History treated them very well. Which is why the country is a dumpster fire today.
People told me a decade ago that Trump would be so hard on Russia cause he was a strong man. Guess they didnt realize what kind of hard on he had for Russia. Fucking traitor
His consistent strongman affinity for Kim Jong Un and Duarte make me think it’s less an asset thing (though the signs are there, tbh), and more a naturally destructive narcissist/sociopath asshole genuine idiot that confuses control with respect, and craves control above all else. So he admires authoritarians.
Or maybe he’s just an asshole who actually peed on a pro in Moscow and desperately wants his name on a building there. That’d track, too
An asset doesn’t necessarily have to be aware of the fact or being given marching orders, it’s enough if they can be manipulated into doing things for the group in question’s interests. That’s why it’s different from an agent. In more ordinary situations it can be something as simple as unwittingly accepting an invite for a paid trip to do speeches promoting them or something they’re involved in. Or as we’ve seen, being funnelled money from the interested party to assist you in making more online content which is sympathetic to them which you might have already been doing anyway without instruction.
When he was in serious financial strife in the 1980s and the American banks wouldn’t loan to him anymore, Russian banks and oligarchs came to his aid, as Russia has a history of grooming western businessmen as they can become valuable assets later on. When they come visiting to Russia, as Trump did in 1987 when lured with a prospect of a Moscow Trump tower, they also employ Kompromat, loading their hotel rooms with cameras and bugs and providing all the underaged prostitutes they could want. No doubt they also have a copy of the Epstein files. And Putin likes to remind him now and then, hence the flip-flopping.
When he got back from his Moscow trip in 1987, the first thing he did was take out full-page ads in the newspapers attacking NATO. A strange thing to do for a US playboy businessman.
Trump said, there was something planned in October right? Well I’m thinking Russia has something to do with it since he’s been sucking up so much the last two weeks.
This. Just. This so so many times over. And over. Every day. It's just this. For one reason or another but also they're all the same reasons. I'm exhausted. And disheartened to my soul.
America needs to learn from French school children and start protesting and shutting down cities to pressure their politicians into action instead of hoping they will
Because the collective we elected him and Republicans to do this. He won both the electoral and popular vote. The stupidest country on the planet wanted fascism 🤷♂️
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."
That’s what “senator” Darline Nordone “Graham” said when questioned about Trump’s Russian diesel purchase in her debate with Dr Annie Andrews: the woman claimed she created the sanctions legislation (she did not, although her brother was a major part of that when he was alive) and that Trump could “use those tools as he sees fit” ☠️ She’s such a damn doormat for yamtits!! She’s also a traitor to her brother’s memory, sullied as it is by his adulation towards Trump: At least he was still in Ukraine’s corner, while Darline is undoubtedly getting rich selling out anything and everything Trump tells her to.
Unfortunately the legislation was passed with an executive kill switch (section 115) in the form of a presidential waiver subject to the president submitting a certification and a report to congress showing that the waiver is in the national interest of the United States.
Trump is still a traitor but he's abusing a loophole in the legislation to possibly make this legal.
Ah yes, I think I remember that part from my civics classes…
The Judicial Branch interprets the laws
The Executive Branch enforces the laws
The Legislative Branch creates the laws…but, ya know, only if the President is cool with it and just in case they’re not, they just add a lil provision to the law that says the President can choose if it’s an actual law cause they don’t want to make the President feel like he’s not in charge or anything
It’s probably an order to any agency involved in legislation and the DOJ to not enforce the law. Likely similar to the orders he issued regarding Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in 2025.
You ask for reason and rules based laws, you will get neither. Your president is a pedophile protector. He may be a pedophile himself. The pedophile class ruling America isn't trying to be good stewards of the country.
“I’ve known Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years. Terrific guy, he’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” - Donald Trump
Epstein wasn't into women of age. He's basically admitting it right there. Trump owned and had beauty pageants for children (Miss Teen USA) at the time he was friends with Epstein. He's most definitely a pedophile.
Because Congress is in the hands of maga (which Leon took full credit for rigging btw). The Founders thought Congress would be jealous of their power and never cede it to the Executive. They were wrong. In the name of money and patriarchal religion, Congress has made POTUS a king.
He tried to overturn the 2020 election and incited an insurrection to try and prevent the lawful winner from taking power, and the American people voted him in 4 years later.
All the rules and conventions and even the constitution mean nothing now.
Remember when this was one of the things Trump was going to be impeached over? Remember when they said they weren't going to do it because he learned his lesson?
Aiding and abetting a country that is actively giving Iran intelligence on our base and troop locations. Russia has received thousands of kamikaze drones from Iran since the start of the attempted invasion of Ukraine. He is fucking funding the country actively killing our service members! How in the f is this thing still in the people's house?
It appears that Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke the truth, and the newsmedia of the USA failed in their duty. Republicans also betrayed their duty to the United States of America.
Trump just threw Lindsey Graham and his sister under the bus, to SAVE his OWN ASS, with Putin, And something tells me Lindsey's friends in Congress aren't too happy about that.
Section 115(a), titled “Waiver,” of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (H.R. 5334), signed into law September 18, 2026.
The exact language states:
“The President may, subject to subsection (b), waive the application of any sanctions provision with respect to a foreign person, any restriction with respect to a person, or any duty under this title.”
All he has to do is state why it is in the interest of the United States. The waiver does not have to be approved by congress.
Edit: What I'm not sure about is if the "of any sanctions provision" only applies to the sanctions that are part of this law or if it applies to previously passed sanctions as well.
President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!
That was also a slap in the face to Congress, which had passed a "death sentence" on ZTE for repeatedly violating sanctions to sell to Iran and North Korea. This was probably purely venal on its part, because it came on the heels of this:
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