***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Belgium]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-tillerson-idUSKBN1AH55C?il=0

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump grudgingly accepted new congressional sanctions on Russia, the top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, remarks in contrast with those of Vice President Mike Pence, who said the bill showed Trump and Congress speaking "with a unified voice."

The U.S. Congress voted last week by overwhelming margins for sanctions to punish the Russian government over interference in the 2016 presidential election, annexation of Crimea and other perceived violations of international norms.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters that he and Trump did not believe the new sanctions would "be helpful to our efforts" on diplomacy with Russia.

Trump has been clear that he wants to improve relations with Russia, a desire that has been hamstrung by findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered to help the Republican against Democrat Hillary Clinton. U.S. congressional panels and a special counsel are investigating. Moscow denies any meddling and Trump denies any collusion by his campaign.

Tillerson, who did business in Russia when he was chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has said repeatedly that the world's two major nuclear powers cannot have such a bad relationship.

"The action by the Congress to put these sanctions in place and the way they did, neither the President nor I were very happy about that," Tillerson said. "We were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts, but that's the decision they made, they made it in a very overwhelming way. I think the president accepts that."

Tillerson stopped short of saying definitively that Trump would sign the sanctions, saying only that "all indications are he will sign that bill."

Vice President Mike Pence, at a press conference in Georgia with Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, said unequivocally that "President Trump will sign the Russia sanctions bill soon."

Pence acknowledged that the administration objected to earlier versions of the sanctions bill because it did not grant enough flexibility to the administration, but said it "improved significantly" in later versions.

"And let me say that in signing the sanction, our President and our Congress are speaking with a unified voice," Pence said.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday the sanctions bill was under review and would be signed.

"There's nothing holding him back," Sanders said at a news briefing. Trump has until Aug. 9 to sign the bill, or veto it, or it will automatically become law.

In retaliation for the sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia must reduce its staff by 755 people. Russia is also seizing two properties near Moscow used by American diplomats.

Tillerson said Putin probably believes his response was a symmetrical action to Washington seizing two Russian properties in the United States and expelling 35 diplomats last December.

"Of course it makes our lives more difficult," he said.

Tillerson said he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would meet in Manila on the margins of next weekend's meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

 

[quell]

Does the new NT have reminders? I want to open this thread 3 years from now

 

[AZwildcats]

Are you never going to let this go?

#neverforget
rico x hood Where that Net Neutrality Act at fam

 

[RustyShackleford]

Hard left is deaf

@Nike Jordan you're right famb.

I know the answer to the question I asked earlier

 

[RustyShackleford]

#neverforget
rico x hood Where that Net Neutrality Act at fam

Back of the line famb

He still gotta show us what part of the GOP platform addresses minority issues

And school me and Paul Krugman on economics.

 

[aepps20]

Back of the line famb

He still gotta show us what part of the GOP platform addresses minority issues

And school me and Paul Krugman on economics.

He also has to explain why DAPPER DON has yet to go Super Saiyan Blue.

 

[EddieDoyers]

????

Trump calls the White House a dump
What are you so confused about?

 

[Belgium]

Trump calls the White House a dump
What are you so confused about?

KILLARY assassinated Seth Rich b
What are you damn libbies so confused about?

 

[EddieDoyers]

KILLARY assassinated Seth Rich b
What are you damn libbies so confused about?

Da DNC is da Illuminati b

 

[IATT]

 

[AEA18]

The White House is a dump

I guess it's not gaudy enough for the orange clown

 

[quell]

Trump calls the White House a dump
What are you so confused about?

It is a dump lol have you been? I went as a kid on a people2people trip and and can remember going yeesh

Trump must HATE staying there. I actually hope in his second term he updates it...long due for updating

 

[quell]

You guys are gonna tire yourselves out by year 3, and then have to deal with 8 years if you exhaust yourselves in the next 6 months the way you have in the first 6



See ya

 

[AZwildcats]

Discriminating against white applicants

 

[AEA18]

You guys are gonna tire yourselves out by year 3, and then have to deal with 8 years if you exhaust yourselves in the next 6 months the way you have in the first 6



See ya

Step ya troll game up b

 

[RustyShackleford]

You guys are gonna tire yourselves out by year 3, and then have to deal with 8 years if you exhaust yourselves in the next 6 months the way you have in the first 6



See ya

Feeling this insecure and inadequate must be exhausting for you.

 

[EddieDoyers]

It is a dump lol have you been? I went as a kid on a people2people trip and and can remember going yeesh

Trump must HATE staying there. I actually hope in his second term he updates it...long due for updating

I have been there....and it's a beautiful looking historical landmark. The home to great American presidents of the past. How can you hate it?

Also isn't it ironic how much Trump rode Obama for golfing....but now his excuse for golfing so much is that the White House is a dump? Lmao

 

[rexanglorum]

I know that many of you feel vindicated by saying "what the heel do you have to lose?" but really, no one is vindicated because Trump's speach was never a sincere appeal to black voters and no self respecting black, white, Asian or Taino person ever asked that question in good faith.

It's a similar case for the "but her emails" refrain. No one, who was hung up on Clinton's emails, was actually worried about just her emails. Emails just became shorthand for the countless writs and conspiracies theories that were hurled at her and her husband.


Now the Tariq's and Steven A's of World, they are off their rockers. As were the Jill Stein folks. Both parties are all too similar on too many issues but you make the Democratic Party more liberal from a position of strength and not weakness.

 

[EddieDoyers]

I hope in 8 years you finally see some gains in ya back b, this is SAD!......

BTW, info on the Wool sweater you rocking in this pic.....

Bah gawd he even got the Richard spencer haircut special

 

[Maximus Meridius]

I thought the homie Tariq was reaching about the WS haircut. Damn.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

 

[MVP]

Bah gawd he even got the Richard spencer haircut special

Who is this?

 

[aepps20]

I hope in 8 years you finally see some gains in ya back b, because this is SAD!......

BTW, info on the wool sweater you rocking in this pic .....

Who is this dare I say DAPPER DUDE?

 

[RustyShackleford]

Quell, he posted those pics in the Gettin Back in Shape Thread.

You guys can search his media. He is very proud of the SS haircut too.

Literally, that is what they call the damb haircut and dudes still get it and think it is all good.

 

[EddieDoyers]

Who is this?

That's probably Quell