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Senate Votes To Reinstate ZTE Ban That's Nearly Shut Down the Company (theverge.com)
The U.S. Senate has voted to reinstate a ban on ZTE that prevents the Chinese telecom company from buying U.S. components and using U.S. software. As The Verge notes, "it's still not clear if the reversal will make it into law: it has to clear a conference with the House, and then avoid a veto from President Trump, who advocated for cutting a deal that would lift the ban." From the report: ZTE was hit with the trade ban by the U.S. Commerce Department in April after failing to following through with a punishment for violating sanctions on Iran and North Korea. That ban essentially shut down ZTE, which relies on U.S. parts like Qualcomm processors. Shortly thereafter, Trump said he would cut a deal to revive the company, and a deal was reached -- with additional penalties that the department said were uniquely stringent -- earlier this month.
But senators on both sides of the aisle immediately threatened to stop the deal and reinstate the ban, citing ZTE as a national security risk. And ultimately, a bipartisan group worked to get legislation introduced. The Senate voted 85 to 10 in support of reinstating the ban. It was included as an amendment on the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass piece of legislation that has already moved through the House.
But senators on both sides of the aisle immediately threatened to stop the deal and reinstate the ban, citing ZTE as a national security risk. And ultimately, a bipartisan group worked to get legislation introduced. The Senate voted 85 to 10 in support of reinstating the ban. It was included as an amendment on the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass piece of legislation that has already moved through the House.
This fucking moron needs to figure out being President is more important than being a shady business slinger for his daughter's bauble brands. Lock the traitor up and throw away the keys.
I guess 4th grade was too hard for your tiny, tiny brain. Every time you post your mindless dribble it lowers the I.Q. of the entire Internet.
You got modded down, but your comment is spot on.
The left has been just relentlessly awful the past couple of weeks, and the bad part is that it'll only get worse as the midterms get closer.
Trump's son posts a picture enjoying father's day with his kid, and gets a torrent of insults. Trump's daughter shares a picture cuddling her infant son and triggers a tidal wave of hatred.
To believe some celebrities, the US is torturing children at the border right now! It's exactly the same as nazi concentration camps, young children are ripped (note: actual word used) from their mothers and held in cages by the hundreds!
If we could find a way to harness hatred we could run the entire country off of leftist ideals.
Tell us about your struggles being white and priviledged.. go on.. it must have been so hard for you never going hungry.
P.S. The world thinks you're a total piece of dogshit for supporting your pussy-grabbing child molester of a President. The ENTIRE fucking world. Soak up that hate, you've earned it.
seriously, no one cares about Russia. Not anyone that matters anyway. Not the voters in the swing states who put Trump in the Whitehouse. The right wing corporate Dems seem to be pining their hopes on Russia for the Mid-Term elections so they don't have to give the working class any economic concessions to the working class. That's not gonna fly except in the districts they always win. Of course the people running those districts (Pelosi, Schumer, Manchin, etc) run the party, so they aren't worried. So long as the checks cash and they can bury their primary challengers in money.
I was hoping to see more movement on the primaries, but so far the corporate Dems won all the important races. Folks just don't show up to primaries. Or if they do they're right wingers anyway.
I've pointed this out before but it bears repeating (preventive meme): Steve Bannon is an absolute bastard but he said something clever once, which is that if the Dems keep ignoring the working class and running on bullshit nobody cares about instead of the f'ing economy then the Republicans were going to be in power for a 1000 years. A bunch of Dems complained about the Nazi reference; but it was bait for the SJWs. The ran off on a tangent while his party kept hammering the economy to victory. In the end they're selling us down the river, but at least they _say_ they're gonna do something. That's more than I could say for Hilary "Supported TPP until Bernie made her stop" Clinton.
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Yup.. if you flip this around to say, 2011, there'd be cries of "Obstructionism!" But now the popular rallying cry is, "Resist!".
Because that's helpful!
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