The Republican-led Senate voted decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election by approving a wide-ranging sanctions package that targets key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals who carried out cyber attacks.
Senators on Wednesday passed the bipartisan sanctions legislation 97-2, underscoring broad support among Republicans and Democrats for rebuking Russia after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Moscow had deliberately interfered in the presidential campaign. Lawmakers who backed the measure also cited Russia's aggression in Syria and Ukraine.
Source: USNews.com
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:38AM (1 child)
Hahaha, and boy, ARE they going to get exactly what they wanted!
Wringing one's hands about the electoral college won't fix it either. The system worked as it was intended. It was designed so that the country couldn't be overruled by the cities.
I voted for HRC, but now that I'm over being frightened by Darth Sessions, I'm hoping it'll be bad, just for the schadenfreude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:04PM
You can only hope a fucking ton of Trump voters get sick and fucked over by their choices in the next 3.5 years. We can call it lessons in personal responsibility if it makes it more palatable. Even better would be if the liberal States withhold federal payments... yeah, that $4B sink is a rrrreal hole in the budget. Let's negotiate a better deal where those States most in the basket-case category don't end up with 4x the voting power per capita due to their failure to attract anyone to live there.