A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for Donald Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.

Trump shocked lawmakers when he announced on social media Friday that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call. He said Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the American and global market, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.” Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons “within a short period of time” after that, he wrote.

Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators signed onto the statement released Sunday in protesting the deal. They said the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute.

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[–] 21 points 1 hour ago

It’s time to bring up the Epstein files again.

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  • [–] 1 point 52 minutes ago

    Governance by platitudes is as useless as me coming up with a creative metaphor.

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  • [–] 0 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

    There is no deal for diesel imports from Russia. A lifting of sanctions on Russian energy is relatively inconsequential because Russia has enough customers for all of its energy exports despite the sanctions. Russia does have a current diesel export supply problem. It will still export to friends of Russia over the US, although this does represent global pricing relief. No US refinery will take the political hit of importing Russian diesel/oil. Ukrainian nazi rulership did express openness to an energy ceasefire declared by Trump. Some global pricing relief after mid terms could occur if they obey. Iran can transship diesel through Russia if price is high enough.

    Still, purpose of sanctions relief on Russia is to counteract military strike plans on Iran, and Iran's retaliatory capability. Zionazi Russophobe vermin senator posturing does this BS fully knowing US is not going to import any Russia diesel.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Trump (Krasnov) can't unsuck Putin's dick.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 hours ago

    Seems like a better idea to try undo the damage you caused yourself in the first place

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  • [–] 21 points 4 hours ago

    “These 6 senators don’t want you to have cheap gas!”

    —MAGA

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  • [–] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    Alternative headline:

    94 senators in favor of or indifferent towards heavily sponsoring the war crimes of a geopolitical adversary.

    It's not as snappy but more relevant to the state of things

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Here is my thing. How in the world is JD Vance not quietly building support for the 25th? Like that might be the only thing that could save them in the election.

    But even if they still plan on cheating, Trump is literally nothing more than a liability at this point.

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  • [–] 4 points 32 minutes ago*

    I mean, if we knew he was doing it, it wouldn't be so quiet. Too much of his cabinet (which would need to vote for it) are unwavering Trump sycophants, but maybe there are enough not-Pete-Hegseths that he could pull it off.

    But for Vance's own sake, he may be best off waiting until after midterms/inauguration in case he needs to cut any deals with the next Congress.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 minutes ago

    Wouldn't doing that with less than half a term left mean that he could then only be elected for one term? So to maximize his own (and Thiel's) potential power, he'd want to do it right after January 20th. IANAL and obviously IADNACL.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 hours ago

    Syphilitic old shitstain betrayed the U.S., E.U and Ukraine in a single phone call.

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    And bipartisan! Surely this will send a message

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  • [–] 11 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

    Literally it was a message they sent. Next I suppose they're going to do something about it.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Look I get it, but for the moment let’s be glad these six are doing something.. a lot more than the absolute nothing - or bootlicking - the others are doing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    let’s be glad these six are doing something

    No. This is LITERALLY the least they can do apart from nothing. And 94 senators aren't even doing THAT much.

    That's as worthy of celebration as Mitch McConnell completing a sentence without having a stroke or Hakeem Jeffries neglecting to call a common sense progressive candidate with more popular policy positions than himself "dangerous" or "extreme left".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Yeah it’s this bad, I know. It’s not that I disagree (although it’s probably dangerous to even do this under Trump), and I’m definitely not celebrating. Still, I believe complaining should now start with the other 94.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Susan Collins is very concerned. She might write a letter.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    Six!? Why, that’s almost seven senators! That will surely get his attention.

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    300k tonnes of diesel isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    In 2025, distillate (or diesel) fuel consumption (excluding biodiesel and renewable diesel) by the U.S. transportation sector was about 2.94 million barrels per day, or about 123 million gallons per day.

    123,000,000 gallons per day. Diesel weighs 7 pounds per gallon so 861,000,000 pounds or 430,500 tons per day.

    This first shipment will not cover 1 days fuel cost. But what it will do is give a big pile of money to Putin.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 hours ago

    But it's enough for them to blame the Dems when things aren't magically fixed after they win in the Midterms. The idiots eat that shit up because they have absolutely no idea how a national economy works. Republican economic policies are consistently bad for everyone that's not in the 1% and yet they vote for them all the time because they're told told policies are good for them, regardless of the reality they deal with daily.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago*

    I am pretty sure trump will listen /s

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  • [+] -8 points 2 hours ago

    Could not care less. Just buy it if it helps

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Like there’s a chance it’ll happen.

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