r/SipsTea • u/ExactlySorta • 13h ago

SMH Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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u/Jack_Brohamer 13h ago

This is why I expect this political era to go on for a while. This sort of amoral obsequiousness towards authoritarians has been prevalent on the right for a while now and will outlast Trump. People aren't mad about this, or ICE raids, or blatant corruption, or an illegal war ... they're mad fuel is expensive.

There is a fundamental rot of civic morals in the American citizenry and I'm not sure what it will take to reverse that.

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u/Ok_________oi 13h ago

The American people was made docile, ignorant, their morals taken away, made hard working (chasing the unreachable American dream, tech bros fin-bros) to be the absolute perfect subjects and feed into the current dictatorship, and to fall right back in line when their democracy is taken away. They did a damn good job at it.