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/GladlyShanghaied 12h ago

America destroyed their soft power in less than two years and turned the country into the biggest bootlickers in US history.

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u/Additional_Cat_6715 12h ago

Crazy part is the idiots who did it think they're winning.

Anything to spite the libs.

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 12h ago

They are winning.

All these people are getting extremely wealthy selling out their country. People really need to stop convincing themselves these are all idiots who don’t know what they’re doing

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u/Rope_slingin_champ 12h ago

Right. Wait for all those pardons

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 12h ago

They won’t even need pardons. The US government has never and will never hold itself accountable.

Trump literally tried to overthrow the government and got elected again 4 years later. The American people just love to bootlick and will never demand accountability.

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u/superxpro12 10h ago

All these people are getting extremely wealthy selling out their country. People really need to stop convincing themselves these are all idiots who don’t know what they’re doing

my one cosmic karmic hope is that trump dies and all of their pardons evaporate

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 10h ago

It wouldn’t matter at all. You’ve gotta be insane to think the next administration will prosecute these people.

Somehow people think only the republicans are corrupt.

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u/superxpro12 10h ago

im not going to waste my time trying to explain the massive scale of corruption in the current administration. its so far and beyond anything we've ever seen

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 10h ago

Yeah and if the democrats win the next election they will sweep it all under the rug in the name of “national unity” or some other stupid shit.

It’s exactly what the Biden administration did. These guys are all friends behind closed doors and they’re all getting rich together looting the country.

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u/superxpro12 10h ago

i feel that. but im also not going to pretend that any of this doge or project 2025 shit would have happened at all under a democratic administration.

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 10h ago

It wouldn’t have happened but they also won’t lift a finger to punish those who did it.

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u/superxpro12 10h ago

i mean trump did get convicted in NY state... and the cases in georgia and florida were strong

Let's not forget that the florida case ran out the clock with a corrupt judge by the name of aileen cannon who showed clear favorable bias towards trump in every single ruling. Multiple ruling had to be appealed and overturned by republican appellate panels.

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u/paintballboi07 10h ago

Biden's DOJ prosecuted like 1500 J6er's. They were also prosecuting Trump, until voters re-elected him. You can't prosecute a sitting president. Thank MAGA voters for being traitors. We're in this mess because of Republicans, not Democrats.

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u/Glum-Drummer-6302 10h ago

You’re in this mess because the US has one of the most apathetic populations in the world. Americans are bred to get on their knees and blindly obey anyone with money.

Today is the result of decades of steady decline not 1 president or political party.

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u/paintballboi07 6h ago

True. So many of our citizens don't even know how their own government works. Only around 30% of eligible voters vote during the midterms, and Congress is how laws are written and passed. The president has (or should have now with Trump) much less power comparatively. It doesn't help that our system was set up to override the will of the people with the electoral college, and racism is used to get people to vote against their own interests. I wish more young people would get involved. Millennials finally outnumber boomers.

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u/superxpro12 5h ago

yeah today is the result of specifically the republican party. the republican party is the one implementing all of these fascist and draconian policies. they are actively separating children and mothers. they are shooting citizens. they are implementing project 2025. Democrats are doing none of this.

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u/SegFaultOops 5h ago

Can't we just do what Trump does and ignore the law? who gives a shit anymore if these criminals have pardons. lock 'em up anyways.

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u/CupMassive2331 11h ago

Oh they do know. they do. But people aren't good with numbers. Those numbers are so ridiculous large that people simply can't grasp how much power that means.

Money = Power

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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 11h ago

Yep, the oligarchs won the Cold War. They carved up Russia and now they get to carve up the US. All they had to do was lick the boots of a "strongman".

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u/HueMannAccnt 10h ago

They are winning.

For now.

It all seems to be about short term gain, with little vision of a stable future.

People who do that are idiots; they might know a lot of things, especially to do with crime, but knowing lots of things doesn't necessarily mean you're "smart".

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u/Vast-Calligrapher565 8h ago

Not the people who voted for him. Its funny they dont see that they are the ones who he fucks the most.

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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 7h ago

Hes talking about Republican voters. Theyre not winning shit.

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u/hjablowme919 12h ago

They actually think this comes from a position of strength. It doesn't.

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u/TJames6210 12h ago

They don't think they're winning, they know they're winning. They're literally pocketing all of our tax money...

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u/Additional_Cat_6715 3h ago

Is it really winning if you're destroying everything?

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u/LillyAnn_B-BFarm 12h ago

Every day brings a new mouth-dropping shocker. W. T. F.

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u/RMPY96 12h ago

I'm also surprised by how many Americans seem to think they just gotta elect someone better and it will be business as usual.

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 9h ago

I know maybe 5 people who are aware of how bad it is everyone else thinks, at worst, we can just elect someone new to fix this lol. They honestly think you can vote out fascism. 

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u/RMPY96 4h ago

I'm more talking about the damage to us foreign relations and the collapse of their soft power empire they spend so much time on building up. Watching it all crumble to nothing in less than 2 years is mindboggling. I dont think US citizens are ready for the amount of money they'll be missing out on because no one trusts them anymore. They have been proven to be too easily controlled by a single person and whoever controls them, and people are either supporting it, or they say strong words about it, but no one dares to stop them. They are enriching themselves over the backs of normal Americans, and the people just let it happen.

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u/iamhmhdimobf 11h ago

Winning - really depends on what the goal is, and how low they are willing to go.