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/Weird_Ad_7353 13h ago edited 6h ago

Our country is being run by traitors and con men. We need Nuremberg style trials after they are out of power.

Edit: This is my first comment to blow up this hard. Thanks all for the awards!

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u/ProfesseurCurling 11h ago

The US are a joke. When it was about overthrowing a Democrat government with the benediction of Trump, a few thousand people almost succeeded. Now for a fascist government people are spineless.

Your president breaks laws every day without any check and balances. He betrays every alliance concluded with foreign countries when he's not being openly hostile towards them.

You had the Epstein files that in a normal democracy would have been enough to impeach your president. It never happened.

The orange turd will get away with it and all of his billionaires friends and family members too. Unless a real popular and democratic uprising happens justice will never be served.

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u/kingofcross 11h ago

The orange turd will get away with it and all of his billionaires friends and family members too

The Orange Turd is untouchable. Their Supreme Court ruled that the President has complete immunity. It was decided that nothing will happen to him before he even took power again. And the Americans aren't going to rise up, their government has successfully domesticated the population.

The United States spent decades preaching to the rest of us about democracy and "freedom" just to turn around and reinvent the monarchy. Absolute hypocritical farse of a country.

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u/MrSkivi 10h ago

It’s not a monarchy, but an oligarchy. It’s laughable to hear them accuse Ukraine of corruption and a lack of democracy😁

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u/thYrd_eYe_prYing 9h ago

It’s a plutocracy; disguised as a democracy

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u/Visible_Tie9219 9h ago

Kakistocracy in full effect.

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u/UnsolicitedNeighbor 8h ago

It’s a Costcocracy actually

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u/Alfie_66 8h ago

Rather a simple Idiocracy.

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u/nilsmf 10h ago

Just wait until there’s a new president. The Supreme Court will decide that this presidency doesn’t have authority to order a pizza.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT 1h ago

I hope to god you're right.

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u/dgib 10h ago

I thought his imunity only covered him while acting president? He could still spend the rest of his days behind bars for fucking kids back in the 90s. Don't give up hope. Fuck him hard, see how he likes it 😏

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u/SMELLSLIKEBUTTJUICE 8h ago

They'll probably let him pardon himself. Which doesnt keep him safe from state charges, but the wheels of justice are slow and he is old so I dont have much hope

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u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 8h ago

unfortunately the wheels of time seem even slower

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u/SMELLSLIKEBUTTJUICE 8h ago

Tell me about it. I feel like im living in a Matrix pod

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u/gill61yard 5h ago

Well said let’s hope it happens.

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u/ChanceHuckleberry431 10h ago

Just a thougt : if the president of the united states has complete immunity, whats stopping who ever comes after him Just throwing the cunt in prison? Or having him shot for treason?

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u/kingofcross 10h ago

Just a thougt : if the president of the united states has complete immunity, whats stopping who ever comes after him Just throwing the cunt in prison?

Probably the current president if he successfully rigs the system the way his best friend Putin has

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u/Chillers 10h ago

The final check and balance is the people and they'd rather stand idle.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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u/rbmj0 9h ago edited 9h ago

they'd rather stand idle.

That's demonstrably untrue.

What about all those weekend street dance parties? (record numbers, I'm told)

Have you considered the frog costumes?

I bet you haven't.

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u/Just_Fuck_My_Code_Up 8h ago edited 8h ago

This issue is much older than Trump and MAGA. Nixon and Reagan committed treason, Bush Senior orchestrated the flow of crack into minority communities as head of the CIA, his son waged war based on proven lies. Nothing happened to any of them

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u/eles- 8h ago

Check out Tomas Schuman (Yuri Bezmenov) to find out, where/when this started. Its no coincidence that what’s happening actually is happening right now.

He gave an interview )I think almost 50 years ago) where he breaks down what and how the KGB works and that they’re manipulating people over generations to foster a certain mindset within generations. We are seeing their plan working now.

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u/Snarfbuckle 9h ago

He is only immune if the population allows it.

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u/Cloudhiddentao 9h ago

The United States spent decades preaching to the rest of us about democracy and "freedom" just to turn around and reinvent the monarchy.

This happened long before Trump, when Americans decided to vote for the children of previous presidents.

The American revolution really was an entire country protesting too much methinks.

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u/PM_ME_TITS_AND_DOGS2 9h ago

and investing billions in sabotaging democracies all around the world

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u/Pure-Cherryh7 9h ago

its a rough pill to swallow when expectations clash with reality isnt it

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u/bluelily216 9h ago

I have a question. Obviously your comment implies you don't live in the US, but you know a lot about how our government works. Were you taught in school? Did you learn about other countries as well? Or is your government similar to ours?

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u/kingofcross 9h ago

I'm Canadian. I've spent alot of time in the US. Even then, we tend to know alot about our powerful, and now very aggressive neighbor to the south.

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u/bluelily216 9h ago

I'm sorry. I've been trying to keep him out of office since he initially announced his run. It's always been obvious that he's a scumbag.

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u/fluffyshys 9h ago

try and fight a government when thats exactly what they want. we either fight peacefully till the fight is possible. or we get slaughtered like sheep because were labeled as traitors. we can barely afford bills. health insurance. food. gas. and what can we do? get shot to death by the police? kidnapped by ice? how about lynched by the kkk. and what about those who can't live without basic needs? the elderly? children? if something were to happen now my family would start to die off. meds, power, water. gone.

we hate this more then you think. but what can you do when you have a knife to your throat? cameras on your garbage and mail trucks. and on every street corner. we are in a dark time. and many realize that we cant just stand up...

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u/kingofcross 8h ago

I'm not even saying these things as an insult to the average American. I'm just making an observation, and the truth is that your country has successfully engineered a situation where it can easily quell major resistance. You mentioning barely affording bills and police violence is a testament of that.

Unfortunately the system has bent over backwards for Trump, I don't think you're going to be able to just vote your way out of this one. Not without some major changes to the system itself. And I think sooner or later, a fight is coming whether you guys want it or not.

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u/fluffyshys 7h ago

and that is the sad truth. I hope but im running out.

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u/Why_not_dolphines 3h ago

The french king was also above the law once.

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u/voodoodahl 3h ago

The American people gave Trump and Republicans the power to do this. They even convinced the so-called smart people among us they were principaled in not voting to stop it. They've even created a fantasy of the other party being controlled opposition to save their precious ego from having to admit they helped usher in America fascism. 

At the end of the day We The People did this to ourselves. 

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u/IRGROUP300 10h ago

Rise up? Do you live in a video game? Loads of people just assume armed revolution is necessary.

A new president will arrive and we will vote for them.

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u/kingofcross 10h ago

A new president will arrive and we will vote for them.

You mean that you will perform the meaningless ritual of choosing one of only two options, and nothing else will change.

And that's best case scenario, since the current clown in power has committed so many crimes while robbing you people blind and repeatedly demonstrated that he's done with democracy.

Like I said, domesticated.

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u/IRGROUP300 9h ago

No, I mean vote for a new president. You’re making things up and clutching your pearls friend. Spend some time reading or visit before stating your opinions over an entire population.

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u/kingofcross 9h ago

No, I mean vote for a new president

And if Trump and his administration has something to say about that? Then what?

What am I making up? Trump isn't trying to rig your upcoming midterm elections? He didn't try to overturn an election before? What's made up?

And I've visited plenty, I'm Canadian. Its not hard to visit. And why wouldn't I state my opinions over the country that's been threatening mine?

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u/Weird_Ad_7353 11h ago

You aren't wrong. We are a joke.

The meer fact that his boot licking, orange scroat loving followers stick with him shows how morally bankrupt and vile they really are. They would gladly get stuck under his boot to see a librul or non-"white" person under the other boot.

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u/Cloudhiddentao 9h ago

“But it’s those guys over there who are the problem”.

Nah mate. You’re the problem. You’re standing around while crooks, rapists, con-men, and traitors dismantle your country, and yet you do nothing? What’s your plan, vote in rigged elections?

Fucking DO SOMETHING.

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u/Fine_Art3725 7h ago

Stop watching American movies, there’s no American hero on Reddit.

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u/aviiren 7h ago

How do you know this person isn't doing anything? Unless you're some freedom fighter in a war torn country I'm sure you don't have much room to talk

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u/Wakez11 3h ago

Bro, France and Italy is on fire right now due to protests. You could atleast match that, lol.

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u/aviiren 3h ago

Hey we did during the BLM protests and pretty much had the same narratives thrown at us as France is with the whole "violence is not the answer" crap lol

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u/spyke2006 2h ago

We've had literally millions of people protesting across the country for years at this point. Some of those protests have gotten just as violent as the ones in France. They've also been heavily suppressed in both the media and in reality. Where in France their police are coming at people with riot Shields and helmets, they literally use militarized weapons against us in the US.

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u/Wakez11 2h ago

You guys walk out on the streets for a few days then you go back home and forget to vote.

"Where in France their police are coming at people with riot Shields and helmets, they literally use militarized weapons against us in the US."

Terrible excuse, they use that in France too.

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u/spyke2006 2h ago

No fuck that. Go back and watch the on the ground footage from Portland or Minneapolis or Seattle or any number of cities where protests were happening for months at a time and see the police response there. It's way the fuck worse than it is in France. I know firsthand I was there for months in protests. And also all of those protests amounted to worse policies. We moved backwards. So tell me again what you'd like us to do? Declare war on the fucking US government? I'll let you do that first.

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u/Aerhyce 4h ago

It's a general "you", he's agreeing with the person above. Reading comprehension is hard, eh?

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u/aviiren 3h ago

He literally says "you're the problem" essentially equating him to be just as bad as the people who voted in Trump in the first place all because he deems the guy as not doing enough.

Crazy work to come in with the insult that directly applies to yourself 😂

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u/Chillers 10h ago

Theres only one thing worse than Trump and thats all of you standing idle whilst it happens.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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u/CMDR-ProtoMan 8h ago

No one wants to die for this dipshit country. Especially when 2/3s of it seems fine with all that is happening.

We'll see in November if the non voters actually vote this time, but I'm not optimistic.

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u/Cana-Dutch 5h ago

If everyone with common sense would protest for a week or two it would all be over. Stop working and gather on the biggest square in the biggest city nearby. Every member of the army, soldiers and high ranks, Every taxi driver, pilot, public transport, factory workers, government functions, and so on... Just every American with a common sense.

It might cost you 1 or 2 weeks salary, but that's nothing compared to what this whole shitshow costs you now (starting with tarriffs). If it's true what you Americans say: "only a few support this idiotic administration" the whole country would come to a stop. You won't het fired, cause nobody else will do your job during the strike and there are no other people to hire for after that strike.

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u/succulentchinesemiel 11h ago

Surprised no American's have spoken out yet about how difficult it is for them to protest because they've allowed themselves to get screwed over by both parties for decades. They can't seem to put it together that people in Europe are starting a revolution for much less with similar consequences for protesting. Revolution is not without consequences.
Before anyone jumps, I don't condone any of the looting or destruction happening in Europe.

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u/ProfesseurCurling 11h ago

As a French protestor it pisses me off that the right wing propaganda uses the incidents (looting/degradation of a few shops) to overshadow the legitimacy of the peaceful protesters that outnumber by far the few rioters.

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u/Cherryb1612 10h ago

As a Brit, I totally understand. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if the violence was committed by any, other than those who support chaos. They’re all masked up, with little exception, and went there to do a job. And it wasn’t to peacefully protest

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u/GoodIdea321 5h ago

The right wing media has been focusing on the relatively small incidents at any protest in the US for decades and claiming it is the whole thing. That is probably why so few people protest here.

They did a similar thing with the Tea Party stuff from a little more than a decade ago, those protests were tiny, but they said it meant there is a huge movement behind it.

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u/Secret-Ad-2145 10h ago

Surprised no American's have spoken out yet about how difficult it is for them to protest because they've allowed themselves to get screwed over by both parties for decades.

Bruh, you have freedom of speech, right to protest, still have some semblance of rule of law. Never mind the 2nd amendment, the graceful amendment Americans won't stop raving about. In what reality are you screwed? I beg Americans to stop acting so helpless.

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u/LaceGriffin 10h ago

Lol America is so whipped I got fired for spitting on a ICE vehicle

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u/SMELLSLIKEBUTTJUICE 8h ago

We tried in Minneapolis. I like to think we succeeded, but it was a small, isolated victory. The administration just slithered onto another ghoulish project

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u/Volqaire 7h ago

Is that American technology in your pocket right now? Any apps from america? What about this website you're on, at this very moment?

Imagine this info in the hands of people known to black bag people, and you live in their back yard.

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u/succulentchinesemiel 5h ago

I'm not American I'm just commenting based on what they say every time this is brought up. "Won't someone think of our capitalism?!"
Everything you say is absolutely on point.

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u/spyke2006 2h ago

There's been millions of people protesting in America since at least 2020. In cities all across the country. It just turns out that we're way more geographically distributed and the media isn't showing you what's happening. A protest literally just went by my place the other day that was at least 10,000 people strong.

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u/Chillers 10h ago

There is only one thing worse than Trump and thats the American people standing idle making excuses to avoid taking action.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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u/Huju-ukko 11h ago

Its almost like having two shit partys isn't working that well, who would have thought!

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u/succulentchinesemiel 10h ago

They both serve the ruling class!

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u/spyke2006 2h ago

The consequences for protesting are not even remotely similar. I've watched the protests in France. They're being combated by unarmed police officers with Shields and batons. They literally fucking shot us here in the US with real bullets. They've used LRAD on us. It ain't the same.

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u/Cold71 11h ago

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u/Jostroluka 11h ago

Bot just because we think the american people should act? Im so tired of americans.

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u/Cold71 11h ago

You think the world police should act yet you’re tired of them? Reddit thinking in a nutshell

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u/succulentchinesemiel 10h ago

Get your violin ready for the empire burning.
This is the downfall of America due to complacency and the weakness of people like you.

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u/Jostroluka 11h ago

I think the american people should act against the pos that the american people elected.

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u/alfredtasek 11h ago

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u/Allegorist 11h ago

The insurrection that occurred was to benefit Trump, and happened under his control. There was as a result very limited response until quite a while after the fact, which was then later pardoned. The federal government was more than capable of intervening and stopping it, both ahead of time and as it was happening, but they chose not to because it directly benefit (and was coordinated by) the active administration.

If the same thing happened against them, it would not go over anywhere close to the same way. Even with a neutral administration, that national guard would have been brought in immediately. Hell, intelligence agencies probably would have squashed it before it even happened. With a hostile administration that is both the target, and is clearly willing to break any and all rules, laws, and protocol to accomplish their ends, it would be much worse.

I guarantee if the events were replayed against them, there would be much more than just the local police there, and they would not be trying their hardest to avoid injuring or killing people. Quite the opposite I'm sure.

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u/jrzalman 9h ago

The insurrection that occurred was to benefit Trump, and happened under his control.

Sure, but even that was ultimately unsuccessful. Trump quietly left Washington with his tail between his legs. The idea that people have any real power in this country is a myth.

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u/Baskreiger 8h ago

Fucking prince of england had more consequences than the lowest american Epstein footsoldier

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u/Big_Beach166 10h ago

democratic uprising will be led by unicorns

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u/Fun-Swan9486 6h ago

Its funny how the epstein files are not worth mentioning in media anymore. Nothing happened, no one had to fear consequences, they just went silent.

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u/ProfesseurCurling 6h ago

I'm french and the other day I watched a lengthy investigation by one of the most famous newspaper (Le Monde, equivalent of the NYT or Washington Post) about Epstein's connections with the French intelligentsia, how he infiltrated French cultural and political circles.

A lot of famous French people kept ties with Epstein well after it was revealed he was a sex predator. One of his handler in France recently died in misterious conditions. Regardless all of that Macron and his government refused to open investigations following those revelations.

The powerful/rich will protect each other. Rules for thee, not for me.

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u/Ardal 5h ago

Very well said. but I do feel that nobody will touch the Epstein Files because THEY ARE ALL IN THERE, it would bring down their house of cards once and for all. We will never see the truth there.

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u/lil_sass-a-frass 5h ago

They’ll scheduled a protest on a Saturday when it doesn’t bother anyone. Then go back to work on the Monday

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u/onoz9 11h ago

The irony is how Americans have always been so proud of their democracy. Well...looks more like a dictatorship to me.

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u/Secret-Ad-2145 10h ago

When the war in Ukraine began, Americans criticised Russian citizenry for not doing enough. Lacking protests, no civil disobedience - nothing. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Americans are even more spineless than the Russians. At least US still has rule of law and freedom of speech. And yet even still they aren't willing to do anything about it.

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u/OPcrack103 10h ago

America is large. There’s a lot of space. Many people’s only exposure to current events is “news.” In America, news media is a sickly thing. Many of the organizations prey upon fear to create anger. So many citizens only exposure to things is what they hear on their chosen media program. They say the pen is mightier than the sword and this is just the proof in the pudding.

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u/Acrobatic-Roof-8116 9h ago

A fascist government will shoot more than one person.

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u/farfaxfr 9h ago

Please explain how Trump can be impeached when his party controls both houses? Would be the same in any "normal" democracy assuming there are still some left.

Re the people's "spineless" reaction you have to take into account that those pissed with Trump are not the same as the ones that crashed the Capitol. Libs and progressives unlike the hard right "don't believe in violence", support and practice gun control and trust the judiciary - they're not the rioting kind and they wouldn't last an hour if they tried. So they just sit and wait for the mid-terms crossing their fingers for Trump abiding by the results.

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u/land-league-inspo 8h ago

The president of the US himself bussed those fuckers in while he was sitting. Let's not pretend that would be allowed, we can't just bus a few thousand into DC these days.

We need something drastic, but let's be honest about the realities here.

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u/cpmb82 4h ago

I may be missing something, and I’d love to fully blame Trump for it, but didn’t Biden have the Epstein files and not release them?

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u/ProfesseurCurling 4h ago

Yes but the big reveals happened during Trump presidency. It doesn't take away the guilt of all the people in the files.

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u/cpmb82 4h ago

Sorry for this but I’m not quite following, are you saying the big reveals, as in the release of the redacted pages, or other things? Thanks in advance 🙂

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u/ProfesseurCurling 3h ago

Yes it is under his presidency that under pressure his administration published a bit less than half the films, redacted to oblivion.

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u/cpmb82 3h ago

Yeah I knew that but Biden’s administration had them and didn’t release them before Trump took power, why didn’t they prosecute!?!!

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u/spyke2006 2h ago

You seem to forget that the only reason that those "protests" might have succeeded on January 6th is literally because they were still in power. Trump himself was leading during portions of the proceedings. He was the one that made sure that there weren't enough Capitol Police present. They were only allowed to get that close because he wanted them to and he was in power. This is further evidenced by the fact that Trump himself pardoned them.

I guarantee if a group were to try what they tried that was anti-trump, they would just get shot and jailed immediately.

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u/bollvirtuoso 58m ago

Imagine the people who care about laws wanting to fix the problem through the laws.

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u/elcarlos_ 10h ago

The US are a joke