r/SipsTea • u/ExactlySorta • 14h 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/ProfesseurCurling 12h 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/succulentchinesemiel 12h 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 12h 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/GoodIdea321 6h 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.