• Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    That was physically painful to watch. It’s beyond comprehension that snake oil seller became president. TWICE.

    Europe, I hope it’s not needed, but prepare as if WWIII is coming. I don’t know if this time US will be an ally or not.

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      Yeah I literally couldn’t finish it as my blood was boiling. What giant fucking pieces of human garbage both Trump and Vance are.

      I refuse to believe the american people will let him sit for four years. It’s just impossible to fathom that a single person can still defend this walking piece of wasted oxygen.

      I feel truly sorry for all of you having to live in the US of today. Please don’t give up on your decency, solidarity and humanity.

      • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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        I’m not an American, but can I ask how they can get rid of him before his four years is up? Is that what impeaching is? Didn’t they already do that last time? Didn’t seem to work…

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          I’m no expert on american politics, but from what I understand they would need to impeach him or him stepping down due to mounting resistance from the public. Impeachment needs a majority vote (2/3 I think) which won’t happen unless the democrats have enough votes.
          Last time they did not.

          The last seems unlikely, but I do believe most republican reps will change their tune if their constituents threaten their job security.
          My reasoning being that they are in it for themselves first and foremost.

          What confuses us (read: me) in Europe is how much shit they all get away with before voters change their mind. Hopefully more and more americans get fed up with the administration as prices rise and allies choose to look elsewhere for trade and weaponry.

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    4 days ago

    This whole situation is absolutely fucking mortifying, genuinely. I can’t honestly think of another instance in which we’ve pulled such a rapid, bad-faith, ill-advised, and idiotic about face in terms of foreign policy.

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        Hopefully, he’ll have hurt and killed enough people that his popularity goes down somewhat. But he’s always gonna have the Nationalist Christians / Dominionists on his side - that needs to be addressed from a societal angle

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      4 days ago

      B-b-but the minerals! Their value might just cover the rebuilding of the critical government functions after DOGE is finished looting it and the world is at war.

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    4 days ago

    What absolute fucking tools. I think I can see putins hand physically present in thier asses,

    Watched the video and it’s like 2 children thinking being loud will make them right. And you know all the maga freaks are going to eat it all up. They all would just love to get a drop of that trump cum in their mouths.

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    Are you kidding, that was fucking legendary. I’ve never seen anything like that before in my entire life. In the Oval office Zelensky told Trump and Vance they were full of shit, bullies, and simping for Putin. Based Zelensky.

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    I was hoping for mineral deal with US to drop in water, because it’s a bad deal for Ukraine and orange bozo Trump thinks he can push around Zelinskyy just because he’s in desperate war and has no choice.

    Also to act like a fucking petulent child and behave like total dick at someone who comes asking for help and all you can think about are profits, get your morals fucking right because republican’s moral compass is spinning at fucking 50k RPM.

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      4 days ago

      This lovely little talk did in fact kill the mineral deal.

      EDIT: From the article

      According to CNN, Zelensky left the White House shortly after and the planned signing of the mineral deal as well as a planned press conference were both cancelled.

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    4 days ago

    International politics is now like hunger games. One side has all the resources but no decency and the other side all the decency but no resources. Will the audience throw the decent side enough of their scraps for David to win over Goliath? Find out next week on ‘everything sucks & humanity is doomed’!

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    I’m just one US citizen but I’d like to apologize to all Ukrainians on behalf of 50% or so of all people here. Our leadership is disgusting.

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    There is an alternative unviserse in which Zelensky did the world a service and has beaten up trump after that and gave him an atomic wedgy. It is sadly not our Timeline.