Trump is absolutely a horror show. I loathe him, and if he succeeds in ushering in a neo-Nazi coup then the potential is for far worse horrors than the world saw circa 2002-2007. BUT Trump’s treatment of Ukraine pales in comparison.
It’s quite sad to literally see their (Vance & Trump) childish egos on full display. The absolute opposite of how true/intelligent diplomacy is supposed to happen. I’m so embarrassed to have to say I am from this country right now.
Fuck no it is not the most ashamed I have been, my country ran a fucking worldwide torture ring, and the supposed good guy president shrugged it off and fucking promoted the torturers. This si fucking nothing after that shame.
I realise this is uncomfortable, because it's aimed at those of you who oppose Trump, but:
We have no interest in your shame. Your shame won't save our continent from war, our countries from pillage, or the old Eastern bloc from the return of authoritarian misery.
Oh! I know nothing about horror. This month my congress just voted away my ability to vote because as a married woman, I changed my name. All in the name of harassing trans-folk. My state (Texas) is seriously discussing maybe not allowing fertile woman to cross the state border at will.
if you don’t feel the same shame at having the highest percapita incarceration rate in the world and police forces who murder 1000 people a year, with both phenomena affecting Black people disproportionately, what are we even doing?
This pathetic display by Trump is rivaled only by that one in Helsinki a few years ago at a press conference where he said he believed Putin over our own intelligence people, revealing himself to all as Putin's b*tch.
It's a toss up between the Zelensky meeting and Jan. 6. MAGA loves both! This is what they voted for. We have an ally on Russia's border and MAGA bitches. What would Russia pay to have Canada or Mexico station Russian troops on our border? Trump is an ignorant Russian asset!
I've been paying attention for a long time now and I've been ashamed for the US a LOT. But today was a low point. Maybe the lowest and yeah, nearly four years to go (at least).
Really? Sure settler. That is quite telling of the lack of consciousness and your absence of morals. Genocide, stolen land, whitewashing, residential schools, erasing and appropriation of Indigenous people, and the enslavement of Africans should be your first shame. But, honestly, I'm not surprised
Another privileged settler offended and demonstrated the divide and opposite outlook on the earth and the world. One is a privileged white settler living on stolen land taken by genocide while pointing their fingers at others. Gfys settler
All the issues raised are serious issues. You betray the seriousness of this moment by pretending it is an isolated incident, without granting it the very serious contextual background. Since you can easily recognise this is serious, I hope you stop discounting the rest.
White people: Ukraine matters...give them more weapons... because they're white.
White people on a Palestine state... silence.
How astonishing it is that these white settlers recognize colonization in Ukraine but are outraged if we ask for the same support for Indigenous land claims.
I’m a fascist because I acknowledge my country’s history of colonization, enslavement, subjugation of women, civil rights violations and genocide? Read a book lady.
When there was no accountability for Jan. 6 I knew our country was lost forever. Everything else that happens now honestly doesn’t much matter in the grand scheme of things. It’s all just background noise.
As someone who actually genuinely dislikes Donald Trump and his policies, I am fully aware that I will never get clout of any sort. Trump is America is Trump. If Trump didn't exist, liberals would have to invent him.
The point is that Biden, Obama, and Clinton were career politicians, the kinds of assholes who end up becoming President after swearing fealty to the oligarchy.
Trump is the oligarchy. Trump is who those men were serving.
It’s not the misery Olympics. It’s the genocide you democrats have been telling everyone to ignore for over a year. Even after losing an election because you ran an octogenarian war criminal with no principles yall still don’t get it.
"this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*"
Pretty sure the Misery Olympics was started by OP, and yet you come here to lecture someone for reminding you of something more shameful than dressing down some head of state.
For sake of clarity, can you give me your stack-ranking criteria and metrics for world crises? I’d also like to know the general scolding guidelines if someone’s ranking doesn’t align with yours.
Been there, eh. Ashamed to breath the same air, eat drink at the same table. The only thing we can show the world now is a good measure of humility and exercise the power we've been given, to flip this.
With all the posts and replies generated today, the fact remains, The Trump administration is erroneously speaking for the citizens of the United States of America.
"As a nation of freeman, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
A. Lincoln
Lyceum Address 1838
Trump gov : Each day the climb of brutality and idiocracy, and what's next ? WW3? Doge wants to rule the world without diplomacy and however humans lives, health, dignity
IVe been angry, not ashamed, by Cietnam, Iran/Contra, Iraq, Pinochet, Overthrown ng ogmf the governments of Guatemala, Chile, Racism, Matthew Shepard, and now millions of Americans voters ng for a monster. Fight it now!
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I'm not sure the world leaders bickering on video rises to that level.
I'm actually kind of happy that the rot is all out in the open
but yeah. jan 6 the beer hall putsch. sigh. hate this timeline.
We live in a bad country.
We have no interest in your shame. Your shame won't save our continent from war, our countries from pillage, or the old Eastern bloc from the return of authoritarian misery.
TY Homer
Still waiting for that chance to move to Sweden.
Our country is in the middle of a hostile takeover!!!! I am apoplectic.
We don’t even treat enemies this way.
FUCK. TRUMP.
(Let it be a cursed name).
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Hopefully we both get to live in a world where the crimes of the bush administration AND the trump administration face the justice they deserve
https://u24.gov.ua/
White people on a Palestine state... silence.
How astonishing it is that these white settlers recognize colonization in Ukraine but are outraged if we ask for the same support for Indigenous land claims.
Is it because Zelenskyy is white?
So… do you want a cookie?
Or is America only whoever the most recent Republican president was?
Trump is the oligarchy. Trump is who those men were serving.
You thought you had a free shot. Quick blame-and-run move. Makes sense. I see how you got there.
Sorry it didn’t work out. Want a cookie?
https://freedomhouse.org/country/russian-occupied-territories-ukraine
Pretty sure the Misery Olympics was started by OP, and yet you come here to lecture someone for reminding you of something more shameful than dressing down some head of state.
Take your cookie and shove it.
In exchange, you can have a cookie.
"As a nation of freeman, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
A. Lincoln
Lyceum Address 1838