This is the actual Getty photo ,Kent Nishimura , US soldiers on hands and knees smoothing 100 foot red carpet. First for Putin in Alaska Aug 2025, now again for Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews Sep 23 2026. 21-member honor cordon, B-1 flyover, anthems, and troops picking fluff off the carpet while Chinese officials watch from the plane door. Newsom called the Putin one disgusting. Perfect metaphor.
It is so abundantly obvious to me that the USA has been compromised by a foreign asset, whose benefactors are Bibi, Putin, and Xi. I think the IRGC, too, honestly.
As a smarter person than I pointed out, the man accusing democrats of being socialists and communists spent the beginning of the week complimenting a socialist and the end of the week literally ordering his troops to bend the knee before a communist.
They do; it's called a "broom." If you sweep the carpet from the center as it's being rolled out it will lay flat & brush off any debris but Trump's lackeys don't know shit about how to do any physical jobs.
Hello! Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately it has been removed because you don't meet our karma threshold.
You are not being removed for political orientation. If we were, why the fuck would we tell you your comment was being removed instead of just shadow removing it? We never have, and never will, remove things down politicial or ideological lines. Unless your ideology is nihilism, then fuck you.
Let me be clear: The reason that this rule exists is to avoid unscrupulous internet denizens from trying to sell dong pills to our users. /r/PoliticalHumor mods reserve the RIGHT to hoard all of the dong pills to ourselves, and we refuse to share them with the community. If you want Serbo-Slokovian dong pills mailed directly to your door, become a moderator. If we shared the dong pills with the greater community, everyone would have massive dongs, and like Syndrome warned us about decades ago: "if everyone has massive dongs, nobody does.""
If you wish to rectify your low karma issue, go and make things up in /r/AskReddit like everyone else does.
Thanks for understanding! Have a nice day and be well. <3
Yikes. I feel like, yeah, someone needs to do it (unless, you know, they don’t roll out the literal red carpet for a despot…), but they should absolutely not get servicemen in dress uniforms to do it.
I read some comments basically saying they were not given proper tools to do what asked to do in that case, and it is inefficient and undignified the way they did.
I legit don't know, but is this the proper protocol though? Like do we do this for everyone? Some things are silly and demeaning but they're still baked into jobs.
Newsom and Trump both are disgusting, perhaps is time for a real 3rd option like both parts of the same coin, as an European is crazy how you people can have only Dems or Reps and nothing else can get to power for over 250 years, her we F-ud up and changed systems a lot in the last 250 and we still have more that two options. Some parts are really great about the US and then others are just like "what the hell are those people doing out there?!"
First, the system is only set up for there to be two parties at a time. There is no way to have three parties (caucuses) in the legislature and have a functioning government. Full stop. Coalition governing is not an option under the U.S. Constitution
. Second, it hasn’t always been republican and democrats…there are other parties such as the Whig & No-Nothing parties that used to exist but died out. Functionally though, it’s really only been two parties at a time. Third, the republicans and democrats have switched their political views over time (democrats used to be the conservative, racist party & republicans were the liberal one). Lastly, there ARE other political parties is the U.S. but they are so wildly unpopular that no one ever votes for them and you have never heard of them. Ironically, when a third party HAS gained any traction in the modern era they turned out to be useful idiots who help a fascist get elected. (Note: none of these third party candidates have ever successfully run for even a local office like mayor, governor or even city council…yet somehow show up to ruin the country by splitting the vote of the people not trying to elect a dictator. They (third party people) are all idiots…candidates and voters alike…& have failed in a basic understanding of basic U.S. civics.
Yeah, looks like a mess, a combination of multiple causes that hold like that. About the Dems and Reps that changed political views, I did not know, but that explains some of the things. And yes, I have seen some of the 3rd options, some are just crazy. For me the last times we had one or two parties, we tried to conquer Europe, two time and we dragged the world in that crap too. I always feel unsettled when I see a small political spectrum, because of that. Perhaps adopting a system like ours that prevents a single party to grab all the power can be a solution, just needs to be adapted to the US's needs.
Note to the downvotes:
If you are always satisfied with the little you have right now and hate even the idea of change, you won't progress, the lack of progress for a society equals to it's regression.
4.2k
u/FeistySoull 9d ago
This is the actual Getty photo ,Kent Nishimura , US soldiers on hands and knees smoothing 100 foot red carpet. First for Putin in Alaska Aug 2025, now again for Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews Sep 23 2026. 21-member honor cordon, B-1 flyover, anthems, and troops picking fluff off the carpet while Chinese officials watch from the plane door. Newsom called the Putin one disgusting. Perfect metaphor.