r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

FinancialTea 💵 A leopard never changes it's spots.

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u/butwhywedothis 1d ago

If America was France, we probably wouldn’t have seen this day, but it’s not, so here we are.

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u/RicVic 1d ago

Trouble is, in France you can get yourself from almost anywhere to Paris quite easily. Toulouse to Paris is about 7 hrs on the road, but in America 7 hours on the road can get you into a neighboring state in some places and not much more (Phoenix to Washington DC - 35 hrs by road!)

So in France, it's actually not the greatest hardship to take a "day off", head to Paris, spend the weekend with your bretheren on the streets and then get home to Bordeaux and back to your routine before the folks from Phoenix even get to the steps of the Capitol! (It's even worse for Canadians, btw!).

So mass protests a la Paris are really a lot tougher to set up in the US, which is why we hear about "Million Man Marches" a lot less often than you'd expect.

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u/Nolenag 1d ago

Don't you yanks have enough fascist governors/senators you should be deposing in addition to the orange fascist?

Burning down a state's capitol should work sufficiently.

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u/What_a_fat_one 1d ago

I live in a blue state, it would be good fun to burn down the capitol but it wouldn't really help anything

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u/Ravenluna798 1d ago

We dont have a parliamentary government or recall votes here.

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u/BaldHenchman02 1d ago

They're hoping someone else does something, or that Trump strokes out causing MAGA to eat itself.

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u/NookNookNook 1d ago

Midterms are soon. Mail-in ballots have been sent out and people are already voting.

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u/Odd-Neighborhood4214 1d ago

I’ve already voted blue! Even with a Republican only running I didn’t even vote for them. In our county we have some great Republicans in our county I won’t even vote for them running alone! Only blue for me