• MonkeMischief
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    4 hours ago

    Hoooly crap he’s basically just flat out demanding “KISS THE RING.”

    And they’re dressing down an embattled wartime leader of a sovereign nation like they’re friggin’ Jeff the GameStop Manager telling a teenager “You should feel privileged that we even gave you a job.”

    The sheer big baby entitlement, wow. Our country is a global embarrassment right now…

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      That’s very much how I read it. “Be grateful you got what you got, and if you don’t kiss my ass and give me a big payment, I’m leaving you and your people to rot. I’m fine either way.”

      Every day I think it’s going to be hard to make me be more ashamed of my country, but they do it with such ease.

      Zelensky took it like a champ though, and I got to watch much of the video after my original comment, and while Vance was trashing him for not saying thank you nicely enough, when he mentioned the brave people of Ukraine, that was when Zelensky said thank you again as he was being talked over.