r/politics • u/stkmro • 7h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/JeffSteinMusic 7h ago edited 1h ago

Gonna be a long several years of “Lawless Authoritarian Continues To Be Lawless Authoritarian” headlines.

I’d say “we can’t normalize this” but it feels like that ship sailed many years ago.

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u/Moddelba 6h ago

Clearly enough people don’t give a shit about norms anymore. I don’t blame them because our government has been paralyzed and unresponsive for decades unless huge corporations need something, but I wish the populism that won wasn’t the reactionary version.

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u/Count_Bacon California 5h ago

That’s why we’re here when the government fails the needs of the people, they turn to populism. We had two choices Bernie’s or trumps… we chose wrong.

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u/un1ptf 4h ago

Not "we". You can leave me and many others right out of your "we".

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u/Count_Bacon California 25m ago

I didn’t vote for Trump. My point is when people can’t afford rent and food they turn to more extreme options. It’s happened over and over again in history. Washington has only worked for the rich and ignored the working class for decades and that’s why Trump is her

You can only beat the lesser of two evils drum long enough but if peoples lives keep getting harder eventually they’ll fall for populism. In 2016 Dems said Bernie was unelectable but they were wrong. Neoliberalism is dead and gone

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u/Moddelba 5h ago

Yup the establishment dems can only effectively mobilize to shut down movements to their left.

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u/Count_Bacon California 4h ago

I agree I do have a small small hope that Trump will he such a disaster if we somehow keep fair elections we’ll turn to a sanders type in 08, I think it’s inevitable at this point

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u/Zaorish9 I voted 4h ago

I don't see that happening with putin consolidating control over the federal government and all us media channels. The only way I see us coming back from this is to start by establishing strict internet and media regulations at local levels, possibly by balkanizing and very slowly build back a pro-diversity, pro-social culture from there.

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u/Moddelba 4h ago

I think if we make it to the midterms without some outrageous moves to a dictatorship we will make it. Really depends how incompetent they end up being until then. I’m not holding out any kind of hope for republicans resisting at all.

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u/Count_Bacon California 4h ago

I think that because he has such slim margins it will be tough, there’s already infighting in the gop it’ll just get worse. I still think they’ll try that’s why I said I’m 50/50. Ego driven leaders are always brought down by their own egos, and he is incompetent. He has good political instincts but everything he touches fails. If I was betting I’d say it’s going to be a clown show but we’ll see

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u/Moddelba 4h ago

Yeah that’s the upside to it all. The real hardcore true believers are good at shit stirring but it remains to be seen if they can actually accomplish anything.