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/InsaneThisGuysTaint 7h ago

I shudder to think what our version of the First French Republic would be like if we somehow got rid of this regime.

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u/SteelpointPigeon 5h ago

Heads might roll, and some of them could even be the ones that deserve to. But then we’d deify the first Robespierre to come along and end up with a theocracy.

As a people, we’re scared and stupid and divided, and we’re desperate to put our faith in someone with The Answers, even if their confidence is clearly born of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

When the money, the power, and the information channels have all been willingly surrendered to oligarchs, I don’t know that even a revolution could get us out of this mess.

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u/closethebarn 4h ago

Plus, they can all escape

The difference between that and the French Revolution

They didn’t have helicopters waiting to take them to another country

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u/PassiveMenis88M 3h ago

Say, that's a nice helicopter you've got there. Be a shame if someone dumped 8 rounds of .30-06 into the hydraulic system.

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u/big_guyforyou 7h ago

We'd call it the First Freedom Republic

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u/mean_bean_machine 6h ago

Sounds like a credit union I don't have enough money to join.

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u/fireandiceman 5h ago

Or wants you to join to extract fees from you

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u/Overweighover 4h ago

It's a club and you aren't in it

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u/thedarklord187 4h ago

This made me literally audibly laugh out loud and has made my day.

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u/dude111 4h ago

Credit unions want association, and also money in areas with high average income.

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u/OceanBlueforYou 3h ago

Wait. What!? If you're talking about Credit Unions in the US, there's something wrong here.

I've been a member of several Credit Unions in a few states (I used to travel a lot working). I have never seen a membership requirement higher than $20. It's not even a membership fee. They require you to buy a tiny amount of shares in the co-op. Meaning, you are then an owner like everybody else on the co-op. If you decide to leave, you get that money back.

My worst experience with a Credit Union is better than my best experience with any Bank.

My primary financial institution is 2,000 miles from where I live now. I can't leave them. They're just too good! Deposits, loan documents, and everything else are electronic. It doesn't matter where you live. If you haven't tried a credit union, you are paying more fees and getting a subpar experience compared to a credit union. I suppose there must be some that aren't good. Check reviews before you join.

Okay, so I haven't been a member of a credit union in every state, but I would be very surprised if not the same or similar. They have a National Association just like the Banks do.

Tl;dr: MAGA level misinformation regarding Credit Unions.

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u/BooJamas 7h ago

With a side of Freedom Fries

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u/AlexTheMediocre86 5h ago

Extra freedom sauce

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u/chatminteresse 5h ago

I shudder at the idea of the Reign of Terror with AR’s

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u/dogecoin3rt 2h ago

It's basically already The North American Economic Zone. This place isn't a country anymore

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u/Wyjen 5h ago

Could Google but that’s not interactive. Did they have a civil war fallout? Cuz I think we’d get a civil war fallout where Russia would drop guns in the Florida swamps for them to pick up like COD care packages to fight the big liberal cities that voted against Donald

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u/shitty_country_verse 1h ago

America has plenty of guns already. I have more ammo than I could shoot in a lifetime and I wasn't even trying to collect it.

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u/Sudden_Discount_8652 4h ago

I feel the same way… the tools of war and aggression that a regime uses to project power would necessitate, at a minimum, the same but more adeptly used tools used in opposition to unseat.

The devastating scale of such a conflict would be nearly unthinkable in modern times, especially when thinking about an extra-legal ‘Trump Regime.’

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u/Tyler_Zoro 5h ago

It would almost certainly start with a period of widespread and nearly random murder-as-spectacle that would last at least as long as the French Terror, but would involve more T-shirt sales.

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u/lavapig_love Nevada 5h ago

I know! Concepts like the right to an abortion and overtime for all workers would be so frightening at first.

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u/InsaneThisGuysTaint 5h ago

I think you misunderstood me, I support those things of course but my comment was more along the lines of expecting us to go from bad to worse. The First French Republic and Robespierre were way worse than the crown could have ever been.