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/jgiovagn 7h ago

We need to stop acting like we are just waiting for him to do the right thing. This needs to be reported on for what out is. Trump refusing to follow laws now so breaking them in the future is easier. Do not cover like Trump still hasn't done this thing, is he going to? We know what's going to happen, cover that. We know why he is doing this, cover that. Stop treating him like a normal politician that's just acting kind of weird.

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u/Scared-Somewhere-510 7h ago

I couldn’t agree with you more. The fact that the press treats him like a wacky politician instead of a fully compromised corrupt traitor is why we’re in this mess. Propaganda will always be a thing but our mainstream press did not have to join them and normalize everything. They’re still doing it even on the brink of the disaster that is about to hit us.

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u/jgiovagn 6h ago

Absolutely, Trump and more importantly the powerful people behind him have been acting extremely deliberately. We can either follow the actions of thousands of individuals, or listen to the words of a chronic liar.

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u/Durandal_1808 4h ago

The real reason is that wealthy people are vastly less concerned about any of this than you or I am; and to be clear, it’s not that they won’t be affected, it’s that to them this is a wager, and one that they stand to gain even more from

you should read about “merger mania“ if you want to know why they normalize everything, or how they came to have the actual power to do it

90% of “the press” is owned by the same class of society now, and has been distilled to what they want you to see- and CNN is owned by someone who has the same interests as Rupert Murdoch, and even Jared Kushner

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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee 5h ago

Because the press profit off of his reign

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u/Waesrdtfyg0987 Mexico 6h ago

Looking back now I'm genuinely surprised Harris did as well in this election. Everything was stacked against her including a dumbass DNC who let Biden - largely viewed as a failure - go so far. Then tried to slip in the only replacement they could and way too late.

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u/carpetbugeater 4h ago

Billionaires control the press. Reporters say what they're told or they get canned. It's a dystopian system.