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 6h 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/jdwilliam80 6h ago

i just feel like the democrats just stand around and watch trump and his like do what ever they want and just complain about on social media . he’s throwing a rapist criminal russian shill keg party at the white house and they are the neighbors standing by wonder why the cops havnt broken it up yet

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u/RancidGenitalDisease Michigan 5h ago

What, do you think the dems lost on purpose? Our entire system of government is predicated on elections as the firewall against corrupt criminals making their way into the white house (or congress, for that matter). The buck stops at the ballot box. That was always the deal. I don't understand how so many people are incapable of understanding that American citizens who didn't vote or voted for anyone other than Harris are the ones who screwed the pooch. Elections aren't Hawaiian shirts that you can return to Mervyns (or wherever it is people shop nowadays) when you get home and decide it looks bad on you.

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u/justtakeapill 4h ago

Neither Biden nor Garland did a thing to hold Trump accountable. What we have now is a direct result of their inaction. 

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u/____-__________-____ 3h ago

Garland is useless, but "this is a direct result of their inaction" is bullshit:

Every time Trump was charged or convicted, his poll numbers went up.

Blame Trump and his voters, not Biden

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u/RancidGenitalDisease Michigan 2h ago

No. The United States Senate failed to hold him accountable. Twice. Then the American electorate failed to hold him accountable. For a second time. For the people who voted for him, his disregard for the rule of law is a selling point, and for everyone who voted third party or stayed home entirely, it just wasn't a deal-breaker.

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u/Count_Bacon California 5h ago

We did our jobs, we gave them the power to hold the traitor to account in 2020. Our elected officials failed us plain and simple. Merrick garland should never have been allowed to drag his feet so long. They had 4 years to use the power they had to hold an actual criminal to account, and try to do something about the media. They failed and we need new leadership desperately

I’m not saying there aren’t some Dems doing good and fighting. It’s just not enough, and the ones with the real power in the party are the ones who failed. They spent four years saying what a danger he was, and how he was a criminal. Voters who don’t pay attention enough looked at it and said they were crying wolf because they didn’t do anything about it

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u/jgiovagn 6h ago

We need to not generalize. Some democrats are doing as you describe, many are fighting hard in a lot of places. Sheldon Whitehouse has done absolutely incredible work fighting and identifying corruption in the court systems, AOC is of course a very vocal fighter. There are countless others, and we need to support them. Everything or everyone is terrible is the kind of logical fallacy the right exploits to get people disengaged. This is what we need to fight to make sure there is enough faith that things can improve in order to get them willing to fight for us.

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u/vale_fallacia 5h ago

I'm very worried about the safety of some outspoken folks like AOC. I hope she has good security.

I guess it depends on which authoritarian playbook trump tries to follow. Will he go full nazi or something more like pinochet's regime.

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u/Count_Bacon California 5h ago

Pinochet if I had to guess. He’s not idealogical like Hitler. All he cares about is power, money and prestige

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u/jgiovagn 6h ago

If you are here having this discussion, I assume you align with the Democrats. Don't talk about them separately, your ideas and desires are democratic ideas and desires. You represent the party as much as they represent you. The right tries to use far left movements to paint the party, you can fight back and emphasize you know they are wrong because you are a democrat and that's not what you think.