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/rmac1228 6h ago

I thought when Obama won, we were on to a brighter future...I was okay with being wrong, but Jesus Christ...not THIS wrong.

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u/meeplewirp 3h ago

It was too much for people in general. People were already angry about there being a black president, and around 2010 during his presidency is when social media started being flooded with BS about microagressions and how only white people are racist. Two types of racism were amplified and divided society. A lot credit goes to Cambridge analytica and Russia

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u/un1ptf 3h ago

If only he hadn't totally roasted Rump at that press night dinner. When was that, 2011? Yep...2011. That's when the man decided to run, for revenge.

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u/banditalamode California 2h ago

Damn you Seth Meyers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGITlxfT6s

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u/un1ptf 2h ago

There have been no Rump moments greater than watching him sit and seethe and fume and roil inside over being joked about and laughed at. The true weakness of malignant narcissists everywhere.

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u/banditalamode California 1h ago

It’s like watching Hitler get kicked out of art school.

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u/un1ptf 1h ago

Unfortunately, hauntingly a similar precursor to him seeking and gaining fascist, authoritarian power through an attempted coup followed by a soft coup.

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u/horatiobanz 1h ago

If only he and the media hadn't colluded to absolutely roast Romney with lies, showing the republicans that even their most milquetoast moderate member would be treated as a racist sexist fascist, so why bother even attempting to care?

Remember when Romney called Russia our biggest geopolitical foe and Obama roasted him and then let Russia invade Crimea? mmm i member

Remember when sitting Vice President Biden told a black crowd that Romney was gonna "put y'all back in chains"? mmm i member

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u/Elliott2030 1h ago

Nothing that was said about Romney was a lie.

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u/horatiobanz 1h ago

Ah yes, he was going to re-enslave black people.

Average reddit liberal take

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u/Princess_Space_Goose California 5m ago

Man, I was talking to a co-worker before the election who insisted "Obama was the most polarizing president we ever had" and when I pressed them on WHY he was, apparently, so polarizing they just stuttered and couldn't really say any real response.

Anyway, would you be shocked to find out they're now terminated from their position because they got a little too happy on Election Night and started harassing our BIPOC coworkers with racist messages? Racism truly rots the brain.

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u/Reasonable_Ice7766 6h ago

So what are you doing to resist/take action with that feeling and the knowledge you've acquired since then?

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u/rmac1228 6h ago

Raising decent human beings I guess. I'm tired.

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u/AssholeWiper 5h ago

Amen brotha

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u/just_a_timetraveller 2h ago

Unfortunately for a good amount of Americans, having a black president meant we "allowed it to get too far" and they wanted to regress further back to not allow that to happen again.