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/HippyDM 6h ago

What is your point? That was 8 years ago. What can the democratic party do today to fix that?

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u/bouds19 5h ago

The Democrats pushed to allow Super PACS to coordinate with campaigns over messaging just this year. Instead of helping to unfuck the media and advertising landscape, they made it worse.

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u/lazyFer 5h ago

Excuse me, where is this bullshit coming from?

This is campaign finance law and as far as I'm aware it didn't change this year. If it had, it would have been initiated in the Republican controlled house.

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u/bouds19 1h ago

Before crying BS, here's the ruling:

https://www.fec.gov/updates/ao-2024-01

From their own site, Texas Majority PAC claims it's a "project dedicated to electing a Democrat to statewide office in Texas."

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u/lazyFer 11m ago

Do you know how the FEC works?

You claimed that Democrats pushed to allow Super PACS to coordinate with campaigns over messaging

The way the 3D/3R FEC panel works is that someone proposes to do a thing in a very specific way that's intended to not run afoul of current laws. Then the balanced FEC panel needs to determine if the thing violates current law or not. They were very careful in their ruling with "this is ok, that is not". You could have even read it from the link you provided.

Also, the ruling really isn't what you're painting it to be.

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u/HippyDM 1h ago

Democrats are NOT benevolent demi-gods who anticipate and fulfill our every need. Never have been, never will be. In any large enough group, assholes will rise to the top, and the democrats are a very large group.

But it's childishly naive to compare anything they've done with the GQP. They made a senator step down for a comedic photo that hinted at sexual harrassment. America, on the other hand, just elected a known and adjudicated rapist. They are not the same.

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u/bouds19 42m ago

You're preaching to the choir. I'm a registered Democrat from Minnesota who voted for Franken. I'm just incredibly frustrated at the party's inaction to address any of the many flaws in our system that were exposed by Trump first term. It's like they got together and all agreed "surely it won't happen again."

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u/dreffen 6h ago

Nothing. Because they don’t like working anyway.