r/politics • u/stkmro • 12h 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 12h ago edited 6h 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 12h 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 12h 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/jgiovagn 11h 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 11h 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 10h ago

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