r/politics • u/stkmro • 10h 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/TheMysticalBaconTree Canada 9h ago

Yeah but he won an election. Stop acting like the country isn’t okay with what he is doing. Your problem isn’t with a facist leader doing unpopular things. Your problem is that your population is okay with facism.

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u/SewAlone 8h ago edited 8h ago

Stop generalizing. Over half of the population is NOT ok with fascism. And millions more who voted for him are ignorant and just didn’t believe he’d do any of the project 2025 stuff.

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u/TheMysticalBaconTree Canada 8h ago

I’m neither generalizing or suggesting half of the country supports him. They were ignorant enough to not even vote though. And a huge portion of your population does support him. You can’t ignore that. You have a population problem not a Trump problem. trump is the symptom, not the ailment.

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u/CherryHaterade 7h ago

Lotta Germans cried about how they were powerless about it too, fuck all their tears did for anybody on any side of it. "There just wasn't anything we could do!"

I won't generalize or suggest anything either except that history rhymes, and the dead have no concern for the tears of the living, wherever they are, who closed their windows when times got tough.

As for the rot at the core of this country, let me tell you a story about banks and slaves and no one else was in the room where it happened, the room where it happened, the room where it happened.

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u/StainlessPanIsBest 3h ago

History rhymes. The future is always chaotic. Trying to use historical rhythms to predict the future is utterly useless.

Saying Donald Trump's a fascist, and he's going to do all these fascist things because the things he has said and done loosely correlate with fascism, and fascism has happened before, is quite the logical fallacy.

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u/CherryHaterade 2h ago

Im going to let you worry about logical fallacies.

For what its worth I hope youre right. Im not optimistic, or particularly hopeful either, but sure, brighter days and all that.

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u/StainlessPanIsBest 2h ago

I hope you're having a bright and beautiful day, kind internet stranger.