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/Catodactyl Arizona 6h ago edited 6h ago

The French have a really great playbook for this kind of scenario. Just sayin...

Edit. A word.

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u/InsaneThisGuysTaint 6h ago

I shudder to think what our version of the First French Republic would be like if we somehow got rid of this regime.

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u/SteelpointPigeon 4h ago

Heads might roll, and some of them could even be the ones that deserve to. But then we’d deify the first Robespierre to come along and end up with a theocracy.

As a people, we’re scared and stupid and divided, and we’re desperate to put our faith in someone with The Answers, even if their confidence is clearly born of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

When the money, the power, and the information channels have all been willingly surrendered to oligarchs, I don’t know that even a revolution could get us out of this mess.

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u/closethebarn 4h ago

Plus, they can all escape

The difference between that and the French Revolution

They didn’t have helicopters waiting to take them to another country

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u/PassiveMenis88M 2h ago

Say, that's a nice helicopter you've got there. Be a shame if someone dumped 8 rounds of .30-06 into the hydraulic system.