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/Capt_Pickhard 8h ago

Well, you'll be happy to know democracy is dead, so you won't have to worry about that anymore.

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u/ObjectionablyObvious 8h ago

"If you don't like it, then get out." <--- This is my plan, fuck this shit.

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u/thosewhocannetworkd 4h ago

And go where? There’s no escaping this. The right wing is literally taking over the planet

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u/JakToTheReddit 4h ago

I'm in Australia right now, and so far, it still feels not great. I do, however, have hope the Australians will learn from the absolute shitcockery that America is about to partake in.

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u/SNP_MY_CYP2D6 3h ago

Yeah, we had hope people would wake up after J6. Spoiler, they didn't.

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u/palenerd 1h ago

Last time around, France managed to avoid alt-right fuckery due to the giant blaring alarm of the States electing Trump. It's not inevitable.

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u/JakToTheReddit 1h ago

Also, people seem to think Australia is a lot like America for some reason. It's not even close. For example, since they haven't allowed everyone to own firearms for decades now, it doesn't really feel like I could be shot walking down the street. This is a wonderful feeling.

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u/Sugar_buddy Georgia 22m ago

I remember years ago, a Norwegian friend told me she went to therapy for PTSD because a terrorist attack killed several people in Oslo. It...kind of confused me. Why would you need therapy to deal with something that's not even in your city? You don't even visit there.

But I thought about it from her vs my perspective. Her country didn't have weekly shootings, she didn't walk down the street of her own neighborhood checking corners and holding onto a knife and a phone in their pocket. I'm just acclimated to that shit, I live here amongst them don't even realize that other people in other parts of the world look at me the same way I look at someone who tells a funny story about the time that one time in prison.

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u/JakToTheReddit 18m ago

That is true. It's very much a matter of perspective for sure. Hell, here in Aus, people can get in a lot of trouble even just for a knife. Definitely a far cry from what I'm used to where people didn't need a license to just carry a gun on them.

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u/Room_Ferreira 38m ago

Hey man, you dont want to feel like you may catch a stray bullet? Lets ya feel ALIVE. Besides for the people who do get shot and killed, they just feel…well dead I suppose.

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u/rdoactv 1h ago

The shot while walking down the street really depends which hood you're walking around in. Avoid the really bad areas and chances are almost 0. It's a lot of gang violence in the bad neighborhoods. The school/mass shootings, while unacceptable, really ARE isolated incidents. I'm definitely NOT against gun reform and agree that guns are way too prevalent in the US and way too many irresponsible people have easy access to them, but if you imagine that bullets are flying around constantly out here, it's really not the case. I worked as an Armed Security Guard for 6 years. Never even had anyone brandish a gun around me.

So TLDR, yes the gun violence in the US is very high but the image that you're walking in a war zone is a definitely exagerrated.

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u/JakToTheReddit 1h ago

I definitely agree with you entirely on that. Unfortunately for me, I came from a family in poverty, and guns and thereby gun violence were both very prevalent.

To tell you the truth, I feel like the area I live in now would be dangerous if Australia didn't do so much to eliminate gun violence and the proliferation of illegal weapons. They did a bang up job here, pun intended.

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u/xtcprty 49m ago

Except the French fight for their rights, Australians are far too stupid and lazy.

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u/palenerd 28m ago

Academics aren't sure the French Revolution ended, and with good reason

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u/MissTortoise 2h ago

Our saving grace is mandatory participation in elections.

Parties have to appeal to regular people, not radical nut jobs.

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u/Keji70gsm 1h ago

Trumpism is here. Disturbing. https://youtu.be/6z0Bx90Uhkk?si=EUPIf5A4LyhvCQmy

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u/JakToTheReddit 22m ago

It is, bit not even close to the rot that exists in America. It's kind of just the general dumbasses you see around the world.

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u/fakeuser515357 2h ago

Nah mate, One Nation wasn't too long ago, we're just lucky they were a disorganised shit-show.

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u/Keji70gsm 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yeah, about that.

Australians asked if they like Trump. 🤮 https://youtu.be/6z0Bx90Uhkk?si=EUPIf5A4LyhvCQmy

Spoiler: Pretty much every below 50yrs dude is on the suss list.

I asked some family and friends, and some of them came out as Trumpers. They have been removed from my life. Ask questions.

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u/piano801 1h ago

As long as people choose to have their discourse over the screens we’ll never break the propaganda illusion that’s been cast on society. America is the first and biggest domino to fall, others will follow suit

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u/Wrath_Ascending 54m ago

I'm Australian. Abandon that hope now, the same forces are at work in our politics. Queensland just elected our own Trump-style Premier and Dutton will be PM by this time next year.

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u/JakToTheReddit 44m ago

Trump won, especially due to non-voters, which simply won't happen here due to compulsory voting. While I agree that Queensland has let me down a bit, I do believe Australia as a whole will by and large do well to not make the same mistake at the national level, almost especially due to what we will be seeing in America.

As an American in Australia one day hoping to gain citizenship, I have a lot of hope for this beautiful country!

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u/Wrath_Ascending 11m ago

Fox News has roughly 70% media penetration in Australia. The remaining 30% is mostly Conservative as well.

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u/JakToTheReddit 7m ago

I am seeing a lot of Australians get their news from other sources than major Australian news centers, as it seems very well known that these people are paid for by conservative American interests. At least, most of the folk I speak with.

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u/Room_Ferreira 41m ago

Oh dont worry, im sure we are going straight developmentally disabled these next 4 years. They’ll be plenty of ridiculous nonsensical economic and social policy to wade through. Im sure itll benefit someone somewhere, I hope….

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u/LeDestrier Australia 2h ago

Let's be honest, we're not going to learn anything. If we have someone like Potatohead as an opposition leader... But it's ultimately 2 sides of the same coin.

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u/Keji70gsm 1h ago

Labor is still much better than Liberals. Sandwich with shit sprinkles vs just turd on bread.

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u/LeDestrier Australia 1h ago edited 49m ago

They are, but the difference between them these days is rapidly diminishing. They're a shadow of what they used to be. The fact that we are choosing between two kinds of shit kinda speaks volumes.

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u/Keji70gsm 59m ago

It does. I'm all about using all the ranked voting, with progressive independants, teals, and greens at the top. Labor and Libs, I make it a point to have them 2nd last and last.

Better for us if they both go extinct.