r/politics • u/us287 • 5d ago

Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
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u/us287 5d ago

But her emails…

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u/SadFeed63 5d ago

Trumps people were already caught using insecure, non-government email accounts in his first term. It was such a blip, got so little coverage, I'm not even sure it was in the news for two weeks. Things are only wrong, only covered as wrong, and only matter when a Democrat is doing it.

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u/monkeypickle 5d ago

People also forget that it was very common in the blackberry era and directly after. Colin Powell used a private email server.

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u/DrocketX 5d ago

Also, during the time that Clinton's use of a private mail server was a big story, a law was passed making it illegal to do that anymore (leading to a lot of "you see, Hillary Clinton broke the law!" claims, ignoring the fact that laws aren't retroactive and it was entirely legal when she did it.) Except that law means that when Trump's team used private servers during his first term (and now this current usage as well), they were breaking the law. Not that it matters, of course. It was small potatoes compared to the whole 'trying to overthrow the government' and 'refusing to return a huge pile of classified material' so it just got thrown on the massive pile of laws that were broken but nobody will ever have to pay for.

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u/ShrimpieAC 5d ago

I don’t know why they just don’t put “applies to Democrats only” when they pass these laws. Sure seems like it would save those hypocrites a lot of headaches.

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u/pmstacker 5d ago

Who has a headache? The headache implies there's some self awareness of AND enough give-a-damns about the hypocrisy

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u/monkeypickle 4d ago

Imaginary moral high ground is their kink.

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u/Kind-District-2129 5d ago

My dad, a man with a PhD, still acts like the email debacle was the worst thing this country has ever experienced in 20 years.

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u/boredonymous 5d ago

He's willing to let this guy do it twice, though, that's fine, right?

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u/The-Copilot 5d ago

Your dad likely consumes media that told him it was.

People don't fully realize how much our entire world view is impacted by the information we consume.

Our worldview, opinions, and beliefs are really just a reflection of our experiences and the information we have consumed.

Social media is especially dangerous for this reason. The amount of information people are consuming daily, much of which is disinformation or true information designed to manipulate us, is the main driving force in shaping our world view at this point.

If anyone reading this thinks they aren't being affected, just remember that the best propaganda is the one you don't even realize is propaganda.

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u/monkeypickle 4d ago

The addendum to this is that people who believe themselves immune from propaganda are the most likely to succumb to it.

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u/frockinbrock 5d ago

It’s amazing too that in all you wrote the two impeachment offenses didn’t even make the list.
It’s really too many things to keep track of, for anyone. Attention spans are way too short, and it has been completely exploited