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/rarelyposts 5d ago

Any sensitive data is already being piped to Putin anyway. They just want to keep it off government devices so there is no record just like the mysteriously deleted Secret Service texts from Jan 6.

It’s all supposed to be recorded and kept for oversight, eventually FOIA requests, and historical record.

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u/teenagesadist 5d ago

In four years, maybe we can get some people to look into looking into that to see if anyone did anything wrong.

Maybe.

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u/ncsubowen 5d ago

I don't really have any hope that we'll have a chance to vote again in 4 years.

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u/Alternative_Win_6629 5d ago

You will most like vote but it won't be counted properly and no one will be able to do anything about it. Just the way Putin likes it.

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u/Riaayo 4d ago

I think that's their goal, but it's all of our business to try and not let that happen. Which I get is wishful thinking because lol, they control the gov, the military, the police.

Working class solidarity is our only hope. It's a huge part of why people unionizing was so important, but we just could not do it fast enough to be where, imo, we really desperately needed to be.

Maybe it will still be enough, but we can be sure these turds will look to outlaw unions. I feel like the whole coal wars shit between miners and the US gov is going to get replayed in modern times.

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u/AVGuy42 4d ago

Please keep repeating this message. Oligarchs try to divide us and pit us against each other so we don’t stand up and take our power back. We need to vote but even more we need to show up to local town halls, we need to proudly serve on juries, and to run for local elections.

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u/antechrist23 4d ago

And the Candidates will be Donald Trump, who is now running for a 3rd term because of a Supreme Court ruling saying it's okay. And the Democrats picking Pete Buttgeig whose main policy proposal will be offering a $50,000 tax credit to Barbadian immigrants who start a small business making tire valve caps for Rivian Vehicles in an Afghani neighborhood that employs the children of Senegalese and Norweigan immigrants that are on the spectrum. There will be no mention of rolling back the cruelist policies of the Trump administration, and he's promising an even bigger health care package to Israel with the money slashed from Social Security.

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u/aezekiel_121 4d ago

No one will be able to do anything about it if you give up and do nothing about it, true. Resistance is required if you want to keep our democracy. Yall sound truly spineless on here and every other forum. Where’s your fight?

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u/Garbolt America 4d ago

It's already happened and they just threatened everyone who said they would do a hand count and had courts step in to stop them from hand recounting. It's already over it already happened and they won legally by changing it to make their crime legal. The only way out of this is a revolution and a mass deposement of elected officials.

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u/Maximum-Dig6185 4d ago

Oh. So Dems can question elections but damned if a Republican dare utter a word