Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler

At first I was surprised this was coming from the Fascist friendly Bee, but then I read it and realized they're trying to sound sarcastic, but making the correct point perfectly. This is fucking meta.
- It’s like some kind of reverse Poe’s law, when the sarcasm of the outrageous minded is indistinguishable from a sane opinion.
  Also Godwin’s law.
  
  This whole thing is cracking me up. I can imagine them writing all sorts of articles like "Democrats want ALL people to have access to basic needs like food, shelter, education, and health care." Then MAGAts reading that just laughing their heads off while the rest of us are just stuck wondering where the joke is.
- This is mind blowing and I really hope it's just funny later. I really really do.
  
  We wanted it to "be funny later" during his first term.
  It wasn't.
  
  He's making a list, he's checking it twice
- It's some real self-awarewolf shit.
- Reality got so bad that satire can only state fact.
  
  There was a political realignment after the civil war where the democrat and the republican parties switched roles as liberals and conservatives.
  Now there's a factual realignment, where reality and satire switch which one is absurd and which one is correct when taken at face value

Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.
Either way, he's more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.
- Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨
  
  You joke, but vibes where and are an important part of how fascists took control. They understand that Aristotle was wrong, emotion and symbolism is simply a better form of rhetoric than logic.
- Let's hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.
  
  Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then

I hate Babylon Bee, but a broken clock & all that.
Either this situation isn’t as bad as they said it would be during the campaign (which is what Babylon Bee is implying) or it IS as bad as they said it is, and they’re letting it happen anyways.
Either way, they’re spineless fucking liars.
- Theres two main reasons not to stop it from happening:
  It would make the DNC as bad as the GOP
  The people don't really deserve more help, tbh.
  
  For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?
  
  Not everyone voted for Orange Mussolini yk

That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD

The Babylon Bee is unfunny right wing trash, but the Democrats walked right into this one. You can't tell us Trump is a threat to democracy and then peacefully transfer power to him.
- Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.
  
  I think we might be past that already
  
  Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?
  
  If you believe trump intends to end democracy, then democracy is already over regardless of if you peacefully transfer power or not.
  The truth is liberals have always been the path to fascism. After the death of the US no liberal nor fascist should ever be allowed near power again.
  
  Instead, we're in the Coda of Democracy.
  
  The US is a capitalist dictatorship, not a democracy.

I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion

From the article:
"It's my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power," Harris told the crowd of supporters after officially conceding the race. "Though he will end freedom itself in this country, imprison anyone who disagrees with him, systematically murder all women, and go door to door kicking everyone's dogs, I promise to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power."
The media hailed Harris's brilliance and the leadership she displayed while conceding to a man who is literally Hitler.

So... they are criticizing her for not trying to overthrow democracy? Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here? What a worrying attitude
- Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here
  Yes. What kind of party hands over power to people they know is fascist?
  A liberal one, yes. Which is the problem, and why liberalism eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is in decline.
  
  The real answer is the kind of party that a majority of voters chose a rapist felon over. I don't even want to help them, anymore, I started learning German again just in case I feel like leaving.
- Why is that a worrying attitude?
  They’re criticizing her for saying “he’s facist hitler” through the campaign as the sole message, and then when they lose, shrugging and treating it like any other loss. “Oh well, better luck next time!”
  Babylon Bee’s point is that the rhetoric doesn’t match the actions. If he was Hitler, then why are you handing him the reigns like this is just any other election? Their implication is that the campaign dramatized his impact and demonized him. They’re right about the criticism but wrong about the reason.
  He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path. Babylon Bee has managed to accidentally write their most non-partisan headline ever by accident, and a scathing indictment of spineless liberalism.
  
  Why is that a worrying attitude?
  Because it seems to be pointed in the direction of a civil war and an end to the US republic
  He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path.
  What do you think should be done instead?
- Only if you don't believe Donald Trump's own words.

Libs before the election: Trump is a fascist! He must be stopped! He'll destroy our democracy!
Libs after the election: Congrats to Trump! We'll be meeting soon to discuss the peaceful exchange of powers and our broadly overlapping interests.

Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.
- It was her concession speech though.
- She literally said this though.
  "I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."
  Source
  
  Yes, because Trump has missed numerous deadlines already regarding transfer of power
  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/politics/donald-trump-ethics-transition.html?referringSource=articleShare
- Someone already wrote that article: Biden vows 'peaceful and orderly transition;' says election system 'fair' and 'transparent'.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/politics/donald-trump-ethics-transition.html?referringSource=articleShare
  No, Trump has to write and submit an ethics statement promising peaceful transition of power.

First and only and it looks like Babylon staff didn't even come up with the idea - at the bottom it suggests this was a reader submission.

It's called leading through example, because the MAGA cult is so good at following the examples given to them.
- A millennia old Arabic saying goes something like: "If you honor the generous, you will own him... but if you honor the ignoble, he will rebel." We all know leading through example is wasted on people like Trump.

Good old right wing "humor" (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We're all going to be seeing a lot of this type of "humor" (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.
- The BabylonBee is terrible but it's not a lynching FFS.
  
  "Hang Mike Pence"
  Did you forget?

Make sure Joe pardons the fuck out everybody on your way out. Also he should resign if only to fuck with their merch.
- Pretty sure genocide joe has been eating ice cream cones for the past year or more.
  
  The genocide is only going to get worse. Though genocide don doesn't have as much of a ring to it. Donny and Benny are best buds

It's this that's she's emphasizing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/us/politics/donald-trump-ethics-transition.html?referringSource=articleShare
He needs to put forth an ethics plan to start the transition process. Part of that ethics plan requires him to say he will transfer power peacefully.
- It was required to be created before the election. So it's pretty obvious they don't care.
  I'm fact I'll go as far as to say its intentional. They will scream that Biden is resisting the transition, trying to stage a coup, etc etc. The antics won't stop just because he got elected.
  
  I assume everything Trump does at this point forward will be to benefit Russia and to start a civil war within the US.
- I think the last few years have pretty much proven he doesn't 'need' to do anything.
  
  Sure, because he is a foreign asset meant to transfer wealth to Russia from the US and destroy the US from within. It only benefits him to harm our country.
  But yes a competent leader would want things like info from those agencies and intelligence briefings etc so they are prepared on Jan 20.

Ah, so when the other side wins lemmy is suddenly against peaceful transfer of power. Interesting.
- I think it's more a criticism of the Dems. They spent four years saying Trump is the death of America and now they're just going to hand it to him. There's two implications of that:
  Trump isn't the enemy they made him out to be.
  Or, they just don't care about American democracy.
  A long criticism of Dems has been their refusal to treat Trump as the threat he is. He tried to perform a coup and what has happened? Some guy was accused of using fake money and was extra-judicially executed in the street, but perform a coup and life goes on.