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      TBF Trump immediately moved her onto some newfangled program that has even less congressional oversight while acting as a money pit, so it’s not really a firing…

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      The first thing I wondered when I heard the news was if she knew, because this same thing has happened before. Despite “you’re fired” being the phrase that made Trump famous, outside of scripted television he’s a chickenshit coward who can’t fire underlings in person. He has to do it indirectly to avoid confrontations.

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      She’s a horrible gift that keeps on giving.

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    Because just like when she was a VP candidate, she made an absolute ass of herself, and made her boss look bad.

    I’m willing to bet that her replacement will largely do the exact same thing but with better media training and less of a PR disaster.

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      Great, now I get to be stressed until the weekend that they’re going to anounxe they want to annex all of the America’s for a missile dome.

      He’s been threatening that already, but moving people and creating a project for it is a bad sign.

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    The only thing these stupid AI chips in my phone are good for. The eye patch is 100% AI slop.

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    Saw the theory that MAGA intentionally chooses severely incompetent women for these positions to then pin all their policy failures on and replace them with men, to reinforce womens “inferiority” in the base’s minds.

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      This is pretty hard to prove considering the administration has no competent people of any gender.

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      I mean, it follows his first year term playbook of “blame everyone but me”

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      Out of curiosity, how do you mean? the Department of Homeland Secrurity Secretary is a cabinet member and serves “at the pleasure of the president”. He’s able to hire and fire cabinet members as he wills per Article II of the U.S. Constitution about executive power. Is the DHS one of the protected that needs cause?

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    Breaking the chain of accountability/responsibility. IMO that’s all this is. “That was the last CEO/Manager/DHS Secretary.” This is a business move and nothing more.

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    Alongside the announcement of Noem’s ouster,

    Yay!

    the president said he would tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to be her replacement

    Boo!