“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump said Thursday.”

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    9 days ago

    You called it an improvement.

    Noem did exactly what he wanted. The next one will do the same. Trump hasn’t had any repercussions, and Noem is being put onto a new board. Whether its called being fired or not, there is no apparent change or any real consequences here. Her not being the face still? What actual consequence is she receiving? Still being paid by the federal government, now with a new, probably more horrifying organization to be supposedly announced today?

    Its hard to call a parallel move a “consequence”, or the same approach to the people living in the US an “improvement”.

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      Yes, it’s a very minor improvement, so minor that it won’t mean any kind of policy changes at ICE. I never said anything different. It’s an improvement only in the sense that the alternative where the opposition is so minor they don’t even have to make small concessions like that would be worse. 99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%, even if with that improvement it’s still abhorrent.

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        7 days ago

        I think we have different definitions of “improvement”.

        99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%

        Same results, so effectively no different. I would not call “kills you exactly as horribly” an improvement.

        To each their own I suppose.