Sec. Nielsen is out; expect things to somehow get worse

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jackstar7

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The Trumpies who don't fully realize how their prosperity depends on a Mixed Economy with governments up through the Federal level will also fail to feel lucky in the simply fact that the government is on auto-pilot now, run by an army of career civil-servants who just follow the law, adjust to the regulatory language of the law and come to work every day to do just that.
On the note of one's personal prosperity, this is part of why you see so many on the Right and Alt-Right embracing crypto so hard. They don't want to be constrained by the shackles of society AND don't want to do any real work for wealth.
 

BonzaiDuck

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On the note of one's personal prosperity, this is part of why you see so many on the Right and Alt-Right embracing crypto so hard. They don't want to be constrained by the shackles of society AND don't want to do any real work for wealth.
Jackpot! You "make a living" in a competitive free market, regardless of the natural errors that occur in the process. Getting rich is a lottery, and wealth generates wealth without human intervention.

I could pontificate for hours. Freedom is a finite and limited aspect of life when you live in a civilized society and nation-state. The ideologues, steeped in their Libertarian fantasy readings, insist on it becoming a goal of the infinite. Infinite for me -- less for you. Bring the jungle back into the civilized landscape! Zero-sum! I still have a chance to win -- one out of a zillion-zillion.

So they idolize the Invisible Hand of markets as though it were some sort of supernatural brain, dictating who wins and who loses. Maybe under pure competition. Never so much on an tilted playing field.

Donny never did any real work in his life, and he never "worked for" another person. Working for your father in the family business is not class-struggle and not sweat equity. It's not a "real job".

They sure must have been desperate to have that Winnebago in the driveway again, to pick someone like Trump. They deserve further analysis. They don't deserve respect -- either for their votes, or for their common sense.
 
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UNCjigga

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New reporting suggests that one factor leading to her firing might have been her efforts to raise the alarm on potential Russian meddling in the 2020 election. Could that have been the last straw for Putin’s bitch?

From NYT:
In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election.

President Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president.
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Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, made it clear that Mr. Trump still equated any public discussion of malign Russian election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Mulvaney said it “wasn’t a great subject and should be kept below his level.”
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Before she resigned under pressure on April 7, Ms. Nielsen and other officials looked for other ways to raise the alarm. The opening page of the Worldwide Threat Assessment, a public document compiled by government intelligence agencies that was delivered to Congress in late January, warned that “the threat landscape could look very different in 2020 and future elections.”
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Ms. Nielsen grew so frustrated with White House reluctance to convene top-level officials to come up with a governmentwide strategy that she twice pulled together her own meetings of cabinet secretaries and agency heads. They included top Justice Department, F.B.I. and intelligence officials to chart a path forward, many of whom later periodically issued public warnings about indicators that Russia was both looking for new ways to interfere and experimenting with techniques in Ukraine and Europe.
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A second senior administration official said Ms. Nielsen began pushing after the November midterms for the governmentwide efforts to protect the 2020 elections, but only after it became increasingly clear that she had fallen out of Mr. Trump’s favor for not taking a harder line against immigration.

That official said Ms. Nielsen wanted to make election security a top priority at meetings of Mr. Trump’s principal national security aides, who resisted making it a focus of the discussions given that the 2020 vote was, at the time, nearly two years away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/russia-2020-election-trump.html
 
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New reporting suggests that one factor leading to her firing might have been her efforts to raise the alarm on potential Russian meddling in the 2020 election. Could that have been the last straw for Putin’s bitch?

Let me check the Magic 8 Ball..."Signs Point to Yes"