• Jumbie@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Holy fucking shit. The crazy person is now making sense.

    Unless of course he means replace them with a Nazi force.

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    3 days ago

    “Hey this super unpopular mass surveillance security theater is super expensive, and also trying to argue for why it should get funding is not helping us in the polls, and like, there are actual mass surveillance things we do want to abuse for police state shit that aren’t getting funding because they’re in the same department. Can we just drop this public facing part so it’s easier to fund the parts we do care about?”

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      2 days ago

      It isn’t that it is super expensive, but that it is being used as a bargaining chip regarding ICE funding and the blame isn’t going to Democrats. A failure of TSA to properly do its job right before the World Cup is going to get blamed on Republicans and the smart Republicans know this.

      It also lets Republicans potentially crush a union as a treat.