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[NYT] Biden Will Nominate First Woman to Lead Intelligence, First Latino to Run Homeland Security
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I love that I've never heard of any of these people. Please fill the whole cabinet with competent non-politicians I never have to hear about in the news!
edit: yall i know who John Kerry is. I meant the cabinet
edit: yall i know who John Kerry is. I meant the cabinet
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Because they hate Biden and are going to spend the next four years complaining about how he eats crackers. Ignore.
Don't know much about the women mentioned here but I'm excited to see Kerry acting in an official role. He was a great Secretary of State and his commitment to fighting climate change is well-proven by now. Hopefully the plan he and AOC hashed out will see the light of day in Congress.
Refreshing to not have heard of these names (aside from John Kerry, of course), and for them not to be relatives. Won't miss the nepotism.
Nice to see civil servants who don't have to step down from their hedgefund that makes it money from puppy kicking
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I recognized Mayorkas from deputy DHS secretary. Looks like he was in charge of US Citizenship and Immigration Services under Obama. That's probably going to get some pushback.
Had to look up Haines, but wow wikipedia updates fast:
Edit, and yep another familiar pick:
Had to look up Haines, but wow wikipedia updates fast:
Edit, and yep another familiar pick:
they are more interested in shitposting than having a functional intelligence arm of the government to stop the rise of domestic terrorism
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Yep. Typical liberal nonsense to make symbolic moves for diversity while bombing brown people and imprisoning black people in your backyard.
And so they can destabilize more foreign countries in the middle East and South America.
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Yes, famously the top priority of the United States intelligence community has been to stop domestic terrorism.
And I'm sure the millions of people who get deported by ICE in the future, put in concentration camps, or separated from their families will feel better knowing that the head of homeland security will be a Cuban.
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Wow, now Hispanics like me can drone strike people in the Middle East! That's really inclusive.
That is the big news. I'm glad this role has a seat at the table. The Climate is a National Security Issue as well
Kerry's been pretty invested in the climate fight for a while now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/30/climate/john-kerry-climate-change.html
He and AOC were also the co-chairs on the Biden-Bernie task force regarding climate policy.
Organizing the Paris climate accords for one!
Having Kerry in as climate czar is excellent. Although I hope the position doesn't also preclude the creation of a National Climate Council, sitting alongside the NSC and NEC.
I don't imagine the Director of Homeland Security will be making many drone strikes.
Yeah. I like Kerry but I'm not aware of him as being a big climate guy. It's possible he is and we and we just don't hear of it or he's competent enough and Biden likes him enough that he trusted him to put him in the position regardless.
When they announce his pick for Secretary of Education every other post will be something something drone strikes.
Wikipedia led me to this old article. It's an interesting somewhat informal look at Haines.
www.newsweek.com
The Least Likely Spy
How did an amateur pilot turned artsy bookstore owner end up at the pinnacle of the CIA?
www.newsweek.com
If it doesn't require congress, then I would think there is a good shot?
All sound like great choices especially Kerry.
Also, these threads do wonders for my ignore list!
Also, these threads do wonders for my ignore list!
I blame moderation for continually letting them get away with this kind of shitposting. All the usual suspects ready with their canned responses regardless of who was nominated. And yeah, I'll likely be banned for this post, but it needs to be said because this place is becoming unreadable.
It was created in 2002, it was hastily made and poorly thought of, it's not such a hot take that it should be gone.
I personally don't have terribly detailed thoughts about how those government functions are best organized, but I feel very strongly that immigration services need to go back to the DOJ, like it was before 9/11.
Because it reeks of applying surface level diversity without any desire or intent to actually address the systematic issues.
Like those memes about needing to hire more black women prison guards as the way to address prison reform. Or the notion that a lot of liberals would be fine with grotesque wealth inequality, as long as the top 1% are demographically representative.
Idk enough about these people to say if that's the case, but given who Biden is, it's a valid concern. He's been pretty open about his opposition to fundamental reforms of structural issues and his desire to just get "back to normal." So I don't think it's inappropriate to be concerned that this will amount to surface level pandering to placate people who want real, foundational changes.
No seriously though, is that what that position called or is that a mistake lol
Edit: oh it is Tsar not Czar in English. I feel stupid.
There's a fair bit Biden's White House can do for climate policy without having to get Congress involved. Vox has a decent list here which also goes into other issues (like student debt and immigration):
https://www.vox.com/21557717/joe-biden-executive-order-student-debt-climate
Feeling optimistic about Kerry in the climate czar spot.
And I wonder if there'll be any Biden administration threads that aren't overrun with shitposts.
And I wonder if there'll be any Biden administration threads that aren't overrun with shitposts.
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