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"..Let's call this what it is - a token to appease the MAGA base.

MAGA watched a white lesbian get shot, and it didn't quite sit right, but she was a lesbian and a woman, so meh.

Then they watched a white male nurse that worked with veterans, get shot. And they saw the video, and were told that he was violent, armed, threatening. But it didn't line up. He's a white man. He works with veterans. It's harder to "meh" that away.

Now there is dissent in the MAGA-sphere. Not the large, clamoring outrage decent people are expressing. This is uncertainty. This is doubt. There cannot be any doubt in the MAGA-sphere.

So they "fired" the "guy in charge". He's responsible. It's his failure of leadership. Done and done. Now MAGA can grasp this fig leaf and say "Trump fixed the problem!" and go merrily along in their horrible little ways. And if this isn't enough of a "sacrifice", then Noem will be next. But ICE will continue to Gestapo, and the Republicans will continue to act as Fascists.

This is a thin whisper of a possibility of a consequence, which MAGA will bullhorn into The Solution That Wipes Away All Ills. When we point at Good or Pretti, MAGA will say "that was under the old guy. Trump fired him. Those don't count any more". I 100% guarantee it. And nothing will change, the MAGA-sphere will be cleansed of doubt, and this nightmare will continue.

Prove me wrong, universe.."