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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 158 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 102 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dearly hope she takes Miller with her somehow

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She does seem like the "I'm taking you down with me" type, doesn't she?

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much everyone in the GOP is that type. It’s basically a prerequisite to be that selfish

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

We can only hope it's a rats on a sinking ship scenario.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, in a blaze of glory mexican stand type scenario would be great.
The Puppy killer, Ghouly Goebbels, and the child rapist all blasting each other. No survivors!

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 110 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean… she’s not completely wrong, but she could have, you know, not have followed fascist orders too. All on them need to be held accountable

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Agreed. “I was just following orders” has pretty famously been eliminated as a credible defense.

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[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Y'all really don't understand that this headline is tailored for you.

In Noem's mind, this says "Kristi Noem Credits Her Actions to Trump and Stephen Miller."

She's running to the MAGA safehouse. This isn't "I was following orders." This is "I was given orders, and look at how perfectly I followed them!"

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, but she just sinned against Trump. She said something that can be interpreted as blaming Trump. That's a big no no to a narcissist.

[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can only see it this way if you're on the receiving end of a left-oriented headline. Your perspective is fueled by clickbait. Trump's perspective is still mafia mentality.

Trump's already publicly defended her on Fox News, and I can't tell if a throwaway quote on Axios or Trump standing in a Golden Corral or whatever the fuck it is, giving an interview about how she's "done it all" happened first - it's a matter of hours. Point is, she is loyal AF and she is his last line of defense on everything DHS does. He needs her now more than ever and she's survived much worse several times over already. She's the shield he uses for everything - and he's positioning himself that way for a long-term benefit to him. Bovnio was always disposable because he's not in the money club. Noem is, and she's young enough to have a career after all this if our timeline gets worse. Even if she gets impeached.

Trump can't play Noem out until it's worth it to him, and it's no where near that yet. Bovino was the cost already, and no one liked him on the right anyway. Plus he flew too close to the sun, and THAT was the sin to a narcissist, to think he could play at the same level. His job was as a shield for Noem, full stop. Homan is next up until he installs the next public-facing nazi cosplayer and goes to Maine to also be the fodder for the next round. Trump hates LEOs and the military until he needs them, and so they're the disposable ones to him.

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[–] xorollo@leminal.space 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with you, this is her intent. But Trump and Steven will throw her under the bus to give the people a culprit and then keep doing everything they've been doing. This is why they sent Bovino home and replaced him with Homan.

[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never. Or....not never, but not until it's really worth it. Noem absorbs flak for Trump, Bovino absorbed it for Noem. Homan is just Senior Manager playing Middle Manager until they get some new idiot in there to do the job and absorb flak for both of them.

Homan knows enough to stay in DC and out of the way of televised action. He's been an appointee for 22 years. He's not stupid, he's not a MAGA appointee chud, and he's not naive. He knows the politics of his job and knows that as an Obama-era appointee, even if he looks like he slipped up, he's out with that mark on his record to blame. He might be loyal, but he can never live down that original sin and so he goes on TV to slur his way through a Meet the Press interview and defend Trump to extend his worth one more week at a time.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“I was given orders, and look at how perfectly I followed them!”

You can't run to MAGA if you blame Trump for anything, they won't accept it.

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 71 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Following orders does not make you innocent.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Superior Orders, aka The Nuremberg Defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

However it does tie your guilt to others. All three bear guilt for her actions

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

“When you raid a cat house you arrest the piano player too.”

Buford T. Justice- Smokey and the Bandit 1977

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"I was following orders" is not a defense to committing a crime.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am equally shocked and completely unsurprised this wooden amalgamation of a parody of a human actually used the "I was just following orders" line. Not a dumb guard or a patrol agent or a desk clerk, but an actual Secretary of Homeland Security. (for whatever prestige or value is held in a position that was invented in 2003 because white people suddenly got scared of Muslims.)

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[–] DarkGamer@fedia.io 61 points 2 weeks ago

"I was only following orders," said the Nazi

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago

Kristi's braincell: don't say you were just following orders, don't say you were just following orders...

"It was Stephen!"

Kristi's braincell: nice 😎

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 52 points 2 weeks ago
[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Welp, we won't be seeing her much longer.

Guess she'll have to fall back on her hobby of shooting puppies in the face.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

Some would call it a hobby. For Kristi Noem it's a calling.

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"They said they liked it. They said I looked hot 🥺"

[–] atropa@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, iam not  a necrophile.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Im with you. I've literally seen more attractive blow up dolls. She's mutilated her face.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Her ugliness comes from within

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but she does a wonderful job of warning you about it by telegraphing her insanity with that face.

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 weeks ago

shes evil, she knows shes evil, she enjoys that shes evil, but cant admit that shes evil bcs she knows everybody hates her.

the essence of being a right-wing nutjob

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

And here I was just naively blaming all three of them

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Isla, She Wolf of the SS, is going to find out the hard way the bimbos are the first to get thrown under the bus in that party.

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[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

yeah... she is a goner

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This isn't her trying to excuse or justify her actions because she senses some looming consequence, this is her reiterating her loyalty to trump and the cause in the face of outside criticism.

edit: Also maybe push Miller under the bus, the reporting on this is kinda weird. Axios says there's calls for her resignation, MSN says there's calls for Miller to face censure... not actually sure what's true with this one

edit 2: much better article that explains the situation from Atlanta Black Star

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this dog Killing bitch

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

This is a yes-and moment. I thought it was silly that momentum was building around impeaching noem when what we clearly and obviously need to do is remove Trump. So, yes-and. Yes, impeach noem, AND remove Trump.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Guys….guys…..are the leopards eating the faces?????

[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They might eat 'around' hers.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Not a single braincell in that head.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet the fights, screaming matches, broken lamps, slammed doors and broken phones in the white house over the last week has been fucking glorious. I would pay thousands to be a fly on a wall there just to watch these unhinged freaks become unhinged freaks at each other when everything starts going off course.

They thought it would be different by now. They expected more legal victories (it's not covered but they've lost a LOT of ground in courts) and they thought they would have a stronger public mandate, they thought liberal, middle-class America would be looking at them like saviors and heroes by now, they thought their WWE fireworks and spectacle would win over more than the same, steady 28% - 30% of the country.

But here we are, Trump is becoming unmanageable and may literally just DIE at any moment, they've made reverse progress getting JD Vance ready to take the reigns, and everyone is just staring at Miller, this egg-headed wormtongue that keeps feeding Trump schizoid lines because he's basically just Elliot Rogers reincarnated. And now there are waves of rolling strikes going around, and the conservatives broadly are absolutely enraged about threats to their guns. Even the liberal nightly news is on network TV is outright saying Trump and his admin are making shit up. The tide is turning sharply.

There is some satisfaction in all this.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

PeeWee Himmler is a student of Nazi Germany, and expected that Americans would fold up like Germans still recovering from WW1. He thought that murdering a few people in the streets would intimidate the entire country into staying in their houses. He doesn't understand that Americans grow up hearing fables of Revolutionaries whooping the most powerful army in the world.

Americans don't get intimidated, they get angrier, and eventually they get ferocious.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

Minneapolis Trials for these Nazis

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you're an adult who has been put in charge of an entire government department, you should take responsibility for your actions

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

She couldn't make the announcement until she found a perfect costume with a sexy hat.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hey all, I really want this to be true but let’s keep it above board. that site you just listed has a lot of scam sites linked at the bottom with AI slop trying to prey on vulnerable people to invest in vymnex/linkbait scams.

I hate what the right are doing too but we can remain to strive better than this. Don’t dive to this level.

Fight better.

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[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

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