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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Apparently she just gave a press conference and she hadn’t been told she was fired 🤣

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

TBF Trump immediately moved her onto some newfangled program that has even less congressional oversight while acting as a money pit, so it's not really a firing...

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It was a lateral “promotion”. She was put in an unimportant box where she can’t really do anything.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 1 points 32 minutes ago

Except access a ton of money and have no accountability.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The first thing I wondered when I heard the news was if she knew, because this same thing has happened before. Despite "you're fired" being the phrase that made Trump famous, outside of scripted television he's a chickenshit coward who can't fire underlings in person. He has to do it indirectly to avoid confrontations.

It is pretty fucking wild - he literally fires people on Twitter because he’s too chickenshit to do it to their face

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 6 points 5 hours ago

She's a horrible gift that keeps on giving.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 47 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Because just like when she was a VP candidate, she made an absolute ass of herself, and made her boss look bad.

I'm willing to bet that her replacement will largely do the exact same thing but with better media training and less of a PR disaster.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Ha Millin will be a PR disaster too

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 39 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

She's being replaced by fucking Markwayne Mullin. The senator so inbred southern his first name is two actual names glued together. He's just as MAGA, and just as dumb as Noem.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Love this pic of him cowering on Jan 6th, 2021, though.

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 11 points 4 hours ago

A picture is worth a thousand words. Holy fuck they’re not so good for that guy

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

and made her boss look ~~bad~~

and made her boss look somehow worse

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Right? I feel like they don't understand the gravity of how difficult this is, given the givens.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

They mentioned someone in the article but I haven't looked into them yet as he doesn't seem to be part of the usual suspects.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's this guy:

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg6vitp4rc2v

RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 1 points 23 minutes ago

Oh. Fun. -.-

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't think they would be but I didn't know how bad it was gonna be.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's worse than the little funny clip I showed you. He has also said to deport children of deported parents. The more you look, the more you'll find.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh. Yeah. Thanks for the links. I do appreciate it.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

I do prefer to use links so I can to have some proof of the things I say. You're very welcome.

[–] leagman1@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

I think it's time for Tucker Carlson to step up

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 41 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wtf is the shield of America

Trump knows the avengers is fictional right?

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 23 points 6 hours ago

I wouldn't count on it.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

Great, now I get to be stressed until the weekend that they’re going to anounxe they want to annex all of the America’s for a missile dome.

He’s been threatening that already, but moving people and creating a project for it is a bad sign.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Breaking the chain of accountability/responsibility. IMO that's all this is. "That was the last CEO/Manager/DHS Secretary." This is a business move and nothing more.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Saw the theory that MAGA intentionally chooses severely incompetent women for these positions to then pin all their policy failures on and replace them with men, to reinforce womens "inferiority" in the base's minds.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 hours ago

This is pretty hard to prove considering the administration has no competent people of any gender.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 5 points 5 hours ago

I mean, it follows his first year term playbook of "blame everyone but me"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, there's a correct way to remove Kristi Noem from office and this ain't it.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, how do you mean? the Department of Homeland Secrurity Secretary is a cabinet member and serves "at the pleasure of the president". He's able to hire and fire cabinet members as he wills per Article II of the U.S. Constitution about executive power. Is the DHS one of the protected that needs cause?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, how do you mean?

The correct way to fire her would be out of a cannon.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 4 points 5 hours ago

LMAO. Oh! The fun way.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

But then you're just giving Trump an excuse to say his trademarked phrase, "You're fired."

[–] CackNClap@infosec.pub 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm guessing this commenter was thinking something a little more... Revolutionary?

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Alongside the announcement of Noem’s ouster,

Yay!

the president said he would tap Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to be her replacement

Boo!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago
[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

She was discarded like a condom at Charlie Sheen's house.