We knew it had to be inevitable: Noem has been fired. All that cosmetic surgery and dental work to please her boss didn’t help.
Unfortunately, she’s being replaced by Markwayne Mullin, one of the dumbest sad-sack MAGAs in the Trump camp. This must be the smell of war he’s been talking about.
Questions remain: will Kristi ever get her blankie back? What about her boy toy, Corey Lewandowski? I hope there’s a camera crew around when she knocks on the door of her husband, Bryon.
And of course, we all want to know who the next cabinet member to get two bullets to the back of the head will be. Markwayne is new, but I think he’s in a good position for it.
Alas, she hasn’t been fired so much as laterally transferred to another grift. She’s now going to be the “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas”, whatever the hell that is. So she’s out at DHS because she tried to defend herself by essentially blaming Trump for some of her grifting and we all know how much Trump hates taking the blame for anything. But at the same time, she’s a loyal toady who will do anything the Orange Despot wants, so this new gig will probably involve some type of performative violence by her underlings, just as in her last job. They just may be performing that violence in other countries instead of our own.
So much for the “best cabinet ever”.
Did Dumb Don dump her because she was having bed parties without him? Does she keep the flying bedroom? Or does Markwayne get that? And if so, who will he have along for the…ride (bada boom)?
So many questions.
Note that Pam Bondi might be up for the axe next. She’s got some splainin to do to the House about the unmentionable files, and her show didn’t go over well the last time. And this time she can’t point at the Dow being at $50,000 because it ain’t…it’s below $48k, down like everything else and probably heading further south like everything else…except gas prices.
She should have cut Trump in on the grift.
Clearly, Noem should have shot The Old Yeller, when she had the chance.
AND “Markwayne” seems like an attempt to avoid a middle name of “Wayne”, which is known to be a sure indicator of a serial killer.
She won’t be missed.
OTOH, I’m sure there is another MAGA just as horrible to take her place.
ICE/CBP’s new job is as the secret American Gestapo thugs and terrorists.
When they aren’t hunting down dissidents, they are in charge of ethnic cleansing and the low budget concentration camps in converted warehouses.
It doesn’t matter who the head of DHS is. The administration purposely puts incompetent knuckleheads like Noem and Mullin because they are meant to be the sacrificial lambs (or puppies as it were) and they’re too stupid to realize that’s why they got the job in the first place. Steven Miller is the actual monster in charge of DHS and probably a lot of the rest of the executive branch and he needs a fall guy to throw under the bus when it’s convenient.
Markwayne Mullin can look forward to a career prominently displayed in South Park. Between fake masculinity Hegseth, staring weirdo Patel and what the hell Kennedy is, he will have to work hard to stand out. Any chance he belongs to a weird Christian sub-cult?
Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz brought her a new blankie:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vFLKleJHc2M?si=0qw4h_6_zXi8KAgr
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Hemidactylus, FYI: your URL includes embedded tracking.
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siparameter in YouTube URLs is a unique, alphanumeric tracking ID appended to shared links to identify who shared the video, who clicked it, and from which platform. It enables Google to build a “social graph,” linking sharing and viewing accounts to track off-platform engagement and analyze user behavior.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vFLKleJHc2M is the actual video, without the tracking parameter.
No doubt Trump got tired of boinking her. If she’d been the blonde bimbo he prefers, she might have lasted longer.
As critivz@6 says, this is the Trump method. It applies equally to his many corporate bankruptcies, which he extolled as great business skills…he dumps all the debt into the businesses that go bankrupt after siphoning off any assets. His MAGA entourage has no idea that their role is to take the hit for him when things blow back, at which point he ties the weight of his terrible decisions to their leg and tosses them overboard.
I think the tough-sheriff bluster, cruelty, and violence she projected were all positive features in Trump’s mind. Shooting her dog showed she wasn’t to be messed around with. Posing in front of immigrants held in a cruel prison showed she means business. Ordering the murder of citizens was a good thing, as it sent a warning to the left-wing woke. Even the grift of wasting government funds on her glorification is consistent with the Trump ethos. But the blanket story was an embarrassment. Wimps gotta go.
John Morales @9
Thanks for that info. I was unaware of that. I’ll try to eliminate that tracking crud in the future.