Following orders does not make you innocent.
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“When you raid a cat house you arrest the piano player too.”
Buford T. Justice- Smokey and the Bandit 1977
However it does tie your guilt to others. All three bear guilt for her actions
I want Miller out. I hope this happens but Trump likes him so…
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.
Damn that's a reference I wish I didn't know.
Same people, just 80 years later.
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
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.
Some would call it a hobby. For Kristi Noem it's a calling.
A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
Fuck this dog Killing bitch
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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I’m glad that when she goes down, she’s going to drag them to hell with her.
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 😎
She couldn't make the announcement until she found a perfect costume with a sexy hat.
Not a single braincell in that head.
Unfortunately that excuse will not hold up.
Hundreds of Nazi's used the same defense. They were hanged shortly thereafter.
read more.
barely 12 Nazis were killed at Nuremberg, 10 were hung.
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!"
“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.
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.
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.
Agreed -- they do seem to have a higher bar in 2.0 for the level of absurdity they can get away with without tossing acolytes under the bus.
Interesting about Homan, I haven't been following for that long. Didn't realize his history.
And I guess the real point is that this article is meaningless because even if she does go away, it doesn't matter. They're still going to keep doing what they are doing. We haven't won yet.
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.
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.
I get what you mean, but just now Trump is distancing himself from the negative perception of the ICE murders, so it might be a bad time for her to point the ownership at him.
Crying. He says... She says to me. She says.
Hold on, they reversed Alzheimer's on a mouse! Find me that f##@#@@ mouse! I'm gonna eat that mouse!
These people are idiots
Oh, yeah. She's done.
I wish too but that website has AI generated investment scams all over the bottom of it. I’m hesitating to believe this.
I dearly hope she takes Miller with her somehow
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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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
Not so much not follow orders, but how about go for the job. You don't get a job like that without going after it and pulling strings. And you could resign at anytime.
Agreed. “I was just following orders” has pretty famously been eliminated as a credible defense.
"I was only following orders," said the Nazi
Blaming the Chomo-in-Chief?
Well, I guess she can forget about that pardon.
That poor dog
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