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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says (www.axios.com)
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"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump said Thursday."

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[–] 152 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Trump said Noem will be "moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida."

Uhoh.

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    • [–] 72 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    ...huh. It’s a… change..? I don’t expect an improvement, tbh.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The improvement is that she stuck by trump threw everything and he just threw her under the bus.

    Everyone in the admin just wondered if they'll be next and if trump would protect them when the masses get upset at what trump does.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Trump said Noem will be "moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida."

    More like a lateral promotion than throwing her under the bus, really.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    It's a made up committee...

    You ever watch Silicon Valley?

    This is like when Bighead gets sent to the roof. trump can't fully fire her, because she'll start singing.

    So she gets shuffled to a nowhere post that still has perks and money, but she just sits in a room all day. She runs out the clock, but it's a dead end spot.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It's not an improvement in the sense that the new guy is going to be better or do less evil.

    It's a small victory that the backlash to Noem's time as DHS head was big enough that, even if they don't admit it, it's an implicit acknowledgement by the Trump admin that they did something wrong enough to warrant a response.

    It's not a major victory, and it shouldn't be talked about as one, but it's an improvement over the alternative, where ICE murders people and calls them domestic terrorists with literally no consequence.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    it's an improvement over the alternative, where ICE murders people and calls them domestic terrorists with literally no consequence.

    You've got a lot more confidence than I do that any of that will change in the slightest.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    No I don't. The consequence I'm referring to isn't any sort of change in policy or future criminal repercussions for ICE en masse or anything.

    The consequence I'm referring to is literally just Noem getting replaced. It doesn't stop ICE or change what they're doing, but it's better than an alternative where opposition to the current gov's ICE policies is so locked down that they can't even manage to do that much.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    You called it an improvement.

    Noem did exactly what he wanted. The next one will do the same. Trump hasn't had any repercussions, and Noem is being put onto a new board. Whether its called being fired or not, there is no apparent change or any real consequences here. Her not being the face still? What actual consequence is she receiving? Still being paid by the federal government, now with a new, probably more horrifying organization to be supposedly announced today?

    Its hard to call a parallel move a "consequence", or the same approach to the people living in the US an "improvement".

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, it's a very minor improvement, so minor that it won't mean any kind of policy changes at ICE. I never said anything different. It's an improvement only in the sense that the alternative where the opposition is so minor they don't even have to make small concessions like that would be worse. 99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%, even if with that improvement it's still abhorrent.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I think we have different definitions of "improvement".

    99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%

    Same results, so effectively no different. I would not call "kills you exactly as horribly" an improvement.

    To each their own I suppose.

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    • [–] 125 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Switching the sycophants around wont change anything.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Disagree. Complicit Dems will use this as an excuse to restore DHS funding and Mullin will have free rein until they fuck up and kill a few more Americans, probably.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Okay agree, and then nothing more will change, the midterms roll around and are largely suppressed, we slip into completely unrestrained fascism and our crazed countrymen are ordered to just kill the libs and the radical left, then the country completely collapses. I do see where this is going.

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    • [–] 48 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Did she ever even get to use the fuck plane they just bought her?

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    • [–] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    so one unqualified moron is being replaced with another unqualified moron who somehow licks ass harder than Noem.

    Remember Mullin is the fuckboy that shit his pants during the Jan 6 coup attempt and then later said "yeah the pardons are justified". this is also the idiot that wanted to rent a helicopter and "rescue americans" in Afghanistan while he dangled out of the chopper or something.

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    • [–] 43 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Doesn't this mean one fewer Republican Senators then? He was elected in 2023 so he still had safe years on his term in office.

    Also from Wikipedia:

    "He is the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree."

    Well, trump has said "I love the poorly educated", so this is an on-brand choice for trump.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Senators are eligible to be replaced by the sitting Governor by appointment. My guess is that the OK Governor would appoint someone right away, so that once Mullin is confirmed and in his new position his replacement can be sworn in right away.

    Normally, that appointment would only last until the end of the Congressional session, meaning that seat would have to go on the ballot this November. But it wouldn't surprise me if OK figured out a way to say it was too close to the election to add another race now, and figured out a way to have the new person serve the remainder of Mullins' term.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    According to Oklahoma state law, the special election for the remainder of the term takes place during the next statewide primary and general election. However, if the vacancy occurs after March 1st during an even numbered year, the special election gets delayed until the next election cycle after that year.

    Source: https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-26/section-26-12-101/

    So they won't have to have the special election this year. Though I doubt it makes that much of a difference. If they were going to lose that seat, they were going to lose the senate no matter what.

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    • [–] 24 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    How many Scaramucci's is that?

    A "Scaramucci" (or "Mooch") equals 11 days, which is the total length of time Anthony Scaramucci served as White House Communications Director in 2017.

    January 25th 2025 to March 5th 2026 = 404 days / 11 = 36.72 Scaramucci's.

    Bonus Fun Fact: Kristi's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, which means the monogram on her bathrobe says "KLAN."

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah it's totally not weird that her parents made one of her middle names "Arnold"

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And that she dresses as a man.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    She dresses as all sorts of things: cowgirl, police officer, navy sailor, police officer, construction worker, soldier..

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    • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    Release the Epstein Files

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    [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Keep your puppies inside for the next few days, she’s gonna be looking to redirect her rage.

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    • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    She should be in prison.

    Now she just get to fuck off and go into hiding

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    • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    From one demented fucked up loser to the next.

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    I figured she would be the first one Trump took out to the (metaphorical) gravel pit

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    "Surely I won't end up under the bus!" - Every idiot in this circus

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The bar has been lowered to the ground & the fuckers brought a shovel. Ok Khrusty, see you next Tuesday.

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I wonder if markwayne and Cory will be making use of the famous bed.

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    All it took was one GOP senator not up for reelection making a public statement that he'd hold up nominations unless she resigned or was removed.

    That's how weak these guys are, and how utterly spineless the GOP in general is.

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Omfg. Mark Wayne is from my shit state. Things will not improve and will likely get 100% worse

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Do nazi barbie next plz

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    • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I'm sure he can find a caddy at Mar A Lago or a Fox News anchorwoman to fill the role.

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Bye bitch.

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    [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Womp womp.

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