DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says
1d 10h ago by lemmy.wtf/u/IchNichtenLichten in news from www.axios.com
"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump said Thursday."
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.
Motherfucker just read a comic book? He's trying to form S.H.I.E.L.D?
He is trying to form HYDRA.
Trying?
Lmao, oh so this is 100% worse than just being replaced. Got it.
That is the fakest sounding job I've ever heard of.
As real as her face
He doesn't even know what "announced" means his brain is so fried...
Mother fuck bucket, I came here to find a silver lining, not this!
I was reading several maga people say she is getting a promotion
They think this new thing is a promotion over a cabinet level position
Ah, good to see the 50s are back. Looking forward to some CIA coups.
Switching the sycophants around wont change anything.
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.
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.
...huh. It’s a… change..? I don’t expect an improvement, tbh.
I don't think anyone expects an improvement when the candidate pool consists entirely of sycophantic psychopaths.
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.
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.
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.
Or it's come Saturday and nothing is announced
I’m surprised they didn’t just announce Christie Gnome as her replacement and send her out in a blonde wig
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.
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.
Did she ever even get to use the fuck plane they just bought her?
I hope that fired/rehired pilot got the chance to do so.
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.
He also wanted to fistfight the Teamsters guy in a committee meeting. He’s special.
This is not an upgrade.
My uncle literally did that for a loving in the Navy.. it's a thing
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.
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.
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.
Release the Epstein Files
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."
Yeah it's totally not weird that her parents made one of her middle names "Arnold"
And that she dresses as a man.
She dresses as all sorts of things: cowgirl, police officer, navy sailor, police officer, construction worker, soldier..
The many faces of Kristy Noem ..
Keep your puppies inside for the next few days, she’s gonna be looking to redirect her rage.
She's going to stomp all over Tokyo.
She should be in prison.
Now she just get to fuck off and go into hiding
Pedolf already has some bullshit position in mind for her.
From one demented fucked up loser to the next.
I figured she would be the first one Trump took out to the (metaphorical) gravel pit
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.
"Surely I won't end up under the bus!" - Every idiot in this circus
The bar has been lowered to the ground & the fuckers brought a shovel. Ok Khrusty, see you next Tuesday.
I wonder if markwayne and Cory will be making use of the famous bed.
Markwayne is a world class dumbass, we're just scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
Omfg. Mark Wayne is from my shit state. Things will not improve and will likely get 100% worse
Bye bitch.
I'm sure he can find a caddy at Mar A Lago or a Fox News anchorwoman to fill the role.
Do nazi barbie next plz
She still has some use as a (barely) human meat shield.
Womp womp.