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
Mother fuck bucket, I came here to find a silver lining, not this!
That sounds like a promotion for her. Doing what she did to brown people in the US all over the Western Hemisphere now.
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
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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"
Release the Epstein Files
Keep your puppies inside for the next few days, she’s gonna be looking to redirect her rage.
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.
Bye bitch.
Do nazi barbie next plz
She still has some use as a (barely) human meat shield.
Omfg. Mark Wayne is from my shit state. Things will not improve and will likely get 100% worse
Womp womp.
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