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Trump replacing Noem as Homeland Security secretary (www.pbs.org)

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

To be clear, inbred poster boy, Markwayne Mullin, will almost certainly be worse than Noem.

Mullin tried to physically fight someone during an official proceeding until Bernie Sanders yelled at him to sit down and behave like a member of Congress.
Mullin tried ripping the "Black People Are Not Apes" sign out of Al Green's hand during the State of the Union.
There are pictures of Mullin cowering in fear during Jan 6, after helping incite it.
There are pictures of Mullin standing on a box behind a podium to match the height of his debate opponent.

He is an inbred and a coward with a chip on his shoulder. Expect more Constitutional violations.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Well my low expectations have been met. I didn't think Trump was going to pick a mature competent adult

[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

People give Texas a lot of shit and rightly so, but Oklahoma produces quite a cesspool of bitter, self-righteous fuckwits who really believe they know and have the right of things.

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That was the asshole that tried to rip that sign. What a fucking piece of crap. And he's a race trader He's an American Indian.

What kind of fucked up brain do you have to have to be racist?

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 73 points 1 day ago

With who, the Red Skull?

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Red Skull is too competent for the job.

[-] thlibos@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

If Red Skull were a fucking moron

[-] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

IKR? Putting the cheek fillers/fat removal aside, why can’t plastic surgery improve necks or hands? Honest question.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Surgical tech here! It can, but it's a more expensive operation so a lot of people just don't. We can fix it later.

One of my surgeons was talking about that just a couple days ago.

[-] 2piradians@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

To your point, the android face makes her neck look that much more gross.

I know that's below the belt, but that's where Noem spends all her time anyway.

[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

Did they finally figure out a way to resurrect the broken corpse of Hitler with AI?

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It’s like AI Scott Adams

https://www.businessinsider.com/creator-ai-scott-adams-tribute-final-wishes-controversy-2026-2

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Replacing scat with shit.

[-] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

This is why I really want to celebrate this, however I know in my bones there’s nothing to celebrate.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How can he be both President and Secretary of whatever specific bullshit this is?

[-] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 19 points 1 day ago

I think it means that Trump is replacing her with someone else, not that he's taking both positions. I was confused at first too.

From the article:

President Donald Trump says he's replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

The headline is just really stupidly worded.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's certainly some light title gore.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It certainly is not, unless you also think "I'm going to make you a pie" is me literally threatening to turn you into a pastry.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

OK, fine, it's medium title gore.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If your takeaway from that headline, given what I will afford you are two technically semantically correct options, is that the POTUS, for literally the first time in history, is acting as a member of their own cabinet and not just that they're replacing a member thereof, it's not incumbent on the Associated Press to account for that. I'm consistently baffled at how much people will blame news headlines for their own functional illiteracy and then refuse to even peek into the article for five seconds to check.

To read the title that way at first is a brain fart; to still be confused after stopping and thinking for a second is stupidity. To not check the article afterward is willful ignorance.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

My point is that it's poorly worded.

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[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... is that the POTUS, for literally the first time in history ...

To be fair, there are a lot of things Trump has done that were firsts for the office. I initially misread the headline too, simply because I wouldn't be surprised if Trump did something absurd like replacing Noem with himself. Because he does a lot of absurd things that have never been done by a US president before. I understood it correctly after reading more, but if someone's misreading the headline as something bizarre, it's probably because every headline is bizarre nowadays.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I understand what you're saying, and it's at that point any media-literate person (you) thinks: "Hmm, I'll just check the article and clear this up." To even get to that point, you'd not just have to buy Trump would try to do that (I don't, but I see how someone could); much more importantly, you'd have to assume the headline, for some godforsaken reason, isn't taking into account how unusual it is and therefore being crystal clear that Trump is trying to insert himself in the role.

Reading the headline that way is already an enormous leap that basically only makes semantic sense, but refusing to follow up on that interpretation is where I draw the line between someone who didn't understand at first and tried to and someone who actively chose not to understand. The latter I've run out of patience for over the last decade; the former show strong character through how they respond to a mistake.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The title is accurate, but it is also poorly worded because of that possible interpretation.

You're getting downvotes because people aren't willing to admit their brains picked the the stupidest interpretation of the headline and just went with that instead of actually thinking about the more likely way it was meant, or reading ANY of the article to verify. They're reacting to defend that initial assumption, instead of acknowledging that they made an incorrect off the cuff assumption from the headline and just moving on with their day. They're doing exactly what MAGA does, that they criticize them for constantly, and a source of how we got into this political shitstorm of a system in the first place.

[-] hakase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Agentive interpretation, not anticausative.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

If only there were some way to make the title less arbitrary.

[-] hakase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not arbitrary - it's ambiguous. Context clues, world knowledge, and the entire attached article are more than enough to resolve the ambiguity.

All natural human languages show structural ambiguity like this, especially when it comes to headlines which famously favor brevity over clarity, and the built in feature of human language to solve it is pragmatics.

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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Damn, I would not want to be a puppy in South Dakota right now

[-] i_need_your_bones@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I read that as trump taking over as homeland security secretary. I was suprised but I believed it

[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The thumbnail photograph chosen is chef’s kiss a work of art.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

PBS doing what needs to be done.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's the only work of art that's ever made me throw up in my mouth.

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Release the Epstein Files

[-] AmbientDread@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Bye Bye Cosplay Bambi

Time to show Talibondi Barbie the door next.

Won't fix the historic mess of an administration, but it's a start.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

but it’s a start.

Nah. Markwayne Mullin will be worse. But he'll be instructed to chill out until after the midterms since the traitor party is scared it'll be a bloodbath for them if they can't do something about public perception.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

They'll point to how Republicans are the party that removes unpopular and incompetent leadership. And it'll work.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So they're replacing a sycophant with another sycophant nepobaby with SDE.

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