Good afternoon, y’all. Outside of the bull cookies with Senator Padilla, which Ursula covered here, there is the *whole* press conference to think about. There were some things she said which, to me, are a major cause for concern. It’s pretty obvious she’s doing her lord and master, tRump’s bidding, but did anyone take a good hard look at what she said? I’m a bit worried, here. No, make that a lot worried. From MSNBC:
And, yet, what’s even more significant than authorities detaining a U.S. senator for asking a Cabinet secretary a question at a news conference is Noem’s ominous remark immediately prior to Padilla’s interruption.
“We are not going away,” she warned. “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.”
“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is …” the senator said before being violently detained. “Hands off!”
Liberate the city from socialists. Burdensome leadership. What the holy H*LL is she talking about? This is really serious propaganda we’re seeing. And MAGA, the people without a brain, are going to jump on that like a hungry dog slobbering over a bone. That’s just going to make things worse!
We’ve already heard about the chance that the people involved in the January 6th insurrection are going to try to turn the protests violent by planting people inside the crowds. This just gives them carte blanche to do so. The protests are intended to be *peaceful*. Got that? Peaceful. What’s going to happen if they start something? The whole protest is going to give people like Noem and Hegseth the chance to escalate *their* work. It’s going to be more fodder for the masses. Lawd almighty.
Trump administration officials frequently take their lead from their boss — who mouths off so recklessly and constantly that his most outlandish statements are often dismissed as thought bubbles or negotiating bravado or deliberate trolling meant to incite the opposition into hysteria.
So what should we make of Noem’s statement — the one that prompted Sen. Padilla to demand specifics (just before he was detained by the feds)?
“I have questions for the secretary,” the senator said.
Well, we do too. What exactly does she mean by this? What is going to give her the excuse to make things worse by stepping up the ICE work since they are now going to be protected by members of the military who were sent in over the governor’s head when the police were doing just fine at handling the situations? They are not needed or wanted. That infuriates me. And we all know El Presidente Imbécil is trying to use this as an excuse to implement martial law. Good gods.
When she says “we” are going to “liberate” Los Angeles from the “socialists” and the “burdensome leadership” of the governor and the mayor, is she merely talking about continuing with ICE’s sadistic, haphazard raids in which undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, including women and children, and even legal immigrants and U.S. citizens have been ensnared in the name of protecting the homeland from a fictitious foreign invasion of terrorists and hardened gang members?
Or is the secretary speaking more literally and indicating the Trump administration intends to remove — or otherwise render moot — democratically elected state and local officials who oppose the federal government’s brutal incursion into their jurisdictions?
It’s a question that every Republican in office should be compelled to answer.
Know what? Republicans are doing the exact opposite of what they *should* be doing.
House Speaker Mike Johnson set the tone, when, almost immediately, he called for the Senate to censure Padilla. “I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we’re going to do, that’s not what we’re going to act [sic],” the speaker told reporters.
WTF?! *Really*??!! That makes less than no sense! He did *not* rush the podium! He identified himself and said he had questions, to be brutally manhandled and cuffed! They should be doing the exact opposite. They should be thinking about what actually happened. Instead, they are publicly showing their obedience to their lord and master. This makes me sick.
How in the h*ll can they justify this? I’m running out of words to show I can try and understand this whole thing. Yes, me, out of words. They’re disgusting. They’re lapdogs. They’re idiots. They’re going to help wreck this country. When it comes to them having *no* power, they’ll think of the right things, but it will be too late to try. Dictatorship. Thanks for sticking with me!
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Zoomers, if you can help the Little Political Blog That Could keep trekking through cyberspace, we would appreciate it. My medical issues are still ongoing. I need to have a minor operation to remove a skin tumor. The hits just keep on coming, like a ’50s radio station. Thank you for all you do. Ursula
anyone who doesn’t steal candy from a baby is a socialist to them.
Ha, *snort* good description.
Things that have been made crystal clear: 1. A sizable minority of Americans (25 -30%??) are totally fine with fascist rule in the US. 2. Trying to point out facts or reason with these folks is a huge waste of time. 3. The time for “polite” discussions about what we’re facing is over. Kudos to Governor Newsom for calling Trump a stone cold liar – spot on.
Yea, Gavin has come up with some EPIC clap backs, and not just for tRump! He’s called out Arkansas Governor Huckabee-Sanders, and an Alabama Congress person, Tommy Tuberville, I think, too. Oh, yes, EPIC.