Well damn. I was well into writing an article about wwhy ICE Barbie, aka Kristi Noem was in imminent danger of being the first Trump 2.0 Cabinet member to hear the magic words You’re Fired. Luckily the TV was turned on and I looked up when I heard that Trump had indeed FIRED Noem. Alas, as suggested in the article I had been writing Trump wasted no time in nominating Markwayne Mullen to replace her.
When I started writing it was due to a be careful what you wish for mentality. I ran into someone in the hall this morning I hadn’t seen for a while. Long story but the important part was a quick discussion that awful as Noem was, what if we got someone of equally rotten to the core character and beliefs BUT actually knew stuff about the workings of DC? Not that Mullen is some political genius but he knows more than Noem, and while he could fix some things odds are he can make the damage she did seem minimal by the time he’s done.
Trump has got to be feeling good right now. He’s gotten rid of a WOMAN who wound up causing him all kinds of political trouble (and her lover Lewindowski who also screwed another Trump servant, Hope Hicks. Corey got what Trump didn’t and we know how he holds a grudge) AND replaced her with a white male. A useful idiot because as I said Mullen is no expert political operator but he’s got plenty of GOP friends on Capitol Hill and in various agencies. Like I said, enough knowledge to be more dangerous than Noem was!
What finally got Trump to pull the trigger on Noem, and give her the political version of what she does to puppies? Yes, she’s a big reason why his approval ratings have kept sinking ever lower. However I still think the “thing” that prompted Trump to finally admit he made a Cabinet level mistake was Senator Kennedy getting Noem to embarrass HIM over a controversial and bigly expensive ad campaign. In my original article I was using As this article from Alternet as a source:
On Thursday, the conservative National Review reported that Trump was “furious” with Noem over her handling of questions about a taxpayer-funded ad campaign while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and echoed other reports that the president is potentially planning to fire her. Noem was pressed by GOP Sen. John Kennedy as to whether or not Trump approved the $220 million campaign, to which the Homeland Security secretary said that he had.
It might seem trivial to most of us but one has to spend a minute inside Trump’s disease mind to understand. So much of his approval ratings drop tied to Noem/DHS could be deflected to Stephen Miller. However as always Noem was in water way over her head and saying that yes, she got Trump’s approval to run that DHS sh*tshow campaign that was as much (if not more) a promotion of her as her agency was something Trump couldn’t abide. She made it personal for him. She did NOT fall on her sword on the matter (in which case she and Corey could be planning another Mile High Club tryst on that now infamous luxury jet that got talked about in the hearing) but nooooooo. She tried to assign some of the blame to TRUMP.
That’s why I was writing, especially since Mullen’s name had come up as a replacement she wasn’t going to be around much longer. Sen. Kennedy is likely quite pleased with himself. He got a twofer out of this. Noem out and someone he surely thinks will be more effective in carrying out Trump’s and Miller’s draconian policies. But make sure at least that FEMA gets (sort of) fixed. He does represent Louisiana which as you know is a natural disaster magnet and hurricane season is coming up.
Well, I had a lot more written including about Senator Kennedy but I’ll shut up. It suffices that Noem got a bi-partisan roasting in that Senate hearing and even some GOP Senators gave her double-barreled blasts of political rock salt. Kennedy even ‘reloaded’ to try and make sure politically she’d wind up as dead as that poor puppy. He’s often as clueless as he looks, but sometimes not. Sometimes he is well-prepared and loaded for bear. This was one of those times. And Kristi Noem truly is now “Krispy Gnome” as one of my fellow PZ writers calls her. No more nice house at Joint Base Anacostia. No more running around the country with her lover adding to their Mile High Club score. It’s back to South Dakota. IF they will let her come back!
Meanwhile Trump has to feel like the cat who ate the Canary. He got rid of a problem and got an actual useful idiot who can do more damage out of the deal.
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Markwayne will absolutely be worse. He’s a known factor, but only in a few ways, and I can’t recall seeing anything from him on immigration, which is my biggest concern. He could make things *worse* than they already are. I don’t know specifically how, but there’s always a way to go down. Krispi was known. This guy isn’t. I dread it. I started dreading it as soon as I saw the name. With luck, he will crash and burn even faster than she did.
This isn’t going to distract from the war and Epstein, but for maybe a day. Krispi Gnome did, indeed, toast herself out of a plush job. OOPS.
a quarter billion dollar ad campaign? about what? sorry, the only tv i watch is online services, no commercials. on a couple websites i have seen some ads to join cbp but 220 million? i don’t think so.
kenndy likes to act like a redneck but i believe he was top of his class at harvard.
as for fixing fema, ending completely was always the plan.