Oh, dear. This is another Not Good prediction. We all know and love Ms. Psaki. She’s brilliant and has her eyes on the prize, the booby prize of the new DHS pick. Her comments are unnerving. We all wish we were as good. But even if we aren’t, we have her wisdom and forethought to keep us going. With gratitude to Raw Story:
With President Donald Trump firing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, his new replacement, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), will be in the spotlight. MS NOW’s Jen Psaki explored some of the things Mullin has said and done in the Trump era — and why it is a sign not much may change. “Now, Trump’s new nominee to run DHS … did not kill his own puppy,” mocked Psaki, referencing the infamous boast Noem made in her biography.
“He does have some choice biographical details himself. I mean, you might remember a few years ago when Senator Mullin challenged a witness in a Senate hearing to a physical fight on the Senate floor. Mullin — I would note, a former MMA fighter — then defended that conduct by saying this.” “It’s silly, it’s stupid. But every now and then you get punched in the face,” said Mullin in the clip.
Good grief. What a bunch of horse manure. He wanted to fight someone on the Senate floor. How does that make any sense? It’s not like it would change anything. He paws and snorts, trying to make himself bigger and better than whoever opposes him. Yes, that shows a *lack* of intelligence on his part. Fight with a witness. Sheesh!
“Do you know I don’t? He’s a senator,” said Psaki. “I mean, anyway, after that, Mullin explained that he actually looked into the rules on whether or not he would be allowed to physically fight someone on the Senate floor. He pointed to the precedent that you used to be allowed to cane people, which, for the record, is not true.
The story really is that the pro-slavery congressman who beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in 1856 was, in fact, arrested for that crime. But that is the kind of behavior Mullin seems to want to replicate anyway. And now he’s in charge of DHS, and in all the important ways, we have no reason to think he will be any better than Kristi Noem.”
Got that right. I’m still boggled by the “fight someone”. I wonder if he still has the chops to fight. He’s been away from MMA for some years, and he could be out of shape. I would pay to see someone wipe the floor with him. But seriously, he is not going to help the DHS image. He’s going to make it worse. He certainly won’t put the reins on ICE/CBP, and we *really* need that to happen. DHS is still going to be crap. You’ve read through my rants on DHS/ICE/CBP, so I won’t subject you to that again. They will be worse with Mark-My-Words-He-Sucks-Wayne Mullin at the helm. I wonder what’s going to happen with the planes Gnome ordered.
For example, Psaki said, “After ICE agents fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis this year, after the Justice Department initially announced that they would not be investigating the officers involved in that shooting, here’s how Mullin responded when asked whether those officers deserved to be investigated.” “If they’re investigating anything, they need to be investigating the paid protesters and who’s paying them to obstruct federal officers from doing their job,” Mullin said in the clip.
What the holy eff does *that* mean? Another conspiracy theory? Paid protestors? Get outta here. Obstructing? Filming ICE abuse. Blowing whistles. Setting off car alarms. I haven’t heard a damn thing about *anyone* obstructing them. They *claim* Renee did. That’s baloney. This whole thing about “fear for their lives” is baloney. We protest, and we scare them, and time moves on. They’re weren’t expecting it in Minneapolis. And we had a full protest day for *everyone*, across America. The country joined in for ICE OUT. We’ll join in for the next No Kings rally/protest on March 28. Please try to go. We need to make this even bigger. In the meantime, we have no DHS leader and no DHS control. Wonderful.
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