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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I want Miller out. I hope this happens but Trump likes him so…

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 49 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Following orders does not make you innocent.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

“When you raid a cat house you arrest the piano player too.”

Buford T. Justice- Smokey and the Bandit 1977

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

However it does tie your guilt to others. All three bear guilt for her actions

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Superior Orders, aka The Nuremberg Defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Isla, She Wolf of the SS, is going to find out the hard way the bimbos are the first to get thrown under the bus in that party.

[–] cheet@infosec.pub 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damn that's a reference I wish I didn't know.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Same people, just 80 years later.

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 hours ago

shes evil, she knows shes evil, she enjoys that shes evil, but cant admit that shes evil bcs she knows everybody hates her.

the essence of being a right-wing nutjob

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 6 points 5 hours ago

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Hey all, I really want this to be true but let’s keep it above board. that site you just listed has a lot of scam sites linked at the bottom with AI slop trying to prey on vulnerable people to invest in vymnex/linkbait scams.

I hate what the right are doing too but we can remain to strive better than this. Don’t dive to this level.

Fight better.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 30 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Welp, we won't be seeing her much longer.

Guess she'll have to fall back on her hobby of shooting puppies in the face.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 hours ago

Some would call it a hobby. For Kristi Noem it's a calling.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Fuck this dog Killing bitch

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago

I’m glad that when she goes down, she’s going to drag them to hell with her.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 hours ago

She couldn't make the announcement until she found a perfect costume with a sexy hat.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago

Kristi's braincell: don't say you were just following orders, don't say you were just following orders...

"It was Stephen!"

Kristi's braincell: nice 😎

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

Not a single braincell in that head.

[–] NorthoftheBorder@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Unfortunately that excuse will not hold up.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hundreds of Nazi's used the same defense. They were hanged shortly thereafter.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

read more.

barely 12 Nazis were killed at Nuremberg, 10 were hung.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Ask the people at the Nürnberg trials how that went for them

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 8 hours ago

Crying. He says... She says to me. She says.

Hold on, they reversed Alzheimer's on a mouse! Find me that f##@#@@ mouse! I'm gonna eat that mouse!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Blaming the Chomo-in-Chief?

Well, I guess she can forget about that pardon.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

These people are idiots

[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 84 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Y'all really don't understand that this headline is tailored for you.

In Noem's mind, this says "Kristi Noem Credits Her Actions to Trump and Stephen Miller."

She's running to the MAGA safehouse. This isn't "I was following orders." This is "I was given orders, and look at how perfectly I followed them!"

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

“I was given orders, and look at how perfectly I followed them!”

You can't run to MAGA if you blame Trump for anything, they won't accept it.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you, this is her intent. But Trump and Steven will throw her under the bus to give the people a culprit and then keep doing everything they've been doing. This is why they sent Bovino home and replaced him with Homan.

[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Never. Or....not never, but not until it's really worth it. Noem absorbs flak for Trump, Bovino absorbed it for Noem. Homan is just Senior Manager playing Middle Manager until they get some new idiot in there to do the job and absorb flak for both of them.

Homan knows enough to stay in DC and out of the way of televised action. He's been an appointee for 22 years. He's not stupid, he's not a MAGA appointee chud, and he's not naive. He knows the politics of his job and knows that as an Obama-era appointee, even if he looks like he slipped up, he's out with that mark on his record to blame. He might be loyal, but he can never live down that original sin and so he goes on TV to slur his way through a Meet the Press interview and defend Trump to extend his worth one more week at a time.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Agreed -- they do seem to have a higher bar in 2.0 for the level of absurdity they can get away with without tossing acolytes under the bus.

Interesting about Homan, I haven't been following for that long. Didn't realize his history.

And I guess the real point is that this article is meaningless because even if she does go away, it doesn't matter. They're still going to keep doing what they are doing. We haven't won yet.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but she just sinned against Trump. She said something that can be interpreted as blaming Trump. That's a big no no to a narcissist.

[–] verdantshimada@piefed.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can only see it this way if you're on the receiving end of a left-oriented headline. Your perspective is fueled by clickbait. Trump's perspective is still mafia mentality.

Trump's already publicly defended her on Fox News, and I can't tell if a throwaway quote on Axios or Trump standing in a Golden Corral or whatever the fuck it is, giving an interview about how she's "done it all" happened first - it's a matter of hours. Point is, she is loyal AF and she is his last line of defense on everything DHS does. He needs her now more than ever and she's survived much worse several times over already. She's the shield he uses for everything - and he's positioning himself that way for a long-term benefit to him. Bovnio was always disposable because he's not in the money club. Noem is, and she's young enough to have a career after all this if our timeline gets worse. Even if she gets impeached.

Trump can't play Noem out until it's worth it to him, and it's no where near that yet. Bovino was the cost already, and no one liked him on the right anyway. Plus he flew too close to the sun, and THAT was the sin to a narcissist, to think he could play at the same level. His job was as a shield for Noem, full stop. Homan is next up until he installs the next public-facing nazi cosplayer and goes to Maine to also be the fodder for the next round. Trump hates LEOs and the military until he needs them, and so they're the disposable ones to him.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I get what you mean, but just now Trump is distancing himself from the negative perception of the ICE murders, so it might be a bad time for her to point the ownership at him.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 140 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I wish too but that website has AI generated investment scams all over the bottom of it. I’m hesitating to believe this.

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 98 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I dearly hope she takes Miller with her somehow

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 99 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I mean… she’s not completely wrong, but she could have, you know, not have followed fascist orders too. All on them need to be held accountable

Not so much not follow orders, but how about go for the job. You don't get a job like that without going after it and pulling strings. And you could resign at anytime.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 22 points 10 hours ago

Agreed. “I was just following orders” has pretty famously been eliminated as a credible defense.

[–] DarkGamer@fedia.io 60 points 16 hours ago

"I was only following orders," said the Nazi

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 36 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

That poor dog

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