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It’s time to talk about our Secretary of Homeland Security and cosplay Barbie- Kristi ‘Puppy Killer’ Noem. She doesn’t just seem to love the headlines and photo ops, she also seems to love the meanness. She has taken to posting pictures of alligators in ICE ball caps, alluding broadly and disgustingly to immigrants being eaten by them at the new $450M tent city swampland concentration camp she’s built in Florida. They expect the gators and snakes to be ‘additional security’ and deterrents’. (This has historically been a common racist trope, depicting black kids being eaten by gators.)

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. 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."

“We must use deadly force to liberate states from politicians we don’t agree with and their burdensome leadership.” (06/12/2025)

There it is. In plain sight.

Fucking fascism.

Her context? She’s talking about California. Specifically, Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass are the ‘socialist’ and ‘burdensome leadership’ ‘placed on this country’.

She’s not-so-slyly saying that she is enacting martial law in Los Angeles.

For one thing, there’s no socialists to liberate anyone from, and, for another, the governor of Cali isn’t placing ‘burdensome leadership’ on anyone, let alone the whole damn country.

But, didn’t she look cool at the podium with her combat fatigues, ball cap and assault rifle?

I have to admit, this will all make Kristi sound a bit shallow and vain. And cruel. And deceitful. And vindictive. And gullible. And kinda stupid. And I forgot where I was going with this.

Is this slander? No. She is a public figure, and her personal style is part of that, and it and she are very much open to 1st Amendment rights of criticism over her actions and behavior as a public servant. And libel, well, this is all true, so…..

Oh, yeah- we can’t and don’t blame any of this on her being a woman. There’s been many great women in public service, and we wouldn’t take a smidge of honor away from them. (What about Gabbard and Bondi?) (We’ll talk later.)

We also won’t say it’s because she’s pretty, or being viewed as a sex object by tRump, even though, well, okay, we’re pretty sure he regards her that way.

But, well, really, we have to admit that tRump and all the men on the Cabinet are just as shallow, vain, cruel, deceitful, vindictive, gullible, stupid and also ugly as sin. I mean, just look at- no, don’t. Especially if you’ve just eaten.

It doesn’t matter who tRump’s Cabinet members are- anyone in Noem’s place would be doing the same things. tRump was only going to place someone who would gladly ignore the law and follow orders to direct US forces to seize people off the street with no due process.

After all, this is the woman who, when Congress asked ‘what does ‘habeas corpus’ mean?, she answered “it’s the Constitutional power the president has to remove people from this country”.

I don’t think anybody in history has ever gotten that answer that damn wrong out loud and certainly never under oath in front of a Congressional Committee by a Cabinet member.

Even “I don’t know’ would’ve been better- at least it’s not wrong.

But, it’s not just that she’s wrong.

Her answer invents a brutal presidential power that never existed, in fact, one that the Constitution forbids. It’s in the damn 5th Amendment, for Christ’s sake! ( Pun intended.)

I mean, the origins of habeas corpus rights- the Magna Carta- and, it’s application in the Constitution start coming up for school kids between 6th and 8th grades, and certainly all of it by the 12th grade. While the term ‘habeas corpus’ is not used in the Constitution, the 5th amendment says explicitly that “No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;” It is the very definition of habeas corpus.

This woman was a Congressperson and state governor! Shouldn’t she know all of this better than a school kid?

So, yea, we’re saying that what she’s doing has been a crime since, like, the 14th Century. And her answer suggests that she hasn’t a clue what either document actually says. But, she does remember what she’s supposed to say.

So, to be fair to Kristi, this is the norm for tRump Cabinet heads. They’re mostly all this way and all are using the same tactics in numerous Congressional hearings.

Noem’s answers about the law and the Constitution before Congress are just as awful as Pete Hegseth, or AG Pam Bondi, or Howard Lutnick. (Doesn’t he sell furniture on late night TV?)

And, they’re all especially ignorant when it comes to the Constitution. I don’t know of one of them who has answered a yes or no question about it with yes or no. They either try to talk around it and get it totally wrong, or they launch into propaganda diatribes about Biden and the awful state of the nation.

Some of them, though, like OMB head Vought, do know better and are intentionally violating it, because they don’t believe in it. Vought is the principle author of Project 2025, and the creator of many of its most racist and bigoted tenets, including the invocation of martial law over invented immigrant crimes.

Even the current on-going raids and concentration camps are in there. The widening to all latinos, regardless of status- it’s in there.

Everything in Noem’s orders from tRump comes straight out of ‘Nosferatu’ Miller’s hate and cruelty and Vought’s Christo-nationalist ambitions, long the basis of his Heritage Foundation’s work.

But, the whole point of deploying in LA first is to begin the martial law transition. tRump thinks it the easiest place to provoke a reaction that will allow him to indignantly invoke the Insurrection Act.

That’s why Noem sends ICE to provoke the protests with brutal raids, and why tRump immediately broke the law and took over the CA National Guard, and sent marines in to LA. All to quell a city block-long protest they provoked with malicious, illegal ICE detainments. She’s even marched a whole platoon level entourage of men, weapons vehicles and horses (yes, horses, damnit!) through LA’s famous MacArthur Park just to make a show of force in front of, um, children and their moms?

It’s no accident that this all has happened since just days before tRump’s birthday bummer tank extravaganza. (Didn’t you love the squeaky old Shermans?)

And it also figures that when Senator Alex Padilla from California interrupted Noem after making the above statement, he got as far as introducing himself out loud before Secret Service pounced on him, dragged him out and threw him to the floor and cuffed him, holding him until Corey Lewandowski, because of fucking course it was, told them to let him go. (Corey and Kristi are a ‘thing’. Sshhhhh!)

Padilla is portrayed in right wing media as threatening Noem by lunging at her and not identifying himself, both of which are proven blatantly false by several videos of the incident.

So, why was she saying this outright fascist crap and why didn’t she remember a senator who oversees her department and interviewed her just weeks before and why did she think this is the way to handle a Congressperson at a press conference and how can she lie about it when the video tells the truth and, oh, come on, what the hell do you expect from the poor girl?

Make no mistake. This is another face of Stochastic Terrorism, employed by tRump for the last ten years. This is the desired result. As he ramps up the vilification and illegal kidnappings of latinos and expands it to Democrats and dissidents, people of color and LGBTQs, MAGAs will be more emboldened to take violent action into their own hands.

And Kristi is as much a part of it as anyone in the Cabinet.

She appears to be just gullible enough to buy into all of this racist crap. She’s here, not because she knows a damn thing about security, much less national security, much, much less anything the Department of Homeland Security ever did, but to spread propaganda and to follow tRump’s orders without question. Well, Nosferatu Miller, Gruesome Tom Homan and sneaky Russel Vought’s orders.

And, she has. Her inability to answer any question under oath without launching into propaganda screeds belies her absolute lack of any knowledge of the government.

She has no idea how widely responsible Homeland Security is. She seems to think illegal immigration is the only focus of the entire department. She knows she is also responsible for disaster relief- FEMA-, but she is shutting it down per tRump’s orders, just as a flash flood hit Texas, causing over 100 deaths. Even on immigration, she has no idea or respect for the actual laws on the books for the department she runs.

It’s like running a Dairy Queen and you don’t know why they need cones. “And what’s with this huge milk bill?”

She is, by her every spoken and tweeted word, that bat shit. I’d love to give her a break, but she won’t let me.

This is a person with no qualifications for the job and who doesn’t need the job- taking it anyways. She was the damn governor of South Dakota and she dumped it to do this. What the flying…..?

But she is getting something more from this. She is more powerful and famous. She is basking in constant cosplay photo-ops in whatever costume her situation implies. Lots of guns, battle gear, and, of course, prisoners at CECOT in El Salvador behind her, a Geneva Convention violation, to boot.

She has a line of shit to parrot and some marching orders to follow, so, it’s easy as hell, and she gets to wear all this cool gear n’shit and look at these pics, man- fabulous!

As any musician can tell you, it’s pure diva behavior. No other head of DHS has ever been so eagerly public or participated in any political messaging. (Nor have any of them ordered illegal arrests and foreign renderings, but, well, you know……)

We have to focus on that and make her answer for the larger picture here- criminal and damaging acts based on illegal orders.

Every cabinet member is the head of a federal service and must always be called to answer for the legality and appropriateness of their actions.

Especially when they are all doing things that violate at least the powers of Congress or the Courts, if not violating the Constitution itself.

But, most important here is what she’s revealed about the regime’s plans. ICE is tRump’s Gestapo, and going after ‘criminal aliens’ is the cover story for martial law and the suspension of the Constitution, and of elections, and as we said, her appalling ICE raids are designed to maximize the odds of a violent reaction.

But, not by finding actual gang members and arresting them. God, no. C’mon! Those guys have f-ing guns!

But by getting a teenager to throw a rock at them and then opening fire on the crowd. That’s the kind of shit she’s setting things up for.

Noem is the spearhead of Project 2025’s agenda, driven by Nosferatu Miller’s hate and instructed by Vought’s zealotry, under tRump’s orders and shining in the limelight as she puts a pretty patriotic face on right wing propaganda.

Her job is to mount the confrontation with immigrants of color- those now classified in fascist tradition as ‘the other’.

It always begins with ‘the other’. Everything is done to protect us from ‘the other’. ‘The other’ is bad. ‘The other’ is evil. ‘The other’ wants to destroy you and your world and your kids and your pets and even your car and “what the hell is wrong with you don’t you want to rid the world of this vermin?!”

And that is precisely what Kristi, ICE, the National Guard and the Marines are in LA to do.

In fact, Kristi and ICE, with Dr. Phil along for the video ride, went to a woman’s home in Huntington Park, CA at 6am just to create another incident- this time, looking for her husband, who wasn’t there. We don’t know anything about the man, whether he’s here legally, how long he’s been here, even if he is an immigrant.

He’s a brown person who’s name they have, and that’s enough for Kristi to stage raids on kids and a pregnant woman and mount full scale surveillance on them, all while dressed in a ‘killer’ combat outfit in black and khaki smartly accented by her stylish ICE ball cap and automatic rifle.

And, now, she’s been given $170B per year to amp it all up. While she jokes about alligators eating immigrants. At a swampland concentration camp. That has already flooded with just an inch of rain. During hurricane season. Without FEMA.

She said she’s going to use deadly force to ‘liberate’ one of the most liberal cities in the US for the sake of ‘liberty’ that somehow does not apply to ‘liberals’.

I know.

We should probably start asking her about that shit.

Next press conference and photo-op at 5pm central. Attendance or questions by Democrats will not be allowed.

Today, Kristi will be cosplaying as a ‘firefighter’.

C.2025 Cousin B