Context is everything in life. A person cannot determine cause and effect, or the nuances of who is in the right and who is wrong, without the context and sequence of what happened. The sequence of events is an observable set of actions and reactions, the justifiability of these actions and reactions is what lawyers argue over in trials. Leave out the cause, or something in the sequence of events, or even just create doubt about whether it happened just that way, and the effect can be made to seem completely insane, the person making the complaint a lunatic and a nuisance. This is a basic principle of all psychopaths: win the argument by removing context, deprive the other person of their right to do anything.
When I refer to Noem lying, consider her false claim, immediately after her squad forcibly put Padilla face down on the ground and senselessly handcuffed a citizen who was not resisting, legally detained or arrested, that Senator Padilla didn’t identify himself. He loudly said his name and title, on video, as Noem’s heavy handed security team started. Noem’s lying claim is contradicted in real time, it’s on videotape for fuck’s sake. This lie is far from her first as HHS Secretary, do a quick search for many more.
Her ignorance is reflected in her under-testimony definition of habeas corpus: the president’s constitutional right to detain anyone he deems an enemy. In fairness to the Secretary [1], maybe she meant enema. She’s an ignoramus, but loyal as hell.
Heather Cox Richardson, with another crucial detail about the ugly fascist strongarming of a peaceful senator the corporate media is scrupulously avoiding (corporate persons will be corporate persons, that is, psychopaths highly focused only on their own best interests):
While much focus has been on the assault [on Senator Padilla] itself, what Noem was saying before Padilla spoke out is crucially important. “We are not going away,” she said. “We are staying here to liberate this 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.”
In other words, the Trump administration is vowing to get rid of the democratically elected government of California by using military force. That threat is the definition of a coup. It suggests MAGA considers any political victory but their own to be illegitimate and considers themselves justified in removing those governmental officials with violence: a continuation of the attempt of January 6, 2021, to overturn the results of a presidential election.
“We are not going away,” Noem said. “We are staying here to liberate this 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.”
In fairness to someone with Noem’s intellectual and moral capacities, she may not realize that she is parroting Nazi positions in her devotion to the Führereid [1] that was the condition for her obtaining a position she is wildly, tragically, unqualified for. She is an international security threat dressed up as a MAGA Barbie Doll, so cute with those hats and sassy outfits.
“We are not going away,” Noem said. “We are staying here to liberate this 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.”
[1] from Wikipedia: The Hitler Oath (German: Führereid or Führer Oath)—also referred in English as the Soldier’s Oath[1]—refers to the oaths of allegiance sworn by officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht and civil servants of Nazi Germany between the years 1934 and 1945. The oath pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler rather than loyalty to the Weimar Constitution of the country.
[2] Almost put in as the international security and anti-terrorism credentials of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem the CV of her fellow cabinet member, Tusli Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence nobody but Putin can trust:
I wrote (and deleted):
She has long been friendly with Vladimir Putin and routinely echoes his talking points on US mass media. As a member of Congress she flew to Syria to visit with Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, and returned defending him, even as he continued his murderous war on Syrians to cling to power he eventually was forced out of.
There’s also this:
Gabbard launched her 2020 presidential campaign running on an anti-interventionist and populist platform, but dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden in March 2020. Previously, she also served as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2013 to 2016 but resigned to endorse Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After her departure from Congress in 2021, Gabbard took more conservative positions on issues such as transgender rights, border security, and foreign policy. In 2022, she spoke at the conservative CPAC conference and left the Democratic Party.
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