Striking final blows

 Final nails in our coffin are being driven faster and faster.

Thar she blows!

 Noem is out.

Foghorn Leghorn for the kill.

Snuck up on her.

He said he didn't have any problem with her giving huge no-bid contracts to the husband of her assistant secretary.  She said Trump knew all about it.  [“He said, ‘I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.’ I said, ‘Yes, sir. I will thank you for closing the border,’” she said at the time.] Trump called Kennedy after the hearing to say he didn't sign off on the Kristi Noem fancy pants in a cowboy hat ad campaign.  They're both liars, so who knows how it went down?  But you know he had no qualms throwing her under the bus. 

Glad to be rid of ICE Barbie.  And her ads and photo cosplaying photo ops.

Does this mean Corey Lewandowski is also out of a job?*

Also...remember the pilot that got fired because of leaving Noem's blanket behind (and WTF?).  It wasn't her blanket.

Apparently it was a bag.

Remember when she claimed a bag with $3,000 was stolen from her in a restaurant?

Sketchy.  

Good riddance.  I wouldn't expect DHS to be any better, though.  Markwayne Mullin is taking her place.  Somebody said moving Mullin to DHS would make DHS and the Senate both smarter.  Not sure about DHS, but perhaps won't make them any dumber.

Still, it's a good start.  Now do RFK Jr, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.  Then we can work on a longer list.

UPDATE 04:52 pm:

Story

There will be plenty other cowards and suckups, John.  Thanks for rushing out to be the first.

UPDATE 05:49 pm:  Next! For god's sake, NEXT!

UPDATE 05:54 pm:

In true Trump style, he fired her via tweet...while she was on stage giving a speech.

What's her budget?

Doral 2026?  What's his golf course got to do with anything shielding the Americas.  And WTF is a shield of the Americas anyway?  

This asshole is simply into pomp and prizes.  The reason you know that's all this is is because you don't know what the Shield of the Americas is.  He just made it up on the spur of the moment, perhaps to give ICE Barbie something to put on her resumé.

UPDATE 03/07/2026:

UPDATE 03/07/2026:  

A summit, no less!

UPDATE 03/08/2026:

*UPDATE 03/29/2026:  There goes Corey.

Corey Lewandowski was ousted from the Trump administration after he was spotted on a tropical getaway with his alleged lover, fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

  Daily Beast

We're "the baddies" now

 Ignorant? Delusional?  Or just plain lying?

UPDATE 01/19/2026:

Markwayne is still a useful idiot for the Trump regime

They're going full bore on Obama now.  I'm guessing that's because the black guy as president is still a sore point for MAGA, so it's seen as their best chance to move MAGA off the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Rupar always puts the worst spin on the Gop in his clip summaries, so you have to actually listen to them.  His summary here makes it seem as though Mullin is saying Obama was in office in 2008.  He doesn't say that.  What's left off that last "Obama was in office" is that he repeats it happened in 2009.

At any rate, Tapper is right.

Markwayne is a fool and an idiot

 But the GOP know they don't have to lie about what they're doing any more.

Is he actually stupid

 Or does he just play stupid on TV?

It works

 

Karma is a bitch

If you could call it a fall from grace, Kevin McCarthy's fall has been as infamous as his rise.

And the GOP bad behavior virus has spread to the Senate.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03:12 pm:  She's joking, but that's what lots of folks say seriously.

And, the virus is global...