Let's talk about Noem being promoted to puppy and Cricket's Karma.... - Belle of the Ranch

[TexasTowelie]

Well, howdy there Internet people. It's Belle again. So, today we're going to talk about Noem being promoted to puppy and Cricket's karma.

Kristi Noem has been fired from her job as Secretary of Homeland Security. She was removed from her cabinet position after an endless string of scandals. Trump said Noem will be moving to be special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere. Moving removed officials to low-profile, irrelevant positions, is Trump's way of trying to avoid the negative press associated with having made yet another failed hiring decision. It doesn't work, though. In fact, it creates more questions about Trump's judgment.

Noem's latest scandal seemed to center around an alleged misuse of funds. So Trump, in his infinite wisdom, gave her an envoy position. You know, because special envoys have a ton of oversight on their expenses. Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma is Trump's pick to fill the slot. He's supposed to take over at the end of the month, and Trump said he'll work to get him quickly confirmed.

That's yet another pick that Trump will be questioned over. There are probably going to be some tough questions about how Mullin plans to manage an agency that is in the middle of a funding lapse over the administration's unwillingness to implement even the most basic of reforms. It's going to be tough for Mullin to convince some senators that he's the right person for the job because of his own behavior in the Senate.

Mullin is perhaps most famous for trying to start a fight with a witness in the middle of a committee hearing, a Teamster, no less. He had to be stopped by Bernie Sanders. Trump's pick to head an agency plagued by allegations of intimidation and excessive force is a guy who wanted to fight a witness and had to be chastised and stood down by Bernie Sanders during a committee hearing. I'm sure that'll go over well and do wonders to alleviate concerns that DHS is getting the right leadership.

While many are trying to make a direct connection between Noem's less than stellar performance during recent hearings and her firing, it's important to remember that her and her department have had an almost never-ending stream of scandals, the ad campaign, the plane thing, the violence of ICE, the stonewalling, the less than accurate portrayal of events, and so on, all probably added up. And the hearings along with pointing the finger at Trump over the ad campaign was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.

Most observers knew this was coming when Tom Homan had to be brought in to try to diffuse the mess created by ICE in Minnesota. Perhaps Noem's most enduring scandal was her admission that she took a puppy named Cricket to a gravel pit and shot her because Noem believed she was untrainable. She consistently defended the action because of how ill-behaved she said the puppy was. It's worth noting Trump took Noem's DHS leadership position to the gravel pit after just 13 months and 9 days. Cricket was 14 months old.

Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.

[Marcuse]

1. I want her to know it was me.

. It's worth noting Trump took Noem's DHS leadership position to the gravel pit after just 13 months and 9 days. Cricket was 14 months old.