Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-portland-visit-antifa-chicken-b2841736.html

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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 166 pts · 338d (11 replies)

These antifa terrorists look truly deadly. Thank goodness we have people like Noem who are brave enough to stand at a safe distance on a high roof protected by armed police while talking shit about them.

wagesj45@fedia.io · 86 pts · 338d (6 replies)

lol that looks like a parody how are people like benny not humiliated posting stuff like this?

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 338d (1 reply)

They don't experience human emotions such as humiliation or empathy.

porksnort@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 337d

They do experience schadenfreude, however. Just don’t tell them that. They don’t know what the word means and it will confuse and anger them. (edit: corrected typo)

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 30 pts · 338d

Not knowing who Benny Johnson is, I genuinely was reading this as the debunking-Noem left wing post. It's amazing there is an audience who sees that and thinks a guy in a chicken costume justifies calling in the National Guard to wage war on our neighbors.

But then, the enemy is simultaneously too weak and an object of derision (chicken costume guy), and too strong and a reason to suspend laws (12 terrifying people in casual clothes, most of them apparently press).

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 338d

Benny is a fucking piece of fascist trash and a Russian asset to boot. He should be sitting in prison.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 338d (1 reply)

wait, this guy is serious? I was sure it was sarcastic

KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 337d

Benny Johnson is a serious prolific MAGA influencer that has been invited out by the administration to cover Alligator Auschwitz in Florida. Benny's podcast was also why Jimmy Kimmel's show got suspended - a member of this Republican administration made a veiled threat about Kimmel on Benny's podcast and that is why Disney took the show down.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 31 pts · 338d

That's like 12 people. That's not what an army is, Benjamin.

eddanja@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 338d

Good thing there are no dangerous puppies.

whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 338d

Yeah and don't forget this yellow tape, looks like it's an efficient technology to stop those crazy mobsters

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 338d

Benny Johnson is a fascist piece of shit.

minnow@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 338d (4 replies)

I expect the White House to add "wearing a chicken suit" to their list of signs that somebody is a terrorist any moment now.

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 61 pts · 338d (1 reply)

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 338d

I say, I say.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 338d

I mean, she loves murdering animals so much, maybe her instincts might have kicked in, and to protect the homeland or whatever (assuming she wasn't strapped with some cosplay gunz), she would have had to choke that chicken herself...

🤣

SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 338d

Signs you might be antifa:

  • wearing a costume of any kind
  • feeling like a chicken today, or tomorrow
  • disliking Trump or his government
  • feeling that rules and rights should apply to everyone
  • chrispy gnome said so
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 84 pts · 338d (1 reply)

Ignoring the lack of actual protesters, I have never before seen the phrase "stares down" to mean "Watches from adjacent building while surrounded by own private army".

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 337d

Yeah, she's not staring down anyone. Not a single person.

She's just staring AT them. Actually, considering the angle and total removal from the event in question, she's more spying on them... You know, like a pervert.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 65 pts · 338d (4 replies)

A few of the YT channels doing political news have shown how much of this mess is created propaganda to use for clips for MAGA to show the "danger" and how manly and awesome ICE is "protecting" the country.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 338d (1 reply)

They're all hat and no cowboy

Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d

"all hat and no cattle"

dickalan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Would you mind sharing these awesome YouTube channels

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 337d

David Pakman, Keith Edwards, Secular Talk , Meidas Touch. Watch a few of these and I'm sure your feed with be full of others (Youtube tends to get a bit too crazy if you watch more than one of a subject).

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 338d

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 338d (1 reply)

From what? 500 feet away, 100 feet up? What a cowardly puppy-killing asswipe.

cubism_pitta@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 338d

Dicks out for cricket!!

Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 338d (2 replies)

truth speakers and goofs is very on brand for what resistence to fascism has always been

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 338d (1 reply)

The sillier, the better. They were hoping for video clips of brave soldiers holding back hordes of scary villains. Videos of brutal, masked thugs beating citizens in funny costumes doesn't quite have the same effect.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 338d

The inflatible capybara costume was genius!

HubertManne@piefed.social · 18 pts · 338d

So she looked out a roof toward them. How is that starring them down. So she goes to a fenced and guarded facility surrounded by her goons and looks at the reporters and chicken guy from the roof and their reaction:

"The crowd appeared nonviolent, though they were shouting at Noem. One person, using some sort of megaphone, taunted the secretary and other law enforcement officials, referring to a Subway sandwich, the kind which was previously thrown at federal law enforcement who were deployed in Washington, D.C., and Noem’s dog, which she admitted to shooting in her memoir. "

gary@piefed.world · 17 pts · 338d (1 reply)

she's SO BRAVE 🙄

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 338d

She might have to go out and murder one of her dogs and/or some of her goats just to prove how big of a dong she has.

Wytch@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 338d (1 reply)

One of our chickens tried to peck my eye one time, it left a little bruise

NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 338d

Just imagine how hard a man sized antifa chicken would peck.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 338d

Pathetic

aarRJaay@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 338d (1 reply)

Was the guy in the chicken costume handing out leaflets advertising a local fried chicken place?

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 338d

No idea. Anyways, I'm just going to the local animal shelter with my gang to 'stare down' some donkeys, and horses, and cats, and goats!! from the safety of being behind the railings, of course.

adespoton@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 338d

‘stares down at’ — they missed a word.

selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 337d

Fuck off fascist-fellating magat!

It's fall. Leave Portland to what we like best--- the return of cold wet weather, pumpkin spice, and street cart food. Get out of our city, it adds to the pollution.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 338d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d (1 reply)

Antifa, antifa everywhere....

skepticalifornia@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d

It's in the room with us right now!

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d

Stares down AT them. Too scared to go down and face them

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d

Noeman will touch her

odama626@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d (1 reply)
odama626@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

I thought them barking at her was hilarious

unphazed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

I think she was really just hunting for dogs.