"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is leaving the department and being replaced by Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump said Thursday."
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem out, Trump says
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-trump-ice-dhs
58 Comments
Reygle@lemmy.world · 154 pts · 175d
Uhoh.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 70 pts · 175d
Motherfucker just read a comic book? He's trying to form S.H.I.E.L.D?
Kalon@feddit.online · 35 pts · 175d
He is trying to form HYDRA.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
Trying?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 175d
Lmao, oh so this is 100% worse than just being replaced. Got it.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 175d
That is the fakest sounding job I've ever heard of.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 175d
As real as her face
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 175d
He doesn't even know what "announced" means his brain is so fried...
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 175d
Mother fuck bucket, I came here to find a silver lining, not this!
Tapirs_Are_AI_Slop@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 175d
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
I was reading several maga people say she is getting a promotion
They think this new thing is a promotion over a cabinet level position
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Ah, good to see the 50s are back. Looking forward to some CIA coups.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 127 pts · 175d
Switching the sycophants around wont change anything.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 175d
Disagree. Complicit Dems will use this as an excuse to restore DHS funding and Mullin will have free rein until they fuck up and kill a few more Americans, probably.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 175d
Okay agree, and then nothing more will change, the midterms roll around and are largely suppressed, we slip into completely unrestrained fascism and our crazed countrymen are ordered to just kill the libs and the radical left, then the country completely collapses. I do see where this is going.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 175d
...huh. It’s a… change..? I don’t expect an improvement, tbh.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 72 pts · 175d
I don't think anyone expects an improvement when the candidate pool consists entirely of sycophantic psychopaths.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 175d
The improvement is that she stuck by trump threw everything and he just threw her under the bus.
Everyone in the admin just wondered if they'll be next and if trump would protect them when the masses get upset at what trump does.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 175d
More like a lateral promotion than throwing her under the bus, really.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 175d
It's a made up committee...
You ever watch Silicon Valley?
This is like when Bighead gets sent to the roof. trump can't fully fire her, because she'll start singing.
So she gets shuffled to a nowhere post that still has perks and money, but she just sits in a room all day. She runs out the clock, but it's a dead end spot.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 175d
Or it's come Saturday and nothing is announced
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 175d
I’m surprised they didn’t just announce Christie Gnome as her replacement and send her out in a blonde wig
jafajakaja@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 175d
It's not an improvement in the sense that the new guy is going to be better or do less evil.
It's a small victory that the backlash to Noem's time as DHS head was big enough that, even if they don't admit it, it's an implicit acknowledgement by the Trump admin that they did something wrong enough to warrant a response.
It's not a major victory, and it shouldn't be talked about as one, but it's an improvement over the alternative, where ICE murders people and calls them domestic terrorists with literally no consequence.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 175d
You've got a lot more confidence than I do that any of that will change in the slightest.
jafajakaja@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 174d
No I don't. The consequence I'm referring to isn't any sort of change in policy or future criminal repercussions for ICE en masse or anything.
The consequence I'm referring to is literally just Noem getting replaced. It doesn't stop ICE or change what they're doing, but it's better than an alternative where opposition to the current gov's ICE policies is so locked down that they can't even manage to do that much.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 174d
You called it an improvement.
Noem did exactly what he wanted. The next one will do the same. Trump hasn't had any repercussions, and Noem is being put onto a new board. Whether its called being fired or not, there is no apparent change or any real consequences here. Her not being the face still? What actual consequence is she receiving? Still being paid by the federal government, now with a new, probably more horrifying organization to be supposedly announced today?
Its hard to call a parallel move a "consequence", or the same approach to the people living in the US an "improvement".
jafajakaja@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 172d
Yes, it's a very minor improvement, so minor that it won't mean any kind of policy changes at ICE. I never said anything different. It's an improvement only in the sense that the alternative where the opposition is so minor they don't even have to make small concessions like that would be worse. 99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%, even if with that improvement it's still abhorrent.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 172d
I think we have different definitions of "improvement".
Same results, so effectively no different. I would not call "kills you exactly as horribly" an improvement.
To each their own I suppose.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 175d
Did she ever even get to use the fuck plane they just bought her?
ALilOff@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 175d
I hope that fired/rehired pilot got the chance to do so.
rozodru@piefed.world · 46 pts · 175d
so one unqualified moron is being replaced with another unqualified moron who somehow licks ass harder than Noem.
Remember Mullin is the fuckboy that shit his pants during the Jan 6 coup attempt and then later said "yeah the pardons are justified". this is also the idiot that wanted to rent a helicopter and "rescue americans" in Afghanistan while he dangled out of the chopper or something.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 175d
He also wanted to fistfight the Teamsters guy in a committee meeting. He’s special.
This is not an upgrade.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 175d
My uncle literally did that for a loving in the Navy.. it's a thing
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 175d
Doesn't this mean one fewer Republican Senators then? He was elected in 2023 so he still had safe years on his term in office.
Also from Wikipedia:
"He is the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree."
Well, trump has said "I love the poorly educated", so this is an on-brand choice for trump.
dhork@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 175d
Senators are eligible to be replaced by the sitting Governor by appointment. My guess is that the OK Governor would appoint someone right away, so that once Mullin is confirmed and in his new position his replacement can be sworn in right away.
Normally, that appointment would only last until the end of the Congressional session, meaning that seat would have to go on the ballot this November. But it wouldn't surprise me if OK figured out a way to say it was too close to the election to add another race now, and figured out a way to have the new person serve the remainder of Mullins' term.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 175d
According to Oklahoma state law, the special election for the remainder of the term takes place during the next statewide primary and general election. However, if the vacancy occurs after March 1st during an even numbered year, the special election gets delayed until the next election cycle after that year.
Source: https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/title-26/section-26-12-101/
So they won't have to have the special election this year. Though I doubt it makes that much of a difference. If they were going to lose that seat, they were going to lose the senate no matter what.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 175d
How many Scaramucci's is that?
January 25th 2025 to March 5th 2026 = 404 days / 11 = 36.72 Scaramucci's.
Bonus Fun Fact: Kristi's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem, which means the monogram on her bathrobe says "KLAN."
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 175d
Yeah it's totally not weird that her parents made one of her middle names "Arnold"
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
And that she dresses as a man.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 175d
She dresses as all sorts of things: cowgirl, police officer, navy sailor, police officer, construction worker, soldier..
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 175d
The many faces of Kristy Noem ..
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 175d
Release the Epstein Files
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 175d
Keep your puppies inside for the next few days, she’s gonna be looking to redirect her rage.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
She's going to stomp all over Tokyo.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 175d
She should be in prison.
Now she just get to fuck off and go into hiding
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 12 pts · 175d
Pedolf already has some bullshit position in mind for her.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 175d
From one demented fucked up loser to the next.
dhork@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 175d
I figured she would be the first one Trump took out to the (metaphorical) gravel pit
kandoh@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 175d
All it took was one GOP senator not up for reelection making a public statement that he'd hold up nominations unless she resigned or was removed.
That's how weak these guys are, and how utterly spineless the GOP in general is.
ech@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 175d
"Surely I won't end up under the bus!" - Every idiot in this circus
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 175d
The bar has been lowered to the ground & the fuckers brought a shovel. Ok Khrusty, see you next Tuesday.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 175d
I wonder if markwayne and Cory will be making use of the famous bed.
garretble@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
Bye bitch.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
Do nazi barbie next plz
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 175d
She still has some use as a (barely) human meat shield.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
Omfg. Mark Wayne is from my shit state. Things will not improve and will likely get 100% worse
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
I'm sure he can find a caddy at Mar A Lago or a Fox News anchorwoman to fill the role.
Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 175d
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 175d
Womp womp.