I was inspired to use AI to make the image above by this comment:
.Read Kristi Noem roasted for her gun handling skills in ICE photo-op. There is a video in the article.
Here’s an excerpt:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being blasted online for posing while pointing her rifle at an officer’s face in a new social media video.
In a 20-second video posted to X on Tuesday, Noem, who once boasted about killing her dog, stands between two Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as she wields a gun. Social media users flooded the comments section of her clip to warn about the dangers of holding her weapon in that way.
“Here we are with Marco and Brian today. They’re letting me roll with them. We’re going to go out and pick up somebody who I think got charges of human trafficking,” she says in the video. “We earlier had an op that swept up somebody that was wanted for murder. So appreciate the good work that they do every day, and we appreciate them working to make America safe.
In saying “they’re letting me roll with them” Noem no doubt believes she’s got the lingo down pat.
Noem and Tom Homan together are the public faces of the Trump endeavor to deport whoever they damn well please to a Salvadoran prison where inmates are stacked in bunks reminiscent of those in Nazi concentration camps. The two of them seem to be in competition for the media spotlight. This is a Google News search for Tom Homan. Here’s the Google News search for Kristi Noem.
Rachel Maddow covered her costumed photo-ops on April 8th.
This is from the UK Americas edition of the Daily Express:
She made the news during her visit to El Salvadore, not so much for the horrors that our democracy has been reduced to, but because she was wearing a $50,000 watch.
My AI illustration software couldn’t really tell Bondi and Leavitt apart.
My hunch is that dog killer Noem wants none of this pretty face image. Her behavior indicates she wants to be seen as the toughest of tough Trump enforcers.
Instead of the regular and social media focusing on the image photos like these convey to people who want us to stay a democracy where the rule of law prevails, they are lambasting her for how she is carelessly handling a M-4 assault rifle.
Anyone who has had any firearms training knows that you always assume a gun is loaded and never point it anywhere near a direction other than your intended target. This was the first thing I learned as a reserve police officer when I was taken to the range for the first time. This, however, is beside the point.
The ICE agents posing with Noem, and the other ICE agents we see in the media, are equipped like SWAT members about to assault the lair of a heavily armed drug kingpin, not arrest some unfortunate immigrant who may or may not be here illegally.
They are armed like this for the purpose of intimidating, not the people about to be arrested, but the rest of the country. Cross us, their message is, and we will send thugs in body armor carrying weapons best suited for actual combat against enemies who are shooting back.
Trump wants it both ways. He wants some of his cadre to convey a soft image and others to come across as hard as nails. He wants his muscle bound tatooed Pete Hegseth, whose photos flooded the media when he was nominated, and RFK Jr., shown below making the news with shirtless photos of him working out. If Trump can’t be a muscle bound Rambo at least he can have the satisfaction of ordering them to do his dirty work.
What’s a poor girl to do when she’s competing with the immigration czar who actually looks like he could he a psychoath?
I guess all that’s left is to show she’s not afraid to stand in front of Venezuelan gang members who may not have seen a woman in months or years and going on a raid with ICE agents… we don’t know if this really happened and if it did whether she was allowed to carry a loaded assault rifle.
Here’s another AI image of tactical Barbie:
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