Here's a backstory about dear Kristi's DHS and her spokeswoman which you may have missed. By Hal M. Brown You may not know who Tricia McLaughlin is. Read this and you will.

I saw this on Rawstory, a website my readers know often gives me an idea for a Substack.

DHS official flips out over question on meme tied to white nationalist account

Excerpt:

The Department of Homeland Security was caught using a meme created by an antisemitic white nationalist activist to promote their mass deportation efforts, journalist Zaid Jilani reported for The American Saga — and when confronted over it, a senior DHS official was completely unapologetic.

This is emerging on the same day that Trump's DHS faces a firestorm of controversy for having Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) tackled and handcuffed when he tried to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration's military occupation of Los Angeles during a news conference.

"On Wednesday, the DHS Twitter account posted an image of an Uncle Sam figure alongside the text 'REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,'" wrote Jilani.

"'Mrrobertwp' aka Mr. Robert is a white nationalist Twitter account," wrote Jilani. "He accuses Members of Congress of being 'Jew owned' and he’s a big fan of anti-black racial slurs, defending their use. He believes that Trump is the 'Great White Hope,' and one of his favorite slogans is 'Wake Up White Man,' which he posted repeatedly." Mr. Robert gloated about being able to get the cabinet department overseeing immigration and border security to post his meme, writing, “It's far reaching fellas. We really hit it out of the park with this one.”

This is the Substack which the RawStory article linked to:

Why is the Department of Homeland Security Cribbing from a White Nationalist?

Conservatives have long argued that their calls for immigration restriction are race-neutral. Someone in the administration is making this hard to believe.

I know many of my readers boycott X so they miss things posted there. For example the X poster, Robert Reichlin-Melnick , who identified the origin of that meme as coming from an account known as “mrrobertwp.”posted the following:

This tweet led to 89 replies (not a lot for X), but included these:

You can see that he brought out some of the haters as well:

Who, inquiring minds may want to know, is the lovely lady who said the following:

"These assertions are fundamentally unserious and reflect the completely juvenile state of mainstream journalism. These reporters should get off social media and start focusing on the very real victims of illegal alien crime. Every American citizen should support federal law enforcement in their just effort to deport criminal illegal alien invaders from our country. During the Biden Administration our borders were opened to an invasion by the very worst from around the world. Now President Trump and Secretary Noem are reversing the destruction of our nation and sending these thugs back."

She’s just another pretty face of the Trump dictatorship:

Here' she is on YouTube:

It is painful to listen to her but I suggest that you gird your loins and resist your gag reflex and click here.

Some may think this woman is physically attractive. I think she proves that beauty is only skin deep.

Update: I just saw this on BlueSky:

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The Demonization of Albrego Garcia

 It takes some rudimentary photoshopping to make Albrego Garcia look like a real demon. Why not do this if you want to turn him into a truly bad guy? There are no bare chested photos of him with gang tattoos to publish. The best/worst Trump Trump could do was use a poorly rendered photoshop to show M, I, 1, and 3 on his knuckles. 

Below is what Kristi $50,000 Watch Noem (read “The Watches of the Trump Administration”) had to say.

Read the HUFFPOST article which makes Garcia out to be a really bad guy article here.

Excerpt:

“Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador and should never have been in this country and will not be coming back to this country,” she told senators. “There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again. If he were to come back, we would immediately deport him again.”

Noem said he doesn’t belong in the U.S. “because he is a terrorist, he’s a human smuggler and he is a wife-beater.” There is no evidence that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist, and he was never arrested on or charged with human smuggling. It is true, though, that his wife filed a protective order petition against him in 2021, alleging he had physically attacked her on multiple occasions.

Kristi Noem is not a lawyer. Even so, she has a bachelors degree in political science. This should be enough for her to understand due process. Irregardless of this, she shouldn't be throwing out unsubstantiated accusations about Abrego Garcia. Of the three crimes she’s accused him of, only one has any evidence to suggest it is true. That would be her saying he’s a wife beater. Even on this he was never convicted in court. His wife filled a protective petition alleging he pshycially attacked her.

A Trump executive order designated MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization. This hides the fact that the gang originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Their members largely join out of economic need, self-defense, or social pressure—not ideology. Trump’s executive order says the following:

….transnational organizations, such as Tren de Aragua (TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) pose similar threats to the United States (as drug cartels). Their campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally are extraordinarily violent, vicious, and similarly threaten the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.

It is the policy of the United States to ensure the total elimination of these organizations’ presence in the United States and their ability to threaten the territory, safety, and security of the United States through their extraterritorial command-and-control structures, thereby protecting the American people and the territorial integrity of the United States.

You can’t have it both ways. Either each and every person who joins a gang is a criminal or some may be in the gang but have never committed an act of violence, let alone jumped a turnstyle at a subway station. 

This seem to harken back to the bad old Joe McCarthy Communist Party demonization and witchhunt days when either being an actual member of the party, being sympathetic to the party, or having any association with it made one a target. At least McCarthy never tried to get those he deemed party members or sympathizers deported to a hellhole overseas prison.

The United States still doesn’t deport people who are legally residing here because they’ve committed crimes. If Garcia is to be deported it must be because a court determines he is here illegally. McCarthy called them un-American. He never said they were terrorists. Not a single person who appeared before McCarthy's committee went to jail for accusations McCarthy brought against them (reference).

There’s this idea that Noem, her boss, and others are promoting that anyone here who they say, with no evidence, is a vicious criminal can be denied their day in court - a now quaint and irrelevant notion - and be sent to prison here or in another country. This is a country that sometimes seemingly is selected by throwing darts at a world map.

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About Kristi Noem's perverse PR stunt: Trump probably loves her for it, but will it backfire? By Hal M. Brown They could have sent the thug who looks like a Mafia enforcer, Tom Homan, to the Salvador prison instead.

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There she was, probably the only female these inmates have seen in years, standing as props as she was filmed. I assume the guards forced them to stand where the camera would get a good shot of them topless in their white shorts which look like diapers.

I doubt they had any idea what the hell was going on. Here’s one of the photos that has gone viral with justified criticism:

This is photo is from the article: Sec. Kristi Noem uses inmates of notorious Salvadoran prison in photo op.

Here’s a photo from another article:

And then, Kristi Noem fans, there’s this about the Rolex Daytona 116508 Black Dialwatch which you too can have for the low, low, price of $48,995:

This excerpt is just too juicy not to include in today’s Substack:

When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem visited El Salvador’s most notorious mega-prison on Wednesday, she sported an eye-catching piece on her wrist that experts have identified as an 18-karat gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch that sells for about $50,000.

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Noem’s choice of watch kicked off a race among internet sleuths to identify it and infuriated immigration advocates, who said the juxtaposition was insensitive to the harsh reality of mass imprisonment and deportation.

“You’re in front of all these people in a very poor country, who are in the bottom 10 or 20 percent of their country … and it looks like you’re just flaunting your wealth while you flaunt your freedom,” said Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group.

“This is an administration that is trying to be populist, anti-elite, appeal to the common man,” he added. Meanwhile, there's “people stacked up like cordwood behind her.”

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the make of the watch in a statement, saying that “then-Governor Noem chose to use the proceeds from her New York Times best selling books to purchase an item she could wear and one day pass down to her children

If Trump made the decision, or Noem made it herself, I wonder why they thought it would send a better message than having Tom Homan, who looks like a Mafia enforcer, go instead. Frankly, that man scares me.

What is the image they wanted to convey? Perhaps Noem, the dog killer, wanted to make her bones by showing how fearless she was by going to the prison and standing mere feet from men who reportedly commited multiple murders and rapes.

Maybe she’s so perverse that she was thinking “here I am boys, the last woman you may see in your miserable lives, and all you can do is drool and do whatever you do for sexual gratification here in prison.”

The more people who see photos of people who are obviously law abiding citizens, and sympathetic at that, the more they may find stunts like the one where a man was picked up by ICE for having an autism tattoo in honor of his son on his arm utterly appalling. Even some MAGA hopefully will conjure up some emptahy in their cold hearts knowing this man may now be at the mercy of real gang members:

Also in the news yesterday was the the story of the Tufts University student being handcuffed and led away into an unmarked vehicle by Trump Gestapo:

It’s possible that Noem feels she’s in competition with Pam Bondi, who is also has been making the news big time in the past 24 hours refusing to investigate Signalgate. 

To make headlines that will please Trump one has to be as cruel and/or lawlessly sycophantic as possible. This is how the women in particular can gain, dare I say, what passes for endearment from Donald the Duke of Desire and the hunka-hunka-burning love.

Whether there are men who want this too (and there’s nothing wrong with that) remains to be seen. Everyone around Trump wants approbation from him and they are willing to swallow whatever pride they may have to grovel before him to receive whatever morsels of approval he deigns to dole out.

It is difficult to believe that there are really women vying for Trump’s manly man attention so they feel more desirable until you look at who some of them are: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Elise Stafanick, Tulsi Gabbard, Karoline Leavitt, Paulina Luna, Susie Wiles, Linda McMahon, and others (with the probable exception of Melania). 

Apparently they see Trump the way I depicted him using AI (see Substack). Or maybe it is the Eau de Testosterone scent made from the gonads of randy bulls that he bathes himself in every morning that gets their juices flowing.

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