An impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem will “move forward,” members of Congress are promising, after the effort was announced last week in the wake of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a United States citizen in Minneapolis.

“We’re gonna move forward to impeach Kristi Noem,” Representative Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, vowed during an interview with MS Now on Sunday.

In a press release, Democratic Representative Robin Kelly‘s office said that the 3 articles of impeachment would allege Noem “abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates,” “willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law” and “compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions.”

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    So most of us remember Noem’s main claim to fame being that she executed her new puppy, after… not training it properly, and being annoyed by it.

    Well I’d like to remind folks she was behind this ad campaign:

    Nope, not a joke, not a photoshop, not AI hallucination… this was her baby, and it was real.

    Finally… I present to you, Kristi Karen Noem:

    Yeah thats from ~7 years ago, when she still had a vaguely human face.

    If memory serves… she is still, herself, personally banned from setting foot on any Indian/Native Tribal land in the entire state of South Dakota, basically for consistently being a racist c*nt, consistently disrespecting any and all tribal attempts to keep their land clean from industrial waste.

    EDIT:

    (I’ve been told by a local from Rapid City that she also executed a goat in a similar violent outburst as with her new puppy… but I have not been able to verify this myself, with a citable print source.

    Local told me that its not uncommon to basically just rent a or some goats as basically au naturale lawnmowers, which does make sense to me…

    … but she apparently got annoyed by the bleating, and one day just shot someone else’s goat, that she was renting, to be a lawnmower on her ranch.

    … Yeah.)

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          Hey! Patriotism today means fighting for a sFer America. You ARE being patriotic by informing us of the failures of the state

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            stumbles awkwardly out of recently materialized 80s era phone booth

            dons tricorner hat

            checks breast pocket for printed copy of ancient proto proto anarchist zine, ‘Common Sense’

            brings out boombox

            “Let us commence to jam, sucka!”

            hits play on RATM: Renegades of Funk, extremely patriotically

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            Yeah I got my issues with America, but I’m a true believer in the enlightenment and I love that this country is philosophically grounded in enlightenment ideas and the idea that the state’s ability to project force onto it’s citizens should be limited. I know about our contradictions, and I’m disappointed as all hell in what we’ve done with ourselves in the past decades (and longer), but part of me loves this country and believes it could be better.

            But first and foremost I’m an international anti fascist. I don’t care that I love my home, it’s fallen to the fascists and is attacking the world, I can love it again once it’s been stopped.

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    And even if everything goes perfectly, what happens when she simply doesn’t respond and continues working as usual? When she simply ignores it?

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        No. They are raising a valid concern that has already been demonstrated with the Attorney General.

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            Plenty. But suggestions are like wishes. You can make them all day long, but they’re useless without action, and right now we need action. Now organizing, that’s complicated.

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              Here’s 2 suggestions for action:

              1. Add your signature to this petition and promote it amongst your peeps : https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/no-fundraisers-for-killers/

              2. January 20, 2pm nation wide walk out. 3pm show up at your representatives office, and discuss why Noem should be impeached, including MN in the investigation of the murder perpetrated by Jonathon Ross, and other timely matters.

              Unvoiced suggestions are less even than wishes.

              See ya there, my friend.

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    Kristi Noem to Fox News Sunday this past weekend: “It’s really, really horrific that we have elected officials that are using this as an opportunity to divide, using this to promote an agenda that fundamentally would take away our freedoms and our liberties in this country,”

    God I hope so much that we make it through this, and she suffers terribly. Remember, this is just the beginning. By the time she is finally held to account for her crimes, it may very well not be an American court that decides her fate. God I hope they use a rope, and televise it. I know, extremely wishful thinking—every word of it. But this leftist bitch wants to see the day.

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    He’ll just replace her with someone worse. This won’t end until they remove the tumor at the center of this all.

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    Trump will just sign an executive order saying ‘lol no’ the supreme Court will say ‘yes Daddy’ and that will be it.

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    Who cares? She will just ignore it. Unless you have some method of enforcement ready, nothing you say here will matter.

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    Impeachment is just pointless “respectability” politics intended to get decent people to step down out of respect for the position. The cult leader running this nonsense was impeached twice and guess what came of it? This is just another pointless show of theatrics, all sound and fury signifying nothing.

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      My one friend Made the argument of why even pay attention if it didn’t matter? It’s history, nobody actually paid for Watergate or Iran contra.

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    Waiting to hear what talking points Israel and/or billionaire donors gave the Chuck Schumer side of the Dems to inevitably oppose this, or put no real effort into it so it inevitably fails.