Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-wants-migrants-to-compete-for-citizenship-on-hunger-games-style-reality-show/

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Kristi Noem reportedly wants the U.S. citizenship process to play out in front of the cameras.

The Homeland Security secretary has been working with writer and producer Rob Worsoff to pitch a reality TV show—titled The American—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to the Daily Mail.

Citing a copy of Worsoff’s 35-page program pitch, the Daily Mail reported that the Canadian-born producer aims to “celebrate what it means to be American and have a national conversation about what it means to be American, through the eyes of the people who want it most.” Worsoff is best known for producing the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Beast that the show’s concept is under consideration, though she denied that Noem had reviewed the pitch in question. The concept is “in the very beginning stages” of the vetting process, she added, and approval has not been given—or denied.

“The Department of Homeland Security receives hundreds of television show pitches a year,” she said in a statement. “Each proposal undergoes a thorough vetting process prior to denial or approval.”

McLaughlin denied Noem’s involvement in the project, though unnamed sources told the Daily Mail that the Homeland Security secretary supports it and wants it to proceed.

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[Attilatheblond]

1. Sucking up to Trump, who might be yearning for his old TV Star days when he didn't have to answer questions?

The attention her new position has REALLY gone to that twit's head.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It's exactly the idea that a cos-play barbie would come up with. . . . . nt

[Solly Mack]

3. What the fuck is wrong with these people? Sick, demented, and cruel. Sadists. Grotesque humans.

[Mossfern]

7. Rec'd

Wish I could give it a gazillion recs!

[ananda]

21. "Humans" is way too kind.

Every damm Trump flunkie has no humanity whatsoever!

[Solly Mack]

41. They're human. Bad humans but still human.

[ananda]

47. No, they're monsters. They lost their humanity...

completely.

[Ponietz]

4. That's a Hunger Game

[jmowreader]

10. I was thinking The Running Man

Either that or Squid Game.

[Eugene]

33. The Running Man was my first thought on this.

At least the 2nd Kristi Noem thread I've encountered in the past hour where "obscene" is a fitting description.

[MadameButterfly]

40. Queen for a Day

[Irish_Dem]

5. Everything is just a big joke and stunt.

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They aren't serious about anything except kissing Trump's ass.

[sop]

6. The competition will be rigged for white Afrikaners from South Africa.

[Diraven]

8. So will all the losers be deported?

Immediately tased, shackled, roughed-up, and then dragged onto a rendition flight to a secret overseas prison where they'll be locked up for life on live TV? Because that's what Fox News viewers really want to see.

[Jacoby365]

9. Noem is a disgusting human being.

When she was speaking at a cabinet meeting a couple of weeks ago, she was talking about all of the new Coast Guard hires she was making, and "enjoying our white privileges", she said.

[Rebl2]

45. She is

SICKENING 🤮

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Let's do a Wheel of Fortune type game

A wheel is spun and it lands on one of various punishments to be meted out to Bondi. I'm thinking dunked in water or various other things like a fetid septic tank.

[sheshe2]

12. Let me guess...

Brainless Barbie will be the host of the show, wearing elaborate costumes for each segment. She will perform stunning feats on horseback armed with a whip, rope and a hunting rifle.

At the end of the challenge, for the honor of fast tracking citizenship, the losers will be dragged to the gravel pit to be executed by none other than the Secretary of Homeland Security.


Yippee Ki Yay

We are so very screwed.

[madaboutharry]

13. This is grotesque and disgusting.

It completely disregards the humanity and dignity of people. It treats them like circus animals for entertainment.

It is appalling.

[canetoad]

14. Why not just have

A gladiatorial all-in fight to entertain the magats?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

36. I can imagine them actually going for something like that.

The post earlier in the thread about how crap like a citizenship reality game show takes away people’s humanity and dignity and treats them like circus animals is spot-on. These MAGAts are horrible people and it starts at the top with TSF.

[Buttoneer]

15. The Running Man

[Retrograde]

16. You can't fool me - this is the Onion

or Borowitz, right? Right?

[tanyev]

29. I know, right?

I got to the end and went, "Wait, this is real??"

[babylonsister]

17. Well isn't that repulsive. nt

[Rebl2]

18. Is this

the onion?

[Bettie]

19. I assumed this was satire

apparently, it is not.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. !

[Liberal In Texas]

22. Noem will no doubt give the contestants guns. She'd want to make it interesting.

[Arazi]

23. Despicable. Utterly shameful

She’s one step away from having people hunting them too 🤬

[Initech]

24. This is fucking disgusting.

[Picaro]

25. Obscene

[James48]

26. Next it will be Hunting Latinos

A weekly series where COPS meets Actual
Gestapo Masked Ice Agents as they break down doors and windows with no warrants- and put seven year old girls in handcuffs and slam them to the ground.


Don’t give harm too many ideas.

[dchill]

27. Losers get shot in the face, right?

[rubbersole]

28. Now we're talkin'...

..Hunger Games- 47 style. A trip to the gravel pit for the loser. PPV.

[Walleye]

30. Not the Onion again, it won't be long before people won't wanna come here at all much less be citizens

[Figarosmom]

31. They really do cheapen everything they touch.

Every fuckin thing is for sale


It's all beginning to feel like one of the scenarios in the old TV show Sliders

[Iamscrewed]

32. If this is real.?

What happened to us. Are we really going to go full roman meltdown or what?

[Ocelot II]

34. This is The Onion, right? Right?

[MIButterfly]

35. You have got to be kidding.

There's no way in the world this is serious. But then again, look who we're talking about. This is despicable, disgusting, repulsive, etc.

But what can you expect from someone who would shoot the family dog in the face because she couldn't be bothered to properly train the dog?

Every time I think I can no longer be shocked by these people, one of them always proves me wrong. Is there no low they won't sink to?

Everything's a game to these horrible people. I hope to God this isn't true.

[MadameButterfly]

37. What is the Dept. of Homeland Security doing reviewing

concepts for TV shows? They are claiming it's a normal part of their job. Can someone please explain?

[yellow dahlia]

38. When I first saw the headline, I thought it was satire...perhaps The Onion.

There is no limit to the depravity of these people.

[Marcuse]

39. Homeland Security could use the new DC stadium as the venue.

[BurnDoubt]

44. OOH, OOH... DO I HEAR COLOSSEUM????? You beat me to it.

Do the losers get to be shot by KKKristi?

[patphil]

42. Sounds like a bizarre twist on "The Hunger Games"

Lets make immigrants fight for the right to be US citizens!
Maybe Kristi Noem would get to shoot the losers in the face.

This is effin' insane.

[BidenRocks]

43. "The Department of Homeland Security receives hundreds of television show pitches a year," she said in a statement.

How many of those need an island?

[Tommy Carcetti]

46. Okay, but why? nt

[BidenRocks]

49. Hunting humans. nt

[Ping Tung]

48. Will they be compting to be ther most huddled of huddled masses?

If they win, will their kids get to have 3 dolls?