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senseandsensibility

(24,973 posts)
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:08 PM Jul 2025

Noem just now at a press conference regarding Democrats

"They aren't just liberals anymore. If you look at the Democrat Party, they're a party of communists and Marxists and socialists."

Don't you feel owned?

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Noem just now at a press conference regarding Democrats (Original Post) senseandsensibility Jul 2025 OP
Not owned. mercuryblues Jul 2025 #1
Yes, as you say it's not just unprofessional and embarrassing. senseandsensibility Jul 2025 #3
ive lived with the communiist label on me for most of my adult life . i wear it like a bdage of honor. AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #53
I bet she couldn't even describe what the basis of the ideology of communism, socialism and Marxism is! kimbutgar Jul 2025 #2
Blondes all over the world certainly don't deserve her as a representative..... Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #76
In other words BOSSHOG Jul 2025 #4
It tells me moondust Jul 2025 #5
Pretty sure Trump is pushing "Communists"" vanlassie Jul 2025 #22
so, are we deflecting and projecting? AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #56
We can't ignore it anymore, the media/internet is the problem. cayugafalls Jul 2025 #78
Their rhetoric is getting more extreme by the hour. It's a sign of some desperation and it WON'T help them Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2025 #6
she is on message. dems take note. nt msongs Jul 2025 #7
we will eventually get to the top of their list. rampartd Jul 2025 #27
Just wait till Jehovah hears what No-em uttered BoRaGard Jul 2025 #8
We're all commies here... wcmagumba Jul 2025 #9
Pinko fellow traveler bolsheviks to the core! Permanut Jul 2025 #46
she is just like the orange one. peacebuzzard Jul 2025 #10
More of the usual deflection Redleg Jul 2025 #11
And not for nothing, that reporter sounded vanlassie Jul 2025 #23
The sheer dumbness of this administration is breathtaking. Biophilic Jul 2025 #12
Ask her to define each term, I'll bet she can't (accurately). They just parrot those words for their ignorant Diamond_Dog Jul 2025 #13
From Wikipedia: markodochartaigh Jul 2025 #14
100% rubbersole Jul 2025 #60
Oh WOW!! How original! SWBTATTReg Jul 2025 #15
dog whistle terms she could never actually define if asked........ Takket Jul 2025 #16
The Repugs are racists, rapists, fascists, fraudsters, monumental liars, authoritarians, and ugly. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #17
Conservatives are like addicts who are reaching their max dose. They are running out of scary rhetoric jmbar2 Jul 2025 #18
naw they just keep making up new shit Skittles Jul 2025 #80
She does not know JustAnotherGen Jul 2025 #19
How is this not worse than "deplorables" newdeal2 Jul 2025 #20
It is definately worse but remember the WPP (white people's party) owns the news media. They know walkingman Jul 2025 #33
But they'll hammer away on this talking point, until Fox viewer zombies repeat it ad nauseum, without Sogo Jul 2025 #21
"POT BOTS". vanlassie Jul 2025 #25
Always projection with them, as the Republicans are now "owned" by fascists n/t AntiFascist Jul 2025 #24
Does Noem also say that democrats kill puppies? Norrrm Jul 2025 #26
lol Celerity Jul 2025 #28
In Tampa, where she can ... I don't know. What happened to Texas? mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 #29
Data missing... SonOfNebanaube Jul 2025 #71
Does the woman own a comb? She always looks like she just rolled out of bed. Vinca Jul 2025 #30
I think she uses catchnrelease Jul 2025 #59
Yeah sure hildegaard28 Jul 2025 #31
That is such 1950s rhetoric fargone Jul 2025 #32
These fucking people are monsters. spanone Jul 2025 #34
Been saying that shit my entire adult life... Wounded Bear Jul 2025 #35
This cosplaying hair extensions Barbi Haggis 4 Breakfast Jul 2025 #36
They've called us socialists and Marxists for ages. iemanja Jul 2025 #37
They are trying to make Democrats "the Other". I do think we need to be paying attention. Trump threatens to Pisces Jul 2025 #38
In other words, she pulled out the tattered and well worn B.See Jul 2025 #39
The name calling is a distraction from her malfeasance dlk Jul 2025 #40
Joe McCarthy cosplay 2na fisherman Jul 2025 #41
Some state elected this as governor. Boomerproud Jul 2025 #42
She's as Rebl2 Jul 2025 #43
Someone should have asked her to define Communism, Marxism, and Socialism; then asked LoisB Jul 2025 #44
All a lot better than being Nazis and fascists and hating democracy. sinkingfeeling Jul 2025 #45
The Cosplay puppy killer said what? Botany Jul 2025 #47
Two can play at that game... Klondike Kat Jul 2025 #48
And have been for a long fucking time. Karasu Jul 2025 #69
To be fair. Republicans are pretty socialist Renew Deal Jul 2025 #49
Communists, marxists and socialists mn9driver Jul 2025 #50
New?! That shit goes back like 80 fucking years! Karasu Jul 2025 #67
So do I wear the pussyhat or the Che Guevara beret? milestogo Jul 2025 #51
Communists and Marxists and Scialists? sabrams Jul 2025 #52
its democratic , democratic lady. ps. i have heard that felgercarb most of my living life , AllaN01Bear Jul 2025 #54
Flat out projection arthritisR_US Jul 2025 #55
At least she couldn't say: ToxMarz Jul 2025 #57
Same old playbook for more than 50 years. Dems shouldn't address it or fall victim to it. Nanjeanne Jul 2025 #58
I don't get it. She didn't help the Texas flood victims because democrsts JI7 Jul 2025 #61
Noem is an asshole LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #62
The vicious little twerp fucked up and she knows it Warpy Jul 2025 #63
In all likelihood, there won't be one. After 1/6, this country proved it doesn't have the gumption for actual Karasu Jul 2025 #64
to the Cricket killer tmars505 Jul 2025 #65
Projection. Like fuck anyone should take that shit from a party that completely jumped the shark fucking DECADES ago, Karasu Jul 2025 #66
Republicans have made that claim so much for so long, it's totally meaningless. Nice try, Sec. Noem. Beartracks Jul 2025 #68
Ooh, she managed to invoke all three GOP boogeymen in one sentence! Initech Jul 2025 #70
Kristi Noem kills dogs and eats them raw. delisen Jul 2025 #72
LMAO! Clueless idiot Noem is getting dragged for her incompetence Mysterian Jul 2025 #73
What else do you expect from a moron? Especially these MAGA morons? mucholderthandirt Jul 2025 #74
SHE has no idea what a communist or Marxist or socialist is--- Jack Valentino Jul 2025 #75
they have everything they want and they STILL perform for the cult Skittles Jul 2025 #77
This message was self-deleted by its author krkaufman Jul 2025 #79
NEXT: Noem announces plan for ICE to arrest registered Democrats dalton99a Jul 2025 #81

mercuryblues

(16,409 posts)
1. Not owned.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:10 PM
Jul 2025

I never thought I would see the day when the government would gleefully put a target on my/our back.

This is not going to end well.

AllaN01Bear

(29,484 posts)
53. ive lived with the communiist label on me for most of my adult life . i wear it like a bdage of honor.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:14 PM
Jul 2025

been wearing since hhischool when a rop teacher called me a cmmunist pinkjo pig . note . am liberal because i care about everyone . if that makes me woke ,,, f@#$k u. not u personaly.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
2. I bet she couldn't even describe what the basis of the ideology of communism, socialism and Marxism is!
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:11 PM
Jul 2025

But Botox Barbie puppy dog killer the term communism was written by a guy named Karl Marx!

She is such an idiot cos player with no brains for that comment.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
4. In other words
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:13 PM
Jul 2025

I am guilty of the deaths of many in the Texas floods because of my incompetence and greed.

moondust

(21,286 posts)
5. It tells me
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jul 2025

she received the GQP master list of SMEAR words and she's memorizing them as fast as she can.

cayugafalls

(5,960 posts)
78. We can't ignore it anymore, the media/internet is the problem.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:51 PM
Jul 2025

The messengers are failing the American people because the messengers ARE OWNED by the RICH.

They control the most bandwidth...influence is in their hands.

just my silly old man opinion

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. Their rhetoric is getting more extreme by the hour. It's a sign of some desperation and it WON'T help them
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jul 2025

It won't help them because ordinary citizens, who might be low info and inclined to simply trust "the government", ... ordinary citizens will be exposed to the extremity of it more and more. As time goes on, they will increasingly get the impression that the people running the government are over the top, getting bizarre, not making sense, lying.

The regime is a bit desperate because they know they are dropping in the polls, so they want to keep their base and they think that the more extreme they paint the opposition (i.e. us), the more the citizens will rally to their side thinking the US is under attack from ... us. But it will backfire.

Little things like FEMA weak late response begin to be noticed and remembered more.

The charade is wearing thin and becoming more obvious to the people whose adherence is wavering, the people they most desperately are trying to keep away from ... us.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
8. Just wait till Jehovah hears what No-em uttered
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
Jul 2025

roasting in the fiery pit of HELLISH damnation for all eternity does not sound too charming,
but No-em is buying herself a ticket, taking advantage of the G.O.P. Group Bargain deal.

Redleg

(6,921 posts)
11. More of the usual deflection
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jul 2025

It is so much easier to attack the other party than to make a reasoned argument or answer to a question.

Reminds me of Trump calling a reporter "evil" for asking him a legitimate question he couldn't or wouldn't answer.

Fuck these imperialist twits.

Biophilic

(6,551 posts)
12. The sheer dumbness of this administration is breathtaking.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:25 PM
Jul 2025

I started to use the word stupidity and then realized that these people aren’t just stupid they are rock hard dumb. Which I suppose makes them more dangerous.

Diamond_Dog

(40,569 posts)
13. Ask her to define each term, I'll bet she can't (accurately). They just parrot those words for their ignorant
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:27 PM
Jul 2025

base. She is scum same as dumpy, Vance, and all the others.

markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
14. From Wikipedia:
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:31 PM
Jul 2025

"McCarthy characterized Truman and the Democratic Party as soft on, or even in league with, Communists, and spoke of the Democrats' 'twenty years of treason'."

“The crazy lunatics that we have — the fascists, the Marxists, the communists, the people that we have that are actually running the country,” Trump said this month at a rally in Wisconsin. “Those people are more dangerous — the enemy from within — than Russia and China and other people.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-enemies-from-within-5c4a34776469a55e71d3ba4d4e68cf62

We've been here before. How confident are you that we can beat authoritarianism again?

rubbersole

(11,222 posts)
60. 100%
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:25 PM
Jul 2025

This authoritarian takeover attempt, although backed by unlimited money, has yet to feel the impact of skyrocketing prices and empty store shelves. Calling political opponents names (they couldn't define) and blaming Biden isn't going to placate consumers. Shit is going to hit the fan. Shortly.

SWBTATTReg

(26,257 posts)
15. Oh WOW!! How original!
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:32 PM
Jul 2025

If anything, her stupid a&& comment just reminds me of just how stupid and ignorant she really is.

Takket

(23,714 posts)
16. dog whistle terms she could never actually define if asked........
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:32 PM
Jul 2025

honestly they have beaten those terms to death so much over the decades, i doubt they even mean anything to anyone anymore

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
17. The Repugs are racists, rapists, fascists, fraudsters, monumental liars, authoritarians, and ugly.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:33 PM
Jul 2025

See Donald J. Trump for prime example.

jmbar2

(7,986 posts)
18. Conservatives are like addicts who are reaching their max dose. They are running out of scary rhetoric
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 04:57 PM
Jul 2025

Their stash is getting low
- Liberal
- Radical leftist
- Antifa
- DEI
- Woke
- Tax and spend
- socialist
- communist

Makes Newt Gingrich's 1990 "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" words list seem quaint.
https://uh.edu/~englin/rephandout.html

Skittles

(171,698 posts)
80. naw they just keep making up new shit
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 11:29 PM
Jul 2025

and their ignorant base falls for it EVERY FUCKING TIME

newdeal2

(5,409 posts)
20. How is this not worse than "deplorables"
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:02 PM
Jul 2025

I wonder if even one Sunday show brings it up tomorrow.

walkingman

(10,860 posts)
33. It is definately worse but remember the WPP (white people's party) owns the news media. They know
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:32 PM
Jul 2025

that if they say something, true or false, a large segment of the population will believe them.

Sogo

(7,191 posts)
21. But they'll hammer away on this talking point, until Fox viewer zombies repeat it ad nauseum, without
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:05 PM
Jul 2025

a second thought.

POT (Party of Trump) does nothing but manipulate and poison the national debate.

mahatmakanejeeves

(69,838 posts)
29. In Tampa, where she can ... I don't know. What happened to Texas?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:27 PM
Jul 2025

Pro tip: if you must watch, turn up the playback speed.


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catchnrelease

(2,151 posts)
59. I think she uses
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:24 PM
Jul 2025

the same hairdresser as Marsha Blackburn. Whenever I see her in an interview she looks like she was dragged by her feet through a field of brambles! Noem is just a younger version.

hildegaard28

(792 posts)
31. Yeah sure
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jul 2025

It’s Democrats who are Communists, and not her boss, who made a deal with Nippon Steel to have a ownership share in company, essentially giving the government the ownership of the means of production, the literal definition of Communism.

fargone

(625 posts)
32. That is such 1950s rhetoric
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jul 2025

But I guess she has to match the words with where they want to take the country.

spanone

(141,602 posts)
34. These fucking people are monsters.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:34 PM
Jul 2025

I doubt one of them could tell us what a marxist or socialist is.

So tired of their shit.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,505 posts)
36. This cosplaying hair extensions Barbi
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jul 2025

couldn't even define what Habeas Corpus was. Why would anyone with two brain cells accept anything that comes out of her maga-mouth ?

Somewhere, Sarah Palin is in shock.

Pisces

(6,234 posts)
38. They are trying to make Democrats "the Other". I do think we need to be paying attention. Trump threatens to
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:46 PM
Jul 2025

take Rosie O’Donnels citizenship because she’s a danger??? That could be applied to any Democrat.

We keep thinking certain things are out of bounds in our democracy and he keeps stepping on them.

B.See

(8,490 posts)
39. In other words, she pulled out the tattered and well worn
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:47 PM
Jul 2025

book of smear words for liberals, that Repugnants use to cover for their OWN incompetence...

as USUAL.

puppy killer with more blood on HER hands... say no more.

dlk

(13,247 posts)
40. The name calling is a distraction from her malfeasance
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:50 PM
Jul 2025

When her lips are moving, you knows she’s lying.

2na fisherman

(328 posts)
41. Joe McCarthy cosplay
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:54 PM
Jul 2025

When will she wave a blank piece of paper as a purported list of Communist Sympathizers who have infiltrated the US government?
At long last, have you no decency? Obviously not.
But her boss defending a neo-Nazi rally, said there were very fine people on both sides.

LoisB

(13,025 posts)
44. Someone should have asked her to define Communism, Marxism, and Socialism; then asked
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:57 PM
Jul 2025

if HER party is the party of fascism.

Renew Deal

(85,144 posts)
49. To be fair. Republicans are pretty socialist
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:09 PM
Jul 2025

They actively participate in the socialist state every day. I don’t know any Marxists or Communists. Maybe Noem does

mn9driver

(4,848 posts)
50. Communists, marxists and socialists
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:10 PM
Jul 2025

Are the new way to refer to democrats, launched by Trump earlier today in a lengthy deranged Tweet. Expect endless repetition starting now.

sabrams

(24 posts)
52. Communists and Marxists and Scialists?
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:12 PM
Jul 2025

She can't define what a Communist Marxists and socialist are

AllaN01Bear

(29,484 posts)
54. its democratic , democratic lady. ps. i have heard that felgercarb most of my living life ,
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:15 PM
Jul 2025

so yea.

ToxMarz

(2,929 posts)
57. At least she couldn't say:
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:18 PM
Jul 2025

'Who shoot puppies in the head and toss them in the nearest gravel pit.'

JI7

(93,614 posts)
61. I don't get it. She didn't help the Texas flood victims because democrsts
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:30 PM
Jul 2025

are communists and marxists ?

Warpy

(114,614 posts)
63. The vicious little twerp fucked up and she knows it
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jul 2025

She went in thinking cost cutting was her only function and that the more people she threw out of work, the happier her Lard and Savior would be with her.

She had jo idea there was an actual job that needed to be done and if she didn't do it people would die and some of those people would be children and they'd die hard.

That's why all this little fuckup can do is spit venom. She's hoping we won't notice who and what she is and what she did and didn't do.

Foljsm we're going to need a tribunal for this bunch when this is over.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
64. In all likelihood, there won't be one. After 1/6, this country proved it doesn't have the gumption for actual
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:53 PM
Jul 2025

consequences. Not that I think anyone should be waiting until 2028 at this point anyhow. 2026 is the last chance to even remotely right the ship, and the chances of that being both a free and fair election are NOT high.

But we'll see.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
66. Projection. Like fuck anyone should take that shit from a party that completely jumped the shark fucking DECADES ago,
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:57 PM
Jul 2025

tried to overthrow the fucking government, and is now just a fascist cesspool consisting entirely of the worst among us.

Beartracks

(14,591 posts)
68. Republicans have made that claim so much for so long, it's totally meaningless. Nice try, Sec. Noem.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 06:59 PM
Jul 2025

Republicans, especially MAGA and other right-wing extremists (and the entire GOP party of scaredy-cat suckups) have run very, very far to the right over the last 30-40 years. It seems that when you're a fascist, everyone else looks like a socialist to you.

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delisen

(7,365 posts)
72. Kristi Noem kills dogs and eats them raw.
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 08:57 PM
Jul 2025

It is a sad obsession. Hope she gets treatment.
She projects her obsessions on others. Just a few days ago she claimed a deported person was self cannibalizing. Hope her illness is not advancing.

Satirical post.

Mysterian

(6,482 posts)
73. LMAO! Clueless idiot Noem is getting dragged for her incompetence
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 09:02 PM
Jul 2025

so she resorts to the ol' call 'em all commies routine. I never thought I would see the republican party fall so far to become outright seditious liars and traitors with a make-up splattered con-man like Trump as its leader. They have dragged the entire U.S.A. into the gutter.

Jack Valentino

(5,011 posts)
75. SHE has no idea what a communist or Marxist or socialist is---
Sat Jul 12, 2025, 10:44 PM
Jul 2025

her definition for all three is "anyone who opposes Donald Trump"!


If that were factually correct, I would PROUDLY WEAR ALL THREE LABELS!!!!

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