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Seems like you missed the whole point of the article. The hell with the plastic, over made up, puppy killer. This is about the illegal deportations of so called gang bangers. And also how they used actual El Salvadoran gang members and pretended it was the people just deported. The Salvadoran gang members have gang tattoos so they pretended it was the deportees. And how they just scoop up people off the street, put them on a plane and disappear them. No hearing, no due process, no warrants, no actual proof that they committed any crime at all. Not even littering. But hell, if trump did it, it must be legal because the Kool-aid drinkers in an alternative dimension think trump can do no wrong, even though they see it with their own eyes or hear it with their own ears. But if it were Biden doing it? You would be screaming for him to be impeached in a NY minute.
While I agree, do you see a distinction between commenting on a person’s deliberate choices in hair, clothing and makeup and commenting on natural aspects of their appearance? Amanda Marcotte is one of the feminists who has pointed out the tendency of Trump sycophants to deliberately exaggerate their masculinity or femininity.
In the second screenshot, her hands are posed in the bunny hop position. Which would have been funny if after the prop stunt, she hopped away like a bunny.
And I would have lied: "Totally was on my bingo card. I knew she was a hopper."
HAHA! SAME! Also, when I was anorexic and all my clothes were too big, it helped with keeping my pants up and I didn't look like a twig floating in a sea of clothing.
Point well taken, Dok. However, there is a valid conversation to be had about the aesthetic of her "look" and the conflation of the erotic and the sadistic. It is deeply disturbing and it runs right down the middle of RW "culture."
Absolutely. That's not the kind of comment I'm warning against. A lot of comments are simply going for cheap shots about her looks, which as Jeff Sharlet warns, is a trap of that image engineering.
We are caught in what I have just made up a label for - the Adversarial Lookist/Sexist Trap. Bad people are seen to have lost the right to any sort of consideration. Which is, in a sense, true! The problem is that such behavior coarsens both the speaker and the general tone of discourse we want to preserve.
And as Jeff Sharlet argues convincingly here, that's a trap. Yes, it's a carefully engineered fascist aesthetic, and it's nuanced. But pointing and exclaiming "Look at the hoooor!" is not helpful.
Except that they are part of the intended viewing by the monsters that want to criminalize brown people. It's not the personal stuff. The "looks" are the intention...
I haven't read the comments you're talking about but I do want to point out that the whole "fuck me" thing is the point. It was the point of Sarah Palin. It's the point of Donny's blond press secretaries. It's the point of Alina Habba. This is not the case of attractive (gag) women doing their jobs. It's the jobs "doing" attractive women.
I didn't watch the video. It reminds me of any white woman who stood in front of a cage full of slaves and acted self righteous about it. I cannot stand Noem with her fake face and her pricey watch, though I do wonder how she got the money to buy said watch, after the brouhaha over Kamala Harris' necklace ($800 was it? Something like that).
Noem reminds me of every horrible Karen you could ever meet. She fits right in with this cabal of of white tears and victims, mediocre and immoral.
Serious question... how many Tren de Aragua members are there in the United States anyway? It's not known for any specific tattoos, and while there are "branches" in Ecuador and Colombia, it's not exactly all that much outside of Venezuela..Best guess I've seen is maybe a few hundred at most in the US. If that.
Why does Wonkette do the fascist state's work for it? The fash produce a disgusting propaganda video designed to elicit bloodlust in the base and produce helpless outrage in everyone else. We publish it here, so we can be helplessly outraged.
Outrage farming is becoming a real problem on liberal media in the Trump era. Get everyone angried up, which turns into despair for want of anything real to do. And let's face it, no-one who wasn't already anti-Trump would have their minds changed by this.
Kristi “Dog Executioner” Noem took a little field trip to El Salvador this week and came back with literal Nazi propaganda footage featuring shirtless, tattooed men shoved in cages — none of whom, it turns out, were the migrants the U.S. had just illegally deported there. But when you’re building a fascist mythos, truth is optional. Stagecraft? Required.
She stood there, Rolex glinting, hair immaculate, eyes dead, and declared, “This is one of the tools in our tool kit.” Kristi, darling, that isn’t a policy. That’s a war crime with better lighting. This happens when your national “security” strategy is stolen from a Netflix cartel drama and dressed up in Leni Riefenstahl aesthetics.
These men, some refugees, some legal residents, some just tattooed, weren’t given hearings, lawyers, or charges. They were disappeared. And Noem’s little fascist fashion shoot is part of the Trump regime’s grand experiment: to normalize brutality by branding it as toughness. And the goal isn’t just deportation; it’s deterrence through terror.
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s state-sponsored sadism.
Get loud. Get organized. Or get used to seeing your country in black-and-white footage with ominous music in the background.
Yeah, Google Images reverse search is beyond the capacity of most cops to use. They can't even figure out global time zones and international dialing.
(That last sentence isn't a joke, at least in my case. When my best friend committed suicide, I had to be the one to break the news to his family, because they all lived overseas and the local cops apparently couldn't dial the phone numbers he'd thoughtfully left in his suicide note.)
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Seems like you missed the whole point of the article. The hell with the plastic, over made up, puppy killer. This is about the illegal deportations of so called gang bangers. And also how they used actual El Salvadoran gang members and pretended it was the people just deported. The Salvadoran gang members have gang tattoos so they pretended it was the deportees. And how they just scoop up people off the street, put them on a plane and disappear them. No hearing, no due process, no warrants, no actual proof that they committed any crime at all. Not even littering. But hell, if trump did it, it must be legal because the Kool-aid drinkers in an alternative dimension think trump can do no wrong, even though they see it with their own eyes or hear it with their own ears. But if it were Biden doing it? You would be screaming for him to be impeached in a NY minute.
Ma'am, he wrote the article. He didn't miss the point.
Ewww.
We really can't talk about how her CHOICE of that cosmetic surgery looks ridiculous?
It's a physical sign of submission to Trump (I'm convinced by the Marcotte article on Salon the other day about the MAGA cosmetic surgery look).
You are being face-ist?
While I agree, do you see a distinction between commenting on a person’s deliberate choices in hair, clothing and makeup and commenting on natural aspects of their appearance? Amanda Marcotte is one of the feminists who has pointed out the tendency of Trump sycophants to deliberately exaggerate their masculinity or femininity.
I should have looked down. Yes, I agree with you.
Not commenting on someone's natural appearance makes sense.
When you specifically butcher yourself to look like....whatever they think they look like....that seems like a different story.
Take a look at a before and after photos of KellyAnne Conway to get a good idea of the "MAGA" facial preferences.
In the second screenshot, her hands are posed in the bunny hop position. Which would have been funny if after the prop stunt, she hopped away like a bunny.
And I would have lied: "Totally was on my bingo card. I knew she was a hopper."
Can we talk about the idiotic trend of tucking just the front of your shirt into your pants? For some reson I find that stupid, and I'm not even gay.
(Oblig, not that there's anything wrong with that)
YES. I HATE THIS TREND, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY DO IT WITH SWEATERS.
It's a French tuck. It's been a thing for a while. I tried it a couple of times and got fed up with having to adjust it all day.
It’s so you can tuck a pistol in there, in case you see a dog you don’t like.
/s
It's what douchebags used to do in the early 2000s, and rednecks love clinging to unfashionable douchey trends, like sunglasses on top of cap.
You don't like the "French tuck", AB?
I don't like the French tuck, or the trench...
On Noem? That there is a Freedom Tuck!
Ah, oui--you're correct!
If it means people keep their pants pulled up I'm fine with it.
Why didn't kids just tie an onion to their belt like we did in my day?
That’s the whole point of the uncommitted shirt tuck. Can’t be bothered with a belt.
Styles change, I mean it's not like kids these days understand why we had rocks in our pockets growing up.
HAHA! SAME! Also, when I was anorexic and all my clothes were too big, it helped with keeping my pants up and I didn't look like a twig floating in a sea of clothing.
The exception that proves the rule.
Point well taken, Dok. However, there is a valid conversation to be had about the aesthetic of her "look" and the conflation of the erotic and the sadistic. It is deeply disturbing and it runs right down the middle of RW "culture."
Amanda Marcotte wrote about this a few days ago.
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/24/from-mar-a-lago-face-to-uncanny-ai-art-magas-love-of-ugliness-is-submission-to/
Call it the fem-bot look
That’s so much willing self-abasement in there, it’s really fucked up from that perspective isn’t it.
Absolutely. That's not the kind of comment I'm warning against. A lot of comments are simply going for cheap shots about her looks, which as Jeff Sharlet warns, is a trap of that image engineering.
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
Ok, thanks for clarifying, Dok!
That article is utterly terrifying and resonated so hard with me. New Yikes Level Unlocked!
I'm reading it now. I forget about his Substack. I just read "Undertow" and it scared the motherfuck out of me.
Those people are hateful whackaloons.
ETA: Noem is no Lara Croft. What an insult to Lara.
She WISHES! She looks like a Junior League mom trying to look hip while her teenage son wishes she'd just go away.
We are caught in what I have just made up a label for - the Adversarial Lookist/Sexist Trap. Bad people are seen to have lost the right to any sort of consideration. Which is, in a sense, true! The problem is that such behavior coarsens both the speaker and the general tone of discourse we want to preserve.
And as Jeff Sharlet argues convincingly here, that's a trap. Yes, it's a carefully engineered fascist aesthetic, and it's nuanced. But pointing and exclaiming "Look at the hoooor!" is not helpful.
https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/thats-bait
I can't recommend this article enough! If anyone missed it in tabs, you go read it right now!
Except that they are part of the intended viewing by the monsters that want to criminalize brown people. It's not the personal stuff. The "looks" are the intention...
Monsters Exist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qddG0iUSax4
I haven't read the comments you're talking about but I do want to point out that the whole "fuck me" thing is the point. It was the point of Sarah Palin. It's the point of Donny's blond press secretaries. It's the point of Alina Habba. This is not the case of attractive (gag) women doing their jobs. It's the jobs "doing" attractive women.
I didn't watch the video. It reminds me of any white woman who stood in front of a cage full of slaves and acted self righteous about it. I cannot stand Noem with her fake face and her pricey watch, though I do wonder how she got the money to buy said watch, after the brouhaha over Kamala Harris' necklace ($800 was it? Something like that).
Noem reminds me of every horrible Karen you could ever meet. She fits right in with this cabal of of white tears and victims, mediocre and immoral.
Ta, Dok. Everything the dog murderer says is a lie. Who can keep track?
Clearly Noem and her ilk have never read any of the history of authoritarian regimes. It basically never ends well for people like her.
I wonder if that Texas cosmetic dentistry Fascism Barbie shilled for paid for that Rolex.
Serious question... how many Tren de Aragua members are there in the United States anyway? It's not known for any specific tattoos, and while there are "branches" in Ecuador and Colombia, it's not exactly all that much outside of Venezuela..Best guess I've seen is maybe a few hundred at most in the US. If that.
Well yes, this is "America"... South America back during Plan Condor.
How much silicon can one woman's body hold before something starts leaking?
Why does Wonkette do the fascist state's work for it? The fash produce a disgusting propaganda video designed to elicit bloodlust in the base and produce helpless outrage in everyone else. We publish it here, so we can be helplessly outraged.
Outrage farming is becoming a real problem on liberal media in the Trump era. Get everyone angried up, which turns into despair for want of anything real to do. And let's face it, no-one who wasn't already anti-Trump would have their minds changed by this.
Triumph of the Shrill.
Kristi “Dog Executioner” Noem took a little field trip to El Salvador this week and came back with literal Nazi propaganda footage featuring shirtless, tattooed men shoved in cages — none of whom, it turns out, were the migrants the U.S. had just illegally deported there. But when you’re building a fascist mythos, truth is optional. Stagecraft? Required.
She stood there, Rolex glinting, hair immaculate, eyes dead, and declared, “This is one of the tools in our tool kit.” Kristi, darling, that isn’t a policy. That’s a war crime with better lighting. This happens when your national “security” strategy is stolen from a Netflix cartel drama and dressed up in Leni Riefenstahl aesthetics.
These men, some refugees, some legal residents, some just tattooed, weren’t given hearings, lawyers, or charges. They were disappeared. And Noem’s little fascist fashion shoot is part of the Trump regime’s grand experiment: to normalize brutality by branding it as toughness. And the goal isn’t just deportation; it’s deterrence through terror.
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s state-sponsored sadism.
Get loud. Get organized. Or get used to seeing your country in black-and-white footage with ominous music in the background.
+1,000 internets for the Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS reference.
And imagine my surprise at discovering that Noem is still a lying piece of shit!
It's a real shame that her poor dog (the one she gunned down) was unable to shoot back.
...𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴.
Yeah, Google Images reverse search is beyond the capacity of most cops to use. They can't even figure out global time zones and international dialing.
(That last sentence isn't a joke, at least in my case. When my best friend committed suicide, I had to be the one to break the news to his family, because they all lived overseas and the local cops apparently couldn't dial the phone numbers he'd thoughtfully left in his suicide note.)
Why do they all remind me so much of the people in the Capitol from Hunger Games