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Zorro

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Fri Jun 13, 2025, 02:05 PM Jun 13

Kristi Noem's Thugs Assaulted A Senator. NOW Will Democrats Treat Republicans Like The Nazi Filth They Are? [View all]

A few months back, in the very beginning of the new Trump reign of terror, we wrote a post that’s just really aged well, an exhortation to Democrats to Treat All Republicans As Nazi Collaborators Until Further Notice, By Which We Mean Forever. (That’s the headline, we didn’t come down with a sudden case of Donald Trump’s dementia illiterate randomly capitalizing words syndrome.)

Since then, the results have been, ahem, mixed. There are bright shining moments of resistance and rebellion and talking shit right to power’s face. And then there are moments where a bunch of Democrats vote to confirm Marco Rubio because he’s their buddy or Cory Booker votes to confirm Jared Kushner’s criminal dad or 75 OF THEM VOTE FOR A RESOLUTION THIS VERY WEEK TO SAY THANK YOU TO ICE FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK.

To be fair, it was a Republican poison pill resolution, which also condemned antisemitism and the Boulder attack.

But to be fair to that, every one of those Democrats is capable of going on Insta Live and TikTok — where the virality happens! — and saying “So listen to what these child-stealing piss Nazi Republicans just did, they wrote a resolution that says we condemn antisemitism and the Boulder attacks AND we love ICE so much and want to marry them and get pregnant with their little ICE babies. And you know what? I didn’t vote for it because fuck ICE.”

Messaging, Democrats! It doesn’t come from focus groups! Or from up your asses!

Among other things, the events of this week have included 1), the indictment of a Democratic congresswoman, LaMonica McIver, on clownfuckingly bullshit charges of trying to do her congressional ICE oversight job while being a Black Democrat — oh, is it more legit than that, Alina Habba, or are we just faking smart again? — and also 2), yesterday’s incident, where Kristi Noem’s pig thug feds attacked, manhandled, tackled and cuffed UNITED STATES SENATOR Alex Padilla for trying to ask a question.

We wish we were confident that in light of those two attacks on their own colleagues Democrats would at last 100 percent rise to the occasion of understanding that the crisis is existential, that the United States really is in the process of falling, the midterms aren’t going to save you, the MAGA Nazi terrorists are currently winning, therefore holy fucking shit for God’s sake start treating every Republican in every situation like one of Bin Laden’s 19 hijackers, as opposed to a possible future friend.

Stop with the strongly worded letters. Stop with the constant milquetoast pivots to folksy canned statements about whether what Trump is doing is putting the eggs on the kitchen table.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/kristi-noems-thugs-assaulted-a-senator

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