Kristi Noem Taken To Hospital After An "Allergic Reaction"

 What is she allergic to? Human kindness? Common decency?

Noem is the puppy-murdering Trump-chosen head of the Bush and Congress-created "Department of Homeland Security," a grab bag of repressive U.S. government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which goes by the appropriately chilling acronym, ICE. ICE are the masked goons kidnapping immigrants and rendering them without due process to places like a supermax prison in El Salvador, where the policy is to never free any prisoners, to Djibouti, to Guantanamo Bay, on Cuban territory forcibly seized by the U.S. in the 19th century, to Libya, to South Sudan, to Honduras, to wherever. ICE has been arresting local officials on bogus charges, most of which are immediately dropped. Trump regime ghouls have threatened to arrest state governors. (Among those who HAVE been arrested are the mayor of Newark, NJ, Ras Baraka, New York City controller Brad Lander, and U.S. Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, who has been absurdly charged with "assaulting" two ICE goons.)

This ghoulish woman had herself videoed at the giant dungeon created by Salvadorean dictator Nayib Bukele, where the Trump regime has been imprisoning immigrants kidnapped at random in the U.S. and rendered to foreign countries. And when U.S. Senator Alex Padilla tried to ask a question at a Noem "press conference," he was assaulted by goons under Noem's command, forced face down onto the floor, handcuffed and hauled away. 

 

This is certainly a new era in U.S. history. Perhaps a throwback to the 19th century, when Senator Charles Sumner was savagely clubbed over the head by a racist Southern Senator. Here is Wikipedia's description of that attack:

 -Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's first cousin once removed, confronted Sumner in the Senate chamber and beat him severely on the head, using a thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head. Sumner was knocked down and trapped under the heavy desk, which was bolted to the floor. Blinded by his own blood, he staggered up the aisle and collapsed into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat the motionless Sumner until his cane broke, at which point he continued to strike Sumner with the remaining piece. Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Laurence Keitt, who brandished a pistol and shouted, "Let them be!" [Sounds like a planned, premeditated, conspiracy to assault and cause severe bodily harm.]

Sumner was severely injured and suffered lasting physical and mental harm. The criminals who assaulted him were not prosecuted, expelled from the Senate, or even censured. Instead Sumner's colleagues advised him to tone down his anti-slavery rhetoric!

Then as now, the U.S. is hopelessly reactionary.

We've just seen a fascist murdering a Democratic State Representative in Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, and the shooting and attempted murder of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, both shot multiple times, by the same fascist terrorist. This happened on June 14. In the U.S., violence, particularly lethal violence aimed at individuals, is overwhelmingly from the right. Often the perpetrators have state protection, as was the case for the Ku Klux Klan for decades.