GOP Senator Tillis demanding Noem's resignation.
He is raising holy hell and on a rampage about her and ICE.

Totally a thing of beauty.
Never saw anything like it.

My jaw was on the ground.
Never saw anything like it.

What was the look on ICE barbie's face?

must be up his ass to the should blades, lol

Something pushed his buttons, what was it?

in western NC.

He even brought up the B shooting her puppy.

Am I allowed to love Tillis?

the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I'm sure your infatuation will be short lived, but I'm right there with you, lol.

His hair was on fire and he was screaming at the top of his lungs at Noem.
All totally deserved.

Yes of course, in a moment Tillis will go back to the dark side.

her about the goat too. What waste she is.

One, Western NC is still waiting for money from a storm that happened in 2024. Our reimbursement rate was lower than most other storms. Trump promised repeatedly that we would be getting money and none arrived.

Two, Operation Charlotte's web and a similar one in Raleigh and Durham has pissed him off.

Three, Trump forced him to not run for reelection after he refused to vote for the BBB.

He was on fire and yelling at the top of his damn lungs.

Jebus. What a performance.

He's a complex mix. I'm glad to hear he stood up to Noem - I'll have to watch.

Most of the time I have nothing but contempt for Tillis. He's in the Susan Collins category - often concerned but rarely up to a fight.

He's announced that he won't run again so now he supposedly can "vote his conscience" but that usually disappoints. He's not going to tick off potential lobbying contracts.

My biggest beef with Tillis is that he didn't just vote to nominate RFK, Jr., he continues to actively praise that villain.

NC is highly dependent on migrant labor, both in the coastal plain (poultry, pork, shellfish processing; tobacco, cotton, vegetable harvesting) and in the mountainous west (apples and other harvesting), so nobody wants ICE here. It's not a moral position for Tillis, it's pragmatic.

Now I'm going to watch him tear into Noem. I'll enjoy that.

There may be some backstory of a pragmatic nature.

But Tillis was on fire screaming at the top of his lungs and threatening dire
consequences.

It was personal to him.

Maybe he has lost a lot of money, or been threatened in the past.
IDK.

It's personal. On one level he's clearly offended by her cosplaying "farming" but it's got to be more.

Dsc here mentioned the lack of funding for relief in western NC after Hurricane Helene. Most of the victims of that storm are Republicans and Trump won NC partly by promising to help, which he hasn't.

It might be something we don't know, too. Trump also won NC by promising the Lumbee in Robeson County federal tribal recognition, which they just got. That means they can build casinos. The Cherokee in western NC are unhappy about this. There's a lot going on behind the scenes. The GOP in NC is heavily into gambling enterprises, and I suspect that Tillis's next job will be as a lobbyist for casinos. Maybe Noem is interfering with that somehow.

He has been threatened, blocked, stymied in some way.
Or lost something.

I'll nose around and see if I can learn more.

I could be wrong.

But we know he doesn't care about anyone else.
And he doesn't care if Americans are being killed by ICE.
He could not care less if Noem killed her puppy.

And his rage looked personal to me. His behavior didn't match
the event.

After 40 years of being a therapist, it makes you go hmmmm....

that it was all about 'DOING THE RIGHT THING!'

Not about what your 'party' wants - not about who your $$$-gods are - and even not about what a 'majority' in your home state/district 'wants' - but what YOU KNOW to be right according to the CONSTITUTION - you know, RULES & LAWS that were made to (choking here......) MAKE AMERICA GREAT!

But possible I suppose.

It was still entertaining.

He’s got nothing to lose.

We know he is not running again and has nothing to lose.
But was furious, screaming and ranting.
Something happened behind the scenes.

We just moved back to NC and I have not been to see what has been rebuilt. But i have heard that the small towns are still waiting for funds. That is inexcusable, especially when they typically vote R.

So I think something happened to Tillis.

Damn.

Good job with this. But what a complicit coward he's been for years and years.

I love it.

He will crawl back to his cave soon.
But it was a thing of beauty.

loud and clear, yes it is because he is leaving.

I wish more of them would do that SPEAK OUT!!! DJT is nothing but a WEAK BULLY.

Link to tweet

My eyes were popping out of my head.

Never saw anything like it.

but........only got back standard GOP stuff! THIS is remarkable!

I am still smiling, wow.

Link to tweet

I imagine he was taught how to train hunting dogs. The wannabe "farmer" and ice Barbie probably revolts him on a personal level.

Edited: I just watched the clip. He's offended by ICE Barbie cosplaying being a "farmer." It is personal.

Editing again: Tillis's upbringing is different than I thought. From wiki:

He has always seemed much more of a centrist, or what at one point would have been called a country club republican. Not really much of an ideologue.

Go Sen. Tillis! Democrats need to do this to.

Totally a thing of beauty.

It was definitely a harsh exchange to watch. I’ve been following the committee hearings all morning and Tillis really didn't hold back on the questioning. He seems to have a specific issue with how the state level stuff was handled.

Threatening her, asking for her resignation.
Telling her to stop talking.
Reading her the riot act.

Whoda thunk it?

I don't care what he does now, fuck him. His past is not forgotten. I don't support a damn thing he does except his decision not to run again. This man is a piece of shit and that should not be forgotten.

I am going to enjoy the hell out of it.

Did you listen to the lies and bullshit he said about Biden and Dems in general prior to being nasty to Noem?

Tillis is a POS.

Tillis sucks

So he's not afraid of the Trump base anymore. He didn't suddenly find his spine.

nt

just as bad as Noem.

. . . and it takes some brass for him to bring up the dog killing incident, since he had full knowledge of that incident when he voted to confirm her!

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00017.htm

All I hear is another Republican asshole.

Loved it.

really took NO CRAP from Noem. Talked about the "puppy incident" too.

My eyes popped out of my head.

He was slicing and dicing poor little Kristi.