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sop

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2. "Kristi Noem has quite the record when it comes to targeting LGBTQ+ people.
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 09:08 AM
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"When she was governor, she banned trans girls from participating in women’s sports and banned gender-affirming care for trans youth, part of a broader pattern of going after anyone who doesn’t fit neatly into the narrow little box she pretends people should stay inside."

"All while her own husband was out here shopping at Victoria’s Secret for himself."

"And she’s out here trying to force a world where that kind of freedom doesn’t exist."

"Because the same loud, lecturing, morality-obsessed bullshit artists policing everybody else’s lives are the exact same ones quietly bending, breaking, and bulldozing the rules for themselves, the same ones screaming about values they don’t live by, demanding discipline they don’t practice, drawing lines they trip over the second nobody’s looking—it’s the same tired, transparent, gutless hypocrisy, just louder, uglier, and a hell of a lot more dangerous."

"This is petty, punitive, and suffocating, the kind of behavior you get from people who can’t stand themselves and need everybody else to shrink so they don’t have to feel it, a deliberate choice made by miserable control freaks who would rather micromanage the entire world than sit alone with their own bullshit for even a second—the kind of bitter, self-avoiding assholes who treat everyone else’s freedom like a personal attack."

"I don’t care if Kristi Noem’s husband gets off on strapping on some big ol fake titties—whatever floats your boat—because the list of things that fall under “not my business” is actually very long and very easy to respect when you are not pathologically committed to controlling everyone else’s life."

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Wow, that was well said. Diamond_Dog Wednesday #1
Yes indeed democrank Wednesday #3
"Kristi Noem has quite the record when it comes to targeting LGBTQ+ people. sop Wednesday #2
Exactly Blue Owl Wednesday #4
She's absolutely right, as usual. Whatever Byron Noem gets up to in private Ocelot II Wednesday #5
Absolutely spot on! And, as another poster reminded us, Back to Epstein niyad Wednesday #6
Exactly how I feel. LoisB Wednesday #7
I do care! I want to see people whose self-righteousness and hatred of others, fall down. That's the easiest way to stop Wonder Why Wednesday #8
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, sop! This is just another distraction, another sideshow generalbetrayus Wednesday #9
Actually this is a textbook case of what authoritarians do dsc Wednesday #10
I think his cross dressing explains a lot about Kristi's behavior infullview Wednesday #11
She's transferred all that pent up anger and hatred Wednesdays Wednesday #16
My only complaint is the twins aren't level. 3Hotdogs Wednesday #12
they are upside-down Skittles Wednesday #19
Yes. It's the fucking hypocrisy. hamsterjill Wednesday #13
I Care, Because I Savor Every Bit of MAGA Hypocrisy. 🎈🤡🎈 ColoringFool Wednesday #14
Yes but watching Noem's public humiliation is rather satisfying. She could use a taste of her own medicine. flashman13 Wednesday #15
Exactly! mzmolly Wednesday #17
I want everyone to stay out of other folks business Keepthesoulalive Wednesday #18
Maybe the husband is paying her back Smackdown2019 Wednesday #20
Jennifer Welch said it all for me. mdbl Wednesday #21
I agree peasant one 18 hrs ago #22
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