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Norbert

(7,709 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 10:04 AM 20 hrs ago

Denver Riggleman gets the quote of the week

On the firing (reassignment) of Kristi Noem and replacement DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

"It's like replacing syphilis with gonorrhea."

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Denver Riggleman gets the quote of the week (Original Post) Norbert 20 hrs ago OP
He nailed it! SheltieLover 20 hrs ago #1
Actually popsdenver 14 hrs ago #14
Oh ouch!!! PatSeg 20 hrs ago #2
He usta be a Republicant. twodogsbarking 19 hrs ago #3
Unlike most republicans Keepthesoulalive 19 hrs ago #4
He was my "representative." phylny 19 hrs ago #6
Thanks. twodogsbarking 17 hrs ago #11
Only in Trumps's government mgardener 19 hrs ago #5
true but not a surprise considering agingdem 19 hrs ago #7
Oh My, That's a keeper! chouchou 18 hrs ago #8
Could be: Noem, Mullin, Miller, Rump, and Re-smugs Festivito 17 hrs ago #9
LOL! peggysue2 17 hrs ago #10
And your doctor is BidenRocks 16 hrs ago #12
The logic escapes me relogic 16 hrs ago #13
There's nothing wrong with government that getting Republicans out of it won't fix. Beartracks 10 hrs ago #17
Or Covid with Ebola - to use modern terms. Wonder Why 13 hrs ago #15
OUCH!!! calimary 13 hrs ago #16
It's like shitting your pants and changing your shirt. NBachers 7 hrs ago #18
Eww. Lol BlueWaveNeverEnd 6 hrs ago #19

popsdenver

(2,138 posts)
14. Actually
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:45 PM
14 hrs ago

it is more like replacing Gonorhea with syphillis....a much worse disease.....LOL

phylny

(8,818 posts)
6. He was my "representative."
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:27 AM
19 hrs ago

The only reason he got kicked out/primaried was because he performed a marriage ceremony for a gay couple. He talks now, but wasn’t really much of a help when he was in Congress.

mgardener

(2,331 posts)
5. Only in Trumps's government
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:25 AM
19 hrs ago

Can you kill a dog, be responsible for people being murdered and kidnapped in your agency, show no remorse,
Get fired and fail upward to a new job and title.
I wonder how much Noem makes in this new job?

agingdem

(8,825 posts)
7. true but not a surprise considering
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:31 AM
19 hrs ago

Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Trump's coterie of unconscionable sewer scum...

Festivito

(13,871 posts)
9. Could be: Noem, Mullin, Miller, Rump, and Re-smugs
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 01:11 PM
17 hrs ago

Like replacing bedbugs with a case of the crabs while ignoring chlamydia, gonorrhrea and the tertiary syphilis.

relogic

(181 posts)
13. The logic escapes me
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 02:53 PM
16 hrs ago

So toxic-to-truth and compassion Nomad is moved out of DHS to another agency-in-search-of-a-problem. If the precipitous embarrassment that she is prompted the firing (a position given someone doomed at best) was to have DHS run amuck, it was a success. Now she can effectively ruin any integrity there might be in her new realm. My crystal sphere sees more accountability questioning back and forth forthcoming from her.

After all, isn’t that what these appointments are designed to do? Plant the most lowest of the low in all the key operational cushy, extremist, entitled appointments. The agenda is not success from these exercises in predictable failures. What is? The obvious recycling of inflicted buffoonery to sabotage of what used to work.

Beartracks

(14,535 posts)
17. There's nothing wrong with government that getting Republicans out of it won't fix.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 08:26 PM
10 hrs ago

They always campaign on "government can't do anything right," and then they get into power and make it true.

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