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vlatheimpaler Mar 25, 2026 +999

The ad isn't what got her fired. Her saying that Trump approved the ad is what got her fired. She never learned the one rule of having a job in MAGA: you cannot ever blame Trump for anything. As unintuitive as it sounds, if you fall on your sword, you will survive.

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aradraugfea Mar 25, 2026 +217

Mob rules. You can turn an orphanage into a meat packing factory, but as long as you never implicate the boss, there will be a job waiting for you once you’re back on the outside.

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PlatformVarious8941 Mar 25, 2026 +105

She still has a job. A stupid bullshit job at the shield of america, but a job nonetheless.

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DookieShoez Mar 25, 2026 +38

Well yeah, if he completely cuts her loose she might start talking.

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Broken-Digital-Clock Mar 25, 2026 +5

And the orange one doesn't have to admit to hiring a shitbird.

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truePHYSX Mar 25, 2026 +3

The age of mobsters and gangsters never went away, instead they became politicians.

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gpouliot Mar 25, 2026 +2

Exactly. When they know where the bodies are buried, you have to keep bribing them so that they don't make things even worse for you.

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Bloodbndrr Mar 25, 2026 +56

This is what everyone keeps missing. She wasn’t fired. She was reassigned to a job with less visibility.

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EddieVanzetti Mar 25, 2026 +21

Just like ICE is still in LA and Minneapolis, they just announced manlet Greg Bovino was retiring and slightly reduced the number of ICE agents.

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Lanky-Highlight9508 Mar 25, 2026 +4

loving "manlet"

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SpaceJackRabbit Mar 25, 2026 +3

She was demoted. Like Bovino.

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Expensive-Brother-91 Mar 25, 2026

Exactly. Which is actually a win-win for her. Less visibility and less accountability.

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DonkeyPunchCletus Mar 25, 2026 +5

It's not a win, what are you talking about. She isn't a shrewd business owner that wants to stay out of sight out of mind while he plunders to his hearts contents. Kristi wants attention. Did you not see her airport commercials? She wants to be a celebrity. She wants to be important. She doesn't want to be in a remote job where nobody sees her. That's what they do with workers they want to get rid of in Japan. Your post reminds me of some maga twitter comments on the twitter announcement when it happened that said she got a promotion. These people are writing their own fiction in their head. From director of DHS to do nothing fake job doesn't sound like a promotion to me.

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Expensive-Brother-91 Mar 25, 2026 +3

Dude, I'm literally on your side, what the f*** is your problem? No need for a three paragraph essay to argue on something this pedantic.

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DonkeyPunchCletus Mar 25, 2026 +2

I am sorry if the post came off as aggressive. I wasn't agitated when writing it. Just wanted to add some context. I didn't mean you were maga, your post just reminded me of the couple twitter posts I saw and I was laughing at those, not you. I edited it a bit. Kristi being quartered off in a do-nothing job is the best case for America. We don't see her and she doesn't get to do more damage. This is a huge win for everyone except Kristi. Mullin doesn't seem much better, let's see how long he holds out.

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FullMetalAlcoholic66 Mar 25, 2026 -2

> Dude, I'm literally on your side, what the f*** is your problem? No need for a three paragraph essay to argue on something this pedantic. You consider 3 paragraphs, 125 words an ESSAY. This generation is cooked. Can you not pay attention to something for more than 30 seconds? No reasonable discussion can be had in two or 3 sentences unless you want a completely shallow, moronic, intellectually sterile hot take where you spend all of 5 seconds thinking about something until it's your turn to talk again. Social media is destroying rational thought and replacing it with vibes Well, I've reached the 3rd paragraph, so I know you've tuned out.

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Expensive-Brother-91 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Ever heard of an exaggeration? I probably read more on a daily basis than you do in a month, but go off. My god you're weird.

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rvretiredlife Mar 25, 2026 +5

Again why must we keep paying her. We need to demand she be removed from any govt job and govt pay! Period

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vlatheimpaler Mar 25, 2026 +4

No, she doesn't have a job. Shield of the Americas? It didn't even exist until this month. Nobody knows what it is. Her job is "special envoy" to Shield of the Americas? That's not a job. That's a saving of face for her, but also for Trump. He likes her overall job performance in ICE and doesn't want it to seem too much like she's being fired, so he creates a new office that has no responsibilities and does nothing.

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PlatformVarious8941 Mar 25, 2026 +18

Congrats, you’ve just described a bullshit job.

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Watsons-Butler Mar 25, 2026 +7

There even an official word for it: a sinecure.

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Greatsnes Mar 25, 2026 +5

….. is she getting paid for it? Undoubtedly. She isn’t doing it out of the kindness of her heart. Is it tax payer money? Of course. So who gives a f*** if she’s doing something or not. She’s getting paid. Way to focus on the wrong shit.

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Spirited-Lifeguard55 Mar 26, 2026 +1

Probably people were laughing at Trump firing everyone he handpicks because he is incompetent, so to not admit it he makes up weak excuses instead of proving them right.

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JohnGillnitz Mar 25, 2026 +1

It was a school, but yeah. These kids have parents that are still pissed that their kids got blown apart for no reason.

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aradraugfea Mar 25, 2026 +2

Wrong monstrous disregard for life, we’re talking the DOMESTIC terrorist. Hegseth takes his show in a world tour.

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swingadmin Mar 25, 2026 +25

She didn't even get fired, she changed offices. "All you got to do is keep changing your job title. Like from C***** Executive to Food and Beverage Chairman."

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HoamerEss Mar 25, 2026 +7

Joe Pesci voice "he named himself Tangiers Public Relations Director, but the only fuckin thing he ever directed was the c*****"

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vlatheimpaler Mar 25, 2026 +4

Look, she's a person who craves spotlight. And in her previous job she got plenty of spotlight. Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas? At a \*minimum\* that's a huge demotion. But I still argue that it's not even a real job. I would still argue that she got fired and that was a face save.

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movealongnowpeople Mar 25, 2026 +25

>if you fall on your sword, you will survive. Lmao no, Trump doesn't even honor that. RIP Giuliani, Chesebro, the MOOCH, etc. May you all rot.

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vlatheimpaler Mar 25, 2026 +10

Okay, fair enough. I got that part wrong. :) Falling on your sword doesn't guarantee your survival. But failing to fall on your sword guarantees you're done. Also, I can't help but notice all those people are from his first administration. That was when there were still some adults in the room in the administration who maybe told him, "this looks really bad" and he let go of people. But so far in this administration there has been significantly less turnover than the first time. And this time he made sure to surround himself entirely with brown nosers, so I can't help but wonder if that's why.

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tochirov Mar 25, 2026 +1

Shocking to think that it's only been 317 mooches since scare-my-mooch was canned 8 years, 8 months ago for the metric folks

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RecipeFunny2154 Mar 25, 2026 +1

The sad part is, like everyone else, Scaramucci has failed upwards into the talking head circuit and probably makes an even better living now.

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AntoniaFauci Mar 25, 2026 +1

FYI, Scaramucci was absurdly wealthy before that appointment and he was actually somewhat of a less bad faith actor than his predecessor and the other choices. I’ve known him a long time and he will argue so-called conservative values without resorting to the levels of MAGA insanity. If not for the restaurant meltdown situation, he would probably have been relatively decent. He didn’t “fail upwards to talking head circuit” that’s a world and function he did *more* before than now, and he did it as dogmatic choice, not really as a job.

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Psychological_Top148 Mar 25, 2026 +10

Trump expected the ad campaign to prominently feature his own image not hers. The campaign was intended to warn illegal aliens to leave our country now or face deportation with the inability to return to the United States. International ads were supposed to warn criminal illegal aliens not to come to America and break its laws or they will be hunted down and deported. Noem on a horse with national park backdrops were more inviting than intimidating. Trump expected his scowling mug to be run on radio, broadcast, and digital, in multiple countries and regions and targeting illegal immigrants through social media, text message and digital. Noem’s downfall came from placing her own image above the Trump’s own.

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SwingNinja Mar 25, 2026 +6

Saying "Trump approved the spending" implicates Trump for something that's most likely illegal. It was a pretty smart questioning by the Dems during the hearing (it's a trap question). The context when this happened wasn't 20k on horses per title of the article. It's 220 million with secret boyfriend's company.

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Psychological_Top148 Mar 25, 2026 +3

It definitely was smart questioning on the part of the Dems. My point is that Trump did ask for an ad campaign similar to what she had done as Governor but she was too full of herself to understand that Trump was supposed to be the main character not her. He would have bailed her out instead of throwing her under the bus if it was his pic plastered all over airports. Illegal? Add it to the list of things congress wouldn’t take him to task over with his SCOTUS Free Pass.

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T2ThaSki Mar 25, 2026 +2

Give him credit for every single thing positive, but never even mention his name if it’s connected to anything negative.

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AntoniaFauci Mar 25, 2026 +1

It’s quite possible he did approve the advertising campaign, at least in concept and price.

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Broken-Digital-Clock Mar 25, 2026 +1

She didn't cut him in on the scam.

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Savings_Dealer6819 Mar 25, 2026 +1

wrong. she didn't give trump a slice of the tribute. You gotta give the mob boss his cut of the grift.

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arglarg Mar 25, 2026 +91

It's a bargain, I'd spend 20k from my pocket to get one particular official fired

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Nach0Maker Mar 25, 2026 +22

Assuming that you pay taxes, you did.

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Nach0Maker Mar 25, 2026 +4

If you go out to eat with friends and you chip in for the tip, do you consider yourself as having tipped the wait staff? We all chip into a huge pool that is divided across the budget. Meaning we've all paid to shoot people in wars. We've all paid to house prisoners. We've all paid to fix potholes. So, yes, we all paid for her $220M grift.

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Nach0Maker Mar 25, 2026 +3

Your second sentence negated the first.

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swingadmin Mar 25, 2026 +4

Greeks held a vote every election cycle to ban one person from office for 10 years.

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bearbrannan Mar 25, 2026 +1

It would be one thing if it was only 20K that was what got her fired, but she spent 220 million dollars on that ad, those horse accounted for less than 1 percent of the total budget. Whole blockbuster movies are made for less than 220 million. Meanwhile I'm over here kicking myself for turning down the offer to work on one of her commercials back when she was governor, because I didn't want to work on right wing propaganda, and now I'm wondering if it would have opened a door for me to get in on this f****** commercial grift she had going on.

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rcakebread Mar 25, 2026 +65

Did she keep the horses or shoot them?

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tepid Mar 25, 2026 +59

She shot them and RFK ate them after leaving them out in the sun for a few days.

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Donny_Do_Nothing Mar 25, 2026 +10

He just wanted to crawl inside a tauntaun.

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doofus_mcgeee Mar 25, 2026 +4

lucky he got all that yummy healthy fermented ivermectin

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Gonzomi313 Mar 25, 2026 +19

Yes

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No_big_whoop Mar 25, 2026 +39

If America survives this con man's regime it needs to set up a commission to recover all the money Trump and his cabal of immorals have grifted.

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nosungdeeptongs Mar 25, 2026 +1

That will probably start to cover Iran’s reparations

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wrldruler21 Mar 25, 2026 +19

This dollar amount sounds about right for transporting and rental of high quality horses. The rich people horse world operates with "f*** you" money that is difficult for an average person to even comprehend.

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Made_Human_Music Mar 25, 2026 +12

I wish they’d stop saying she was fired, that implies she faced consequences instead of just being transferred like a priest who molested kids gets moved to a new parish

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IcyTransportation961 Mar 25, 2026 +1

People want victories even if they're fake, it keeps folks complacent and believing things will just work out

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Hodaka Mar 25, 2026 +7

Quote: "Other costs included $20,000 for horse rentals and $3,781 for hair and make-up. The labour costs were $107,405. Videography cost $52,599 and a magic store based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota — the state Mount Rushmore is in — was paid $500." The total of the above listed expenses is $184,285.00 $220,000,000 - $184,285 = $219,815,715

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JoesCoralReef Mar 25, 2026 +4

lol, its the first thing i did. I'm like how does this add up? Where is the money? Wait is that the gift Iran gave to the orange pos?

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ObetrolAndCocktails Mar 25, 2026 +2

“The state Mount Rushmore is in” is doing a lot of work here- they are 400 miles apart. I am SUPER curious what she bought at a magic store though.

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Hodaka Mar 25, 2026 +1

Probably some consultation work as it's hard to ride a horse and a broom at the same time.

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ooo-ooo-oooyea Mar 26, 2026 +1

no doubt a wand and a rabbit

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wscottsanders Mar 26, 2026 +2

It almost certainly includes all the ad buys in a bunch of very expensive markets and running the it ad nauseum (pun intended) in those markets.

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SwvellyBents Mar 25, 2026 +7

Bush league! By this administration's standards she's a rank amateur at the grift.

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Fit-Significance-436 Mar 25, 2026 +4

There is going to be an avalanche of wasted money stories from her reign as ICE Barbie

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Radically-Peaceful Mar 25, 2026 +4

Noem was using all these cosplay commercials to build her public image in the lead up to her running for President in 2028. Noem is just another heartless, self-serving sociopath.

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Anzahl Mar 25, 2026 +13

She did not get fired. Her role got changed to special envoy.

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SpammyWhammy00 Mar 25, 2026 +4

But her $4,000 hair style was worth the tax payer money too, right?

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SpammyWhammy00 Mar 25, 2026 +2

[Invoices to the Strategy Group, a DHS subcontractor that produced the advertisement, show taxpayers footed a $20,000 bill to a South Dakota-based barrel racer, along with nearly $4,000 for hair and makeup services.](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/politics/kristi-noem-horse-mount-rushmore-ad)

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SpammyWhammy00 Mar 25, 2026 +2

[The senators said the subcontractor also spent more than $52,000 on videography, photography and production vendors and nearly $4,000 on hair and makeup.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/24/kristi-noem-homeland-security-ad-cost/89301114007/)

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BigFrasier Mar 25, 2026 +4

Get that horse in protective custody asap you know how Noem gets with "blaming" animals for her problems.

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gymleader_michael Mar 25, 2026 +5

You know, all of those people mad about the government wasting money are awfully silent when it comes to the Trump administration. Same for DEI.

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hateshumans Mar 25, 2026 +3

Should have used coconuts instead of horses

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specqq Mar 25, 2026 +5

How much did she spend on ammo?

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NoReserve7293 Mar 25, 2026 +7

The whole commercial was 2 million and contracted to a family member without a bid.

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Embarrassed_Key_4539 Mar 25, 2026 +29

220M

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Nach0Maker Mar 25, 2026 +25

You're only $218,000,000.00 off.

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dyang44 Mar 26, 2026 +2

Company was formed 8 days prior, also it was $220 million, not $2

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Djent_Reznor1 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Inspiration for her plastic surgery or what?

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chimarya Mar 25, 2026 +2

That's a lot of hay!

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Constant-Brief3410 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Then the horse joined the puppy

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TripleJ80 Mar 25, 2026 +2

Or $20,000 on glue after the filming wrapped up. Great.

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upnk Mar 25, 2026 +2

Kristi Noem can't buy enough plastic surgery to hide her shit face.

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commanderclif Mar 25, 2026 +2

On the bright side. She didn’t shoot the horses. Never forget Cricket.

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itsbrettfoo21 Mar 25, 2026 +2

How is the b**** not in prison

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appendixgallop Mar 25, 2026 +2

Oh, my friends. Being around nice horses is beyond your pay grade.

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shredmiyagi Mar 25, 2026 +2

Can BBC get the 20-part documentary going on the Trump admin, already? Maybe it needs 30 episodes, I don't know. So many juicy nuggets of corruption and idiocy, we need the last semblance of classic media makers to catalogue this circus. Power of Nightmares needs a sequel. Of course they would need to lawyer up, but it'd be worth it! The new series can simply be called Nightmare.

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razeus Mar 25, 2026 +2

Girl was just living it up. Then gave $150m to her friend’s “company”.

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hookahsmokingladybug Mar 25, 2026 +2

They probably got shot afterwards

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gentle_misanthrope Mar 25, 2026 +2

$20,000 would change my life

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Public-Substance1999 Mar 25, 2026 +2

So where dod the rest of the $200,000,000.00 go?

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Cleanbriefs Mar 25, 2026 +2

$60k for “signing bonus” to do the work! that’s a kickback if there ever a more obvious way to steal.

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Explaining2Do Mar 25, 2026 +2

She didn’t get fired really she’s just a fall guy. A way for people above her to maintain plausible deniability.

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Imaginary-Ad-7919 Mar 25, 2026 +4

Only in American politics can a $20,000 horse ad end up costing more than the job it was supposed to promote.

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TheVintageJane Mar 25, 2026 +12

It was a $140M ad, the horses were just $20k of it.

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Spirited-Lifeguard55 Mar 25, 2026 +3

she couldn't just rent them becaz she shot and ate them afterwards, force of habit apparently.

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Alarmed_Drop7162 Mar 25, 2026 +1

That’s rookie numbers. Horse poor is a real thing

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damian20 Mar 25, 2026 +1

She probably owned that horse company or family did

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Calvertorius Mar 25, 2026 +1

I can be a horse.

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Spirited_Childhood34 Mar 25, 2026 +1

You hire ideologues instead of professionals and it's a perpetual clusterfuck.

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No-Philosopher3248 Mar 25, 2026 +1

And she shot the horses dead shortly after filming wrapped.

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AdoptedMasterJay Mar 25, 2026 +1

What does she think she is, Budweiser?

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WavyGravy04 Mar 25, 2026 +1

That thong song is more old Milwaukee

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bertfotwenty Mar 25, 2026 +1

Hopefully she didn’t take them to the quarry after they were done.

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Downtown_Panic_6086 Mar 25, 2026 +1

It’s because she shot the horse!

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Random-Cpl Mar 25, 2026 +1

She’s always pulling that horse shit

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whatever1966 Mar 25, 2026 +1

You can buy a wholeass, high end horse for that...

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The_Angster_Gangster Mar 25, 2026 +1

That's not that much for horses

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ShutYerPieHole10 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Why? Did she shoot the horses?

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panic_talking Mar 25, 2026 +1

No kings protest this Saturday all over the US. Go if you can!!

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thethrill_707 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Of course she did. It's all free money right? Trump's stooges have all been given carte blanche to embezzle money from their departments. That's the way Trump does business and what the people he associates himself with do. Just make sure that when you committing said crimes, you never implicate Trump. That will get you kicked out of the fun club quicker than Melanie changes rooms with her husband or flies back to New York.

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Throwaway3879_ Mar 25, 2026 +1

C**** for horses JS

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BeowulfShaeffer Mar 25, 2026 +1

I’m happy some of that money went to people that care for the horses. Trickled down, as it were.

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R_manOz Mar 25, 2026 +1

But was she fired though? Isn't she working as the special envoy for America shield. Whatever the f that is.

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Pre3Chorded Mar 25, 2026 +1

"Signing bonus" was the biggest bs in that ad. I've seen a lot of government contracts, and zero that had a signing bonus.

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BritTheBret Mar 25, 2026 +1

My sister also spent some thousands on horses that was part of her getting fired.

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splycedaddy Mar 25, 2026 +1

Can we get to the other $220M?

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RecipeFunny2154 Mar 25, 2026 +1

I would like to know what happened to all of the footage that was being captured. Often at that stage, you'd see some crew following ICE around recording things from their perspective. Not phone recordings, but serious cameras. It wasn't all simply for these ads she did. Many months ago, there was this story alleging that Noem and others were looking into turning this stuff into some sort of reality TV series. The presence of those cameramen made that seem incredibly likely to me. She wanted to turn this into some sort of even grosser version of COPS.

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oktion Mar 25, 2026 +1

And that was just the catering!

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Moist-muff Mar 25, 2026 +1

What happened to that pig.. has she been seen ?

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Most-Lengthiness-471 Mar 25, 2026 +1

She’s gotta pay that back right?

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phirleh Mar 25, 2026 +1

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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Ttokk Mar 25, 2026 +1

Less than .001% of the $220 Million. Where'd the rest go?

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Intel-Source Mar 25, 2026 +1

Fired? She got promoted!!

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naszalutka Mar 26, 2026 +1

Ask her to pay it back.

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BK_Rich Mar 26, 2026 +1

The amount of money this administration burns is astronomical, just imagine if Obama stayed at a hotel that he owned for one night, Republicans would be complaining about it for four years straight, meanwhile, trump does this every weekend and overcharge the gov for rooms for the Secret Service.

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Ditchdigger456 Mar 25, 2026 -1

What a dogshit headline.

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Unfair_Web_8275 Mar 25, 2026 +4

It's not great, but what did you think about Noem using emergency powers to give hundreds of millions to an advertising firm that had only existed for 8 days?

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Ditchdigger456 Mar 25, 2026 +1

I think that should have been the headline lmao

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regular-cake Mar 25, 2026 +1

Which was created by one of her family members or something, right? She basically just paying herself and her family hundreds of millions of dollars. It's the Trump playbook!

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