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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
Apr 2026

"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 Apr 2026 #1
Yes indeed democrank Apr 2026 #3
"Kristi Noem has quite the record when it comes to targeting LGBTQ+ people. sop Apr 2026 #2
Exactly Blue Owl Apr 2026 #4
She's absolutely right, as usual. Whatever Byron Noem gets up to in private Ocelot II Apr 2026 #5
Absolutely spot on! And, as another poster reminded us, Back to Epstein niyad Apr 2026 #6
Exactly how I feel. LoisB Apr 2026 #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 Apr 2026 #8
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, sop! This is just another distraction, another sideshow generalbetrayus Apr 2026 #9
Actually this is a textbook case of what authoritarians do dsc Apr 2026 #10
I think his cross dressing explains a lot about Kristi's behavior infullview Apr 2026 #11
She's transferred all that pent up anger and hatred Wednesdays Apr 2026 #16
My only complaint is the twins aren't level. 3Hotdogs Apr 2026 #12
they are upside-down Skittles Apr 2026 #19
Yes. It's the fucking hypocrisy. hamsterjill Apr 2026 #13
I Care, Because I Savor Every Bit of MAGA Hypocrisy. 🎈🤡🎈 ColoringFool Apr 2026 #14
Yes but watching Noem's public humiliation is rather satisfying. She could use a taste of her own medicine. flashman13 Apr 2026 #15
Exactly! mzmolly Apr 2026 #17
I want everyone to stay out of other folks business Keepthesoulalive Apr 2026 #18
Maybe the husband is paying her back Smackdown2019 Apr 2026 #20
Jennifer Welch said it all for me. mdbl Apr 2026 #21
I agree peasant one Apr 2026 #22
Very eloquent MustLoveBeagles Apr 2026 #23
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