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Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem’s news conference and handcuffed

j brown's body said:
Yeah, but like farm workers, many of them are workers too.

If Trump's letting farm workers off the hook, why not these folks?

Are you saying givrrnment, through ICE, the Natiioal Guard, the Marines and local police caught just 9 people who are actual criminals?

What a sick joke.
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It's truly pathetic.
 
Along Came Jones said:
This is from Padilla's interview with MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff.

So the … whole time, right, we’re, the whole time, being escorted in this federal building by somebody from the National Guard, somebody from the FBI. I’ve gone through screening. This is a federal building. And so tell them, let’s go listen to the press conference. They escort me over to that room. And I’m sitting in the back of the room, behind the cameras, behind the reporters, listening, listening. And at one point, it was just too much to take. Not the first, but the second attack on the political leadership of California and this notion that Donald Trump and Kristi Noem have to come in and rescue the people of Los Angeles from Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass? It was too much. And so I spoke up. I introduced myself and said I had a question.

Look, they said I wasn’t wearing my pin, my polo says “United States Senate.” There was no threat. There was no lunging. I raised my voice to ask a question. And it took, what, maybe half a second before multiple agents were on me.

So, to be charitable, after a little over four minutes of listening to Noem's brief it became "just too much to take." And he just had to stand up, move toward the podium to ask his harmless question. No matter who escorted him to the briefing room the protective detail obviously did not know him from Adam, nor did they know his intent. Of course, if you live in a world where everyone lies, everyone lies.
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He is a Senator and she knew he was there and who he was. If she doesn’t know who he is she needs to find another job. Btw she was out with agents with some warrant for a David Garcia and they evidently went to the weong house. A US citizen woman lives there with her children and husband but her husband isn’t David Garcia its Jorge. She’s so incompetent its scary
 
Hamish Howl said:
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You get extra points for that.


You're so effective I wonder if you've taken the time to set up a "go kit" in case you have to leave the country with TACO's troops on your ass.

BTW - what to say: "I am an American citizen. I am seeking asylum."

Under Canadian law they are compelled to give it to you on the spot
 
j brown's body said:
Yeah, but like farm workers, many of them are workers too.

If Trump's letting farm workers off the hook, why not these folks?
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I don't know. I'm not your wikipedia. Contact your congress person and inquire.
j brown's body said:
Are you saying government, through ICE, the Natiioal Guard, the Marines and th3 local police caught just 9 people who are actual criminals?

What a sick joke.
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What's sicker is your comment.
 
Again, seems to me that we need more video or an investigation as to what happened. Was she answering questions, (in the Q and A part of the conference) when he asked his? Did she ask him to wait and not interrupt until she had finished her comments? Was he asked to leave before he was grabbed by security?

Sadly, I assume that we have already retreated to our ideological corners to opine before all the facts are known.
 
ClaraD said:
He is a Senator and she knew he was there and who he was. If she doesn’t know who he is she needs to find another job. Btw she was out with agents with some warrant for a David Garcia and they evidently went to the weong house. A US citizen woman lives there with her children and husband but her husband isn’t David Garcia its Jorge. She’s so incompetent its scary
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Earlier from the same interview Padilla said he was sitting in the back near the cameras when it got to be too much. Did she see him arrive, sit down, stand up, move toward the podium to ask his question? Did she recognize him? Only she knows and she's not commenting.

I can't refute criticisms for most of Trump's appointments. So, I'm surely not going to defend them wholesale.
 
Along Came Jones said:
Earlier from the same interview Padilla said he was sitting in the back near the cameras when it got to be too much. Did she see him arrive, sit down, stand up, move toward the podium to ask his question? Did she recognize him? Only she knows and she's not commenting.

I can't refute criticisms for most of Trump's appointments. So, I'm surely not going to defend them wholesale.
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Since he was escorted into by agents it’d be pretty hard for her to miss.

The proper thing would be to acknowledge the Senator and say Senator please give me a few minutes to finish and I’ll gladly answer your questions
 
Nickyjo said:
Again, seems to me that we need more video or an investigation as to what happened. Was she answering questions, (in the Q and A part of the conference) when he asked his? Did she ask him to wait and not interrupt until she had finished her comments? Was he asked to leave before he was grabbed by security?

Sadly, I assume that we have already retreated to our ideological corners to opine before all the facts are known.
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None of that is relevant.

It is supposedly a free country and civilized.

Supposedly although there is scant evidence
 
trixare4kids said:
I don't know. I'm not your wikipedia. Contact your congress person and inquire.


What's sicker is your comment.
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So you support Trump cracking down on undocumented immigrants in one place and support him letting them off the hook in another. Ok.

It's not sick when you consider the 100s of decent working people he's deporting just because he feels like raising hell in a blue state.

They wrestle down and cuff a US senator.

You are defending people who have no sense of common decency and eagerly use state violence against their political opponents.
 
Fearandloathing said:
You get extra points for that.


You're so effective I wonder if you've taken the time to set up a "go kit" in case you have to leave the country with TACO's troops on your ass.
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He would be free to go.
Fearandloathing said:
BTW - what to say: "I am an American citizen. I am seeking asylum."

Under Canadian law they are compelled to give it to you on the spot
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That's a load of manure.
Canada does not grant asylum "on the spot" at the border or upon application. The process for claiming asylum in Canada is rigorous and involves multiple steps to determine eligibility, with no immediate granting of refugee status. Imagine that? You don't even know the law in your own country.
 
ClaraD said:
Its not that big of a room
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Have been there? Serious, not a flippant, question. From what little I could see from the videos it didn't appear small. Camera lens can distort things, though. I don't know.
 
j brown's body said:
So you support Trump cracking down on undocumented immigrants in one place and support him letting them off the hook in another. Ok.

It's not sick when you consider the 100s of decent working people he's deporting just because he feels like raising hell in a blue state.

They wrestle down and cuff a US senator.

You are defending people who have no sense of common decency and eagerly use state violence against their political opponents.
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Save you baited, trollish questions for a novice.

We're done here.
 
Fearandloathing said:
You get extra points for that.


You're so effective I wonder if you've taken the time to set up a "go kit" in case you have to leave the country with TACO's troops on your ass.

BTW - what to say: "I am an American citizen. I am seeking asylum."

Under Canadian law they are compelled to give it to you on the spot
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Really? I might need to remember that. What area is the best climate and best area for jobs and affordability?
 
Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words
 
ClaraD said:
Really? I might need to remember that. What area is the best climate and best area for jobs and affordability?
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Climate - British Columbia, lower mainland. It's in the 70's and we're still snow skiing in the north shore mountains
Jobs - Ontario
Affordability - no where

Blame Trump for the latter
 
trixare4kids said:
He acted like he thought he was better than everyone in the room and didn't have to wait his turn in line while Noem fielded questions. He spoke out turn, disrupting the presser, and did not identify himself until he was out of the room. Security did not know who he was. Lawfully, he was treated just like everybody else would be.
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Yes he did. (As a Sitting Senator) He did not wait for the questioning section of the presser. (As a Sitting Senator)
He interrupted her as she was providing information to the press & all citizen voters who were watching & listening to the presser (As a Sitting Senator)

He not only did not announce to her or the press or all the citizen voters that he was a sitting senator before his interruption.

As you noted in a previous post he was not wearing on his clothing an identification (as a sitting senator) for all to see.

What I found interesting was the clothing he was wearing was not his (I’m A Sitting Senator Garb) https://www.padilla.senate.gov/ Check out his Garb.

The clothing he was wearing that day was the opposite of his (l’m A Sitting Senator Garb) Please note the clothing he was wearing in the following link.

His clothing, his lack of identification, his continued loud mouthed interruptions, his movements towards her, his lack of compliance, reminds me of today’s aggressive “in your face” crazies who at times tend to attack using bodily harm to other human beings.

I think, this was just some more negative political theater being used currently by multiple opposition Democratic Party Representatives.

To keep their sheep in their party of confusion & destruction & their loyalty to their party’s “un-american way of life” imho.
 
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