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

Hmmm maybe?
Because kristi is now talking to him and meeting with him.
So it may have worked to a degree?
It was still stupid but ill wait and see how it pans out on the backend.
 
shrug...

That Senator just found out about FAFO.

That is just sad. A US Senator goes to ask a legitimate question of a public appointed office holder at a public event and you think that justifies such a response?

Wow. Just wow.



 
She could have told she would answer his question when she was finished speaking and invite him to take a seat. They are acquainted with one another after all.

Is common decency really that dead?

So he can barge in and interrupt her... that is common decency and fine... but she is the unprofessional rude one by continuing with her speech while he is fighting police? Double Standard Partisan "logic", anybody?
 
Noem was telling her audience that they were in LA to overthrow the government. Not sure that's constitutional, but ok.

Show the actual words that she used... or is it just more bullshit Partisan hack Lies?
 
Why would you treat someone you know so brutally?

Republican Senator Murkowski is outraged over his treatment. Why would she lie about what happened?

Why was he being so rude as to interrupt her and where is his respect for LEO's when he decides to physically resist?

Why are you not demanding better of a Senator and where is his personal responsibility?
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And you guys have been lying about how it really happened.

It has moved from the facts, as you notice... and now it is about the feelings.


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Padilla was following a script that all his minions are shrieking about... ignore the facts and cry about the feelings.


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She could have told she would answer his question when she was finished speaking and invite him to take a seat. They are acquainted with one another after all.

Is common decency really that dead?

He could of approached her like this and think how much happier everybody would have been if he acted like a gentlemen!

 

Don't fool yourself... they are ALL criminal scumbags that are breaking the law.




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Then why does Noem need to apologize? She literally didn't do anything wrong...

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You implied that Padilla was arrested.

Not even remotely.

It was Noem’s event. Her responsibility.

Crowd Control is not the Speakers responsibility... ever, whether it is politics or a high school speech.

Noem was aware of what was happening, including that Padilla identified himself, and did nothing.

So what? Most people who aggressively interrupt speeches are removed. It is common practice and almost nobody is as good as Obama.
 
Simply put, it was a media stunt and you know it.
 
Padilla being put face down on the floor and handcuffed is part of the shame/public embarrassment that belongs to Noem.

Painful lesson for Padilla, you can’t take over a news conference without repercussions.
 
Painful lesson for Padilla, you can’t take over a news conference without repercussions.

He wanted to ask a question at a news conference. That's what they're for, hence the name "conference."

And with Noem there to say they are there to overthrow the government, questions should arise.
 
He wanted to ask a question at a news conference. That's what they're for, hence the name "conference."

And with Noem there to say they are there to overthrow the government, questions should arise.
Sensible people would have the decency to let the speaker speak for longer than 4 minutes before losing their cool and making a spectacle of themselves. And then . . . AND THEN . . . at his own press conference announce he won't take questions!
 
Someday the left will get it


Actually, all of world society is moving in the opposite direction.

The world's 'strongmen' are declining in number and power annually. Trump is a 'one of' phenomenon which has already begun to shift in the opposite direction. His popularity level has never been lower and its sinking. More and more entrenched politicians are embracing 'social' policies as they are growing in popularity. Like Canada's health care system.

Clearly he is running out of ideas how to shift the focus off his stupid parade and the mess the country is in.

He's in the low 40's now. I predict 30's by fall when the effects of his stupid on again off again tariffs finally impact in full.

The American economy is officially ****ed!
 

As in Congress, if you don’t respect the proper decorum, you get ejected.
 

Padilla lashed out like a child and Noem had no obligation to do anything and let security handle the situation.
 


Watching from afar the problem I have with that statement is it seems the term "illegal immigrant" seems to vary a great degree from administration to administration. That leads to an even bigger problem of having politicians, the most untrustworthy professionals, determining who is illegal and who is not.

I have seen too many cases where the paperwork adds up to "legal status" but are arrested anyway. People who have been doing the same job for decades!

The whole thing is simply too 1935 Germany! Trump is settling old personal scores and satisfying his racist bent...getting even for some perceived slights. With his super, wafer thin skin you know he has scores and scores and scores to settle, especially against New York City and California where he has always been despised
 
Perhaps. I think we meander along
 
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