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[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Nothing wrong with crossdressing. Though it sounds like he sent some of the pictures to others without consent which is much more of a problem of course (harassment)

But if he wants to dress up as a girl, why not.

[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"I don't give a fuck who they're screwing in private

I wanna know who they're screwing in public"

This bitch puts children in cages. Ridicule and shame her and her family for hypocrisy all you want, it's well deserved, but the fact that this even matters is pretty wild.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The only acceptable target for bullying is MAGA. Open season.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Lots of other verbs, too

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Regardless of his actions, she still loves him as a member of her family. Just like her dog.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah... Now you mention it... Has anyone seen the dog??

[–] Lawnman23@piefed.social 67 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

“The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time,” Kristi Noem’s representatives reacted in a statement to The New York Post.

Fuck that noise.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

I'll pray for them, but they won't like it if my prayers are answered

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 5 hours ago

Privacy for the ghoul in charge of ripping people from their homes in the middle of the night? Fuck you.

Prayers for what? To have God help them stop being shitty and hypocritical? Fuck you again.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

No, I think I get it now. This is the excuse she will use to jettison the husband, and spend more time with her boy toy

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is he a lumberjack? Is he OK?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago

Does he work all night and sleep all day?

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

(Not actually blindsided because she almost certainly had it leaked)

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why would she do that I wonder?

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

She may be stupid enough to:

  • Believe this will change the narrative on her relationship with Lewandowski, her profligate spending, and the fact that it all led to her firing
  • Believe this will make her more sympathetic with the public to lay the ground work for having some kind of political career in the future

Or she may be getting ahead of something, maybe her husband was starting to change his tune on the idea of being a loyal cuckold.

If you assume these people are completely vapid, self-serving, and totally incapable of actual loving relationships, and above all - operating with a real deficit of intellectual and emotional intelligence; all of which appear to be rock solid assumptions, none of the options I proposed seem very far fetched.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah ok the whole Lewandowski thing was news to me so I understand yeah. Maybe she's trying to make a case for a favourable divorce settlement also.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 57 points 6 hours ago

These fucking people... It's literally all projection, always.

The party of "traditional family values," everyone. If we manage to hold anything even remotely resembling free and fair elections in the future, the first order of business afterwards will need to be replacing all upholstery any of them have touched.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 75 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So this is the drag queen we were supposed to be worried about?

I wish my local movie theatre had this level of projection.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago

It's called iMax, no?

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 20 points 5 hours ago

Isn't she screwing someone else anyway. All these people are hypocrites. If they say they hate cross-dressing, they love it. If they say they are Christian, they're anything but. If they say they have good family values, they're having affairs. Standard.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Krusty Gnome taking L after L. You love to see it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 80 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How was she supposed to keep track of what happens in her own home while she was jetsetting around on her fuck plane with her subordinate?

[–] homes@piefed.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Does Lewandowski really count as her subordinate if he was the one who was running the show the whole time? all she really did was get her hair done, shoot ads for her YouTube channel, and get fucked in the back of a private jet. And then later in front of Congress.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Why the fuck should we care? I think he would look awesome in a dress.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 21 points 4 hours ago

Because he is the spouse of a member of the party that is villifying drag and trans folks.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 4 points 2 hours ago

He might well do. But in the photo that's been widely published, he does not look particularly awesome - apart from anything else, he couldn't even be bothered to line up his fake nipples properly.

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Kristi Noem 'blindsided' by report about her ~~cross-dressing husband~~ wife

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

People that don’t like to kink shame but also hate Noem must be sweating right now.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No not really. They're two separate issues.

This is the problem with conservatives, they're all about loyalty so you must follow the company line or you're out. If someone is marked bad there can't be anything not bad about them. We progressives don't have that.

I can totally accept this kink and still hate Noem. I just can't use it as mud to sling at her but I don't have to because there's plenty of much more relevant wrongdoing she's guilty of. This doesn't even have much to do with her at all.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not really. It’s pretty easy to separate kink shaming from hypocrisy shaming. No one’s doing the former, but we are doing a lot of the latter.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Yep. They only look similar to people trying to win points or defend the guy over rampant hypocrisy.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Cross dressing isn't even inherintly a kink.

Either way its easy to shame them for being hypocrites and pieces of shit so ¯\(ツ)

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Lol there was black mail over this?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I mean if the Daily Mail found it then you can be sure that foreign intelligence found it way earlier. There's a reason you're supposed to do background checks and vetting for high level government officials. Since Trump doesn't give a shit about all that I wouldn't be surprised if more of his cronies aren't actively being blackmailed.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Background checks are more to find actual wrongdoing like criminal activity.

It's more a problem of current American society that this is considered blackmail material at all.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

Also possible that Daily Mail found it out from foreign intelligence, maybe even as a consequence of Noem losing her value as a source.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

We don't know his kinks, maybe he's into black males

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Buttery males

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

The evidence is coming out

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh, I see the Hypocrisy Religion is still active with new scandals.