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[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

"I was following orders" is not a defense to committing a crime.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I am equally shocked and completely unsurprised this wooden amalgamation of a parody of a human actually used the "I was just following orders" line. Not a dumb guard or a patrol agent or a desk clerk, but an actual Secretary of Homeland Security. (for whatever prestige or value is held in a position that was invented in 2003 because white people suddenly got scared of Muslims.)

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Following orders does not make you innocent.

[-] aquinteros@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

yeah... she is a goner

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

PeeWee Himmler is a student of Nazi Germany, and expected that Americans would fold up like Germans still recovering from WW1. He thought that murdering a few people in the streets would intimidate the entire country into staying in their houses. He doesn't understand that Americans grow up hearing fables of Revolutionaries whooping the most powerful army in the world.

Americans don't get intimidated, they get angrier, and eventually they get ferocious.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I dearly hope she takes Miller with her somehow

[-] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Welp, we won't be seeing her much longer.

Guess she'll have to fall back on her hobby of shooting puppies in the face.

[-] verdantshimada@piefed.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Y'all really don't understand that this headline is tailored for you.

In Noem's mind, this says "Kristi Noem Credits Her Actions to Trump and Stephen Miller."

She's running to the MAGA safehouse. This isn't "I was following orders." This is "I was given orders, and look at how perfectly I followed them!"

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck this dog Killing bitch

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Isla, She Wolf of the SS, is going to find out the hard way the bimbos are the first to get thrown under the bus in that party.

[-] cheet@infosec.pub 0 points 3 weeks ago

Damn that's a reference I wish I didn't know.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same people, just 80 years later.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

In Trump's administration the buck just keeps getting passed until the next news cycle.

[-] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not a single braincell in that head.

[-] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

shes evil, she knows shes evil, she enjoys that shes evil, but cant admit that shes evil bcs she knows everybody hates her.

the essence of being a right-wing nutjob

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean… she’s not completely wrong, but she could have, you know, not have followed fascist orders too. All on them need to be held accountable

[-] ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. “I was just following orders” has pretty famously been eliminated as a credible defense.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of Nazi's used the same defense. They were hanged shortly thereafter.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago

read more.

barely 12 Nazis were killed at Nuremberg, 10 were hung.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

In five-and-a-half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging.[4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period.[5] Bodies that were not claimed were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery next to the Spöttingen chapel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg_Prison

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

giuliani was a forerunner

how could they not see their fates ?

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Can't wait to read that obituary either.

[-] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nice to see that if you google Giuliani, they're running with the "I'm melting" pic for the default

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