So…?

Speaking to the MSNBC hosts, Kumar expressed outrage at Padilla's treatment, and then added, "You have Secretary Noem, who is charged with 250,000 agents around the country, and she cannot de-escalate a basic press conference. Instead, it has to go to the maximum where they have to handcuff a sitting senator. That actually goes to a broader issue: is she the right person for this job? Does she understand that right now? "

"I believe that there is someone from the White House that called her and said, 'You know what? You really messed up right now. You have to go now sit down and talk to the senator.'" she suggested.

The White House called Noem AS PADILLA WAS BEING HANDCUFFED to tell her she’d fucked up (Padilla says he met with Noem 15 minutes after being shoved out of the room), but the White House didn’t complain about what Noem said immediately before Padilla spoke up?

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

There is a lot of attention being paid to the treatment of Sen. Padilla (rightly so). There is no attention being paid to what Noem said about the elected officials of California. I mean, it was broadcast live on FoxNews:

Noem: So we will stay here and build our operations until we make sure to liberate the city of Los Angeles pic.twitter.com/tKeevnPVy1

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 12, 2025

Kristi Noem says DHS (and the military) will "liberate" Los Angeles from its democratically elected mayor and governor. Naked authoritarianism. pic.twitter.com/R6kcwi9ZrK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 12, 2025

And yet it’s like we can’t hold two ideas in our “national conversation” at the same time. I could post countless examples of irate responses to what happened to the Senator. Anything about what Noem was saying?

That’s the best I’ve got. 👆