Summary

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced backlash for mocking Canada during a visit to the U.S.-Canada border in Vermont.

At the Haskell Free Library, which straddles both countries, Noem repeatedly stepped over the border line, declaring with a grin “U.S.A. No. 1” and calling Canada “the 51st state.”

Critics, including Canadian officials and social media commentators, condemned her remarks as insulting and unprofessional.

The stunt comes amid heightened U.S.-Canada tensions, with Trump imposing tariffs and openly suggesting annexation, prompting a strong response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

  • @Treczoks
    link
    4411 hours ago

    Arrest her for illegally crossing the border.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
      link
      208 hours ago

      Then send her to a concentration camp with no contact for months. Give her the real American migrant experience.

  • @dhork
    link
    English
    8212 hours ago

    Did anyone ask her why she isn’t wearing a suit?

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      10
      edit-2
      9 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s like our worst turds floated to the top and are now running it into the ground. So, so stupid.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        31 hour ago

        Capitalism is the most efficient system we’ve got for allowing narcissistic turds to rise to the top.

    • @Laereht
      link
      1712 hours ago

      As someone from there I agree. This excuse for a female human is an example of the corrupt darkness that comprises this government.

  • @Boddhisatva
    link
    7413 hours ago

    They should have had cops there to arrest her when she crossed into Canada. I’d bet big money the stupid bitch had a gun on her.

    • ThePowerOfGeek
      link
      English
      3112 hours ago

      Yes. Please arrest her and lock her away.

      • Miles O'Brien
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1411 hours ago

        And if anyone shows up to take her back, lock them up too.

        If you need help defending against any terrorist activities by an opposing nation, let me know, I will happily defend the free world from fascism.

          • @Cort
            link
            2
            edit-2
            38 minutes ago

            One more crack like that and you’ll get an all expenses paid vacation to the pattern buffer

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              22 hours ago

              Don’t threaten me with unmitigated immortality via lossless duplication, you charming Federation malcontent.

    • themadcodger
      link
      fedilink
      6112 hours ago

      USian here.

      We barely know. I think she’s literally a puppy murderer.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        3512 hours ago

        Oh, her. She shot a goat for some reason and the dog because she failed to train it and didn’t like what it was doing, then uses it to write about how she makes tough decisions and that she should be praised instead of ridiculed for being a huge piece of shit in a skin suit.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          4
          edit-2
          10 hours ago

          Some people just need the zipper yanked on their flimsy skin suit so the clotted pus burbling just underneath is plain for all the damn mouth breathers to see — though they’d probably just deep fry it on a stick in a thrombosis-primed heartbeat.

          (Which, I’m sure we’re all pretty okay with too, considering the beneficial effects of such a fad taking off nationwide, much less globally.)

      • @Placebonickname
        link
        712 hours ago

        For people who don’t remember because there’s so much drama in the GOP these days this is the person who wrote a book indicating that she was tough enough to lead a country because she executed her own dog with a firearm …

        • @Boddhisatva
          link
          311 hours ago

          Be precise, not a dog, a puppy. It was only 14-months old.

        • themadcodger
          link
          fedilink
          511 hours ago

          This really is the worst timeline. We should be best friends and have that border that was barely guarded through the 90s. 😞

          • Maple Engineer
            link
            611 hours ago

            It literally has nothing to do with us. He’s using tariffs to fund massive tax breaks for the rich. He sold cabinet positions and is allowing the billionaires who bought them to destroy the departments overseeing their industries in order to maximize profits. He doesn’t give a shit about Canada or Mexico or China. He just sees us as a source of billions of dollars that he can transfer to the wealthy.

            I hope that the riots in the streets start up sooner rather than later.

            • Miles O'Brien
              link
              fedilink
              English
              5
              edit-2
              11 hours ago

              It literally has nothing to do with us.

              I don’t think there’s a single person here who would disagree with you.

              I hope that the riots in the streets start up sooner rather than later.

              Same. But uncoordinated opposition just leaves a lot of dead “lone wolf crazy gunmen”

              Good reminder to keep organizing.

    • IninewCrow
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2212 hours ago

      Another Canadian here

      Oh, an American acting like an idiot and talking like a jerk? … Which one?

  • @sunbrrnslapper
    link
    2013 hours ago

    At least she didn’t kill anything during the event.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1312 hours ago

    I’m GLAD we’re finally doing something about our NonViolent Trading Partners and Allies! This will SURELY bring our Prices down and make us SAFER!

  • @eran_morad
    link
    1112 hours ago

    It would be fucking grand if every single trump supporter would die in a fire.

    • @foggy
      link
      510 hours ago

      Vermont never promised they wouldn’t secede.

  • Optional
    link
    312 hours ago

    Everyone who expected this turd circus to be any more competent than it was last time: Why?

    • qprimed
      link
      fedilink
      English
      28 hours ago

      most of us have the memory of a goldfish; its a surpise every time.

  • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
    link
    211 hours ago

    There is nothing to gain from this weird BS rhetoric, but plenty to lose.