If he wanted to talk to Noem, he should have called her for an appointment.

He wanted to make a scene and he did. Should have been shot or tased! Tired of the leftist idiots in this country!

Dems: Party of Hate, Violence, Lies and Destruction!

Did he take cackle face's seat?

Champion of Fireball said:

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Some of you have never pulled guard duty. Also you have never learned the expression "Don't confuse your rank with my Authority." The Squid above hits on this quite well.

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Hah, seeing full bird colonels pulling guard duty at an ECP was eye-opening to me.

That's what happens when you work at a Corps level army staff HQ. Only so many junior soldiers to pull from.

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KillerAg21 said:

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They let a random man walk into the press room? That is your position? That DHS was unaware of him but let him get what 15ft from the Secretary?

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I honestly don't think anything happens if he just stands in the back and waits until things conclude and then conducts himself in a professional manner becoming of a US Senator.

But that would defeat the entire purpose of this act. He knew pushing through security would get him escorted out but not brutally assaulted or killed.

He knew exactly what he was doing and it's troubling that college educated libs are falling for it.

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Proving yet again, that education doesn't equate to intelligence.

rgvag11 said:

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Professionals would never have let it get this far.

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Professionals wouldn't try to interrupt initial remarks of a Cabinet Secretary in order to hijack the press conference.

So yes, if Padilla was a professional, he wouldn't have let it get that far. He would have shown respect. Then he might have received some.

All staged by Padilla and likely Newsom and maybe even Schumer to get the reaction and optics of a Senator getting taken down by security. "Only in Trump's Gestapo AmeriKKKa" and red meat for the nightly news.

Maxine failed in her attempt to breach a federal building and that didn't deliver the optics necessary so Padilla gave it a shot today.

The Dem Party are out of ideas and out of touch. And a bunch of ****ing lunatics.

A party of Marxist children..

Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says he is marching to Majority Leader Thune’s office to DEMAND answers about Senator Padilla

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/HN7C8VFvHo

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) June 12, 2025

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KillerAg21 said:

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Your idea of a no name senator is funny. They are 100 U.S. Senators and DHS was unaware of him? Really?

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There's no way Noem doesn't know who Senator Alex Padilla is before this incident. Sen. Padilla is the Ranking Member of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration. The members of that committee have direct oversight of the DHS. I'd be willing to bet most people in that room not only knew Sen. Padilla but have talked and interacted with him before.



As a refresher this is what they have Jurisdiction over
Jurisdiction: (1) Immigration, citizenship, and refugee laws; (2) Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration functions of the U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Directorate of Border and Transportation Security; (3) Oversight of the immigration-related functions of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Department of Labor; (4) Oversight of international migration and refugee laws and policy: and (5) Private immigration relief bills.

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Dude, come on. I get it, he's on your team, but security likely didn't know who he was and he was aggressively trying to work his way towards a head of state.

HE DID THIS ON PURPOSE FOR THIS VERY REASON. I think he even wore more civilian styled clothing intentionally.

You're one of the brighter liberals...so imagine what the lower IQ liberals are thinking?

His plan worked perfectly.

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Oh I don't deny that he was there to make a point and get attention


I don't believe for second that he is some unknown person to everyone in that room. Even if you accept that the federal agents that detained him didn't know who he was, Noem certainly does.

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I wasn't there and didn't have her vantage point as this was wuickly unfolding. It clearly h appened very quickly.

But even if she saw everything exactly as it was unfolding and knew immediately who he was and yelled for them to stop, they still handled it as they should have. Senators don't get to just bullrush their way to the front when a head of state is giving a briefing and security is trying to keep people from advancing.

I think this is much more nuanced and "quick" in real time than you guys are thinking.

I agree... looked kinda staged. Especially with how quickly the rest of the dems came in to issue public statements about it.

This sounds like promoting violence.

Rexter said:

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The reaction should be...
Who gives a **** who you are? You don't try to barge in and interrupt the press conference. Wait until Noem is finished, and then ask your question. You may get some respect and be the first to ask since you are a senator, but don't try to grandstand and show how much of an ******* you are.

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I'll never understand these members of congress who think their positions give them unlimited authority. I think it shows how dumb they are and how little they actually understand their jobs.

When I was stationed on a nuclear boat, an admiral from a surface ship could walk down the brow and he would not be allowed on the boat without being escorted. He may have been an admiral but he did not have the proper clearance to come onboard unescorted. This is not some dick measuring contest. It's how these things work.

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Funny related story...

When my dad was on the USS Enterprise, it was stationed in Newport News and he was the Officer on Deck (or is it Officer on Watch?) one night when he got a call from the Marine on guard duty. The Marine told him that a man claiming to be an admiral with no ID was demanding he be allowed onto the ship because "he built the damn thing."

Dad came down and long story short, would not let the admiral on the ship, even though he pretty much knew who he was.

The admiral was none other than Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the US nuclear navy, and the guy who literally built the damn ship. But Dad was a Lt JG and was doing everything by the book.

Said he got an attaboy and an ass-chewing at the same time later from his CO. The CO gave him an attaboy for following procedure to the letter, and an ass-chewing because he should have known better that certain rules didn't apply to Rickover.

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So what's the line of thinking here?

Noem is evil and Hitler, and wanted to rough up a Democrat? So she had her security guard take him down?
Trump is Hitler and wanted to bash up a Democrat senator?

Like what is the point?

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If a Senator walks in a room, you have to immediately cede control and let them do whatever they want.

(sarcasm)

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We have one honest liberal/CM here...bravo.

The left in this country is picking some REALLY strange hills to die upon lately.

4stringAg said:

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All staged by Padilla and likely Newsom and maybe even Schumer to get the reaction and optics of a Senator getting taken down by security. "Only in Trump's Gestapo AmeriKKKa" and red meat for theThis nightly news.

Maxine failed in her attempt to breach a federal building and that didn't deliver the optics necessary so Padilla gave it a shot today.

The Dem Party are out of ideas and out of touch. And a bunch of ****ing lunatics.

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This.
It's all about optics, and showmanship. Look at me, I'm the State Senator but I'm the victim.

I mean the rioters had to tell folks to use American flags, because they realized the optics of illegals and hamas lovers burning american flags, and police cars, while demanding to be allowed to live in America.

Democrats are out of ideas. So they resort to what they do best, burn, loot, murder.

I wonder if Padilla will be going to the White House picnic tonight !

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Your idea of unidentified is comical. He is the Senator in the federal building in the state he represents. You don't think DHS was aware of who he was when he entered the building? Especially when it comes to a Press Briefing in the middle of a week's worth of protests? There is no way yall actually believe this stuff.

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So to be clear, are you alleging it is his perogative to interrupt initial remarks of a Cabinet Secretary and hijack a press conference JUST BECAUSE he's a Senator of that state????

4stringAg said:

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All staged by Padilla and likely Newsom and maybe even Schumer to get the reaction and optics of a Senator getting taken down by security. "Only in Trump's Gestapo AmeriKKKa" and red meat for the nightly news.

Maxine failed in her attempt to breach a federal building and that didn't deliver the optics necessary so Padilla gave it a shot today.

The Dem Party are out of ideas and out of touch. And a bunch of ****ing lunatics.

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Tens of millions of democrats nationwide are now boiling in anger and 100% convinced that this is an act of a totalitarian dictatorship that has shredded the constitution (that they have been trying to shred for decades). This PROVES the false narratives they already believed without a doubt in their minds.

Don't be surprised if this now takes things to a whole new level. I hope not, but we'll see....that's certainly why they did it. I say "they" because I don't believe for a second he was a lone wolf in this dangerous act of political theater.

KillerAg21 said:

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This sounds like promoting violence.

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Yes, maybe we should throw rocks at government agents, burn some police cars, destroy public property loot stores and burn American flags.

Oh wait.
Your team is on that already.

GeorgiAg said:

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I agree... looked kinda staged. Especially with how quickly the rest of the dems came in to issue public statements about it.

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It's 2025.. news spreads instantly.

KillerAg21 said:

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This sounds like promoting violence.

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How is calling for LEOs to take reasonable, legal measures in enforcing security calling for violence?

Your boy shot and killed an unarmed protestor on Jan 6th for trespassing and you say that's justice.

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GeorgiAg said:

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I agree... looked kinda staged. Especially with how quickly the rest of the dems came in to issue public statements about it.

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It's 2025.. news spreads instantly.

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Youre not doing it any favors

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4stringAg said:

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All staged by Padilla and likely Newsom and maybe even Schumer to get the reaction and optics of a Senator getting taken down by security. "Only in Trump's Gestapo AmeriKKKa" and red meat for theThis nightly news.

Maxine failed in her attempt to breach a federal building and that didn't deliver the optics necessary so Padilla gave it a shot today.

The Dem Party are out of ideas and out of touch. And a bunch of ****ing lunatics.

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This.
It's all about optics, and showmanship. Look at me, I'm the State Senator but I'm the victim.

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You're one of the best posters on this site, and I'm not trying to nitpick, but I think it was much more insidious than that. They're trying to fan flames (violence/resistance) here.

They want a few people to act out and/or be mowed down in the streets.

Who is my boy?

So let me get this straight, you think it's unfair that police shot an unarmed person rioting into the Capital? Hell I'm sure you think the whole thing was a scam and are super happy they got pardoned. Yet DHS should have tazed and shot the unarmed Senator? Man that's some ironclad logic.

The Senator got exactly the reaction he was trying to get. His self-importance and theatrics might be funny if it didn't have real world consequences.

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KillerAg21 said:

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Your idea of a no name senator is funny. They are 100 U.S. Senators and DHS was unaware of him? Really?

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There's no way Noem doesn't know who Senator Alex Padilla is before this incident. Sen. Padilla is the Ranking Member of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration. The members of that committee have direct oversight of the DHS. I'd be willing to bet most people in that room not only knew Sen. Padilla but have talked and interacted with him before.



As a refresher this is what they have Jurisdiction over
Jurisdiction: (1) Immigration, citizenship, and refugee laws; (2) Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration functions of the U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Directorate of Border and Transportation Security; (3) Oversight of the immigration-related functions of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Department of Labor; (4) Oversight of international migration and refugee laws and policy: and (5) Private immigration relief bills.

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Wait.
Did Noem tackle him?
Did anyone on the committee tackle him?

Yeah. I didn't think so.

It was a security person. And what was Padilla doing that made the security office push him back?
Did yuo know what Padilla looked like before today? I guarantee most folks on this thread did not. And i doubt a random DHS security dude knows it either.

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Noem has already said no one knew who he was and that notion is utterly ridiculous.


Texags may know stuff but I doubt anyone here can recited the members of all the senate subcommittees. But when you work for the DHS, I'm fairly sure you would know the Senators that have direct oversight of your entire department.

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Sorry, but another Red Herring argument.



Here's the entire press conference. Go to 19:00. Better yet, start from the beginning. But look at her eyes for the 30 seconds before the disturbance begins. They are going from her notes, to left of room, to right of room. Even as the disturbance commences, she stays on point and continues her remarks.

She's in full speech mode. Not, "Oh, there's Senator Padilla! Let's stop and listen to him." mode. No look of recognition crosses her face at all. She sees something going on to the side, and focuses on not being distracted by it but staying consistent through her remarks.

Why is it so hard to admit that Padilla was WAY out of line here?

THAT is a professional doing HER JOB.

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KillerAg21 said:

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Your idea of a no name senator is funny. They are 100 U.S. Senators and DHS was unaware of him? Really?

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There's no way Noem doesn't know who Senator Alex Padilla is before this incident. Sen. Padilla is the Ranking Member of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration. The members of that committee have direct oversight of the DHS. I'd be willing to bet most people in that room not only knew Sen. Padilla but have talked and interacted with him before.



As a refresher this is what they have Jurisdiction over
Jurisdiction: (1) Immigration, citizenship, and refugee laws; (2) Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the immigration functions of the U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Directorate of Border and Transportation Security; (3) Oversight of the immigration-related functions of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Department of Labor; (4) Oversight of international migration and refugee laws and policy: and (5) Private immigration relief bills.

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Wait.
Did Noem tackle him?
Did anyone on the committee tackle him?

Yeah. I didn't think so.

It was a security person. And what was Padilla doing that made the security office push him back?
Did yuo know what Padilla looked like before today? I guarantee most folks on this thread did not. And i doubt a random DHS security dude knows it either.

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Noem has already said no one knew who he was and that notion is utterly ridiculous.


Texags may know stuff but I doubt anyone here can recited the members of all the senate subcommittees. But when you work for the DHS, I'm fairly sure you would know the Senators that have direct oversight of your entire department.

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Lol

GeorgiAg said:

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I agree... looked kinda staged. Especially with how quickly the rest of the dems came in to issue public statements about it.

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Wouldn't you have rather seen Ossoff or Warlock detained? Yes or No?

ETFan said:

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GeorgiAg said:

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I agree... looked kinda staged. Especially with how quickly the rest of the dems came in to issue public statements about it.

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It's 2025.. news spreads instantly.

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Yes... and your ilk try to game that reality as fast as possible.... with strong coordination.

But you don't have the dominant position in media you once had to frame a story to your liking..... so the American people can more easily all see the truth now that shows how unhinged Democrats really are.

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I’m told Noem is in a room meeting with Senator Padilla right now. After I stopped recording, my team witnessed him being taken to the ground by FBI personnel and he was temporarily detained. Awaiting further details on what happened out of our view.

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 12, 2025

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rgvag11 said:

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Professionals would never have let it get this far.

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Yes. A leftist senator lacks the decorum. We saw it on display.

Funky Winkerbean said:

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Ohhh, yall just don't like to answer questions so just mark it as trolling cool.

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Is Waltz trolling here?

Tampon Tim Walz couldn’t define a woman today in @gopoversight when I had him in the pressure cooker.

He was speechless. pic.twitter.com/5ZtjAIq1KP

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) June 12, 2025

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Pull that tampon out Tim and speak.

KillerAg21 said:

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Who is my boy?

So let me get this straight, you think it's unfair that police shot an unarmed person rioting into the Capital? Hell I'm sure you think the whole thing was a scam and are super happy they got pardoned. Yet DHS should have tazed and shot the unarmed Senator? Man that's some ironclad logic.

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Your own expert says he was in the wrong. And its obvious to anyone who is not completely biased:

Omg. CNN brought on their legal expert in hopes that he would side with Sen. Padilla over DHS.

They were wrong.

“Officers are trying to lead him out, he turns and walks into those agents. At that point…we’re taking that person out against their will.”pic.twitter.com/0yD7jIIbbp

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 12, 2025

Yeah if you can find anywhere on here where I argued as to the right or wrong of the incident I would love to see it. All my points have been on the lie that DHS said they didn't know who he was. "Your side" can't seem to grasp that logic, but that's an entirely different conversation.

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Yeah if you can find anywhere on here where I argued as to the right or wrong of the incident I would love to see it. All my points have been on the lie that DHS said they didn't know who he was. "Your side" can't seem to grasp that logic, but that's an entirely different conversation.

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You should end your failing killer argument.