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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,616 posts)
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 03:09 PM 11 hrs ago

America Is Being Terrorized by a Loser Who Never Got Picked for Dodgeball

There are men who are dangerous because they are competent, and then there are men who are dangerous because they are pathetic. Stephen Miller belongs squarely in the latter category — a man so nakedly insecure, so chronically aggrieved, that the only way he can experience importance is by borrowing the force of the state and pointing it at people who can’t hit back.

As Axios reported yesterday, Kristi Noem remarked after Alex Pretti’s execution that, “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen.” Never mind that she is already trying out the “Just following orders” defense that others have famously attempted. The point is that even Noem — a cabinet secretary — is making it clear that it is Miller’s inhumane (and inhuman) policies that she is executing.

Despite how he hopes to be portrayed, Miller is not the dark prince of American authoritarianism. He is the hall monitor who finally found a gun.

Miller is the political equivalent of the kid in the cafeteria who got picked last for dodgeball, who stood at the edge of the playground and shouted insults at anyone having fun, and who now, decades later, uses the full force of the federal government to try to harm a country because he thinks his classmates ignored his genius in high school.

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America Is Being Terrorized by a Loser Who Never Got Picked for Dodgeball (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago OP
Had he gotten picked for dodgeball... appmanga 11 hrs ago #1
The other kids would have rendered first aid Attilatheblond 11 hrs ago #4
Interesting Noem is already using the dflprincess 11 hrs ago #2
K&R red dog 1 11 hrs ago #3

dflprincess

(29,239 posts)
2. Interesting Noem is already using the
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 03:20 PM
11 hrs ago

"I was only following orders." excuse.

Didn't work at Nuremberg, doesn't work now.

red dog 1

(32,621 posts)
3. K&R
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 03:24 PM
11 hrs ago

If "Miller is not the dark prince of American authoritarianism," then the smelly A$$HOLE he works for sure is.

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