Axed Homeland Security honcho Kristi Noem has suffered yet another humiliating blow as leaked photos appear to show her husband of 34 years is a secret cross-dresser with a penchant for sporting huge fake breasts, sources say.
Weeks after Kristi, 54, was canned as DHS secretary by President Donald Trump and given the consolation prize position of special envoy for the Shield of the Americas a newly created coalition of countries tasked with securing the Western hemisphere photos and messages were published by the Daily Mail, suggesting her spouse, Bryon Noem, regularly slipped into tight pants and flaunted a faux rack, while feeding his alleged fetishes with cam girls.
If only she had shot him instead of that poor dog.
Choose kindness
Frankly, that would have been the kindest act she has performed in her life.
* The popular quote "When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind" is primarily attributed to Dr. Wayne Dyer, a motivational author and speaker.
* George Saunders: Gave a famous 2013 commencement speech at Syracuse University focused on "choose kindness."
*"I'll choose whatever the f@uck I want to choose, including kicking the @$$ of whoever gives me unsolicited advice" bearister
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Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
“I love Cal deeply, by the way, what are the directions to The Portal from Sproul Plaza?”
Ignoring your humorous ending, and similarly moving past Dyer, who has been dead for 10+ years, I've zeroed in on George Saunders, who I had never heard of before but think he's most definitely my kind of guy.
Should we start a new thread for him or can we do this right now, right here?
Yes, George Saunders has written extensively about Donald Trump and his supporters, both in long-form journalism and fiction. His work often focuses on trying to understand the "secret imagination" and anxieties fueling the Trump movement.
Key Writings and Essays
"Who Are All These Trump Supporters?" (The New Yorker, 2016): Perhaps his most famous political piece, this 10,000-word essay chronicles his time attending Trump rallies across the country. He describes a phenomenon he calls "usurpation anxiety syndrome"the feeling among supporters that their country is being taken from them by an "Other".
"Trump L'Oeil" (2017): Shortly after the 2017 inauguration, Saunders read an untitled poem (often referred to by this name) at a bookstore, describing the president as a "fragile egomaniac" and urging citizens to become their own "alt-presidents".
"Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease" (The New Yorker, 2024): A more recent dispatch exploring the "underlying disease" of degraded public discourse and the custom informational universes people now inhabit.
Trump-Inspired Fiction
In his 2022 collection, Liberation Day, several stories were directly influenced by the Trump era:
"Love Letter": Written in the late 2020s, this story follows a grandfather writing to his grandson in a dystopian U.S. ruled by a "comically thuggish" president. It explores the guilt of those who stood by as democratic norms were dismantled.
"Elliott Spencer": Features an elderly man whose memory has been wiped and "reprogrammed" with right-wing talking points to be used as a political prop at rallies.
Recent Commentary (2026)
As of early 2026, Saunders has continued to critique Trump's governance, recently describing it as characterized by "incoherence and cruelty" and noting that the "most precious commodity in America right now is the ability to recognize truth". He has often argued that while Trump acts as a "Typhoid Mary" for national anger, the root issueslike income inequality and decaying environmentsremain unaddressed by both sides of the political aisle.
Gee, listening to the first bit of this, sounds like his writing style is the same as Trump's leadership style - not know where the story is going to end up at.
George Saunders' short story, "Escape from Spiderhead," was first published in The New Yorker in 2010 and later included in his acclaimed collection, Tenth of December. It is a darkly satirical work that explores themes of free will, corporate morality, and the nature of human emotions through a sci-fi lens.
The Short Story: "Escape from Spiderhead" The story follows Jeff, an inmate in a futuristic research facility/prison. In exchange for a reduced sentence, he and other inmates agree to be subjects for drug trials overseen by a supervisor named Abnesti.
The Experiments: Inmates have a "MobiPak" attached to their lower back, which Abnesti uses to remotely inject various mood-altering drugs. These include Verbaluce (for eloquence), Vivistif (to induce feelings of love), and the dreaded Darkenfloxx (which causes extreme physical and emotional pain).
The Conflict: Jeff is chemically induced to "love" and have sex with two different women, Heather and Rachel. Later, Abnesti forces Jeff to choose which woman should receive a dose of Darkenfloxx as part of an experiment on the residue of feelings.
The Ending: Jeff refuses to be a part of the system's cruelty. Realizing he cannot save Rachel through conventional means, he uses Abnesti's remote to dose himself with Darkenfloxx, leading to his death. Saunders depicts Jeff's "escape" as a transcendent moment where his soul leaves his body, finally free of guilt and the facility's control.
The Netflix Movie:
Spiderhead (2022) Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), the film adapts Saunders' concept but expands it into a psychological thriller with a significantly different third act.
Key Characters: Chris Hemsworth plays a more prominent, "charismatic visionary" version of Steve Abnesti. Miles Teller plays Jeff, and a new character, Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), is introduced as Jeff's primary love interest to give the film a more traditional romantic stake.
Differences from the Story:
Backstories: In the film, Jeff's crime is changed from a violent murder (killing someone with a brick) to involuntary manslaughter caused by drunk driving.
The "O-B-D-X" Plot: The film adds a secret objective: Abnesti is actually trying to perfect an "obedience drug" to allow total control over people, a grander conspiracy not present in the original story.
The Ending: Unlike the story's bleak, self-sacrificial conclusion, the movie ends as an action-packed escape. Jeff and Lizzy sabotage Abnesti's plans, leading to a confrontation where Abnesti is dosed with his own drugs and dies in a plane crash while Jeff and Lizzy flee to freedom.
Sorry, SB, for hijacking your thread. But it will tie together if someone wants to write a short story, not knowing the ending, about how Bryon Noem's big breast experiences actually being driven by the injection, by wife Kristi, of chemicals intended to do something dark and sinister to America within the Trump Administration - but clearly gone awry!!
Like, Bryon is not the laughingstock, but a victim in a vast scheme for global domination!
Will our protagonist be able to overcome his shame and ruined reputation to uncover Trump's plot to rule the world?
Maybe Trump merely has been seeking this whole time to get into Kristi's panties (much more likely) and when she continues to rebuff his advances, Trump planted these photos and stories out there to ruin her husband, and her.
Trump responds: "Global domination?? That's absurd! I'm just looking for my next piece of ass!"
