Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been accused of inventing a fake emergency to “justify” demolishing a cluster of highly secure buildings that have been designated as a National Historic Landmark.
The buildings are part of a fortified 176-acre complex that formerly housed a hospital created by Congress in 1855 to provide mental health care for the Army, Navy, and District of Columbia.
Over the past 15 years, the Department of Homeland Security has been working with the General Services Administration to transform the site, called St. Elizabeths Campus West, into DHS’s new headquarters.
Suddenly, just two days before Christmas, the GSA notified the city of Washington, D.C., that it was planning an emergency demolition of 17 historic buildings because they “constitute a present risk to life and property,” The Washington Post reported.
Is there no vanity of power too grotesque for these fucking simpletons?
No-Post4444 on
I wouldn’t put it past them. These people just seem to want to do the dumbest and/or most morally reprehensible things they can.
clovisx on
There needs to be some method for countering and combating this “move faster than the courts” mentality and process that the administration uses to do whatever it wants.
The courts, the Congress, the police, and any other group seems wholly incapable of standing up to their speed.
b_luddy on
Isn’t this the left’s favorite thing to do?
Grey_0ne on
“Invasion of our southern border”
“Fentanyl is a WMD”
“Washington DC is lawless”
“Stop the steal”
“War on Christmas”
“Critical race theory”
Come on guys; keep adding to this list of MAGA’s fabricated “emergencies”.
fastautomation on
Some European governments put permanent motion/vibration detectors on corners of historic buildings to alert them immediately if nearby construction could cause damage.
Here, the damage is intentionally self inflicted.
BlindWillieJohnson on
Can we fucking not with the ICE Barbie thing? Every headline I see this on seems a lot less credible when it’s framed this way
Catspaw129 on
Emergency! There’s not a ballroom where those historic buildings are standing! Tear them down! And where is my new jet airplane?
lowsparkedheels on
She’ll just approve a no-bid contract for billions of dollars to one of Trump’s *favored businesses* 🤡
bickering_fool on
Do the US not have a protection order system against historic buildings.
zztop610 on
Please stop referring to this “thing” as a beloved kids toy. It is an abhorrent organism.
teddykaygeebee on
There’s an emergency but the buildings aren’t it.
Pithecanthropus88 on
I really, really want to see her in prison for a very long time.
Aggressive-Will-4500 on
It’s weird how the only things the “conservatives” of the Republican Party are the typical conservative values of racism, intolerance, greed, and an oligarchy of the wealthy.
Kendal_with_1_L on
There won’t be enough prison cells in 2029.
BroadMonk5649 on
They have declared war on this country and are attacking from the inside. And this the republicans that were fool to this so easily deceived it is pitiful. They will do anything for a buck. Or fuck.
CuriousEglatarian on
This is the correct way to title articles. Call their sickness out in bold letters.
LARRYVOND13 on
America, when did you guys get the robot from Megan to do your deportations?
anthematcurfew on
This guy worked in an active and secure building in the same complex:
Ffs you guys need some set in stone rules so each new administration cant just do whatever they want. This is wild to see.
Stranger-Sun on
I wish that wasn’t her nickname. She’s 1/100000000th the person that Barbie is.
kmoonster on
Is that why the East Wing was torn down, too?
(spoiler: she is arguing that the buildings on the new DHS campus could host an active shooter, the counterpoint is that if someone can get inside casually / unnoticed it’s because DHS forgot to do things like lock the doors and windows, monitor a security system, etc)
Mind_Killer on
Christian ISIS. Just rampaging through cities, destroying history.
arthurdentxxxxii on
They say this abandoned campus of historic buildings poses a threat to people because in theory an active shooter could hold up in the abandoned buildings.
Who would they shoot at that is walking around the abandoned campus? What threat could this pose? They are just using it as an excuse to destroy historical buildings so they can either reuse or sell the 176-acres of land.
Intelligent-Lion-653 on
Would it kill you to use her name instead of a nickname they can spin? She’s a decrepit racist hag held together with botox and ivermectin or whatever. brandish her crimes with her name instead of calling her ‘barbie’ 🤪 so kristi noem is synonymous with evil the way it makes kavanaugh squirm to be associated with extrajudicial racist traffic stops
GB715 on
They are going to great lengths to distract from the Epstein files.
Horror_Match9867 on
Next administration should imminent domain all Administration personnel properties and turn them into affordable housing. Think how many people could live at Mar-a-largo!
Adventurous_Light_85 on
I’m sure this is status quo for Trump the builder. Lie cheat and steal your way to your goal.
ahfoo on
The contractors doing these demolitions need to be held personally liable for the damage they are doing. This bullshit where everybody just says they were following orders has to stop. It’s time to start making public arrests of these fuckers if the police are unable or unwilling to do their job because of their complicity with the MAGA rats. Slash the contractor’s truck tires, break their windows, pour sugar in their gas tanks and sand in their valve covers. Turn the tables on these vandals who are smashing out public property. Don’t give me bullshit about “calling for violence” this isn’t a call to violence, it’s a call to defense. How is it that these thugs can tear down public buildings but the public is “inciting violence” if they try to stop them.
usulus on
ICE Karen, please
pcboater2002 on
She’s a bitch for DONALD TRUMP ! THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS IMMUNITY IS TRUMP ! THE OTHERS WHO SCREWED AMERICAN CITIZENS AND BROKE THE LAW ARE OPEN FOR PROSECUTION.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been accused of inventing a fake emergency to “justify” demolishing a cluster of highly secure buildings that have been designated as a National Historic Landmark.
The buildings are part of a fortified 176-acre complex that formerly housed a hospital created by Congress in 1855 to provide mental health care for the Army, Navy, and District of Columbia.
Over the past 15 years, the Department of Homeland Security has been working with the General Services Administration to transform the site, called St. Elizabeths Campus West, into DHS’s new headquarters.
Suddenly, just two days before Christmas, the GSA notified the city of Washington, D.C., that it was planning an emergency demolition of 17 historic buildings because they “constitute a present risk to life and property,” The Washington Post reported.
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-accused-of-inventing-an-emergency-to-tear-down-historic-buildings/).
Is there no vanity of power too grotesque for these fucking simpletons?
I wouldn’t put it past them. These people just seem to want to do the dumbest and/or most morally reprehensible things they can.
There needs to be some method for countering and combating this “move faster than the courts” mentality and process that the administration uses to do whatever it wants.
The courts, the Congress, the police, and any other group seems wholly incapable of standing up to their speed.
Isn’t this the left’s favorite thing to do?
“Invasion of our southern border”
“Fentanyl is a WMD”
“Washington DC is lawless”
“Stop the steal”
“War on Christmas”
“Critical race theory”
Come on guys; keep adding to this list of MAGA’s fabricated “emergencies”.
Some European governments put permanent motion/vibration detectors on corners of historic buildings to alert them immediately if nearby construction could cause damage.
Here, the damage is intentionally self inflicted.
Can we fucking not with the ICE Barbie thing? Every headline I see this on seems a lot less credible when it’s framed this way
Emergency! There’s not a ballroom where those historic buildings are standing! Tear them down! And where is my new jet airplane?
She’ll just approve a no-bid contract for billions of dollars to one of Trump’s *favored businesses* 🤡
Do the US not have a protection order system against historic buildings.
Please stop referring to this “thing” as a beloved kids toy. It is an abhorrent organism.
There’s an emergency but the buildings aren’t it.
I really, really want to see her in prison for a very long time.
It’s weird how the only things the “conservatives” of the Republican Party are the typical conservative values of racism, intolerance, greed, and an oligarchy of the wealthy.
There won’t be enough prison cells in 2029.
They have declared war on this country and are attacking from the inside. And this the republicans that were fool to this so easily deceived it is pitiful. They will do anything for a buck. Or fuck.
This is the correct way to title articles. Call their sickness out in bold letters.
America, when did you guys get the robot from Megan to do your deportations?
This guy worked in an active and secure building in the same complex:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/christopher-hasson-coast-guard-white-supremacist.html
This contractor who worked in the same secure building was also fired:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-federal-employee-sues-government-charlie-kirk-comments-rcna243956
Ffs you guys need some set in stone rules so each new administration cant just do whatever they want. This is wild to see.
I wish that wasn’t her nickname. She’s 1/100000000th the person that Barbie is.
Is that why the East Wing was torn down, too?
(spoiler: she is arguing that the buildings on the new DHS campus could host an active shooter, the counterpoint is that if someone can get inside casually / unnoticed it’s because DHS forgot to do things like lock the doors and windows, monitor a security system, etc)
Christian ISIS. Just rampaging through cities, destroying history.
They say this abandoned campus of historic buildings poses a threat to people because in theory an active shooter could hold up in the abandoned buildings.
Who would they shoot at that is walking around the abandoned campus? What threat could this pose? They are just using it as an excuse to destroy historical buildings so they can either reuse or sell the 176-acres of land.
Would it kill you to use her name instead of a nickname they can spin? She’s a decrepit racist hag held together with botox and ivermectin or whatever. brandish her crimes with her name instead of calling her ‘barbie’ 🤪 so kristi noem is synonymous with evil the way it makes kavanaugh squirm to be associated with extrajudicial racist traffic stops
They are going to great lengths to distract from the Epstein files.
Next administration should imminent domain all Administration personnel properties and turn them into affordable housing. Think how many people could live at Mar-a-largo!
I’m sure this is status quo for Trump the builder. Lie cheat and steal your way to your goal.
The contractors doing these demolitions need to be held personally liable for the damage they are doing. This bullshit where everybody just says they were following orders has to stop. It’s time to start making public arrests of these fuckers if the police are unable or unwilling to do their job because of their complicity with the MAGA rats. Slash the contractor’s truck tires, break their windows, pour sugar in their gas tanks and sand in their valve covers. Turn the tables on these vandals who are smashing out public property. Don’t give me bullshit about “calling for violence” this isn’t a call to violence, it’s a call to defense. How is it that these thugs can tear down public buildings but the public is “inciting violence” if they try to stop them.
ICE Karen, please
She’s a bitch for DONALD TRUMP ! THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS IMMUNITY IS TRUMP ! THE OTHERS WHO SCREWED AMERICAN CITIZENS AND BROKE THE LAW ARE OPEN FOR PROSECUTION.