"Greene, who regularly promotes far-right conspiracy theories, had previously expressed interest in leading the department and executing Trump's stated policy of mass deportations of immigrants and their children, many of whom she characterized as "terrorists."

Earlier in 2024, she sponsored a resolution to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border. The Senate found that he did not reach the standard of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" and dismissed the charges.

At a House committee hearing last year, Greene called Mayorkas a liar. When Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., defended the DHS secretary, she falsely suggested that the Democratic lawmaker had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.

Lately, Greene has espoused the theory that Democrats can control extreme weather events like Hurricane Helene."

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She's a shoo-in to lead Homeland Security in -------------.

"No one in this world, so far as I know " and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me " has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way.

Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more.

This assumption is a folly."

- H. L. Mencken was based in Baltimore, Maryland where he wrote for "The Sun" and its companion newspaper "The Evening Sun". On September 18, 1926 he penned a column about the success of tabloid newspapers which included the following passage.

- I wonder when we start selling arms to Moscow.

Jan 20, as I understand it. &)