Padilla Episode Triggers Five-alarm Fire for Democrats

Friday, June 13, 2025

Democrats spooked by President Trump's state-sanctioned shows of force have shifted into five-alarm fire mode, warning he's pushing American democracy to the brink.

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Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Adam Schiff react to Sen. Alex Padilla being removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference.[image or embed]
-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Jun 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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He's lucky he wasn't shot given his unhinged demeanor and the way he charged at Noem.

#1 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-13 09:42 AM | Reply

He's lucky he wasn't shot given his unhinged demeanor and the way he charged at Noem.

#1 | Posted by visitor

You're lucky you're not shot for being such an unhinged and obvious liar.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-13 09:55 AM | Reply

#1 | Posted by visitor_

Come on. You have to be trolling. Everything was on camera.

If you're NOT trolling, then the country needs to be afraid of you.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-13 09:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Visitor has outed himself as the kind of stain on our country that needs to be isolated until it checks out.

He's the sort who only hid what a vile piece of s(*& he is because he didn't feel like there was enough vile pieces of s(*& like him out there until Trump made them all feel comfortable being vile pieces of s*&^.

As for the topic, they should have already been in "five-alarm fire mode." This is a predictable escalation and it will happen again. That they were caught off guard shows, yet again, what impotent idiots the Dems are and why they were instrumental in our current state of affairs developing.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-13 11:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yeah, he is all that. Been here a long time. Actually though, he's the Cowardly Lion type; he's the reason the pages are yellow.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-13 11:20 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Enough with MAGAT traitors like Pisitor_.

Time to set Mar A Fatso on fire

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-13 02:48 PM | Reply

Wel, there is this ... .

" A CNN analyst who once served as an FBI special agent defended some of the tactics used by Secret Service and FBI personnel in their clash with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Thursday.

Appearing on CNN's The Arena, security correspondent Josh Campbell said that agents acted appropriately in escorting the senator out of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference after he interrupted.

"From a law enforcement perspective, we're really looking at three separate incidents that happened within a short period of time," Campbell explained. "First, you have the DHS secretary who was addressing the press. This was not a Q&A period, and she was interrupted. She was interrupted by someone who was speaking very loudly. And so her security detail confronts what we obviously now know to be the senator. And at that point, he is now going to be escorted out. You can't interrupt something like that that's already in progress without having those consequences."

Zed is going to be apoplectic over this analysis.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-13 09:00 PM | Reply

" She was interrupted by someone who was speaking very loudly. And so her security detail confronts what we obviously now know to be the senator. And at that point, he is now going to be escorted out. You can't interrupt something like that that's already in progress without having those consequences."

So does this mean Greene and Boebert should've been dragged out of Biden's SOTU and handcuffed?

#8 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-13 09:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" So does this mean Greene and Boebert should've been dragged out of Biden's SOTU and handcuffed?

#8 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2025-06-13 09:06 PM | REPLY"

They were in their chamber. Didn't move toward Biden. SS knew who they were.

Other than that your equivalence is AWESOME in a Snoofy sort of way.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-13 09:38 PM | Reply

" They were in their chamber."

Means nothing.

"Didn't move toward Biden."

Padilla was nowhere close. I initially thought he was a few feet away, not fifty. She certainly never felt encroached, hell, she barely missed a beat.

"SS knew who they were."

In both cases.

So again ... using today's barometer, should Greene and Boebert have been physically tossed out and handcuffed?

More to the point: What was Padilla being accused of, when he was being handcuffed?

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-13 10:21 PM | Reply

BullBringer is a worthless partisan hack.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-13 11:03 PM | Reply

" Means nothing"

Sure it does. Padilla had no more reason to be there than you I.

" SS knew who they were."

In both cases."

They didn't appear to know who he was when he was removed.