I'm reading "Man arrested in theft of DHS chief Kristi Noem's purse is in the U.S. illegally, official says/Noem’s bag was stolen by a masked man Sunday night while she was having dinner with her family in Washington, D.C." (NBC News).
So... he was in the country illegally. That fits the message conveniently.
You know, I wouldn't carry $3,000 in my handbag, and I wouldn't put any handbag on the floor in a restaurant, and I especially wouldn't if it was a really nice looking handbag, but then I'm very security conscious. I don't expect others to be as security conscious as I am. But some people I would want to be very security conscious, even more than I am, a lot more than I am.
Secretary of Homeland Security.
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Bang up job by the SS.
Noem’s purse was stolen when a masked man walked into Capital Burger, a restaurant in D.C., on Sunday night. The man passed two plainclothes Secret Service officers who were sitting at the bar on his way to her table, which was upstairs.
My first thought when I first heard this story was, "Why the hell was her handbag on the floor?"
"It was frankly, it was a nice looking purse."
The second "it was" interrupting the "frankly" makes me think the "nice looking purse" the US Attorney was actually thinking about was her "schnitzel sack."
My wife is also very security conscious. When we are at a restaurant or bar and she takes a bathroom break, she always hands me her purse to guard. I can't imagine her just leaving it on the floor.
Perhaps the amount of money in the purse was deliberate to ensure that it's theft would be felony theft. In Washington DC theft of under $1000 is only a misdemeanor. Would Washington authorities even investigate it as a serious crime had there been less than $1000 in the purse, especially since the victim was an administration official?
Deport!
Wasn't it some kind of high-dollar bling-brand purse, as well? It doesn't sound as if they recovered it, or its contents. I wouldn't be putting it out of sight on a restaurant floor either, but I haven't seen her seating arrangement. Maybe it's one of those bistro settings with tiny tables and no booths but..... even so.
Quelle surprises ! An illegal foreign national that has all of the attributes of a professional career criminal ! Now, who have I heard saying something about this, declaring it to be not only a problem, but a program?
Stealing a purse at a nice restaurant in Omaha is unheard of. And by an illegal alien!
Biden and the Dems created a giant problem.
Who was that masked man?
How many people without the notoriety of norm have had their purse, their life, their childrens innocence and life stolen by the democrats new constituents, illegal aliens without such media attention. The democrat party should be other and die for the damage they have done to innocent people.
"No further information about the man’s identity was available."
What NBC mean is that the man's name isn't in the press release they reprinted, in lieu of doing any kind of JOURNALISM. They just printed the propaganda that the government would give them and then didn't lift a finger to do any real reporting.
The US Secret Service is an abomination and frankly every single agent needs to be fired and replaced with real cops, not JV "airport security" types.
Watching these Keystone Kops fail time after time after time after time is sickening and reveals systemic incompetence.
Trump had better see the threat of the national security threat that the Secret Service represents before it costs him his life.
Maybe it was Sam Brinton, who took a shine to her nice purse.
It was a dog skin purse.
We are now playing the “she was asking for it” game?
Noem is from South Dakota. In South Dakota you can safely leave your bag under the table in 99+% of the restaurants. There are two Americas. Noem is from the other America, so she has some learning to do regarding situational awareness.
It wasn't the money. You can always make more money.
That was her lucky, dog skin purse.
Well...I'd like to give her a pass as she's most recently been living in South Dakota and playing Governor there. SD is a very different atmosphere than DC. People probably don't do that in SD, and most assuredly wouldn't do it to a Governor. And if they had, in SD they'd probably have been shot by any number of bystanders. So maybe her guard was down a bit by living back home for a while.
She did live in DC previously as a CongressCreature, so she's got to have some idea of the pulse of that place.
If she does this again, she's just not very bright.
“So... he was in the country illegally. That fits the message conveniently.”
And so Pursegate, another distraction, is kicked off in earnest.
A cautious and more conscientious thief would not lift the purse of a high ranking official in an expensive restaurant. The thief will suffer condign punishment. It's more work mugging old ladies for the pittances in their purses, but you don't suffer condign punishment.......I don't see the purpose in carrying three grand in cash. She should explain that. I'd also like to know why the SS agents didn't spot the masked man entering the restaurant and leaving with an expensive purse. The SS agents seem far more lax than her.
with 20 million let-in with Soros funding and mob-democrat elite blessing - we are all bound to run into an illegal - who entered ILLEGALLY.
The fact that she is secretary of homeland security is irrelevant to how she handles her handbag if there aren’t any homeland secrets in it.
I wouldn’t put it on the floor because the floor is gross. It’s bad enough I have to put my feet there.
I wonder if she had her shootin' iron in there?
Don't really care where she put her purse. It should not have been stolen.
Theft is against the law. (Unless you're a democratic.)
First I look at the Purse
Some fellas like the way they walk
The way they swing and sway
Some fellas like the way they talk
Dig the things they say
I don't care if she wobbles like a duck
Or talk with a lisp
I still think I'm a good lover
If the dollar bills are crisp
First I look at the purse!
I don't care if you got yourself a rash
All I want is your pretty green cash
Bought me a suit, bought me a car
Want me to look like a Hollywood star
Money, (Money!) I want money (Money!)
Baby, ain't no "why", baby (Money!)
I need money!
First I look at the purse!
“I don't see the purpose in carrying three grand in cash. She should explain that.”
What business could that possibly be of yours, William?
I was having lunch with my sister in Portland, Oregon a few years ago. We were at a restaurant eating out next to the sidewalk and my sister put her purse next to the leg of her chair. A city worker came by and told her to move it because crackheads would walk by and grab the purse run off.
It ain’t nothin’ but a party, Wince!
The late Queen carried a S hook in her bag so she could hang it off the table.
Where are illegals getting the idea that they are not in jeopardy?
Bring Homeland security I would find a table (not a booth) facing the entrance to my left and an exit to my right. Keep my gun handy and not gab a bunch... but then that is what I do anyway...
I think there's an argument to be made that as Secretary of Homeland Security, she is working toward a nation in which it's safe for anyone to put personal effects down next to them. Or maybe "argument" is too strong a word; maybe what I mean is, that's the spin I'd put on it, in her place. I like it better than, "I'm just a hick, I didn't know any better."
My purse goes where it's most convenient for me. Some of my purses are of the "good" variety; some are of the Target variety. I try not to take any of them too seriously.
Thanks for your concern, Althouse. ButbI think the burning question is whether the accused will be deported to a place with slave ship seating accommodations. At least that’s what I’m expect to hear.
Welcome to DC, Kristi! I guess the problem of criminals illegally in this country has just become less abstract and more real, has it not?
Kristi Noem is a lifelong South Dakota resident, certainly a state with an high trust culture, where people wouldn't think of stealing a woman's handbag.
DC (or any larger city, for that matter, like Madison) is a much lower trust place.
Imagine choosing to live in a large city and rearranging your life to accommodate and guard against the habits of criminals and thinking that living that way is normal. I'll take small town high trust living all day long.
Kind regards,
CS
Bang up job by the SS.
@Tofu king, agreed. The guy could have just as easily pulled a knife and cut her throat, to the applause of Lefties all over the country.
Just imagine if Pete Hegseth had done this! Grounds for dismissal/resignation based on (1) Carrying a purse and (2) fumbling State Secrets!!
Wouldn't a savvy woman keep an eye on her purse?
Wouldn't the head of Homeland Security be particularly attentive to security?
How is $3000 carried in a purse? Is that 30 hundred dollar bills, or 150 twenty dollar bills? And why? Nothing nefarious, but who uses cash? I guess someone who carries her checkbook.
What is the Secret Service for? Two people sitting by the bar on a different floor, aren't prepared to intervene in many threats.
Perhaps Noem will issue a statement of general benefit to the purse-carrying public. Tips on what she should have done to not be a crime victim.
The purse is no great loss: $3K isn’t going to put her in the poorhouse, and even her DHS CAC card can be shut off. And heck, who other than drag queens on stage is going to try to impersonate her? But if he could take her purse without being noticed, he could slip an explosive into her purse without being noticed. That’s the real problem here. Agents were probably positioned at a distance so as not to ruin the mood, and relied on the ‘off the record’ nature of the stop for additional security: if the good guys don’t know she’s going there, then neither will the bad guys. Still kind of crappy, within a year of Trump getting shot. Politicians don’t retain the lessons learnt from an incident for more than about a week.
On the other hand, cabinet secretaries (other than Secdef) are not in the nuke chain of command, so they are lower priorities for protection. You mainly want to keep them from being kidnapped, because a hostage situation would mess up government business. If they get killed outright, there’s always a deputy to keep the work going. So it’s kind of a Ford Pinto situation: the risk calculation was made, and oh well, that slight percentage came up.
JSM
Well, I doubt she was in McDonalds - probably an expensive restaurant. And doesn't she have a security detail? That might have made her over-confident.
And yes, my first thought was Sam Britten, not an illegal alien.
I'd be more concerned with violent leftists like antifa or some crazed Transgender or Lonely gay guy. All these loose nuts rolling around, and they all end up on the Leftside of the spectrum.
Now, lets see what creative reason the ACLU and one of the 700 Federal District Judges come up with no justify not deporting him.
I think there's an argument to be made that as Secretary of Homeland Security, she is working toward a nation in which it's safe for anyone to put personal effects down next to them.
That is the case in places like Japan and Finland. An ethnic monoculture goes a long way towards producing peace and social harmony.
Diversity makes a society unhappy and dangerous, and it's time we weren't embarrassed to say so. The onus should be on those who favor it to prove its worth to the rest of us, and find solutions to its obvious downsides, and not expect us to accept it as an article of religious faith.
final comment. To this male, the fascination of women with expensive handbags is a puzzler. I've never seen one that justified the expense, and frankly they all look the same.
"It was a dog skin purse."
So it had sentimental value.
We are now playing the “she was asking for it” game?
@Leland, of course, but lose the “we.” I’ve heard people from the left side of the political spectrum asking why Laken Riley and Rachel Morin were jogging alone. People from my side of the spectrum think women should be able to go jogging without fear.
Trump had better see the threat of the national security threat that the Secret Service represents before it costs him his life.
I've read that he pays for bodyguards out of his own pocket, former Delta/SAS/Mossad types who form an inner circle to protect him from the Praetorian Guard, I mean the Secret Service. Maybe that was when he was a candidate; I'm not sure he can still do that.
4.3 Yelp rating with over 1,000 reviews. It looks small. Huge failure by SS.
Something like this was bound to happen now that Sam Brinton isn't working purse patrol.
This isn't a real difficult problem: Put the chair leg through the strap loop. Travelers know this to be mandatory.
It is not unusual for me to put my purse on the floor in a restaurant. It depends on the seating arrangement and whether I am at a table or booth. The safest place for the purse is beside me at booth on the inside. I think arguably if I am at a table a purse may be safer on the floor pushed slightly under the table than it would be hanging on the back of a chair or sitting on an unoccupied chair. It seems to be it is easier to snatch a purse from the back of a chair or an unoccupied chair than from the floor.
To this male, the fascination of women with expensive handbags is a puzzler. I've never seen one that justified the expense, and frankly they all look the same.
I have some very expensive possessions as well as some items of great sentimental value, including my father's medals from WWII, a Federally-licensed fully automatic machine gun, an antique pocket watch carried by my great-great-grandfather, and the largest Navajo rug I've ever seen outside a museum.
I don't love all of them put together as much as my wife loves her Birkin bag.
"We are now playing the “she was asking for it” game?"
Indeed.
Interesting how it's HER fault - because of what was in her purse and where she placed her purse.
Also - If she were raped by an illegal - I'm sure that would be her fault as well.
I wish we lived in a high trust society where we wouldn’t be blaming the victim for putting her purse under her seat.
SS agents should be fired. These are the same leftist loyalist wankers who let the corrupt democrat party hire a paid patsy to kill Cory and intimidate Trump supporters - and almost assassinate Trump.
Oligarchy leftists would have cheered.
Hassayamper: "I have some very expensive possessions as well as some items of great sentimental value, including my father's medals from WWII, a Federally-licensed fully automatic machine gun, an antique pocket watch carried by my great-great-grandfather, and the largest Navajo rug I've ever seen outside a museum."
I apologize for immediately visualizing you making a last stand in a homemade bunker, sitting on the rug behind the tripod-mounted MG, wearing the medals and checking your watch to see when the bastards will come for you....
JSM
PS: I assume Mrs Hassayamper would be your A-gunner, with the Birkin as her backup weapon. - jsm
Three thousand in cash does not seem unusual to me. Perhaps she is frugal, preferring to pay in cash to avoid the 3-5% surcharge most businesses now put on credit cards. By me there are manicurists, hair salons, and bakeries that are cash only. Instead there is an atm in the lobby. The article states she was out to dinner with family. Her children are grown and I believe live in SD. If you are hosting the kids and grands for a weekend visit in DC $3,000 can go fast between eating, drinking, shopping, tips....A larger family at a nice restaurant can easily drop $1,000 on dinner alone.
To this male, the fascination of women with expensive handbags is a puzzler. I've never seen one that justified the expense, and frankly they all look the same.
To this woman....same thing. A purse is just someplace to put all your "stuff" to carry around with you that you might need when out and about (including sometimes a weapon). I don't give a rip what it actually looks like or who made it. It should be practical, durable, comfortable to carry and replaceable.
I buy one with enough space, pockets to place items so that I can find them easily. Wear or lug the damned thing until it is worn out and then throw it away. While I don't care about the bag....I DO care about what is inside it, so like Althouse, I am always careful about where the bag is in relationship to me.
Collecting handbags is crazy. Huge waste of money and time.
A certain ‘French’ US Senator is friends with my neighbor and they were often dining out together in places we would go. One of the security team knows us so after the team did a sweep of the room and a quick hello to us they’d seat the pair next to us…then security would disappear and post out front or outside. Sounds just like this situation. Frankly Capital Burger is not the kind of place you’d expect to have to hug your purse. It is definitely not the kind of place you’d expect an illegal to frequent, though we have recently discovered they have been heavily subsidized by the Federal government. Yes I’m an old luddite but I find it shocking illegals are twenty dollar burger subsidized.
I also discovered not all Birkins are created equal. Client with a big French footprint came to the boardroom meeting and set her Birkin on the table. The room stopped for a few beats.
Big lady flex…
..."The suspect in the earlier theft was also a white male, wearing dark clothing, a dark-colored baseball cap and an N-95 mask, according to the victim, who said she viewed the security footage of the man stealing her purse....... A police report states that the suspect walked by the woman's table and took her bag “from the chair it was hanging on” in one fell swoop..... At least two on-duty plainclothes members were at the restaurant’s bar, in between where Noem was seated and the front doors, according to a source who witnessed the meal. That source said that the restaurant wasn’t very busy at the time Noem's purse was taken."
So it sounds like this illegal and his illegal partner (still being sought) have been working the Capital Burger spot. Its seating arrangements / floor plan must favor the modus operandi. None of the stories I read named the suspect or provided anything more than a generic description. Sounds like a ring has been working the area, which sounds more Eastern European.
My wife's purse was lifted in an Italian restaurant a few years ago. She now has a small, black carabiner that she uses to tie the strap to the chair back. Her purse can still be grabbed, but it isn't leaving.
DC has loads of 4-star and 5-star restaurants. This is out of line for the size of the DC metro area, but they seem to stay in business per the many people with political expense accounts. This includes foreign diplomats, lobbyists, business executives in town for a photo op or influence meeting, elected super genius investors like Nancy Pelosi, etc.
Noem could have needed $3,000 in cash to pay for dinner if she was hosting a large group. MAGA donor money?
I'm worried for any woman who doesn't have sitrep as she navigates society. Where is your purse, who's around you in a dark parking lot, is the sidewalk clear when you unlock your front door ...
I'm not much of a purse person, but I, like a lot of people, appreciate nice things. I've seen some of you men here talk about wristwatches. I check the time on my phone and have no desire to collect jewelry that goes on my wrist. Still, I can see the appeal of a collection of varied and interesting personal items.
If only she had a dog………
I apologize for immediately visualizing you making a last stand in a homemade bunker, sitting on the rug behind the tripod-mounted MG, wearing the medals and checking your watch to see when the bastards will come for you....
Haha, that is funny.
She would definitely take up weapons against anyone threatening to deprive her of the Birkin.
"Imagine choosing to live in a large city and rearranging your life to accommodate and guard against the habits of criminals and thinking that living that way is normal."
Imagine having to watch out for terrorism.
Again - It's her fault because of the what the purse looked like, what was inside the purse, and where she placed the purse.
The illegal who stole it - is just a pitiful scapegoat - who is free from blame.
The New York Times today published a gloating, vicious screed about how she brought it on herself, replete with interviews of people finding it hilarious that she was the victim of a crime. They actually describe groups of people laughing at her.
She was celebrating Easter with relatives, so her security was stationed a bit farther away to give her privacy and family time.
It was an expensive bistro, so one has to wonder if it wasn't staff or a,professional theft ring.
Of course they make no mention that it was an illegal.
She was appointed to the job of Secretary of Homeland Security and accepting that job, she gave up the entitlement to pose as a naive transplant from South Dakota. She's supposed to be protecting us.
"Imagine having to watch out for terrorism." I know! Life shouldn't have to be this way. Yet here we are.
Of course a common sense counterpoint to my dreams of small town high trust living - - locks keep honest people honest. Lead us not into temptation.
Kind regards,
CS
There's a thing about handbags with high fashion brand name. It's a way for those who can't completely clothe themselves expensive things to have one thing that connects them to high fashion. Unlike a lot of quiet rich fashion, it's supposed to read as the brand from across the room. And that made it something the thief could case the room for. I would not go out wearing/carrying something that attracts thieves. The idea that criminals shouldn't exist is beside the point.
"The idea that criminals shouldn't exist is beside the point."
If there were no possible steps to take, that might reduce the incidence of crime, then the incidence of crime would, indeed, be beside the point. But it kind of sounds as if, had the FJB admin enforced the immigration laws, the incidence of this particular criminal would have been zero, at least here in our "Homeland".
William said...I don't see the purpose in carrying three grand in cash. She should explain that.
4/27/25, 8:56
This comment is not receiving nearly the abuse that it deserves.
"She is supposed to be protecting us?"
In a restaurant.
When she is eating.
With SS agents all around - supposedly.
The corrupt Biden administration allowed millions of illegals to enter our nation...ILLEGALLY. - to bog down the courts and give the democrats a new voter base.
How is that protecting our nation?
Also teabag hag and others here, there are dogs that are so vicious from temperament or abuse that they have to be put down. If I had to chose between a bullet in the head or being euthanized, which takes longer than you think and can cause the animal great anxiety, I'd choose the former. If she was raped, would you bitch about how she should have been more careful, you hag?
All this story shows is how perversely pro-criminal and pro-illegal liars such as the the media and people like you have become, ruining civilization itself.
And Althouse, why the hell are you piling on her? If you were jumped on your morning run, I wouldn't be snide about it. It's pretty gross. She was at a restaurant with her extended family, celebrating Easter. What's the matter with you people?
>Ann Althouse said...
she gave up the entitlement to pose as a naive transplant from South Dakota.<
Someone who was out to dinner with her family, is what she was "posing" as. What a silly comment.
>She's supposed to be protecting us.<
From purse snatchers? When she's off the clock? Even sillier.
Ann Althouse said...
Imagine having to watch out for terrorism.
4/27/25, 10:36 AM
Althouse trolling hard here, but let's open this out to the larger issue:
Who are the terrorists in our country and who has to watch out for them? Who are the ones who make it dangerous to go out to a restaurant with your family, and who are the ones who want to make it safe?
Which Party's politics create a high-trust safe society, and which Party's politics create a low-trust dangerous society?
Support for the Democrat Party is simply support for violence, crime, chaos, evil, and ruin.
It was a setup. A trap to catch that guy.
Kristi Noem wore a $50K watch while prancing in the Salvadoran gulag. Flaunting wealth is an ego thing and the professional crooks see you coming.
Gadfly(D) loyalist(D) - stands shoulder to shoulder with the criminal illegal gangs who kill innocent American girls like Laken Riley.
What's the difference between "She shouldn't have put her purse on the floor" for a robbery victim and "she shouldn't have dressed that way" for a rape victim?
While $3,000 is more cash than is wise to carry, the Gucci purse is actually more expensive than that, and as is rightly pointed out, will attract attention, even though it's an understated design. A trained robber would recognize it - and this restaurant has been targeted by the same crime ring before.
Is it advisable to cover oneself in expensive bling? No matter who you are, no matter how good the setting and the security, when you draw attention to yourself, you don't control what kind of attention it is. She is paying that price, with this particular kind of attention - and its aftermath. However undeserved, I would not call her choices wise.
@Althouse (10:52), “green with envy” is not a good color for you.
My first thought when I first heard this story was, "Why the hell was her handbag on the floor?"
I hadn't considered that question, but where else would it be? On your lap? On the table? Leave it in the car?
It is kind of weird, that the two sexes have such markedly different methods for solving the problem of hauling stuff around. Is it just because women don't want pockets?
"It was frankly, it was a nice looking purse."
What was the purse wearing? Are you not allowed to ask that?
“Kristi Noem wore a $50K watch while prancing in the Salvadoran gulag. Flaunting wealth is an ego thing and the professional crooks see you coming.”
People might wonder why feminism is dead, but there isn’t much question about who killed it.
She was provocatively dressed, he leaned in.
She was an appealing child, he leaned in.
She was unavailable, he leaned in.
She protested, he leaned in.
She deserved it.
“If only she had a dog………”
I fully support your appointment to that position, T.B. Haggis!
What someone considers to be a proper amount of “walking around money” can be an interesting personality note. When I found out my father-in-law regularly carried 4 to 5 hundred bucks I had to wonder what the heck contingency required that much ready cash.
Turns out: a down payment on snow machine repairs.
$3K for a restaurant? In DC. Sounds right.
Shorter gadfly:
Laken Riley should have worn longer shorts...
"So... he was in the country illegally. That fits the message conveniently."
"Fits the message conveniently"? I'm already opposed to allowing people to illegally enter the country and support the current administration's efforts to remove them. I don't have to be sold on the idea.
Excess murder, rape, robbery, and other affirmative criminal actions. Also, Americans second in the DEI model.
With a vicious animal, a person without a gun would call a person with a gun, a municipal worker who entertains abortive ideation through lethal injection, or enlist a branch of Planned Pethood (PP) to sequester "burdens" of evidence and other purposes.
gadfly demonstrates once again (11:15am) that he just doesn't get it:
"Kristi Noem wore a $50K watch while prancing in the Salvadoran gulag. Flaunting wealth is an ego thing and the professional crooks see you coming."
I think she wore it there, and did so in front of cameras, to demonstrate that El Salvador has figured out how to make the most brutal gangs entirely safe. If you can wear a $50K watch in front of literally hundreds of them, with no bars in between, confident that there is zero chance of it being stolen, then the gangs have obviously been entirely defanged, and 'seeing her coming' didn't help them at all. No wonder El Salvador now has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. I wonder if she borrowed the watch just to demonstrate this.
I don't mean to say that she's obligated to explain why she's carrying three grand in cash, nor do I mean to say that there's anything wrong with it. It's just a curious thing, and it would be courteous to explain the circumstances......It's my understanding that rich and/or important people don't carry that much cash. The underlings handle the grubby details......Is a purse a womb symbol in the way a flashy car is a phallic symbol?
Feminism, a class-disordered ideology, is not a viable choice. However, the feminine female, the mother, the lady, is very much a life worthy.
"It's just a curious thing, and it would be courteous to explain the circumstances..."
With all due respect, I disagree. How much money someone chooses to carry is nobody's business except the person in question.
And getting back to "the message" for a minute, it seems progressives are pushing "Lower Your Expectations" pretty hard these days.
So she asked for it?
but they seem to stay in business per the many people with political expense accounts.
…much to my surprise many of these foodie chef places are subsidized by vc and pe people. We’ve only ever seen one restaurant that had roe checks. I’ve assumed the DC versions of other cities restaurants like Capital Burger are receiving government subsidies somehow. Just can’t prove it…
"She's supposed to be protecting us."
If you are counting on a 100lb woman, thousands of miles away to protect you, you are a a victim in waiting. If you can't protect yourself, as in capable of immediate deadly force, you are not remotely protected.
I carry a couple of $100 bills in one of the smaller pockets in my billfold, one in my mobile phone case, one in my briefcase, and one in a well-hidden place in my truck.
My mom did the same when I was a kid, but with $20 bills.
Her mom did the same in turn, but with $5 bills.
Grandma used to say "Not every problem can be fixed with a fin, but there sure are a lot of them that can." Now with inflation, it's Benjis instead of fins, but the point is still quite valid.
My kids carry on the tradition, although with ApplePay on their watches, and the continuing refusal of the government to produce higher value bank notes while trashing their value with the money-printing press, I'm not sure it will survive.
and accepting that job, she gave up the entitlement to pose as a naive transplant from South Dakota. She's supposed to be protecting us.
I’m attracted to the notion it all becomes your responsibility
once we give you the power. I’d like to give her the power to protect us but the indulging Hawaiian judges absolves her of responsibility…
Meow. Authentic. Natural. Eternal. Innate.
"and the continuing refusal of the government to produce higher value bank notes while trashing their value with the money-printing press"
The government doesn't like it when you spend money they can't track.
Things Kristi Noem could have purchased through the Althouse Amazon portal that would have helped her enormously: Apple AirTags and purse hooks for tables.
I'm old enough to remember when it was illegal to wear a mask in public, or at the very least was cause for serious suspicion. Then they made it mandatory.
I think the fact that this was on the second floor also takes it out of the street theft category. A purse snatcher has to be pretty bold to assume he can escape from the second floor. (As others have noted, this guy may have been working as part of a "ring.")
My wife is always chiding me for carrying cash. Of course, when the out-of-the-way places she likes to shop and eat at only take cash...
A beautiful woman with a big job, a big family with grandchildren, and a nice purse, attracts resentment from some other women.
It's their nature.
Also, Google's AI says
"Yes, putting your purse under the chair is generally an acceptable and even preferred way to store it when dining in a restaurant or other similar setting. It's a safe, discreet, and space-efficient option."
That's what I always thought. I seem to recall Mom doing that.
The purse and money is a small issue compared to the fact that if he could do this, he could have easily killed the entire party with the Director of DHS. The SS seems to be like most law enforcement, there to figure out what happened, but not prevent it from happening.
Kristi Noem said in her post on X that the person arrested is "a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years."
Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service's chief of communications, said, "For the safety of our agents and officers, we are not in a position to confirm or comment at this time. Should criminal charges be filed, the Department of Homeland Security will provide public information by established procedures."
As we all know, the former South Dakota Governor doesn't shoot pets, and never tells lies except when she wears her ICE uniform (as all Homeland Security Secretaries do when they visit their active gulags).
The thief went upstairs?
Bullshit.
No "thief" with half a brain would leave themselves only one narrow exit.
Unless it was an inside job, or a ring with quality knowledge of the site, or something else.
“Bitch set me up, I'll be goddamn,” - Mayor Marion Barry.
“Kristi Noem wore a $50K watch while prancing in the Salvadoran gulag. Flaunting wealth is an ego thing and the professional crooks see you coming.”
I prefer a $200,000 watch... but whatever.
Gadfly assumes "lie" - without evidence.
Typical pro Biden-mob- corruption excuser.
You got her, Ann! It was totally her fault! Or alternatively she planned the whole thing, even got an illegal involved to help Trump's message on deportations. Damn these MAGA demons!
It was likely a very nice restaurant where no one expects things to be stolen from them, even if left alone, and ESPECIALLY when they have security watching like she had.
Why is it that the left always project onto the right what they would be guilty of ? Of course it could be a simple explanation that the right has learned lessons from the left.
gadfly said...
"Kristi Noem wore a $50K watch while prancing in the Salvadoran gulag. Flaunting wealth is an ego thing and the professional crooks see you coming."
Why the living fuck do you care? No. Seriously. Why? What is it to you? Is your life so small and cold that you envy her an expensive watch? Your life must be shit.
Re; $3000.00. Maybe they were going to an auction. The minimum I'd take with me to a machinery auction was $10,000. In cash.
Grok says:
Yes, placing a handbag on the floor in a restaurant is generally considered unwise for a few reasons:
1. Hygiene: Restaurant floors can be dirty, with spills, crumbs, or foot traffic residue, which may soil the bag.
2. Safety: A bag on the floor is more vulnerable to theft or being accidentally kicked or tripped over by staff or other diners.
3. Etiquette: In many dining settings, especially upscale ones, placing a bag on the floor is seen as improper or careless.
4. Damage Risk: The bag could be damaged by spills, wet floors, or being stepped on.
1. Hygiene: Restaurant floors can be dirty, with spills, crumbs, or foot traffic residue, which may soil the bag.
Can be, sure. You could look before setting the bag down, right?
2. Safety: A bag on the floor is more vulnerable to theft or being accidentally kicked or tripped over by staff or other diners.
More vulnerable to theft than what other options? And if it's under the chair, how would it be accidentally kicked or tripped over?
3. Etiquette: In many dining settings, especially upscale ones, placing a bag on the floor is seen as improper or careless.
The DDG menu listing for the restaurant says "Enjoy a variety of snacks and sandwiches at The Capital Burger, a casual and fine dining restaurant."
4. Damage Risk: The bag could be damaged by spills, wet floors, or being stepped on.
Couldn't the bag be damaged by a spill anywhere in a restaurant? Wasn't "wet floors" covered in #1?
Somebody should ask Grok where she puts her purse when she eats out.
Extremely weak-assed explanation, William @12:22PM.
I have a friend who always has a wad of $thousands with him. Some people do.
Until recently DC was a sanctuary city. The thief will be let go by some sympathetic judge. And he'll give Noem a stern warning for displaying wealth around the underprivileged.
I'm surprised a Republican was even let into a restaurant there.
I'm surprised a Republican was even let into a restaurant there.
They’re let in so paid leftie protesters can yell at them and film it…
No Illegal theft risk?
huh. odd. In biden's america - illegals ruining lives is a bog thing now.
Where was her security? Wouldn't they be able to grab someone bending over her table to grab a purse? Does she have secret service security? That department really needs to be overhauled and agents fired.
I agree the floor is not a good place to put a purse. Where should a woman put her purse?
Maybe a stupid question, but I don't carry a purse so I really don't know.
Btw, expensive purses usually have little metal feet so you're not setting the leather directly on the floor.
UPDATE : Second suspect arrested, first suspect identified.
..."The suspect was identified as 49-year-old Mario Bustamante Leiva, who authorities say is an illegally present Chilean national, who was linked to a series of thefts in April, according to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department..."
'Illegally present'. Hah ! That's a 'Southern lady's' euphemism difficulty level, right there.
Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/man-believed-stolen-dhs-chief-kristi-noems-purse-custody-rcna203176
This seems like an extreme case of blaming the victim. Just because you would not carry $3000 and would not set your purse down does not mean that she should be punished for doing so. And your comment about "fitting the message conveniently" was strange. Was he or was he not illegal? The "message" does not matter. On second thought, it is a case of blaming the victim and hypocrisy.
You know, I wouldn't carry $3,000 in my handbag...
So what is the proper amount of cash one is allowed have in a purse to avoid blame when someone steals said purse?
We've heard of "honey pot" ops. Was this a "money pot" operation?
The vast majority of the comments here are directed at the culpability of the victim.
Someone's lost her cruel neutrality. In fact, this post and the comments are deranged with petty victim-bashing. We can't all be cool denizens of safe places to live with plenty of money to avoid unpleasant realities.
"She gave up the entitlement to pose as a naive transplant from North Dakota." Think about the sexism oozing from that comment. You wouldn't say that about a man. And how, precisely, was she doing this in the first place? Her security and the restaurant's security failed her. Why is "the idea that criminals shouldn't exist" be "besides the point? It is the only point. No criminal, no crime. Hiding behing grok to make up a stupid list of why women shouldn't put their purses on the floor in a restaurant is just pathetic and obsessive, as is the humblebrag that you wouldn't carry such an expensive purse. And is she not entitled to some privacy about what was in the purse?
You don't understand the open hostility demonstrated in DC towards Republicans associated with Trump. Stop feeding it.
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