IHIP News: Kristi Noem SCANDAL Erupts as She Plans to RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! Total Disaster!

What this episode is about

The discussion delves into the controversy surrounding Kristi Noem's presidential aspirations amidst a scandal, touching on RFK Jr.'s candid remarks about past drug use and the hypocrisy in political standards. Key points include the perceived lack of respect for the office and qualifications among some political figures, as well as the broader implications of hypocrisy within partisan media narratives.

Key takeaways

• RFK Jr.'s toilet seat bravado reveals a shocking disconnection between personal history and public responsibility.
• Christy Noem’s obsession with media spotlight shows how vanity can trump public duty in political leadership.
• In an age of disinformation, honesty—however bizarre—stands out more than well-polished corporate lies.
• The GOP's embrace of absurdity reveals a deeper societal trend where expertise is sidelined for entertainment value.
• When political scandals resemble high school drama, it begs the question: Are we electing leaders or reality TV stars?

Who speaks in this episode?

• Christian Amanpour (Guest)

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Corey Luwendowski, RFK Jr. / RK Jr., Christy Nome, Tom Hman
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Tom Hman, Christian Amanpour, Marco Rubio
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Tom Hman, Elon Musk
4. 15:00 – 20:00: George Herbert Walker Bush, Tucker Carlson
5. 20:00 – 24:37: Tucker Carlson, Noble

Notable quotes from "IHIP News: Kristi Noem SCANDAL Erupts as She Plans to RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! Total Disaster!"

• In recovery now, so good for him. The problem I have with it is that he has no respect for the office. as HHS secretary, he should have a higher standard of conduct. He should…

  about RFK Jr. / RK Jr. · at 1:14

• Little to hide their relationship inside the department. In one incident, Luwendowski reportedly fired a US Coast Guard pilot after Gnome's blanket was left behind on a plane.…

  about Christy Nome · at 3:06

• And the first stupid person I saw as president was George W. Bush and he seems Mensah comparatively speaking now.

  about George Herbert Walker Bush · at 4:54

• Okay. And then Christian Amanpor had this conservative scholar on and he's talking about the United States already slipping into a dictatorship. This is pretty daunting. Play the clip. We are.

  about Christian Amanpour · at 6:43

• And yet his own sort of borders are Tom Hman has gone has been in Minnesota. He now says the ICE surge or the ICE presence is concluding. Also, you know that some six Republicans broke from.

  about Tom Hman · at 8:10

• Problem with Renee Good getting her face blown off and called a [ __ ] [ __ ] Yeah. I think about sometimes like if there would have been a huge resistance by the Democratic…

  about Elon Musk · at 10:27

• What is that next step? Is it a Tucker Carlson? Is it a Nick Fuentes? And Tucker Carlson is somebody who's so insidious to me right now because he's gobbling up sections of a very frustrated part of the electorate that is so.

  about Tucker Carlson · at 16:55

• 360° wheels, they're effortless. This suitcase glides next to you instead of dragging behind like an anchor. Noble gives you real travel peace of mind, security, design, and…

  about Noble · at 20:13

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Christy Nome — Person · Referenced government official / political figure · 1 mention · first at 3:00
  Discussed in the context of alleged workplace favoritism/abuse of power and media attention-seeking within DHS; framed as emblematic of perceived incompetence.
• Tom Hman — Person · Referenced government enforcement figure · 3 mentions · first at 4:19
  Discussed as a prominent DHS/immigration enforcement media presence and as part of a critique of immigration policy and enforcement tactics.
• RFK Jr. / RK Jr. — Person · Referenced political figure · 2 mentions · first at 0:00
  Used as an example of perceived unseriousness/unfitness for high office and contrasted with other officials on honesty and standards.
• Corey Luwendowski — Person · Referenced political operative · 2 mentions · first at 3:00
  Central to the segment about an alleged relationship with 'Christy Nome' and an incident involving firing a pilot—used to illustrate alleged corruption/abuse of power.
  Little to hide their relationship inside the department. In one incident, Luwendowski reportedly fired a US Coast Guard pilot after Gnome's blanket was left behind on a plane.…
• George Herbert Walker Bush — Person · Historical political reference point · 4 mentions · first at 4:49
  Invoked as an earlier milestone in a narrative about declining standards/competence in U.S. presidential politics and as a precursor in a chain leading to Trump-era politics.
• Tucker Carlson — Person · Referenced media figure / political influencer · 3 mentions · first at 16:55
  Discussed as a potentially 'next' demagogic figure after Trump and as someone attracting disaffected viewers via clips, despite being characterized negatively by the speaker.
• Elon Musk — Person · Referenced billionaire/tech figure · 1 mention · first at 10:36
  Cited as part of a critique of billionaire influence and a 'DOGE' effort described as intruding into government functions; used to argue Democrats failed to mount early resistance.
• Christian Amanpour — Person · Referenced journalist/interviewer · 2 mentions · first at 0:03
  Introduces a clip featuring a conservative scholar warning about dictatorship; serves as a media source for a key segment of the discussion.
• Marco Rubio — Person · Referenced U.S. senator / political figure · 1 mention · first at 6:28
  Used as an example of perceived political 'pivot' and moral compromise in relation to Trump-era politics.
  And what a 360 degree I guess I should say 180°ree pivot he's made. What a disappointment little Marco is. Talk about selling your soul.
• Anthony Fauci — Person · Referenced public health official · 1 mention · first at 0:27
  Mentioned briefly as a contrast point—imagining how Fauci/Obama-era officials would have reacted to RFK Jr.’s comments/behavior.
  Yeah. And could you imagine if Dr. Fouchy Oh my gosh.

Sponsors

• Noble — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 20:18
  Promoted as a high-quality, convenient travel suitcase with unique features during an ad segment.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Welcome to IHIP News. Here is RFK Jr. on um cocaine. Play the clip. I'm not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats and I know this disease will kill me right?

0:14 Like if I don't I love how Theo's like just Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just like in the bro spirit. It's just like

0:24 Yeah, [ __ ] it. You know, like sure, do cocaine off toilets. Yeah. And and could you imagine if um Dr. Fouchy

0:31 Oh my gosh. No. Anybody in the Obama administration, I mean, these are the people that lost their mind over Hunter Biden who's in recovery and when they started attacking him for his drug addiction, was in recovery. And then I mean, I will say this for RFK Jr., he's the only one. There's this video of him where it's like, "Hey, have you flown on Jeffrey E? You haven't flown on Jeffrey Epstein's jet, have you?" He goes, "Yes, I actually have." And then he gives the dates,

0:56 does it like and so I will say it there, even though he's a nut, his honesty in light of all the diabolical liars is somewhat refreshing.

1:07 Yeah. But here's my thing with him. As you know, I'm in recovery, so I don't I mean, he used to do that. He's allegedly in recovery now, so good for him. The problem I have with it is that he has no respect for the office. as HHS secretary, he should have a higher standard of conduct. He should al also be a scientist slash phys slash physician, all the things. But it's just he's so unqualified. And that just shows me how unserious he is.

1:39 Yeah. I I think that I could I could even handle a slight disrespect for the office if he had respect for science and expertise, you know, but it's just um it's amazing to me that all of the Fox News right-wing Christians, the exposure that they have for the hypocrisy, it's it's so brazen now. And you can see like the Jill Xarin, Bethany Frankle, these housewives that are maggot that these people get stuck in their little bubbles and it's just must be so racist in some sections of the internet that then they make a post on their own page and because they've been in this racist bubble and then the world sees how it is and like then they start getting cancelled. like Jill Zarin, that housewife, she just got cancelled because inside this MAGA world, it's like rampant stupidity, rampant anti-expertise, um complete moral collapse. I think it's just I always like to go back to the furries at the White House,

2:43 the furry party because I just remember the stage five meltdowns nationally about furries and that it was like a these furries have their litter boxes in the classroom. It's so stupid. All right, next up we have and we've known this and we've been reporting this for a long time, but it's getting worse. Christy Nome and Corey Luwendowski, both married or in a relationship. The Wall Street Journal reports that they do little to hide their relationship inside the department. In one incident, Luwendowski reportedly fired a US Coast Guard pilot after Gnome's blanket was left behind on a plane. They eventually reinstated the pilot. No one else was available to fly them home. What the [ __ ] And so this to me is I predicted that what was going on behind the scenes. You know, you see the cabinet meetings and it's all this kumbaya, we love you. It's the greatest honor of our life. I knew these people were not

3:37 monsters. I you know, it is a toxic work environment. You didn't bring our blanket. [ __ ] you. You're fired. You know, drunk on power. You know, it's that [ __ ] Here's the thing. I read an article. First of all, I went back to see what Christy Gnome said when the original allegations about her and uh Corey Luwendowski having an affair were. And she her response was, "My husband and I have a godly family." I mean, I'm just like, gross. Everybody knows you're [ __ ] around. Nobody would care if you weren't so arrogant. And then I was reading an article recently. She has this whole thing where it's like she has staffers that clock. How much is Tom Hman on the TV versus how much time am I on the TV?

4:25 Yes, she has her AIDS clock because she doesn't want somebody representing DHS on TV more than her. According to the article I read, also according to the article, this she's plotting a run for president. I just th this is the worst thing about Trump. Actually, George W. Bush started this is that stupid people could be president,

4:54 right? And the first stupid person I saw as president was George W. Bush and he seems Mensah comparatively speaking now.

5:02 And then you had Sarah Palin who was just a complete [ __ ] I mean, just absolutely uneducated. Didn't read. Total Bible thumper. Named her kids after trees and weird [ __ ] Abstinence only. Guess what?

5:18 Knocked out. Daughters knocked up. Teen bride, etc. And then now we have Trump. And now it's like the Republican party. It's a race to find the stupidest candidate. You know, who's the dumbest? Pick me. It it's just I I I don't understand the Republican fascination with listening to stupid people. Like I always if I'm going to listen to something or read something, I value that person's opinion as being different from mine, a different perspective, more expertise in that area than I have. I'm looking for curiosity.

5:55 These people are looking for like brain dead entertainment. I wonder if it's they feel like Trump probably feels smarter when he's around someone like Christina. You know, maybe like they pick the dumbest people so that they can control them more easily and they can sell them [ __ ] more easily.

6:16 Well, but also it could make the argument that dumb people would think, "Yeah, I'm going to work for a man that has 34 felonies and try to get his vice president killed on January 6th." It would take a stupid, morally collapsed person to want to do that. Um, which which brings up Marco Rubio and what a uh 360 degree I guess I should say 180°ree pivot he's made. What a disappointment little Marco is. Talk about selling your soul.

6:43 Okay. And then uh Christian Amanpor had this conservative scholar on and he's talking about the United States already slipping into a dictatorship. This is pretty daunting. Play the clip. We are one big step into dictatorship already. Um it's not clear to me that any any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald Trump. It seems the only people who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump are average American citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere. And God God bless them for that. But the US Congress, both parties are unwilling to really fight Trump. Uh the Republicans have become the party of dictatorship.

7:23 He said something super important. He said both parties. And this is something that we really really beat the drum on because I'm I expect the Republicans to go along with this because all Donald Trump has done is said, "Okay, we can all take our KKK KKK hoods off now." Um, but the Democrats have been the most disappointing thing to me in Trump 2.0. All right, continue. Uh so I I think we are one deep foot into dictatorship and I am worried as I have said and others have been pointing out about whether we will even have free and fair elections in 2026 let alone in 2028. Uh I think Trump has a plan uh to disrupt those elections and I don't think he's willing to allow Democrats to take control of one or both houses as could happen in a free election.

8:10 And yet his own sort of borders are Tom Hman has gone has been in Minnesota. He now says the ICE surge or the ICE presence is concluding. Also, you know that some six Republicans uh broke from Trump policies to join a vote against the tariffs and against how they're being used. Uh you know that the grand jury failed to get any uh indictment against what the administration wanted, which was those six or so uh senators and others who urged soldiers not to obey illegal orders. things seem to be moving.

8:47 I don't agree with that. I mean, it's always one step forward and and uh and two steps back with Donald Trump.

8:55 Yeah. I I I hear both sides to that because my gut is we are already in a dictatorship because nobody is stopping him. The courts aren't stopping him. Congress isn't stopping him. He's killing people in the streets. They're buying warehouses to store people, which are called concentration camps. And the ICE provocations seem to coincide with the drumming up of the Safe Act and other voter suppression tactics. And you do see some peeloffs, but not enough. There really isn't enough. I mean, these this grand jury, you see everyday Americans putting up more of a fight, saying, "No, you cannot charge these six lawmakers." You see a grand jury that would indict a ham sandwich. everyday Americans standing up to this regime and saying, "No, you're not going to charge these people more uh courage than the Democratic party because the Democratic leadership could really ignite a uh resistance to this." And I'm just I'm

9:58 consistently consistently disappointed with the Democratic Party's failures. And then I just always go back to, you know, if you're not going to be upset about a genocide, why are you going to be upset about Donald Trump? And a lot of people in the Democratic party take Apac money. Vote consistently for American taxpayers to send bombs to Israel to kill little kids. So if that isn't your, you know, northstar, if if you don't have a problem with that, you're probably not going to have a problem with Renee Good getting her face blown off and called a [ __ ] [ __ ]

10:32 Yeah. I I think about sometimes like if there would have been a huge resistance by the Democratic party immediately when Elon Musk went had his fake Doge and started going into that. If there would have been a huge organized resistance, would we be here now? Would it have accelerated so quickly? Would the changes have come so dramatically if a resistance had started then and just been building momentum for the last year? Would we be where we are? And I I don't know the answer to that. Maybe that's just, you know, crying over spilled milk. But I just wonder like because you and I talked about at that time like why are we not fighting against this Doge thing? I mean it was the very first thing that everybody kind of laid down on

11:16 it. It's I mean obviously they're not because of you know when you start tracking the money. Chuck Schumer takes money from a lot of these same lobbyists that are all involved in big tech and AI and you start looking at the corporate dims that are in leadership positions and the pecking order and who they picked that one guy that ended up dying of cancer

11:36 Yeah. Yeah. And they just seemed to be it's like when Trump won it it broke a lot of things like a lot of people broke and he didn't even win a majority like more people voted against him when you take Kamla and then the third party that number is higher than what he won. I mean it wasn't that huge of a victory but everybody acts like and bought into his narrative of as Democrats always do that it was a landslide and it simply wasn't. He didn't he doesn't have the political capital in that last victory to do this much with it. But that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans, they could not win the popular vote and win the electoral college vote. And they govern as though they have a bank account full of political capital. They always govern that that way. And Democrats always govern incrementally and tiptoe. And this whole notion of the opposition being controlled, I think comes to

12:34 fruition and it becomes clearer and clearer the more you see it. I cannot understand why this DHS bill is not just an absolute no. They already have billions of dollars. Their their funding is more than most countries militaries. We're not giving them another scent. Chrissy Nome is an idiot. Uh Tom Hman is a sociopath and they're shooting people and we're not going to pay to put people in concentration camps. At most, the majority of these issues with immigration are paperwork details. These are not crimes, right? But the Democrats buy into the Republican narrative by acquiescence. They always do it. They allow these Republican lies to become the truth via acquiescence. and it infuriates me. All right. Now, I'm keeping an eye on AOC because she is a true progressive. They say she has ambitions to run for president. And I'm going to be very candid. Her politically, her age, the fact that

13:35 she's a woman, the fact that she's a Latina, all of that for me is a positive. Uh I do have some PTSD about we ran two women against Donald Trump. I have some PTSD that this country is so patriarchal and sexist. Um, and but we haven't had a woman or a candidate since Bernie that ran as a populist. And so I don't know if the gender is as much the thing. I mean, I think it probably is, but I don't know. I think it's a I think it's a healthy, fruitful conversation to have. But here is AOC talking about how economic inequality uh feeds fascism.

14:15 Yes, that's absolutely right. You know, I think one of the the connections and relationships that is under discussed particularly in the security space is the fact that I believe we're seeing in economy across economy around the world including in the United States that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in a sense in authoritarianism, right-wing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics. And that is a direct outcome of not just income inequality but the failure of democracies over decades to deliver the failure to deliver higher higher wages the failure to raid in corporations. You know, we were uh the point was just made about antitrust. In the United States, antitrust was is such a foundational bedrock value. Not just because the ascent of monopolies create the abuse of power and corporations and market power, but there is a level of market

15:20 concentration and corporate consolidation where a a massive company can get so big that its consolidated power can rival that of nation states. In democracies, we have elected leaders and in massive corporations that then begin to consume the public sector gobble up the spending. They start to call the shots. And we're starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics as well. So, it is of

15:55 Okay. I think her points are so astute that corporations start gobbling up the power and we've been seeing that long before Trump. You've seen the ever since the overturning of Citizens United and the uh mistake that we make not only in our personal lives of giving wealthy people so much difference. You look at it um in the Epstein files, all these wealthy people get difference. If you look at it in January 6, all the people that funded this violent insurrection get difference. Corporations get deference. And that is, I think, the fool's errand of capitalism. And her point about ignoring all of this and what it incubates is something that I've been talking about on here for months and months and months. That as a person who's been a political junkie my whole life, you know, George W. Bush, Reagan incubated George W. Bush. George W. Bush incubated Trump and what is after Trump?

16:55 What is that next step? Is it a Tucker Carlson? Is it a Nick Fuentes? And Tucker Carlson is somebody who's so insidious to me right now because he's gobbling up sections of a very frustrated um part of the electorate that is so tired of Western media and Western democracies not telling us the truth about Israel. But Tucker Carlson is. So, you're getting progressiveminded people that are watching Tucker Carlson in 30 second, 45 second clips that are like, "God, I really like Tucker." They've forgotten that he claims that demons gobbled him up one night and that he caused refers to gay people as [ __ ] TS is a extreme white supremacist. But there is a danger with the way the information delivery system is coming to us and these demagogues and um apparent populace that aren't populists like Donald Trump is. And if we do not address this right now and if the Democratic party doesn't really start

18:04 putting up a resistance, Trump is going to be at some point if we don't fix this. I look back at George Bush, George W. Bush right now. I was like, h, he wasn't that bad. I hated him. I couldn't believe the lies. I couldn't believe the human rights violations. I couldn't believe the war in Iraq. I couldn't believe all of the uh bubba [ __ ] with oil companies and all the gladanding. I thought he was as corrupt as all get out and a war criminal. But then the American public gets amnesia and it incubated something worse. And Obama didn't do anything about George W. Bush.

18:42 And I love Obama, but he did not prosecute that administration and they should have been. And then now Biden didn't prosecute Trump and he should have been. Trump is no spring chicken. Annie's a lame duck. So what is next? And that's why I'm so open-minded and analytical about my own political beliefs and the errors of my own ways. And I constantly want to be an evolving political thinker in this time because the news is coming at us fast and in a devastating violent way daily.

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21:15 What comes after him? They might be smarter. They might be even more diabolical and care about it like a Steven Miller as the actual man in power. Then I worry about the youth, the people that are so used to Trump's theatrics and the lying. Like what is their expectations of of a politician? Because when I was growing up, politics was boring. Now it's like a freak show flags everywhere. So what's the expectations? So it's very concerning. But I think you're spot on. I mean spot on. Yeah. It it's just it's going to incubate something worse. JD Vance is worse. Tucker Carlson's worse. It it it is there is something worse than Trump and it's younger and like you said it's more diabolical. All right. And then lastly, Pumps, I found this great video for you and the listener to enjoy this weekend. Um I just thought this was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Play it.

22:28 That was so funny about there. He was grabbing his crotch. He hardly grabbed his crotch at all. I just always thought there was a really thin line between like cowg girls, if you go out to like rural Oklahoma, between cowg girls and lesbians. There's a super fine line between cowboys and gay men.

22:44 These cowboys, if you go to like a country and western bar and they got those just skin tight jeans on and there's just there's a really fine line. But I just think it's really uh interesting that the meltdown about Bad Bunny uh is such a reveal as to they care more about the culture war,

23:05 right, than they do about child pedophilia. Yeah. and elites getting away with crimes. They see the threat of culture wars and and losing that because they tasted what they thought was a quick little victory in Trump 2.0, but the push back is so massive and it's kind of like they realize, oh, they everybody is going to go on and mix with other races and share cultures and they enjoy it and they're clinging on to this whole but there were no white people in the Super Bowl. I'm like, this is why I I think you guys shouldn't eat at Mexican restaurants. And I I I know that video went viral, but I meant it because they are proving my point of that viral video. You should not be able to enjoy multiculturalism. If you want an all white uh entertainment at your sporting event, go watch croquet. That's it.

23:55 That's the list. You can't watch basketball. You can't watch football because these people want to enjoy. They're like, "Oh, these blacks here can entertain me, and these Mexicans here can cook for me and feed me, and they want to control everything." And I just think it's gross. I think white racists that enjoy multiculturalism, but can't support the human beings behind it. It's a real window as to how evil their soul is. Yeah. And there's a lot of them. So many.

24:22 Yeah. A lot. All right, that's all we have. Like, subscribe. We'll be back later.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "IHIP News: Kristi Noem SCANDAL Erupts as She Plans to RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! Total Disaster!"?

Christian Amanpour (Guest).

What is "IHIP News: Kristi Noem SCANDAL Erupts as She Plans to RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! Total Disaster!" about?

The discussion delves into the controversy surrounding Kristi Noem's presidential aspirations amidst a scandal, touching on RFK Jr.'s candid remarks about past drug use and the hypocrisy in political standards. Key points include the perceived lack of respect for the office and qualifications among some political figures, as well as the broader implications of hypocrisy within partisan media…

What is mentioned in this I've Had It episode?

11 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Christy Nome, Tom Hman, RFK Jr. / RK Jr., Corey Luwendowski, George Herbert Walker Bush, Tucker Carlson. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "IHIP News: Kristi Noem SCANDAL Erupts as She Plans to RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! Total Disaster!"?

The episode runs 25 min; the transcript is about 4,017 words in 40 timestamped sections.

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