His choices compromised a highly-placed government official. His private life is and should be fodder for exposure.
Not into kink shaming myself (and frankly, I wish more people would safely indulge their kinks), but when your actions can (and probably did) compromise a government official, it’s news.
The only one who compromised Kristi Noem is Kristi Noem. If her husband puts party balloons under his shirt and it stays in their bedroom, I don’t see how that impacts the horrors she did.
I admit that I would have been willing to throw Bryon Noem under the bus to get to his wife and oust her faster, because the good of the country and the poor people she unlawfully got arrested, deported and killed outweigh the good of that one man. But now that she’s out of office, Bryon Noem should be out of the limelight.
She’s not out of office. She was moved to a different office. She’s now the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Her husband is also still married to her and has decided that’s what he wants. Once he publicly steps out and condemns her, then I’ll argue for leaving him alone. Until then, he’s gotten to do what he wants on life while, at minimum, supporting someone who ruins (or ends) people’s lives who she doesn’t approve of. He’s not an asshole for this kink. He’s an asshole because he supports someone who has power to harm and condemns people with alternative lifestyles like him.
I, too, want to live in a world where no one gives a damn about this shit, but that’s simply not the world we live in, and to pretend otherwise is foolishly naive. Bryon’s choices could affect Kristi Noem’s if his secrets were held over her head. (And I’d imagine they probably were, given his evident lack of discretion.)
I don’t care one way or the other WRT to what Bryon Noem does in the bedroom, but it’s odd to me that there’s been so much attention to his “indiscretions” that until recently were kept under wraps, when his wife has been openly cuckolding him with Corey Lewandowski for years (“the worst-kept secret in D.C.”). IIRC she was asked about it under oath during congressional testimony while Bryon sat right next to her, and she did not deny it.
It’s telling that he’s catching all of the media attention for going outside their marriage because he’s into something seen as kinky, while the media has largely ignored his wife’s affair because it is presumably more vanilla. Regardless, she’s been operating with arguably less discretion than him for a LONG time, and is every bit as guilty of exposing herself to blackmail or other potential influence.
Not exactly accurate.
His choices compromised a highly-placed government official. His private life is and should be fodder for exposure.
Not into kink shaming myself (and frankly, I wish more people would safely indulge their kinks), but when your actions can (and probably did) compromise a government official, it’s news.
The only one who compromised Kristi Noem is Kristi Noem. If her husband puts party balloons under his shirt and it stays in their bedroom, I don’t see how that impacts the horrors she did.
I admit that I would have been willing to throw Bryon Noem under the bus to get to his wife and oust her faster, because the good of the country and the poor people she unlawfully got arrested, deported and killed outweigh the good of that one man. But now that she’s out of office, Bryon Noem should be out of the limelight.
She’s not out of office. She was moved to a different office. She’s now the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
Her husband is also still married to her and has decided that’s what he wants. Once he publicly steps out and condemns her, then I’ll argue for leaving him alone. Until then, he’s gotten to do what he wants on life while, at minimum, supporting someone who ruins (or ends) people’s lives who she doesn’t approve of. He’s not an asshole for this kink. He’s an asshole because he supports someone who has power to harm and condemns people with alternative lifestyles like him.
That is incorrect.
I, too, want to live in a world where no one gives a damn about this shit, but that’s simply not the world we live in, and to pretend otherwise is foolishly naive. Bryon’s choices could affect Kristi Noem’s if his secrets were held over her head. (And I’d imagine they probably were, given his evident lack of discretion.)
It is what it is.
I don’t care one way or the other WRT to what Bryon Noem does in the bedroom, but it’s odd to me that there’s been so much attention to his “indiscretions” that until recently were kept under wraps, when his wife has been openly cuckolding him with Corey Lewandowski for years (“the worst-kept secret in D.C.”). IIRC she was asked about it under oath during congressional testimony while Bryon sat right next to her, and she did not deny it.
It’s telling that he’s catching all of the media attention for going outside their marriage because he’s into something seen as kinky, while the media has largely ignored his wife’s affair because it is presumably more vanilla. Regardless, she’s been operating with arguably less discretion than him for a LONG time, and is every bit as guilty of exposing herself to blackmail or other potential influence.