Kristi Noem (R) Gov. S. Dak

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BigOrangeMojo said:
In her book, Noem had a long tale about meeting Kim Jong Un.

One problem: She never met him


To the point I made a few days ago - who knows what's actually fact or fiction in this book....
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The wild truth I’ve guessed at?

She never shot that dog. It was a “look at me” story completely concocted. 😂🤣
 
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85SugarVol said:
Lol right?
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I didn’t go out of my way to read about it, so this is a tentative conclusion, but the more I think about it, it seems like kind of a fishy story.

Granted, she probably didn’t write the book herself, but the bits I heard make her seem like a bit of a poser. As if she knew there are circumstances where you put down a dog, and she wanted to show off to establish some anti-woke, country girl bonafides. She ended up sounding irresponsible or like it’s a poorly made up story, which is probably why she’s gone on the defensive instead of just letting the woke hysteria work to her advantage.

I also saw a tweet where she was using “but muh kids” as an excuse, which lends credence to the above possibilities, for me. My only real experience with hunting dogs is that they lived in a kennel behind my uncle’s house, where I spent most of my summers. If they got out, my cousins and I played inside until my uncle got them back in. My cousins had pet dogs that lived in the house, but the hunting dog(s) didn’t curl up on the couch, they didn’t come in the house, and they didn’t eat off the table. In fact I can remember my uncle threatening to switch me for something related to those dogs. (Probably throwing a chicken wing or something in the kennel.)

Whether that’s a universal practice or not, we never had a problem with the dogs being a threat to us as kids, or the neighbor’s kids, or the neighbor’s livestock, because my uncle was responsible.

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RockyTop85 said:
Be hilarious if the dog never existed.
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RockyTop85 said:
I didn’t go out of my way to read about it, so this is a tentative conclusion, but the more I think about it, it seems like kind of a fishy story.

Granted, she probably didn’t write the book herself, but the bits I heard make her seem like a bit of a poser. As if she knew there are circumstances where you put down a dog, and she wanted to show off to establish some anti-woke, country girl bonafides. She ended up sounding irresponsible or like it’s a poorly made up story, which is probably why she’s gone on the defensive instead of just letting the woke hysteria work to her advantage.

I also saw a tweet where she was using “but muh kids” as an excuse, which lends credence to the above possibilities, for me. My only real experience with hunting dogs is that they lived in a kennel behind my uncle’s house, where I spent most of my summers. If they got out, my cousins and I played inside until my uncle got them back in. My cousins had pet dogs that lived in the house, but the hunting dog(s) didn’t curl up on the couch, they didn’t come in the house, and they didn’t eat off the table. In fact I can remember my uncle threatening to switch me for something related to those dogs. (Probably throwing a chicken wing or something in the kennel.)

Whether that’s a universal practice or not, we never had a problem with the dogs being a threat to us as kids, or the neighbor’s kids, or the neighbor’s livestock, because my uncle was responsible.

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Yep. Sounds like an attempt to make her sound tough, capable of making hard decisions, and doing “what needs done”.

All of which only made her look like an idiot.

The people that (possibly) hatched this idea should be fired.
If true, the people that told her to put it in the book should be fired.
 
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I'm sorry but this is shocking. I'm struggling to post this sad news. Given any time, they always turn on their own.

 
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85SugarVol said:
Yep. Sounds like an attempt to make her sound tough, capable of making hard decisions, and doing “what needs done”.

All of which only made her look like an idiot.

The people that (possibly) hatched this idea should be fired.
If true, the people that told her to put it in the book should be fired.
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I don’t agree that they should be fired at all. The concept has proven effective in right wing politics, she’s the one ****ing it up.

She was governor in 2020, unless the state got mauled by COVID, she shouldn’t need to establish that she can make hard choices. She’s got a record she can run on. But the stupid, superficial people who are making the Republican Party go right now aren’t really interested in records. Post- Dobbs and Bruen, I think a lot of politicians are struggling to find effective ways to appeal to large swaths of that group.

One way that’s proven effective is to lean into cultural wedges to portray themselves as the victim of woke cancel culture to catch a bump from the reflexive opposition to all things left.

Making herself the proxy by which the woke left effectively calls all people who have had to put down working dogs “puppy murderer” may be too niche, but it’s a proven concept.

But she’s too much of a politician at heart and instead of looking the outrage in the face and being belligerent about it, she got scared of the hits she was taking and went on the defensive and started playing damage control by justifying her actions, which is the worst possible thing she could have done. Instead of being a champion for rural culture, she has tacitly admitted that she thinks it’s something to be ashamed of.
 
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