Kristi Noem (R) Gov. S. Dak

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RockyTop85 said:
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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So you think it was a strategy to actually invite a woke attack from the Left? Not an attempt to look “tough”?

She’s flailing. Whatever the strategy was.
 
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85SugarVol said:
So you think it was a strategy to actually invite a woke attack from the Left? Not an attempt to look “tough”?

She’s flailing. Whatever the strategy was.
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It’s part of the MAGA playbook, now. Trump does it nonstop: violate gag order, predictably get punished, play victim, rinse, repeat. People eat it up. Even the ones who supposedly “don’t like Donald Trump” but are reliable republicans will get caught up regurgitating asinine defenses of him in every single issue because they are against all the people who enjoy seeing him punished.
 
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RockyTop85 said:
It’s part of the MAGA playbook, now. Trump does it nonstop: violate gag order, predictably get punished, play victim, rinse, repeat. People eat it up. Even the ones who supposedly “don’t like Donald Trump” but are reliable republicans will get caught up regurgitating asinine defenses of him in every single issue because they are against all the people who enjoy seeing him punished.
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There’s certainly some truth in that.
 
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She said she canceled a meeting with Macrom. Problem is none was scheduled....

Where does the fiction stop and truth starts in this book?
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
She said she canceled a meeting with Macrom. Problem is none was scheduled....

Where does the fiction stop and truth starts in this book?
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Truth is optional is MAGAville. To quote the Blues Traveler lyric, "It doesn't matter what I say, as long as I sing with inflection."
 
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volfanhill said:
You can't be a Biden backer and pretend to care if your candidate is an honest person. You can't. At least not if you want to be taken seriously
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There are barely two handfuls of people posting in this forum that would be taken seriously anywhere outside this dumbed downed, right wing echo chamber
 
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Noem told the stories of killing both her dog and a goat because, first, she's a redneck; and second, because rednecks have a fetish about
acting tough, and what better way to show how pretend tough you are then to brag about shooting the family dog and one of your goats.

We see this pretend tough-mama bull$hit with her fraudulent anecdote about meeting Kim Jong Un and her claim that he "underestimated" her. After numerous people pointed out that she almost certainly never met the North Korean leader, she admitted as much, claiming that she was "advised" that the story was nonsense and that it would be axed from forthcoming copies of the book. It's her book, about her life, but she apparently wants us to now believe that she didn't have much to do with the book or wasn't aware of one of the key anecdotes in the book--which was obviously made up to push her tough-gal act. Either way, she looks like a liar and an idiot. And we can be sure there's lots more in the book that is either total fiction or seriously embellished. Why, contrary to the pundits, this all makes her the PERFECT VP candidate for the gangster. They have more than a bit in common.
 
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turbovol said:
Noem told the stories of killing both her dog and a goat because, first, she's a redneck; and second, because rednecks have a fetish about
acting tough, and what better way to show how pretend tough you are then to brag about shooting the family dog and one of your goats.

We see this pretend tough-mama bull$hit with her fraudulent anecdote about meeting Kim Jong Un and her claim that he "underestimated" her. After numerous people pointed out that she almost certainly never met the North Korean leader, she admitted as much, claiming that she was "advised" that the story was nonsense and that it would be axed from forthcoming copies of the book. It's her book, about her life, but she apparently wants us to now believe that she didn't have much to do with the book or wasn't aware of one of the key anecdotes in the book--which was obviously made up to push her tough-gal act. Either way, she looks like a liar and an idiot. And we can be sure there's lots more in the book that is either total fiction or seriously embellished. Why, contrary to the pundits, this all makes her the PERFECT VP candidate for the gangster. They have more than a bit in common.
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While I rarely agree with much of anything you say regarding policy, I think we both can agree that Noem acted stupidly and unprepared for her moment in the spotlight. Knowing that this is your big debut and that a VP position could very well be on the offing, you make sure you go over your image with a fine tooth comb. This is not the kind of story you put out unless you are tone deaf.

The fact that she had/has? an affair with Corey Lewndowski also is a major issue for many conservative women who would liked to have supported her.

Its a shame, since Trump would clearly like to nominate a qualified conservative woman for a VP. He wants those optics.

Unfortunately, Noem's dog gets his revenge 20 years later as she just shot herself in the foot. No chance now.
AZ's Lake is not working hard enough for Trump so not that one either. Candidly, she is not qualified for a national level position.
He is warming to Gabbard, who would give him crossover chances but would piss off a lot of true conservatives I think.
NY's Stefanik seems to have the inside track, especially since he is stuck up there so much now but I am not sure she is going to wow anyone but she is a pretty solid conservative.
 
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