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.
