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Kristie Noem's Unfortunate Book

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This seemed unlikely already, but...

Seriously? I was wondering about this. I suspected she read her own autobiography. It would be really word to listen to an audiobook of someone else reading first person statements.

Oh yeah she did. No veep for you Kristie. Trump has way too much political savvy to pick her after this (despite his frequent use of "like a dog" in the negative). If he did some dark money superpac would be formed ("Animal lovers against Noem.") and attack her relentlessly with her own words (probably in her own voice) and tie her to Trump like an anchor.
Naw, this is a wash for her.
A blurb.

It can be spun: Wow, she’s so ‘honest’ that she appears to be ‘politically-stupid’…but she’s pretty bright, so she must be just that honest!
 
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Oh, as rhetoric, it’s classic, (if somewhat mundane), fare.
Still, what goes on in South Dakota might not play in Peroria.
Or Pyongyang. Interestingly...

"North Koreans risk the wrath of Kim Jong-un as he has banned dogs being kept as pets in his nation. Socialist Women's Union of Korea has asserted canines should only be kept for meat and fur.

"Treating a dog as a family member, who eats and sleeps with the family, is incompatible with the socialist lifestyle and should be strictly avoided," a source told Daily NK, a newspaper in South Korea.' North Koreans risk wrath of Kim Jong-un as he bans dogs being kept as pets
 
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Or Pyongyang. Interestingly...

"North Koreans risk the wrath of Kim Jong-un as he has banned dogs being kept as pets in his nation. Socialist Women's Union of Korea has asserted canines should only be kept for meat and fur.

"Treating a dog as a family member, who eats and sleeps with the family, is incompatible with the socialist lifestyle and should be strictly avoided," a source told Daily NK, a newspaper in South Korea.' North Koreans risk wrath of Kim Jong-un as he bans dogs being kept as pets
Looks like you uncovered the link between the two. Noem visited with Jong-un to get dog assignation tips.
 
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Oh, as rhetoric, it’s classic, (if somewhat mundane), fare.
Still, what goes on in South Dakota might not play in Peoria.
Wanna bet?

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Sounds like an untrained dog behaving like a dog.

What we don’t know are the true circumstances. Dogs bites are usually a response to feeling threatened.

She is telling this story for some reason I can’t understand. Why voluntarily open yourself up to mostly negative criticism unless you are proud of this dog and goat killing? Tells me more than I ever needed to know about this woman.
Guilt on her part hopefully
 
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The gift that keeps on giving...

“While in Paris, I was slated to meet with French president Emmanuel Macron,” Noem wrote. “However, the day before we were to meet, he made what I considered a very pro-Hamas and anti-Israel comment to the press. So I decided to cancel.” French government says Kristi Noem lied about cancelling meeting with Macron

'Cept that didn't happen either.

'Yet a French official told the outlet there is no record of a scheduled meeting with Noem – nor had they invited her.'
 
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I think she's a South Dakota rancher who did what other SD ranchers do all the time.
It's worth reading the full context of the story. Noem took an untrained dog hunting and got angry when she acted like an untrained dog. Then she left this untrained dog loose in the back of her truck and was shocked when the dog jumped out to chase chickens while left unsupervised. Then she grabbed an excited, untrained hunting dog by the collar and was surprised when the dog tried to bite her. This is all in the book, by the way.

If you frame it as "the dog attacked chickens and bit me", then yeah, on a certain level I can see the reasonableness of putting her down. But the full context paints Noem as an irresponsible dog owner who gets angry when the dog follows its instincts due to a lack of training.

 
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It's worth reading the full context of the story. Noem took an untrained dog hunting and got angry when she acted like an untrained dog. Then she left this untrained dog loose in the back of her truck and was shocked when the dog jumped out to chase chickens while left unsupervised. Then she grabbed an excited, untrained hunting dog by the collar and was surprised when the dog tried to bite her. This is all in the book, by the way.

If you frame it as "the dog attacked chickens and bit me", then yeah, on a certain level I can see the reasonableness of putting her down. But the full context paints Noem as an irresponsible dog owner who gets angry when the dog follows its instincts due to a lack of training.

That's exactly the sort of person I want running my state or country. :rolleyes:
 
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It's worth reading the full context of the story. Noem took an untrained dog hunting and got angry when she acted like an untrained dog. Then she left this untrained dog loose in the back of her truck and was shocked when the dog jumped out to chase chickens while left unsupervised. Then she grabbed an excited, untrained hunting dog by the collar and was surprised when the dog tried to bite her. This is all in the book, by the way.

If you frame it as "the dog attacked chickens and bit me", then yeah, on a certain level I can see the reasonableness of putting her down. But the full context paints Noem as an irresponsible dog owner who gets angry when the dog follows its instincts due to a lack of training.

Wow. Those quoted paragraphs really leave Noem no retreat from this. Just a young bouncy untrained dog who she was stupid enough to bring on the clients day out hunting. So Noem gets frustrated and shoots her.
 
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Wow. Those quoted paragraphs really leave Noem no retreat from this. Just a young bouncy untrained dog who she was stupid enough to bring on the clients day out hunting. So Noem gets frustrated and shoots her.
But hey, doing stupid stuff like that is just another day on the ranch in SD, right?. Us city slickers wouldnt understand.

(25 years rural living here, but I still cant shake my suburb-boy prejudices I guess).
 
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It's worth reading the full context of the story. Noem took an untrained dog hunting and got angry when she acted like an untrained dog. Then she left this untrained dog loose in the back of her truck and was shocked when the dog jumped out to chase chickens while left unsupervised. Then she grabbed an excited, untrained hunting dog by the collar and was surprised when the dog tried to bite her. This is all in the book, by the way.

If you frame it as "the dog attacked chickens and bit me", then yeah, on a certain level I can see the reasonableness of putting her down. But the full context paints Noem as an irresponsible dog owner who gets angry when the dog follows its instincts due to a lack of training.

I thought she did it to protect President Macron who was staying in her guest house.
 
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I thought she did it to protect President Macron who was staying in her guest house.
There are some full paragraphs quoted in the article recently linked. Check them out and judge for yourself.
 
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Oh and theres this.....

What do you mean "barred"?
Haven't looked yet.
But reservations are all over SD. I know the Lakota Sioux and feel sure her story was very offensive to them.
 
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Looks like one of her employees isn't teachable and may have bitten her.

View attachment 363354

That was my first thought yesterday. She may have good trigger discipline, but the muzzle discipline is bad. Maybe they don't give her a real gun, but that sure looks like an AR-15/M16 or similar rifle.
 
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