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Originally Posted by Swaggs
I keep wondering what step 2 is for Noem here. I assume she was trying to promote her gun ownership and NRA cred, but good lord does it make zero sense to brag about killing a dog.
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To me, it's squarely in the narrative of the "we're real Americans from the country and none of you liberal coastal elites would get it" thing the GOP has going on. She just (maybe) took it a little far. I say maybe because all of the "conservative" pundits who are shelling her on twitter are the same people who have been booted from the GOP over the past 8 years. They don't matter to today's Republican party.
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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Fascists are weird people and say and do weird things that they think others find normal.
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Trump made it OK for people to say whatever they want, wherever they want, not matter how vile, crude, or simply misjudged it is.
I give it a day before someone is calling her "authentic" for this, which is indeed what she's already doing in her defense:
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I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned.
What I learned from my years of public service, especially leading South Dakota through COVID, is people are looking for leaders who are authentic, willing to learn from the past, and don’t shy away from tough challenges. My hope is anyone reading this book will have an understanding that I always work to make the best decisions I can for the people in my life.
The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did.
Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it’s hard and painful. I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor.
As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way isn’t the right way.
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Of course, the
real story should be that she's apparently so terrible with guns that she couldn't kill a goat in one shot at point blank range and had to go back to her truck to get more shells.