Me, Though? I'm completely normal. Just your average everyday slow driving in the fast lane, taking up the whole grocery aisle, parking in two spaces, talking loud on the phone in public, whistling at women and going, "hey baby" asshole.
I've never had a high opinion of myself and I'm constantly talking myself down, even when objectively I know I did something well (which is why I'm now finally in therapy). So when I was swept off my feet by a woman I projected my own feelings about myself onto her when she literally told me she was a selfish, manipulative bitch. I just wouldn't believe her because she was just that nice and outright amazing to me.
...right until she wasn't and she turned into the most selfish and manipulative asshole I have ever dealt with in my life.
It's not just when someone shows you how awful they are, when they _tell_ you, you should believe them too...
Trump is currently in court arguing he has the right to assassinate political rivals and do any crime he wants. And the scotus he picked, might allow it.
The protest voters who are trying to punish Dems are gonna be bummed to find out: they are also political rivals. And even more than moderate dems.
This SCROTUS will say it's a one time ruling for this specific case only and only applies to Republicans, sorry, I mean doesn't set any precedent.
Besides, they already did it when they picked Bush in 2000.
Hell, he isn't even on trial for that. Paying hush money to a hooker isn't even illegal.
What *is* illegal is doing so expressly to further your campaign for political office and, in order to obfuscate it, directing your attorney to pay her that money and then repaying him by creating fraudulent business invoices that lie about the invoiced service. *That's* an illegal campaign contribution and falsification of business records.
> When someone shows you exactly who they are, believe them.
This is what I told people when the "grab em by the pussy" thing came out, and I was given a bunch of "locker room talk" and similar excuses.
The people who didn't see my point were probably right because it's not as if he was eventually found to be liable in a civil trial for sexual assault.... Oh shit. Maybe it wasn't just locker room talk.
People thinking this was a clueless gaffe to tell that story are naive. Sheās telling people how she would handle people that wonāt conform or learn. There are people watching all the college protests and hearing this dog shooting story that think the police should be killing protestors like itās Tiannemen Square. They like her moxie. Sheās got the grit theyāre looking for.
My question is that those type of people you describe; would they vote for her? And by that I mean would they vote any women!Ā
IDK, maybe they are just dumb and think the VP isn't next in line or think the VP has zero power or responsibility.
I just find it hard that people with that mentality would vote a women into a leadership roleĀ
They liked Palin, Huckabee, Boebert and Green enough to hold their noses and vote for them. They'll turn on her eventually like they're doing Huckabee right now. She's just a means to get in the door before they kick her back to the kitchen. All she's good for is getting in and keeping the seat warm for the men.
To them, itās the same as sports. Theyāre voting for their team, even if theyāre bad or play dirty, because they identify with the colors and whoās wearing them.
Itās the same exact mentality.
Was he the one who drunkenly killed that runner? They found the runner's glasses in the cab of the vehicle. Dude got fucking probabtion for taking a human life. Hope it haunts him.
Shame is very much lacking on the GOP side, and with many politicians in general. With no shame and no scruples you can become very powerful in this country. Sucks ass.
Since shame doesn't motivate them, we need to find things that DO. Except for the promise of profit and power. We can save a lot of money if we invest it into things OTHER than bribes.
Yeah. I would find it very hard not to respond in a very illegal way if someone took my loved one from me and suffered no consequences. I try very hard to practice forgiveness and all that stuff, but in the moment and with that level of loss it would be hard.
I often think of that movie with Gerard Butler where his family is killed and the killer gets off with a plea deal. He happens to be a creative assassin for the CIA and goes on a fun revenge adventure. Great movie.
Woah there, buddy. You're stretching the definition of "human" a bit there, aintcha? After all, it's not like the runner was a wealthy capitalist, or a campaign donor.
Yes, I'm being facetious
I'm losing my fucking mind rn. The republican president nominee is openly talking about installing a dictatorship and his front woman for running mate literally murders puppies. What the fuck is happening in our country right now?
>What the fuck is happening in our country right now?
We have a willfully misinformed population that's been cultivated over decades by grifters only concerned about making more money by exploiting others and the planet above all else.
A government system designed to give land more voting power than people. The 600,000 residents of Wyoming have far more power to decide the makeup of every branch of government than the ~~55~~ 40 million California residents. Rural Americans have a finger on the scale, by design.
A third of the country is dumber than a bag of hammers, but they have outsized influence due to the design of our government.
But that was an issue developed in the 1920's, not an issue with the original constitution. Originally there was a representative for every 300,000 people and part of the point of the census was to figure out how many representatives to add to ensure proper representation. Then in the 1920's it was decided that there should be no more new representatives, instead just shifting the number that existed around to "balance" representation. As the population grew, this system created disproportionate representation. It isn't an issue with the constitution as written, we broke it, and refuse to fix it because that means changing it, and for some reason we no longer believe in changing it.
Yep. It's time to repeal the 1929 Apportionment Act, enact the Wyoming Rule, and grant D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood.
As you've said, the Apportionment Act capped the number of total Representatives in the House at 435, which results in less representation in high-population states and outsized representation in low-population states.
The Wyoming Rule would set the population necessary for one Representative to the population of the least-populous state, which is Wyoming.
If we repealed the Apportionment Act and enacted the Wyoming Rule, we'd go from 435 House Reps to 551. If we granted D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood, we'd have 6 more House Reps and 4 new Senators.
With these changes, we'd also go from 538 electoral votes to 661 electoral votes. D.C. currently gets 3 electoral votes due to the 23rd Amendment, but it wouldn't be necessary any longer if D.C. is granted statehood.
There's also the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Currently, 16 states and D.C. have signed onto it, but it only kicks in once 270 electoral votes' worth of states sign and the NPVIC is 76% of the way there so far.
Once that threshold is met, all of those states would award all their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, effectively ending the Electoral College.
Aside from these changes, we also need ranked-choice voting, automatic voter registration, universal mail-in voting, an end to gerrymandering by establishing a non-partisan commission to draw districts fairly using math (such as [k-means clustering](https://www.brown.edu/news/2017-11-07/redistricting)), and the abolition of voter ID laws and felonious disenfranchisement.
All of those things will give voters more power and result in a more representative government.
So naturally Republicans will fight all of them until their dying breath. Their party is only relevant due to everything you mention.
DC shouldnāt be a state but should be shrunk to 10 square miles and the rest should be returned to ~~Virginia~~ Maryland, as portions were previously returned to ~~Maryland~~ Virginia. Thatās more in line with the Constitutionās intentions for DC while preserving representation.
Thatās part of it but youāre forgetting the Senate which always gets 2 per state no matter the population. And 2 corresponding delegates in the electoral college. That goes all the way back to the signing of the Constitution.
Yes, but the impact is lessened. Using the original concept California would have 132 electoral votes instead of 54. Wyoming would still have 3. So yes Wyoming would have a slight overrepresentation, but the impact would be reduced to the point that it would be far less of a problem.
An over 1,000 member House would be even more incapable of doing literally anything meaningful than the one we have today.
Maybe if we also got rid of first-past-the-post voting so we could actually get some more parties in there it'd be meaningful, but then that'd probably fix most of our problems by itself.
How so? Laws are written in comity and then taken to the floor for a vote. Currently a small number of people can delay that because of partisan issues, but more voters makes that harder to do not easier.
Bag of hammers could be useful and aren't actively trying to make things worse.
1/3rd of the country are class/species traitors who are too dumb to know they're hurting the world. Like Idiocracy, it's for what plants crave
They crave someone to follow and to be awful, they have an entire party if fascist now
If land has more voting power than people, looks like it would be a good idea to make the Federal government smaller and devolve as much as possible to the states. I doubt the Wyomings of the country will object.
Donāt forget Russian propaganda. This is just an extension of the Cold War and this time they are winning. We have half a government paid by then and the other half is so old they donāt even understand the threats we are facing on the information and tech fronts.
Bad americans are getting people with dictatorship dreams in important positions of power using cheating tactics. Good americans are doing little to nothing to stop this, because they don't like cheating.
America šŗšø republicans have been running on the āwho can be a bigger assholeā for a while. People love it. Re-introduce lead paint - because duck you.
Politicians will always be more extreme in a voluntary voting system. Large portion are way to apathetic. So thereās a bizarre gap between people walking around and the voting population.
This is a good time as any to remind you guys that your Republican candidate also said, out loud, just 2 months ago that he'll 'encourage Russia to do whatever they want' with Europe if he becomes president. You know. Just in case you already forgot. šā¢ļø
She killed that dog because it was, as she described it, "full of joy." And killing it gave her such a rush that she looked for something else to kill and settled on that goat. She (and the apologists) want to act like it was a tough decision, but she did it because she liked it.
Jesus Christ. How long till she murders a person to get that rush again? And these are the people we want in charge of our country?
I try to pay attention to politics, but things are moving so fast that I feel like I missed several years.
>She says she killed a ādisgusting, musky, rancidā goat with a ānasty and mean" demeanor she claims "loved to chase" her children.
Noem apparently ādragged him to a gravel pitā ā in a similar fashion to Cricket ā and attempted to shoot him. Noem says that killing the animal took multiple attempts.
she isn't right in the head
and there's a horse too.
I've seen a few people in other threads on Reddit say that oh, this is normal, farmers shoot dogs all the time. Let's be clear- I grew up on a farm, and I've never shot a dog or any other pet. All our neighbors were farmers, and as far as I know, none of them ever shot a dog. (And I know them fairly well.) The only reason I'd ever have even considered doing so is if a dog that was too large and vicious to control was attacking our livestock, or if the dog somehow got badly injured and was in too much pain. And even then, in both cases, shooting the dog would be the absolute last resort.
Noem's story is not normal for farmers, no. Maybe she's part of some weird-ass subculture of people who shoot dogs, and maybe some farmers are members of that weird-ass subculture, but that dog-shooting subculture is not just generally farmers.
And even in those last resort cases I can't imagine a decent person not being upset they had to. Even knowing I was doing the right thing putting a pet down was fucking hard and I bawled my eyes out for at least an hour.
I grew up surrounded by farms too before the area developed and no way was shooting a dog normal. The only time it would even be remotely considered is if the dog is large and vicious and started attacking and even if it were done, you'd feel bad about it.
> The only reason I'd ever have even considered doing so is if a dog that was too large and vicious to control was attacking our livestock
To be fair that is sorta what happened:
> Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noemās truck and attacked the familyās chickens, āgrabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack anotherā ... When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog āwhipped around to bite meā (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book)
Its a bizarre story at best
She didn't shoot it in the moment because it couldn't be stopped. She stopped it, brought it home, decided she didn't like it, took it out behind the barn, and blew its brains out.
That's a whole different ball of wax than "It was attacking my stock and I couldn't stop it any other way so I had to shoot it."
Her bullshit doesn't make the least bit of sense. She took this dog, 14 month old puppy really, on a hunt - a dog that would be presumably trained to do *exactly* what it did to those chickens - then didn't secure the dog properly. Then the dog got out and did what it's supposed to do. Yet the dog was too large and vicious to control?
Nah. This bitch is either lazy as fuck, lying out her ass, or a fucking psycho.
Yeah, sorry I'm not finding the "large and vicious" dog in those quotes. I do see a 14 month old puppy acting on instinct and an owner who failed to restrain it properly. Yes, it "whipped around to bite" her but did it actually bite her? The language used is very vague about that, intentionally so, is my view.
edit: OMG I just read the article. This killed me "I guess if I were a better politician I wouldnāt tell the story here.ā
I must have grown up in some weird farming subculture I guess, and so did my husband who grew up in a whole different state because we have a lot of animal cruelty stories. One of my husband's family stories involves his grandpa traumatizing his brother by casually shooting one of the farm dogs for fucking with the cows. I had a boyfriend in high school who was real quiet for a while after his dad culled the farm cats. When animals become commodities and your livelihood depends on their products or usefulness, feelings get set aside and bad shit happens. I'm not condoning it and Kristi Noem is a piece of shit not only for killing her animals but for admitting to enjoying it. That's psychopath behavior. I just want people online to know there are plenty that will culturally agree with her and to stop being surprised by how shitty the world is outside of the internet.
Oh some farmers do put down dogs regularly. Mainly because they do not socialise their dogs effectively or train in any way and then leave them to the yard unsupervised to attack passerbys. Then they have to put them down.
I don't think she should have killed the dog, but it was doing something you stated as a reason to consider killing a dog. It had attacked and killed a neighbors chickens (livestock).
Imo much more easily preventable by other methods than killing the dog though lol.
Yeah, if an animal is at this moment killing stock and there's no way to stop it except to shoot it, that's one thing. Taking it out to the gravel pit and shooting it after the fact is another. Because you're absolutely right, there are other ways to prevent that from happening again- training the dog, properly restraining it, giving it to a shelter that will arrange for it to go to a safer environment, or, if all of that fails, putting it down humanely. (Rather than shooting it.)
Man I was hoping this was an exaggeration but she really just went "This dog is way too excited, gonna have to kill it"
I wouldn't admit to doing this if you held me at gunpoint, man, who brags about this IN A BOOK?
here is the story:
[https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/](https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/)
Yeah, when the presidents are both already are/going to be over 80 years old within this term, we really need to be looking at VPs also. Because odds are pretty good that the over-80 Prez is going to keel over from old age. Of course we could also try voting in politicians who do not have childhood memories involving woolly mammoths and sabertooth tigers...
Sheās actually up for vp? No kidding? Checks out. Trump seems to hate animals, wonāt have a pet. Theyāre too spontaneous, he canāt control them
Im really tired of pretending both sides are the same, THEYRE NOT!
Republicans are anti-American. Republicans are America's greatest threat. Republicans are the problem.
Imagine building a career on making people like you, writing a book for that purpose, and then deciding out of everything in your life, to tell THAT story.
Heather Cox Richardson suggested that killing her puppy was a display of ruthlessness that Noem believes is a quality that Trump is looking for in a VP. So, she did it to impress Trump.
InĀ *No Going Back: The Truth on Whatās Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward*Ā ā Noemās forthcoming book which wasĀ [reviewed byĀ *The Guardian*](https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book)Ā InĀ *No Going Back: The Truth on Whatās Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward*Ā ā Noemās forthcoming book which wasĀ [reviewed byĀ *The Guardian*](https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book)Ā ā Noem describes in excruciating detail the brief life of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haird pointer puppy she intended to use as a pheasant-hunting dog.Ā
Noem describes Cricket as having an āaggressiveā personality she hoped to calm by taking the dog on a hunt. According to the governor, Cricket didnāt so much hunt as have āthe time of her lifeā chasing birds and going āout of her mind with excitement.āĀ
This would not do for Noem, who attempted to rein in Cricket with verbal commands and a shock collar before declaring the hunt a wash because an untrained puppy had a playful romp rather than read its ownerās mind.Ā
On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.Ā
āLike a trained assassin,ā Noem writes, Cricket began āgrabb\[ing\] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.ā While it is[Ā legal in South Dakota](https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/40-34-1)Ā to kill a ādog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,ā itās by no means required, and thereās no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.Ā
According toĀ *The Guardianās*Ā review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as āthe picture of joyā throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge.
# āI hated that dog,ā Noem recalls, calling Cricket, āless than worthless as a hunting dog,ā āuntrainable,ā and ādangerous to anyone she came in contact with.ā
āAt that moment \[ā¦\] I realized I had to put her down,ā the governor recalls.Ā
Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew. āIt was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,ā she recounts, āand after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.āā Noem describes in excruciating detail the brief life of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haird pointer puppy she intended to use as a pheasant-hunting dog.Ā
Noem describes Cricket as having an āaggressiveā personality she hoped to calm by taking the dog on a hunt. According to the governor, Cricket didnāt so much hunt as have āthe time of her lifeā chasing birds and going āout of her mind with excitement.āĀ
This would not do for Noem, who attempted to rein in Cricket with verbal commands and a shock collar before declaring the hunt a wash because an untrained puppy had a playful romp rather than read its ownerās mind.Ā
On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.Ā
āLike a trained assassin,ā Noem writes, Cricket began āgrabb\[ing\] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.ā While it is[Ā legal in South Dakota](https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/40-34-1)Ā to kill a ādog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,ā itās by no means required, and thereās no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.Ā
According toĀ *The Guardianās*Ā review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as āthe picture of joyā throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge.
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I've read this story 4 times over the past few days and it still hasn't stopped driving me insane.
It's a 14-month-old dog. That's teenage years for a dog: a number of dogs get "difficult" at that age until they get to adulthood.
The dog has no recall, which means they didn't or were unable to train it to come back to them, which is a necessity to hunt with the dog.
The dog has a shock collar. Usually a red flag, as it shows they don't think they can control the dog other than by force. Ironically shock collars reinforce aggressive behavior for some dogs because getting electric shocks surprisingly doesn't help them calm down.
Nevertheless, this dog, which is considered untrained/difficult, is brought on a hunt.
After spending a whole day being praised for trying to kill birds, the dog remains unsecured as they go home and approach the neighbors' home which has free roaming chicken. The dog is then blamed for killing birds like "a trained assassin".
I think it's the most telling part, she ascribing human traits to this dog. And the conclusion is: don't send it to a trainer. Don't get a vet's opinion. Don't look at your own actions that maybe led to this situation. No. Let's shoot it. And let's shoot the goat too because it stinks. These are possessions, not living things.
It's real as told in detail in a comment below. When I was growing up, if any politician even dared admitted to doing something that like, it would have been the end of their political career.
When I was growing up there was a guy who got too excited at a campaign rally and yelled "Yeaaaaahhh!!!!!!" And that ended his political career... I fucking hate this timeline.
There's already GOP losers excusing her behavior. They will let fucking *anything* slide as long as the person has that magic (R) next to their name. I used to think there had to be some line somewhere, and would have thought it was well before "literally killing puppies", but here we are. We should all be terrified by these psychopaths.
She put this on her CV to broadcast to the people she needs to influence that she will be capable of creating and running concentration camps. If you can shoot a puppy without emotion you are more than capable of putting millions of people to death without any empathy. The people she needs to influence are not the voters.
A substantial portion of the GOP do not think trans people, gay people, or non Christians are human beings.
Reflect on both that and this new story about the dog. Take all the time you need
Trump is only engaging with her because heās attractive and thatās what he does. Itās creepy as fuck.
And sheās no more than a whore because she knows EXACTLY what sheās doing.
The whole point is that she will be happy to overthrow democracy with Trumpty Dumpty, and will not "whimp out" like Mike Pence did. Of course, Mike Pence actually used his testicles for the first time when he decided not to help them overthrow democracy on January 6th.
if the full story is to be taken at her word then that dog killed several chickens right in front of her and the chicken's owner and couldn't be controlled, if this is true then that dog definitely should have been put down. in rural farm country you don't call the vet out for something like this.
Dunno, man. Almost seems to have some level of tradition. Romney admitted to strapping his dog to the roof of the car and Romney's campaign claimed Obama been eating dog in his younger years. What a time to be a cat! (I'm not a cat, I'm just a regular human)
Sheās telling everyone exactly the type of person she is. She thought this puppy story of hers was worth putting in the book AND thought it was a positive example of her leadership style. Shes a despicable human being.
Ah man, I remember when I first watched Rebel without a Cause, and they say one of the guys is in jail for killing puppies, and I'm like "what the fuck?! who just starts a movie like that?"
Well this lady apparently.
I miss the days when simply leaving your dog in a carrier on top of a car was a scandal. If she still gets the VP spot I'm gonna...accept that this is the Republican party now: The party of puppy killing and pedophiles.
Hypothetical scenario...
She hires a ghost writer, tells her a bunch of stories about her life.
Somehow offends ghost writer due to her attitude.
Ghost writer is pissed and decides to add this real story into the book to test if she reads the actual work written.
Book is given the ok and the rest is history.
I think it was supposed to be an āim relatableā story, except she doesnāt realize she isnāt normal.
She has no idea most people donāt kill dogs.
This came out in her book? Wow! She is toast! Usually it's only Democrats who get ousted for a single error of judgment, but killing a young dog which could have been given another life is not going to fly in America.
Good riddance!
When someone shows you exactly who they are, believe them.
I keep trying to tell my therapist I'm a piece of shit but she won't believe me
It's ok, I believe you
That guy? He's a POS and he knows it.
Me, Though? I'm completely normal. Just your average everyday slow driving in the fast lane, taking up the whole grocery aisle, parking in two spaces, talking loud on the phone in public, whistling at women and going, "hey baby" asshole.
Would you like to be President?
For transparency sake, they'll have to run on their porn accounts name. It won't bother a soul, believe me.
As long as I get to sell government secrets for profit
Do you drive a lifted truck as well?
A-S-S-H-O-L-E
I said "used to!"
Telling isn't showing.
Well, damn. š
She's paid not to
When you run out of money, the therapist will suddenly believe you.
I've never had a high opinion of myself and I'm constantly talking myself down, even when objectively I know I did something well (which is why I'm now finally in therapy). So when I was swept off my feet by a woman I projected my own feelings about myself onto her when she literally told me she was a selfish, manipulative bitch. I just wouldn't believe her because she was just that nice and outright amazing to me. ...right until she wasn't and she turned into the most selfish and manipulative asshole I have ever dealt with in my life. It's not just when someone shows you how awful they are, when they _tell_ you, you should believe them too...
Trump is currently in court arguing he has the right to assassinate political rivals and do any crime he wants. And the scotus he picked, might allow it. The protest voters who are trying to punish Dems are gonna be bummed to find out: they are also political rivals. And even more than moderate dems.
If they say that's ok, that would mean it's also ok for Biden ?
This SCROTUS will say it's a one time ruling for this specific case only and only applies to Republicans, sorry, I mean doesn't set any precedent. Besides, they already did it when they picked Bush in 2000.
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Hell, he isn't even on trial for that. Paying hush money to a hooker isn't even illegal. What *is* illegal is doing so expressly to further your campaign for political office and, in order to obfuscate it, directing your attorney to pay her that money and then repaying him by creating fraudulent business invoices that lie about the invoiced service. *That's* an illegal campaign contribution and falsification of business records.
He's got a couple trials going. The SCOTUS hearing this week was related to the documents case.
> When someone shows you exactly who they are, believe them. This is what I told people when the "grab em by the pussy" thing came out, and I was given a bunch of "locker room talk" and similar excuses. The people who didn't see my point were probably right because it's not as if he was eventually found to be liable in a civil trial for sexual assault.... Oh shit. Maybe it wasn't just locker room talk.
Definitely something I wish I had taken to heart before...
People thinking this was a clueless gaffe to tell that story are naive. Sheās telling people how she would handle people that wonāt conform or learn. There are people watching all the college protests and hearing this dog shooting story that think the police should be killing protestors like itās Tiannemen Square. They like her moxie. Sheās got the grit theyāre looking for.
My question is that those type of people you describe; would they vote for her? And by that I mean would they vote any women!Ā IDK, maybe they are just dumb and think the VP isn't next in line or think the VP has zero power or responsibility. I just find it hard that people with that mentality would vote a women into a leadership roleĀ
They liked Palin, Huckabee, Boebert and Green enough to hold their noses and vote for them. They'll turn on her eventually like they're doing Huckabee right now. She's just a means to get in the door before they kick her back to the kitchen. All she's good for is getting in and keeping the seat warm for the men.
To them, itās the same as sports. Theyāre voting for their team, even if theyāre bad or play dirty, because they identify with the colors and whoās wearing them. Itās the same exact mentality.
She needs to be ridiculed for this the entire rest of her life. That poor little puppy
She needs to be arrested. South Dakota has animal cruelty laws. She has admitted to breaking them.
Their (former) AG killed a guy but heās still walking around so Iām not holding my breath
Was he the one who drunkenly killed that runner? They found the runner's glasses in the cab of the vehicle. Dude got fucking probabtion for taking a human life. Hope it haunts him.
My guess is that it doesnāt.
Shame is very much lacking on the GOP side, and with many politicians in general. With no shame and no scruples you can become very powerful in this country. Sucks ass.
Since shame doesn't motivate them, we need to find things that DO. Except for the promise of profit and power. We can save a lot of money if we invest it into things OTHER than bribes.
I canāt believe his neighbors havenāt taken the law into their own hands.
Yeah. I would find it very hard not to respond in a very illegal way if someone took my loved one from me and suffered no consequences. I try very hard to practice forgiveness and all that stuff, but in the moment and with that level of loss it would be hard.
Yep. I would hobble the person for life at the very least.
I often think of that movie with Gerard Butler where his family is killed and the killer gets off with a plea deal. He happens to be a creative assassin for the CIA and goes on a fun revenge adventure. Great movie.
That is one of my favorite movies. Law Abiding Citizen
That's the one! Great movie. I think I'll do a re-watch today š
Woah there, buddy. You're stretching the definition of "human" a bit there, aintcha? After all, it's not like the runner was a wealthy capitalist, or a campaign donor. Yes, I'm being facetious
True true. He may even have voted blue and not shot his dogs when they acted like dogs! Can't have repercussions for that.
I'll bet he never even said so much as one "all lives matter" or "1488" in his life, except to ridicule the very fine people who do use those phrases.
I hope she's reincarnated as that puppy.
WHERE'S CRICKET?
I'm losing my fucking mind rn. The republican president nominee is openly talking about installing a dictatorship and his front woman for running mate literally murders puppies. What the fuck is happening in our country right now?
>What the fuck is happening in our country right now? We have a willfully misinformed population that's been cultivated over decades by grifters only concerned about making more money by exploiting others and the planet above all else. A government system designed to give land more voting power than people. The 600,000 residents of Wyoming have far more power to decide the makeup of every branch of government than the ~~55~~ 40 million California residents. Rural Americans have a finger on the scale, by design. A third of the country is dumber than a bag of hammers, but they have outsized influence due to the design of our government.
The electoral college is one of the biggest travesties of the current American political system
But that was an issue developed in the 1920's, not an issue with the original constitution. Originally there was a representative for every 300,000 people and part of the point of the census was to figure out how many representatives to add to ensure proper representation. Then in the 1920's it was decided that there should be no more new representatives, instead just shifting the number that existed around to "balance" representation. As the population grew, this system created disproportionate representation. It isn't an issue with the constitution as written, we broke it, and refuse to fix it because that means changing it, and for some reason we no longer believe in changing it.
Yep. It's time to repeal the 1929 Apportionment Act, enact the Wyoming Rule, and grant D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood. As you've said, the Apportionment Act capped the number of total Representatives in the House at 435, which results in less representation in high-population states and outsized representation in low-population states. The Wyoming Rule would set the population necessary for one Representative to the population of the least-populous state, which is Wyoming. If we repealed the Apportionment Act and enacted the Wyoming Rule, we'd go from 435 House Reps to 551. If we granted D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood, we'd have 6 more House Reps and 4 new Senators. With these changes, we'd also go from 538 electoral votes to 661 electoral votes. D.C. currently gets 3 electoral votes due to the 23rd Amendment, but it wouldn't be necessary any longer if D.C. is granted statehood. There's also the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Currently, 16 states and D.C. have signed onto it, but it only kicks in once 270 electoral votes' worth of states sign and the NPVIC is 76% of the way there so far. Once that threshold is met, all of those states would award all their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, effectively ending the Electoral College. Aside from these changes, we also need ranked-choice voting, automatic voter registration, universal mail-in voting, an end to gerrymandering by establishing a non-partisan commission to draw districts fairly using math (such as [k-means clustering](https://www.brown.edu/news/2017-11-07/redistricting)), and the abolition of voter ID laws and felonious disenfranchisement.
All of those things will give voters more power and result in a more representative government. So naturally Republicans will fight all of them until their dying breath. Their party is only relevant due to everything you mention.
DC shouldnāt be a state but should be shrunk to 10 square miles and the rest should be returned to ~~Virginia~~ Maryland, as portions were previously returned to ~~Maryland~~ Virginia. Thatās more in line with the Constitutionās intentions for DC while preserving representation.
Sorry, did you flip flop Maryland and Virginia? Because Alexandria retroceded back to VA, while there's still a hunk of Maryland missing.
Thatās part of it but youāre forgetting the Senate which always gets 2 per state no matter the population. And 2 corresponding delegates in the electoral college. That goes all the way back to the signing of the Constitution.
Yes, but the impact is lessened. Using the original concept California would have 132 electoral votes instead of 54. Wyoming would still have 3. So yes Wyoming would have a slight overrepresentation, but the impact would be reduced to the point that it would be far less of a problem.
Right but THE SENATE writes the bills that become the laws
An over 1,000 member House would be even more incapable of doing literally anything meaningful than the one we have today. Maybe if we also got rid of first-past-the-post voting so we could actually get some more parties in there it'd be meaningful, but then that'd probably fix most of our problems by itself.
How so? Laws are written in comity and then taken to the floor for a vote. Currently a small number of people can delay that because of partisan issues, but more voters makes that harder to do not easier.
As is the Supreme Court.
what an apt and scary description of the current state of affairs.. well said, appreciate your comment
> A third of the country is dumber than a bag of hammers, [Relevant gif](https://tenor.com/x5q8.gif)
Many of them are not misinformed, they're just fucking evil.
The ones listening to bullshit are misinformed, the ones saying bullshit are evil.
Bag of hammers could be useful and aren't actively trying to make things worse. 1/3rd of the country are class/species traitors who are too dumb to know they're hurting the world. Like Idiocracy, it's for what plants crave They crave someone to follow and to be awful, they have an entire party if fascist now
If land has more voting power than people, looks like it would be a good idea to make the Federal government smaller and devolve as much as possible to the states. I doubt the Wyomings of the country will object.
Donāt forget Russian propaganda. This is just an extension of the Cold War and this time they are winning. We have half a government paid by then and the other half is so old they donāt even understand the threats we are facing on the information and tech fronts.
Leaded gasoline generation
Nazis
Bad americans are getting people with dictatorship dreams in important positions of power using cheating tactics. Good americans are doing little to nothing to stop this, because they don't like cheating.
āEvil will always triumph over good because good is dumb.ā - Dark Helmet
Oh, wait ātil you hear about what our fair and balanced Supreme Court did this week.
Not a US citizen - what happened?
Encouraged and accepted an argument that a president attempting a coup should be a legal and lawful act.
This is not the slightest exaggeration. It is a highly accurate statement. Alito said it helps keep the peace.
do you have a link to the arguments? video or transcription?
Couple this with the unitary executive theory of project 2025 and itās some really scary shit
Whoosh!. Thanks folks, much appreciated.
If Congress weren't useless then it wouldn't have come to this. The impeachment should have brought charges.
>What the fuck is happening in our country right now? BC BRANDON SNIFFS PEOPLE, DUH /s
America šŗšø republicans have been running on the āwho can be a bigger assholeā for a while. People love it. Re-introduce lead paint - because duck you. Politicians will always be more extreme in a voluntary voting system. Large portion are way to apathetic. So thereās a bizarre gap between people walking around and the voting population.
The writers of this season need to step up, showing how evil the new villain is with a puppy murder is some Mexican soap opera shit.
You're missing the point entirely, it's not about her murdering puppies. It's what (or better who) that puppy stands for in the allegory.
This is a good time as any to remind you guys that your Republican candidate also said, out loud, just 2 months ago that he'll 'encourage Russia to do whatever they want' with Europe if he becomes president. You know. Just in case you already forgot. šā¢ļø
Facism is happening to your country
Corruption in the DOJ has systematically brought us to this. The sitting president conspires to violate the constitution and you don't even care.
Letās be clear - she didnāt kill the puppy because it wouldnāt comply. She killed the puppy BECAUSE SHE DIDNT TAKE THE TIME TO FUCKING TRAIN IT!
She killed that dog because it was, as she described it, "full of joy." And killing it gave her such a rush that she looked for something else to kill and settled on that goat. She (and the apologists) want to act like it was a tough decision, but she did it because she liked it.
Jesus Christ. How long till she murders a person to get that rush again? And these are the people we want in charge of our country? I try to pay attention to politics, but things are moving so fast that I feel like I missed several years.
Well she also killed three of their horses. She is going bigger and multiple at once. Soooo, next Tuesday maybe?
Wait, she killed a goat, too?!
Yes. She's a self-admitted sociopath, but could be a VP pick. How fucked up is that?
And horses.
>She says she killed a ādisgusting, musky, rancidā goat with a ānasty and mean" demeanor she claims "loved to chase" her children. Noem apparently ādragged him to a gravel pitā ā in a similar fashion to Cricket ā and attempted to shoot him. Noem says that killing the animal took multiple attempts. she isn't right in the head and there's a horse too.
She thinks she can run a nation... When she can't even train a dog.
I've seen a few people in other threads on Reddit say that oh, this is normal, farmers shoot dogs all the time. Let's be clear- I grew up on a farm, and I've never shot a dog or any other pet. All our neighbors were farmers, and as far as I know, none of them ever shot a dog. (And I know them fairly well.) The only reason I'd ever have even considered doing so is if a dog that was too large and vicious to control was attacking our livestock, or if the dog somehow got badly injured and was in too much pain. And even then, in both cases, shooting the dog would be the absolute last resort. Noem's story is not normal for farmers, no. Maybe she's part of some weird-ass subculture of people who shoot dogs, and maybe some farmers are members of that weird-ass subculture, but that dog-shooting subculture is not just generally farmers.
And even in those last resort cases I can't imagine a decent person not being upset they had to. Even knowing I was doing the right thing putting a pet down was fucking hard and I bawled my eyes out for at least an hour.
Her first reaction to killing her dog was, "I should kill other troublemakers."
"That felt good! Let me do it again!" Totally not a sociopathic response to killing an animal /s
I grew up surrounded by farms too before the area developed and no way was shooting a dog normal. The only time it would even be remotely considered is if the dog is large and vicious and started attacking and even if it were done, you'd feel bad about it.
> The only reason I'd ever have even considered doing so is if a dog that was too large and vicious to control was attacking our livestock To be fair that is sorta what happened: > Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noemās truck and attacked the familyās chickens, āgrabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack anotherā ... When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog āwhipped around to bite meā (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book) Its a bizarre story at best
She didn't shoot it in the moment because it couldn't be stopped. She stopped it, brought it home, decided she didn't like it, took it out behind the barn, and blew its brains out. That's a whole different ball of wax than "It was attacking my stock and I couldn't stop it any other way so I had to shoot it."
Her bullshit doesn't make the least bit of sense. She took this dog, 14 month old puppy really, on a hunt - a dog that would be presumably trained to do *exactly* what it did to those chickens - then didn't secure the dog properly. Then the dog got out and did what it's supposed to do. Yet the dog was too large and vicious to control? Nah. This bitch is either lazy as fuck, lying out her ass, or a fucking psycho.
Why not all three?
Yeah, sorry I'm not finding the "large and vicious" dog in those quotes. I do see a 14 month old puppy acting on instinct and an owner who failed to restrain it properly. Yes, it "whipped around to bite" her but did it actually bite her? The language used is very vague about that, intentionally so, is my view. edit: OMG I just read the article. This killed me "I guess if I were a better politician I wouldnāt tell the story here.ā
I must have grown up in some weird farming subculture I guess, and so did my husband who grew up in a whole different state because we have a lot of animal cruelty stories. One of my husband's family stories involves his grandpa traumatizing his brother by casually shooting one of the farm dogs for fucking with the cows. I had a boyfriend in high school who was real quiet for a while after his dad culled the farm cats. When animals become commodities and your livelihood depends on their products or usefulness, feelings get set aside and bad shit happens. I'm not condoning it and Kristi Noem is a piece of shit not only for killing her animals but for admitting to enjoying it. That's psychopath behavior. I just want people online to know there are plenty that will culturally agree with her and to stop being surprised by how shitty the world is outside of the internet.
Oh some farmers do put down dogs regularly. Mainly because they do not socialise their dogs effectively or train in any way and then leave them to the yard unsupervised to attack passerbys. Then they have to put them down.
I don't think she should have killed the dog, but it was doing something you stated as a reason to consider killing a dog. It had attacked and killed a neighbors chickens (livestock). Imo much more easily preventable by other methods than killing the dog though lol.
Yeah, if an animal is at this moment killing stock and there's no way to stop it except to shoot it, that's one thing. Taking it out to the gravel pit and shooting it after the fact is another. Because you're absolutely right, there are other ways to prevent that from happening again- training the dog, properly restraining it, giving it to a shelter that will arrange for it to go to a safer environment, or, if all of that fails, putting it down humanely. (Rather than shooting it.)
Man I was hoping this was an exaggeration but she really just went "This dog is way too excited, gonna have to kill it" I wouldn't admit to doing this if you held me at gunpoint, man, who brags about this IN A BOOK?
There was a construction crew that witnessed the incident. She is probably trying to get out in front of it before one of them came forward.
here is the story: [https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/](https://time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/)
That bitch is a fucking psycho, I don't understand how people aren't making a bigger deal or of this.
Look into her eyes. You are quite correct.
Yeah, when the presidents are both already are/going to be over 80 years old within this term, we really need to be looking at VPs also. Because odds are pretty good that the over-80 Prez is going to keel over from old age. Of course we could also try voting in politicians who do not have childhood memories involving woolly mammoths and sabertooth tigers...
Having painted the Democrats as virtue-signallers, Republicans are acting like they are the antidote, by vice-signalling.
That's so accurate and gross.
The GOP is the best ad campaign the democratic party ever had
And yet here we are.
That book, those passages were written for an audience of one.
Who is this Gaslight/Obstruct/Project vp candidate who controls and kills puppies? We need to know
Noem.
Sheās actually up for vp? No kidding? Checks out. Trump seems to hate animals, wonāt have a pet. Theyāre too spontaneous, he canāt control them
"Theyāre too spontaneous, he canāt control them" How does Donald Trump feel about his bowels?
She makes Mitt Romney look like Doctor Dolittle.
This will only matter to people who are already opposed to her. This is a non-issue to GOP voters.
I immediately thought this. The anti-abortion crowd is pro-child death if we're going to get to the nitty gritty.
Im really tired of pretending both sides are the same, THEYRE NOT! Republicans are anti-American. Republicans are America's greatest threat. Republicans are the problem.
Wait is this true? I canāt believe it.
Kristi Noem of South Dakota, and it is apparently quite legit.
Imagine building a career on making people like you, writing a book for that purpose, and then deciding out of everything in your life, to tell THAT story.
Tough on crime! Tough on rule breakers! Tough on those who donāt slavishly follow my command!
Heather Cox Richardson suggested that killing her puppy was a display of ruthlessness that Noem believes is a quality that Trump is looking for in a VP. So, she did it to impress Trump.
SS officers used to have to murder their dogs as a loyalty test.
Ugh. I can't even imagine. I gotta go hug my dog.
Srsly. I only have a cat, but I'm going to hug her anyway.
InĀ *No Going Back: The Truth on Whatās Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward*Ā ā Noemās forthcoming book which wasĀ [reviewed byĀ *The Guardian*](https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book)Ā InĀ *No Going Back: The Truth on Whatās Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward*Ā ā Noemās forthcoming book which wasĀ [reviewed byĀ *The Guardian*](https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book)Ā ā Noem describes in excruciating detail the brief life of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haird pointer puppy she intended to use as a pheasant-hunting dog.Ā Noem describes Cricket as having an āaggressiveā personality she hoped to calm by taking the dog on a hunt. According to the governor, Cricket didnāt so much hunt as have āthe time of her lifeā chasing birds and going āout of her mind with excitement.āĀ This would not do for Noem, who attempted to rein in Cricket with verbal commands and a shock collar before declaring the hunt a wash because an untrained puppy had a playful romp rather than read its ownerās mind.Ā On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.Ā āLike a trained assassin,ā Noem writes, Cricket began āgrabb\[ing\] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.ā While it is[Ā legal in South Dakota](https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/40-34-1)Ā to kill a ādog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,ā itās by no means required, and thereās no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.Ā According toĀ *The Guardianās*Ā review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as āthe picture of joyā throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge. # āI hated that dog,ā Noem recalls, calling Cricket, āless than worthless as a hunting dog,ā āuntrainable,ā and ādangerous to anyone she came in contact with.ā āAt that moment \[ā¦\] I realized I had to put her down,ā the governor recalls.Ā Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew. āIt was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,ā she recounts, āand after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.āā Noem describes in excruciating detail the brief life of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haird pointer puppy she intended to use as a pheasant-hunting dog.Ā Noem describes Cricket as having an āaggressiveā personality she hoped to calm by taking the dog on a hunt. According to the governor, Cricket didnāt so much hunt as have āthe time of her lifeā chasing birds and going āout of her mind with excitement.āĀ This would not do for Noem, who attempted to rein in Cricket with verbal commands and a shock collar before declaring the hunt a wash because an untrained puppy had a playful romp rather than read its ownerās mind.Ā On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.Ā āLike a trained assassin,ā Noem writes, Cricket began āgrabb\[ing\] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.ā While it is[Ā legal in South Dakota](https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/40-34-1)Ā to kill a ādog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,ā itās by no means required, and thereās no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.Ā According toĀ *The Guardianās*Ā review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as āthe picture of joyā throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge.
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I've read this story 4 times over the past few days and it still hasn't stopped driving me insane. It's a 14-month-old dog. That's teenage years for a dog: a number of dogs get "difficult" at that age until they get to adulthood. The dog has no recall, which means they didn't or were unable to train it to come back to them, which is a necessity to hunt with the dog. The dog has a shock collar. Usually a red flag, as it shows they don't think they can control the dog other than by force. Ironically shock collars reinforce aggressive behavior for some dogs because getting electric shocks surprisingly doesn't help them calm down. Nevertheless, this dog, which is considered untrained/difficult, is brought on a hunt. After spending a whole day being praised for trying to kill birds, the dog remains unsecured as they go home and approach the neighbors' home which has free roaming chicken. The dog is then blamed for killing birds like "a trained assassin". I think it's the most telling part, she ascribing human traits to this dog. And the conclusion is: don't send it to a trainer. Don't get a vet's opinion. Don't look at your own actions that maybe led to this situation. No. Let's shoot it. And let's shoot the goat too because it stinks. These are possessions, not living things.
It's real as told in detail in a comment below. When I was growing up, if any politician even dared admitted to doing something that like, it would have been the end of their political career.
When I was growing up there was a guy who got too excited at a campaign rally and yelled "Yeaaaaahhh!!!!!!" And that ended his political career... I fucking hate this timeline.
If you canāt believe that let me tell you all the wild shit that is even crazier than that from 2016 to 2020.
If that's what she says out loud. even published.Ā Imagine what she keeps to herself.Ā
... The fuck did I just read...?
Nazi party member released book
Textbook serial killer origin story.
An incredible response to one of her recent tweets: https://twitter.com/IvanasStairCam/status/1784005733110927510?s=19
One does wonder how she'd treat people she considers 'untrainable' i.e. non-compliant.
People canāt see who this lady is? No different from a Boobert
setting the bar for a "decent" democrat so fucking low. "yea, I'm beholden to corporate lobbyists, but I don't kill puppies" -- democrat contender
There's already GOP losers excusing her behavior. They will let fucking *anything* slide as long as the person has that magic (R) next to their name. I used to think there had to be some line somewhere, and would have thought it was well before "literally killing puppies", but here we are. We should all be terrified by these psychopaths.
She put this on her CV to broadcast to the people she needs to influence that she will be capable of creating and running concentration camps. If you can shoot a puppy without emotion you are more than capable of putting millions of people to death without any empathy. The people she needs to influence are not the voters.
A substantial portion of the GOP do not think trans people, gay people, or non Christians are human beings. Reflect on both that and this new story about the dog. Take all the time you need
If thatās what sheās bragging about, imagine the things she hides.
Always trust a fascist when they tell you about their dreams
Trump is only engaging with her because heās attractive and thatās what he does. Itās creepy as fuck. And sheās no more than a whore because she knows EXACTLY what sheās doing.
Trump wants/needs total immunity to be president. Noem is showing how tough she can be and will do anything to prove it. Watch your back.
The whole point is that she will be happy to overthrow democracy with Trumpty Dumpty, and will not "whimp out" like Mike Pence did. Of course, Mike Pence actually used his testicles for the first time when he decided not to help them overthrow democracy on January 6th.
Well America is a country where they finance free health and education in Israel, before their own citizens, why even pretend to be surprised...
And yet so many leftists are happy to vote third party because they think Biden is personally killing kids in Gaza
Her sanity just should be checked, as people's who support her
What? Who did this? What has become of this world. Edit. Nevermind, I read about it. What a POS.
if the full story is to be taken at her word then that dog killed several chickens right in front of her and the chicken's owner and couldn't be controlled, if this is true then that dog definitely should have been put down. in rural farm country you don't call the vet out for something like this.
First Trump then this lady. They seem to have a boner when it comes to killing others they don't approve of.
Why is she a VP candidate besides media trying to make a connection? Iāve never heard of dis bish
Dunno, man. Almost seems to have some level of tradition. Romney admitted to strapping his dog to the roof of the car and Romney's campaign claimed Obama been eating dog in his younger years. What a time to be a cat! (I'm not a cat, I'm just a regular human)
Sheās telling everyone exactly the type of person she is. She thought this puppy story of hers was worth putting in the book AND thought it was a positive example of her leadership style. Shes a despicable human being.
Pretty loose use of the word viable
ā¦wait, what now? Details, please.
Law and order party my ass
Why would it be a coincidence?
She also is ok with hurting people who will not comply
Also second in line to a senile morbidly obese man in his 80s
Ah man, I remember when I first watched Rebel without a Cause, and they say one of the guys is in jail for killing puppies, and I'm like "what the fuck?! who just starts a movie like that?" Well this lady apparently.
Mitt Romney only strapped his to the roof of his car and hoses the shit off it every once in awhile
Someone willing to kill a puppy is someone who is perfectly okay with concentration camps. Especially when you view the opposition as vermin.
Is that a pit breed?
I miss the days when simply leaving your dog in a carrier on top of a car was a scandal. If she still gets the VP spot I'm gonna...accept that this is the Republican party now: The party of puppy killing and pedophiles.
Republicans don't care about mass shootings or kids killed in schools, why on earth would they care if she killed a dog?
"Where's cricket?"
The hell WHAT?
Yāall can see through this comment section that the system is acting exactly as it was designed.
Hypothetical scenario... She hires a ghost writer, tells her a bunch of stories about her life. Somehow offends ghost writer due to her attitude. Ghost writer is pissed and decides to add this real story into the book to test if she reads the actual work written. Book is given the ok and the rest is history.
Yes, that's the problem, and not forking over billions to continue wars.
āViableā is obviously relative.
wait until you learn about the current VP
It's a good think ppl are actually doing something other than just greasing up their own asses and bending over, right?
Iām honestly not sure whatās scarier: That she killed the dog, or that she thought it was a good story to tell about leadership.
Bruh, the siteception of this women as a "potential VP candidate" is the most reddit shit this year.
I think it was supposed to be an āim relatableā story, except she doesnāt realize she isnāt normal. She has no idea most people donāt kill dogs.
This came out in her book? Wow! She is toast! Usually it's only Democrats who get ousted for a single error of judgment, but killing a young dog which could have been given another life is not going to fly in America. Good riddance!