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Kristi Noem is a piece of shit. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon to c/microblogmemes

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[–] TheMinions 75 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

For anyone as confused as me about who this person is.

Here ya go. Guardian Article

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, that's John Goodman from the movie The Big Lebowski

[–] Branch_Ranch 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Shut the fuck up Donnie!"

[–] BackOnMyBS 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AM I WRONG‽

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You're not wrong. You're just an asshole.

[–] FoolishObserver 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am The Walrus.

[–] jaybone 2 points 10 months ago

You’re out of your element.

[–] FoolishObserver 3 points 10 months ago

I am The Walrus.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

[–] alilbee 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In the eyes of most Americans, goats are livestock and dogs are pets. The dog getting the attention is not surprising at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

"People don't really care what happens to goats."

--The men who stare at goats.

[–] inclementimmigrant 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty much. I mean people in America do eat goat and also if we had an aggressive rooster it would get butchered and eaten just like any other chickens when they stopped laying eggs.

Somehow though, I doubt she actually ate the goat.

[–] cactusupyourbutt 1 points 10 months ago

… and the dog?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cool this is why I don't keep up with current events. I don't need this shit in my life

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 11 points 10 months ago

I hope she has bad karma forever.

[–] Toneswirly 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

this a fantastic unintended loop

[–] Sterile_Technique 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not a loop, it's just a really, really long shotgun.

[–] PlasticExistence 4 points 10 months ago

And that officer has untreated OCD

[–] frickineh 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since she also famously had an affair with Corey Lewandowski, I don't know if her husband is the one she'd be asking.

[–] Passerby6497 1 points 9 months ago

BANG

Corey: "Womp womp"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Iykyk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Noem: "Am I the only one killin animals here?!"

[+] FontMasterFlex -57 points 10 months ago (10 children)

The dog was killing chickens. It's fairly obvious that no one here grew up anywhere but in the suburbs or inner city. We had to put a dog down when I was a kid for the same reason.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasnt the dog still being trained as a hunting dog, for pheasants or other wild fowl? Only a few months old? Weren't the chickens in an environment the dog wasnt used to?

Seems like a failure of the person training them, not of the dog itself. Both a failure in training as well as in keeping them properly secured in a situation that could have proved dangerous.

[–] wjrii 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Exactly. Sooooo many steps between young birddog overdoing it and shooting the dog in the head.

Apparently though, it's an open secret in South Dakota politics that she basically rage-quit and shot the dog because it embarrassed her and she's volatile and awful, and the work crew she mentioned (really safe choice, btw) all saw it. This may have been the best possible spin she could put on it, which is... disturbing.

[–] frunch 2 points 10 months ago

because it embarrassed her and she's volatile and awful

When someone like that suddenly takes center stage in conservative politics, you know you're dealing with a uniquely shitty person

[–] Duamerthrax 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I also grew up rural. If a dog killed chickens, the dog would be separated and retrained. If you have to kill the dog because it's not trained properly, it's a personal failing of the owner. Take the Personal Responsibility that you types so cherish.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 15 points 10 months ago

Exactly! Just because Peepaw did it that way in the 1920s doesn't mean you have no options in 2024

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Killed chickens.... during training to hunt and kill pheasants according to one of the other articles on the subject. A 14 month old dog wouldn't know the difference.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. The oldest and most sacred rural tradition. Reckless violence due to irresponsibility

[–] Shadowedcross 5 points 10 months ago

Of course, it's the American way.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 19 points 10 months ago

Why couldn't you get a trainer or call a dog rescue? Like a non-sociopath would? For pity's sake!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

No you didn't, your parents were just incompetent dog owners, same as this 'lady'.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

With heavy "in America" emphasis, also.

Elsewhere in the world, e.g. the uk - in which i grew up in a farming village thank you very much - if you want to hunt a pheasant you shoot it in the air (during "flush", usually brought on by a designated "beater"), shooting it on the ground or using a dog to kill it is unlawful, inhumane, and possibly worst of all: unsportsmanlike.

If you want to farm pheasants you rotate the rearing fields each year and you slaughter them in a slaughterhouse approved by the FSA overseen by qualified (CoC) operators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bird dogs don't kill the game birds. They retrieve them. It's why there are entire breeds called retrievers. Some other bird dogs flush the birds so you can shoot them in the air, preserving your so called "sportsmanlike" ways.

[–] nexguy 3 points 10 months ago

... give the dog away...

[–] lath 1 points 10 months ago

Really? We just moved them elsewhere.