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'Staring down little tyrants': Kristi Noem's book includes false anecdote about Kim Jong Un (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 1 month ago by AFKBRBChocolate to c/politics
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"I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un," she wrote in the book set to be released Tuesday. "I'm sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I'd been a children's pastor, after all)."

But Noem's spokesperson seemed to confirm to Politico and other news outlets that the story is not accurate and that the book will be corrected to remove it.

She sounds like the perfect Trump VP candidate: she just says whatever she thinks people will eat up and doesn't worry about whether it's true or not.

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[–] Bobmighty 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's one of those non people. What I mean by that is that there isn't a personality in her so much as just naked ambition and want which leads to doing and saying anything to "get ahead". Do that long enough and you lose yourself along the way. Too many lies, too many crazy actions. She's the same as Santos. Black hole people.

[–] TokenBoomer 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh god, the smiles in that video still haunt me

[–] TokenBoomer 2 points 1 month ago

Times are gone 
For honest men 
Sometimes, far too long for snakes

[–] JeeBaiChow 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why are all republicans such nasty people?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's their only core value.

[–] TokenBoomer 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because capitalism does not incentivize empathy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're link doesn't support your point at all. In fact it seems to contradict it because it says the problem won't be solved by good corporate leadership.

It doesn't seem to offer up any cause, discusses how hard it is to address, and then gives some things individuals can do to increase their own empathy.

This is surprising that it's getting up votes because my experience on lemmy is that things like these are the fault of companies and capitalists, and any suggestion that individuals are part of the problem and can do something to improve the situation is met with anger and denial.

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Companies and capitalists are all individuals. Perhaps I’m wrong, or, perhaps Adorno was correct when he said, “wrong life cannot be lived rightly”..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does this have to do with your original citation not supporting your claim at all? Without a specific explanation as to why this explains it, it just reeks of moving the goal-posts.

[–] TokenBoomer 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How can I move the goalposts, when I’m not playing the game. I stated, “perhaps, I’m wrong.” 😑

Edit: There’s a reason newspapers, magazines and cable news networks don’t mention that capitalism is the cause of homelessness, wealth inequality, healthcare debt, etc. That’s a big no-no, and can cause funding to be removed and flak from management. The system censors and filters criticism of itself.

Also: I’m definitely wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You find the statement " capitalism does not incentivize empathy" to be in contradiction with "the problem will not be solved by good corporate leadership"?

Dude. What are you smoking??? I need some, like, for real...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe not, but the more important thing is that the link doesn't support the claim at all. Not surprising that you are nit-picking my point, but not calling out the top level comment for deceptively using a citation that doesn't support their claim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm not nitpicking so much as outright rejecting.

Whatever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Avoiding the actual point. Well done.

[–] someguy3 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Coming back to this, it's because they want strength. Aka a strongman leader. That's what they respect, so they assume that's what everyone else respects too.

[–] someguy3 2 points 1 month ago

They want "order".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a good thing LYING is NOT against the Bible!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just don't get how evangelicals can support people like this. Once upon a time, it was career suicide if a republican politician wasn't seen going to church on Sundays. Now they get kicked out of theaters for groping their date, cheat on their spouse with a porn star, get caught in lies almost daily, and the Christian right says god chose them to run the country.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because those things were never disqualifiers for them. Newt Gingrich divorced his wife for having cancer. Reagan was a California divorcee. Going to church is a statement of allegiance, and that’s what they’re concerned with

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 3 points 1 month ago

I think it's most important for the candidate to hate the same things they hate.

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

The lie notwithstanding, it’s also rude to the little children!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Right!?

Seems like she projects all her own toxic thoughts on children, dogs and goats.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

She’s a brilliant candidate for the woodchipper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What kind of children's pastor brags about "staring down" her charges, or calls them tyrants?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 4 points 1 month ago

One who is a control freak that lacks empathy?

[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 1 month ago

If their goal is to get eaten up, I’m sure we can find some cannibals, somewhere.

Just saying. Everybody indulges in junk food occasionally…

[–] HWK_290 4 points 1 month ago

At least we know she's smart on foreign policy: Send in the children's pastors! Bet they could bring peace to the Middle East, even after Jared Kushner's valiant attempt