US Politics, May 2024: They Shoot Puppies, Don't They?

^^Best Fear song

I feel like as we get older, we want our experiences to be meaningful and have younger generations learn from them (it is also a selfish impulse, of giving our experiences more value)… so when I see people of my generation say “younger activists are doing it wrong”… I have mixed feelings. I definitely feel the frustration of an older person saying “all these lessons are available, learn from them”… but I also feel like when you are young (as we older people all have been)… at least when I was young, I needed to do some things my way in order to learn and to feel like I was actually me learning

^^ I think Alfred and table definitely get this based on their posts about the current protests and maybe a lot more of you do as well

100%

otm, also making noise is making noise. There are a lot of ways to get attention, all of them can be helpful.

i think the kids are alright. protest is good. denying thy father is good. chances are you'll just end up miserable working at some horrible insurance company...but until then! fight the good fight. i do worry now about the internet's ability to warp minds though. and do it so quickly. its such an amazing tool for people who want to warp other people. Qanon isn't a real thing! millions of people believe in it! so, there is that on the other side of things as well. in fact, more and more, i feel like the same fucked up stuff is getting to right and left equally. it sucks that the old - and in some cases ancient - fake shit from bygone eras is STILL alive on people's computers. hoary old racist shit. it should have been left behind. now it just gets to people extra-fast.

Scott otm, a certain amount of fuck u mom & dad should be celebrated

^^ I think Alfred and table definitely get this based on their posts about the current protests and maybe a lot more of you do as well

― sarahell, Sunday, May 5, 2024

I appreciate this comment, but I've a lot to learn -- and I've already learned a lot.

But sadly, you are likely to end up at the insurance company and telling mom & dad they were right about some stuff and wanting them to remember when they had various embarrassing medical problems

called it!

Maybe it’s to show a contrast with Biden, who didn’t have what it took to shoot his dog when it kept biting people.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, April 27, 2024 9:29 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too

The South Dakota governor, defending her tale of shooting and killing her family’s dog, suggested that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, had merited a similar fate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/us/politics/kristi-noem-biden-dog.html

Seriously fuck her

Does she weigh in on eugenics as well?

I definitely don't want the full list of everyone Kristi Noem would like to take to the gravel pit.

She'd shoot her mom and kids if it would get her the vice presidential nomination and a FOX show on Saturday afternoon.

its too bad this didn't come out after Trump picked her for VP

Hakeem Jeffries outright embarrassing himself on 60 Minutes

What'd we miss?

sarahell and Scott OTM

“Send Noem to the pit alone” tshirt now pls

the thing about Noem is I don't remember her looking this villainous and indeed

.@GovKristiNoem what happened? pic.twitter.com/YFSD3Jjq75

— Dr. Oddman 😷 aka Dark Brandon (@oddemann) May 5, 2024

the way they all try to look like Melania is pretty creepy

she's been undergoing this transformation for at least 4 years.

Next Stop:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Cruella_de_Vil.png

NYT, a couple of months ago:

Back in 2010, when she was first running for Congress, Ms. Noem had a haircut that looked like a cross between “the Rachel,” the layered, straightened haircut Jennifer Aniston made famous on “Friends,” and the power bob favored by Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. When she won re-election in 2012, she had chopped it into a short look that Ms. Sheppard compared to the signature haircut of Kate Gosselin from “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” albeit slightly more corporatized.

After Mr. Trump won the presidency and the MAGA movement took off, Ms. Noem adopted a new look. Her hair got longer and longer, with tousled waves kissed by the curling iron, her part moved to the center. She began to resemble a doppelgänger for Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée. Or a dark-haired version of Lara Trump, Eric Trump’s wife and the new co-chair of the Republican National Committee. Even Ms. Noem’s clothes changed, from the khaki shirtdress she wore to CPAC in 2011 to the bright blue sheath she chose for her State of the State address this year.

There is no better example of her transformation than the cover photo on her new book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” which features a portrait of Ms. Noem with lips glossed, eyelashes thick and one hand seemingly playing with her wavy locks as she sits in her desk chair in a blazer and dress before the American flag.

“She practically looks like a member of the Trump family,” Mr. Bonjean said. “Maybe a cousin.”

"When Republicans Get Stylists..." would be a good photo thread.

hahaha

reminds me of Hannity getting more and more orange every time you saw him after Trump got elected

the kimberly guilfoyle makeover

Kari Lake has some catching up to do if she wants to look like one of the fam

Lips To The Lord & Taylor: "When Republicans Get Stylists...": Let Us Make America Fabulous Again and (Flag-) Pin Down The Aesthetic!

The point is to make old man Trump make honking “va va va vooom!l sounds

Why don’t they try to make themselves look like Ivanka then

bald-faced lie is now an 'anecdote'

The South Dakota governor has also faced scrutiny for details in the book about mentioning a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress that appeared to be an error. Noem said the anecdote shouldn't have been included in the book and has been adjusted.

"This is an anecdote that I asked to have removed because I think it's appropriate at this point in time," she said.

The book's publisher confirmed Sunday the anecdote would be removed "upon reprint of the print edition and as soon as technically possible in on the audio and ebook editions."

Lol there will be no 'reprint'.. they'll dump the deadstock at Dollar Tree by September

“All that stuff was a typo”

Setting the stage for “I didn’t really shoot my dog I was just trolling you libs.”

I dunno, she seems to be expanding the selection of dogs that should be shot in a quarry

Knowing that Trump was the first president to not keep a White House dog in 140 years, maybe she hopes this will ingratiate her

It's so obvious that she made up the Kim Jong Un thing. Even Jesse Watters pressed her on it, and she said "I don't have conversations about my conversations."

The Corn Palace Summit

That’s my 31st favorite GBV album.

the kimberly guilfoyle makeover

the kimberly guilfoyle makeover

looks like a Deborah Eisenberg short story

I still remember her as Gavin Newsom’s wife on the bearskin rug

She should've stuck with the bear.

so often, the politics thread titles become stale right away as we move onto the next outrage.. but the puppy killer is still fresh

Amid a media tour in which Noem was challenged on CBS about an apparent threat to kill Joe Biden’s dog, the governor sought friendlier turf at Newsmax. Eric Bolling, a former Fox News host, duly attempted to give her a way to climb off her hurtling train of bad PR.

Bolling said: “You don’t write the whole book at once, you write a chapter or two, you send it to the editors and they edit. They read it, they add, they subtract.

“And here’s my question: the editor, was she possibly a plant? A liberal plant? Because I’m not sure either one of these stories, this dog story, the North Korea story, seems like the Kristi Noem I know.”

Noem said: “The buck always stops with me. I take my own full responsibility. I wrote this book and then I take the responsibility for what’s in it.”

I think that reply was worth at least two feet of dirt in the hole she’s digging for herself

Trying to fob off responsibility onto her editors, claiming they maliciously inserted false and damaging stories into her book, would have been far worse than owning it. Also, that would have opened her to a lawsuit for libel.

Well, she would've been given a proof for final okay anyway I assume

To be fair, this is the plant in question.

https://images.pexels.com/photos/9331396/pexels-photo-9331396.jpeg

Apparently Pete Buttigeig was in my neighborhood today, visiting the Flathead Reservation to announce $110 million worth of improvements to Highway 93, a road I travel several times a month.

I saw a car with a Buttigieg 2020 bumper sticker today. It was not Pete Buttigieg driving.

I saw a car with a Buttigieg 2020 bumper sticker today

You can never look back.

Scott just accused Sanders, who is Jewish, of "speaking with a forked tongue" in calling for a commitment not just to fight anti-Semitism but all forms of hatred.

— Dr. Mary Anne Franks (@ma_franks) May 7, 2024