Kristi Nope
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The best dog the family ever had was Watch. Cow dog without equal, Watch could flip a yearling in a heartbeat and hold it down until you called him off. You could be butchering hogs or a steer, tell Watch to stay and you could walk back to the porch to drink coffee. Nothing would bother the carcass while Watch was guarding.
One Sunday, for whatever reason, Watch bit one of the neighbors. Grandpa Jolly never said a word, he just reached up for the shotgun over the front door and killed Watch in the front yard. Grandpa didn't abide a biting dog.
Killing chickens? I've shot dogs for killing chickens. One my own, others that weren't.
I've told the story of Cicero before...He was a gun shy beagle dog. Great for the first rabbit, worthless after the first shot. My BIL shot him one cold winter day outside of Winfield, after the dog did his usual during the hunt and then wouldn't come come back to the horn.
The point of these stories is that everyday country people can and do shoot animals for various reasons. If my dog had killed a mess of the neighbor's chickens, I'd have put a bullet in his ear. Sadly, but that's the unwritten rule.
Noem's mistake was bragging about it in a book. It's not something to be particularly proud of, just something that sometimes has to be done. Noem's illustration does not show good judgement.
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The best dog the family ever had was Watch. Cow dog without equal, Watch could flip a yearling in a heartbeat and hold it down until you called him off. You could be butchering hogs or a steer, tell Watch to stay and you could walk back to the porch to drink coffee. Nothing would bother the carcass while Watch was guarding.
One Sunday, for whatever reason, Watch bit one of the neighbors. Grandpa Jolly never said a word, he just reached up for the shotgun over the front door and killed Watch in the front yard. Grandpa didn't abide a biting dog.
Killing chickens? I've shot dogs for killing chickens. One my own, others that weren't.
I've told the story of Cicero before...He was a gun shy beagle dog. Great for the first rabbit, worthless after the first shot. My BIL shot him one cold winter day outside of Winfield, after the dog did his usual during the hunt and then wouldn't come come back to the horn.
The point of these stories is that everyday country people can and do shoot animals for various reasons. If my dog had killed a mess of the neighbor's chickens, I'd have put a bullet in his ear. Sadly, but that's the unwritten rule.
Noem's mistake was bragging about it in a book. It's not something to be particularly proud of, just something that sometimes has to be done. Noem's illustration does not show good judgement.
@Jolly said in Kristi Nope:
Noem's mistake was bragging about it in a book. It's not something to be particularly proud of, just something that sometimes has to be done. Noem's illustration does not show good judgement.
There. You. Go.
And, she bragged about it in the context of "I can make tough decisions." I have no doubt that she's made tough decisions in her career (well, maybe...) but choosing this episode as a demonstration of that was stupid.
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It's the goat I feel sorry for. She shot it, then had to go back inside and get more ammo to shoot it again.
Which is a bit like what she just did to her career.
I was only joking
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It's the goat I feel sorry for. She shot it, then had to go back inside and get more ammo to shoot it again.
Which is a bit like what she just did to her career.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Kristi Nope:
It's the goat I feel sorry for. She shot it, then had to go back inside and get more ammo to shoot it again.
Which is a bit like what she just did to her career.
She might still get gig work doing ads for ammo. She has gained some international
notoriety already in advertising for at least one dental clinic in Texas.She probably never had the core statecraft competencies expected of an elected politician or, it would seem, any job that might go beyond being a scripted talking head.
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It’s kind of like saying “I shot my unfaithful boyfriend, then shot my aunt because I was pissed”
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I guess everybody understands what’s going on here. Noem put the anecdote in a book because she thought it was impressive about her ability to make tough choices. But she is so out of her element with an actual ability to make tough choices in the moment, that even her anecdote that she chose in a moment of consideration is just awful.
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I guess everybody understands what’s going on here. Noem put the anecdote in a book because she thought it was impressive about her ability to make tough choices. But she is so out of her element with an actual ability to make tough choices in the moment, that even her anecdote that she chose in a moment of consideration is just awful.
@Horace said in Kristi Nope:
I guess everybody understands what’s going on here. Noem put the anecdote in a book because she thought it was impressive about her ability to make tough choices. But she is so out of her element with an actual ability to make tough choices in the moment, that even her anecdote that she chose in a moment of consideration is just awful.
Agree.
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I was going to say she's an idiot, but I dare say she sold a lot of books.
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Noem book dogged by new claims of inaccuracies
Days ahead of its release, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is mired in yet more controversy surrounding the impending release of her new memoir — and this time, it involves an allegation about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
First came Noem’s disclosure about shooting and killing her 14-month-old wirehair pointer, Cricket, for misbehaving. Then, just as the dog-killing news cycle was cresting, the Dakota Scout reported on an anecdote in “No Going Back” that on its face is highly improbable: Noem’s claim that she met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving as a back-bencher in Congress.
“Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee,” Noem wrote, “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders. I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. 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).”
In fact, the only part of this that checks out is Kim “having no clue about” Noem — because they never met.
"Dogged," LOL.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Noem book dogged by new claims of inaccuracies
Days ahead of its release, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is mired in yet more controversy surrounding the impending release of her new memoir — and this time, it involves an allegation about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
First came Noem’s disclosure about shooting and killing her 14-month-old wirehair pointer, Cricket, for misbehaving. Then, just as the dog-killing news cycle was cresting, the Dakota Scout reported on an anecdote in “No Going Back” that on its face is highly improbable: Noem’s claim that she met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while serving as a back-bencher in Congress.
“Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee,” Noem wrote, “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders. I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. 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).”
In fact, the only part of this that checks out is Kim “having no clue about” Noem — because they never met.
"Dogged," LOL.
@George-K said in Kristi Nope:
Noem book dogged by new claims of inaccuracies
“Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee,” Noem wrote, “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders. I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. 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).”
I wonder what they had for lunch
I was only joking
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@George-K said in Kristi Nope:
Noem book dogged by new claims of inaccuracies
“Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee,” Noem wrote, “I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders. I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. 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).”
I wonder what they had for lunch
