I watched the first 3;30 of it. It was basically Noem's monologue. Her refusal to say whether she met with Kim Jong Un was pretty absurd.
Noem is an idiot, every one of those interviews is making things worse, not better. Her career outside her small population state is effectively over.
I read that any time you have to address bad press more than once, you're screwed. Hadn't really thought about that, but seems to be the case here.
Her ever changing stories are funny. Regarding the puppy, the book talks about how it was a danger to other animals. In live interviews now, she has morphed that story to being that it was a danger to children. She blamed her ghost writer for false stories being in the book. Ghost writers don't add made up things to autobiographies. She voice narrated the audio book version. Even if the book had inaccuracies, wouldn't she have caught them while reading it out loud onto tape?
So is it you who gets to determine who is a true xtian? Biden is a practicing Catholic and a decent man. You determined he is not a xtian on your own or did god tell you?
I was surprised she came off as badly as she did in those few minutes I watched. For some reason, I expected a little more straightforward honesty than the preplanned talking around a subject. Transcript: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024 - CBS News
Great point about the audio version. She just needs to say that the dog was a Chihuahua smuggled across the border. That will please the anti-immigrant base. Plus Chihuahuas are irritating anyway. Man would one of my weird friends be mad if she knew I wrote that. She has 4
Shouldn’t they let Kristi shoot one more dog ? Biden should kill his dog, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem suggests | National Post
Maga politicians’ target-audience isn’t broad, and their message is purposely anti “woke”. However maga didn’t embrace her position. ie we haven’t heard other politicians pick up this line or maga pundits support shooting pets as an anti-woke message. Yet she keeps it going and is 100% all in.
Parenthetically, this is the first example I can think of off the top of my head of someone attempting to craft a message to appeal to MAGA extremism and actually overshooting. I guess there is an upward limit, shooting puppies. But I have not seen any other example of something too extreme for that crowd.
While being a cruel dick is a big part of Trump's appeal, all these morons like DeSantis and Noem think that is the key element so that is all they attempt to recreate. Trump is actually kind of funny and entertaining and talks more about stupid stuff like low flow toilets, petty personal grievances and 80s celebrity gossip, and none of the imitators can do that. Trump understands TV so therefor he understands the American mind.
It's almost comical. "So does the fact that you're taking it out of the book mean it's not true?" Noem - No it doesn't mean that. "So when you were recording your audio book, you didn't notice that part?" Noem - I'm not talking about it ... https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/video/kristi-noem-killing-dog-fox-interview-digvid
Agree, but Noem was aiming for Veep. RD was trying to beat Trump - the analysis is spot on for that. But Noem was just trying to "fit in", prove her MAGA bona fides. That usually requires showing how extremely inhumane you are. That was the attempted point
I can point to an apple tree and say that it is not an orange tree because apple trees have characteristics that orange trees don't have and vice versa. God does not have to tell me in every instance that an apple tree is not an orange tree for me to know what an apple tree is when I see it. All I must know to identify what an apple tree is what its unique characteristics are. Christians and non-Christians can be identified in similar ways. When a tree blooms and its fruit is bad, we know the tree is bad. When a tree blooms and its fruit is good, we know the tree is good. Jesus even said, "By their fruits you shall know them." Fruits are evident in a person's words and deeds. Everything we know that Joe Biden has ever said or done has implications on what Joe Biden's fruit is. What Joe Biden has done is the best indicator we have in determining whether Joe Biden is a Christian or not. This is a guy who was denied communion in a Roman Catholic Church by a Roman Catholic priest. I am not the only one saying this.
