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So most of us remember Noem's main claim to fame being that she executed her new puppy, after... not training it properly, and being annoyed by it.
Well I'd like to remind folks she was behind this ad campaign:
Nope, not a joke, not a photoshop, not AI hallucination... this was her baby, and it was real.
Finally... I present to you, ~~Kristi~~ Karen Noem:
Yeah thats from ~7 years ago, when she still had a vaguely human face.
If memory serves... she is still, herself, personally banned from setting foot on any Indian/Native Tribal land in the entire state of South Dakota, basically for consistently being a racist c*nt, consistently disrespecting any and all tribal attempts to keep their land clean from industrial waste.
EDIT:
(I've been told by a local from Rapid City that she also executed a goat in a similar violent outburst as with her new puppy... but I have not been able to verify this myself, with a citable print source.
Local told me that its not uncommon to basically just rent a or some goats as basically au naturale lawnmowers, which does make sense to me...
... but she apparently got annoyed by the bleating, and one day just shot someone else's goat, that she was renting, to be a lawnmower on her ranch.
... Yeah.)
The goat story was in her book, as an extension of the puppy story. Once she shot the puppy in the face, she was all wound up on bloodlust, and decided to shoot the goat, too, because she thought it was disgusting.
MAGAs think that's funny.
... wow.
Ok.
I thought some local may have been passing along a tall tale, fucking, nope, there is a print source, and it is Noem herself.
... yeah I haven't read her book.
This woman is a portrait of a violent antisocial psychopath.
Like, if you were poor, and you did this kind of shit, you'd get either imprisoned or institutionalized.
She also clearly has body dysmorphia, as demonstrated by her ... can we just call it 'Fox News Face' - affirming care?
thank you!
tips patriotism hat highly ironically
Hey! Patriotism today means fighting for a sFer America. You ARE being patriotic by informing us of the failures of the state
Yeah I got my issues with America, but I'm a true believer in the enlightenment and I love that this country is philosophically grounded in enlightenment ideas and the idea that the state's ability to project force onto it's citizens should be limited. I know about our contradictions, and I'm disappointed as all hell in what we've done with ourselves in the past decades (and longer), but part of me loves this country and believes it could be better.
But first and foremost I'm an international anti fascist. I don't care that I love my home, it's fallen to the fascists and is attacking the world, I can love it again once it's been stopped.
stumbles awkwardly out of recently materialized 80s era phone booth
dons tricorner hat
checks breast pocket for printed copy of ancient proto proto anarchist zine, 'Common Sense'
brings out boombox
"Let us commence to jam, sucka!"
hits play on RATM: Renegades of Funk, extremely patriotically