she sounds untrainable.
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Bad Kristi. BAD.
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it’d still be pretty controversial if she was taking those horses out to the gravel pit and shooting them. 
did she even bury the dog or the goat or the horses? christ 
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That’s a good point. I keep reading these articles thinking the politician is aiming for appeal to undecided voters. But I missed the point here, and thanks for highlighting it - this isn’t that kind of message. She’s trying to make it clear to those who have already decided that she’s One Of Them.
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It demonstrates that she is capable of making those “tough decisions” we are supposed to admire political and business leaders for being good at, which mysteriously always end up hurting something or someone else rather than themselves.
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Ronald would not be pleased.
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Well, we can hope.
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I posted this in the pet topic but I think I’ll cross post it here as well.
Democrat governors are posting this. Here’s my governor.
And I case you’re blocking the twitters.
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She may own the land but doesn’t know much if anything about farming. If you have a goat that you want to dispose of, sell it to a butcher. The butcher will kill the goat and sell the meat to folks that want to buy and cook goat meat. (Maybe it’s “those people” that make goat stew and other dishes that she also wants to deprive of the food opportunity.)
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Not at all, just covering all the bases. She’s a piece of evil work and IMO both stupid and evil.
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Yes This. This story reminds me a bit that when you grow up in a rural area it’s fun sport to freak out the normies with tales of things that are normal to hunters and farmers. BUT… this wasn’t something to brag about, among hunters and farmers even though there is on the surface to an outsider an indifference to the constant dying of animals, there is usually reverence and respect underneath (and usually an understanding that animals will do better for you if you do better for them) that her telling of her story violates.
My dad said something kinda cruel once about a sick pet cat I had and he later apologized saying that since he grew up on a farm he learned not to get too attached to animals. She thinks she is demonstrating her rural bonafides, but she is not. The right attitude is that yes, things like what she describes happens, but it’s between you and the animal and your god and have some damn respect.
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Normal person: The war was brutal and I did things I ain’t proud of.
Kristi Noem: Let me tell you all about how I tortured and killed prisoners of war.
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Her point is that she’s cruel, which is signaling to her base and trump. It’s not about her knowledge of managing a farm? 
She could give two shits about managing livestock. That’s why I said you’ve missing the point here.
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I just want to see a skit now where she’s like doing a campaign ad about her politically framed farming chops while randomly freaking out and shooting livestock for things like pooping on the ground.
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“Let that be a lesson to the rest of you chickens. When I tell you to bring me my itinerary, I expect you to bring me my itinerary, not to talk back.”
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Kristi Noem, probably…
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Her point is that she’s capable of making the tough executive choices and acting decisively on them, even astounding the by comparison emotionally weak but otherwise big, physically strong construction workers - the “big strong men with tears in their eyes” trope espoused by Mango Mussolini.
What she reveals to anyone reading the context of her written words is that (if the events are even true) she’s not clearheaded enough to put in the effort to turn things around by thinking a challenge through and doing the work to make the situation better without resorting to solving things with a gun.
I’m done discussing this reprehensible individual.
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If that were her point, she’d point to her record as governor. She didn’t do that (at least not in this section of the book). She recounted an unnecessarily cruel act that I doubt anyone who worked on a farm would recognize as legitimate. But she’s not seeking to show that she can manage farm life, but impose her will on those around her. That fits in well with the MAGA movement and their embrace of violence to achieve their goal of subverting the rights of the rest of us and imposing their will on the rest of us.
That’s if your not part of the cult, though. From the POV of the cult, this is a strong move which reveals a willingness to embrace cruelty for it’s own sake. They embrace violence because they are a fascist movement, and her talking about that is meant to show that to Trump and his movement.
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which, for an authoriarian, is a euphemism for
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