#never Noem

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#rapist trump #traitor trump #puppy killer Noem #two adulterers #never trump #never Noem #republican assholes #maga morons #gun control #cruelty to animals #republican party

[republikkkanorcs]

#republican assholes #maga morons #puppy killer #Kristi Noem #Trump sycophant #never trump #republican hypocrisy #republican family values

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Real life Cruella de Vil.

#Kristi noem #cruella de vil #republican assholes #maga morons #puppy killer #horse killer #goat killer #cruelty to animals #trump sycophants #traitor trump #republican hypocrisy #republican values #never trump #republican family values

[lousyhumanmagazine]

Many Hope Kristi Noem Will Put Herself Down For Bad Behavior

In her recent memoir, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem tells the tale of shooting her 14-month-old puppy to death for bad behavior, a story in which the Governor and her yes-men thought would show strength instead of just making her look like an incompetent and violent pet owner has now taken a Great Dane-sized shit all over her face. And it’s uniting upset white folk in hatred for the Noem on…

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#america #comedy #Funny #humor #Joe Billi #kristi noem #Lousy Human #never going back #politics #republicans

[vaspider]

I was saying to Emet earlier that one of the big things I was worried about with this fucking Kristi Noem thing was that she was trying to present this as "a rural thing"

Like "oh you city people just don't understand, this is just how it is in rural places"

And I really didn't want to see this just accepted by the news media, most of whom have never lived anywhere rural, as just "how we are"

Like, no, absolutely not, we don't just fucking shoot dogs bc they aren't good at being hunting dogs. Everybody I've ever personally known who hunts with dogs knows that a dog that is a bad hunting dog may be a great family pet. It's clear that people like that must exist - she's a person, after all - but it's not just How Things Are.

There are enough bad stereotypes about Rural People. We don't need more.

However, I have been relieved to see that a bunch of places covering this have had people on who grew up in rural places & who were pushing back on this hard, saying exactly that: no, this isn't normal.

Ugh.

#kristi noem #animal death #pet death #dog death #dog murder

[thingstrumperssay]

This is going to bother me for a long fucking time. Trump's VP pick (so far. I doubt he'll pick her after what came out about her) is so fucking evil for what she does to animals. (As in "more than one," apparently.) I just need to vent about something.

"Read more" because it's mostly a personal thing, though I do go over what Kristi Noem did briefly, so TW for animal abuse too.

I just shoved two pills down my oldest dog's throat. I hate having to do that but he'll dodge any food with crushed up pills in it and the other two won't so every twelve hours (5 AM and 5 PM) I give him his pills and then give him some moist food.

Sometimes the times are really inconvenient for me but I haven't missed a single day in the four years I've been doing this for him.

He has a grade 5 heart murmur, which makes it difficult for the vet to put him under anesthesia long enough to clean his teeth thoroughly. Despite everything we tried- dental treats, an additive in the water (that we still use) and brushing his teeth twice a day, it still wasn't enough so we had to pay over a thousand dollars to get the rest of his teeth removed by an anesthetic specialist. If anything we only delayed the inevitable.

We switched to a slightly more expensive brand of food since it's softer, and we spend about $30 more every other time we go grocery shopping for moist food for him. I take the time to break the soft food apart into pieces so my oldest won't even have to gum them to eat it, and they get three packets of moist food every day during separate times of day.

My husband and I will do these things for our dogs at least twice a day. We will drop whatever we're doing so we can get home at 5 so we can give our oldest his pills in time. It can be inconvenient, and kind of gross, but we would never trade the experience for something else. We are more than happy to do all we can for our dogs.

He turned fourteen years old two days ago and he still acts like a puppy most days.

And I don't think I'm at all different from most pet owners. I mean, I read about what people are doing for their dogs and rabbits all the time, and every pet owner I know does whatever they can for their pets, so I assume that this isn't something to brag about.

I think my mother-in-law is a psychopath, but she takes damn good care of her cats. My brother-in-law is lazy as hell, but he takes damn good care of his cats. (One had to be put down last year, but she was sixteen. She lived a really long life.)

AND YET we are now at the point in politics where "do they kill animals for no reason" is a thing we have to ask now about the people on our ballots.

Kristi Noem could have just given the dog away when her other hunting dogs (that she shouldn't have) "failed" to train her. (Yes, she actually expected her already trained dogs to train a dog.)

She could've just given the goat away when it got too smelly for her. But she didn't. Her "solution" to extremely minor inconveniences is to fucking shoot it in the face and then brag about it.

She's a fucking monster.

#kristi noem #donald trump #dogs #venting

[ceasarslegion]

If anything gets an explosion of popularity with teenage girls its only a matter of time until tumblr deems it the part of the carnival thats too cringe to ride. This goes doubly so if the creator is a visible minority. Except where other social networks just admit that its because teenage girls like it, tumblr does this infuriatingly irritating thing where they take otherwise legitimate criticisms of it and pretend that all the hate campaigns about it and harassment towards everyone who publically likes it is because of said criticisms.

But i dont know man, there are so much more overtly racist media properties than hamilton with creators who are so much more vile than lin manuel miranda, and the hamilton hayday is over. The only time you see it hyped up in public now is on billboards and commercials when a touring off-broadway crew comes to your city. And the fandom drama was so long ago that most have forgotten the major details. Why do you beat dead horses like it so much if its really because of the "criticisms" you have of it? There was a pro-kyle rittenhouse game released on steam a few months back to republican cheers, kristi noem admitted to shooting her dog in her new book, and new hollywood properties release every day by white creators that are overtly racist that never get a peep out of this site. I usually hate it when people say that shit but in this case, if you're claiming to be so concerned about what popular media is saying, i think it's justified.

But yeah, people who point out that it's odd that this site only does this about media by minority creators and media that teenage girls like just think it's racist and misogynist to personally not like something. Let it go already

#some thoughts

[tomorrowusa]

Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota is on the short list of Trump's running mates for 2024. She is a Trump sycophant who once commissioned a replica of Mt. Rushmore featuring an image of Trump on it next to Lincoln.

Noem thinks nothing about shooting dogs. Maybe she feels that writing about it would impress the Orange One.

One of the candidates in the running to be Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President has admitted that she once shot a pet puppy that she “hated”. [ ... ]

Ms Noem, the Governor of South Dakota is seen as a leading contender to be Mr Trump’s running mate for the November presidential election. Her revelations about killing animals sparked outrage on Friday, with some describing her as “sick and twisted” and “trash”. Her anecdotes appear in her new book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward – which will be published in the US next month. A copy has been obtained ahead of time by The Guardian. [ ... ] The governor describes how she took the puppy on a pheasant hunt with other dogs to teach her how to behave. However, she said the animal went “out of her mind with excitement” and scared off the birds.

Her abuse of domestic animals is not limited to dogs. She also shot a goat – just because she could.

Ms Noem then recalls deciding to kill a “nasty and mean” male goat also owned by the family. She describes the uncastrated animal as smelling “disgusting, musky, rancid” and frequently chasing her children and “knocking them down”. She says she missed the first time she fired and had to return to her truck to retrieve another round of ammunition in order to finish the job. A construction crew reportedly witnessed her shoot both animals.

Donald Trump hates dogs and animals in general. He has an irrational fear of sharks. A joint sequel of Cujo and Sharknado set at Mar-a-Lago would be perfect.

This is from early 2020 – when he was busy botching the response to COVID-19.

Donald Trump hates dogs. Here's what that tells us about him

In Trump’s tiny mind, dogs are venal, treacherous creatures. Vanity Fair suggested, “To the president, dogs are capable of many things, none of which are particularly dog-like. Begging for money, for example. Getting dumped. Feeling ungrateful... Trump never compared anything to a dog that draws on how the animal famously is. It’s never ‘He’s loyal like a dog’... The creatures have never done much good in the Trumpian universe.” “Donald was not a dog fan,” ex-wife Ivana confirmed in her memoir Raising Trump, recalling his hostility to her poodle, Chappy, who would “bark at him territorially”. Ivana never understood Trump’s hostility to dogs. “How can you not love a dog that acts like he’s won the lottery for life just because he sees you walk through the door?” she wondered.

Dogs can easily smell a phony, and Trump gives them a lot to smell at.

Trump frequently uses "dog" as an insult and comedian Matt Friend has picked up on that.

So a Trump-Noem 2024 GOP ticket is something that dogs and their friends should snarl at.

#dogs #animal cruelty #kristi noem #pets #goats #south dakota #animals #republicans #vice presidential nomination #the gop #donald trump #like a dog #matt friend #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[republikkkanorcs]

#republican assholes #maga morons #traitor trump #crooked donald #rapist trump #Kristi Noem #republican family values #never trump #puppy killer

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

F—king Republican bitch!

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#kristi noem #puppy killer #republican assholes #maga morons #Republican cruelty #Trump sycophant #republican values #never trump

[vomitdodger]

Boebert is 100% responsible for her actions, highly inappropriate actions, and covering them up (“ I don’t recall vaping”) but you’ll never change my mind she wasn’t a victim of a reverse Honeypot Operation.

The guy (who did the fondling) is getting ZERO attention by the media. ZERO scrutiny. ZERO attention for his actions, both sexual and responsible adult-wise. He was completely inactive during all of it. No insistence that she not vape, no “calm down”, no “put your phone away”. No “actually you did vape”. Nothing. He was a complete passive attendant…other than conveniently grabbing her breast for the camera. Right on cue. How convenient.

And the guy is a hard core demtard. From a hard core demtard family. Owns a bar that has drag queen performances. You telling me he found common ground with Boebert naturally? No way.

And who leaked all the videos and ESPECIALLY why? The theater made their statement. It was a done deal. And that statement made no mention of the fondling. There was no blowback on the theater I’m aware of. Then suddenly there’s a close up infra red/night vision of the two of them. That’s starts with HIM fondling her. Almost like conveniently on cue for the close up camera. She should have been kicked out at the vaping before the show started. But was allowed to remain. Why? Why the close up camera? Why the release? Who released it? The whole event was conveniently to do as much damage to her as possible. Granted she earned it, but the trap was set for her to go right along with it. Surely at the guys silent (in terms of video) encouragement. She should have known better. But the dude needs the same scrutiny.

And it comes at exactly the same time Kristi Noem is yet again in the headlines over an affair. Odd that two hard core conservatives are making headlines at exactly the same time. Again…granted they both earned the scrutiny, but it’s too coincidental and convenient.

But besides all THAT:

The media is so full of Biden crime family, deep state corruption and Plandemic 2.0 one can not keep up with the daily, multiple, significant and impactful events. The two stories above are a much needed distraction.

The distraction I’d like: the Epstein list.

[ravynfyre]

Dogs and Politics - a Rant

I genuinely cannot fathom the fact that there are people out there justifying the bullshit that kristi noem pulled.

I live on a farm. I have livestock. I also have EXCEPTIONALLY high drive dogs. Most of my high drive dogs have EXTRAORDINARY prey drive. Those drives are most of WHY I have those specific dogs - either because I looked for those specific traits myself, intending to tap into them to train for emergency services, or because those drives got those dogs into trouble in their previous homes and I was their "last chance".

I have been dealing with, training, and learning FROM, drivey dogs for over 20 years now, as an actual intentional thing... however, looking back on my 49 years of life, it is quite clear that drivey, "unruly", "problem" dogs have always been the kind I gravitated towards. My current sighthounds - half borzoi (russian wolfhound) and half scottish deerhound - are probably the most "mellow" dogs I have ever had.

And even the beerhounds have killed animals on my farm.

My female beerhound snagged a feral kitten once that tried to cruise through my yard. my male beerhound was accidentally left outside for a couple hours in the ass end of a morning once (in a secured yard) and he managed to kill a guinea, a hen, and a rooster, DESPITE being mostly blind. My whole pack got ahold of a feral kitten I was taming once, when I left my farmsitter in charge while I was out of town for a day. I was attached to all of those critters, yes, even the fucking guinea. I was disappointed and upset that they were killed.

I did NOT take those dogs "out to the gravel pit and shoot them in the head".

TWO of my malinois (that have both since passed due to old age) had managed to catch at least one lamb each and had a big ole time. One of those malinois managed to kill *three* lambs in his life, because every time I managed to thwart his ability to reach them one way, he would find another fucking way. Now, my farm is a hobby farm, and my livelihood doesn't depend on my livestock - more like my livelihood is dragged *down* by my livestock, if I was being honest - but I'm not in this shit to kill animals. EVERY animal death on my farm is terrible and tragic and *MY FAULT*.

Not the dogs'. Not the cats'. Not the sheeps'. ...okay, so the year that one horse I had started killing newborn lambs... that was his fault. But know what I didn't do? I didn't take the horse out back and shoot him in the head. I moved him into a pen where he couldn't get to the lambs and then I looked for a new home for him that didn't have lambs. (And no, I have no idea why he started killing them, except that he'd never been on a farm with sheep before, and hey, guess what? That made the issue MY fault, too! I should have been more cautious about assuming that he'd be fine with lambs since he had no issue with sheep. That was MY BAD.)

Every single time a dog managed to capture an animal and kill it, that was on ME for allowing it to happen. For allowing the circumstances that put that animal in the place where it was *able* to be caught. That put that dog in a position where it had access to something that would trigger its instincts to that degree.

My placid, sweet, docile sighthounds? Borzois and Deerhounds are HUNTING DOGS. They are bred to hunt wolves and the european version of our elk. And they are damn good at it.

My malinois? Malinois are herding dogs... the type of herding dog known as a "header" rather than a "heeler", because they use their predatory instincts to intimidate their herds and flocks into moving where they want by giving them a true and real predatory staredown, and when that fails, *biting them in the fucking face*. Or trying to, anyway. Herding dogs are NOT "livestock guardians". They aren't there to *protect* the livestock... (so that whole "sheepdog" movement about worshiping cops and gun nuts "protecting" the populace just makes me fucking laugh, but I digress) they are there because they are, at heart, a *predator* whose instincts have been honed to help us manage and move livestock.

But even my true livestock guardian dogs - all great pyrenees - will only take so much from their livestock before even *they* will attack to protect themselves. I have horses and sheep and cows and geese and chickens all free roaming in the same pastures. The cows, when the most recent pyrs arrived, got snarky and stupid with the pyrs, and tried to intimidate them. The dogs put up with it for a while, until they felt threatened by the charges, and then they chased back. And if the cows hadn't quit their shit, the pyrs would have actually drawn blood, because the dogs know they are there to protect their livestock, but they won't let the livestock kill them to do it. But the cows learned, and now the pyrs only chase predators and "pests". BUT! One of the livestock dogs *does* have a taste for baby chickens. Adult chickens are perfectly safe, but there is just something that is TOO tempting about chicks up to a certain size, and if he has the opportunity, he'll munch one down in about two seconds flat.

My hens have adjusted to guarding their chicks better... because I didn't take that dog out back and shoot him.

COULD I stop him from snacking on baby chicks? Sure. I would literally have to break him to do so. Like, break his spirit until he was a shadow of himself, I mean, and then he would be an absolutely worthless livestock guardian. Just like stopping my sharper malinois from snacking on lambs would literally destroy them, and their ability to train for the kind of independent problem solving I GOT them for. And I am honestly not sure if I could break the sighthounds of their prey drive... it's just too intrinsic to their blood and soul.

HOWEVER! What I *can* do is ensure that none of these dogs are put into a position where they can make that decision in the first place. Every feral cat that shows up on my farm now gets trapped and fixed, so I don't *have* kittens scampering through the secure dog yard anymore. I have organized my fences and pastures better to exclude dogs from the pasture unless I allow them in... and my current malinois problem child, even though I *think* she just wants the chase rather than the kill, I have a set routine that ensures that she never has the freedom to even *attempt* to access the pasture where the sheep are. Inevitably, that will not be foolproof, and I do expect that someday, she'll figure out a way, or I will literally fuck up, and she'll get out there, or one of them into the yard, and she'll get herself her first lamb.

And I won't take her out back to shoot her for it, either. Because she's a dog. She's a dog who has all the instincts that I PICKED her to have, which means she is NOT livestock safe, and so it is incumbent upon ME to ensure everyone's safety. Because yes, I am training her... but there really *are* limits to the amount of instinct resistance one can impose on a dog, when you deal with the level of dogs I do.

And when the accident happens, I'm *still* not going to kill that dog. I'm probably not even going to rehome it, which would have been the CORRECT fucking response to a dog killing your chickens or your neighbor's goat (rehoming). I'm most likely going to examine exactly how *I* fucked up to allow the accident to even occur, and try to figure out how to keep that from ever happening again. Because that is the CORRECT response, and not to sociopathic one.

And before anyone comes for me with the, "but not every dog can be saved", yeah, I fucking know. I took in two dogs once, and tried my hardest to rehab them. One had attacked a child, one had attacked a horse. The child... The story I was told was that it was provoked, and I believed that. The horse? I saw that one happen, and it was a case of excessive prey drive and an unstable dog - a bad situation that was HUMAN CAUSED. I took both dogs in to try and save their lives, because both owners *wanted* to "shoot" their dogs right then and there...

And I failed. I spent a year each working on those dogs, and I couldn't fix them enough that they would ever be safe, except for one of them in a very specific situation that 1) I couldn't find, and 2) couldn't guarantee would not change. They were two of the only dogs in my life that I was ever actually afraid around. And I couldn't fix them. I could not make them "safe enough" to go to new homes. Their quality of life sucked, and it wasn't fair to them. Hate me if you want, but, yes. I had them put down - safely, quietly, and *humanely* at a vet's office after an evaluation, where the vets agreed with my opinion. What I did not do was take them out back immediately and shoot them. I gave them a chance, tried to fix their training, and gave them time and security. So no, not all dogs *can* be saved, but all dogs deserve the CHANCE to be saved.

A 14 month old hunting dog deserved better than to be shot in the fucking head in the back woods because he killed some chickens. That bullshit didn't make Noem a "country girl", or some sort of rural badass, or "pragmatic"... it made her a fucking sociopath.

And anyone who agrees that she "did the right thing"? Can suck my fat fucking ass. I'll stake out an acre for you, you fucking sociopath.

#tw animal death #cw animal death #kristi noem #lots of cussing #bad language #animal death

[zurich-snows]

ÇA-A-ETÉ? AGAINST BARTHES Joan Fontcuberta

Walter Benjamin aside, the most cited essay on photography in history is without a doubt Camera Lucida. It is Roland Barthes’ final book, and was published shortly before his death. With his poetic gaze and theoretical reflections, Barthes develops key concepts in the book, such as punctum and studium, which have since been incorporated into the heritage of photographic criticism. In one of the most significant passages, we find another central idea: “In Photography I can never deny that the thing has been there. There is a superimposition here: of reality, and of the past. And since this constraint exists only for Photography, we must consider it, by reduction, as the very essence, the noeme of Photography. What I intentionalize in a photograph is neither Art nor Communication, it is Reference, which is the founding order of Photography. Photography's noeme will therefore be: ‘That-has-been’” [Ça-a-été].

This ça-a-été constitutes the ontological bulwark of photography’s documentary value: without the certainty of “that-has-been”, all visual testimony ends up delegitimated. This is why it could be beneficial to analyse photo-journalistic snapshots in light of this criteria. For example, as a case study, we could take the photographic archive of the now-closed Mexican journal Alerta, a tabloid dedicated to blood and guts news stories, which in Latin America is referred to as “nota roja” [red note]. If we do an analysis, we are surprised to see how frequently the iconological pattern of the gesture of pointing appears: a figure in the image (a victim, a witness, an “expert”, whoever) points with a finger at someone or something in the composition to draw attention to it. These are theatrical, artificial situations where it is clear that the model is following the reporter’s instructions, while nevertheless making doubly clear the pretension of applying he principle of ça-a-été, in a way that is as naïve as it is rudimentary. We are witness to an effect of superimposed indexicalities: one passed down through photography and the other of the finger (the index) pointing. Both the camera lens and the finger focalise our perception towards something that has gone by. Yet the staging is so naïve, rudimentary and artificial that instead of emphasising, what it does is problematise the validating value of the camera, especially in genres like forensic and news photography, which should be characterised precisely by an aseptic, derhetorized treatment of information.

Barthes, perhaps, fascinated by the theatricality he had also dedicated enthusiastic studies to, sought to pass over this drift: “What is theatricality?”, he asked in 1971. “It is not decorating representation, it is unlimiting language.” Very well, then, but if so, ça-a-été is no longer a guarantee of objectivity, inasmuch as it explores staging. A triple staging, in fact, as all photography implies the staging of the object, the gaze and of the photographic device itself. It is from the conciliation of these stagings that language emerges. We can decide to not limit it, we can grant it all freedom available to it, but at the cost of breaking the contract of verisimilitude.

Unmasked by the overplayed gesticulation of accusing or pointing fingers, we discover that the noeme heralded by Barthes is more a theatrical operation than one of reference. “That has been”, indeed, but what, in fact, has really been? It is imperative to ask this when there is no spontaneity, but rather construction. Yet worst of all is that photography, in and of itself, tells us very little about “that”. Very little beyond scenery and costumes.

Joan Fontcuberta

#Joan Fontcuberta #Barthes

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Jack Ohman, Sacramento Bee

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Vice President Kamala Harris emerging as strong campaign partner for Biden

Vice President Kamala Harris is emerging as an active campaigner for the Biden-Harris ticket. Although President Biden has been actively campaigning, he has a country to run! On Monday, VP Harris traveled to Georgia to highlight the administration’s $7 billion investment in Black-owned small businesses and historically Black colleges and universities. See NYTimes, Kamala Harris Leads Push to Shore Up Democratic Support From Black Voters.

Per the Times, VP Harris

Explain[ed] how government policies have widened the racial wealth gap over the years [and] Ms. Harris pointed to the Biden administration’s attempts to try to narrow it, including small-business grants and efforts to forgive student loans.[¶]

The vice president’s Atlanta visit, her 12th trip to Georgia since taking office, was the first stop in a tour of several battleground states in the coming weeks. Much of the tour will focus on Black small businesses and economic issues that are especially pressing for Black communities. She will visit Detroit next week, aides said.

The good news is that Kamala Harris is proving to be an effective campaign partner for President Biden. The better news is that Trump's “survivor style” vice presidential selection process is highlighting just how bad MAGA candidates are.

While Biden and Harris are tag-teaming their campaign, Trump's leading vice-presidential candidate, Kristi Noem, just shot herself in the foot by describing how she shot and killed her hunting puppy who failed to live up to Kristi’s standards for hunting dogs. See CNN, Opinion: Kristi Noem shot her ‘untrainable’ dog. If she thought we’d be impressed by her toughness, she was wrong | CNN.

There are many sickening aspects to Noem’s story, so it is difficult to pick one. While shooting a puppy is deplorable (and likely a crime), the fact that Noem believed the story would inspire MAGA extremists to vote for her is chilling. Was she hoping to impress MAGA extremists? See Business Insider, Who's Kristi Noem Trying to Impress by Bragging About Killing Her Dog?

As noted by Business Insider, Mitt Romney never recovered from a story about transporting his dog in a cage tied to the top of the family station wagon. There is no coming back from killing a puppy at point-blank range—even in Trumpworld.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Jack Ohman #Sacramento Bee #political Cartoon #kill switch #Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #Noem #dog killer #Kamala Harris #election 2024

[the-eternal-quest-for-balance]

Kristi Noem confronted about farm pup in tense exchange: 'You need to stop'

Stewart did not distinguish himself. Kristi however demonstrated Class with Authority. He’ll probably never get her back on his show, rightfully so.

#youtube

[jonostroveart]

TRIGGERED

Kristi Noem is still pushing her book hard and she continues to press the rationale for shooting dogs. She also said that the passage in the book where she describes in detail her meeting with Kim Jong Un (never happened) was there somehow by mistake, letting her editor take the fall. However, she said “When I became aware of that, we changed the content…” A very interesting claim, since she is the reader on the audio edition of her book “No Going Back.” You’d think there would be no going forward for her in her quest to be Trump’s running mate, but her efforts to lie, deflect and blame everybody else for her problems seem to be as shameless as Mango Mussolini himself.

#political satire #editorial cartoons #politics #political cartoon #trump #trump humor #us politics #kristi noem #election 2024 #south dakota