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In other words, they produced a typical pre-campaign book, where the first rule is to do no harm. Somewhat unusually for the genre, that book, 2022’s Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, landed the South Dakota governor on the New York Times’ bestseller list, adding to the consensus that the Donald Trump devotee had a big future in GOP politics.
What it didn’t do, of course, was spark a weeklong news cycle — and a round of obituaries for that same political future — by including a tale about Noem leading a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting him to death after he ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
This time around, Noem has a different team in place, as well as a different imprint, Hachette’s conservative-leaning Center Street. And the folks behind her new book, No Going Back, didn’t get in the way of sharing memories about gunning down an ill-trained puppy.
Kirsti Noem’s publisher in 2022: “This is a horrible story. We can’t include this, Dick Cheney only got away with his hunting trip scandal because he shot a lawyer and not a puppy.”
Kristi Noem’s new Conservative publisher in 2024: “People will be impressed with how tough you are on puppy crime.”
Yep. It’s insane how quickly we’re spiraling into a fucking christian theocracy… anything less than voting for Biden in November is tacit support for Trump and the GOP and I don’t care whether or not people on Lemmy like hearing that fact. We have one chance to save our democracy. Vote like your life depends on it.
You’d need an afternoon nap too if you ate two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate shake for lunch every day.
And just in case anyone thinks that may have changed since that news originally came out in 2017… It hasn’t. He was still getting McDonald’s delivered to court every day as recently as last October.
Clarence Thomas is massively corrupt and a disgrace to the entire legal profession. Which is a lot of words to say, he’s a conservative.
Tim Scott is a gutless hack who apparently hasn’t had enough of being embarrassed on the national stage yet. It doesn’t matter what you do or say Sen. Scott, Trump’s not going to pick you because it would upset his base. And we all know why.
“The risk of dying from heat stroke is just WOKE propaganda!” - Ron DeSantis, probably
The Simpsons eating at a restaurant called America Town in Tokyo:
Waiter: Howdy, gangstas. I am average American Joe salary-man waiter. Don’t ask me, I don’t know anything, I am product of American education system! I also build poor-quality cars and inferior-style electronics.
Homer: Hahahaha he’s really got our number!
