Gotta say it’s kind of disturbingly entertaining to watch her continue flailing at “dammit I WAS NOT WRONG TO DO/WRITE THAT!!!’”
If anything, that is even more erosive of her image. One can sort of respect you if you stand behind your fuckups, but the “yes that happened but NO you must not think it was bad here’s why…” part is where people will say “hey, stop digging!” Sign of weakness.
I was lucky about the one my dog (who I’d thought thoroughly cat friendly) killed years ago (though the poor cat wasn’t lucky) – she turned out to have come over from a neighboring dairy farm. Like many (though not all) of the livestock farmers around here, they considered the cats living in their barns to be something like wild beneficials – they provide habitat, in the form of the barns for shelter and some food, and wouldn’t deliberately hurt a cat; but aren’t very concerned about the fate of any individual, and took it as normal that most of them wouldn’t survive very long. I felt far worse about it than they did.
But my dog never did it again, when she saw how I reacted.
I was unfortunate enough to catch a small segment of Noem on a morning news/talk show defending herself by among other things claiming she’s an experienced dog trainer, and all I could think as I clicked away was, yeh, sure, and I bet you killed the dog rather than rehoming it because you couldn’t face the embarrassment of having to admit you’d failed.
A long time ago, when I had just recently bought my house, to my utter suprise I spotted a white rabbit in the road near my driveway.
I stopped, pursued it, then with the help of some neighbors caught it. So into my house, staffed by two hunting dogs, one more agressive and one who could kill, if only he could work out how and what, plus, at that point a very agressive cat.
Anyway. I found a cardboard box for a “den” supplied carrots and similar veg, and locked it up in the spare bedroom.
It was night when we caught him, so the next morning I went around putting up (to me, at least) funny cartoon posters advertising I had a truant rabbit within around 2 to 300m from my house. I also told the local vet.
Nobody contacted me, so the next day I started house-to-house door-knocking and got a lead from one neighbor that a kid just down the street had lost a rabbit.
So I took it there. His mum was apparently unmoved by the loss of rabbit - one of my posters was right outside their front door and this was the second day I was in possession of the rabbit. Anyway, she did admit to owning it, when her (approx 5 year old) son came to the door and claimed it.
He asked “Do you think that he (the bunny, I can’t remember it’s name) enjoyed his holiday?”
I did not have the heart to tell him the truth about my incredibly-dangerous-to-domestic-rabbit animals, so I just gave him a happy description about it having its own room and being fed the best vegetables…
The mother looked a bit pissed off that it was back, which just goes to show that there are people who can keep pets, and people who should keep pets, and there are a number of differences in the person involved, depending on their ability and dedication.
Ms. Noem could not even keep a pet.
We used to live next to a wetland park that we could let the dogs run off-leash. Our dachshund went absolutely insane on one of the walks and out of nowhere mauled a duck in its nest (no babies or eggs) as in, “I’m gonna eat you!”. I went after him and he ran to another nest and killed another duck before I grabbed him. He was a psycho killer but we didn’t shoot him in the face with a shotgun. We took responsibility and made him stay on leash when we went for walks there. He would glare at us when we did that.
North Dakota really dodged a bullet there.
Unlike Cricket.
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Too soon?
Noem’s publisher previously talked her out of bragging about the puppy-killing in her previous book.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/06/kristi-noem-dog-killing-story-00156290
Has anyone seen that publisher recently?
Check the gravel pit.
Again.
Noem going on all these shows and expecting them to not ask her about the dog incident is just too funny. She will not answer a yes or no question about Kim. She looks like a complete idiot.
I wonder how many copies of the book have been sold so far. Better be a lot to make all this humiliation worth it.
As has been noted numerous times in this thread, Noem never met Kim Jong Un. After being notified about this error, Noem stated that she has asked the publisher to remove that reference from her book before publication. It seems, however, that she may have overlooked this little inconsistency while she was narrating the text for the audiobook.
In other words, the audiobook version of Noem’s memoir narrated by the governor herself will have to be edited as well, meaning Noem read the false North Korea statement aloud for the recording without correcting it.
Perhaps her train of thought has difficulty changing gears so quick. 
Am I the only one who is beginning to think that Noem did actually meet with Kim? Perhaps the records don’t show it because it was a clandestine meeting that was never acknowledged by the State Department.
Maybe it was a conspiratorial meeting to happily share state secrets, but the dumb fuck spoke the quiet part out loudly? You never know with these maga clowns.
Why would Kim have any interest in Noem? What use is she to him?
There is no evidence of ‘dog meat’ for sale in North Korea.
The term ‘mung-mung tang’ is a slanderous lie.
I think the simpler explanation is that she is a liar and a fabulist.
And also stupid, which is self-evident because (a) she chose to include the dog story in her book after being talked out of it by her publisher in an earlier book; and (b) because the story about meeting with Kim is so easily disproven.
I often think of a nature documentary I once saw. It involved a prey bug sitting on a branch, and right behind it, and a little above it, was a predator bug. Prey bug knew one thing: if he moved he was dead. Poor guy tried to stay motionless as long as possible, but he finally couldn’t resist moving a little, and chomp.
Noem bailed on the rest of her book tour, after even conservative media outlets have begun to roast her. But her official reason is she had to return to South Dakota due to “bad weather.”
I’m going to use that excuse if I ever have to bail out of my book tour.
If i ever get a book tour, that is.
And have to bail out, for some unfathomable reason.
“Bad Weather”