Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Dustcan
I don’t think she realizes that “I make the hard decisions” doesn’t really work when the “hard decision” was to quit. Except even weaker than that, to “quit” something else.

“The moment I face any adversity, I’ll take the nuclear option” cool cool really cool how about we keep a literal psychopath like that a million miles away from the White House please

@The Smiling Pony
What would she even do if she got in? All I’m seeing is that she’d be a danger to civilization if she did…

@Wiimeiser
She was “running” to be Trump’s vice president pick. Vice president for a guy in his 70s that eats cheeseburgers for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack.

Trump’s mental retardation, huge ego, and short temper were bad enough, I really don’t want someone that’s all that and a proven, PROUD, history of solving trivial problems with extreme violence to be in charge of the world’s most powerful military.

@The Smiling Pony
So yeah, she’d probably be a Menace to Humanity if she got in. Probably also a Psychotic Mammal

@The Smiling Pony Even worse, she can’t even do that properly. Supposedly missed the vitals on the goat and had to do it a second time. And one horse. The sheer levels of self report are amazing!
Look on the bright side tho, least we can lord it over feminists the first woman President is every bit the disaster we’ve been saying it would be since the interbutts launched😋 “Ha~HAH, told ya s-”
Also I am pretty sure that she is equally Trumpian at conducting important state business over Twitter, so there’s that too.
Oh well! Vice President Marjorie Taylor Greene, anyone?

@Dustcan
“I didn’t like that dog.”

Bruh that’s bad.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk
I wonder which one of those two terrible potential VP picks would hurt Trump’s chances the most?

More excerpts from Kristi Noem’s book is making the rounds.

One of the most notable is towards the end of the book where she says if made VP then if she meets Commander Biden (Biden’s dog) she would have it “Meet Cricket” (the puppy she killed).

She’s like, really proud of that. She really asserts that killing a dog is a defining moment of her life.

I hope the last words she hears are “Say hello to Cricket”. That would be funny.

I wonder if PETA has anything to say about Kristi Noem?

I’m not interested in taking any sides. I’m just curious for the sake of schadenfreude.

@Background Pony #3BD3
I’m guessing they are preparing a trophy for her as we speak.

@The Smiling Pony
Cricket is in heaven. She’s going straight to the other place(Hell) so she can’t ever talk to Cricket.

Israel has taken Al Jazeera off the air in the country, claiming it to be a national security threat and a “mouthpiece for Hamas”.

Some democracy you got there, Israel.

@SleepySteve
I mean, they’re not that wrong. Hamas is known to have gotten a lot of funding (and likely more) from Qatar, and Qatar owns and controls Al Jazeera. Not that different from Ukraine banning Russian channels.

@Dustcan
The weird thing is … she also writes with as much veracity and sincerity of meeting Kim Jong-un. Which she never did.

I mean … what are the odds she made up the dog and the goat and the horses, too? And these are just more lies she’s telling because she thinks it will impress her constituents and Trump?

So what’s worse? That she really did it? Or that she didn’t do it and now is doubling down on a lie?

Course, over on Fox News, Noem says this is all “fake news”, so … is any of it real? Is the “fake” part that she said she did things that never happened? Or is the “fake” part that people art attributing to her things she says she did in her memoir? Or is the “fake” her for saying she did things that never happened, or trying to convince people that she didn’t break her own state’s laws (admittedly misdemeanors) by failing to control her pet and then killing it?

And was it “Fake News” when Fox interviewed her about it? Or only when CNN reported that she wrote that she’d done these things?

Who owns this “news”? Who gets to report that she said these things? And is any of it real? Is the real truth - the “not fake news” - better or even worse?

Ah. Ok. Kristi Noem hasn’t read her own book, the book that she is credited with writing.

This sounds exactly like her book was written by ChatGPT. It has this incredible capacity to make up the most believable but completely false stories about people. I asked it to help with a bio I was writing for someone, and it started going on and on about awards they’d received and universities they’d gotten degrees from and amazing places they’d worked. Absolutely believable, and utterly made up.

So, I think they handed her book to ChatGPT to “spice it up”, which it did as it does, and she has never read it. And now she’s flailing to defend and explain “what she wrote”. Which she never did.

That would make all of this make so much more sense.

10 more whistleblowers has stepped forward to testify against Boeing. This after the last 2 died from, ahem, unknown causes.

I don’t know man. I think it might be cheaper for Boeing to start making planes that don’t fall apart than it is to hire Agent 47 all the time.

@Dustcan
They’re learning a lesson most tyrants learn: Fear is a great motivator for rebellion.

GOP: ”TRANS FOLKS AND MINORITIES FROM THE BORDER WANT TO MOLEST KIDS!”

Also GOP:

Accusations being Confessions as usual…

@CaptainXtra
Is that… Is that a real news article?

@CaptainXtra
And there goes another loss of faith in humanity for me…

@Background Pony #F6E5
Please this is just standard Republican nonsense. Wait until after the election is done.

@igotnopicks
I don’t even want to imagine the madness after the election. Honestly, I hope the Republicans do lose this election and that Democrats beat them in the House and Senate, including the White House.

In New Hampshire a Republican in the State House voted against raising the state’s minimum age of marriage to 18.

His reasoning? “… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?”

Pedocon theory is real.