A French official said there is no record of a scheduled meeting with the South Dakota governor – nor had they invited her

The French government has joined the chorus of detractors taking aim at South Dakota governor Kristi Noem’s political autobiography No Going Back, which many now see as having eliminated her chances of being Donald Trump’s vice-presidential selection.

Days after Noem removed a passage claiming she had met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, officials at the Élysée Palace in Paris are questioning a passage that describes a cancelled meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron.

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    6 months ago

    So, she’s like Santos, but an animal murderer?

    I get decisions on farms can be tough/unpleasant with respect to other animals, but her descriptions of what happened just seem lazy.

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      6 months ago

      Agreed. I’m willing to allow that the dog was probably never going to be a skilled hunting dog, though I don’t trust her to have determined that. It may even have been dangerous, though I rather doubt that had to be its destiny, and, again, we have some credibility issues with our decider.

      There are just so many layers between a nippy, excitable working dog that’s struggling with the (likely inadequate) training, and shooting it in the head in front of people. Then the goat thing confirms that she isn’t isn’t some sort of calm and skillful rural badass; she just likes the power inherent in hurting things that don’t do what you want them do.

      Maybe most of our politicians are a bit sociopathic, but for fuck’s sake can we please elect the ones that are more skillful at masking and methodically figuring out what the emotionally functioning humans want them to act like? It’s cynical, and a depressing level of low expectations, but that used to be the bar.

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      6 months ago

      Hopefully the animal stories were fake too and no animals were harmed in the making of her downfall.

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      6 months ago

      The more stupid and contrived it all sounds, the more apt she seems to be for the VP position on the orange ticket.