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I was in Cambodia a few months back. They are one of the most nicest people I have ever met traveling. Its hard to believe that genocide occurred there. Our guide told us the Khmer Rouge soldiers were not punished. Its like they just wanted to forgive and forget.

What will work against her is her family belonged to a cult in Lanikai, Oahu. I am not sure how involved she was , but thats a mark against her. She would get the female vote as she is perceived as an independent. I don’t know her stance on the second amendment. The most important thing is to remove this current administration, or our country will fall.

My husband hunts. You can bet his hunter friends in suburbia would have loved a free expensive hunting dog . There are no chickens in the suburbs.

This is 2024. There are other options. It just smacks of pure laziness. If you own a dog, you have an obligation to be humane in how you treat it, or don’t own one. Cricket was a $1500 dog currently. Probably just relatively expensive back then. It would have been easy to find a new owner. Calling me a jerk face shows a high level of immaturity.

Chickens are not children, and Noem’s daughter asked where was Cricket? That doesn’t sound like a child who was being assaulted by a dog. I bet a police officer would have dispatched the goat in one shot. Take a look at Noem’s hunting pictures. Full makeup and hair done. She is a poser.

No, are you too lazy to drive to a no kill shelter?

My dog killed a wild rabbit, should I have shot the dog? The dog was a 14 month puppy who killed chickens because he was not restrained. So what a normal person would do is 1. Contact the breeder to rehome to a more urban area 2. Place the dog in a no kill shelter which could enable someone who knows this breed to adopt and train 3. Board the dog ( like I have done) with a dog trainer for a few months. She did none of those things, and instead shot the dog in a fit of rage, and during that rage shot the goat which she didn't bother to castrate. All you rural people saying that's how it is on the farm, do you shoot expensive hunting dogs when you didn't bother to train them? Do you not have a car that you can drive to a shelter? Or do you all have horse and buggies and cannot afford the hours it would take in your buggy to rehome your dog at a shelter?. It makes rural people look very sociopathic by saying that's how life is on a farm. Killing chickens is a natural dog behavior, you train them out of it or rehome to a place that doesn't have chickens. If you are too lazy to do that, you should not own a dog. If the dog is an adult dog, and biting people , you take it to a vet to be put down. As we can see, Noem couldn't even do that correctly with the goat, the goat suffered because she did not kill it on the first shot. Noem ruined her career, she did us a favor by exposing herself. Can you imagine if she was picked as VP, and this came out? Trump would have lost the election. This was a witnessed event , it would have come out eventually.

How can a car detect if you are impaired ? Wear sunglasses. If they require you to breath in a device, use a pediatric ambu bag. People are going to figure a way around this .

Trump needs to have a Republican governor as VP. The VP doesn't have to have charisma, as we saw with Pence who was wooden. However, Ben Carson can be entertaining as I saw.

I have seen Ben Carson speak at a physician convention. He spoke well, saw no problems with that and he had some funny jokes.

And they will say no money for Social Security and Medicare

There is a surgeon I know whose large multispecialty practice was sold to a hospital corporation due to the high cost and legal landmines of running a private practice. He went to corporate to make a complaint about how the employees in the practice were being treated by the overlords. The overlord representing the hospital corporation told him- we own you now and we are not going to listen to your complaints. Thats how it is now. Healthcare is being run by MBAs who only want productivity , the more patients seen means more money for the overlords, long waits and short appointment times for patients. It really gets me angry when people say they hate doctors, they don’t know the pressures they are under. I was so glad my husband retired. It was such a relief because I saw the stress he was under.

As the spouse of a now retired doctor ( I am a retired nurse) all I can say is don’t access the healthcare system if you despise doctors. Grow your own herbs to treat any medical problems you may have. Use the kitchen knife if you need surgery. You can probably sterilize it in the dishwasher. 80% of physicians are now employed by corporate interests, as ( for various reasons) Obamacare made it difficult to run private practices, and made it financially advantageous for corporations to buy up practices. Physicians no longer can make their own schedules, hire employees that are good for the practice, and in order to make a profit the schedulars overbook them. Thats why you have the long wait time. My husband could not control his schedule, how many patients he saw per day, and the main thing his overlords wanted was productivity. Many doctors are boomers, and a lot retired early due to the demands of practicing now. An example: historically when a physician reaches a certain age, he no longer has to take ER call. However, that has changed. My local hospital tries to force a surgeon to take call ( which means you are up all night taking care of trauma) when he was hitting 70 years old. This surgeon had a small practice, trying to keep his finger in the game doing minor procedures,but retired when they tried to force him into taking call. The next step in the downgrading of medicine is hiring midlevel nurse practitioners who take online courses to get their degree. They are cheaper hires, and can charge almost the same as a physician. Thats where your healthcare is headed, and maybe you deserve worse healthcare if you hate physicians.

I am not a hunter, my husband is. I have two hunting labs. I know about soft mouth. I do know my dogs did not naturally learn how to hunt and be obedient .We sent our dogs to a three month hunting boarding facility to learn how to hunt. They were stupid puppies before that ( and one of them still is) in which they put everything into their mouths. Dead birds, rocks, geese shit. It’s no surprise to me an untrained dog would go after a chicken. They have a strong prey drive, thats why they are used for hunting.To think shooting a dog is acceptable after the dog killed some chickens (when there were other options )is reprehensible. What is even worse is bragging about it in a book, does she think we are going to think, wow, what a woman! She is a strong no nonsense woman that we can trust to be VP.! Nope, she showed us that she is easily angered, lacks impulse control , and basically is heartless. Do I want her as VP, if Trump dies her finger is on the nuke button.No. Do I want her in a cabinet position? No, the Dems will salivate interrogating her about killing her dog.What Kristi is good at, is cheating on her husband. She can keep doing that and stay at her farm screwing people other than her husband.

Its different to show aggression to a child, but a hunting dog is always going to go after birds ( chickens). A 14 month dog could have been given up to a rescue, with the caveat that the dog eats chickens. You could have had a suburban homeowner (who hunts )adopt the dog and train it. A 14 month pure bred puppy would be adopted quickly. If you look at rescues online, they will state things like “ dog cannot get along with cats”, or “ dog cannot be rehomed with other dogs in the house”. This dog could have done fine by being placed with a hunter who knows how to train in a more suburban neighborhood. Why in the world would a person who is seeking higher office admit she killed a puppy? We don’t need stupid people running this country. We are already suffering enough.

Exactly. People using the excuse that they have to do this because its rural living .They better not have a car, shop at the grocery store, have a computer. It’s not the 1800s anymore. Take the dog to a professional who can assess behavior, train and find a home with someone who can deal with a hyper dog. If the dog is determined to be dangerous, at that point you euthanize.

I had a friend who got a part pit bull and golden retriever mix from a rescue. The dog bit two kids unprovoked. That is the type of dog you euthanize, not a dog who cannot hunt, eats chickens, and maybe tried to bite Noem. Noem does not state the dog actually bit her “ it whipped around to bite her”. No actual bite, which makes me think she used that statement to make an excuse about her executing her dog, because the dog attacked chickens and was a terrible hunter.My friend brought her dog back to the rescue, explained the situation and gave the dog back. What the rescue did after that is unknown. You take the dog to the humane society and/ or rescue. They assess the dog for dangerous traits. You explain what the dog’s behavior is at home.At that point, a decision is made. Noem did not even do that, and now she ruined her career.. Noem trying to look like a tough woman effectively killed her political career. I can just see the commercials if she is Trumps VP or cabinet pick.

Yes, it made it better for the dog. Place an IV, give the drugs and she is gone. I sat with my dog through the whole process. She could barely walk and was not eating. . I wasn’t going to take her in the back yard and shoot her, even though my family has guns and concealed carry license. You can easily torture a dog if the bullet doesn’t kill on the first shot. It took her two shots to kill the goat. Noem is now officially toast.

This was not a pack of wild dogs, it was an excited puppy doing its thing. My lab would do the same. . She just lost out on any future political career. Which shows me she is very stupid. Just her admitting that in her book shows us that she has no common sense.

I went to a vet and had my dog humanely euthanized because she was 12 and ill. And let’s not forget that Noem did not sign into law a bill that prevented trans from participating in women’s sports. It took months before a law was enacted because she refused to sign on the first edition of the law. Noem is now toast politically. What a stupid woman.