Bryan Zepp Jamieson
May 5th 2024
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The saga of Kristi Noem and her dead puppy keeps staying in the news. It isn’t because gleeful Democrats are hyping the story. It’s because Noem herself won’t back down, and just keeps digging herself into an ever-deeper hole. First she tried implying that she didn’t know the story survived the first draft and shouldn’t have been in the book. The classic Scooby-Doo “If it weren’t for you meddling kids” defense. That blew up when it came out that she did the audiobook herself—including the happy tale of the demise of Cricket. The initial “farmers have to made hard choices” excuse died stillborn when she wrote, “I really hated that dog.”
Now she’s pointing to Biden’s German shepherd, Champion, who reportedly bit a dozen or so Secret Service agents. She’s saying that Biden should have shot the dog. She didn’t say if Biden should have dispatched Champion live from the oval office, or in front of a joint session of Congress (it really could have been an excellent opportunity for Biden to turn to the Republican side and say, “If the Supreme Courts says I have absolute immunity, you lot are next.”). Maybe Biden could have discussed responsible pet ownership while in the backdrop behind him, a couple of vengeful secret service agents stuffed a yelping Champion into a running wood chipper. It would have given Biden true Sarah Palin cred, you know?
But Noem, Republican to her empty core, refuses to back down, still hoping she can turn it into a campaign where she is the innocent victim of “woke” libs. Maybe she could have took a flamethrower to a couple of live kittens just to show she can’t be bullied by lunatic leftist pansies and commies.
But even Donald Trump, yes, Donald Fucking Trump, wondered aloud what was wrong with her. It takes real talent to make him feign being appalled. This is the guy who ripped off a children’s cancer charity, right? His standards are...flexible.
To be sure, his reaction is performance art. He’s probably watching to see if she survives the political storm, and even though she didn’t get invited to Donald’s meat parade of Veep picks for billionaires, she’s probably still on his list. He doesn’t care how vile she is. In fact, he prefers vile. He just wants to know how mindlessly loyal she would be. His last Veep toad was such a disappointment, you know.
His fans, while shrinking, are even more vehement. They adore it when he behaves like a pig. That’ll show those libs! They push for worse and worse behavior from GOP candidates, since viciousness, cruelty, rudeness and pure arrogant stupidity are seen as virtues among those deplorables. After all, those are what Trump expects from his closest minions. Michael Cohen wasn’t his main lawyer for twenty years because Cohen was a nice guy. He was as dirty and nasty as any mafia torpedo. His autobiography could have just as easily been titled “...But Take the Cannoli.”
Meanwhile, Republicans keep vilifying refugees, immigrants, Muslims, African-Americans, and now students. Never mind that America’s Nazi population have all gravitated to the GOP; Republicans are attacking all critics of Netanyahu as being “anti-Semitic” even though most of them value Israel for the demented Bible-based Revelation belief that the state of Israel must exist in order for the Rapture to occur. Jews are just God bait in their eyes. Netanyahu isn’t their friend, but he is chum. Trump praises people who are Nazis as “very fine people” and attacks critics of Israel and in his base, at least, gets away with it.
AIPAC support Trump, of course.
What Trump supporters don't understand is that supporting him doesn't automatically make them safe in his New World Order. History suggests the opposite, in fact. Strongman leaders know their truest believers are gullible, feckless, erratic, easy to manipulate, and unreliable. After all, they already betrayed their country once. So unless Trump supporters can find a way fast to make themselves useful to the new Fuhrer, he's just going to throw them away like used condoms. Read recent history: the early years of Lenin, Hitler, and Mao. They quickly filled the camps with their truest believers, and executed many more. Look up “Night of the Long Knives.”
The corporate execs who back Trump doubtlessly think they can control him once he takes office. But Trump sees them as a useful prop. He isn’t going to reciprocate their loyalty, and once his mass deportations and tariffs create a Great Depression, he’ll blame them bitterly for the chaos and deprivation his policies have caused. If the Supreme Court has anointed him King at that point, expect him to start hanging CEOs publicly.
Oh, yes, and Republican office-holders can feel free to resume shooting puppies in this Brave New World. It’s not like they’ll be good for anything else under Glorious Leader. They will be justice of Champions. And not playing proper Cricket to do so.
FOOTNOTE: After I wrote this but prior to publishing it, I came across this, from Sophia Cai, national politics reporter for Axios:
"Trump says he loves Kristi Noem despite puppy killing controversy, per Mar-a-Lago audio obtained by Axios," she reported Sunday.
“In the audio, Trump at a private luncheon commented on each of the following lawmakers, giving some insight into his thinking,” according to her published report.
The article reveals that Trump’s response to Noem was that the GOP governor is, “Somebody that I love. She’s been with me, a supporter of mine and I’ve been a supporter of hers for a long time.”
See? Told you his outrage was fake.
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