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We can only hope that the right-wing circular firing squad continues and somehow traps Trump, too. But I don't think it's going to happen. They called Reagan the Teflon President. Trump puts him to shame as far as that goes. The more scummy and treacherous he is, the stronger his support, it seems.

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Noem seems to be toning down the psychotic smoke-eye for these interviews. Initially she had been appearing as a flaccid Kimberley Guilfoyle.

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Kristi Noem probably shot Big Red and Curious George. You haven't seen them since she became Governor.

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I heard Noem watched Team America: World Police with Kim Jong-Un and they both cried during “I’m So Ronery” sung by Kim Jong-il. It’s a special memory they share.

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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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She is a lying fool.

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And exceptionally bad at it, like most fools.

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You have to love her constant annoyance at the temerity of these people questioning whether puppy murder is justifiable homicide or whether being in the DMZ counts as meeting Kim Jung Un.

Here's the thing about the world of rightwing media: They will defend you, but only up until your usefulness to the agenda has ended. It's not like they actually care about your well being or your own ambitions. Once there's blood in the water, you're dead meat.

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Dead meat in the water, not my favorite apple-bob.

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You have to love her constant annoyance at the temerity of these people questioning whether puppy murder is justifiable homicide or whether being in the DMZ counts as meeting Kim Jung Un.

Here's the thing about the world of rightwing media: They will defend you, but only up until your usefulness to the agenda has ended. It's not like they actually care about your well being or your own ambitions. Once there's blood in the water, you're dead meat.

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Ta, Evan. Maybe I'll watch the video later, but I doubt it. Thanks for your recap.

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The videos are kind of funny, if you're into schadenfreude.

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These days, if you are not into schadenfreude you'd best just curl into a ball and sleep off the next few years in a nutria's den. It may be the only pleasure we have coming to us.

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it's like they're congenitally incapable of telling the truth, but are so bad at lying that they're always caught, at which point tantrum time...

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Comment taken out of context, blah, blah, distortion by far-left media, blah blah.

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alternate facts, yadda yadda yadda

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my hemorrhoids are killing me, yakety yakety yak.

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What's this about Joe Biden's uncle being eaten by cannibals? (see first interview, above) What is the origin of this story and how come I had never heard it before?

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He was shot down over New Guinea and never found, so Joe speculated he was eaten by cannibals like Michael Rockefeller. The prime minister of Papua New Guinea was offended.

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But foodies everywhere were tantalized.

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Transcript:

"I'm not going to talk about my meetings - I'm not going to talk about my conversations with world leaders. I've been involved in policy for 30 years. For 30 years I've been travelling the world, talking to world leaders. And that is a conversation I'm not going to have in this book. I've answers that in interviews already. I've been very forthright, and I think that a typical politician would be that honest. As soon as it came to my attention, I asked for the content to be changed. ... I'm not going to talk about my conversations with world leaders."

It's quite impressive how she manages to contradict each sentence with the one that follows it, while continuing to talk. Without doing a thing to address how her ghost-written "autobiography" told big fat porkie pies, she recorded the audio version of it, and has only tried to hide the shit now that even Newsmax sees it for what it is.

And 30 years ago, Noem was leaving college to take over the family farm after her dad died, and giving birth to her first child. She didn't get elected to the SD legislature until 2006. And that's what she ran on, back then - "I'm a salt-of-the-earth small businesswoman". https://web.archive.org/web/20110319180556/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41749 But she is very calm while lying her head off.

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Henry Kissinger never looked so good.

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Yeah, as an SD legislator, she travelled the world yelling at "world leaders".

And one of them was supposed to be the dictator who has NOTHING to do with SD, and has left his country to go to China a few times, and Singapore to meet Trump once. She knows no one believes her, but it absolutely doesn't matter to her.

Now the Cricket thing-- that she really wants to explain to us.

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But 2006 feels like 30 years ago.

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2016 feels like 30 years ago... maybe 40...

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I'm feelin' mighty spry for a 90-year-old!

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Read the room, girlfriend. They are telling you it's time to go.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶 𝗡𝗼𝗲𝗺

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/why-conservative-media-is-suddenly-turning-kristi-noem/

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Huh. So Fox can actually be (intentionally) funny once they stop punching down. Innarestin.

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Between this and the fact that she's banned from most of the Native land in South Dakota, her world is probably feeling pretty small right now.

She deserves it.

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Still plenty of wind blowing around unhindered in South Dakota, I guess.

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Varney just switched into "stuff upper lip" mode and shuffled her right off the program.

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“This is so ridiculous! You shoot one puppy. And a goat. And three horses. And pull the wings off honeybees. And take videos of praying mantises eating their mates. And everybody just goes crazy! Let’s talk about things Americans care about, like flinging kittens with homemade trebuchets.”

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"Let’s talk about things Americans care about, like flinging kittens with homemade trebuchets."

At 100 yards, how accurate is that in terms of the average circumference of the feeding chute of a wood chipper?

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Kristi, I bet you can recover your place in the veep sweepstakes by going on all the same shows and announcing that a few years ago you received electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression but you are feeling better now.

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I hear brainworms are the disease of choice now.

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That's Trump's potential running mate you are talking about there, pal.

Not RFKJR, that would be crazy. I mean the worm, of course.

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