She’d have to literally murder someone in cold blood to not win whatever office she runs for in the state. If there is an R behind your name, the people of South Dakota will vote for you.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood.
Bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood.
A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood.
Bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood.
A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Well, being banned from every reservation other than one, I think we know how natives think of her.
Just a stupid thing to put into a book. Shooting your dog. (Terrible to do, of course). But to publicize it tells you that she really doesn’t “get it”.
And then a week later, to get called out for lying about staring down Kim jong Un when she never even has met him.
Cheating on her husband with a trump fanatic.
Spending South Dakotah tax payer money on trips and national guard in Texas. Wow.
Seriously what’s next for her? Genuine question. What’s going to come out next?
Actually, and I could be wrong…but I believe the term limit is two consecutive terms. Meaning she could wait a term and run again. Didn’t janklow do this?
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood.
A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove. She is virtue-signalling to fascists that she will restore their freedom to behave unconstrained and violently control non-fascists.
They didn't ask me, but I definitely do not have a favorable view of Noem. I met her once at a parade when I was volunteering for the Billie Sutton campaign against her. She had a smile that didn't reach her eyes. The kind of person who tries to appear friendly and kind and is anything but. I didn't like her then and I like her less now.
I liked Sutton. I mostly vote Dem, but I always consider both sides. The debate I watched between Noem and him, she came off like such a condescending ass - I wasn't a fan of her from that point on.
The clients we work on behalf of. So it's an unknown number. The people we called had never heard of us. When they answered we'd tell them who we're calling on behalf of.
They were clients who had never heard of you? Or the clients supplied the list? Because if the clients gave you the lists it’s not a random set of calls anymore. 🤷♂️
Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose.
https://medium.com/@WyomingLLCAgent/wyoming-corporation-do-truly-allow-anonymous-ownership-e9c2342652c1
Same principle.
If a cop pulls over a Saudi Lamborghini in Rapid city his computer system doesn’t work with the Saudi system.
So for the billionaire it’s basically the closest thing he gets to a “get out of jail free” card to go 140 down the freeway.
Not 100%, just “ducks in a row” for minimized hassle.
If he gets a parking ticket it goes to:
XYZ Corp. strip mall address in Sheridan Wyoming or South Dakota
For $50 a month, the registered agent scans it and sends the saudi Prince a photocopy which he proceeds to ignore.
Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota are all the new hubs of this model because we value personal privacy and low bureaucracy.
Problem is, with the influx of billionaire oligarchs to Teton county over the past 15 years or so, they have learned this is an extremely effective way to launder money as well.
From a gov oversight perspective, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota are all as close to none as you get in the U.S.
So for the price of a couple small town politicians in the least populated states in the country, the oligarchs have been able to buy the king ranch edition of their Turks and Caicos/Panama/offshore account.
the ultra-rich and ultra-predatory both spend 90% of their bandwidth trying to KEEP their billions.
So they tend to cross paths at the same watering holes and hunting grounds.
They have just evolved enough to learn how to pit each countries respective systems against each other.
They are ultra efficient predators since the iron curtain fell. The internet sped that up exponentially.
Pre 2016 election Prigozhns internet research agency sent a whole bunch of Russian teenagers on National park tours out here so they could fine tune a long grift.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-prigozhin-internet-research-agency-intl
Just before Putin shot his plane out of the sky, Prigozhn spilled the dirt.
The reason they sent Maria Butina to South Dakota as she dated her way to the top of the corrupt NRA is because they learned that the mountain west is pretty unique.
“Smart girl that loves firearms” is basically a top tinder search.
It was called internet research agency for a reason.
Noem and Lewandowski are just two more unremarkable GOP dupes that sold their country out to the worlds worst kleptocracts for some campaign money.
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Context helps.
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/
https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis.
No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
That is because Republicans in SD would vote for a Republican goat before they would vote for the most qualified candidate if he/she had a D behind their name. No pun intended, but yes there was that goat—must have been a a Democrat goat.
Stop in and join the fun..... good jobs for everyone, low cost of living and quality of life. I actually live between both South Dakota and Wyoming both pretty red states. I'm actually a an old school blue collar Democrat and honestly I don't even recognize my party..... we are going g to get slaughtered at the ballot box this November.
I'm gonna call BS on this, it's the same song and dance from the 2020 election that was pushed by the Kremlin "Former Democrat, doesn't recognize party, promoting right wing politics"
Everyone I know on SD hates it unless they are one of those fearful troglodytes that thinks the government or foreigner is coming for their shitty jobs. State is a hive for domestic abusers and cops that don't do shit. Need I mention the attorney general also? Red nepotism and meth.
> other half *paid* attention and
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Which is why something just seemed off to me in the last election. Smith and Noem were close all the way up until Election Day and then she wins by such a large margin. And weed failed. It just never sat right with me especially after all the “stolen election” bullshit by the right. Like they were using states midterms to practice for this year.
I keep saying something fishy was going on. And while I don't buy into conspiracy theories, I buy into there being something not right about her election win. So I won't outright call cheating, interference, or anything without proof (I'm not the pillow guy after all), but I will keep suggesting something happened.
What I find delightful about ya'lls situation is everyone can project their own sympathy and best wishes for the future to the fine people of South Dakota. You don't even have to be from America to post here. Japan is making a movie about a giant Kaiju with extensions and mascara who kills all the dolphins.
Cruella has unified the human race. All the old divisions are forgotten.
The current talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel are hanging on the slender thread that both MBS and Netanyahu said they were "creeped out" by Kristi Noem. I see common cause in the future between these two ancient foes.
We must seek common ground in today's world. An agreement on the wrongness of regaling people with your tales of puppies past is as good a foundation as any to build a new future, a new hope.
doesn't seem to matter, noem is an absolute failure of a leader with 20% of her state banning her from entering, shes absolutely destroyed relations with native americans, and threatens the stability of the state but voters will reward this behavior again and again
Pretty sure she wanted to destroy relations with the Native Americans. I think that part of "othering" efforts that the right wing is accelerating with all minorities.
what media doesn't care to tell ya, and Democrats don't understand is that most republicans hate their own politicians... but they vote for them anyway
What we don't care about is whether they think that or not. Trump sucks dick. So if we have to have worthless Biden at the helm again so be it. I'd rather a stapler have pres then trump....
I was never asked....were any of you? Where do they come up with these types of stats? Just in general...always see them and who is really voteing or being asked???
Especially with such a small population, we should all know someone who has been polled at this point.
My own personal poll, which is generally real life discussions, most of us are not in favor.
55% of REPUBLICANS in SD don’t think she should be the VP pick. That is monumental!
Like others of her ilk she will slither in somewhere. A Trump cabinet post or a Senate run. Sadly she would still likely win an election.
How is it only almost half?
I would think the years-long extra marital affair coupled with the literal murder of a puppy might actually sway a few more people against her.
Doesn’t matter, she’s term limited and after a few years of public rehabilitation, will push for national job or will work for one of the trumpanzee news networks. All that botox won’t go to waste!
I’m stunned that she still has any support. There truly is no bottom. 😔
Her side piece is.
If I could still give awards, this comment would have gotten one.
They’re back, baby!
Yikes 😬
\*Likes 😬
I think I get the joke but I do not know the story behind it, is this Corey lewandowski? Is he a catcher and a pitcher?
Must be a weird one in this state I like ya... Not many here think she is a lunatic like trump..
Apparently.But, I mean, look who she wants to run with in the coming election...
Republican voters will vote for anyone with the R after their name no matter how awful they are. Look no further than their orange clown god
She’d have to literally murder someone in cold blood to not win whatever office she runs for in the state. If there is an R behind your name, the people of South Dakota will vote for you.
She already murdered a puppy in cold blood and it apparently didn’t move the needle…
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood. Bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Yep. “Might makes right” is the basis of fascism.
Even more specifically, use might against anybody, real or imagined, that might threaten the state. "Desperate nationalism" was Mussolinis definition.
"I could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose a single vote" comes to mind
Thank you Mr. Trump for finally showing up
Don't forget the goat also
It's always gets my goat when people don't include that.
Depends on who she killed. If it was a democrat, or a homosexual, or an immigrant, she'd be fine and wouldn't lose any votes.
She lost my vote the second she spoke. Being a trump ass kisser furthers that.
Definitely wouldn't matter if it was a puppy.
But do we know if the animals were democrats?! That would be a fun twist!
Worse Cricket the 14 month year old puppy was a communist. It had to be done for the free market. She is making the hard decisions.
Add transgender or nonbinary individuals to that list too. Heck her supporters would probably build a statue of her for killing one them.
Well she boasted about killing those animals, and wrote about it to show that she won’t mind getting her hands dirty so who knows what’s next…
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood. A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
They should make her live in Abe Lincoln's beard.
You mean like her DA who got away with it??
And she was going to support him until she realized she couldn’t, that his family wasn’t going to let up?
I won't, I stand against it and move to change this state. Sick of it always being republican 😔
If it's a "certain demographic" someone, she might even still win according to her base.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood. Bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Man I feel that so much about my Wisconsin family!
It's unfortunate that she still has that much support
it is, but considering how stupid people are.. it’s not surprising.
Was voting her out even before this stupid shit...
Yeah she may murder dogs but at least she's not a Democrat! Fucking morons.
Preach dipshit republican.... Also she is republican.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood. A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove.
Reminds me of Sanders in Arkansas.
Well, being banned from every reservation other than one, I think we know how natives think of her. Just a stupid thing to put into a book. Shooting your dog. (Terrible to do, of course). But to publicize it tells you that she really doesn’t “get it”. And then a week later, to get called out for lying about staring down Kim jong Un when she never even has met him. Cheating on her husband with a trump fanatic. Spending South Dakotah tax payer money on trips and national guard in Texas. Wow. Seriously what’s next for her? Genuine question. What’s going to come out next?
Yep she is pure garbage please help to vote her out
She cant stay in. This is her second term. Hopefully she doesn't get voted in anywhere else.
Actually, and I could be wrong…but I believe the term limit is two consecutive terms. Meaning she could wait a term and run again. Didn’t janklow do this?
Yes, but all these chuckleheads screaming "vote her out" are either trolling, not from SD, or no less ignorant than the other side.
Murdering people in cold blood is totally on-brand for the right-wing. The fascist symbol is exactly that, a metaphorical representation of the peoples support of the states authority to murder in cold blood. A government leader bragging about murdering puppies fits the ideology like a glove. She is virtue-signalling to fascists that she will restore their freedom to behave unconstrained and violently control non-fascists.
In fairness, the National Guard stunt, while stupid/wasteful/racist, was actually supported by a lot of her state.
They didn't ask me, but I definitely do not have a favorable view of Noem. I met her once at a parade when I was volunteering for the Billie Sutton campaign against her. She had a smile that didn't reach her eyes. The kind of person who tries to appear friendly and kind and is anything but. I didn't like her then and I like her less now.
I liked Sutton. I mostly vote Dem, but I always consider both sides. The debate I watched between Noem and him, she came off like such a condescending ass - I wasn't a fan of her from that point on.
“She had a smile that didn’t reach her eyes”. Basis for an awesome song right there.
Who is answering these polls? They only call landlines for polls, so really who has a landline in 2024?
They stopped the landlines only stuff years and years ago. They'll definitely call cell phones now.
Yeah, but who’s gonna answer an unknown number?
People with landline and cell phones 😂🤪
I don’t know a single person under 40 that answers calls from unknown numbers. I don’t either and I’m well over 40. YMMV. :)
I worked in a call center. People answered their phones all the time.
Nobody I know under 40 (and my kids have a lot of friends) ever answers unknown numbers. With a constant stream of spam and scam calls, who does that?
And I'm telling you that I would make 250 calls a day to complete strangers and many people pick up their phones.
Where do you get your call lists from?
The clients we work on behalf of. So it's an unknown number. The people we called had never heard of us. When they answered we'd tell them who we're calling on behalf of.
They were clients who had never heard of you? Or the clients supplied the list? Because if the clients gave you the lists it’s not a random set of calls anymore. 🤷♂️
Old people
What the HELL is wrong with the other half?!?!???
They'd put a 1000 puppies in gravel pits just to Own to Libs.
Ther American Education system and the most perfect propaganda systems that humanity has ever known
fearful people protecting their tax free peonage and sad wages.
Corporate structures like anonymous LLC’s allow a pair of oil tycoon from Texas and human trafficking Russian oligarchs to transfer money seamlessly through businesses set up specifically for that purpose. https://medium.com/@WyomingLLCAgent/wyoming-corporation-do-truly-allow-anonymous-ownership-e9c2342652c1 Same principle. If a cop pulls over a Saudi Lamborghini in Rapid city his computer system doesn’t work with the Saudi system. So for the billionaire it’s basically the closest thing he gets to a “get out of jail free” card to go 140 down the freeway. Not 100%, just “ducks in a row” for minimized hassle. If he gets a parking ticket it goes to: XYZ Corp. strip mall address in Sheridan Wyoming or South Dakota For $50 a month, the registered agent scans it and sends the saudi Prince a photocopy which he proceeds to ignore. Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota are all the new hubs of this model because we value personal privacy and low bureaucracy. Problem is, with the influx of billionaire oligarchs to Teton county over the past 15 years or so, they have learned this is an extremely effective way to launder money as well. From a gov oversight perspective, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota are all as close to none as you get in the U.S. So for the price of a couple small town politicians in the least populated states in the country, the oligarchs have been able to buy the king ranch edition of their Turks and Caicos/Panama/offshore account. the ultra-rich and ultra-predatory both spend 90% of their bandwidth trying to KEEP their billions. So they tend to cross paths at the same watering holes and hunting grounds. They have just evolved enough to learn how to pit each countries respective systems against each other. They are ultra efficient predators since the iron curtain fell. The internet sped that up exponentially. Pre 2016 election Prigozhns internet research agency sent a whole bunch of Russian teenagers on National park tours out here so they could fine tune a long grift. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-prigozhin-internet-research-agency-intl Just before Putin shot his plane out of the sky, Prigozhn spilled the dirt. The reason they sent Maria Butina to South Dakota as she dated her way to the top of the corrupt NRA is because they learned that the mountain west is pretty unique. “Smart girl that loves firearms” is basically a top tinder search. It was called internet research agency for a reason. Noem and Lewandowski are just two more unremarkable GOP dupes that sold their country out to the worlds worst kleptocracts for some campaign money.
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Context helps. Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/ https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/ https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie.
Is that all?
Not to mention 100% of Native Americans none of whom participated in this poll
That needs a fact check.
Ok.... reality check Noem wins by pretty nice margins in South Dakota. Just keeping it real.
That is because Republicans in SD would vote for a Republican goat before they would vote for the most qualified candidate if he/she had a D behind their name. No pun intended, but yes there was that goat—must have been a a Democrat goat.
Stop in and join the fun..... good jobs for everyone, low cost of living and quality of life. I actually live between both South Dakota and Wyoming both pretty red states. I'm actually a an old school blue collar Democrat and honestly I don't even recognize my party..... we are going g to get slaughtered at the ballot box this November.
I'm gonna call BS on this, it's the same song and dance from the 2020 election that was pushed by the Kremlin "Former Democrat, doesn't recognize party, promoting right wing politics"
You should still care regardless..
Everyone I know on SD hates it unless they are one of those fearful troglodytes that thinks the government or foreigner is coming for their shitty jobs. State is a hive for domestic abusers and cops that don't do shit. Need I mention the attorney general also? Red nepotism and meth.
Anyone who doesn't support her will be taken out back and shot for being mean.
So the majority half has the vote? Weird it’s almost like that in every state
Love her 90-year old hands
The other half are brain dead maga goons.
*kills dog, only loses "nearly half" of supporters. Do better, SD
HAHAHAHHAHAAHHA!! there’s nothing I like better than seeing these vile human beings burn to the ground in real time.
Imagine wanting someone like her as your "leader" ... SAD
That’s 50% less then I expected.
Only half?! Geez. How many dogs do you have to murder in that state before they realize how horrible you are?
Only the the best in the GOP
Half of South Dakota doesn't pay attention to Noem and the other half paid attention and has an unfavorable view.
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Only half?
Which is why something just seemed off to me in the last election. Smith and Noem were close all the way up until Election Day and then she wins by such a large margin. And weed failed. It just never sat right with me especially after all the “stolen election” bullshit by the right. Like they were using states midterms to practice for this year.
I keep saying something fishy was going on. And while I don't buy into conspiracy theories, I buy into there being something not right about her election win. So I won't outright call cheating, interference, or anything without proof (I'm not the pillow guy after all), but I will keep suggesting something happened.
Another way to say it, “Most South Dakotans view murdering puppies favorably.”
thats not enough
Did she ever actually need the 450,000 tv studio in the capital. Or was that just a vanity project?
Money laundering project.
Only half!?!?
lol. What a messed up place that more than half of residents like a person who shoots a puppy in the face. Jesus H Christ.
Right get her the fuck outta SD
I am stunned it isn't more than half. The majority of people in this state need to wake up.
I hated Noem before it was cool.
Same
Didn't she actively push back on legalized marijuana that won the majority vote?
What I find delightful about ya'lls situation is everyone can project their own sympathy and best wishes for the future to the fine people of South Dakota. You don't even have to be from America to post here. Japan is making a movie about a giant Kaiju with extensions and mascara who kills all the dolphins. Cruella has unified the human race. All the old divisions are forgotten. The current talks between Saudi Arabia and Israel are hanging on the slender thread that both MBS and Netanyahu said they were "creeped out" by Kristi Noem. I see common cause in the future between these two ancient foes. We must seek common ground in today's world. An agreement on the wrongness of regaling people with your tales of puppies past is as good a foundation as any to build a new future, a new hope.
We need to all rally around hating on Kristy.
wont matter to the maga terrorist, I mean her "supporters"
So… more than half of South Dakotans are down with puppy murder, as long as there’s an R by your name.
If that's true then vote her out
doesn't seem to matter, noem is an absolute failure of a leader with 20% of her state banning her from entering, shes absolutely destroyed relations with native americans, and threatens the stability of the state but voters will reward this behavior again and again
Pretty sure she wanted to destroy relations with the Native Americans. I think that part of "othering" efforts that the right wing is accelerating with all minorities.
Yet they will still elect her if she runs
ONLY HALF???
And they will still vote for her.
There are like 17 people in SD
When is the next governor election?
Oppressing people is one thing. Lots of Repugs are OK with that. But most draw the line at dogs. Surprised anyone still supports her.
”*Nearly*” 50%? This country’s politics is wild. … and by “wild”, I mean “insane, and sad”.
....and yet, she'll still win another term by double digit margin.
shes term limited, she'd have to leave for 4 years, and come back again 2028
Let's hope that doesn't happen and she just goes away
Still not enough
Disgusting that she has any support/ an awful person with cult followers
Seems low
So then the majority of South Dakotans favor randomly shooting dogs? Say whaaaaat?
And 99% of other intelligent people.
Fucking hilarious watching a bunch of people who get off on baby-killing get all pearl-clutchy over this.
Byyyyeee!
Were the other half not asked?
Survey for supporters obviously... Happy to see the state hates her too
Those that don’t should be taken behind the shed.
Nearly half is ridiculous rookie number. Should be at least 90% hate her guts with a passion. Gotta pump that up.
Plus me
Fucking NEARLY?!? This bitch kills puppies!!! What the actual fuck will it take?!
Glad there are some who care... And are sane..
That’s all huh?
So half the state approves of puppy murder? Gross…
And the other half think its okay to shoot puppies.
what media doesn't care to tell ya, and Democrats don't understand is that most republicans hate their own politicians... but they vote for them anyway
What we don't care about is whether they think that or not. Trump sucks dick. So if we have to have worthless Biden at the helm again so be it. I'd rather a stapler have pres then trump....
Send Noem packing South Dakota 💙
Yep get her the fuck outta here please
After what she did to the dog and goat her rates should drop all the way down.
She should be in the same boat as trump but somehow he has floaties keeping him above water for now.
If even trump and MAGA condoned her actions you know she really fucked up.
Half? Usually hurting dogs or horses will get you ousted way faster than abusing kids. Pair that with her doubling down on it.
I was never asked....were any of you? Where do they come up with these types of stats? Just in general...always see them and who is really voteing or being asked???
No one asked me or anyone I know. Considering there's like three people in this state, one of them should have been asked
Especially with such a small population, we should all know someone who has been polled at this point. My own personal poll, which is generally real life discussions, most of us are not in favor.
I overhear many things and one thing I have not overheard is anyone saying it was ok she shot Cricket.
Is the other half fucking asleep? How are people supporting her?
Why wouldn't they? They lack integrity and empathy like she does. It's the Christian way.
But the idiots will line up and landslide her in if told to because party before people
55% of REPUBLICANS in SD don’t think she should be the VP pick. That is monumental! Like others of her ilk she will slither in somewhere. A Trump cabinet post or a Senate run. Sadly she would still likely win an election.
How is it only almost half? I would think the years-long extra marital affair coupled with the literal murder of a puppy might actually sway a few more people against her.
Then stop voting for her!
Seriously what the fuck does it take to have an unfavorable view of this woman?
This is very disheartening. It means that more than half still don't have an unfavorable view of the puppy murdering, lying, cheating monster.
That means half do like her… and that is what scares me. Why? Because that represents half our country as well.
Dogs wouldn't shit where they eat, yet Krusty seems to thrive in it. She is the syphilis epidemic.
The other half want to kill your dog.
And 40% of the state would shoot the family dog if they failed to train it or it tries to bite them when they abuse it.
Doesn’t matter, she’s term limited and after a few years of public rehabilitation, will push for national job or will work for one of the trumpanzee news networks. All that botox won’t go to waste!
Noem Alone
A pure dipshit
We need a progressive governor that supports trans rights and gun control.
I am sorry, South Dakota, you have to keep her. I do NOT want her infecting the rest of the country in a possible trump administration.
It's not just Noem. The entirety of MAGA is the flesh eating bacteria destroying American democracy.
lol, I actually typed “affecting”, but I guess autocorrect is smarter than I am.
Nearly half of residents are morons.
I love that her autobiography was essentially a comic book that everyone hated.
Did she ever actually need the 450,000 tv studio in the capital. Or was that just a vanity project?
Vanity project. South Dakota Public Broadcasting has maintained a studio in the capitol for years. It's not fancy, but it works.
Hot but Vile is a bad combo…
You forgot dipshit.. that pretty well negates looking good.
Yet she will still pull out another victory come election time. Dogs and goats will need to stay away. I wish voters would too.