JemmyGOP senator compares Kristi Noem's DHS leadership to that time she shot her own dog
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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., tore into the homeland security secretary at a hearing, saying he will hold up Trump’s nominees until he gets answers from her department.
During a tense public hearing Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign over her handling of the deadly Minneapolis immigration operation.
And he blasted her for killing her dog, which she had described in her memoir as “untrainable,” as well as a goat. Tillis, of North Carolina, argued that killing the animals reflected bad judgment and compared it to DHS’ fatal shootings of two American citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis.
Then he senator threatened to block many of Donald Trump’s nominees until he gets answers to questions he has posed to the administration about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Charlotte.
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How much of this is for show? Republicans always bark until they get their bone
He’s not running for reelection so he’s kinda free to do whatever he likes until he’s replaced. I’m from NC and I don’t like or respect the man but I appreciate that at least when nothing is on the line he’ll speak truth to power. He has been very critical of trump if I remember right
He did get censured during Trump’s first term by the Republican party I think for comments about Trump. But yeah I don’t like his policies either and have written his office numerous times and without fail the auto reply is exactly the opposite policy decision to what I’m writing about.
It sounds like he’s more mad about the dog than the people in MN
Whatever it takes.
Maybe he knows more dogs than people in MN.
Maybe he thinks dogs are being eaten by Somali immigrants in MN. #GOPthings
Right? He’s not wrong that it was fucked up for her to kill said dog but that’s hardly the point
LOL, but she was just describing rural life, something no liberals could possibly ever know or understand. Sometimes you just have to shoot your dog in the face, and because you already have your bloodlust going, you have to shoot your goat, too.
I mean, there are just no other options for rural livin’. It’s nasty stuff that requires a cool and calm rational mind and no liberals could ever, ever understand, because no liberals ever existed outside the Big City.
Damn those Big City libs. Life ain’t all commuting like a commie and making money by jackin it at a desk in front of the secretary. In the real world, ya can’t just be a chickenshit little bitch afraid to get dirt under yer nails. Ya gotta do the right thing and make hard decisions!
Do ya shoot the dog, or do ya shoot the neighbor’s dog? Do ya claim he was vicious and untrainable, or do ya blame it on rabies? Do ya use the ol’ reliable glock, or do ya take the hard work to pull the good stuff and grab the semi-auto from the truck? Libs–they just don’t hafta make those kinds of choices!
I get that you’re mocking her, but genuinely sometimes, when you’re particularly rural, you do in fact have to shoot a dog.
Where I grew up, there was no animal control. There was no one to call if there were loose animals. Combine that with the fact that it was an area where people would just dump unwanted animals, and we had a real feral dog problem.
When you have dangerous dogs show up a couple of times a month, and your only other option to get rid of them is to try and catch them, load them up in a crate, drive them an hour into town, just to give them to a pound that’s gonna put them down anyway; yeah, sometimes you kinda don’t have much other option but to shoot them.
My dad put down a good few dogs when I was young. It wasn’t something he liked doing. But when you have young kids running around, you can’t just let a bunch of feral dogs run loose.
What should he have done? What was the “correct” decision for him to make?
Edit: Not defending Noam here. Her story about shooting her dog has a lot more wrong with it than simply shooting the dog. She’s a monster.
this wasn’t a feral dog. It was a young dog that she had not trained for hunting, which she took on a hunt and it got anxious so she shot it.
Did you not see the part where I said I wasn’t defending Noam and that what she did wasn’t what I’m describing?
Two things can be true. Noam can be a bad person, and people in rural areas can, unfortunately, sometimes have to put down feral dogs.
I grew up in an extremely rural area. We had a dog that roamed a lot, just like so many dogs in the area (well, except for the weird people that would just tie up their dog outside their house for whatever reason).
Anyway, local dogs would sometimes get together and try to chase deer. Apparently, one of our neighbors recognized our dog on one of these escapades. Someone he was with was about to shoot our dog for chasing deer and he stopped it. After that, we made a lot more efforts to keep him on our property.
There was no animal control and people were especially precious about being able to hunt deer, so dogs that took to chasing deer down in groups tended to be at-risk.
lots of conjectures and assumptions. none of which is true. Rural != Cruel or Irresponsible. Read any book from a reputable modern farmer and then you’ll understand. Has nothing to do with liberal. Most books are written by individuals self identified as conservative or libertarian. Shirking your responsibility and killing an animal ‘cause you felt so is insane. I don’t know a single farmer who’d do such thing and I know more than few.
Pretty sure you just ate the onion
love them onions 😁
We need more than resignation. We need real punishments.
The french had some ideas on that…
Wow. Republican Grows Balls After Announcing That He Quits… Dear Thom, fuck you anyway. Deep hate from a Charlottean in North Carolina. I may be forced to leave my home country to protect my teenage boys from you and your party’s illegal wars to protect pedophiles. You’re okay with killing our children so your orange god doesn’t go to prison…so, just go home, Thom… and maybe hang yourself for supporting Trump all these years. You helped strangle this country to death in your march for an all-powerful GOP.
If you look at an animal and see its life as unimportant you are incapable of seeing human life as important.