WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DOG MAKES!!
THE ONE THING MISSING FROM THIS GOPe ASSAULT ON KRISTI NOEM IS **CONTEXT!**
I have pointed out tirelessly for 5 years now that ALL news media today is propaganda.
All propaganda is driven by emotion.
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And every article, audio or video you CONSUME and take into yourself affects you accumulatively over time.
Yes, the media you CONSUME/EXPOSE yourself to becomes part of your mind & spirit over time.
And will literally SHAPE your reality.
PROPAGANDA IS ENERGY
Take a moment and reflect on what your mind and spiritual DIET off of in the online world.
Because intel/data is ENERGY and when exposed to it, you are consuming an outside source’s benevolent, malevolent or null ENERGY.
BEHOLD!! Here is a perfect example of NEGATIVE energy being PUSHED into young, impressionable minds & hearts by Jackals pretending they’re educating them.
Many of these young victims of out-of-control Marxists (Who are being ALLOWED to be out-of-control) will never fully recover.
So, filter out and avoid ALL propaganda, AMIRITE?
YOU CAN’T!
We are doing it too.
ALL COMMUNICATION DESIGNED TO ELICIT A MANIPULATION IS PROPAGANDA
(GASP!)
All intel/data can be used to manipulate hearts & minds.
ALWAYS HAS, ALWAYS WILL. ←—Hobby Historian’s perspective.
Here’s some POSITIVE Propaganda:
We human beings are social creatures. Isolation with no interaction actually harms us psychologically. We SHARE positive experiences as a community (Family, City/Town, State and Nation) to tie and bind our individual identity TO something larger than ourselves.
Pledge of allegiance, the Fourth of July, State Fairs. It all reinforces one’s belonging to a SHARED identity.
Child to Parents. (Family Name)
Young Adult to Friends. (In Group)
Military Soldier to Unit (Loyalty)
Soul to Nation (Citizen)
As I remark upon these as **I** see them, are you beginning to realize just how far our Enemies have pied pipered the more recent generations into the Wilderness?
I am going to give you my 100% honest thoughts on the Kristi Noem shot her PET dog “scandal.”
Yes, our side also uses emo-hooks to sell you their agendas.
This is an indirect attack on Trump’s ability to choose allies.
I can FEEL the malevolence from here.
The OUTRAGE after Trump finally hollowed out the GOP HQ and replaced the corrupt sell out Bluebloods with his Ringers to start doing the job Ronna ROMNEY should have started doing in 2017. (HER ACTUAL NAME IS RONNA ROMNEY, DIDJA KNOW THAT?
It took Trump seven years to HOLLOW OUT the GOPe HQ and replace those sandbagging him with real #AmericaFIRST Patriots.
This.
THIS story about Noem putting down a dangerous WORK DOG two decades ago is all they have.
What follows many lose me some readers but I have to defend both Trump AND Noem with CONTEXT.
Because almost all of the conservative INFLUENCERS covering this are gleefully leaving that out.
To take a JAB at Trump, since most other avenues are closing.
CONTEXT POINT #1: CRICKET WAS NOT, I REPEAT **NOT** A FAMILY PET.
Cricket, dead these twenty plus years, was a work dog.
Take a moment and realize how practically everyone involved in covering this SCANDAL refers to Cricket as a PUPPY, FAMILY DOG or PET.
Do you think that’s an accident? Of course not.
Many farms and ranches all over the world use working dogs to hunt and herd livestock. Some are considered family during down hours, but many others are not.
From what Noem wrote it’s clear that Cricket would have lived a long and USEFUL life as a work dog if he’d only been able to be trained and not dangerous to people and livestock.
Noem’s reaction to discovering the dog was dangerous after it bit people, HER, and killed a neighbor’s chickens was “Farm traditional” and binary.
Can’t be trusted, can’t be trained, feral tendencies = put it down.
CONTEXT POINT #2: ON FARMS/RANCHES THREATS TO PEOPLE/LIVESTOCK GET PUT DOWN.
Since she didn’t take Cricket to a veterinarian to be put to sleep but shot him herself, this makes her a barbaric savage?
Could she have “rehomed” Cricket? Given him away to BE a pet?
Did you miss the part where he either has or tries to bite people?
She would want to farm her animal who failed to train and shows feral tendencies to an INNOCENT family?
How about no?
Noem considered her failure to train Cricket partially her fault, but now the animal could not be trusted around people or livestock.
Before I continue I need to address HOW this story is being FRAMED to make you hate Noem.
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The way 95% of all media, Left, Right or Alt is covering this, their EMOTIONAL HOOK is to get you to SEE Cricket as YOUR Pet Dog. (Current or Past)
“OH THAT TERRIBLE WITCH!! HOW COULD SHE!?”
She literally lives in a world you don’t. The obligations and responsibilities you don’t appreciate exist.
But yeah, gather that clout, Sweetie.
You are being manipulated all over the place.
WORK DOG.
FAILED TRAINING.
FERAL TENDENCIES.
BIT PEOPLE, KILLED LIVESTOCK.
That dog belonged to Noem, and it bit the hand feeding it.
BLAM!
(I pray the life energy of Cricket, wherever he is, is frolicking in a meadow)
CONTEXT POINT #3: CITY MICE HATE COUNTRY MICE
Farm life is far different from city life.
Ranch life is galaxies away from city life.
People running farms and ranches are focused on running their land in the hopes of ending up financially in the black for once.
All of these GOPe INFLUENCERS are making this point as obvious as is possible.
What’s the common theme of the TV series YELLOWSTONE?
The City Folk come to Montana as a playground and utterly disrespect the people who live in Montana as a bunch of “Hillbilly Rednecks.”
Do you think John Dutton sees his dogs, cows or even horses as family?
OF COURSE NOT. They’re property he raises, feeds, protects and uses to run his ranch.
Right now GOPe Influencers are grabbing the low hanging fruit of the Noem scandal and sharing it with all and sundry, showcasing their PETS and decrying Noem’s heartless cruelty.
And you are eating it up.
I consider this FRAMED NARRATIVE as fake as every hoax dumped on Trump in the past eight years.
But The Uniparty Right can’t go AT Trump directly anymore.
They must consider Noem’s UNFORCED ERROR (that AIN’T!) a Godsend.
NAWP!
All you’ve done is reveal yourselves.
I bow to @TheReal40_Head for saying this so succinctly.
Stop allowing people who are either using or hating you to manipulate you so EFFORTLESSLY.
I know emotion TRUMPS reason all day long.
So go ahead and despise Governor Noem all day long.
Far be it for me to tell people what to think…
Only now, you can hate on her WITH context you’ve chosen to discount.
As our domestic foes INSIDE THE WIRE laugh at you.
Ok, that’s my completely NOT SUGARCOATED real thoughts on the 20+ year old “She shot her PUPPY DAWG” astroturfed indirect attack on Donald Trump.
I agree with you, Duane, but this looks different to me. As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, humans ARE emotional and make judgements based on emotion and then try to justify with logic. I don't believe Kristi Noem has such poor political judgement as to add this story to her book and not know what was going to happen. Two things are true: we DO react emotionally and Americans LOVE our dogs. Both sides of the aisle, we fucking love dogs and everyone knows this. So I'm considering the possibility that Noem was given the option to take herself out politically and took that deal. Q told us to watch when we saw Republicans deciding to retire and that it meant they were put into submission. Noem didn't announce she was retiring but this may end up with the same result. I could be wrong on this but it is where my head went first and that's as someone who actually likes Kristi Noem. Also, as a side note, I live in Montana and work on a ranch and know quite a few farmers and ranchers. Pretty much everyone has working dogs and they do all love them like family and often have dogs that suck at their jobs along with the good ones. Killing chickens is unfortunate and also totally common. A lot of people in rural areas don't control their dogs enough and sometimes its the dogs who get shot by neighbors. It's just a constant issue in the country. Not saying either way what Kristi Noem should have done with her dog but I do think it's a-typical for a farmer or rancher to simply treat their working dogs as tools. We're human and we get attached.