"I've spent 30 years traveling, making policy, meeting many world leaders."

[niyad]

Let's see. Puppy/goat/horse murderer noem is 52. 30 years ago, she was running the family farm, had just given birth to her first child. Years later, she was in the SD state legislature. Came to D.C. as a freshman rep in 2011 (13 years ago, if my math is correct) , and newcomer reps don't generally travel the world bullying. . errr. .meeting, world leaders. Her family did not move to D.C. with her. She finally graduated college in 2012.

I was looking at some pictures of her from that time, and she looks very different. . Actually, looks like she and kimmie have the same plastics guy.

She is a liar and a total fake.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Ouch. A liar and a puppy killer.

You have to wonder if plastic surgery was done to make her more attractive to Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes she looks like all the Trump women.

Same kind of plastic surgery, hair, make-up, and clothing.

[BonnieJW]

18. You forgot lips

Maybe Lara had some filler left over the last time she filled up and gave it to Killer

[Irish_Dem]

19. Yes lips too.

I was dumping that in the plastic surgery category.
But yes lip fillers.
Botox to the max as well.

She looks absurd.

[niyad]

4. I don"t know when it was done, but the pictures of her in

the House in 2013 look like a very different woman.

[BOSSHOG]

23. Ya think trump had plastic surgery

Recently to make himself more attractive to magas? And, the diapers accentuates the motif.

[Traildogbob]

2. Keep flapping

Those fake blown up lips, fake GI Barbie. Sure Cory likes em. We will provide the photo op gold shovel for you to keep digging that hole to vanish in.
Where’s the “Noem Be Gone” blood sucker spray.

[niyad]

17. If only!

[Traildogbob]

22. What if

We stuck her, Lara and Jr’s ho’s lips all together. That sucking action would never release and we would never hear another word from their pie holes again.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Lying comes so naturally to Republicans.

[niyad]

6. Sadly true.

[Srkdqltr]

7. Are we sure this is the same woman? Might be an impersonator?

[niyad]

9. Well, the qanon nutjobs are always ranting about Dem body doubles.. .

hmmmmmm. . .projection???

[Srkdqltr]

13. who knows... strange things happen. Look at RFK jr and the worm. who had that on their bingo card this morning.

[niyad]

14. I certainly did not!

[dalton99a]

8. World leaders who eat grass and walk on four legs

[niyad]

10. . . .

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Like Rosie Ruiz.........

Came out of the subway tunnel and instantly had miles added to her achievements!

GAWD, how STUPID are these people? Do they not know that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is now available on record somehow/somewhere?

I'm sure IQ45 would NEVER understand why she's NOT worthy of ANY government position - but isn't THAT part of the problem!

[niyad]

15. At least ruiz was not trying to run the country. She couldn't even run

the Marathon.

[kairos12]

12. Even

Nurse Ratched would hate her.

[niyad]

16. True!

[Harker]

20. Maybe she meant in dog years. n/t

[niyad]

21. Had not thought of that!

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. So many of these loonies are my age

[niyad]

33. And there are too many of them my age, although they do seem

to be dying off, albeit far too slowly.

[Renew Deal]

25. She probably met Nixon at a book signing in 1994

Or maybe went to his funeral

[niyad]

29. hmmm. . although he published the last of his 10 books in 94,

I didn't see antything that indicated a book tour stop in a small SD town. And her oldest child, a daughter, was born in that small town the day before he died.

She has an amazing imagination.

[UTUSN]

26. K&R for, your Subject line made me Hah like from a Borowitz

[niyad]

30. I wish I were as talented as he!

[UTUSN]

34. More props, for applying the subjunctive "were" appropriately.

[niyad]

35. Nodding modestly. . .

[oldmanlynn]

27. What happened to these people. It cant be just pretend?

What the heck happened to these Americans. We were loving our country through wars, massive change, the moon and more but suddenly we dont understand our fellow Americans? What happened? Are we just different? Or did they all get brainwashed from Russian style propaganda?

How do you undo the damage?

[niyad]

31. Destruction of the American educational system and ruzzian

propaganda are at the base of it. And I had been saying for decades that there is something in thecwater. . and. . oh, look, drugs. Lots and lots of drugs that our water systems are not equipped to process or eliminate. And I have no idea how to fix all of this in any ethical way.

[Caliman73]

45. If it were in the water, then many more of us would be affected.

Iggo's analysis is right on in my opinion. There was a CONCERTED effort starting in the late 60's early 70's, especially after the Watergate fiasco and Nixon's resignation where Conservatives started moving toward creating a bubble for their followers to live in. The Powell Memo was a response to the consumer safety movement, ironically lead by Ralph Nader, that had seen regulations placed on corporations for the protection of the average person, and this movement to hold powerful people to account that lead Roger Ailes and Pat Buchanan to push forward with the right wing takeover of media.

These two projects took advantage of the average level of tribalism that has existed in American politics and put it on Mega Steroids. Still, only about 30% to 35% of the electorate are actually engaged with right wing politics, but that is not an insignificant amount of people. Capitalism and general apathy also play their part. News agencies in their pursuit of the almighty dollar, emphasize "conflict" and "both sides" and allow right wing propaganda to infiltrate into the conventional media. So right wing lies become the other side of facts and the media presents it as a valid debate of ideas.

I do agree with you niyad about the challenge of "the solution". If we go after the right wing lies like we should to defeat them, it would likely have to be behind a major curtailment of the First Amendment, which we don't want to do.

The only thing that I can think of is a VERY HEAVY LIFT which requires Liberals/Progressives/Further Left people to engage and win seats on school boards, city councils, County Supervisor roles, and build a movement to revamp the education system.

We absolutely have to develop critical thinkers who understand how to separate fact from fiction. We need to teach people to recognize reputable sources, rules of logic, common fallacies in argumentation, and how evidence works.

[Iggo]

39. The people with all the money got sick of their serfs being educated.

[Farmer-Rick]

28. All the women around the stinking Nazi

Start to morph into the same look. Alien faces with flapping lips, squinty eyes and pulled back mouths and skin. All their individuality carefully stretched out of their faces. And they don't even realize how awful they really look.

[niyad]

32. Sadly, you make a very astute observation. They do start looking

very much alike. Very weird.

[tapper]

36. Who could respect...

… such a pseudo-young looking person as a serious leader? She’s in her50s: one would expect a more “ professional” style (the hair is ridiculous, IMO), at least.

Ugh.

[Farmer-Rick]

37. Yeah, unprofessional looking with all that hair flying around

And what's with the lowered hairline? All the women around him eventually get that too low hairline. It doesn't look normal.

[Caliman73]

46. It isn't the appearance that is the problem.

AOC is a young, attractive (in my opinion) woman. She is also super smart, articulate, and professional. She appears to be a genuinely decent human being as well, down to earth while recognizing the importance of situations and of her position. Jasmine Crockett is also a young and attractive woman, but she shows off her incredible intellect and sharp wit and fierce attitude in Congressional hearings. I would not dare to challenge those young women in matters of policy. Appearance is part of a person's overall presentation but not something that should be determinative of whether we respect someone or not.

Noem sounds like a fool. She is vapid and cruel and has either adopted, or really represents this caricature of a "tough Conservative" which is performative and designed primarily to fool people, not to offer any real substance. Again, perhaps the physical appearance is part of the whole thing, but I try to judge people based on their actions and what their actions communicate about their attitudes and mentality.

[Kid Berwyn]

38. She coulda been a veep contender!

But then that puppy had to make her mad.

[niyad]

40. Sadly, I think it inly makes her more attractive to RAPIST-TRAITOR**,

since he hates dogs.

[Kid Berwyn]

41. Dogs are here to help us become the best humans can be.

https://i.imgur.com/K2JEcFU.mp4

[niyad]

42. adult imagery? sign in?

[Kid Berwyn]

43. Wow. Sorry, no...

Trying to link to an Imgur video...

https://imgur.com/K2JEcFU

On my computer, it opens to a video from Brazil, where a man who was rescued in the recent flooding went back to save his four hounds. For me, it was a tear jerker.

[niyad]

44. How very strange. I clicked on the link, which appears to be the

same as your second one. .

I can understand that the video is a tear-jerker. I would not go without my kitty.