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I look at opinion pieces as only having worth to the amount of actual facts, with links, verifiable sources, graphs, numbers, documents, etc pertaining to reasons for that opinion. That is, an opinion that is just based on a political party's (Dem or Repug) talking points or part of just some dubious political disinformation war, or just some personal feelings expressed without anything previously discussed backing them, loses its' value and hard to even try to discuss or debate any of the number of falsities expressed in that piece. Helps to have a more current opinion article also, Biden wasn't even in office for a year at the published date.
I get it, the republican's intentional severe level of disinformation campaign works for them. The act of putting so much shit out there that everything looks like shit, throwing about anything up on the walls, repeating the same lies and conspiracy theories trillions of times on a constant basis, creating culture wars, killing 100's of thousands people in the US needlessly with their mitigation wars, does have its' effect.
Anyway, at risk of maybe entering into Brandolini's Law and just to enter the battle of opinion pieces for entertainment purposes only, here's something that strays more to center than the extreme (far left or right are pretty much worthless);
Opinion
What Has Biden Accomplished? Look at These 10 Metrics, Not the Polls
Biden has outperformed Trump on a number of fronts, from inequality and green spending to stocks and crime. But not all.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-biden-accomplishment-data/
By Bloomberg Opinion Columnists
March 7, 2024 at 10:00 AM MST
President Joe Biden’s third year in office was dogged by political gridlock yet blessed by an economy that refused to break despite painful inflation and surging borrowing costs. If presidential elections hinge on “the economy, stupid,” then winning a second term should be a cakewalk for Biden given the robust labor market, strengthening household finances, and improving confidence among consumers and businesses. Instead, his poll numbers predict the opposite, weighed down by the legacy of Covid-era inflation and doubts about his age. Looming even larger is the influx of migrants at the southern border, which Republicans would rather use as a weapon than fix via bipartisan immigration reform. As Biden and his presumptive opponent, Donald Trump, take their message to voters ahead of the November election, Bloomberg Opinion columnists tell you how the president’s performance stacks up against his predecessor by the numbers.
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Immigration | Health | Jobs and wages | Inflation | Energy transition | Household wealth | Income inequality | Markets | Homicides | Job approval
Immigration reform is failing
Border encounters between ports of entry are near a record high as Republicans derail bipartisan legislation in the Senate
Note: Data for fiscal years ending Sept. 30.
Source: US Border Patrol
The number of encounters between southwestern ports of entry declined slightly in fiscal 2023 from 2022’s record of 2.2 million, but still outstripped any other year. And if you include the “inadmissible arrivals” processed, the 2.48 million total is greater.
It’s no wonder immigration was voters’ top concern, and that Biden’s ratings on the issue are so low.
Southern border encounters
Note: Encounters between ports of entry for fiscal years ending Sept. 30.
Source: US Border Patrol
But one factor often gets lost: Most of the “encounters” in recent years are with people seeking to claim asylum, not necessarily to vanish into the US. And only a small proportion of those who do seek to slip in undetected succeed, thanks to more rigorous enforcement. The US lacks the capacity to process asylum and immigration cases in a timely manner. The more than 6.3 million total encounters at the southern border since Biden took office have resulted in more than 2.4 million migrants allowed into the country.
And for the first time, more than half of irregular arrivals came from beyond Mexico and northern Central America. Venezuela tops the list of “historically atypical” source countries, which also include Colombia, Ecuador, China and India. Family encounters have also surged.
It’s not as if Biden has been sitting on his hands; he’s issued well over 500 executive actions on immigration. But rules lack the sticking power of laws, and they don’t come with the resources needed to execute them properly. Under Trump’s sway, a recalcitrant Republican majority in the House of Representatives effectively derailed bipartisan reform legislation that was making its way through the Senate. Until that logjam is broken, the US immigration system and the border it defends will remain a disaster beyond repair.
Millions signed up for health care
Taking the number of uninsured Americans to an all-time low
Notes: Data for 18–64 year olds at the time of interview; 2023 figures are through June.
Source: National Health Interview Survey
Access to affordable health care is Biden’s crowning achievement. The number of uninsured Americans hit an all-time low of 7.2% in the second quarter of 2023, while the number of people who signed up for an Obamacare plan for 2024 surged to 21.3 million.
At the start of Biden’s term, about 12 million Americans had health insurance through Obamacare, or more formally, the Affordable Care Act — and that level hadn’t changed much since 2015, two years after the public marketplaces opened. When the ACA passed in 2010, 22.3% of working-age people were uninsured compared with just 10.4% now.
Health insurance status
Notes: Data for 18–64 year olds at the time of interview.
Source: National Health Interview Survey
There is a caveat. Some of the voracious appetite for marketplace plans in 2023 likely came from the millions of people who lost access to public insurance last year. The end of pandemic-era rules that allowed Americans to stay on Medicaid without renewing their paperwork pushed out some 16.4 million people, including more than 3.2 million kids, according to the health policy nonprofit KFF.
But policymakers positioned the ACA marketplaces to absorb some of these folks. Subsidies made it easier for people to afford marketplace plans, and the administration increased funding for people trained to help the public find the right insurance fit.
Many of the new enrollees live in Republican strongholds such as West Virginia and Louisiana, where sign-ups increased 80% and 76%, respectively. Texas and Florida each saw enrollment increases of roughly a million people as well.
Salary increases are outpacing inflation
Job growth in Biden’s first three years outperformed any previous president
Notes: Real average hourly earnings for non-supervisory workers; nonfarm employment.
Sources: Bloomberg; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Biden may have finally found the labor market’s sweet spot. The economy added 14.8 million jobs over the first three years of his term, more than any president in US history over the same period. What’s more, unemployment has held below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s. Yet many workers have been dissatisfied as soaring inflation wiped out wage gains and then some in 2022. Last year, though, income increases began to outpace price increases.
Pay and work
Sources: Bloomberg; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Biden neither deserves full blame for the high inflation nor full credit for the rebound in real wages. Nevertheless, the strong labor market bears the imprint of White House policies such as the American Rescue Plan, the infrastructure act, the CHIPs act and the ill-named Inflation Reduction Act. Although some economists say these contributed to faster inflation, they also fueled hiring.
Real wages may turn from a headwind for Biden into a tailwind this election year if current trends persist — and they just might. According to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, the unemployment rate will rise modestly this year, to 4%, well below the 5.9% average of the two decades prior to the pandemic. Average hourly earnings are expected to grow 3.8%, exceeding the 2.2% forecasted inflation rate. What’s more, voters seem to be taking note given the recent recovery in consumer sentiment.
The cost of living is going down
The rapid disinflation under Biden is unmatched in modern history
Note: Breakeven data, measure of future inflation expected by Treasury investors, available starting 2004; as of March 4.
Source: Bloomberg
America’s cost of living, which surged to a four-decade high during Biden’s first two years, is poised to return to its pre-pandemic level this year — when family wealth across income groups is more robust than at any point in the new century.
Consumer and expected inflation
Note: As of March 4.
Source: Bloomberg
Inflation was supposedly undermining “Bidenomics” when the consumer price index peaked at 9.1% in 2022, according to prevailing media narratives featuring many prominent economists. The CPI has since plummeted at an unprecedented rate to 3.1%. The resulting disinflation — occurring while gross domestic product expanded 3.2% last quarter — is unmatched in modern history and the opposite of the 1970s, when inflation took eight years and five months to subside to 3%.
Even as the Federal Reserve rapidly raised interest rates in 2022 and through mid-2023, some $30 trillion of US government securities — the daily reference of global investor preferences — showed that the inflation spike was little more than a consequence of supply chain disruptions and pandemic shortages.
In June 2022, many feared inflation was out of control. But the market for swaps, or derivatives, tied to inflation accurately anticipated CPI to the nearest decimal every month during the course of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It’s now signaling 3.1% inflation by July and 2.3% in November. The breakeven rate showing traders’ expectations for average inflation in the next two years at 2.8% is 60 basis points lower than a year ago.
The good news for Biden is that while prices remain elevated, voters are starting to realize — just like Wall Street — that big price increases are over.
Green spending is booming, but it’s still not enough
The goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 requires $1 trillion in transition investment now
Note: Doesn’t include an average of $82B a year of power grids data, which begin in 2020.
Source: BloombergNEF
Long after Biden departs the White House, his climate policies will be judged on the glacial metrics of emissions and temperatures. For now, it’s all about how much money is being spent. On that measure, he has sparked a revolution.
US energy transition spending topped $303 billion last year, according to BloombergNEF. That’s a record and two-thirds higher than before Biden entered office. Excluding power-grid projects, which enable but don’t serve only zero-emissions energy, spending exceeded $200 billion, more than double 2020 levels.
Transition investments
Source: BloombergNEF
Investments are concentrated in two of the more obvious beneficiaries of the Inflation Reduction Act’s subsidies: electric vehicles and renewable energy. Spending on EVs over the past three years was roughly double that of the prior decade, while the number for energy storage projects last year was nine times the 2020 level.
Full marks for a fast start, but set against the ultimate ambition, it is only that: To reach net-zero emissions by 2050, annual US transition investment should be more than $1 trillion, now, according to BloombergNEF. Moreover, hosing more money can’t solve everything, such as a lack of lighter, affordable EV models, bottlenecks in expanding the power grid, or inflation and higher interest rates (which it exacerbates).
It also exacerbates, but maybe counters somewhat, the problem of implacable Republican opposition. Trump denounces green energy, sometimes in bizarre terms. On that front, the fact that most green dollars are flowing into red districts and states, teeing up tension between GOP ideology and jobs, offers an insurance policy of sorts for the IRA were the presidency to change hands.
Families are richer than ever
Net worth has climbed under Biden, sentiment needs to catch up
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
American households are wealthier and in better financial shape than ever before by almost any measure. Even with a bear market in stocks in 2022 and elevated inflation, Federal Reserve data show household net worth rose to a record $156.2 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, from $131.4 trillion at the end of 2020. The stock market, where more than half of all households are invested, has surged. And as Bloomberg Opinion contributor Claudia Sahm has pointed out, household debt burdens are near historic lows.
Household wealth
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Yet the consensus is that the economy is a negative for Biden because consumer sentiment measures remain below their pre-pandemic levels. Observers say this reflects the toll of inflation, which has left everyday items such as groceries costing much more than before the onset of Covid-19. Then there’s housing, which is the least affordable on record, keeping potential homeowners from buying, and making current homeowners feel trapped.
Are Americans really that sour on the economy? Perhaps not. Surveys show that when people are asked about their personal financial situation — and not just their views on the economy — an overwhelming majority say it is either good or excellent.
If we’ve learned anything during the pandemic era it is that surveys are not very reliable indicators. Case in point: consumer spending, which has consistently risen more than forecast. Better to watch what Americans do rather than what they say.
Inequality is narrowing
A rise in real wages for lower-income workers is bridging the gap
Note: Combined income for all family members 15 years and older during the past 12 months.
Source: S. Flood et al., IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
Preliminary data suggest that inequality continued to narrow in 2023. Even better, the improvement — unlike during Biden’s first two years — was due to rising real wages, at least for some Americans: Lower-income workers saw gains, while median and higher earners saw barely any increase at all, after accounting for inflation.
Income gap
Source: S. Flood et al., IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
In 2021 and 2022, inequality also fell. But that was in an economy where real wages were declining for all income groups. They just fell less for the bottom 10% (about 2%) than for the top 10% (about 7%). The final numbers on annual wages for 2023 will not be available until after Americans have decided whether to give Biden four more years or return Trump to office.
What’s happened to wages over the last four presidencies is largely a function of the overall economic environment. Everyone did worse during the tenure of George W. Bush because of the Great Recession. Wages grew for the median and top 10% under Barack Obama as the world recovered from the financial crisis, but the bottom 10% saw real wages fall.
The only administration that presided over positive wage growth for all income groups was Trump’s. Still, inequality also increased during his administration, as higher earners saw wages grow more quickly than the bottom 10%.
When it comes to wages, Biden will have a hard time improving on Trump’s record. When it comes to income inequality, however, he has a good chance.
The equity market is roaring
While bonds are a weak spot
Note: As of March 4 based on monthly compounding.
Source: Bloomberg
For a supposedly unpopular president, the US stock market sure seems to like Biden.
Since his inauguration, the S&P 500 Index has returned about 45%, more than double the total returns of the rest of the world’s developed-market equities. That still leaves a lot of ground to cover if he’s going to match Trump’s full-term performance, but in some ways he was dealt a more challenging macroeconomic hand. Trump’s corporate tax breaks also helped. Meanwhile, the mighty dollar has continued to defy predictions about America’s declining status in the world, strengthening against most major global currencies over the past three years.
Performance
Note: As of March 4 based on monthly compounding.
Source: Bloomberg
The main blemish on Biden’s performance is found in the bond market. US Treasuries have lost about 11% since he took office, a reflection of the surge in inflation that marred his first two years. In this context, commodity gains can be seen as a bad thing, feeding consumer prices and, therefore, the need for policymakers to raise interest rates. Some investors undoubtedly benefited, but high borrowing costs have hurt the president among, for instance, would-be mortgagors locked out of homeownership.
The good news is that ebbing inflation has allowed the Fed to begin contemplating easier policy, helping mortgage rates retreat from 2023’s highs. By the time Biden leaves office, the bond market probably won’t look quite as ugly as it does today.
Violent crimes, especially homicides, have fallen
Biden has encouraged states to use stimulus money on law enforcement
Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation; AH Datalytics (2023 data only)
The US was in the midst of its worst spasm of violence in decades when Biden took office, with the homicide rate rising 29% in 2020. It rose again slightly in 2021, but started to fall that autumn. There was a slight year-over-year decline in 2022, then an 11.8% drop last year — the sharpest on record — according to estimates by AH Datalytics.
Homicide rate
Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation; AH Datalytics (2023 data only)
Other violent crimes have followed a more complicated trajectory; some fell early in the pandemic because so few people were on the streets to commit crimes against. But overall violent crime was also down in 2023, with the FBI reporting an 8.2% nationwide drop over the first nine months and the Major Cities Chiefs Association a 2.6% full-year decline among its members. In the cities and large suburban counties that belong to the latter group, that leaves violent crime still higher than before the pandemic, but in the FBI data it looks as if 2023’s US violent crime rate will be the lowest since 1969.
How much credit does Biden deserve for this? If you believe increased funding for police reduces crime (and I do, with some caveats), definitely some. Biden’s 2021 stimulus bill included an unprecedented $350 billion for state and local governments, which he strongly encouraged them to spend on law enforcement.
“We should all agree the answer is not to defund the police,” Biden said in his 2022 State of the Union address. “It’s to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them. Fund them with the resources and training — resources and training they need to protect our communities.”
Biden is a successful president. Will that matter?
Despite economic gains, the president’s approval ratings are dismal
Note: Data are 30-day trailing averages.
Source: Gallup
Biden is an unpopular president. Even as the unemployment rate ticked down, the stock market soared and consumer sentiment trended upward, his approval numbers have stayed near historical lows.
No sitting president with a similar approval rating — 38% according to Gallup — has ever gotten reelected. At the same point in Trump’s bid for re-election in 2020, the former president had an approval rating of 47%. Nine months (and tens of thousands of Covid deaths) later, he was defeated by Biden.
Job approval
Source: Gallup
Given his standing among voters, Biden can only be seen as a weak incumbent. While anything can happen between now and election day, his approval numbers have remained in the high 30s and low 40s for much of the last year. Those numbers are a proxy for how people feel about his handling of the big issues — the economy, immigration and foreign policy — but concerns about his age also loom large. According to a New York Times/Siena poll, 73% of registered voters say Biden is too old to be an effective president, including 56% of Democrats.
Obviously, he will not get any younger as he runs for office, but as the 2024 matchup comes into fuller view — i.e. with Trump the presumptive nominee — voters could start to see Biden in a more positive light. As Biden says, he would prefer voters to compare him to the alternative, rather than the almighty. And in that light, his poll numbers might matter less.
(Updates charts and first paragraph of the household wealth section with fourth-quarter data.)
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Biden at the Three-Year Mark: The Most Active Immigration Presidency Yet Is Mired in Border Crisis Narrative
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-three-immigration-record
JANUARY 19, 2024
POLICY BEAT
By Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh
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https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1785006934933770550
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COMMENTARY
What the Biden administration’s report on the Afghanistan withdrawal gets wrong
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-the-biden-administrations-report-on-the-afghanistan-withdrawal-gets-wrong/
Madiha Afzal
May 5, 2023
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Tuesday TOONs
https://www.democraticunderground.com/119811774
Just a reminder, a criminal Traitor trump and republicans representative and leader, is 60% lower than what was the worst president in history of the United States proudly taking the bottom spot (by a lot).
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Why Are Prominent Republicans Who Despise Trump Voting for Him Anyway?
PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY
Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, and other GOP bigwigs have all lambasted Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election. But partisanship is a helluva drug.
Matt Lewis Senior Columnist
Published Apr. 30, 2024 4:51AM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-are-republicans-who-despise-trump-voting-for-him-anyway?ref=home?ref=home
If you want to understand why Donald Trump could win in 2024, look no further than Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. These three top Republican voices who previously condemned Trump now say they plan to vote for him again this November.
Let’s start with McConnell, who on Sunday (re)asserted that he would be voting for Trump for president. McConnell’s reason? “Because the voters of my party across the country have made a decision. As the Republican leader of the Senate, obviously, I’m gonna support the nominee of our party.”
Keep in mind, following Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021, McConnell said that “Trump’s actions preceding the [Capitol] riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty,” and that “There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.”
Supporting a man McConnell has clearly deemed unfit for the office may make McConnell craven, cynical, or absurd, but he’s not alone in his decision.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who backed Nikki Haley’s primary effort and has previously criticized Trump over Jan. 6, recently reiterated his support for Trump. And just last week, Trump Attorney General Bill Barr did the same.
To understand just how much sway tribalism and partisanship drives Republicans like Barr, look no further than an interview the former attorney general gave last week to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins.
“Just to be clear,” Collins said, “you’re voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election even after his attorney general told him that the election wasn’t stolen… You’re going to vote for someone who is facing 88 criminal counts?”
After some hemming and hawing, Barr confessed: “The answer to the question is ‘Yes.’ I’m supporting the Republican ticket.”
To a normal observer, McConnell, Barr, and Sununu have made assertions about Trump that should logically preclude him from serving as president again.
What is more, McConnell (who is stepping down from his leadership post in November) and Barr (who was just mocked by Trump) seemingly have little to gain by sucking up to Trump—and little to lose by opposing him. Only Sununu has a political future to consider.
So why are they all sticking with Trump?
McConnell and Sununu have given reasons that could be summed up by a (possibly apocryphal) quote from the 19th century French revolutionary Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin: “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
McConnell also has another reason. “I’m spending my political time and my political capital, whatever amount I have, on trying to flip the Senate so that my successor is the majority leader and not the minority leader,” he said on Sunday. In McConnell’s mind, he believes this effort will somehow advance his legacy. A presidential victory for Trump would make this scenario more likely.
Barr is the most grandiose and audacious of the three, saying, “I think Trump would do less damage than Biden, and I think all this stuff about a threat to democracy—I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration.”
Honestly, I have no idea what Barr is smoking. As a conservative, there are many things about the left that I can’t stand (see the antisemitism problem), but many of these same leftists are protesting Joe Biden.
Likewise, there are numerous things about Biden I don’t like. That’s why I did not vote for him in 2020. But as the late humorist P.J. O’Rourke said about backing Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016, “She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.” Trump is wrong and he operates outside the normal parameters.
At the very least, Republicans who are cognizant of this situation might want to sit out the 2024 election.
Regardless, I think McConnell, Barr, and Sununu are representative of a portion of the Republican electorate. Along with the MAGA radicals, Trump’s coalition includes boring old white guys who read The Wall Street Journal and would literally vote for a Republican nominee even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue.
When it comes to jumping off the crazy train, former Vice President Mike Pence is an outlier, in that he is a rare prominent Republican who has said he will not endorse Trump’s re-election.
If you want to understand why 46 percent of the American electorate are with Donald Trump—and why no amount of new information will sway them—look no further than these three amigos.
Matt Lewis
Image Dump 4/29/24
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218878622
What the Hell Was Kristi Noem Thinking? We Have Some Ideas.
BARKING MAD
Talking about murdering your dog doesn’t seem like a great political move, even in MAGA land.
Tracy Connor
Updated Apr. 29, 2024 4:18PM EDT Published Apr. 29, 2024 2:34PM EDT
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
Perhaps the only thing more shocking than Kristi Noem’s execution of her wirehaired pointer is her joyful confession of it in her upcoming memoir. The revelation has clouded the South Dakota governor’s political future—which anyone could have seen coming. What could possibly explain this? We have some ideas.
She really is that evil
There are plenty of ways to deal with an aggressive puppy: Hire a trainer. Return the dog to the breeder. Drop it off at a rescue. Only someone with very little heart or soul would instead drag the poor creature to a gravel pit and shoot it in cold blood, and then brag about it in their book. Also, who “hates” a dog—except Cruella de Vil?
She really is that dumb
Is it possible that Noem actually thinks killing Cricket was the right thing to do—and that everyone else would agree with her? Well, if she is anything like her hero Donald Trump and surrounds herself with sycophants, the answer might very well be yes! Political pundit Mickey Kaus says he heard that Noem used to love telling the story of Cricket’s violent end, even though people warned her she should stop because it was so disturbing. She apparently thought she knew better, which is pretty stupid.
She really wants to sell some books
Look, even if you’re getting discounts on your veneers by flacking for the dentist on social media, it never hurts to have more money. And instead of apologizing for killing Cricket when that part of the book was revealed, Noem used it to urge people to preorder for more “politically incorrect” stories. Unfortunately for her, she may have doomed her chances of more than doubling her $121,000 governor’s salary as veep.
She really didn’t want to be veep
Let’s face it: Being Trump’s No. 2 is the worst job in the world. Just ask Mike Pence. While Noem has been auditioning for the job with all the zeal of an Apprentice contestant for years—remember the mini-Mount Rushmore with Trump on it that she gifted him?—it’s possible she’s gotten cold feet. You’d think that being banned by the tribal lands in your home state might disqualify you, but maybe Kristi didn’t want to take the chance of being Trump’s whipping girl for four years.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-the-hell-was-kristi-noem-thinking-we-have-some-ideas?ref=home?ref=home
The pointer that she bought has been known to be aggressive.
That is what SHE said, and at this point I'm not inclined to believe anything that comes out of her mouth. She said that when taken hunting, Cricket ran around in circles and "had the time of her life". I'm glad she did, because that life didn't last much longer. Did Noem think Cricket would train herself?
Noem also said that returning from the hunt--or something, Cricket killed some of a neighbor's chickens. And when Noem tried to get her away Cricket bit her hand. So they returned home, and Noem got her gun. And when she'd finished with Cricket, she got the goat she'd failed to have castrated. She had to shoot him twice.
This is Cricket. Well, was:
Yes, I suppose some dogs are aggressive. If so, they need to be taken to a vet and put down. But it seems Cricket didn't object strenuously to being taken to the gravel pit, and sat quietly while Kristi took aim and shot. At least the goat tried to get away.
At least just about no one has spoken up in support of Noem. I think she may really have ended her political career.
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