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      I was curious just how many people actually live in South Dakota, just so that I could have a point of reference for the 37.8% statistic. Basically, it’s roughly the same amount of people as the population of New Orleans or half the population of Washington DC that agree with her. What an empty state.

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    My extremely objective sample size of the single South Dakota resident I have talked to about this thinks that she is a laughable disgrace.

    We talked for a bit about how basically any idiot should know that it takes a while, as in years and years, to properly train a hunting dog.

    And also executing a puppy, and a goat, is fucking insane.

    According to her the goat was not really even Noem’s goat. It was apparently a goat that was being basically rented, primarily as an au naturale lawn mower.

    Anyway, then this 50+ year old white lady proceeded to laugh for 3 minutes straight about how bad you have to fuck up to get banned from every native reservation in the state, a full 1/5 of the landmass of the territory you govern.

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    It was a 14 month old wirehaired pointer.

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    They get up to 34" tall. Everything about this is bullshit.

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    Kristi Noem is a despicable cunt. I hope she trips over a stack of her shitty unsold books, falls into a deep gravel pit, and sinks beneath a pile of rocks while passerby point and laugh.

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      I live in one county of 4-5 that make up my city’s suburbs. Every one of those counties has more than 350k people

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    Another 40-50% agree it was justified, but won’t actually say it because they’re spineless low-lifes. Works the same way with racists…

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      Are you from there or something? 80-90% seems like a huge number without some other information factoring in

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        I hope that person is just internet bullshitting. For only 10-20% of the state to think that’s wrong, I just can’t believe that.

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        She won last time with 61.98% of the vote. That doesn’t even count those who voted against her, but agree with her on this issue. Was my number high… probably a little bit. Was it insanely high? No.

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    I never really put too much stock in polls, but did you all see the Michael Cohen testimony today? He admitted to skimming money off the top of some payments that Trump was making to a company called RedFinch to bump up his poll numbers through bots. I’m kind of surprised that admission in court wasn’t bigger news.

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      I went to find the article, thank you for posting it. But while I agree it should be a bigger news story simply because it’s another story showing just how awful Trump is, but that’s why we’re not seeing more of it. People are tired of hearing, yet again, that Trump is an insecure cheating narcissist - but keep banging that drum because people need to go vote.

      But… I don’t think it’s as big as you’re trying to spin it. This isn’t presidential election polling that he botted - and the polling that is being done, while flawed in many ways, is less vulnerable to botting like this. This was a news channel poll on the Internet about the “most notable businessman” or something like that - Internet polling is, extremely frequently, botted.

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    Another way to read this: 60% of a batshit conservative state even think Noem is guilty of animal abuse.