re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I think that was what she was going for and that was her expectation of what the response would be. But I think it was a massive miscalculation.

Her only way back, maybe…because this really is a colossal problem for her…is if trump selects her as veep. Because then either they just go with their cognitive dissonance or not, and there are MAGAts who simply won’t because…dogs, man.

The most horrible people in the world love dogs.

There’s no escaping this.

And if trump does select her, that’s even more less voters for him coz this isn’t a bridge to nowhere, it’s a bridge too far.

There was a way to present the story that would have made her sympathetic or even the “tough frontier-type” she tries to present herself as. She could have admitted to being embarrassed that she couldn’t control Cricket out on the hunt, that she’d compounded that feeling by letting him run loose on the neighbor’s farm and didn’t pay attention until Cricket had killed several chickens, and then remorse or guilt that she’d been forced to put down a puppy that had proven a danger to livestock and human alike. Critics would have still called bullshit, but her actions could have at least been seen by some as defensible.

But instead, she says she was angry that Cricket was “uncontrollable” despite screaming and using a shock collar, that it only escalated when Cricket continued to see it as “fun” to kill chickens as instinct told it to do, and then happiness when she drug a puppy to a gravel pit and blasted it with a shotgun in front of several witnesses. So much so that she then repeated the act (poorly) with another animal that had also angered her, botching it so badly that she had to go back to her car for more shotgun shells. And then compounding it all by saying that shooting a puppy she was angry with was no different than having three horses that had been with the family for 25 years put down earlier this year.

There was a version of this story that would have made her look like a leader who accepted their mistakes and pledged to do better. That’s not the story she chose to tell and the fact that she is not admitting fault when called on it says she doesn’t think what she did for the reasons she did them was in any way wrong. That tells you a lot about her character, none of it good and much of it very disturbing.