The Celebrity Apprentice, But For VP

 

Fit My Feet does amazing work to make custom insoles. Just wait… I’m gonna be so fast! 👟 pic.twitter.com/RujfkjWPrc

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) March 14, 2024

First it was an ad for cosmetic dentistry, and now she's touting custom insoles--just what, you may ask, is up with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem? 

My personal best guess is, she's angling to raise her profile for VP by doing Celebrity Apprentice challenges because she can't count on Corey Lewandowski to put in a good word for her.  I mean, what is one supposed to do--stay in South Dakota? It's the Indiana of just a scootch over to the west. And as with Mike Pence, there's only so much right wing signifying you can do as a governor before you sort of wonder how it will pay off. Or not pay off, as the case may be. 

Does it feel like she's using her office a little bit for commercial purposes in a conflict of interest? Like, is she expecting something in return (or has she received something in return we don't know about)? Who knows? Maybe she only went into politics because she wanted to be a spokesmodel someday, and never got that Star Search contract. But as I've said before, the GOP secret to conflicts of interest is, if you always work in your own self- interest, there's never a conflict! 

Wow. The American Psycho is Strong With this One.

 

Mnnnkay, people, I was holding out by posting and deleting the dirt on Mr. First Trump campaign manager guy, because both he and Kristi Noem are fame whores with other shit on their plates besides whether they had an affair or not. I wasn't strapped in for the whole story yet, and I also f'd up the html. My bad.

So here's what is apparently up with them: 

I mean, she's distracting from whether she used a campaign donation to send South Dakota National Guard to the border and whether she used her clout to try to get her daughter a real estate license, so what's an affair with Slappy McTrumpWorld other than a way to deflect from the rotten job she's doing? Can we verify she's knocking boots with Corey Marathon Man Lewadowski? Well we can verify she says she certainly isn't anymore. 

But what of Lewandowski--how is he doing? Well, he was accused of sexual harassment and stalking, but it might be worse than that:

Trashelle Odom, of Boise, Idaho, the wife of a construction company executive, claimed in the police report obtained by DailyMail.com that the married Lewandowski said that he 'was from a bad part of Boston and to have killed people,' while seated next to her at the charity dinner at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas on on September 26. 

Odom claimed that on the night of the dinner - which she was personally invited to with South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem by American socialite Jackie Siegel - she was frightened when he allegedly told her: 'When I was 10, I stabbed someone over and over again, killing him. She added that the father-of-four told her that when he was older, he 'stabbed a man in the back of the head, also killing him'.

I don't even know who names their little baby girl "Trashelle" ("It's a family name, in the old country it was Sporcalina" my brain suggests)  but the real story is that the guy who pushed a female Breitbart reporter also thinks it's cool to talk about murdering people. And has also been accused of assault before. And even so, Trump had to be begged to let go of this creep. (And where does one apply to make Trump get rid of Jason Miller, also an incredible freaking creep? Who, whilst he is actually for now employed, should pay child support for his actual kids?)  

Anyway, Kristi Noem is a terrible governor who has let COVID-19 ravage her state and might have dreams of running for higher office and Corey Lewandowski is like a made man of a crime family. He fucked up so he's going to lay low, but if he can still earn, he'll get up top again. And a persecution narrative might even help him. 

But still and all--multiple knife murders? Like, is someone on this weird case or what?  Is that just a very toxic masculine man's pillow talk or is this a very messed up real life crime drama and shit? Inquiring minds want to know.

What Lewandowski Said

I know that a lot of Democrats (or at least on Twitter) and a handful of Never-Trumpers were hoping that House Dems would just have Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski hauled off for contempt for being non-responsive and belligerent, but I think that would have been counter-productive and theatrical.

I'm not saying that the hearing was a great raving success and riveting viewing. That Lewandowski was directed by the president to say nothing due to "executive privilege" when the man did not work in the White House, and that Lewandowski responded to Democrat inquiries rather like a low-level soldier protecting his capo, says rather enough to me. It's more covering-up and obstruction, and it was draaaaggged out and he admitted to not being truthful and was caught in a few lies.

Lewandowski was performing in part for Trump's benefit as well as to launch a senate campaign. Being snatched for contempt would have given Trump something to endlessly grouse about (there is nothing a chronic belly-acher loves more than something to belly-ache over--the Twitter claims of "Unfair! and WITCH HUNT!" would have been quite something) and the GOP would have adored him the more for it. They love their martyrs. Why, just that morning, there were a few threads on Twitter about Robert Bork.  How terrible that he was rejected (after a thorough hearing, in a bipartisan way, for extreme views on the Constitution).

It's appropriate that the GOP is represented by an elephant; they never forget anything, even if they remember things in ways that suit their grievances.

Admitting that he did not feel it important to be truthful to the media will not stop the media from asking him on their tv shows and having him lie to their viewers. I think House Dems held him to account, in their way. It might have been better if the questions on the Democratic side were left to professional questioners. But it will have to suffice.

For people paying attention, we learned a bit from what Lewandowski refused to say, as much as from what he did--such as refusing to say whether Trump offered him a pardon. Were the answer "no", he wouldn't have had a problem answering that way, would he?

I can understand why he was instructed to claim "executive privilege". This soldier was working for his capo. Yesterday, he was working for Trump, and it showed.