'Staring down little tyrants': Kristi Noem's book includes false anecdote about Kim Jong Un
'Staring down little tyrants': Kristi Noem's book includes false anecdote about Kim Jong Un
Noem brags in her new book about her experience 'staring down little tyrants' in a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Her spokesperson called it an error.
"I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un," she wrote in the book set to be released Tuesday. "I'm sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I'd been a children's pastor, after all)."
But Noem's spokesperson seemed to confirm to Politico and other news outlets that the story is not accurate and that the book will be corrected to remove it.
She sounds like the perfect Trump VP candidate: she just says whatever she thinks people will eat up and doesn't worry about whether it's true or not.
She's one of those non people. What I mean by that is that there isn't a personality in her so much as just naked ambition and want which leads to doing and saying anything to "get ahead". Do that long enough and you lose yourself along the way. Too many lies, too many crazy actions. She's the same as Santos. Black hole people.
Why are all republicans such nasty people?
It's their only core value.
Because capitalism does not incentivize empathy.
You're link doesn't support your point at all. In fact it seems to contradict it because it says the problem won't be solved by good corporate leadership.
It doesn't seem to offer up any cause, discusses how hard it is to address, and then gives some things individuals can do to increase their own empathy.
This is surprising that it's getting up votes because my experience on lemmy is that things like these are the fault of companies and capitalists, and any suggestion that individuals are part of the problem and can do something to improve the situation is met with anger and denial.
Coming back to this, it's because they want strength. Aka a strongman leader. That's what they respect, so they assume that's what everyone else respects too.
They want "order".
It's a good thing LYING is NOT against the Bible!
I just don't get how evangelicals can support people like this. Once upon a time, it was career suicide if a republican politician wasn't seen going to church on Sundays. Now they get kicked out of theaters for groping their date, cheat on their spouse with a porn star, get caught in lies almost daily, and the Christian right says god chose them to run the country.
The lie notwithstanding, it’s also rude to the little children!
Right!?
Seems like she projects all her own toxic thoughts on children, dogs and goats.
She’s a brilliant candidate for the woodchipper.
If their goal is to get eaten up, I’m sure we can find some cannibals, somewhere.
Just saying. Everybody indulges in junk food occasionally…
What kind of children's pastor brags about "staring down" her charges, or calls them tyrants?
One who is a control freak that lacks empathy?
At least we know she's smart on foreign policy: Send in the children's pastors! Bet they could bring peace to the Middle East, even after Jared Kushner's valiant attempt
