I've avoided blogging this story until now because I too felt sorry for Kristi Noem's husband. What a cruel invasion of a person's privacy!
“Must be A.I.,” a burly cattle rancher named Kevin Ruesink said as he inspected pictures of his neighbor Bryon Noem that had been published by The Daily Mail on Tuesday morning.... The rancher squinted at them with a mixture of suspicion and pity. “I grew up playing ball with Bryon,” he said. “I’ve never known him to be part of stuff like that. I don’t believe that at all.”...
In response to multiple requests for an interview, Mr. Noem wrote in a text message on Tuesday: “I will at some point. Today is not the day. I appreciate your heart.”
While the pictures of Ms. Noem’s husband with what appear to be enormous inflated balloons under his spandex shirt ricocheted across the internet, becoming a political punchline for her many, many enemies, the reaction back on the proverbial ranch was a little more … tenderhearted....
As the yard signs in my neighborhood say: Kindness is everything.
Another newspaper expressed puzzlement over the statement "I appreciate your heart." But the statement was made to the NYT writer Shawn McCreesh, whose article earned that sentiment.
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"...What a cruel invasion of a person's privacy!..."
I would be more likely to agree if he hadn't posted the pictures of himself in the LOOK AT ME forum of public social media. The Cry for Attention is always, implicitly, an Invitation to Ridicule as well.
"Bimbofication." Word of the day. "Bimbofication." Move over Vajazzling.
Obviously Noem would have been more at home in the Biden Administratuin.
“Must be A.I.”
Artificial Implants. Yes. Yes they are.
Men dressing as women is a joke as old as time. When played for laughs (e.g., Some Like it Hot; Bosom Buddies)...so what. Balloons under a shirt confirms 99.9999% comedic intent.
This is a manufactured tempest in a teapot -- pile on the Noems because Kristi got canned. Or it is AI. Everything will be AI quite soon.
I don't even care enough to say it's none of my business.
See what you made me do.
Rigging the property appraiser’s exam for her daughter, killing a puppy, and appointing her boyfriend to a high-level government job while cheating on her cross-dressing spouse — these incidents involving Kristi Noem are not particularly unusual in the broader spectrum of Republican politician behavior.
Upon seeing the picture, I immediately felt sympathy for him because his nipples were uneven.
Little D-Loyalist:
Dem Sen. Chris Murphy caught ‘cuddling’ on date with progressive media publisher — amid separation from his wife
Eric Swalwell and Chinese Spy Fang Fang - Little 'cursion - does your curiosity kick in?
Bill Clinton. long list
Nevada Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford admits cheating on his wife for years
the list goes on...
Absurdistan fits it thus: https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-fabian-sneer-how-american-sexuality-e88
Balloons under a shirt confirms 99.9999% comedic intent.
That's the sense I'm getting at this time.
L.E. (1:41pm) could have written “in the broader spectrum of politician behavior” but decided to insert “Republican” before “politician”. Does he think Democrats and third-party politicians behave any better, or does he think it’s fine for them to behave just as badly, or even worse, as long as they support the right (=left) policies? Do we need to impugn his brains or his morals? One or the other is not working right. (Perhaps we need to say, like the little girl in the Twitter meme, “Why not both?”)
If he posted it himself, then I can't feel too bad for him. But really, he's a private citizen, spouse to someone who used to be a public figure, and he's doing something the left told us not so long ago was brave.
Tim, she still is a public figure. Trump appointed her to some made-up sounding role.
"...confirms 99.9999% comedic intent..."
Magic 8 Ball says, 'probably not' . Too much smoke.
Cross-dressing combined with online-posting of perverse photos: that's a rather extreme passive-aggressive reaction to his unhappy marriage to a high-profile politician.
But I've learned something new today; latex bodysuits can be purchased for performative role-playing as a buxom middle-aged woman.
The Times badly wanted to find a way to amplify this story--i.e. it was to good a chance to deliver a low hit to Noem. But as straight news it would look tabloidish and petty. So they found a clever, faux-sympathetic way, by presenting it through the view of town neighbors. The Times rarely uses a stiletto, but it was effective here.
I tend to save my sympathy for people who deserve it. He doesn't.
Seen at bathrooms.
"Here I Sit Broken Hearted..."
Mccreech is entirely too obvious
I had assumed there was more vetting done before people were appointed to high level positions, including looking into the appointee's family.
It makes me wonder if they knew this was coming and this was the reason she was removed from her former position rather than due to the commercials.
I'm not really sure why we're supposed to be upset over this. Or even be interested in it.
Im mildly amused by the outrage!!
Yes another great vetting job ,got 2 knuckleheads instead of one.. Only the best people.. :( Just admit it upfront,nothing to be ashamed about takes all kinds on this spinning Ball) God will sort it out at final call,
Kindness is part of the kink
Those squirrels are mammoth
"What a cruel invasion of a person's privacy!"
Oh, tut-tut... really? Pardon me for not clutching my pearls. I think what Mark Halperin wrote today is a bit closer to right: "This is not a frivolous, private, family drama. The characters are not obscure. Kristi Noem is a central figure in Trump World, a former governor and Cabinet official and a prominent and highly visible ally of the president... Bryon Noem appears to have behaved in a reckless manner that exposed not just a spouse, not just a family, not just a Cabinet member, but potentially a whole government to risk."
Yes its embarassing but isnt that the requisite cruteria to be a prospect for the Times
Female Republicans kind of have shit marriages, I guess. Palin, Haley, Noem etc.
I feel sorry for the embarrassment that this man has suffered. Therefore, I think it's a good idea to publish a blog post about the embarrassing behavior. That's how your virtue signal and slut shame all at the same time. Be sure to purchase your Lauren Sanchez approved falsies via the Althouse Amazon porthole.
What is amazing is how cross dressing or transgender (men being women) overplay the female role to a clownish / comic degree. The size of the fake boobs Mr. Noem is wearing are ridiculously huge. The children's drag queen dancers don't dress like women, they dress like over made up demons. Dylan Mulvaney prances and dances around like a little girl. How about the dudes with the perfect, silky long straight hair, earrings, lipstick, nails etc.... and then a well groomed .38 Special beard? I don't know what to think. It's just what I see.
When Cricket embarrassed Kristi she took him to a gravel pit and shot him. Then she shot a goat for good measure. Bryon shouldn't go for any rides with Kristi for a while.
Female Republicans kind of have shit marriages, I guess. Palin, Haley, Noem etc.
Also: Ivana, Marla, Melania.
I feel bad for Bryon, but I also feel bad for my country which for a year and change had a Secretary of *Homeland Security* that's was in a polyamorous marriage with a crossdressing cuckhold. Talk about a blackmail target. JFC.
What a clown show. You have the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick lunching it up on Epstein Island. You have Kristi with her fuckjet and crossdressing cuck at home.
Can you imagine if this shit went down during the Obama administration. (I can, and my reaction would be exactly the same.)
I think he was rabid like tyoical times reader
Thats why she shot him if memory serves
The mos eisley cantina that comprises the dem line up
Former governors have not feared well in the Trump-sphere.
Mike Pence
Nikki Haley
Chris Christie
Asa Hutchinson
Mitt Romney
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Christine Todd Whitman
Rick Snyder
Rick Perry
Kristi Noem
Their concern is noted
Will Cate said...potentially a whole government to risk."
Good lord, if melodrama and pearl clutching were Olympic events, he’d be the favorite for gold.
Cricket wasn't rabid. According to Kristi Noem's own account in her book, she shot the dog because it pissed her off and embarrassed her. It wasn't properly trained, but who's fault is that? She's a psycho.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-description-of-crickets-last-stand.html
https://x.com/LarryTenney/status/1792006257571737607
I've avoided the picture because, well, there are better things to do. But a friend forwarded it to me.
Dude's got Marty Feldman tits.
Mr. Noem's sad secret life is strange of course.
I sometimes wonder if sex is approaching obsolescence. Before we figured out the social biochemistry of it all, we needed crazy inexplicable and often frustrated desires to perpetuate the species and to keep us amused and motivated. We now can farm humans Aldous Huxley style, like a massive biotech chicken ranch. We can then divert people's sexuality into neural stimulation providing euphoric events far in excess of the delights of long term romantic relations. And then we would have to discover whether sex is a means by which humans reproduce, or people are a means by which DNA reproduces. We would also have to give more thought to why we care for each other.
“I feel sorry for the embarrassment that this man has suffered. Therefore, I think it's a good idea to publish a blog post about the embarrassing behavior. That's how your virtue signal and slut shame all at the same time. Be sure to purchase your Lauren Sanchez approved falsies via the Althouse Amazon porthole.”
Howard, haha!
speaking of portholes.
“I feel bad for Bryon, but I also feel bad for my country“
Now tell me about baby sniffing Joe Biden and sex, porn, cocaine addict Hunter Biden.
Prince Harry, Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley and others are suing the Daily Mail for phone hacking and other violations of confidentiality. A suit like that put Murdoch's News of the World out of business in the 2010s. The Mail does report on things that the US media doesn't touch, but it has the usual vices of the British press.
Has Bryon met Kayla Lemieux?
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/canadian-teacher-size-z-breasts-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200
Lemieux reportedly identified as a man as recently as a year ago, but now identifies as a woman. The school board claims Lemieux is "extremely effective," and School Board Chair Margo Shuttleworth even claimed that "all the kids really love being in the class," according to the Toronto Sun.
from, https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-students-not-to-take-pictures-of-trans-shop-teacher?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1671108109
“Must be A.I.,” a burly cattle rancher named Kevin Ruesink said. “I grew up playing ball with Bryon... I don’t believe that at all.”
Bless his heart.
Hope Byron makes out better than Kristi's disappointing dog did.
Now tell me about baby sniffing Joe Biden and sex, porn, cocaine addict Hunter Biden.
Yes! Bingo! Motherfucking BINGO! You are becoming aware.
This is exactly like Hunter Biden! I am firmly on record as believing the Joe Biden was blackmailed in broad daylight to keep Hunter out of prison.
Why? Why are so many Republicans closet homosexuals (Lindsey Graham, Tim Scott, etc.)? How? How does a pedo like Dennis Hastert become Speaker of the House? Do we think that intelligence didn't know about it for decades until after he was out of power? Is that what we we are going with? Stay gold, Ponyboy.
So is having pedos and perverts in high places a feature or a bug?
"...“I grew up playing ball with Bryon... I don’t believe that at all....”
Trouble with the Curve
Her husband is transsocial. Pelosi's husband is transgender. #NoJudgment #NoLabels #PC("=")
This whole episode seems very strange to me. For six years and three weeks Kristi Noem was the Governor of South Dakota, and for the eight years she was the sole member of the House of Representatives for the State of South Dakota. Her husband's alleged fetish never came out in all that time? I think I'm going to wait for more information before I leap to conclusions.
N. N. What's your evidence that Paul Pelosi is Transgender? The claim sounds delusional.
"I've avoided blogging this story until now because I too felt sorry for Kristi Noem's husband. What a cruel invasion of a person's privacy!" Funny how the Lewandowski - ICE Barbie affair never made it here either.
But blogging about the private life of Joe Biden's son Hunter was never a problem despite the planted fake computer and the twisted court case that ended in a bad conviction.
This whole episode seems very strange to me. For six years and three weeks Kristi Noem was the Governor of South Dakota, and for the eight years she was the sole member of the House of Representatives for the State of South Dakota. Her husband's alleged fetish never came out in all that time? I think I'm going to wait for more information before I leap to conclusions.
Look up Dennis Hastert. These people are not in power despite being vulnerable to blackmail. They are placed in power *because* they are easily blackmailed.
Like *why is it* that all of these candidates campaign against war but then when they get in office they find out that we simply must bomb [insert country here]?
Could it be that the deepstate (those rascals that lied about WMDs in Iraq and are now telling us about Iran's WMDs) are applying gentle pressure to get politicians to see the absolute necessity of more endless war?
The democrats used to be the party of peace. Now there is none. The republicans used to be the "small government" party. Now there is no small government party. It does not matter which party is in charge any more. It really doesn't. Both sides will deliver big government, big spending, big deficits, and lots of endless war.
The big boob photo gets attention. What's lost in the chatter is that he was sexting the photos to sex workers he had paid interactions with. That adds a new wrinkle to the matter. Arguably it makes it morally worse. It's also harder to laugh off and makes him more subject to blackmail than if he were just taking funny snapshots in front of a mirror. It could also leave one wondering if the problems in the Noem marriage didn't go deeper than previously thought -- if one chooses to dwell on such things.
Hunter's laptop fake? Hardly. The way that the "Deep State" circled the wagons to deny that it was real did much to explain the outcry about it. Also, we forget now that there was actual evidence of corruption on the laptop, not just naughty pix.
Transgender or homosexual.
Homosexual or bisexual. A transgender spectrum.
Robyn Hitchcock lyrics come to mind:
And I laughed like I always do
And I cried like I cried for you
And balloon man blew up in my hand
Balloon man blew up in my hand
But blogging about the private life of Joe Biden's son Hunter was never a problem despite the planted fake computer and the twisted court case that ended in a bad conviction.
You really are this stupid. Astonishing.
There is no way Kristi Noem did NOT know about her husband's private pleasures. I assume she was fine with him and his pursuits, and her great public act of shock and devastation was just that...for the public.
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