Then Tillis did something you don't see in these rooms very often. He got personal. Not petty-personal. Revealing-personal. He brought up the dog (see above).
If you missed it: Noem wrote in her 2024 memoir about shooting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, and presenting the episode as a leadership lesson in "tough choices." Tillis trains dogs. He did not find this charming.
"You decided to kill that dog," he said, "because you had not invested the appropriate time in training, and then you have the audacity to go into a book and say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices."
The room went silent the way rooms do when someone says the thing everyone was thinking.
He drew the line himself, slow and deliberate, so nobody missed it: impulsive with the dog, impulsive in Minneapolis. A pattern isn't a coincidence. A pattern is a character.
#18 | Posted by StinkerBell
Jesus wept...what an appallingly ignorant child you are...