Noem's wristwatch

[billhammond]

Several media outlets are noting that while visiting the El Salvador prison holding the recent deportees, Kristi Noem was wearing a Rolex Daytona watch, valued at well over $50,000. (Not that there is anything WRONG with that!)

[Marty]

I wouldn't know a Rolex from a Cracker Jack watch.  But I do hope those guys aren't being deported to us.

[Russell Letson]

The watch isn't the only purchased item on display in that photo.

As for the inmates' appearance--compare with photos of a shirtless Pete Hegseth. (Of course, he's allowed to keep his extensive hairdo.)

[Rob Hanesworth]

In college I wore a $6.95 Timex with no second hand because the one with a second hand cost $8.95. I figure the only use for a second hand was to tell if the watch was running and I'd know soon enough.

Still wear cheap watches. With quartz they are all accurate. Though I do have a $250 Seiko in a drawer somewhere with a dead battery. For what a battery costs I can get a new watch.

[Russell Letson]

My favorite is a Citizen Eco-Drive--they're solar powered. (Actually, powered by a light-recharged super-capacitor.) The one I've worn for sixteen years (the Garrison Weekender Field Watch) was quite a bit pricier than the Timex Expedition that was my old favorite back then, but it's dead-accurate, and I never have to root around for an overpriced 377 button battery (or a 2016 for the Timex). Though I did eventually have to replace the $20 capacitor after fifteen years. Oddly enough, I've never seen this model in a store--only on Amazon.

And Noem's lips and chest still look store-bought to me.

[TKennedy]

50K is child’s play compared to her silicone lip injections and bad plastic surgery. Not sure about augmentation elsewhere.

[factorychef]

I still have a timex from 50 years ago. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

[Marshall]

I wear a Fitbit. The Charge 2. They're up to Charge 5 or more now. But the 2 has an altimeter. Counts flights of stairs. Others don't, so I won't upgrade. About $150 in value. I like how it syncs with my phone and I don't have to change time for time zones and DST. I don't get why anyone would want a watch you have to wind and/or set. Give me automatic electronica. My watch even sends me an email when it needs recharging.


She best stay away from that fence. I imagine those boys would do a number on her.

[majorminor]

My last memory of wearing a watch was about 2002

[howard]

Back to the OP: She looks soulless. Remember, this is the same sociopath who shot her "untrainable" dog.

[Marty]

Never wear a watch because I destroy them in short order and they get in the way when working.

[aquaduct]

Mar 29, 2025 18:52:56 GMT -5 howard said:

Back to the OP: She looks soulless. Remember, this is the same sociopath who shot her "untrainable" dog.

As someone who's owned a dog that has snapped and attacked both my wife and I while we slept (sending my wife in an ambulance to the emergency room), I'm much more forgiving of Noem's dog story and doesn't think it makes her a sociopath at all.

[howard]

Mar 29, 2025 21:05:41 GMT -5 aquaduct said:

Mar 29, 2025 18:52:56 GMT -5 howard said:

Back to the OP: She looks soulless. Remember, this is the same sociopath who shot her "untrainable" dog.

As someone who's owned a dog that has snapped and attacked both my wife and I while we slept (sending my wife in an ambulance to the emergency room), I'm much more forgiving of Noem's dog story and doesn't think it makes her a sociopath at all.

I'm sorry for your troubles. Did you take the dog out back and shoot it? I'm a city kid; we never had guns. We'd probably have taken such a dog to the vet and had it "put to sleep." I am hoping that's a slightly more humane way to put down a dog.

[aquaduct]

Mar 29, 2025 21:17:04 GMT -5 howard said:

Mar 29, 2025 21:05:41 GMT -5 aquaduct said:

As someone who's owned a dog that has snapped and attacked both my wife and I while we slept (sending my wife in an ambulance to the emergency room), I'm much more forgiving of Noem's dog story and doesn't think it makes her a sociopath at all.

I'm sorry for your troubles. Did you take the dog out back and shoot it? I'm a city kid; we never had guns. We'd probably have taken such a dog to the vet and had it "put to sleep." I am hoping that's a slightly more humane way to put down a dog.

No, I too am a city kid and have never been as consumed with blind hatred as the political left is currently. She'd been a great dog until that point, having kept me company while my wife was in Afghanistan etc., so when we got home from the hospital I took her to a shelter as the law around here requires and left her there for something like 10 days. Then I went and picked her up and we drove around a bit, stopping a couple places to take some walks together. Then I took her to the vet and held her in my lap while the shot was injected and she died.

I don't know what it's like living in the country, but I'd guess Noem's episode could very well have been just as difficult a decision.

[epaul]

I've done both, and shooting a dog is far more humane than hauling it to vet for a shot.

Shooting. The pooch is at home. Comfortable home. We go for a short familiar walk. I praise him and give him a bowl of ice cream. Tail is wagging. While he is eating, I blow his brains out with a shotgun. It is instant. From happily eating to nothing. Instant. No brain, no pain.

The Vet. I loaded Rusty in the car. He could tell something was up. We brought him to the Vet's. Rusty hates the Vet's. He can pick up on all the fearful and agitated smells. He can hear the yelps and meows. He is visibly nervous and apprehensive. He's looking at me. The tail is not wagging. It is curled down between his legs. He is placed on cold steel table. A vet he doesn't know comes up and gives him a shot. It takes a while before he goes down. He sees us huddled around him in that unfamiliar place with its strange smells and he picks up on what we are feeling, the whole time, he is picking up our feelings, as dogs can, and our sad feelings are his last.

I still regret bringing Rusty to that Vet office. I wish we had taken a final trip to the farm. With ice cream. Never again. Never again. It's my job. Not some Vet. Just another dog to the Vet.

I understand many don't have the option. But do not think a shotgun is crueler than the Vet's needle. It isn't.

[epaul]

In rural areas, if a dog needs to be put down, shooting it with a gun is normal and decent. Bragging about it on social media is not normal or decent.

[paleo]

I've owned several Rolex watches, all purchased in Singapore and Indonesia, and I never paid more than $20.00 for any of them.

[aquaduct]

Mar 30, 2025 0:12:21 GMT -5 epaul said:

In rural areas, if a dog needs to be put down, shooting it with a gun is normal and decent. Bragging about it on social media is not normal or decent.

I believe it was part of a book or something that became a social media hit piece on Noem when it came out.

[Dub]

Growing up here in fly-over land, shooting a dog that can’t really be a dog any more is considered humane.

“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

This is from the first record album I ever bought ca. 1956.

[majorminor]

Sorry to hear about Rusty. I’m not sure I remember knowing that. My shepherd Diesel happened at the vet but it was a late night emergency run to maybe save him. He was almost 13.

In case anyone ever needs to know, some places/vets will come to your home.