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  She's a terrible governor.  I used to live there and she squandered state money and butchered covid response.  A lot of ppl died because of that.
context: while Noem was burning the boxes, media reports surfaced that thousands of American Indians on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations were trapped without heat during a fierce winter storm. Pine Ridge citizens had to burn clothes after propane deliveries stopped and there was no firewood. >
  
  Having lived in the Dakotas, the first thing you will hear from a republican who live there is that "they want to be a different nation, they can deal with their own damn problems."  There is little to no support for the reservations from the surrounding states. >
  
  Kinda a bad look by the AP to associate the gift with suffering Indians but I can see that the type of gift was not the best look.  You can’t make everyone happy all the time.  I hope Kristi Noem does what she can to help her constituents to the best of her abilities.