A lot of people have Instagrams for their dogs.
Hannah’s got one for her pups:
And while I don’t have an ACCOUNT for her, I post pictures of my dog Stella on my Twitter account all the time:
How was everyone’s #weekend? We took our dog out on the boat for the first time, and she LOVED IT! #MondayBlues pic.twitter.com/IRuSzx9acZ
— Ashley “Kimber” D. (@RedIsTheNewPunk) April 16, 2018
I mean HECK, the First Dog of Indiana has an Instagram account:
PEOPLE JUST LOVE DOGS, OK?
It makes sense that we flood social media with pictures of our pups… they’re the cutest thing about us!
Anyway, Nikki Haley’s dog has an Instagram account.
In honor of Clemson’s Spring Game… Here is a rare pic of me in my jersey 🐯🏈 Go Tigers!
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Liberal website Slate has a problem with that.
Nikki Haley’s Instagram is a bizarre window into one woman who manages to have it all: https://t.co/49gnftb8eZ pic.twitter.com/PaT5yQp9MC
— Slate (@Slate) June 29, 2018
According to the story:
It’s not uncommon for people to make separate Instagram accounts dedicated to their dogs—who doesn’t want to look at pictures of cute pups? There’s Jiffpom, the mogul of online pets, boasting close to 9 million followers, and then there’s Doug the Pug, who hangs out with people like T-Pain, the Jonas brothers, and the Walmart yodeling kid, and has 3.5 million followers of his own. In comparison, Ambassador Bentley, the stately, chocolate-brown labradoodle who only has a measly 2,000 followers, doesn’t seem too remarkable.
“Wow. 2,000 followers? Her dog is so LAME.” -Slate
But he’s not just any normal Instagram pup whose owners are vying for internet fame (nor is he actually an ambassador to any sort of dog council). Bentley belongs to one of the most powerful women in our government, and the face of the country’s foreign diplomacy, real U.N. ambassador, and former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley.
OMG Y’ALL. HE’S NOT AN ACTUAL AMBASSADOR.
This is TREASON.
It gets even more insufferable:
The fact that Haley would make an Instagram account, presumably run by herself and her family, for her labradoodle in February 2017, a month after being confirmed as ambassador, and continue to maintain it throughout her tenure at the U.N. underscores exactly what makes Nikki Haley so interesting and frustrating as a public figure.
It’s SUPER frustrating that she loves her dog and would take the 30 seconds it takes on posting a picture of it. DOESN’T SHE HAVE IMPORTANT WORK TO DO?!
Spoiler alert: they hate the important work she does, too.
Worth noting… the majority of the pictures of the dog WITH someone are of Nikki’s daughter… Rena. Who is PROBABLY DOING ALL OF THE POSTING BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT TEENAGERS DO. OMG.
GET EXCITED, IT’S GAME DAY!! GO TIGERS!! 🐯🏈 #throwback
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The kicker:
Is it wrong for a woman with one of the most stressful jobs in the world to maintain a healthy balance with her personal life? Of course not. But as someone with some level of access and influence on the president, and who acts as an arm of his agenda on the world stage, is her squeaky clean image a little upsetting? Absolutely. Bentley seems to be her greatest trick in getting us to believe that she’s just a normal wife and mom, with a normal job and a normal dog.
Translation: WE HATE NIKKI HALEY FOR BEING A CONSERVATIVE, AND IT P*SSES US OFF SO HARD THAT SHE’S SO LIKEABLE. WE WANT TO HATE HER SO BAD BUT IT’S HARD BECAUSE SHE’S AWESOME. F*** HER.
Why can’t she be a dislikeable hosebeast, dangit?! Why can’t she be more like Hillary?