Her daughter Kennedy looked confused, according to Noem, asking: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Jesus tapdancing Christ
“I murdered my dog because I’m willing to get my hands dirty to get the job done”
No. You’re just a psychopath…
Honestly, killing animals like this is one of the first signs of serial killers, is it not?
You can definitely argue that a lot of preventable covid deaths in SD were a result of her terrible policy.
We know that she believes any being not immediately useful to her is unworthy of life. This is such a core part of her identity that she believes she deserves accolades for it. She didn’t just kill her dog, she did it and then bragged about it because she thinks it makes her look strong.
Welp. There’s no way anyone could ever convince me Republicans aren’t evil now, having read all the stories of these monsters torturing or killing dogs. 😬
You hurt a dog, you’re automatically discounted as a human-being in my eyes.
This but for all animals. A hunting trip implies she was there to kill animals anyway.
Make Dog Murderers Great Again
What is, the opposite of John Wick, Alex?
On a hunting trip? I heard it killed chickens and bit the governor, how did all of this happen on a hunting trip?
Hunting wild chickens on the governor’s hunting grounds, obv.
I’m guessing she’s “pro life”.
This is a common rural mentality. Animals are utilitarian and those who fail to be useful or prove to be a nuisance are a waste of resources. “useless eaters”
Unless you’re vegan (and I’m not), you participate in this kind of cruelty, even if you happen to be a few degrees removed from it.
Do you want to be vegan?
Having grown up and still have the majority of my family live in rural areas, you’re correct in that there’s a mentality that animals are tools, a means to an end. But I don’t think many with that mentality will be forgiving of her for this.
With that mentality there is also a general understanding that these are “dumb animals” who can and will fuck up and especially hunting dogs need a lot of training. A dog who fails the training isn’t usually put down, just either given some less strict job, kept as a pet or put up for adoption. Taking her at her word, it sounds like the dog had killed some chickens and had turned towards her and tried biting. But being the dog was only 14 months old, sounds like it had an excited temperament and hadn’t learned just how much bigger than other animals it truly is. Hardly a reason to kill an animal, even if it was just raised as a tool.
14 months is still a puppy. What a piece of shit.
This isn’t the point but how did she miss a whole goat and dog at point blank range? I own zero guns but I grew up in the South and I’m pretty sure I could hit the wizard in Mario 3 with a shotgun if you let me set up the shot.
The story should be that she’s an insane sociopath. But also, she missed! And she said construction workers were nearby and a school bus was coming. That’s some irresponsible shit.
The answer is by simply not giving a fuck (or actively hoping to) if you inflict unnecessary suffering on the poor animal.
She’s very clearly an outright psychopath, so I’m guessing it was on purpose.
Kristi Noem is a despicable cunt. I hope she stubs a minimum of one toe every day for the rest of her miserable life.
I’m not sure I understand the logic of her even telling this story. So like if she finds herself unable to “train” a disobedient state judiciary or something, is she saying that this is her plan B?
She’s as out of touch of being able to train her dog as she is to be a representative of the State. When we voted to legalize weed, she made a sheriff start a lawsuit to block it on a BS technicality. Used citizen tax dollars against the will of the people who pay them.
More directly, this boast is more of anger issues being attempted of changing the narritive to “go getter attitude.” Don’t know details of the book, but how this article cites it seems more they she lost her shit over a puppy (honestly being a puppy) killing a neighbor’s chicken (not specified if dog was loose or chicken got out), and even that didn’t satiate her anger, she went and killed a goat for doing goat things (fertile male who was territorial.)
Honestly, her willingness to be a piece of shit (for various things, feel free to read her wikipedia) is a garner for attention from the worst parts of the GOP to only advance herself, because that’s all who she cares about.
It seems like a failure on multiple fronts. For the magabrained types, she was both unable to train a dog to hunt AND is apparently a bad shot and terrible at handling guns.
For the normal Americans, she just comes off like a psycho.
Right? “I failed to train my dog and it killed a chicken while we were hunting birds, so I had to murder it.”
Okay, sorry your dog killed a bird while you were trying to get it to kill a different type of bird? You either didn’t train it well enough or it made an innocent mistake… not a reason to kill it
USA! USA!
Cruelty is the point and “the” bible gives them dominion over the animals. This is very on-brand for the repug party.
So saying the quiet part out loud has now extended to bragging about being a psychopath.
It seems that nearly every day I see another thing that future historians will be able to cite as an example of the alarmingly self-destructive behavior in the days leading up to the collapse of the US.
Isn’t that felony animal abuse?
Sadly, if you don’t cause the animal undue pain (a clean shot almost certainly is not legally considered to cause undue pain, but noem didn’t do that…), you’re totally allowed to kill your pets at any time. I would definitely prefer that people who kill their pets (for reasons other than mercy/safety) are separated from the rest of society than people who shoplift, but alas.
TIL. Thanks…terrible to know, but thanks for clarifying.
She probably thinks telling this story will be sure to clinch trump’s VP slot for herself.
I don’t think this story would alienate her from the MAGA base. Conservatives love the aesthetics of farm life/hunting, doing the dirty work, etc. We’re talking about people who defended “grab her by the pussy”.
Even Republicans have dogs and love them. I think on balance this will hurt her, even from her base. People who like their dogs (if they hear about it) will be disgusted.
Not only that, but she comes off like a complete dumbass when it comes to handling guns. Even idtiot gun-fondlers probably noticed that, but might have to deal with the cognitive dissonance later…
But you see, only trump’s opinion matters, and trump hates dogs. If he picks her, magats will fall in line and come up with rationalizations that what she did was good.
Even Hitler loved dogs. If this comes to pass, the magats won’t even have that going for them.
Not saying it’s right, but most people feel more attachment to their dogs than to strangers (immigrants, queers, liberals etc). So while there will definitely be maga people who still support her, what I’m saying is on average, more people who might otherwise be supporters will be disturbed.
I think you’re right that they’d be disturbed. But I think their cognitive dissonance will overcome that and they’ll rationalize it in whatever way they need to to see it as acceptable, because in their eyes trump never makes a mistake or does anything wrong.
THIS. They will go crazy(ier) from the cognitive dissonance but they’ll probably champion donnie/Kristi kind of thinking, calling dog owners “woke” and SJW, etc…
This screams of a performative princess that had no idea how to train a dog.
Kristi Noem is a fucking monster & the world will be a better place when she is a footnote in the wastepaper basket of political history.
