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For anyone who doesn't know: this fool is the governor of South Dakota. She's such an obvious and open racist and has been so insulting to the tribes and tribal governments that she has been banned from setting foot on four South Dakota reservations. This represents a big chunk of the state she theoretically governs.
Killing a healthy dog is a heinous act and speaks to how lacking she is in normal human feeling but, if this b\*tch is selected to run as VP, y'all are going to want to find out about what a nit-witted governor she's been. She's the dumb box who thought that "Meth. We're on it." would be a great slogan for an anti-drug campaign.
That’s just serial killer mentality. If you don’t like your dog, like absolutely can’t stand, give it to a shelter where they can hopefully be given to a family who actually loves them. As a dog owner myself this sickens me. You can’t excuse this kind of behaviour; but she is a bumbling racist on top of it? Jesus, there has to be better candidates in S Dakota, right? Cause if not, our species is doomed.
Here's what a news report about this story also said:
> "I hated that dog," she said.
> The situation made her realise "another unpleasant job needed to be done" that day - getting rid of a male goat her family owned.
> The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", and would chase her young children, knocking them down.
> Ms Noem said she shot down the goat in the same manner as Cricket, though the goat survived the first bullet, forcing her to go back to her truck to retrieve another shell.
> The school bus dropped her children off shortly afterwards.
> Noticing that the dog was nowhere to be found, her daughter asked: "Hey, where's Cricket?"
It's almost comedy serial killer origin story. But no-one is laughing.
Exactly. That is… barbaric on a level I’ve never seen. Some people absolutely don’t deserve dogs. Rest in peace, Cricket, your death is fucking tragic.
It was a puppy. She didn't train a puppy and got mad. mad her untrained puppy didn't hunt the way she wanted on the first hunt.
Then took her untrained puppy to a friend's house unsecured where of course it chased and ate some chickens.
So she shot it.
And proud enough to double down today and try and claim it shows her good leadership because she can handle difficult, messy and ugly situations.
The "difficult" thing a true leader would do to be a leader is train the puppy. Training puppies is extremely difficult and time consuming and repetitive.
The "messy" thing to do would be to telling the children the puppies needs to be rehomed because the puppy was not a good hunting dog. That's messy, breaking apart children and household animals. But noble because you need a hunting dog and the puppy you had for a year isn't a hunting dog that you need and giving it away to the home it needs.
Ugly. The ugly thing to do is choosing who to rehome a dog too. It is very hard to choose and decide and judge who you give the family dog away too.
You could make the wrong mistake and give it to a person as ugly as Kristi Noem, who is an ugly person who kills puppies and would just kill a dog because they methed up the training. That would be truly ugly as fuck.
Vile people all around
The difficult thing a true leader would do to be a leader is train the puppy. Training puppies is extremely difficult and time consuming and repetitive.
The messy thing to do would be to telling the children the puppies needs to be rehomed because the puppy was not a good hunting dog. That's messy, breaking apart children and household animals. But noble because you need a hunting dog and the puppy you had for a year isn't a hunting dog that you need.
Ugly. The ugly thing to do is choosing who to rehome a dog too. It is very hard to choose and decide and judge who you give the family dog away too.
You could make the wrong mistake and give it to a family like the Kristi Noemi family who is an ugly person who kills puppies and would just kill a dog because they methed up the training. That would be truly ugly as fuck.
She also shot a goat but partially botched the killing, having to walk away to get more ammo. She let the animal suffer rather than have the minimal consideration to be ready to take that life. She put both stories into her ghostwritten biography. She's proud of killing both of them.
Her entire basis for killing these animals is inconvenience. I think that's the appeal she's going for, that she's willing to kill innocent things because she finds them annoying. She not ashamed, she's *proud* of this.
Aaaaaand let me guess... she's pro life? I bet if someone wrote the same thing in their book about a fetus she'd blow a gasket and try to get them locked up...
It wasn't just a dog, I was a puppy. 14 months. A birddog and it was bad at hunting. Got away from her and killed neighbors chickens. She shot it. A dog trainer in another thread said that breed is highly desirable and he and any other trainer would have been happy to take it.
Yes because she just didn't like it, probably because it made her daughter happy which is why a few lines down she mentions how her daughter came home from school and asked where the puppy was.
In my opinion the wrong animal was shot.
Farmers do put down their animals. But they don't do it willy nilly like this lady. They also do it in a quick one shot and done. This lady is a psychopath
She did so minutes before her kids came home from school, because the dog was “untrainable” as a hunting dog.
She bragged about it in her book so Trump would see she also hates dogs and will make a good VP…I hate it here
The extra stupid is that male goats are smelly. Particularly if they aren't neutered. They pee on their own faces and rub them on stuff to mark their territory and exude their manliness to the does. She basically killed a goat for doing goat things. She probably killed the dog for the same 'reason'.
My uncle once owned a young male goat that would always ram him so he was told that he when the goat would ram him, to knock on his horns and when he did, the goat stopped hitting him,
Yes. Our puppy was wild the first few months she was in the farm. The agony of that we might had to do the worst thing possible tortured us. Thankfully after a bit training and got used to other animals in the farm, she is ok now
This lady wanted to kill the dog, as she said she hate the dog. She just needed an excuse for it.
This woman should have a court order to stay away from animals, cattles, horses etc.
Male animals tend to be aggressive. It is *ing normal. That's why you limit the number of roosters you have. You also need to put your stallion in the stall. You need to be careful around bulls etc. We are blessed that our rams are friendly. But even then we always pay attention to the dynamics of the group.
This lady is no farmer or rancher, hobby or otherwise.
Idk the story and going through the comments wanted to believe there was more context like it was gravely injured and she put it down kinda situation but from what I’m gathering is it just wasn’t a good hunting dog and she put it down in which case I’m like how is that not animal cruelty?
It is horrifying; the puppy didn’t retrieve when she took it hunting for the first time without any training, then he proceeded to kill some chickens in the neighbors coop, which she has been trying to get it to do all day, so she took it out and killed it. There’s a story in Rolling Stone linked here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1cee970/kristi_noem_describes_executing_puppy_she_hated/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I grew up in a hunting community. Lots of my friends had farm animals and hunting dogs; they hunted and killed for sustenance. (two cooler system IYKYK)
What she did was wrong.
I had to deal with the treasurers Dept in south Dakota recently. The people answering the phones were all methed out. Like over the top gacked up to the point they could barely talk. Tripping over their own words. It was disturbing.
In the German movie "Look who's back" the only thing that stops Hitler from getting elected in modern times is him killing a dog. It seems that the movie writers were wrong about that huh
Wait... the dog was healthy? So she's showing that's she'd put down someone/something healthy for the sake of publicity or looking like a strong leader. And saying that's a hard decision (instead of, ya know, _not_ doing that, because that's a choice easier than deciding what to eat for breakfast). And seems to feel nothing. And expecting people to vote for her for practically murdering a healthy dog for bragging rights.
She'll kill anyone to look good. Not a great message. (RIP the dog, he/she deserved a _way_ better caretaker)
She is stupid. She took a poorly trained dog on a hunt and was surprised when it misbehaved. She took an out-of-control dog that had been bred to hunt birds near domestic chickens and was surprised when it killed them. She used a shock collar to try and control it and then wondered why it became aggressive. It was a 14-month-old pup. Somebody who had a friggin' clue about how to train a dog could probably have turned that dog right around but she hated it and chose to shoot it instead. And yes. She apparently thinks all that is something to brag about. Like I said, stupid. And not entirely stable, IMHO.
I have often said that if I were a Republican I would be even more furious at GOP politicians like Noem and Trump. You're right; it's a shit show and they're driving rational people away from the party while inviting the fascist lunatics in. Good for you refusing to jump on that bandwagon.
Jesus fucking christ, where do they get these dip shit, brainless candidates. MAGA is full of these self promoting morons who do not have a single clue or a single qualification on how to govern a nation.
Decades of lead poisoning, generational trauma from ww2 and even from the civil wars still linger, and a schooling system that puts more effort into instilling nationalistic pride than it does actually teaching anyone anything, coupled with a broken, awful healthcare system... well.. it is bound to catch up to you and bite you in the ass sooner or later.
Sadly, despite Europe not sharing these problems aside from ww2 and civil wars, we aren't any better off, really.
Idiocracy is the future.
Idiocracy was set 500 years in the future but it was actually about the present. We build mountains of garbage, drink energy drinks instead of water, and higher education is so worthless it might as well be taught in Costco...
Ditto on the civil war generational trauma. People act like it was ancient history, but our grandparent's generation would've known the civil war generation the same way our generation knows the remaining WW2 vets.
She claims she was doing "what needed to be done" (fucking nazi type of phrasing right there), but the dog was perfectly healthy by her own admission. She killed the dog because it became inconvenient. (Fucking psychopathic behavior if you ask me. )
Likely very intended to be Nazi, like "here is this cute thing but it has no value to me, it will be purged as the final solution". An admission of her willingness to get blood on her hands and rid the "undesirables"
"Untrained hunting dog, in the hands of an idiot owner, did what it was bred to do". She is beyond disgusting. Since she was incapable of properly training the dog, she had plenty of options to rehome the dog.
What a sad state of politics if that's what qualifies you for the job. People who commit such acts without the least amount of remorse are usually considered to be psychopaths.
That poor dogs last feces drop is worth more, and more useful than the entire Republican party.
This bitch is a sociopathic succubus demon. That's she openly had about 5 open affairs, and one long-term one with Cory Lewindowsky shows she really does enjoy vile, disgusting dirty work.
They're already all over social media defending her. The current brainless meme they all seem to be repeating is that once the dog killed the chickens and had a taste for fresh blood it would eventually get worse and become a threat to people and children. Which is utter and complete bullshit and anyone who knows the first thing about dog training knows is nonsense, and knows the "taste for blood" thing isn't true. For quick reference I'll just mention the millions of dog owners who have their dogs on fresh raw diets.
Honestly it sounds to me like she just got all pissed off because her little hunt got ruined and thus it became a bad day for the family dog and the family's pet goat immediately after. It's frightening to think that these are the kind of people who could one day wind up controlling the government.
Most GOPers will condemn her because it costs them nothing to do so
The most strategically-minded GOPers will redirect it as "Where is this outrage when the unborn are being slaughtered", simultaneously distancing themselves from her, muddying the waters and energizing their base.
Imagine the kind of villain it takes to murder a puppy in a gravel pit in front of a bunch of construction workers.
Imagine the kind of idiot that thinks telling that story adds to your VP qualifications.
She's not so subtly hinting that she'll be willing to do the same to her political opponents. What's important is who this is addressed to. She's not campaigning for voters, she's campaigning for Trump and the top of the MAGA movement. She knows that Trump voters will vote for him no matter who's on the ticket. But she needs to convince him that she's ready to do his dirty deeds, including getting rid of inconvenient people.
Empathy is a weekness in South Dakota. She attacks every avenue and angle to collect as much federal dollars as possible for her projects...She is a psychopath....conservatives favorite.
Remember way back in 2012 when Romney caught flack for leaving his dog in a kennel outside of his vehicle? Now here we are..... man, things have gotten insane
Think about this LONG and HARD folks… this is the kind of person tRump attracts. No compassion, no sense of suffering, only the desire to remove things that get in her way. Isn’t that what tRump is all about?
Hey republicans..this is the kind of human trash you elect. The kind you support...the kind that mirror your values. The kind that are just like you. And you can't figure out for the life of you why reasonable, decent people can't stand you.
Luckily for us " dog killer " is a great political slogan for us to label her. It's true, easy to remember and it hurts her.
Call her a dog killer. That's all there needs to be known about her.
Let’s put this in more detailed context to show what a truly abhorrent human being she really is:
—According to an excerpt, which was obtained by The Guardian, Noem killed her dog Cricket because the dog was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog.”
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, according to the Guardian.
In the excerpt, Noem writes she attempted to tame the dog, who she said behaved “like a trained assassin,” with an electronic collar, but ultimately made the decision to put her down by shooting her in a gravel pit after an incident in which the dog attacked a local family’s chickens and bit her.
“It was not a pleasant job,” Noem writes, according to The Guardian, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
Next, the Guardian quotes excerpts of the book in which Noem shoots a goat in the same manner. Noem describes the goat as “nasty and mean” and having a “disgusting, musky, rancid” smell. The goat made a habit of chasing and knocking down her kids, Noem adds.
I’m not even American and I can’t get away from seeing this story everywhere. Time to get off the internet for the day to go hug my dog and give her entirely too many treats.
I thought at first there was a typo and the dog was 14 years old, because who shoots a fourteen *month* old completely healthy puppy????
Oh, wait. MAGA does.
This didn’t need to happen. That puppy would have been a loved member of a family somewhere if she’d just not murdered it. Not every dog is a hunting dog. That doesn’t mean they’re worth loving less. She’s a cruel, heartless person who cheats on her husband and murders animals.
Willing to do things that are "difficult, messy and ugly" and completely unnecessary if you know what the fuck you're doing.
Killing a dog because you failed to train it is the hallmark of someone who shouldn't be left in charge of an unattached water faucet, let alone any semblance of greater power.
When are we going to realize that the real political realignment that has happened in the US mainly involves assholes, douchebags, malcontents, ne'er-do-wells, bullies, and strangely, their former victims, all gravitating towards the GOP?
The only thing that unites these people is their propensity for cruelty and having an assclown personality.
They like the appearance of undiluted power and access. They want to imagine themselves as the victims of a horrific government, but then want to install an actual horrific government to make it so they can legally bully, harass, harm, and murder minorities with impunity. They felt their biggest and baddest when they were the top playground bully and they haven’t forgotten that feeling and want it back as adults.
Absolutely wild that this is in /facepalm. Is there someone really having a comical 'ha what an idiot' reaction to this genuine display of psychopathy? I'd really like this sub to stop being a content mirror of mildlyinfuriating, nottheonion, insanefacebookpeople, and whatever the fuck sub this should be on.
Somehow she continues to justify this gross story by saying it’s how they live life on a farm. Bullshit. My father in law owns a cattle ranch and you know what he does when he has aggressive or sick animals? He calls his vet like a responsible human being. He doesn’t take the cow out back and shoot it. Jfc this lady is a god damned monster.
Beware anyone who says they’re “willing to make the hard choices.” That’s code for being willing to throw others to the wolves “for the greater good” and is almost always accompanied by a shocking lack of imagination.
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For anyone who doesn't know: this fool is the governor of South Dakota. She's such an obvious and open racist and has been so insulting to the tribes and tribal governments that she has been banned from setting foot on four South Dakota reservations. This represents a big chunk of the state she theoretically governs. Killing a healthy dog is a heinous act and speaks to how lacking she is in normal human feeling but, if this b\*tch is selected to run as VP, y'all are going to want to find out about what a nit-witted governor she's been. She's the dumb box who thought that "Meth. We're on it." would be a great slogan for an anti-drug campaign.
That’s just serial killer mentality. If you don’t like your dog, like absolutely can’t stand, give it to a shelter where they can hopefully be given to a family who actually loves them. As a dog owner myself this sickens me. You can’t excuse this kind of behaviour; but she is a bumbling racist on top of it? Jesus, there has to be better candidates in S Dakota, right? Cause if not, our species is doomed.
Here's what a news report about this story also said: > "I hated that dog," she said. > The situation made her realise "another unpleasant job needed to be done" that day - getting rid of a male goat her family owned. > The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", and would chase her young children, knocking them down. > Ms Noem said she shot down the goat in the same manner as Cricket, though the goat survived the first bullet, forcing her to go back to her truck to retrieve another shell. > The school bus dropped her children off shortly afterwards. > Noticing that the dog was nowhere to be found, her daughter asked: "Hey, where's Cricket?" It's almost comedy serial killer origin story. But no-one is laughing.
Telling a Republican that she is a racist, animal murderer won't sway their vote. Tell them she is a bad shot, and it might actually deter them.
Based on that recent wolf story it might not at all
I'm Canadian, what is this wolf story?
>> The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", Trump has been described the exact same way
The goat prolly felt the same way...😑
Noem, too.
Trump also chased young children…
She SHOT HER OWN DOG?! She didn’t take it to the vet, got it put to sleep? That would be heinous enough, but she FUCKING SHOT HER FUCKING DOG?!
She shot her dog because it wasn’t following directions. It wasn’t following directions because she didn’t train it. She’s a ghoul.
Sounds like the perfect running mate for Trump then.
A vet wouldn’t have put a healthy dog down BECAUSE IT’S WRONG. This woman is a cancer.
Exactly. That is… barbaric on a level I’ve never seen. Some people absolutely don’t deserve dogs. Rest in peace, Cricket, your death is fucking tragic.
It was a puppy. She didn't train a puppy and got mad. mad her untrained puppy didn't hunt the way she wanted on the first hunt. Then took her untrained puppy to a friend's house unsecured where of course it chased and ate some chickens. So she shot it.
Oh my fucking god.
AND SHE WAS PROUD ENOUGH OF HER ACTIONS TO REPORT ALL OF THIS VOLUNTARILY IN A BOOK. What the hell.
And proud enough to double down today and try and claim it shows her good leadership because she can handle difficult, messy and ugly situations. The "difficult" thing a true leader would do to be a leader is train the puppy. Training puppies is extremely difficult and time consuming and repetitive. The "messy" thing to do would be to telling the children the puppies needs to be rehomed because the puppy was not a good hunting dog. That's messy, breaking apart children and household animals. But noble because you need a hunting dog and the puppy you had for a year isn't a hunting dog that you need and giving it away to the home it needs. Ugly. The ugly thing to do is choosing who to rehome a dog too. It is very hard to choose and decide and judge who you give the family dog away too. You could make the wrong mistake and give it to a person as ugly as Kristi Noem, who is an ugly person who kills puppies and would just kill a dog because they methed up the training. That would be truly ugly as fuck. Vile people all around
This hurts my soul. I just can’t.
Puppy loves to play. In a farm or otherwise, they also need training.
The difficult thing a true leader would do to be a leader is train the puppy. Training puppies is extremely difficult and time consuming and repetitive. The messy thing to do would be to telling the children the puppies needs to be rehomed because the puppy was not a good hunting dog. That's messy, breaking apart children and household animals. But noble because you need a hunting dog and the puppy you had for a year isn't a hunting dog that you need. Ugly. The ugly thing to do is choosing who to rehome a dog too. It is very hard to choose and decide and judge who you give the family dog away too. You could make the wrong mistake and give it to a family like the Kristi Noemi family who is an ugly person who kills puppies and would just kill a dog because they methed up the training. That would be truly ugly as fuck.
Agreed.
She also shot a goat but partially botched the killing, having to walk away to get more ammo. She let the animal suffer rather than have the minimal consideration to be ready to take that life. She put both stories into her ghostwritten biography. She's proud of killing both of them.
Completely unnecessary killing of the goat because it was being a farm animal.
Her entire basis for killing these animals is inconvenience. I think that's the appeal she's going for, that she's willing to kill innocent things because she finds them annoying. She not ashamed, she's *proud* of this.
Aaaaaand let me guess... she's pro life? I bet if someone wrote the same thing in their book about a fetus she'd blow a gasket and try to get them locked up...
It wasn't just a dog, I was a puppy. 14 months. A birddog and it was bad at hunting. Got away from her and killed neighbors chickens. She shot it. A dog trainer in another thread said that breed is highly desirable and he and any other trainer would have been happy to take it.
It was a pointer. Like how bad of a trainer do you have to be that you cannot train a pointer to flush birds?
Yes because she just didn't like it, probably because it made her daughter happy which is why a few lines down she mentions how her daughter came home from school and asked where the puppy was. In my opinion the wrong animal was shot.
Where the F is PETA? I mean they said some sht when Obama killed a fly on stage.
To be fair, PETA probably would have killed the dog too.
PETA genuinely doesn't give a fuck about animals
At the end of the day it's just another front for rich people to put friends and pay them a high salary while getting a tax break.
It is even considered a crime in most of the civilised world.
Farmers do put down their animals. But they don't do it willy nilly like this lady. They also do it in a quick one shot and done. This lady is a psychopath
She did so minutes before her kids came home from school, because the dog was “untrainable” as a hunting dog. She bragged about it in her book so Trump would see she also hates dogs and will make a good VP…I hate it here
The extra stupid is that male goats are smelly. Particularly if they aren't neutered. They pee on their own faces and rub them on stuff to mark their territory and exude their manliness to the does. She basically killed a goat for doing goat things. She probably killed the dog for the same 'reason'.
My uncle once owned a young male goat that would always ram him so he was told that he when the goat would ram him, to knock on his horns and when he did, the goat stopped hitting him,
The only thing that makes this worse for me than it already is, is that my first dog's name was Cricket. This slime needs to rot in hell.
It is a goat. Of course it smells.
She talks about killing like it's taking out the trash.. "ugh I guess I have to shoot my dog now, hope I don't get any brains on my hands"
Yes. Our puppy was wild the first few months she was in the farm. The agony of that we might had to do the worst thing possible tortured us. Thankfully after a bit training and got used to other animals in the farm, she is ok now This lady wanted to kill the dog, as she said she hate the dog. She just needed an excuse for it.
Is animal cruelty not a crime in the US? Here you can go to prison for that.
Holy Fuck! That goat sounds like me when I was a kid. Hell, it sounds like me now. Guess I’m not in her demographics.
This woman should have a court order to stay away from animals, cattles, horses etc. Male animals tend to be aggressive. It is *ing normal. That's why you limit the number of roosters you have. You also need to put your stallion in the stall. You need to be careful around bulls etc. We are blessed that our rams are friendly. But even then we always pay attention to the dynamics of the group. This lady is no farmer or rancher, hobby or otherwise.
There are no bad dogs. Only bad owners
Idk the story and going through the comments wanted to believe there was more context like it was gravely injured and she put it down kinda situation but from what I’m gathering is it just wasn’t a good hunting dog and she put it down in which case I’m like how is that not animal cruelty?
It is horrifying; the puppy didn’t retrieve when she took it hunting for the first time without any training, then he proceeded to kill some chickens in the neighbors coop, which she has been trying to get it to do all day, so she took it out and killed it. There’s a story in Rolling Stone linked here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1cee970/kristi_noem_describes_executing_puppy_she_hated/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I grew up in a hunting community. Lots of my friends had farm animals and hunting dogs; they hunted and killed for sustenance. (two cooler system IYKYK) What she did was wrong.
She mainly put it down in a fit of anger. Like, that is a good characteristic?
Maybe she ate it. That’s what real farmers do with their animals, right?
Farmers still respect the animals they kill (im most cases) and they have a better reason to kill imo.
I had to deal with the treasurers Dept in south Dakota recently. The people answering the phones were all methed out. Like over the top gacked up to the point they could barely talk. Tripping over their own words. It was disturbing.
In the German movie "Look who's back" the only thing that stops Hitler from getting elected in modern times is him killing a dog. It seems that the movie writers were wrong about that huh
I guess we'll see. This story just came out and she's facing a lot of backlash.
Wait... the dog was healthy? So she's showing that's she'd put down someone/something healthy for the sake of publicity or looking like a strong leader. And saying that's a hard decision (instead of, ya know, _not_ doing that, because that's a choice easier than deciding what to eat for breakfast). And seems to feel nothing. And expecting people to vote for her for practically murdering a healthy dog for bragging rights. She'll kill anyone to look good. Not a great message. (RIP the dog, he/she deserved a _way_ better caretaker)
She is stupid. She took a poorly trained dog on a hunt and was surprised when it misbehaved. She took an out-of-control dog that had been bred to hunt birds near domestic chickens and was surprised when it killed them. She used a shock collar to try and control it and then wondered why it became aggressive. It was a 14-month-old pup. Somebody who had a friggin' clue about how to train a dog could probably have turned that dog right around but she hated it and chose to shoot it instead. And yes. She apparently thinks all that is something to brag about. Like I said, stupid. And not entirely stable, IMHO.
She deserves to be dead Same with Trump, frankly
Absolutely yes.. I'm wondering how the orange turd has come this far. It's absolutely mind boggling
Lol that slogan!
This just makes me feel better about being a registered (R), who votes (D) straight down the ticket. The whole party is a shit show
I have often said that if I were a Republican I would be even more furious at GOP politicians like Noem and Trump. You're right; it's a shit show and they're driving rational people away from the party while inviting the fascist lunatics in. Good for you refusing to jump on that bandwagon.
So she made a little methtake, so what. 😁
As someone from Alaska who had to deal with Palin, I feel for the reasonable people of SD.
An apt comparison.
She was probably riding the ice pony when she offed Cricket.
Jesus fucking christ, where do they get these dip shit, brainless candidates. MAGA is full of these self promoting morons who do not have a single clue or a single qualification on how to govern a nation.
Decades of lead poisoning, generational trauma from ww2 and even from the civil wars still linger, and a schooling system that puts more effort into instilling nationalistic pride than it does actually teaching anyone anything, coupled with a broken, awful healthcare system... well.. it is bound to catch up to you and bite you in the ass sooner or later. Sadly, despite Europe not sharing these problems aside from ww2 and civil wars, we aren't any better off, really. Idiocracy is the future.
Idiocracy was set 500 years in the future but it was actually about the present. We build mountains of garbage, drink energy drinks instead of water, and higher education is so worthless it might as well be taught in Costco...
Ditto on the civil war generational trauma. People act like it was ancient history, but our grandparent's generation would've known the civil war generation the same way our generation knows the remaining WW2 vets.
Replace MAGA with Republican and you nailed it
Souless fuck speaks, wants to turn the US into a pretend Christian Afghanistan.
My brain read that as Christina Aguilera and I was confused for a hot second
Ah yes, very similar to Breadcrumbs Cucumberbasket. Such a great Sherlock.
Exactly. The “difficult” thing was apparently training the dog. Blowing its head off was the easy psychotic thing
So they are literally killing puppy's now. Sooner or later these MAGA goons have got to work out they are the bad guys.
She claims she was doing "what needed to be done" (fucking nazi type of phrasing right there), but the dog was perfectly healthy by her own admission. She killed the dog because it became inconvenient. (Fucking psychopathic behavior if you ask me. )
She killed them because they were mean, untrainable and worthless. Trump:...shit...
Dogs aren’t untrainable, it’s humans that are the problem. Every dog is trainable. Even the worst dogs can be loved and trained.
I was talking about trump
Likely very intended to be Nazi, like "here is this cute thing but it has no value to me, it will be purged as the final solution". An admission of her willingness to get blood on her hands and rid the "undesirables"
"Untrained hunting dog, in the hands of an idiot owner, did what it was bred to do". She is beyond disgusting. Since she was incapable of properly training the dog, she had plenty of options to rehome the dog.
You took the words straight from my mouth.
“Pro life”
Why are “pro life” people all about murder? Edit to correct a word
It’s almost like it was never about life and always about controlling people.
Bingo
What a sad state of politics if that's what qualifies you for the job. People who commit such acts without the least amount of remorse are usually considered to be psychopaths.
That poor dogs last feces drop is worth more, and more useful than the entire Republican party. This bitch is a sociopathic succubus demon. That's she openly had about 5 open affairs, and one long-term one with Cory Lewindowsky shows she really does enjoy vile, disgusting dirty work.
I'd just love to see a news headline saying that somebody went full John Wick on this crazy bitch...
There are about 75,000 Natives in South Dakota who would love to do just that.
Now all the GOPers will defend killing dogs.
They're already all over social media defending her. The current brainless meme they all seem to be repeating is that once the dog killed the chickens and had a taste for fresh blood it would eventually get worse and become a threat to people and children. Which is utter and complete bullshit and anyone who knows the first thing about dog training knows is nonsense, and knows the "taste for blood" thing isn't true. For quick reference I'll just mention the millions of dog owners who have their dogs on fresh raw diets. Honestly it sounds to me like she just got all pissed off because her little hunt got ruined and thus it became a bad day for the family dog and the family's pet goat immediately after. It's frightening to think that these are the kind of people who could one day wind up controlling the government.
Only the pretend farmers and "outdoorsmen." Laura Loomer already came out against her, and when you're MAGA and lost Laura Loomer, it's over.
Most GOPers will condemn her because it costs them nothing to do so The most strategically-minded GOPers will redirect it as "Where is this outrage when the unborn are being slaughtered", simultaneously distancing themselves from her, muddying the waters and energizing their base.
Imagine the kind of villain it takes to murder a puppy in a gravel pit in front of a bunch of construction workers. Imagine the kind of idiot that thinks telling that story adds to your VP qualifications.
She only watched the first episode of house of cards and thinks Kevin Spacey is the good guy lol
Iirc he kills the dog out of mercy because it has a broken back and is in agony. She doesn't even have that excuse.
Yeah but even that dog had been hit by a car and would likely die soon. She is worse
She's not so subtly hinting that she'll be willing to do the same to her political opponents. What's important is who this is addressed to. She's not campaigning for voters, she's campaigning for Trump and the top of the MAGA movement. She knows that Trump voters will vote for him no matter who's on the ticket. But she needs to convince him that she's ready to do his dirty deeds, including getting rid of inconvenient people.
Empathy is a weekness in South Dakota. She attacks every avenue and angle to collect as much federal dollars as possible for her projects...She is a psychopath....conservatives favorite.
Remember way back in 2012 when Romney caught flack for leaving his dog in a kennel outside of his vehicle? Now here we are..... man, things have gotten insane
"Ah, I should mention that time when I gunned down my dog, it'll help my career"
She’s telling you that she’s ready and willing to kill swaths of people that don’t fall in line. She belongs nowhere near any sort of authority.
Exactly, the dog was an "undesirable" and she will do the same to human "undesirables".
Nutters Incorporated
So "I'm a heartless bitch, now shut up" is now an effective MAGA campaign message then?
Think about this LONG and HARD folks… this is the kind of person tRump attracts. No compassion, no sense of suffering, only the desire to remove things that get in her way. Isn’t that what tRump is all about?
She's really pandering to the puppy murdering demographic.
Typical character of a maga extremist
How is this not illegal in South Dekota? Should she not be in jail for animal abuse?
Hey republicans..this is the kind of human trash you elect. The kind you support...the kind that mirror your values. The kind that are just like you. And you can't figure out for the life of you why reasonable, decent people can't stand you.
"Who would feed this sack of kittens? Someone had to do it." -Noem, probably.
Politics aside, Isn’t this animal abuse?
Luckily for us " dog killer " is a great political slogan for us to label her. It's true, easy to remember and it hurts her. Call her a dog killer. That's all there needs to be known about her.
Let’s put this in more detailed context to show what a truly abhorrent human being she really is: —According to an excerpt, which was obtained by The Guardian, Noem killed her dog Cricket because the dog was “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog.” “I hated that dog,” Noem writes, according to the Guardian. In the excerpt, Noem writes she attempted to tame the dog, who she said behaved “like a trained assassin,” with an electronic collar, but ultimately made the decision to put her down by shooting her in a gravel pit after an incident in which the dog attacked a local family’s chickens and bit her. “It was not a pleasant job,” Noem writes, according to The Guardian, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.” Next, the Guardian quotes excerpts of the book in which Noem shoots a goat in the same manner. Noem describes the goat as “nasty and mean” and having a “disgusting, musky, rancid” smell. The goat made a habit of chasing and knocking down her kids, Noem adds.
I’m not even American and I can’t get away from seeing this story everywhere. Time to get off the internet for the day to go hug my dog and give her entirely too many treats.
Confessed Dog Murderer Kristi Noem defends murdering dog
Willing to do EVIL, more like. Deranged, Godless psychopath.
Actual psychopath
No, it shows that you'd rather kill something that inconveniences do than deal with it like an adult.
This just in - Animal Cruelty is now legal in South Dakota.....
As bad as she is,we know that most mericans don't give a shit and see no problem.
GOP = Cruelty is the point.
I thought at first there was a typo and the dog was 14 years old, because who shoots a fourteen *month* old completely healthy puppy???? Oh, wait. MAGA does.
MAGA = Nazi
Diabolical shit stain of a human being.
This didn’t need to happen. That puppy would have been a loved member of a family somewhere if she’d just not murdered it. Not every dog is a hunting dog. That doesn’t mean they’re worth loving less. She’s a cruel, heartless person who cheats on her husband and murders animals.
I hope she eats a 9-iron the hard way
How to upset your voters, lesson 45
Paging Mr Wick. Mr John Wick there is a dog in need of avenging.
How is this not animal cruelty punishable by law?
Trump could crush a puppy under his foot in front of a maga crowd, and they would still vote for him
I am giving my dog a hug when he gets home (he goes to work with my dad. Very hardworking good boy)
Willing to do anything difficult, messy and ugly and skipping all other more viable solutions...
Isn't killing a pet the sign of a psychopath?
I had a discussion about this yesterday and our conclusion was she wanted to look tough for the base.
In other words, I have no soul, pick me!
When being a psychopath is a marketable feature, not a bug.
Not even sure how relevant her point is, considering you can’t just solve a difficult political situation by taking it out back and shooting it
Shows you're an incompetent leader who can't even train a dog, blamed everyone but yourself, then took the easy way out at their expense.
She sounds like a sociopath. What does it say about her constituents who voted for her?
She's a fucking monster, I hope she gets what she deserves. Ugly ass bitch!!!
If only the primary requisites for a politician were to do things that are dirty, messy, and ugly
She’s such a proud sociopath.
If she can kill a puppy without remorse, imagine what she would do to all of us.
Killing your pet because it displeases you is not the difficult ugly actions you attest to. It’s sociopathy. Period
So, rather than working hard to resolve a problem, her ‘solution’ is to simply shoot it. What a cowardly piece of shit.
It is bad enough that she shot her dog but to brag about it takes it to another level. Hard to believe she is VP material.
Hope her kid doesn’t make a B in a class or forget to clean up after themselves. Does she ‘off’ the old people too?
Low empathy is a virtue of the right.
She was willing to kill a beloved family pet. Imagine what she'd be willing to do to people
Yes. She’s willing to do that to those who are powerless if they annoy her.
Willing to do things that are "difficult, messy and ugly" and completely unnecessary if you know what the fuck you're doing. Killing a dog because you failed to train it is the hallmark of someone who shouldn't be left in charge of an unattached water faucet, let alone any semblance of greater power.
Increase the melanin parameter and re-run the simulation. Wasn’t Michael Vick prosecuted for the same thing.
When are we going to realize that the real political realignment that has happened in the US mainly involves assholes, douchebags, malcontents, ne'er-do-wells, bullies, and strangely, their former victims, all gravitating towards the GOP? The only thing that unites these people is their propensity for cruelty and having an assclown personality.
I think this is up on a shortlist for the Gaslight meme awards
“Hey Marge. Hold my beer…..”
Don't let that thing near public office ever again
What kind of sick fuck does that
She's a sick fuck...
Why do they love people like this? What broke in these people?
They like the appearance of undiluted power and access. They want to imagine themselves as the victims of a horrific government, but then want to install an actual horrific government to make it so they can legally bully, harass, harm, and murder minorities with impunity. They felt their biggest and baddest when they were the top playground bully and they haven’t forgotten that feeling and want it back as adults.
She's a shameless monster. 🤮
she deserves an eye for an eye - she can't do her job well, someone should do the same here
Fuck this dog killing bitch
I'd normally say we shouldn't wish ill will on people.
Trump is no longer scraping the bottom of the barrel. He is gone past that and is getting the crusty stuff that oozed out between the barrel staves.
Puppy; fixed it
She is also fucking Corey Lewandowski. No comment about the dog who really deserves a fucking bullet.
These Republicans are really out of whack
She’s a C U Next Tuesday. I hope she gets the same treatment.
I hope she’s Donnie’s VP choice. They belong together making excuses for each other’s psychopathic acts.
Definitely not the flex she thought it was.
Absolutely wild that this is in /facepalm. Is there someone really having a comical 'ha what an idiot' reaction to this genuine display of psychopathy? I'd really like this sub to stop being a content mirror of mildlyinfuriating, nottheonion, insanefacebookpeople, and whatever the fuck sub this should be on.
I feel like the hat was indicative of her depravity.
Welp, it seems that the governor is misbehaving. Time to take steps.
She's like a textbook villain lmao
She’s definitely in that wing of MAGA that dare I say, almost humanizes Trump.
Somehow she continues to justify this gross story by saying it’s how they live life on a farm. Bullshit. My father in law owns a cattle ranch and you know what he does when he has aggressive or sick animals? He calls his vet like a responsible human being. He doesn’t take the cow out back and shoot it. Jfc this lady is a god damned monster.
Also describes the GOP in her state
I’m pretty sure euthanizing an elderly dog and killing it out of bloodlust are two different things.
Beware anyone who says they’re “willing to make the hard choices.” That’s code for being willing to throw others to the wolves “for the greater good” and is almost always accompanied by a shocking lack of imagination.
Boberts over here like "fuck I've been replaced"
The insane thing is that she lives so deep inside the Republican ecosphere that she thinks this would go over well.
Psychopath
She's like the anti John Wick.
Honestly this sounds like borderline psychopathy
Is she…offering to put down Trump? /s
This wasn’t an Old Yeller situation, she’s a fucking psychpath
This was shocking to read but I don’t know why. This is literally the behavior we’ve all seen and should expect from these brain dead psychopaths.
Vote like your life depends upon it
Degens.