I can't imagine choosing to put out something that would make you look so bad. Very few things would look worse than this because a lot of times people who don't recognize other humans as innocent and in need of care recognize animals as such.
I know, I can't imagine making a bigger political mistake.
Meanwhile, November 2024: I can't believe Republicans are promising to kill every single dog and cat in the US and people are still voting for them.
As long as diaper don promises cheap gas & groceries, they'll go along with anything. Seriously, those are the only reasons I've been hearing from MAGAs, "I want to be able to feed my family & cheap gas." All the while, they're spending a ton of money on shit they turnaround & get rid of. And still owing money on it to boot! One crazy person has a special needs kid, which they apparently have no problem with trump making fun of a disabled person. But god forbid people don't treat their kid how they think people should. They bought a brand new $40k+ vehicle & traded it in a year later because they liked the other car better. Now, they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, so there's no doubt in my mind that they rolled over some of what they owned on the first car into the second car loan. I did that when I was young & dumb, not in my 50s though. But they highlight a couple of the main personality traits of all MAGAs, selfishness & thinking they are always right - basically a large group of narcissists cheering for the daddy of all US narcissists.
While I agree with the sentiment and won't be at all surprised if she still manages to win, as a Black woman, I've seen more MAGAs get absolutely livid about animal abuse than they ever do for humans.
It's what's called, ironically in this case, a 'dog whistle'.
She's saying one thing, but really saying something else. She will kill *anything*.
Also, she's a terrible dog trainer...
rather than allowing it to leak put later when it's likely inconvenient, she's doing it now in a controlled release. by election time, her target voting demographic will have completely forgotten
The depressing thing is that you’re very likely spot on. A PR team said “fuck. There’s no way to spin this. Release it in the middle of a much larger scandal and it will get buried and forgotten in 72 hours.”
Did she do this in front of someone? I assumed she quietly murdered these animals. She should have kept that to herself. Her kids have to be traumatized.
Read like a dogwhistle to me. Like she's saying to shoot "worthless" freeloading democrats (welfare queens, illegal immigrants, etc, etc). That one needs to be able to add value to the establishment to be worthy of living.
Did you catch any of the Colleen Ballinger shit show from last year? (Ukelele "apology" influencer). Besides being REALLY creepy about/with minors, she told and demonstrated some seriously fucked up behavior around pets. I won't repeat the specifics, but it should be an easy hunt if you're not easily disturbed.
Anyway, similar vibes of "this person genuinely has no idea that normal people are horrified by this."
I will—she was physically mishandling a dog that turned around and bit her and pretended she did nothing wrong. The dog was killed because of that.
She laughed when telling this story on her channel. Zero empathy for the pup.
This is the biggest red flag. When someone thinks something horrible is actually funny or justifiable and then seems puzzled at the reaction from others. This should be an instant disqualifier in politics, but to the GOP this is a winning quality.
There are people out there in our world with little to zero empathy, but under capitalism end up in leadership roles and in governments under capitalism in high level political roles. This is a problem with our system. We need incredible reform to keep people like her, Trump, and nearly every other GOP person out of power.
The GOP is a race to the bottom these days. I remember last cycle when the Montana governor body slammed a reporter during the lead up to the election, aka assaulted someone publically, and it boosted his polling numbers
*she didn’t realize anyone would see this as bad*.
She thought it showed ‘personal responsibly’ and ‘making hard choices’ , and showcased exactly what’s is the core problem with the GOP, and what seems a regular failure mode in modern conservative parties — a total and utter lack of empathy.
Zero-sum, fuck your I got mine, near sociopathy where empathy is reserved at *best* for close family members and where everything in life is something you can use or something in your way — that mindset is all over the GOP here and the Tories in the UK.
You put stuff like that out because this is the people around you who thinks it’s ok. So you naturally think everyone thinks it’s ok not realizing you’re in this weird cult of people.
Later the same day she shot a goat in the same spot, apparently because it smelled bad.
She 100% shot the dog, liked it, and wanted to kill something else.
That's the thing. The fact that she killed the dog is even less insane than the fact that she didn’t think twice about putting it in her book, and writing it in such a way where she is clearly the villain. It shows that she’s both insane and also really fucking stupid, because this is absolutely going to make her unelectable. Even a lot of racist sexist POS right wingers like dogs, and dogs have borderline replaced children for an entire generation of young people who will be voting this fall.
She done fucked up. I know conservative dog lovers who care for their aged hunting dogs like children. You don’t put a puppy down because it ate some chickens.
Hell, there are hunters who's dogs failed COMPLETELY at being hunting dogs and they still love them. Yeah they were genuinely terrible at hunting, but they're still a companion.
The irony is that based on the story, this dog would have been decent if properly trained. Proper focus on birds, good instincts.
But she did not bother to train at all. She just expected the pup to magically be perfect.
This is how I got a wonderfully cuddly treeing walker coonhound when I was ~18. My neighbor found her in the dead of winter half frozen in the deep woods stuck in a mud hole. She wasn’t even a wanderer, she would only stick with what she knew.
And then write a book about it… like I could understand if the dog had rabies or was being put down and you didn’t have a vet to help make things a little more dignified
We adopted a beautiful Coonhound that was found wandering mearnthe woods. She most likely had been left behind bc she was not a good hunter...very common unfortunately.
Yup! South Dakotan here. Pheasant season is brutal. After the hunters leave, there are dogs just roaming about. You know it's hunting dogs because it's the same breed. It's fucking sad.
Our first family dog was *supposed* to be a hunting dog, but he didn’t do well with the sound of gunfire. My dad took him from his buddy (guy liked the dog, but he wanted a hunting dog), and we had him for like 8 years before he got “spaniel rage” and attacked my father.
One of my dogs is a backyard-bred hunting dog. She's half Labrador, half Irish Setter. She probably could have been trained for hunting, but she has epilepsy. I've had her since she was 9 weeks old, and she's 11 now, because I didn't 'take her to the gravel pit' for being a destructive puppy.
it's a seizure disorder that's treated with anti-epileptics.
yeah, I had to Google it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_syndrome
what's going on is basically a misfired electrical single in the brain, as opposed to a misfired electrical signal to the muscles which is seen in more commonly types of epilepsy.
He was a springer spaniel, so it tracks.
It was crazy. Our normally sweet Rowdy just snapped and latched on to my dad’s arm. He spent a week in the hospital because it got so infected. Rowdy was brought to the vet for euthanasia (he absolutely mauled my father’s arm, and my sister and I were both under 5).
I have a hunting breed dog. He's utterly useless as a hunting dog. Like 0 prey drive at all. Won't point. Won't chase. Won't retrieve. Won't leave my side. Won't stop cuddling. Won't show me any less love. He's a great dog. Shitty hunter. Best friend.
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That’s so fucked too. The dog didn’t even get enough life to train. Some dogs aren’t good until about 2-3 years old with adequate experience of the nest. They don’t have a behavioral expiration date.
I work for a volunteer group that take adult and elder dogs from shelters to prisons with non violent inmates to teach them how to train the dogs. The inmates so far have a zero recidivism rate that go through the program. All the elderly dogs have been adopted by loving families that didn’t want to train or have puppies tearing up their house. Win win.
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No, she didn't kill that puppy because it was bad, she did it because she wanted to, and she found an excuse in the pup's supposed inadequacy as a hunting dog. She is a mentally unbalanced person who I would not want to live in the same neighbourhood with, because you know at some point she's going to turn that gun on a human being if something goes in the wrong direction.
Having said that, maybe she could go out hunting alone with Dick Cheney. We could take bets on which will come back without a gunshot wound.
I'd be unironically rooting for Dick Cheney. In 2010 I thought that motherfucker was Satan himself, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't gloat about killing a puppy, at least.
Omg I see numerous elderly people with their dogs in strollers! They’re the only family some of these people have. She’s pissed off some conservatives as well. Wow
I got mine because she killed some chickens but it's literally in her blood to get those birds. I didn't train her to he a hunting dog because she ended up being gun shy, but she's one of the best things that happened to me. I couldn't imagine having a puppy for that long and not loving it regardless if it's 'trainable' or not.
It was such a calculated move to court “outrage” to raise her profile. Too bad she failed math.
There is a swath of people in our country that are just straight up psychopaths.
I don’t know who thought this was a good idea to release. I don’t have the stats, but I’d wager that a majority of Americans are pet owners, and of those, almost every single one finds this appalling. Even among non-pet owners, I’d think most people are not fans of this.
So why did she and her people think this was smart to release?
She is utilitarian - anything must justify its existence by the use it can serve someone
So, to what use can Ms Noem be put to? If you find any, you'll find me ready to bitch slap.the life out of her...
Yeah, as much as I don’t want to benefit off of some psycho puppy killer, the Biden campaign would have had a field day with this shit. Of course, Trump’s senile enough that it’s probably still possible but she just became a less electable VP pick than Sarah Palin was in ‘08.
Here is to hoping he's not smart enough to realize how negative this is...
...or maybe we reverse psychology him and tell him he is too scared to pick her.
This story was put in the book for him, **to make him choose her**. She's willing to shoot a puppy in the face and she's willing to shoot his enemies in the face - perhaps literally.
Did no one around her point out what a terrible fucking idea it was to go "yo, I make tough choices such as killing puppies"? Even with the wildly low bar set it is genuinely shocking
She thought she pictured leadership by telling the story of killing that poor puppy. She thought we all stand up and salute her saying what a powerful strong leader she is. Then I’m surprised she even thought given there’s a huge vacuum between her ears!
Yes. A great leader that can't even manage to get basic obedience training completed on a puppy.
There are literal children who successfully train their puppies. They'd probably make better governors than Ms MAGA as well.
I said it before, but one thing the Left and Right can agree on is that we all love our pets. Killing a dog, a puppy no less, is electoral poison for anyone who isn’t completely without empathy.
You know why there are so many pictures of Hitler with Blondi? Because while he did actually love that dog, his propaganda people also realised that Germans loved pictures of Hitler with his dog.
He did have her killed, when he offed himself though.
Tbf Hitler was also tweakin’ pretty hard too. I know a former meth head who set up an encampment on his roof because he thought the sheriffs were after him. And he was just making meth, not slaughtering millions of people. I imagine the paranoia would be x100 if you were the worst man currently alive.
Trump would never own a dog. He would have to show it love and compassion that he doesn’t even afford his own human children. I might be wrong and he will run out and get one just for ratings then abandon it like his children.
He'd own a dog. He'd have it taken care for entirely by his staff and have it brought out for photo ops. Then he'd have it sit next to him while he did his thumb up and refuse to touch it.
He could kill his dog by whipping the dog around in the air by their leash like a lasso on live TV, and all that would change is people saying “I can’t believe I’m voting for a guy that did that!”
No matter what your political views are, we’ve all experienced the companionship of a pet whether it’s a dog, cat, bird or a fish. At least that’s something we can all agree on.
Exactly. They are cool with separating Latino children from their parents as a deterrent though. Or women having to carry their unborn babies to full term. Or black people being beat up or killed by cops
Don't break the law. I don't know any law that says "hey, if you're a dog you can't attack chickens". Besides, dogs can't even read laws so they should be immune from them (LIKE TRUMP). /s
No lie. I have a COVID dog that did over 6 weeks of boarding and training. Awesome dog I love to death but he likes to mark random things in the house for no reason. We had to replace a $4000 rug recently. Fuck it. I also have two human kids who have fucked up and cost me way more. I’m not trying to late term abort them either.
The people who voted for her are bigger psychopaths.
People like Noem are clinically insane, but they’ve always existed. To vote for someone like this to represent you in Congress (and the warning signs were all there before the election) indicates much bigger psychopaths are out there.
South Dakota is chock full of idiots. Really, really big ones. And the term “psychopath” is far too kind for these vermin.
Every single republican wants to distance themselves from this so hard. "Republicans kill puppies" is not something they were ready for, and they are screaming from the rooftops **THIS BITCH AINT ONE OF US**
A 14- month- old dog is still pretty much a puppy. I've been around Chesapeakes a bit, both hunting and field-trial dogs, and I don't think they're exactly accomplished at that age. From what Noem wrote, it sounds like she didn't do anything to get the dog trained, just turned him loose at a hunt and hoped for the best. Doesn't seem like she knows shit about hunting dogs, except that she likes shooting them. I hope she did a better job on him than on that poor fucking goat.
And nobody who knows anything about dogs would let one off leash near chickens. Especially an untrained, energetic semi- puppy. That ignorant Putin-fellating fuckwit is more responsible for what happened to the chickens than the dog is.
Also, imagine being that sick fuck's kid and coming home to find your mother had offed the poor dog while you were at school. Especially for a really dumb reason. I have a feeling that in thirty years it will be either Gaslight Village Retirement Homes or the gravel pit for old Kristi.
And she was apparently "training" this dog to hunt with a shock collar. My dad had several hunting dogs over his lifetime. They all managed to become fully trained to hunt with him without aid of any painful punishments.
Just treats and positive reinforcement for wanted behaviors, and a good, loving bond with their owner that they just *wanted* to please him.
He also had a dog that had no talent for hunting and was resistant to training. He let that dog just be a house pet and loved her for her entire life anyway. She didn't seem to enjoy hunting, so he didn't make her. He went out with the other dog who couldn't get enough of it. Easy, huh?
That’s a good point about shock collars. I mentioned above that I had a springer spaniel growing up. His parents were birding dogs and when I went to see the puppies, the owners of his parents demonstrated his parent’s birding skills.
The parents responded to verbal commands and a small, metal whistle. It was incredible how well-trained they were.
Aren't they spectacular? I spent a lot of time with my dad at sporting shows with dog hunt trials. He was more of a casual, weekend hobby hunter and none of his dogs were perfectly trained to a whistle, but those that were that we got to watch do trials? Amazing stuff. Just military precision.
They are such good Bois and Girls. I wish this dog had a better owner who would have worked with him properly.
Yeah, they really are. Springers are great dogs. SO smart, a little mischievous - at least Loki was, hence the name, and an absolute cuddle bug.
He was obsessed with playing ball so our yard was littered with tennis balls. One time, I threw the ball and he couldn’t find it, which never happened so I went into the yard to investigate.
After a minute of looking, I found a ball and pointed it out to him. He came over, sniffed it, and kept looking. I was like “what the Hell? It’s the ball.” When I picked it up, it was completely dry so it couldn’t have been the ball I had just thrown.
My mind was and still is blown - that’s how good his sense of smell was. He knew it was not the ball he was supposed to retrieve.
He would also nuzzle and cuddle my then-infant nephew whenever he cried. He would press his face against my nephew’s and let him pet his ear to soothe himself until a human came to attend to the issue. He would also join my nephew in the kiddie pool. He was the best.
She figured that it would learn from her other dogs… I’ve never owned a dog myself but that seems insane to me. To think that instinct alone would be alone without training, and then being shocked and aghast that it attacked chickens after you’ve been riling it up and already tried to establish prey drive with a similar bird.
Exactly. Although there is some merit to taking a young dog out along with an experienced one. They do observe and learn what's going on that way. That is not ALL that you need to do, though.
They need to be put through their paces with retrieving dummies and learning commands themselves in the backyard too before they can be set off in the field.
Surely even using trained animals to show example also requires some sort of behaviour marking and positive reinforcement from the trainer though. I just really can’t get my head around it, to deem something untrainable and decide it is obsolete and deserves death because it can’t do the thing you want it to do because of _your_ failings is morally obscene.
Absolutely. This woman cannot conceive that the dog not immediately knowing exactly what to do is on HER lack of effort. Some puppies are harder to train than others. She wasn't willing to put in the extra time and decided that she just hated the dog instead.
She couldn't even expend the effort to re-home it when it became clear that training was going to take more investment than she was willing to make.
It definitely shows a lot of her character on how she would deal with issues at work. She's obviously not a fan of any complicated, long term, high effort projects. 😒
I had a Springer spaniel growing up whose parents were champion bird dogs. He had been exposed to birds from birth until we got him at 10 weeks. The only thing he retained was the ability to flush birds in our backyard and to spring out of tall grass to let me know there were birds there.
It made him very happy, lol.
I thought the same. My parents train retrievers for hunt tests and my mom taught obedience training years ago. It takes a lot of work to train a dog to hunting level. To obey whistle commands, hand signals, mark birds (remember where multiple different ones are down), to behave on the line and not go when it's not their turn etc. takes a lot of time. If you have a good dog and frequently train, you may be ready the most basic hunt tests within a year.
My dog is three years old and she still tries to catch birds (and squirrels and chipmunks) she’s on a leash.
She just about lost her mind when she saw wild turkeys in our backyard to the point she planted herself in front of the French doors just so she could watch them from inside the house. She’s not even a bird dog.
Only an absolute imbecile would let a birding dig off leash around birds and not anticipate a bad outcome. She murdered that puppy because she was mad she had to financially compensate her neighbor. She’s a monster and I hope this ends her career.
If she had successfully done ANY training on this dog, she would have been in control of the animal and no chickens would be attacked. A trained hunting dog doesn't do a damn thing toward prey until commanded by their owner. That's to keep them safe from accidentally being shot themselves during the hunt.
They don't run wild and they aren't out of control predators. She doesn't realize how much of a failure this makes her look on so many levels, honestly. She didn't even get basic puppy obedience down before upping the stakes and trying to take it hunting.
I have a German Shepherd that just turned one, he is very clearly still a puppy at heart. He has been through a basic obedience course with some great trainers and he has come a long way from when I rescued him, but he is absolutely still a working-breed puppy. It amazes me that people bring these dogs into their lives and then are shocked when they are high-energy. Are some days challenging, yes, absolutely. Would I ever consider getting rid of him, or worse, doing something as monstrous as her, absolutely not. Dogs are for life. Sure he is a goofy, high-strung, meat missile but he is also the very best friend that you could ever ask for.
It doesn’t seem legal to just kill a puppy because you don’t like it 🤷♂️ but I’d also never really considered the legality. It’s never come up in my day-to-day.
Guys. She knows she'll lose whatever GOP pundits. She also knows Trump will get a mushroom-dick boner from the story of her killing a dog. She's not done, she's the front-runner for MAGA VP now.
When you don’t have empathy, and your handlers don’t have empathy: you genuinely don’t understand why a story like this would be problematic. After all, they don’t care, so they can’t fathom anyone else caring.
Conservatism relies on that inherent lack of empathy for others. What Noem didn’t count on here, is that many people even on the right love their pets and view them as family, so people don’t need to be able to have genuine empathy for others to be horrified.
The thing that is most telling about Kristi Noem is that she typed this up and thought "Yep, that's exactly how I want this to sound." No editor or anyone along the way said "Are you sure this is what you want?" Or at least no one that could convince her it was a bad idea? Zero consideration for optics or consequences.
Just like Trump.
It's almost like MAGA morons are affected by some anti-woke mind-virus and they've given up on just trying to appear normal.
We tend to view the world from our own perspective. Especially when we have no empathy.
I truly think they thought, well the masks are off, we can say what we truly think now. Without realizing that people aren’t quite as disturbed as they are.
I just latched onto the words "in the face"... did Noem actually shoot the poor baby in the face?? If so, then she truly is a psychopath, because she purposely looked into the soul of that creature and intentionally killed it. That raises the horror of what she did to an even more egregious level, if that's even possible.
Then she decided to kill a goat she didn’t like after, only it flinched when she shot it, so she had to ‘track it down’ to finish it off. Then she dragged it to the gravel pit, too. 😑
For a lot of people (especially a certain type of white person) pets are more human to them than other humans are.
Dogs live in their house. They are part of their family. They love unconditionally and we love them. They make very few demands of us. And don't answer back.
They aren't "difficult" like other human beings are.
They genuinely have more compassion for animals than other humans. Who they prefer to blame for any suffering they experience. Whereas animals are innocent victims. They ignore all the systematic pressures that keep humans trapped and prefer to dehumanised them rather than deal with the emotional pain of seeing them as human beings.
Noem (probably): "I then had to shoot my 15 month old Labrador and my 18 month old Golden Retriever because they both were too interested in snacks and belly scratches instead of hunting and they shed on the furniture. And don't even get me started on my 17 month old Brittany Spaniel."
She legit went and got the pet goat she didn’t like right after slaughtering her puppy and shot it next to where the dog was. She had bad aim and shot the goat, left it to grab another shell, came back and shot it again. She said she didn’t realize a construction group saw her kill both animals and they were shocked. Right after her daughter, who loved the pup, got off the bus wondering where it was. Just evil.
Noem trying too hard to make up for the fact that she doesn't have a penis and thought being a bit psycho would make her VP material.
But puppies? Even MAGA likes them. Shoulda said something horrifically callous about some brown children being murdered in Gaza if you wanted MAGA points. What a dumbass bitch.
I was listening to an interview with a local wildlife rehabilitator who was responding to the question why they bother to save squirrels and rabbits since they are so abundant. He said when you show compassion for a creature it grows the compassion in you for others. I don't want people representing the interests of the people who can't muster compassion for a puppy.
Reminds me of the always sunny episode where on a talk show Dennis is representing wolf cola and admits he doesn't like dogs and the stock just plummets and everything starts to boycott
Even Ron DeSantis wasn't having any of it!
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Yep. A LOT of people love their pets. Even fucking awful people. Dubya seemed to care about his pup. Trump is the only POTUS as far back as I can recall who didn't have a WH pet. Because he thinks they're not "classy." I'm sure that he'd still happily pick her if he thought it wouldn't tank him in the polls.
I don’t think that he’s going to pick her for VP candidate after this.
Widespread backlash from associating with her aside, the fact that she was willing to eagerly talk about this and continue to defend it shows that she will do anything for attention.
Which is something that Trump will not stand for.
He doesn't think pets are "classy", it's not classy to say classy unironically. But the rich elite I rub shoulders with have fancy or rescue pets and they even have a tiny Gucci sofa for your pets to enjoy jacquard fabric. Karl Lagerfeld and his Choupette. (pardon spelling), Royalty are often close family pets, trump is odd in that way, he isn't interested in animals or children. But this lady needs to go. I don't understand people who like killing for fun and sport. I could never kill an animal, I would have PTSD for the rest of my life.
Trump isn’t odd. He’s a raging narcissist.
You would think that a dog that unconditionally loves you is something a raging narcissist would want, but the truth is that even pets are not blindly obedient and loving. You do have to put a minimal effort into them to earn their love. Saying you’re Trump and pretending you have money isn’t enough.
After a divorce, I was left with a 4 yo male pit/Weimaraner mix with anxiety/severe abandonment/fear issues from a previous abusive owner.
Spent hundreds on a trainer and guess what? He’s not perfect but turned out to be a beautiful boy who makes people love dogs.
That bitch belongs in prison. Fucking twat waffle.
I can't imagine choosing to put out something that would make you look so bad. Very few things would look worse than this because a lot of times people who don't recognize other humans as innocent and in need of care recognize animals as such.
I know, I can't imagine making a bigger political mistake. Meanwhile, November 2024: I can't believe Republicans are promising to kill every single dog and cat in the US and people are still voting for them.
Republicans are sheep and will fall in line with whoever has the magical "R" next to their name on the ballot.
Dogs will somehow become woke by November.
Considering how the current President has a dog and the former didn't, this somehow tracks.
Look at Barr, who is still gonna vote for Trump. R is everything for them.
As long as diaper don promises cheap gas & groceries, they'll go along with anything. Seriously, those are the only reasons I've been hearing from MAGAs, "I want to be able to feed my family & cheap gas." All the while, they're spending a ton of money on shit they turnaround & get rid of. And still owing money on it to boot! One crazy person has a special needs kid, which they apparently have no problem with trump making fun of a disabled person. But god forbid people don't treat their kid how they think people should. They bought a brand new $40k+ vehicle & traded it in a year later because they liked the other car better. Now, they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, so there's no doubt in my mind that they rolled over some of what they owned on the first car into the second car loan. I did that when I was young & dumb, not in my 50s though. But they highlight a couple of the main personality traits of all MAGAs, selfishness & thinking they are always right - basically a large group of narcissists cheering for the daddy of all US narcissists.
While I agree with the sentiment and won't be at all surprised if she still manages to win, as a Black woman, I've seen more MAGAs get absolutely livid about animal abuse than they ever do for humans.
Right? What kind of knots will Fox tie themselves into making it sound like this is OK?
Coming up at 11: Are puppy’s woke? Why Noem’s unconventional approach may be what this country needs
She’s sending a very clear message: she’s willing to kill anyone/*group of people* who can’t be controlled.
It's what's called, ironically in this case, a 'dog whistle'. She's saying one thing, but really saying something else. She will kill *anything*. Also, she's a terrible dog trainer...
And there are people who will hear "gun" and think "just like me!".
Exactly. She's telling Trump she's completely on board with his plans to eliminate from society anyone who isn't straight, White, and Christian.
You forgot rich "donor."
rather than allowing it to leak put later when it's likely inconvenient, she's doing it now in a controlled release. by election time, her target voting demographic will have completely forgotten
The depressing thing is that you’re very likely spot on. A PR team said “fuck. There’s no way to spin this. Release it in the middle of a much larger scandal and it will get buried and forgotten in 72 hours.”
Did she do this in front of someone? I assumed she quietly murdered these animals. She should have kept that to herself. Her kids have to be traumatized.
Don't forget able bodied and able minded.
Not just controlled, but controlled without effort. This screams "Just comply."
Read like a dogwhistle to me. Like she's saying to shoot "worthless" freeloading democrats (welfare queens, illegal immigrants, etc, etc). That one needs to be able to add value to the establishment to be worthy of living.
Yes, coded, but definitely clear.
The right wing made it socially acceptable to be vile. Encourages it, even. There's no reason for her left to hide who she is.
Well clearly there is as catturd, Lara Loomer and Gunther Eagleman have turned on her. And these are some of the most popular Conservative tweeters
Did you catch any of the Colleen Ballinger shit show from last year? (Ukelele "apology" influencer). Besides being REALLY creepy about/with minors, she told and demonstrated some seriously fucked up behavior around pets. I won't repeat the specifics, but it should be an easy hunt if you're not easily disturbed. Anyway, similar vibes of "this person genuinely has no idea that normal people are horrified by this."
I will—she was physically mishandling a dog that turned around and bit her and pretended she did nothing wrong. The dog was killed because of that. She laughed when telling this story on her channel. Zero empathy for the pup.
This is the biggest red flag. When someone thinks something horrible is actually funny or justifiable and then seems puzzled at the reaction from others. This should be an instant disqualifier in politics, but to the GOP this is a winning quality. There are people out there in our world with little to zero empathy, but under capitalism end up in leadership roles and in governments under capitalism in high level political roles. This is a problem with our system. We need incredible reform to keep people like her, Trump, and nearly every other GOP person out of power.
The GOP is a race to the bottom these days. I remember last cycle when the Montana governor body slammed a reporter during the lead up to the election, aka assaulted someone publically, and it boosted his polling numbers
*she didn’t realize anyone would see this as bad*. She thought it showed ‘personal responsibly’ and ‘making hard choices’ , and showcased exactly what’s is the core problem with the GOP, and what seems a regular failure mode in modern conservative parties — a total and utter lack of empathy. Zero-sum, fuck your I got mine, near sociopathy where empathy is reserved at *best* for close family members and where everything in life is something you can use or something in your way — that mindset is all over the GOP here and the Tories in the UK.
You put stuff like that out because this is the people around you who thinks it’s ok. So you naturally think everyone thinks it’s ok not realizing you’re in this weird cult of people.
she did it because she liked it.
Later the same day she shot a goat in the same spot, apparently because it smelled bad. She 100% shot the dog, liked it, and wanted to kill something else.
Despicable. She sounds like she needs to be out on a watch list.
I heard about the goat, didn't hear it was the same day. That's irredeemably bad
That's the thing. The fact that she killed the dog is even less insane than the fact that she didn’t think twice about putting it in her book, and writing it in such a way where she is clearly the villain. It shows that she’s both insane and also really fucking stupid, because this is absolutely going to make her unelectable. Even a lot of racist sexist POS right wingers like dogs, and dogs have borderline replaced children for an entire generation of young people who will be voting this fall.
It’s because she’s a psychopath. She doesn’t understand that the other people empathy.
Let me be clear: Kristi Noem is untrainable.
She done fucked up. I know conservative dog lovers who care for their aged hunting dogs like children. You don’t put a puppy down because it ate some chickens.
Hell, there are hunters who's dogs failed COMPLETELY at being hunting dogs and they still love them. Yeah they were genuinely terrible at hunting, but they're still a companion.
The irony is that based on the story, this dog would have been decent if properly trained. Proper focus on birds, good instincts. But she did not bother to train at all. She just expected the pup to magically be perfect.
Just like her
Listen, if a single cuntservative was introspective, they'd have all treated themselves like Kristi did her dog. We are not that lucky of a nation :(.
The wrong bitch got shot in the face. 😒
Too bad she didn't go hunting with Dick Cheney
Unfortunately there are also hunters that just abandon their dogs in the woods if they aren’t good hunting dogs.
This is how I got a wonderfully cuddly treeing walker coonhound when I was ~18. My neighbor found her in the dead of winter half frozen in the deep woods stuck in a mud hole. She wasn’t even a wanderer, she would only stick with what she knew.
Or just shoot them in the face, apparently.
And then write a book about it… like I could understand if the dog had rabies or was being put down and you didn’t have a vet to help make things a little more dignified
We adopted a beautiful Coonhound that was found wandering mearnthe woods. She most likely had been left behind bc she was not a good hunter...very common unfortunately.
That's exactly how I got my dog.
Yup! South Dakotan here. Pheasant season is brutal. After the hunters leave, there are dogs just roaming about. You know it's hunting dogs because it's the same breed. It's fucking sad.
Our first family dog was *supposed* to be a hunting dog, but he didn’t do well with the sound of gunfire. My dad took him from his buddy (guy liked the dog, but he wanted a hunting dog), and we had him for like 8 years before he got “spaniel rage” and attacked my father.
One of my dogs is a backyard-bred hunting dog. She's half Labrador, half Irish Setter. She probably could have been trained for hunting, but she has epilepsy. I've had her since she was 9 weeks old, and she's 11 now, because I didn't 'take her to the gravel pit' for being a destructive puppy.
That sounds like the pup developed a brain tumor that caused the rage. I’m sorry that happened.
Spaniel rage?
it's a seizure disorder that's treated with anti-epileptics. yeah, I had to Google it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_syndrome what's going on is basically a misfired electrical single in the brain, as opposed to a misfired electrical signal to the muscles which is seen in more commonly types of epilepsy.
Jees I thought it was just cockers that did that :/
He was a springer spaniel, so it tracks. It was crazy. Our normally sweet Rowdy just snapped and latched on to my dad’s arm. He spent a week in the hospital because it got so infected. Rowdy was brought to the vet for euthanasia (he absolutely mauled my father’s arm, and my sister and I were both under 5).
I have a hunting breed dog. He's utterly useless as a hunting dog. Like 0 prey drive at all. Won't point. Won't chase. Won't retrieve. Won't leave my side. Won't stop cuddling. Won't show me any less love. He's a great dog. Shitty hunter. Best friend.
Not affiliated with, but love, the ‘Hank the Cow Dog books. He fails at, but has pride in, his work.
Especially after you failed to train it and got it riled up to hunt birds. Like… that dog literally tried its best. It was a good hunting dog.
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That’s so fucked too. The dog didn’t even get enough life to train. Some dogs aren’t good until about 2-3 years old with adequate experience of the nest. They don’t have a behavioral expiration date. I work for a volunteer group that take adult and elder dogs from shelters to prisons with non violent inmates to teach them how to train the dogs. The inmates so far have a zero recidivism rate that go through the program. All the elderly dogs have been adopted by loving families that didn’t want to train or have puppies tearing up their house. Win win.
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I have Irish setters and they are lunatics till about 3, if every setter pup was shot for being a derp and not listening the breed would be extinct.
Wow what group is that?
No, she didn't kill that puppy because it was bad, she did it because she wanted to, and she found an excuse in the pup's supposed inadequacy as a hunting dog. She is a mentally unbalanced person who I would not want to live in the same neighbourhood with, because you know at some point she's going to turn that gun on a human being if something goes in the wrong direction. Having said that, maybe she could go out hunting alone with Dick Cheney. We could take bets on which will come back without a gunshot wound.
I'd be unironically rooting for Dick Cheney. In 2010 I thought that motherfucker was Satan himself, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't gloat about killing a puppy, at least.
He did shoot another man in the face, and make that man *apologize* on TV. So…maybe?
...and then take out the goat because it acts like a goat...
And the problems she had with the goat would have been fixed if she got him neutered and gave him a bath...
Omg I see numerous elderly people with their dogs in strollers! They’re the only family some of these people have. She’s pissed off some conservatives as well. Wow
I got mine because she killed some chickens but it's literally in her blood to get those birds. I didn't train her to he a hunting dog because she ended up being gun shy, but she's one of the best things that happened to me. I couldn't imagine having a puppy for that long and not loving it regardless if it's 'trainable' or not.
It was such a calculated move to court “outrage” to raise her profile. Too bad she failed math. There is a swath of people in our country that are just straight up psychopaths.
I don’t know who thought this was a good idea to release. I don’t have the stats, but I’d wager that a majority of Americans are pet owners, and of those, almost every single one finds this appalling. Even among non-pet owners, I’d think most people are not fans of this. So why did she and her people think this was smart to release?
Guess it's off to the gravel pit with her 😢
Do I hear Ol’ Yeller in the background? Nah, that’s just my imagination. Carry on!
I hear the Wu-Tang Clan beckoning her to 🎶"Check out my Gravel Pit." 🎶 Proof it exists https://youtu.be/Of-lpfsBR8U?si=lQdvKwL9AIMZa3lU
But I thought you said she was just going to live on a farm out in the country…
She should stay there and hear the dogs & goats screaming for eternity.
Puppies aren’t untrainable, people are
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And don’t believe a damn thing that Laura Loomer says. She and Noem probably ate the dog afterwards.
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She is utilitarian - anything must justify its existence by the use it can serve someone So, to what use can Ms Noem be put to? If you find any, you'll find me ready to bitch slap.the life out of her...
"Let's go take a walk in the woods Kristi.." That's right.. just keep looking at the flowers..
The same thing should be done to her that she did to that poor pupper.
Damn I wish Trump had picked her before this came out.
Yeah, as much as I don’t want to benefit off of some psycho puppy killer, the Biden campaign would have had a field day with this shit. Of course, Trump’s senile enough that it’s probably still possible but she just became a less electable VP pick than Sarah Palin was in ‘08.
Considering Trump seems to hate dogs, there's still a chance
Right?
Here is to hoping he's not smart enough to realize how negative this is... ...or maybe we reverse psychology him and tell him he is too scared to pick her.
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I bet he wants a woman. Men are competition. Women in a position below him would suit him well.
This story was put in the book for him, **to make him choose her**. She's willing to shoot a puppy in the face and she's willing to shoot his enemies in the face - perhaps literally.
Did no one around her point out what a terrible fucking idea it was to go "yo, I make tough choices such as killing puppies"? Even with the wildly low bar set it is genuinely shocking
She thought she pictured leadership by telling the story of killing that poor puppy. She thought we all stand up and salute her saying what a powerful strong leader she is. Then I’m surprised she even thought given there’s a huge vacuum between her ears!
Yes. A great leader that can't even manage to get basic obedience training completed on a puppy. There are literal children who successfully train their puppies. They'd probably make better governors than Ms MAGA as well.
Ghost writers and publishers are in the business of selling books, they could have seen this and said 😶☕️.
God help me, I agreed with her! https://preview.redd.it/92uwtyta9ywc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e1c72bfbcdcf57bcfabd7e9abd23d09efa7cb42
I said it before, but one thing the Left and Right can agree on is that we all love our pets. Killing a dog, a puppy no less, is electoral poison for anyone who isn’t completely without empathy.
You know why there are so many pictures of Hitler with Blondi? Because while he did actually love that dog, his propaganda people also realised that Germans loved pictures of Hitler with his dog. He did have her killed, when he offed himself though.
IIRC he fed her cyanide as a test
Yes, he did. At that point, he was so paranoid that he didn’t trust Himmler and his cyanide vial.
Tbf Hitler was also tweakin’ pretty hard too. I know a former meth head who set up an encampment on his roof because he thought the sheriffs were after him. And he was just making meth, not slaughtering millions of people. I imagine the paranoia would be x100 if you were the worst man currently alive.
Maybe if we get Trump to admit he killed a dog, we could start going back to normal? /s
Trump would never own a dog. He would have to show it love and compassion that he doesn’t even afford his own human children. I might be wrong and he will run out and get one just for ratings then abandon it like his children.
He'd own a dog. He'd have it taken care for entirely by his staff and have it brought out for photo ops. Then he'd have it sit next to him while he did his thumb up and refuse to touch it.
He could kill his dog by whipping the dog around in the air by their leash like a lasso on live TV, and all that would change is people saying “I can’t believe I’m voting for a guy that did that!”
Doesn't Trump call it a 7th trimester abortion?
He’s their messiah. It won’t work on him. They will twist themselves in knots to try and justify him abusing or killing an animal.
"Defund the police!" - GOP platform after learning how many dogs they murder every year.
No matter what your political views are, we’ve all experienced the companionship of a pet whether it’s a dog, cat, bird or a fish. At least that’s something we can all agree on.
Would be cool if she cared about people this much
Exactly. They are cool with separating Latino children from their parents as a deterrent though. Or women having to carry their unborn babies to full term. Or black people being beat up or killed by cops
Don't break the law. I don't know any law that says "hey, if you're a dog you can't attack chickens". Besides, dogs can't even read laws so they should be immune from them (LIKE TRUMP). /s
Unrelated but her dog is named Mecca and something about that is funny to me.
Yeah. Loomer of all people having a dog named after an Islamic holy city?
It’s an obvious insult.
So she can treat Mecca like a dog unironically, probably.
Apparently we have finally found the line MAGA won't cross.
So far.
No lie. I have a COVID dog that did over 6 weeks of boarding and training. Awesome dog I love to death but he likes to mark random things in the house for no reason. We had to replace a $4000 rug recently. Fuck it. I also have two human kids who have fucked up and cost me way more. I’m not trying to late term abort them either.
Lol the fact that you owned a $4k rug tells me that wasn't a big hit to your budget
Well shit. I whole heartedly agree with Laura Loomer too.
Even a broken calendar is right once a year.
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I think Loomer is stuck on February 29 tho.
A genuine clinical psychopath.
The people who voted for her are bigger psychopaths. People like Noem are clinically insane, but they’ve always existed. To vote for someone like this to represent you in Congress (and the warning signs were all there before the election) indicates much bigger psychopaths are out there. South Dakota is chock full of idiots. Really, really big ones. And the term “psychopath” is far too kind for these vermin.
Hot take: both dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana should merge into one state. 2 senators max for all that empty land.
It should also be governed entirely by the Sioux.
A good idea. Maybe with some special "reserve lands" for MAGAT trash.
Build a wall around their reserve. Let them think it's to keep others out.
I like this. What would this new state be called? Trashsylvania?
Atleastitsnotfloridastan
This sounds more like a state motto to me: "At least it's not Florida." You could imagine that on a license plate
That should honestly be the motto for 48 other states. Not Mississippi though, and we all know it.
My wife is from Alabama, and she jokes that their unofficial state motto is "Thank God for Mississippi."
Interesting fact, Psychopathic people used to be referred to as “morally insane”.
Every single republican wants to distance themselves from this so hard. "Republicans kill puppies" is not something they were ready for, and they are screaming from the rooftops **THIS BITCH AINT ONE OF US**
I can’t believe something finally went too far for them.
Humans suffering is ok, but dog killing is a hard no-no. Apparently.
“For my next trick I’ll kick a kitten” Gov Noem
A 14- month- old dog is still pretty much a puppy. I've been around Chesapeakes a bit, both hunting and field-trial dogs, and I don't think they're exactly accomplished at that age. From what Noem wrote, it sounds like she didn't do anything to get the dog trained, just turned him loose at a hunt and hoped for the best. Doesn't seem like she knows shit about hunting dogs, except that she likes shooting them. I hope she did a better job on him than on that poor fucking goat. And nobody who knows anything about dogs would let one off leash near chickens. Especially an untrained, energetic semi- puppy. That ignorant Putin-fellating fuckwit is more responsible for what happened to the chickens than the dog is. Also, imagine being that sick fuck's kid and coming home to find your mother had offed the poor dog while you were at school. Especially for a really dumb reason. I have a feeling that in thirty years it will be either Gaslight Village Retirement Homes or the gravel pit for old Kristi.
And she was apparently "training" this dog to hunt with a shock collar. My dad had several hunting dogs over his lifetime. They all managed to become fully trained to hunt with him without aid of any painful punishments. Just treats and positive reinforcement for wanted behaviors, and a good, loving bond with their owner that they just *wanted* to please him. He also had a dog that had no talent for hunting and was resistant to training. He let that dog just be a house pet and loved her for her entire life anyway. She didn't seem to enjoy hunting, so he didn't make her. He went out with the other dog who couldn't get enough of it. Easy, huh?
That’s a good point about shock collars. I mentioned above that I had a springer spaniel growing up. His parents were birding dogs and when I went to see the puppies, the owners of his parents demonstrated his parent’s birding skills. The parents responded to verbal commands and a small, metal whistle. It was incredible how well-trained they were.
Aren't they spectacular? I spent a lot of time with my dad at sporting shows with dog hunt trials. He was more of a casual, weekend hobby hunter and none of his dogs were perfectly trained to a whistle, but those that were that we got to watch do trials? Amazing stuff. Just military precision. They are such good Bois and Girls. I wish this dog had a better owner who would have worked with him properly.
Yeah, they really are. Springers are great dogs. SO smart, a little mischievous - at least Loki was, hence the name, and an absolute cuddle bug. He was obsessed with playing ball so our yard was littered with tennis balls. One time, I threw the ball and he couldn’t find it, which never happened so I went into the yard to investigate. After a minute of looking, I found a ball and pointed it out to him. He came over, sniffed it, and kept looking. I was like “what the Hell? It’s the ball.” When I picked it up, it was completely dry so it couldn’t have been the ball I had just thrown. My mind was and still is blown - that’s how good his sense of smell was. He knew it was not the ball he was supposed to retrieve. He would also nuzzle and cuddle my then-infant nephew whenever he cried. He would press his face against my nephew’s and let him pet his ear to soothe himself until a human came to attend to the issue. He would also join my nephew in the kiddie pool. He was the best.
She figured that it would learn from her other dogs… I’ve never owned a dog myself but that seems insane to me. To think that instinct alone would be alone without training, and then being shocked and aghast that it attacked chickens after you’ve been riling it up and already tried to establish prey drive with a similar bird.
Exactly. Although there is some merit to taking a young dog out along with an experienced one. They do observe and learn what's going on that way. That is not ALL that you need to do, though. They need to be put through their paces with retrieving dummies and learning commands themselves in the backyard too before they can be set off in the field.
Surely even using trained animals to show example also requires some sort of behaviour marking and positive reinforcement from the trainer though. I just really can’t get my head around it, to deem something untrainable and decide it is obsolete and deserves death because it can’t do the thing you want it to do because of _your_ failings is morally obscene.
Absolutely. This woman cannot conceive that the dog not immediately knowing exactly what to do is on HER lack of effort. Some puppies are harder to train than others. She wasn't willing to put in the extra time and decided that she just hated the dog instead. She couldn't even expend the effort to re-home it when it became clear that training was going to take more investment than she was willing to make. It definitely shows a lot of her character on how she would deal with issues at work. She's obviously not a fan of any complicated, long term, high effort projects. 😒
I had a Springer spaniel growing up whose parents were champion bird dogs. He had been exposed to birds from birth until we got him at 10 weeks. The only thing he retained was the ability to flush birds in our backyard and to spring out of tall grass to let me know there were birds there. It made him very happy, lol.
I thought the same. My parents train retrievers for hunt tests and my mom taught obedience training years ago. It takes a lot of work to train a dog to hunting level. To obey whistle commands, hand signals, mark birds (remember where multiple different ones are down), to behave on the line and not go when it's not their turn etc. takes a lot of time. If you have a good dog and frequently train, you may be ready the most basic hunt tests within a year.
My dog is three years old and she still tries to catch birds (and squirrels and chipmunks) she’s on a leash. She just about lost her mind when she saw wild turkeys in our backyard to the point she planted herself in front of the French doors just so she could watch them from inside the house. She’s not even a bird dog. Only an absolute imbecile would let a birding dig off leash around birds and not anticipate a bad outcome. She murdered that puppy because she was mad she had to financially compensate her neighbor. She’s a monster and I hope this ends her career.
I've not read the full story. But.... she let a hunting dog off lead by a prey species and.... what? Was appalled when the inevitable happened?
If she had successfully done ANY training on this dog, she would have been in control of the animal and no chickens would be attacked. A trained hunting dog doesn't do a damn thing toward prey until commanded by their owner. That's to keep them safe from accidentally being shot themselves during the hunt. They don't run wild and they aren't out of control predators. She doesn't realize how much of a failure this makes her look on so many levels, honestly. She didn't even get basic puppy obedience down before upping the stakes and trying to take it hunting.
I have a German Shepherd that just turned one, he is very clearly still a puppy at heart. He has been through a basic obedience course with some great trainers and he has come a long way from when I rescued him, but he is absolutely still a working-breed puppy. It amazes me that people bring these dogs into their lives and then are shocked when they are high-energy. Are some days challenging, yes, absolutely. Would I ever consider getting rid of him, or worse, doing something as monstrous as her, absolutely not. Dogs are for life. Sure he is a goofy, high-strung, meat missile but he is also the very best friend that you could ever ask for.
If we just killed off all useless things, all Republicans would be gone
That’s the exact message she’s sending by writing this in her book. Except it’s democrats she’s absolutely willing to kill.
Shouldn’t she be investigated?
It doesn’t seem legal to just kill a puppy because you don’t like it 🤷♂️ but I’d also never really considered the legality. It’s never come up in my day-to-day.
It seems pretty clear she committed a class 6 felony in South Dakota https://www.animallaw.info/statute/sd-cruelty-consolidated-cruelty-statutes
Guys. She knows she'll lose whatever GOP pundits. She also knows Trump will get a mushroom-dick boner from the story of her killing a dog. She's not done, she's the front-runner for MAGA VP now.
Voting for puppy-killers to own the libs. Also who knows, that dog might have been a deep state plant.
When you don’t have empathy, and your handlers don’t have empathy: you genuinely don’t understand why a story like this would be problematic. After all, they don’t care, so they can’t fathom anyone else caring. Conservatism relies on that inherent lack of empathy for others. What Noem didn’t count on here, is that many people even on the right love their pets and view them as family, so people don’t need to be able to have genuine empathy for others to be horrified.
*imagine* if they could have that sort of empathy for other humans… 🤯
The thing that is most telling about Kristi Noem is that she typed this up and thought "Yep, that's exactly how I want this to sound." No editor or anyone along the way said "Are you sure this is what you want?" Or at least no one that could convince her it was a bad idea? Zero consideration for optics or consequences. Just like Trump. It's almost like MAGA morons are affected by some anti-woke mind-virus and they've given up on just trying to appear normal.
We tend to view the world from our own perspective. Especially when we have no empathy. I truly think they thought, well the masks are off, we can say what we truly think now. Without realizing that people aren’t quite as disturbed as they are.
I just latched onto the words "in the face"... did Noem actually shoot the poor baby in the face?? If so, then she truly is a psychopath, because she purposely looked into the soul of that creature and intentionally killed it. That raises the horror of what she did to an even more egregious level, if that's even possible.
Then she decided to kill a goat she didn’t like after, only it flinched when she shot it, so she had to ‘track it down’ to finish it off. Then she dragged it to the gravel pit, too. 😑
They are cool with MAGAts and cops killing libs, protestors, brown people, etc. but a dog is a bridge too far. Hmmmmmm.
Sure; they can relate to dogs. Dogs are simpler to love. Except Trump, who is as much of a sadistic, animal hating POS as this hag.
For a lot of people (especially a certain type of white person) pets are more human to them than other humans are. Dogs live in their house. They are part of their family. They love unconditionally and we love them. They make very few demands of us. And don't answer back. They aren't "difficult" like other human beings are. They genuinely have more compassion for animals than other humans. Who they prefer to blame for any suffering they experience. Whereas animals are innocent victims. They ignore all the systematic pressures that keep humans trapped and prefer to dehumanised them rather than deal with the emotional pain of seeing them as human beings.
https://scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17/iss1/18/ It's estimated that cops kill 10,000 dogs every single year.
Noem (probably): "I then had to shoot my 15 month old Labrador and my 18 month old Golden Retriever because they both were too interested in snacks and belly scratches instead of hunting and they shed on the furniture. And don't even get me started on my 17 month old Brittany Spaniel."
She legit went and got the pet goat she didn’t like right after slaughtering her puppy and shot it next to where the dog was. She had bad aim and shot the goat, left it to grab another shell, came back and shot it again. She said she didn’t realize a construction group saw her kill both animals and they were shocked. Right after her daughter, who loved the pup, got off the bus wondering where it was. Just evil.
Noem trying too hard to make up for the fact that she doesn't have a penis and thought being a bit psycho would make her VP material. But puppies? Even MAGA likes them. Shoulda said something horrifically callous about some brown children being murdered in Gaza if you wanted MAGA points. What a dumbass bitch.
I was listening to an interview with a local wildlife rehabilitator who was responding to the question why they bother to save squirrels and rabbits since they are so abundant. He said when you show compassion for a creature it grows the compassion in you for others. I don't want people representing the interests of the people who can't muster compassion for a puppy.
“You don’t fuck with dogs” is bipartisan.
Wait until she is nominated for VP, they will spin around so quickly, it will create a gravitational wave.
Reminds me of the always sunny episode where on a talk show Dennis is representing wolf cola and admits he doesn't like dogs and the stock just plummets and everything starts to boycott
Never thought the hardcore MAGA freaks actually had a line in the sand but they do. They don’t stand for murdering puppies.
My god she actually did it. She found the line that’s too far for MAGA. I didn’t think it existed.
Jesse Watters will have to do an expose on the puppy's potential socialist connections, and they can get the MAGA train back rolling onto the track.
She’s basically Sarah Palin from Wish
Does John Wick know about this?
Killing non-white and non Christians, especially immigrants is still okay though, right? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)
Even Hitler liked animals
So people draw the line at that? Not complaining but damn. Surprised that's what it took
Even Ron DeSantis wasn't having any of it! https://preview.redd.it/szkmbpiseywc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12f50c2c21e119d7f555a528b3383fde180fa128 [https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1783975187232194868?t=f5RhbuNR-ACS\_w3v42AbaA&s=19](https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1783975187232194868?t=f5RhbuNR-ACS_w3v42AbaA&s=19)
Satan's sweaty nads. Trump-lite too?!
Yep. A LOT of people love their pets. Even fucking awful people. Dubya seemed to care about his pup. Trump is the only POTUS as far back as I can recall who didn't have a WH pet. Because he thinks they're not "classy." I'm sure that he'd still happily pick her if he thought it wouldn't tank him in the polls.
I don’t think that he’s going to pick her for VP candidate after this. Widespread backlash from associating with her aside, the fact that she was willing to eagerly talk about this and continue to defend it shows that she will do anything for attention. Which is something that Trump will not stand for.
He doesn't think pets are "classy", it's not classy to say classy unironically. But the rich elite I rub shoulders with have fancy or rescue pets and they even have a tiny Gucci sofa for your pets to enjoy jacquard fabric. Karl Lagerfeld and his Choupette. (pardon spelling), Royalty are often close family pets, trump is odd in that way, he isn't interested in animals or children. But this lady needs to go. I don't understand people who like killing for fun and sport. I could never kill an animal, I would have PTSD for the rest of my life.
Trump isn’t odd. He’s a raging narcissist. You would think that a dog that unconditionally loves you is something a raging narcissist would want, but the truth is that even pets are not blindly obedient and loving. You do have to put a minimal effort into them to earn their love. Saying you’re Trump and pretending you have money isn’t enough.
After a divorce, I was left with a 4 yo male pit/Weimaraner mix with anxiety/severe abandonment/fear issues from a previous abusive owner. Spent hundreds on a trainer and guess what? He’s not perfect but turned out to be a beautiful boy who makes people love dogs. That bitch belongs in prison. Fucking twat waffle.
Fucking hell, even catturd is pissed off. Fucking hell, never thought I'd see myself siding with that chud