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That you choose to kill a dog because you’re unequipped to train it doesn’t mean you are smart or tough, it means you’re stupid and reactionary. Today’s GQP.
Literally trained it to hunt pheasant and then shocked pikachu face when she takes it to visit the neighbor's chickens. Blaming others for your own failures in the cruelest way possible.
Fucking hell, that article describes a 14 month old puppy acting like a puppy and this piece of shit just decides to shoot it because she can't be bothered with training.
Personal responsibility is only for poor and/or brown people.
The rich white folks are victims of circumstance when something bad happens. It's never, ever their fault.
This woman is a psychopath.
Obviously. That's a minimum requirement to be a Republican politician these days.
A reflection of their constituents to boot.
... Well, okay. Not all are psychopaths. Many are just naive, low-educated, and grifted.
Not all are psychopaths. but they're OK with being ruled by them.
Why does this asylum keep putting all the cool people in the locked rooms?
- People who vote R, probably
Because those damn gay commie libruls hate freedom, obviously.
"Look I stand up for individual freedumb and small guv'mint and minding yer own beezwax... But I draw the line when I'm forced to see two men that ain't me holdin' hands or having to call someone a different name than they want, like Jon over Jonathan! The audacity!1!"
Honestly even if they do care about the puppy, it's still acceptable to them. They'd eat their own shit if it meant a lib had to smell their breath.
She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
Holy fucking shit this is chilling. "If something is bothering you, Dear Leader, don't worry. I will murder to make that stop."
Jesus... "I am a complete failure as a pet owner, let me tell you how..."
In fiction, a character killing a puppy is short hand for irredeemable monster. Its one of few lines that when crossed, the audience will not accept their possible heel turn. It is a fundamental human trait. Even in situations where a hero kills an attack dog in self defense it’s imperative that not only is it emphasized that the hero has no choice, but the necessity of this situation negatively impact the hero, specifically to not lose the connection with the audience.
For example, The puppy getting killed in John Whick was in the story because the audience would find rooting for John as he goes on a prolific murder spree hard just because he got beat up, and has his car stolen. But after the dog died, you have literally everyone immediately primed for a 2 hour reverse horror movie.
I say this because you currently are seeing a political party using the unnecessary murder of a puppy for the sake of convenience and as a show of … “ChArAcTeR” to speak to their base.
An individual may be psychopathic which could be considered a medical condition. But for a political party? Thats mask off.
Importantly, Trump sees his political opponents as dogs:
‘Like a dog’: Trump has a long history of using canine insults to dehumanize enemies
So… about that theory of mine, that trumped picks his VPs based on best blowjob….
“…yes Mother…”
So there's hope for Stormy Daniels to run? Can't be worse that these psycho clowns.
That would be nice. That way if Trump kicks in office we'll have our first female president and she'll be perfect for the GOP. After all, it was their lord and savior, Saint Reagan, who said "Someone once said that politics is the second-oldest profession. I'm beginning to think it bears resemblance to the first." By that metric she is well suited for Republican politics.
I wouldn’t think she’d agree to be his VP after all this.
If only Nancy was still alive…
The Throat GOAT of Hollywood!
Ew
What’s wrong with giving the dog to a shelter?! So an actual human being can raise it properly and train it? This is psychotic behavior. Even more psychotic to brag about it in a book.
Because her mentality is that animals' lives have no value beyond the utility they bring to humans. It's a surprisingly common one.
But she says good politicians wouldn't admit it! That means she's one of us!
Next up: Supreme Court declares Trump a living god. The living god demands a sacrifice.
Not saying her actions are right, but I live in a rural area and people personally shooting their own dogs and other animals that are deemed a danger is pretty common. People often do it when the animals need to be euthanized for health reasons too.
I personally know lots of people who do this. I have plenty of family members who have done it.
Again, I don't think her actions were appropriate. I just want to point out how commonplace shooting ones own animals is (in some places) since a lot of people here seem totally unaware.
BS I was born in SD. The only time that I saw a dog being shot was when it was rabid. There are humane ways of doing things. And Kriste lives in a mansion, not in a rural setting.
Just to reiterate, I'm not saying it's right. There are absolutely better ways of addressing these issues.
But I don't know what to tell you--I don't live far from SD and I have personally spoken to multiple people (face to face) that have done exactly what Kristi Noem described.
She didn't do it because the dog was sick or dangerous. She did it because she didn't care about it anymore. So, instead of giving it up for adoption, let's just shoot it!
Not justifiable.
I'm not justifying it. I don't think it's justifiable. I just wanted to bring up how common this behavior is in some rural areas.
Ok.
It's not right. People that treat animals that way are not in rural areas with friends. Maybe you're living in an area where they do that sort of thing, and it's not met with scorn.
I'm in complete agreement with you.
I just wanted to bring up a big cultural difference I've seen in my area that people seem to be unaware of.
I'm waiting for the "shook newborn causing SIDS candidate…" /s
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.
What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.
Like other aspirants to be Trump’s second vice-president who have ventured into print, Noem offers readers a mixture of autobiography, policy prescriptions and political invective aimed at Democrats and other enemies, all of it raw material for speeches on the campaign stump.
She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
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Killing animals is how every serial killer got started.
Wow they are really milking this “VP candidate writes about killing her dog” angle.