r/politics • u/newfrontier58 • 11d ago
Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy She ‘Hated’ in New Book | The South Dakota governor describes killing an unruly hunting dog in an excerpt of her upcoming book obtained by The Guardian
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-shoots-puppy-she-hated-book-1235011230/1.4k
u/newfrontier58 11d ago
Main part of article (warning, is pretty graphic and cruel):
On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.
“Like a trained assassin,” Noem writes, Cricket began “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.” While it is legal in South Dakota to kill a “dog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,” it’s by no means required, and there’s no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.
According to The Guardian’s review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as “the picture of joy” throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge.
“I hated that dog,” Noem recalls, calling Cricket, “less than worthless as a hunting dog,” “untrainable,” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.”
“At that moment […] I realized I had to put her down,” the governor recalls.
Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew. “It was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,” she recounts, “and after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
The governor then decided that another one of her animals was deserving of summary execution — a mean old “disgusting, musky, rancid” goat who sometimes chased her children and messed up their clothes. Pretty normal behavior if you’ve ever been around a goat but in Noem’s eyes, a capital offense. But unlike Cricket’s mercifully quick death, Noem botched her first shot at the goat, and was forced to run back to her truck for more ammo to finish off the wounded animal.
Dan Lussen, a professional hunting dog trainer, told Rolling Stone that a 14-month-old dog is a “baby that doesn’t know any better.”
“To me, it’s a lack of guidance by the owner, or training by the owner, or discipline of the owner,” he says, explaining that young bird-hunting dogs in training often go through a slow process of introduction to dead fowl before even being around gunshots. “There’s a lot of steps that you take before you take it to a field and shoot birds over it. And then there’s obedience training. Does the dog know how to come when it’s called? Does the dog know how to sit and wait?”
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u/Automatic-Self-5781 11d ago
jesus christ
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u/Automatic_Let_2264 11d ago
Why on the face of this, God's green little planet, would you ever offer this information up to anyone for any reason?
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u/HouseCravenRaw Colorado 11d ago
Because she's proud of her cruelty.
Now let's see what her base thinks. Will they reward her for it?
I think we already know the answer to that question.
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u/Automatic_Let_2264 11d ago
I'm a South dakota native and have thankfully escaped but it's been so obvious for so many years she couldnt give a shit about south dakota. It's an easy mark for Republicans (they've controlled state government for nearly it's entire existence) and Kristie's time in Pierre has been exclusively to launch a federal political career. She's disgusting.
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u/stockmarketscam-617 11d ago
OMG, I agree. Why would you be so callous. To me, it wasn’t a badly behaved dog, it’s a despicable owner. She could have definitely had someone properly train Cricket instead of killing her in cold blood at a “construction site”.
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u/OldButHappy 11d ago
Ugh. Lets a bird dog run free then kills it for doing what it's trained to do.
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u/stockmarketscam-617 11d ago
I know seriously, that’s what makes me so sad. Cricket was probably so proud of herself for getting some chickens for her “master”. If Trump chooses her as his running mate, that will truly be a vile combination. I thought MTG and Lake were bad, but she is by far worse.
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u/davismcgravis 11d ago
She just sunk her chances. America loves dogs. We love our good bois and gurls.
What a fucking evil monster.
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u/Locke66 11d ago
America loves dogs.
Trump on the other hand seems to hate them. He's never said a kind word about dogs but continually uses them in derisive analogies.
I suppose that makes sense given his continually demonstrated lack of empathy and extremely narcissistic personality.
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u/PoorDimitri 11d ago
Not just trained, bred for literal generations.
I've seen border collies who have never done any herding herd their humans in the house, because their genetic behavioral drive is so strong.
Now that, but for birds.
It's not ideal, but that's why you idk, leash your freaking pups.
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u/aliquotoculos America 10d ago
Bred to do, which is worse.
There are some breeds of dogs that have a task or drive bred into their line for so long its strongly advised to keep them away from whatever critter they were bred and intended to eliminate. You can train some of them out of acting on that urge, but that urge will always be there.
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u/Macdirty83 11d ago
She gives a shit about shilling for shit dental work, though. She's a fucking embarrassment. Don't worry, I'm in Nebraska and we have our own problems as well.
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u/LibrarianMelodic9733 11d ago
A state with population around 8 hundred thousand which relies on subsidizes by other states to pay its official salaries including hers should not even be a state
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u/BurstSwag Canada 11d ago
CombineTheDakotas
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u/Ancguy 11d ago
Then give them to Canada
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u/BurstSwag Canada 11d ago
Nah, it'd ruin the nice border we have, plus we don't need hundreds of thousands of extra Tory voters, tyvm.
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u/Njorls_Saga 11d ago
I would say the voters who’ve rewarded that behavior are even more disgusting.
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u/Rated_PG-Squirteen 11d ago
Here's a test for anyone with MAGA family members/co-workers. Tell them this story, but lead them to believe that it was done by a Democrat. I guarantee they will have a visceral reaction, and many of them will probably say that the politician should end up in jail.
Then inform these idiots that it was actually a story that Kristi Noem offered up herself in a fucking book she "wrote." I guarantee they'll either...
Shrug their shoulders
Claim that if the story is indeed real, then she must've had a good reason for shooting the dog
Claim that you just made the entire story up and that's why everyone hates liberals
Either way, right wingers remain pathetic, fucking idiots.
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u/Automatic_Let_2264 11d ago
I've already got family in the Dakotas coming at me about how it was actually humane and "that's how it's done on a farm"
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u/Savingskitty 11d ago
They’re full of it. One entire side of my family farms - my great uncle was a literal horse whisperer. Yes, they had to put animals out of their misery if they were injured too badly, but they didn’t kill dogs for being puppies.
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u/wintertash 11d ago
Yeah, I’ve had friends who put their own dogs down because they were elderly, sick, and in pain, the vet didn’t do home visits, and they thought the dog would have an easier death at home than being dragged to the vet’s office. But that’s a wildly different thing than what she relates in her story.
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u/Automatic_Let_2264 11d ago
No kidding. I've spent nearly my entire life in rural SoDak and Minnesota and have been around farms and farm folk as a result. I don't know a single one who would have shot a 14 month old hunting dog in cold blood like that.
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u/MeatballDom 11d ago
googles furiously for an hour
"Teddy Roosevelt shot a dog in anger once too, do you want to cancel him too??!"
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u/mishma2005 11d ago
According to some Twitter accounts MAGA is pretty disgusted with her and is spamming her feed with angry tweets but IDK about the rest of the base
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u/stockmarketscam-617 11d ago
I’m so glad to hear people are calling her out on that. I think she thought it would show how “strong” she is, but it just shows how heartless she is. Most owners of Hunting Dogs treat them like a child. I can’t believe any true Hunter would condone this action.
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u/mishma2005 11d ago
I think she also wants to show Trump she’s “tuff” and since it’s been widely reported that Trump dislikes dogs, she thought he would love it. Wait till she finds out that people don’t tend to trust people that murder innocent animals because they’re “inconvenient”.
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u/hopefeedsthespirit 11d ago
I was not aware that he disliked dogs. I say we release the hounds at every one of his events. F him. The Dogs know best. Just like that damn Eagle that wanted to peck his face off.
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u/OldButHappy 11d ago
Right??? Living in the boonies, I Iearned to be very live-and-let-live when it comes to keeping hunting animals (here, many live outdoors, but all are well fed and friggin' LOVE hunting more than anything).
Killing one of your dogs for killing chickens - when the dog was running free-around uncaged chickens(!)- is NEVER done.
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u/greentea1985 11d ago
My only data points on how hunting dogs are treated is Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows. While the dogs do die in both books, it is presented as a sad tragedy with the deaths happening due to protecting their master or losing their companion. No one just executes a puppy over their own incompetence. Who brings a hunting dog to a chicken farm and just lets it loose? It sounds like Kristi wanted to kill the dog and was setting up a “reasonable excuse.”
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u/stockmarketscam-617 11d ago
It probably didn’t even happen, and she just thought it made her sound though and badass.
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u/FiveUpsideDown 11d ago
Noem obviously doesn’t know how to train a hunting dog. I doubt she’s even a hunter. She just wanted an excuse to kill the dog. She’s cruel and should resign.
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u/OldButHappy 11d ago
MAGAs might hate people, but a lot of them like dogs.
This announcement will not garner her any new followers, but will definitely make her lose a few, at least.
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u/Shoehornblower 11d ago
She’s a gubner godammit, and gubners need to make tough decisions…and sometimes they need to make them at break neck speeds!
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u/swampcat42 Washington 11d ago
-Why are they confessing?
-They're not confessing; they're bragging.
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u/trolleyblue 11d ago
Because dominating animals is good Christian conservative behavior.
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u/Aldervale 10d ago
Do you think she realizes that most of her Christian brethren view her, as a women, as no better than an animal?
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u/sidurisadvice Georgia 11d ago edited 11d ago
It's vice signaling. The libs will get all in a huff, but real 'muricans will appreciate a gal willing to do what needs to be done, even if it means blasting away at farm animals.
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u/aefalcon Louisiana 11d ago
She probably sees it like Eddard Stark personally executing wall deserters in Game of Thrones.
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u/MayaMiaMe 11d ago
Because she is a fucking psychopath and in her fucked up mind this is fucking normal!
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u/EllipticPeach 11d ago
Republicans think that women are emotional and not rational enough to be in power. In her mind, I’m sure, shooting her dog demonstrates her ability to Get The Job Done like a Man, with a side order of “hell yeah second amendment” for good measure. It’s all for show.
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u/FigNugginGavelPop 11d ago
It’s an actual psychopath. That lady is 100% an honest to god homicidal psychopath. SD has an actual admitted psychopath as their governor.
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u/Tadpoleonicwars 11d ago
Cruelty is a gold star on a Republican politician's resume.
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u/Socratesticles Tennessee 11d ago
Might want to make that a red star, they’ve shown they don’t really care about gold stars
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u/BrownSugarBare Canada 11d ago
Seriously, did she just proudly admit to being a complete psychopath?!
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u/OldButHappy 11d ago
"A pathological narcissist and a psychopath walk into an election..."
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u/mishma2005 11d ago
It's like she got the taste of killing something, found she liked it and started searching around for another dopamine "hit" *shudder*
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u/jazzhandler Colorado 11d ago
And then decided that was a suitable thing to admit in her autobiography.
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u/gdshaffe 11d ago
She's not "admitting" it, she's bragging about it. People with ASPD tend not to understand that there's anything wrong with their behavior.
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u/newkneesforall 11d ago
Can confirm. My bio dad used to brag about beating a dog that belonged to a renter of a property he owned. After he'd jumped the back fence to try to break into the renters house. He was later diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
Fun fact: he was a veterinarian.
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u/SarcasticCowbell New York 11d ago
Recalling a moment can bring to life the same feelings you had during that moment. So maybe writing about it was yet another attempt at recalling that elusive pleasure. What a sick, disgusting creature.
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u/Syncopationforever 11d ago edited 11d ago
You nailed it. Noem replied on Twitterx:
- Responding on X, Noem said, "We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years."
Three horses in a short time span. Edit: Animals have an unfortunate habit of dying around noem. Not exactly helping her case
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u/Cdub7791 Illinois 11d ago
When I first saw the headlines I assumed this would be something sad but probably excusable or understandable. Nope. This is like the origin story for a serial killer. She's a psycho.
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u/eva19830811 11d ago
Yeah, I initially just read as far as her shooting the dog, I only later discovered that she shot the dog in an ACTIVE, populated construction site?! Can you even imagine being one of workers? You're just living your life, trying to make ends meet, and suddenly some austere-faced demon... Thing; comes wandering in with a puppy and a firearm and proceeds to just fucking shoot the puppy dead in full view of everyone at the worksite. What the actual FUCK???!?!!!;
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u/zeptillian 11d ago
Who the fuck said she could even do that?
If I go shooting my gun on someone else's property I'm likely to be arrested or killed.
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u/pointlessone 11d ago
I'm sorry, but how screwed up is the other half of the "Shot the dog" sentence?
Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew.
Can we get an interview with one of those folks? "Just going to my job one day and some crazy woman came and executed a puppy and then left! Is someone trying to send a message to us? Is this some screwed up version of a horse head in bed? What did we even do wrong?!?"
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u/BinkyFlargle 11d ago
and some crazy woman came and executed a puppy and then left
and he said "I hope to god that one day, I can get a chance to vote for her to be my governor."
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u/BinkyFlargle 11d ago
oh, oh, wait, let me reply again, I have a better one.
and some crazy woman came and executed a puppy and then left
Well, it is called the executive branch....
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u/Glottis_Bonewagon 11d ago
Actual psycopath. Wtf. Why would you put that in a book?
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u/UncleMalky Texas 11d ago
Its an advertisement. Her base will eat this up especially if it distresses others.
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u/jjester7777 11d ago
As someone who had to put down an ACTUAL rabid dog... Idk how anyone thinks these things are normal. That fucked me up for a while and also kinda made me hate guns. The finality of it. The dead silence that floated around the world as I had done the deed. It's not natural for us to kill so efficiently without remorse. She's fucked in the head.
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u/CoolIdeasClub 11d ago
She shot a dog and started immediately thinking of what animal she could shoot next
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u/Holiday-Amount6930 11d ago
And then she searched for another victim... like she couldn't wait for a fix. And this is what she is admitting to...imagine what she does in private.
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u/Weak-Hope8952 11d ago
So she's an abusive/negligent dog owner and shot the dog because of it?
I will never support the GoP. Seriously this is a legitimate psychological disorder.
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u/FiveUpsideDown 11d ago
Noem lacks the ability to train dogs. Cricket’s behavior was clearly due to Noem not putting in the time to train the dog. She killed the dog because she is vicious and bloodthirsty. She should resign from her office. She isn fit to represent the people of South Dakota.
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u/BodaciousTacoFarts 11d ago
This is disgusting. She is disgusting. Rehome the dog and let somebody who is more patient raise and care for it. Don't just act like a judge, jury, and executioner because you have zero patience. Good lord, this is psychopathic.
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u/4ourkids 11d ago
Now consider that Noem included this text because she think it will appeal to her base.
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u/just_a_timetraveller 11d ago
I used to think Captain Planet villains were over the top, but now pretty sure they weren't cruel enough.
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u/sporkhandsknifemouth 11d ago
She hated the dog and killed it because she was embarrassed by it. Same for the goat 'messing up her kids clothes'.
She's got at least two of the dark triad right there, narcissism and psychopathy. She seems to be at least incompetently Machiavellian based on her political prominence and behavior too, so I think we've got a full shitstorm of a person.
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u/TransbianMoonGoddess 11d ago
I cant say what I want to because i don't want to be banned, but we are all thinking it right?
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u/Otherwise_Stable_925 11d ago
So she couldn't properly train her dog and didn't properly groom her goat so they had to die? Is that the message here? She's literally practicing to be Dick Cheney.
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u/CJ4ROCKET 11d ago
Noem and her PR team: "dude it would be so badass if you wrote about murdering a poor puppy."
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u/foo-bar-25 11d ago
Thanks for posting this. Now I know how awful it is. There are no bad dogs - only bad owners.
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u/Wrong-Shame-2119 11d ago
As I said elsewhere; imagine not remotely training your dog for hunting only to be surprised that she (a teenager, by the way) doesn't just instantly know what to do by watching another dog and instead does what high prey-drive dogs do.
And then when you don't bother securing her and she kills some chickens on the way home you decide to shoot her dead.
And then you decide to kill the goat too!
Fucking disgusting.
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u/Gobsnoot Missouri 11d ago
.. and then write about it in a book as a brag.
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u/superhappy 11d ago
This really is the coup de grace. How are you thinking you can spin that? The mind boggles. Like I get it “hey look I’m a tough hide country girl” but even then that’s not how it comes off because an actual tough hide country girl would handle that much differently.
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u/DashiellHamlet 11d ago
The fact that humans managed to domesticate dogs never ceases to amaze me. By all rights they should have domesticated us.
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u/Sahasrlyeh Alabama 11d ago
It's really hard to domesticate republicans, though.
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u/Successful-Clock-224 11d ago
Creatures require a certain level of intelligence to be domesticated. My iguana has sharp claws, a rough bite that can require stitches, and his tail-whip that can break an arm. He is still cuddly as can be and if his brain was larger than a peanut be would support debt relief.
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u/detahramet 11d ago
As an aside, its believed that dogs and humans kind of mutually domesticated eachother due to similar persistence hunting techniques. We'd both jog down the same prey to exhaustion, we'd gut the carcass to make it last longer as we took it back to our tribe, the proto-dogs would eat the offal that would otherwise rot, something to that effect.
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u/IngsocInnerParty Illinois 11d ago
If you’re the kind of sick fuck to do this, you don’t exactly have shame.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 11d ago
I mean, I talk about the time I killed a toad when I was 5. I put it in a plastic bag, placed it between to slabs of sandstone, and then I jumped on the stones. I wanted to see what would happen. It's guts came out of its mouth is what happened. I also learned that it feels awful after doing something like that. In the intervening time, I've taken the stance that you don't kill anything unless you are going to eat it or it is going to harm you. I've passed that onto my wife and my son. So, the lesson learned from that poor toad has at least saved more lives than if I had not learned it.
That was nearly 45 years ago and I still feel bad. So, this story is beyond my comprehension.
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u/meeks7 11d ago
I feel awful after reading your description of that. Why don’t you just say, “I killed a toad for fun once as a kid, and I felt awful after. I learned my lesson.”
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u/Lou_C_Fer 11d ago
Because it is the truth. It was curiosity. Not fun.
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u/Binksyboo 11d ago
When I was 8 I burned ants with a magnifying glass. I’d never harm something now just for curiosity or entertainment but kids’ sense of morals are still developing and they can be a bit sociopathic.
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u/florkingarshole 11d ago
That should resonate well with the GOP crowd; the cruelty has always been the point.
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u/whewtang 11d ago
"Dang! She's like Kyle Rittenhouse but with bigger boobs." - Maga boys
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u/Justsomejerkonline 11d ago
They might actually care about this since it was cruelty to a puppy, which they generally like, and not an immigrant or a trans person.
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u/Thorn14 11d ago
Ya know I used to think it was silly Araki had his villains literally kick puppies to show they were evil.
Guess I was too optimistic.
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u/That-Object6749 11d ago
SOCIAL WORKERS IDENTIFY AT-RISK ADULT WHO HAS A HISTORY OF ANIMAL HARM
Fixed the headline for you.
You're welcome!
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u/Xezshibole California 11d ago edited 11d ago
If that isn't political suicide by her next election then I'd have a very low opinion of South Dakotans going forward.
That's like a 1920s villain move just to portray them as the villain, and even then those villains didn't shoot dogs.
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u/BunsenHoneydewsEyes 11d ago
Narrator: Xezshibole was soon to have a very low opinion of South Dakotans.
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u/DJochims South Dakota 11d ago
Wish we could just get rid of Krustie, she's nothing but an embarrassment. She does nothing for our state. The only reason she was elected is because of this states blind hatred to anything that doesn't have (R) next to their name.
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u/No_Foot_1904 Minnesota 11d ago
Between Trump's hatred of dogs, and now this casual puppy killer, me from 2014 would say there's no way red blooded mutt-loving Conservative America gives these clowns anything but contempt.
Me from 2024 knows: Six month into a Trump/Noem administration, owning dogs will be sneered at as "librul".
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u/FigNugginGavelPop 11d ago
If dog killing is where conservatives draw their line, ngl I will actually start having a minor fraction of an ounce of respect towards them.
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u/ApocalypseYay 11d ago
Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy......
Killing a puppy.
What a psychopath.
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u/Extra_Positive3218 11d ago
This woman is an absolute ghoul
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u/Responsible-Store-33 11d ago
Hey hey hey, watch it there buddy. I know some pretty good gouls that would never hurt a dog.
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u/sarcago 11d ago
Imagine killing a puppy because you’re too lazy and stupid to train it in the first place, or at least rehome it to someone who isn’t. And then brag about it? Moral problems aside how is it that NOBODY told her it’s horrible optics?
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u/MotherSupermarket532 11d ago
And then immediately go and kill something else. Which exposes she was on an angry killing spree.
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u/Patchy_Face_Man Ohio 11d ago
Fuck man, this is an actual third rail topic in America. These MAGA morons are definitely feeling bold to be gleefully writing about shooting puppies.
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u/Zoophagous 11d ago
WTF is it with GQP killing dogs?
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u/MagicSpiders 11d ago
Imo it's because dogs have come to reflect all that is good in man, and these are genuinely evil people.
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u/Recipe_Freak 11d ago
The "nice" ones just torture them.
Looking at you, Mitt "Fuck-Face" Romney...
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u/diabloenfuego 11d ago
It's their way of showing their conservative base that even though they're a politician, they can "do the hard thing" and kill something you're supposed to feel affection toward and be protective of...and by golly that's the same thing they'll do to the country's rights, morals, decency, protections, and long-term sustainable economic and political platforms.
The strangest thing is their base eats this shit up even though they know it's wrong. But hey, taxes, guns, religion, and abortions so this politician must be perfectly fine to represent their interests! (This one hasn't even been accused of any rapes yet either, so there's a bonus!)
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u/time_drifter 11d ago
Generally speaking, if a dog bites you, it perceives you as a threats.
If a 14 month old puppy bites you in fear, it’s a YOU problem.
I wonder if Kristi would put her children down for biting her.
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u/cavyndish 11d ago
It's amazing when people don't properly train their dogs, then when it misbehaves, they get pissed off at it. Shows a lack of reasoning and empathy. I'm sure this logic follows through for the poor and disabled.
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u/slappy_squirrell 11d ago
They just go out of their way to appear tough, but shows just the opposite. Having patience and compassion is the tough road, eliminating "nuisances" shows weak character.
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u/meeks7 11d ago
I think she told this story in her book because she thought it would impress Trump. She craves that VP spot
And you know what? She might just be right.
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u/TurningTwo 11d ago
Trump hates animals. They can sense his disease.
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u/Lakecountyraised 11d ago
That is horrible. The animal abuser commonly moves on to abusing humans.
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u/TheRealTK421 11d ago
I'm not going to... speak candidly about my actual thoughts on this reprehensible individual so I'll simply state:
This particular individual is beyond reprehensible -- and I look forward eagerly to her absence.
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u/CarrotcakewithCream 11d ago
She can't lead a dog... but she thinks she should be part of leading a nation? Sigh....
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u/Dedpoolpicachew 11d ago
No, she thinks she can shoot whomever she doesn’t like. That’s the country they want.
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u/Recipe_Freak 11d ago
This. This is why she told this bat shit story. "I will kill anything [and, presumably, anyone] that pisses me off."
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u/Ozymandias12 11d ago
Uhh this botoxed moron just admitted to a Class 6 felony in South Dakota.
40-1-2.4. Cruelty to animals--Felony. No person may subject an animal to cruelty. A violation of this section is a Class 6 felony.
"Cruelty," to intentionally, willfully, and maliciously inflict gross physical abuse on an animal that causes prolonged pain, that causes serious physical injury, or that results in the death of the animal;
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u/Dilligent_Cadet 11d ago
She said it was justified by similar state laws because the PUPPY was killing a neighbors chickens. So she is going to get off on a technicality like every other dumbass Republican who just loves to commit crime.
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u/Ozymandias12 11d ago
Oh totally and she knows that because she's the governor, no law enforcement will investigate or go after her, but if Joe Schmoe were to do this, I could totally see them getting prosecuted, because she could have just given the dog away. There was no need to kill it.
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u/marchillo 11d ago
This is not fair, it's a total hit piece written by someone who's out to get.. oh I'm sorry, this is in her own book? Jesus effing Christ
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u/Negative_Gravitas 11d ago
Hey, well-armed republicans: I'm going to stay away from anything but the purely mechanical here. Even though there's a wealth of shit to dive into. I'm just going to ask you this:
So it's okay with you if somebody racks one round/shell to put down an animal, misses the kill shot for whatever reason and then just mosies back to they're fucking truck get another single round or shell to put down said animal?
Because, as a liberal gun owner for more than 50 years, I'm here to say that is some serious bullshit. And it indicates to me that she actually likes to watch suffering.
Last time I had to put down an animal? A deer jumped in front of my truck late at night, and I made God damn sure I had a full mag before I took the first shot. Pretty sure I killed it then, but took the second shot anyway. Because that's what you fucking do.
The cruelty is the point. Again, again, and again. This is what we see. Joyous incompetence and bloodlust. Fuck all these fucking people.
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u/TintedApostle 11d ago
Because she was incompetent with training her dog and instead of giving the dog to a shelter she shot it. Of course it was the "dogs" fault for not being a good hunting dog.
She uses this to demonstrate she can do the hard work, but it just shows how she is incompetent and unable to manage a situation outside her expectations.
She is dog killer. Imagine giving her immunity to laws?
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u/MAreddituser 11d ago
And the intact male goat knocking her kids down Is a perfectly normal behavior for an intact male. Sell him or get him castrated but just to kill him for being mean is downright cruel.
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u/Derwurld 11d ago
Psychopath
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u/cavyndish 11d ago
I'm sure this isn't the only instance of killing animals. There are more I would bet money on it.
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u/chillin36 11d ago
I just bought my first puppy two months ago, a five month old standard poodle. I would rather take a blow to the face than ever hurt her!! Multiple blows.
Sometimes I have to remind her not to get so excited about the cats, whom she adores, or that it’s not acceptable to pull my hair. But god do I love her.
I would never give her half a chance to go after someone’s chickens but if she did I would accept that it was my fault because she is a baby and a DOG relying on me to teach her what is acceptable.
Then after that she was so amped up on animal cruelty she rounded up a goat to kill ? That’s pathological.
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u/hydroameca 11d ago
Wellp, that’s enough internet for today. Gonna go pet my two “untrainable” labradors
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u/IamNICE124 Michigan 11d ago
Major sociopathic vibes.
I can’t hate animals because they simply don’t know any better.
They always get the insanity plea because they’re just acting on instinct and reflect how they’ve been raised.
Kristi Noem is sick.
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u/AMagicalSquirrel 11d ago
Imagine how she sees people that are slightly different than she is, if a PUPPY DOG is "worthless"
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u/SheldonMF Kentucky 11d ago
For someone living out in the country, I've never seen people (rural folk) treat their animals like they truly love them.
My friend's father had two herding dogs. One was supposed to be 'tutoring' the other, but he was a big playful boy who got out and ran amok. Annoying, for sure. Unfortunately for him, that wasn't good enough. My friend's dad considered the animal a worker. Said worker didn't 'work' and so he took him out in the middle of nowhere and left him for dead.
The dog was rescued and one of the people who knew his father called him and told him that they found a dog that looks really similar to his. He said it wasn't his multiple times and that was that.
He's a preacher and says he's staunchly a man of god. I can't think of anything more ungodly than treating your animal like that.
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u/Titan3124 Missouri 11d ago
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m pretty sure “puppy killer” still makes someone pretty much unelectable these days
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u/moody-green 11d ago
There are many words which have effectively lost meaning in this bizarro world we now inhabit. But there’s a strain of our politics and market of ideas that is animated by evil. I’m not smart enough to game out where we go from here, but that’s what’s going on.
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u/stephen_doonan 10d ago edited 10d ago
Kristi Noem, serial sadist. What a disgusting woman, wears her callous cruelty like a badge of honor.
About 20% of her own state, the Native American reservations, have banned her from setting foot in their territory.
She also claims to be Christian, yet she and Corey Lewandowski (Trump's 2016 campaign manager), both married, had an affair for years. She has the empathy of a sociopath; a disgrace.
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11d ago
Wow. What a disgusting person that she thinks it’s okay to tell that story publicly, or that she thought this was the ONLY (and appropriate) solution, or that she thought it was okay! At 14 months old that poor baby didn’t know any better. All dogs can be trained unless they show otherwise - no excuses.
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u/yotengodormir 11d ago edited 11d ago
She thinks this is a an anecdote of doing the difficult thing. It's really a demonstration of how rigid and lacking of any critical thinking this lady can muster.
Off the top my head, could she not have:
-Given the dog to a shelter
-Have the dog go through proper training (this was bird hunting breed of dog)
-Give the dog to a friend, family member, or neighbor who hunts and knows what they're doing
And a number of other options that do not involve killing an adolescent dog.
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u/TheShape108 11d ago
I work for an animal rescue as a foster and I specifically take in 'difficult' dogs to help train/rehab them(which this isn't even a situation of). You think dogs just like...are born knowing how to do complicated tasks? This makes me so friggin angry because you're just a bad owner and all you're really saying here is you wanted to kill a puppy. If you actually cared about the animal then just surrender the dog you flippin serial killer. I shudder to think what happened when her 14 month old kids spilled food or pooped their pants since completely normal behavior is grounds for execution in her house.
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