I honestly think the best take away from that story (outside of her clearly unethical response) is that she’s an absolutely trash leader who can’t even properly raise a dog - a state or the country are far beyond her skillset.
It’s exactly the kind of ethics the GOP wants from their kingpins when they subvert democracy: the capacity to react murderously to disobedience.
I think you broke the code yes. I think it’s moderately likely that “get your hands dirty” will become a phrase we hear again in the somewhat-near future as shit gets more and more real leading up to the election.
I’m not saying that at all as a good thing, just where the GOP seems to want things to be heading.
“Having the strength to do the dirty work” has been a euphemism for committing selfish, barbaric atrocities for…forever, basically. A lot of the people prosecuted for Abu Ghraib used similar justification, for example.
They don’t seem to realize that Col Jessup was the villain in A Few Good Men.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican seen as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, tells a story in her new book about shooting and killing her young dog and a goat
Noem, who became governor in 2019, likened murdering her canine to having the ability and willingness in politics to do anything “difficult, messy, and ugly.”
I remember when presidential candidate Mitt Romney sunk his political career by telling what he thought was a humorous tale of creative problem solving that involved strapping the family dog to the roof of an overloaded car. This is like that, but horrifyingly worse.
During the 650-mile (1,050 km) trip, Seamus got diarrhea. The Romneys were first alerted to the Irish Setter’s bowel issues when Tagg noticed brown liquid pouring down the back window, followed immediately by him and his younger brothers yelling in disgust. Romney stopped at a gas station to wash the dog, the carrier, and the car. With Seamus back in the carrier, the family continued on their way.
I never knew the rest of the story.
What an asshole.
That was before the GOP became the party of sociopathy. I’m sure loving dogs will be the next symptom of the Woke Mind Virus.
Before they outed themselves as the party of sociopathy.*
FTFY
The crate apparently had a “windshield”. I’m a dog lover, but I’m prepared to believe that Romney’s dog was OK with travelling like that. I’m not saying that every dog would be OK with it, but I trust him to know his own dog. I mean, my dog would watch fireworks shows with me. Most other dogs would probably hate doing that, but that doesn’t mean that I was somehow abusing my dog by bringing him with me.
Her daughter Kennedy looked confused, according to Noem, asking: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Jesus tapdancing Christ
Honestly, killing animals like this is one of the first signs of serial killers, is it not?
You can definitely argue that a lot of preventable covid deaths in SD were a result of her terrible policy.
We know that she believes any being not immediately useful to her is unworthy of life. This is such a core part of her identity that she believes she deserves accolades for it. She didn’t just kill her dog, she did it and then bragged about it because she thinks it makes her look strong.
“I murdered my dog because I’m willing to get my hands dirty to get the job done”
No. You’re just a psychopath…
This isn’t the point but how did she miss a whole goat and dog at point blank range? I own zero guns but I grew up in the South and I’m pretty sure I could hit the wizard in Mario 3 with a shotgun if you let me set up the shot.
The story should be that she’s an insane sociopath. But also, she missed! And she said construction workers were nearby and a school bus was coming. That’s some irresponsible shit. Don’t kill a puppy anyway but definitely don’t if there’s workers and a school bus nearby.
The answer is by simply not giving a fuck (or actively hoping to) if you inflict unnecessary suffering on the poor animal.
She’s very clearly an outright psychopath, so I’m guessing it was on purpose.
I’m not sure I understand the logic of her even telling this story. So like if she finds herself unable to “train” a disobedient state judiciary or something, is she saying that this is her plan B?
Right? “I failed to train my dog and it killed a chicken while we were hunting birds, so I had to murder it.”
Okay, sorry your dog killed a bird while you were trying to get it to kill a different type of bird? You either didn’t train it well enough or it made an innocent mistake… not a reason to kill it
She’s as out of touch of being able to train her dog as she is to be a representative of the State. When we voted to legalize weed, she made a sheriff start a lawsuit to block it on a BS technicality. Used citizen tax dollars against the will of the people who pay them.
More directly, this boast is more of anger issues being attempted of changing the narritive to “go getter attitude.” Don’t know details of the book, but how this article cites it seems more they she lost her shit over a puppy (honestly being a puppy) killing a neighbor’s chicken (not specified if dog was loose or chicken got out), and even that didn’t satiate her anger, she went and killed a goat for doing goat things (fertile male who was territorial.)
Honestly, her willingness to be a piece of shit (for various things, feel free to read her wikipedia) is a garner for attention from the worst parts of the GOP to only advance herself, because that’s all who she cares about.
It seems like a failure on multiple fronts. For the magabrained types, she was both unable to train a dog to hunt AND is apparently a bad shot and terrible at handling guns.
For the normal Americans, she just comes off like a psycho.
Kristi Noem is a fucking monster & the world will be a better place when she is a footnote in the wastepaper basket of political history.
Welp. There’s no way anyone could ever convince me Republicans aren’t evil now, having read all the stories of these monsters torturing or killing dogs. 😬
You hurt a dog, you’re automatically discounted as a human-being in my eyes.
This but for all animals. A hunting trip implies she was there to kill animals anyway.
She probably thinks telling this story will be sure to clinch trump’s VP slot for herself.
I don’t think this story would alienate her from the MAGA base. Conservatives love the aesthetics of farm life/hunting, doing the dirty work, etc. We’re talking about people who defended “grab her by the pussy”.
Even Republicans have dogs and love them. I think on balance this will hurt her, even from her base. People who like their dogs (if they hear about it) will be disgusted.
But you see, only trump’s opinion matters, and trump hates dogs. If he picks her, magats will fall in line and come up with rationalizations that what she did was good.
Not saying it’s right, but most people feel more attachment to their dogs than to strangers (immigrants, queers, liberals etc). So while there will definitely be maga people who still support her, what I’m saying is on average, more people who might otherwise be supporters will be disturbed.
I think you’re right that they’d be disturbed. But I think their cognitive dissonance will overcome that and they’ll rationalize it in whatever way they need to to see it as acceptable, because in their eyes trump never makes a mistake or does anything wrong.
THIS. They will go crazy(ier) from the cognitive dissonance but they’ll probably champion donnie/Kristi kind of thinking, calling dog owners “woke” and SJW, etc…
Even Hitler loved dogs. If this comes to pass, the magats won’t even have that going for them.
Not only that, but she comes off like a complete dumbass when it comes to handling guns. Even idtiot gun-fondlers probably noticed that, but might have to deal with the cognitive dissonance later…
This screams of a performative princess that had no idea how to train a dog.
So saying the quiet part out loud has now extended to bragging about being a psychopath.
It seems that nearly every day I see another thing that future historians will be able to cite as an example of the alarmingly self-destructive behavior in the days leading up to the collapse of the US.
Kristi Noem is a despicable cunt. I hope she stubs a minimum of one toe every day for the rest of her miserable life.
Of course it’s a republican.
It’s funny to see her try to walk it back. So far not working.
How is she trying to walk it back?
Ah, I see. I hope this ends her political career.
“I killed 3 more horses last week, also buy my new book.”
I’m guessing she’s “pro life”.
Isn’t that felony animal abuse?
Sadly, if you don’t cause the animal undue pain (a clean shot almost certainly is not legally considered to cause undue pain, but noem didn’t do that…), you’re totally allowed to kill your pets at any time. I would definitely prefer that people who kill their pets (for reasons other than mercy/safety) are separated from the rest of society than people who shoplift, but alas.
TIL. Thanks…terrible to know, but thanks for clarifying.
USA! USA!
Cruelty is the point and “the” bible gives them dominion over the animals. This is very on-brand for the repug party.
