The daughter turning up at the end as if it's the final verse in "There was an old lady that swallowed a fly".
Guess we need to buy the book to find out what happened to her kid.
Guess we need to buy the book to find out what happened to her kid.
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‘Where’s Cricket?’ Don’t ask. Kristi Noem defends killing her dog.
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So the story is "I shot my dog because it wouldn't kill ducks", but her new defense is "it's totally legal (and cool) to shoot a dog that kills chickens". Dogs better make damn sure they don't mix up their birds around this psycho. If they stir up a pheasant, they better think fast, like "oh shit, is this a bird that gets me killed if I chase it, or one that gets me killed if I don't?".
As an aside, I'm not sure I buy it anyway. If the dog in question is the very small one I've seen a picture of, I think it would get its ass kicked by a chicken.
As an aside, I'm not sure I buy it anyway. If the dog in question is the very small one I've seen a picture of, I think it would get its ass kicked by a chicken.
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I grew up in the country, but we didn't shoot/abandon animals. My Mom worked for an animal shelter, so we caught/picked them up, cared for them, and took them to the shelter where they had a fighting chance of getting adopted.
My now wife is a veterinarian and she started her career operating in a mobile neuter/spay bus that was subsidized for low income folks. There are options for people in situations with an unwanted animal way beyond just picking up a gun and shooting them. Especially a 14 month old puppy that would would have very, very likely been adopted by another family.
It is a thing, people abandon animals when they become "annoying" or "too much". That usually just means they are awful people.
I could see this happening where i grew up in rural PA too. I know farmers that would certainly do this. I know on our farm if a dog wasn't a good hunting dog it got relegated to deer patrol rotation for crops.
I hate looking back now and realizing how we treated those dogs though even if we didn't outright kill them, they were always outside chained up, they just pooped in a hole that nobody cleaned or anything. I would never do that myself at this point, but it's all i knew growing up too.
I hate looking back now and realizing how we treated those dogs though even if we didn't outright kill them, they were always outside chained up, they just pooped in a hole that nobody cleaned or anything. I would never do that myself at this point, but it's all i knew growing up too.
Trump, on hearing this, is gonna be like "well, now I'm not picking her for VP."
"Because she shot her dog?"
"No. Because she had a dog in the first place."
"Because she shot her dog?"
"No. Because she had a dog in the first place."
Old yeller still fucking lives in my brain rent free
The back to back of Old Yeller and Cujo fucked me up for the rest of my life
Burgum moving on up:
View: https://twitter.com/SophiaCai99/status/1784584374458978709
www.theguardian.com
View: https://twitter.com/SophiaCai99/status/1784584374458978709
Kristi Noem dogged by poor polling amid fallout from tale of killing puppy
Public disapproval mounts for South Dakota governor and vice-presidential hopeful whose book contains gruesome account
www.theguardian.com
Dem pollster.
Her comms director citing an old poll and pretending only the "liberal media" thinks she's deranged.
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You reveal to the world that you killed a puppy so senpai Trump will notice you, but the whole world goes all "what a loser psycho", so when senpai does notice you, it's for being a loser psycho?
Of course this would hurt her in Trump's opinion. She committed the greatest sin of all: she's pulling eyes off him. Trump found Pence so appealing because he was human wallpaper. Noem is upstaging Trump in an effort to stand out, but that's not going to work. The one time Pence upstaged him, Trump tried to have him lynched.
She tries to frame it as her being able and willing to do difficult things when really she was too lazy to put in the effort to properly train the dog and get it the help it needed. She made the problem go away in the easiest way possible for her. And she wants to apply this to humans.
It's this. More than just killing a dog (and him hating dogs) I can see him being appealed by her bloodthirsty ruthlessness and likely doesn't care that others are upset with her about it (especially since MAGA Republicans would easily flip). The actual problem to Trump is that she's a headlining story. Not even a bad headlining story (which it is), just any kind of headlining at all. Because Trump will never let anyone upstage him ever.
Incidentally this is why there's no risk of MTG being a VP pick either. Because as fiercely loyal and true to the MAGA core as she is she's made too many headlines and no amount of her willfully shrinking would actually absolve that.
Americans are almost wholly desensitized to violence against other humans.
But violence against puppies still shocks and disgusts us.
But violence against puppies still shocks and disgusts us.
Awful. Reminds me of how we got one of our dogs. A farmer got a border collie puppy from a breeder my wife is friends with, fucked up her socialization so badly that she was useless for herding, and was apparently considering killing her. The breeder took her back instead and gave her to us to try to rehab her as a pet, and we ended up keeping her.
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Oh my god, I just realized that the birds she allegedly wanted this dog to chase were pheasants, not ducks. And she was mad that it allegedly killed some chickens.
That makes this so much more absurd, to me, because pheasants ARE chickens. I mean, not quite literally, but I've scared up a few in my hikes, and they're totally fucking chickens.
I was joking about her dogs confusing chickens and pheasants in an earlier post, but JFC, it turns out it's not a joke.
Well, whatever. This story is a shitshow top to bottom, and she's a fucking psycho.
That makes this so much more absurd, to me, because pheasants ARE chickens. I mean, not quite literally, but I've scared up a few in my hikes, and they're totally fucking chickens.
I was joking about her dogs confusing chickens and pheasants in an earlier post, but JFC, it turns out it's not a joke.
Well, whatever. This story is a shitshow top to bottom, and she's a fucking psycho.
19% of people living here wanting to kill dogs sounds about right.
For some reason and almost universally, conservatives have absolutely no sense of self-awareness. This is another fine example of that.
Sadly her base would probably be more okay with it if she was talking about rounding up and killing humans to deal with poverty and immigration.
Her and Corey Lewandowski have apparently been going at it for a while.
Ian Fury is truly the worst. He genuinely seems like a terrible character from Succession most of the time.
So she just lined up the horses cause in that one picture you can see a horse down. Psycho shit.
i didn't even notice she took picture, that that seems like something should put you on a watch list
You just pray she didn't bring enough shotgun shells with her from the car...
The good news is that none of those old horses went to waste, each and every one was sold to trump be be sold either as steak or turned into tie glue.
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She said herself that her daughter asked for the dog and was "distressed"! Is she crazy?
"This is incredibly damaging to me, so clearly the best way to clear things up is to ask that people buy my book, a thing that will financially benefit me."
I don't understand how the book could possibly contain more information that would absolve her. How much of the book was devoted to Cricket, beyond the released excerpts?
Also, she still can't provide more details on how exactly Cricket was "dangerous", beyond the one story that she needs to weasel-word from "attacked some chickens and snapped at me when I tried to stop her" to "killed some livestock and attacked me".
Even then, it's still just "it attacked me". If it had attacked anyone else you can bet she'd bring it up.
Hahah It was killing livestock now eh? Well maybe don't adopt a chupacabra.
Yeah people, quit trying to spin her story of her killing a bigly vicious, and bad hombre of a puppy, into a negative.
Plus, the goat she shot twice was committing hate crimes and threatening to unionize. So, of course, the media has to step in.
Plus, the goat she shot twice was committing hate crimes and threatening to unionize. So, of course, the media has to step in.
