‘Where’s Cricket?’ Don’t Ask. Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her Dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/kristi-noem-dog-killing.html

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  1. “Where’s Cricket?” should be trending every time she runs for any office.

  2. Animal Cruelty is one of the few solid planks in the GOP platform

  3. She decided she made a mistake by getting the animal, and instead of admitting defeat and putting them up for adoption, she shot it and got rid of the evidence.

    She is a psychopath.

  4. Putting down a dog may be a necessary evil at times.

    Bragging about in a book for political points is just plain evil.

  6. She’s the Eva Braun the Trumpers have been waiting for. 

  7. Looks like she took herself off the VP list. Ironically, I think she thought this would give her credibility to do what’s needed. They seem to be in some strange contest to see who can be more vulgar.

  8. Insane that she thought this story would make her look good.

    In movies, killing an innocent dog is a shortcut to say “This character is irredeemably evil!”

  9. She is larping what she thinks country living is like.

    We’re not like this—if a dog can’t do the job you purchased it for, you either turn it into a pet or adopt it out as such to someone else. Usually you just let it become a barn dog and it’ll wander around with the other animals.

    Why? Because hunting dogs are fucking expensive.

    When your life revolves around animals—you don’t treat them as disposable.

    Nothing about what she did makes any sense—not financial, certainly not political, and least of all, practical.

    She is the worst kind of rich city/surburbanite cosplaying her idea of rural living and it’s insulting that this is what she does and thinks rural living is like.

    It’s just millionaire dress up hour but this time with dead dogs (and a goat she was too dumb to castrate so instead she shot it for being stinky—castrating male goats fixes that smell—she just likes killing animals.)

  10. She’s trying to get this story out of the way early because she’s anticipating being picked for VP. But from now until she leaves public life, where’s Cricket?

  11. “Killing” implies it might have been accidental. She murdered a dog.

  12. I don’t know how many of y’all grew up in extremely rural areas, but at least when I was growing up, that sort of psychopathy was unfortunately shockingly common. I would say most of my friends’ dads outwardly held the view that pets could be taken out at will. Sick fucking shit

  13. The GOP is the party of rapists, puppy killers, would be kings, and putin apologists. Their voters are fine with this.

  14. So she bought an animal to facilitate her passion for killing other animals, but found training her animal was too difficult, so she killed it instead?

    Yeah, sounds like an eminently normal human being.

  15. Classic Rethuglican: I don’t want this anymore, but NOBODY ELSE can have it!

  17. “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”—Malcolm S. Forbes.

  18. It’s like there is a deplorable acts card and these people are punching all the worst acts off to appeal to voters.

  19. People need to call ‘CRICKET, CRICKET, Come here girl’ Every time they see her.

  21. Sounds like a typical psychopath. She’s extremely dangerous if she gets into a position of significant power.

  22. Cricket is the only one she has admitted to, how many others….

  23. Spoiler alert: untrained puppies nip and aren’t magically professional bird dogs.

    The kind of person who treats animals this way should have their freezer checked for human heads. Fucking psychopath.

    I’m gonna go hug my dogs now.

  24. The headlines should say “puppy”. 14 months old.

  25. Kristi Noem walks into a bar and tells her very best joke…

    ….Crickets.

  26. Michael Vick got, I believe, four years for something similar.

  27. She has highly underestimated Americans’ love of dogs that transcends politics.

  29. What in the “are we the baddies” kind of nonsense is this

  30. Can we not elect an actual psychopathic killer? Trump will obviously pick her for VP now. The rest of us have to make sure that neither the megalomaniac narcissist or the sociopath get reelected. 

  32. > she proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog. “I hated that dog,” Ms. Noem wrote

    I grew up in a more rural area & had a great uncle that trained hounds for racoon hunting for decades (they were a real problem in our area). I also lived for a few years in the region this lady “hunts”.

    I have no problem with shooting a dog that is dangerous. We regularly had to put down packs of abandoned dogs that turned feral & were truly dangerous. Also had kill coyotes, so I know very well that this is part of life outside of the city for poorer families…but this is someone that doesn’t obviously isn’t poor & living like this to survive & clearly doesn’t know how to train a dog, got frustrated when she failed, & killed it instead of re-homing it to someone that could train it appropriately. She seems like “city folk” trying to get “country cred” by acting like this is her lifestyle, which is insulting to those that actually live that way.

    If this dog was dangerous, it’s because her clear & stated hate for it caused the animal to turn dangerous by how she abused it during “training”. It was only 14 months old, plenty of time to correct behavior if you even tried a little.

  34. She couldn’t have just rehomed him? Or at least humanely euthanized him? Although no vet would humanely euthanize a 14 month-old dog for behavioral issues without an evaluation upon which they would probably realize she was just a shitty owner and recommend rehoming the dog.

  35. I would just run dog murderer ads against her. What a dumb thing to put in a book. If her judgement is that bad, she isn’t fit for office.

  36. Im pretty sure she just ended her political career. Love of dogs is one thing that isn’t partisan.

  37. *One pearly day in early May I walked upon the sand*
    *And saw, say half a mile away, a man with gun in hand.*
    *A dog was cowering to his will as slow he sought to creep*
    *Upon a dozen ducks so still they seemed to be asleep.*

    *When like a streak the dog dashed out, the ducks flashed up in flight.*
    *The fellow gave a savage shout and cursed with all his might.*
    *Then as I stood somewhat amazed and gazed with eyes agog,*
    *With bitter rage his gun he raised and blazed and shot the dog.*

    *You know how dogs can yelp with pain; its blood soaked in the sand,*
    *And yet it crawled to him again, and tried to lick his hand.*
    *“Forgive me Lord for what I’ve done,” it seemed as if it said,*
    *But once again he raised his gun — this time he shot it dead.*

    *What could I do? What could I say? ‘Twas such a lonely place.*
    *Tongue-tied I watched him stride away, I never saw his face.*
    *I should have bawled the bastard out, a yellow dog he slew.*
    *But worse, he proved beyond a doubt that – I was yellow too.*

    – Robert Service

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