Governor Kristi Noem issues a new statement justifying her decision to murder a puppy.

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

1. Just like Katie Britt tried to clean up her disastrous state of the union rebuttal.

Didn't work for Katie, won't work for Kristi.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The fact Kristi cannot understand why people are upset about her story says it all.

She is totally clueless.

[COL Mustard]

47. No, she has a clue

She is completely without shame or morals, but she has a clue that her political future is bleak

[Grokenstein]

58. She can understand why "some" people are "upset."

She just doesn't realize exactly how badly she screwed up. Yet.

[Irish_Dem]

72. Sen Kate Britt didn't realize at first how badly she screwed up either.

She went on the talks shows defending herself.
Made things worse.

[ShazzieB]

87. I did not know that!

Yikes, that must have been a mess! 😱

[Irish_Dem]

88. She hit the Sunday talk shows.

Humiliated herself even further to no avail.

[ShazzieB]

91. Ngl, I'm going to look for some videos so I can witness this spectacle!

[Irish_Dem]

95. I didn't see any of the videos.

I just read about them.
Trying to defend her rebuttal speech.
It would have been better if she just kept quiet.

Like Kristi N should do.

[LaMouffette]

3. Her statement only further reveals her utter lack of heart and humanity. Her "responsibility" would have been

to re-home the dog, not shoot it.

Trump is also a soul-less dog-hater. They would have been perfect running mates.

[TxGuitar]

6. I posted this in another thread on the subject that is similar

How many people vetted this book? How many editors, how many political advisors, family members, colleagues? The fact that these stories remained (nevermind the horror and cruelty of the deeds) after all of those people read the book shows the ingrained, systemic, and, the very worst part, casual cruelty of their party. Just ask Mitt’s pooch, or the Huckabee’s dog.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

10. She definitely doesn't have a public relations person, they would have killed that story so fast.

[yardwork]

37. It makes me wonder what else is in the book.

I shudder to think about any child-rearing tips Noem might share.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

77. Remember how she bragged about

how she had already bought a firearm for her granddaughter (who was two years old at the time)?

The damage here is already done- she already has it in print that she hated the animal.

[yardwork]

79. I forgot about that!

[ShazzieB]

93. I wonder, too.

It's out on May 7, according to Amazon, so we'll probably find out soon. The reviews should be ... interesting.

[Marthe48]

59. Is biting people part of the story in the book?

Was the dog nipping with affection? Or trying to bite to injure? There is a big difference. My grand dog would nip/pinch my belly just about every time I went to walk her. I would tell her no every time, but I took it to mean she was glad to see me. Nobody would have killed her for that.

[Farmer-Rick]

75. I had a puppy that kept biting hands as a form of play

He was a 10 month old lab mix we got as a rescue. His previous owner let him gnaw on people's hands when they played. The problem was the puppy did it to everyone he liked.

So, instead of shooting him, I yelped everytime he tried to bite my hands. He stopped biting in about a week and grew to be a very sweet dog.

He just didn't know biting hurt. The yelping made him realize he was hurting me by biting my hands. When puppies play they have to be taught their limits so they don't hurt you or others.

[Goodheart]

105. I'm relying on other people here... but in the book she doesn't mention the dog biting people

so now it looks like she's embellishing.

[Ponietz]

4. Coleridge understood a dead puppy can be an albatross

She’ll wear it around her neck the rest of her life.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Keep diggng, psycho!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

9. yep. and it's not just that she killed the puppy... she attached the story to selling a book

"I killed a puppy cuz I hated it"... buy my book for more horrific stories of my psychopathic nature.

[haele]

74. She killed the goat because she hated it and was too stupid to figure out how to raise goats.

She killed the dog because Cricket didn't do what she wanted the dog to do and she was too stupid to verify Cricket had the temperament to be trained to be a hunting dog before she got it - or too stupid to train it properly.
I wouldn't doubt she got it from a puppy mill or backyard breeder, instead of from someone who actually bred or raised hunting dogs for sale.
She killed Cricket because the dog was basically a house pet instead of a tool like her gunz, and she just doesn't do care and affection well at all. I feel sorry for her kids; she's the type to raise them as if she'd have no problems with the biblical dictate to kill or sell ones disobedient children if they don't live up to her rules - it's just that in the here and now, that's illegal.

Haele

[Cha]

28. Yeah.. Get a Bigger Shovel.

[unblock]

7. The right wing loves to do rotten things then use "it's legal" or "I have the right" to justify

things that are nevertheless rotten and evil.

Such as spouting off their bigotry then say hey I have free speech. Yes, you have free speech. You're still a bigot and an *sshole for going around insulting people and spreading hate.

Legal doesn't mean ethical or moral.

[LakeArenal]

35. They call that asking for forgiveness.

[unblock]

43. Asking for forgiveness involves admitting you did something wrong

These people never do that

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. she's feeling the heat. even on fox news youtube, the comments were 100% appalled that she killed a healthy animal

With the posting above she's changing her story.. .first it was "I hated the dog...". Now it's "it bit people".

too late... the world knows she has a "gravel pit" of death. Dogs, goats, horse...who knows what else gets hauled to the gravel pit for a bullet to the head. HORRIBLE.

[demmiblue]

13. Yep.

[yardwork]

38. That's a collection of terrible people who think Noem is worse.

Yeah, she's crossed some kind of line. When you've lost Laura Loomer...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

82. Man, she's getting some serious heat for this

and this is from THE RIGHT-WINGERS.

[ret5hd]

80. "He was a bad dog...a very bad dog"

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

83. Little Anthony Fremont and his cornfield of death....

Chilling episode that was adapted from an even more chilling short story by Jerome Bixby.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. When Trump fills the concentration camps,...

she'll take on the tough challenges and painful decisions about who goes to the showers when.

[yardwork]

39. That is exactly the message she wanted to send.

Her mistake was killing a dog instead of an immigrant or other "undesirable."

[OMGWTF]

69. Written for an audience of one.

See Donald -- I am a horrible, unfeeling, murdering psycho bitch from Hell, ergo, your perfect running mate.

[John1956PA]

12. Her original statement was a dog whistle to the hard right.

He message called for the elimination of lazy, frolicking creatures which kill defenseless life. The right wingers were not discouraged from taking that message to any extreme which they feel is appropriate.

[NickB79]

14. So now the dog was biting people?

I thought the original story was that it was killing chickens?

[Cha]

30. She's Lying.. a maga "lying".. shocking.

"killing chickens".. Which dogs will do. you don't kill the dog.

[Bayard]

51. Our chickens stay in their pen,

And the dogs stay in the property fence, although they didn't bother the ducks running around (coyotes got all of those.)

I can see why trump would pick her as a running mate--he hates dogs too. She claims this was a hard decision? Sounds like she enjoyed blowing it away, and throwing the body in a pit with the rest of the garbage. Although, many states have laws permitting killing of dogs who are chasing/killing livestock, but its usually strays.

[Cha]

71. Was cheating with Corey Lewandowski a "hard decision" too?

Link to tweet

Yeah Chickens need to be separated safely away from dogs who are their natural predator.. it's called dinner!

[Bayard]

73. Is that THE dog?

She's pretty cute. Wonder what breed?

Puppies like to chew on things. Sometimes that includes humans, but its not like seriously biting.

[Cha]

76. Yes they do.. you don't take them out and shoot them in the face &

throw them in the gravel pit.

I don't know about the picture.. I couldn't find anything on google.

Is TSF going o defend this? "very fine people" card.

[Cha]

110. That was Noem's puppy, Cricket.. "14 months old"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218903102

[Bayard]

114. I looked up the breed

German Wirehaired Pointer

[Cha]

115. Oh Thank You.

[ok_cpu]

42. Admittedly, I haven't read SD law

But I'd bet something valuable and meaningful that it was written to address situations where a loose dog is threatening or killing someone's livestock. It's probably not for when PetSmart training fails the stubborn puppy.

[ecstatic]

113. In her next iteration it will be a pitbull

A 200 pound pitbull with rabies.

[TBF]

15. Zero humanity - if she really felt that way she could have a conversation w/the Vet

and talk about whether the dog is just in a wrong environment, or whether it really is a case of needing to humanely end it's life. That is what civilized people do. I'm sure in South Dakota, like other areas, the Vet would even make a home visit for that conversation.

Frankly I think she is a liar. She simply couldn't handle this dog and didn't want to be humane. This is who she is. And when people tell you who they are, believe them.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. 'Kristi Noem's Killing Of Her Puppy Slammed Across Parties' Forbes

Kristi Noem’s Killing Of Her Puppy Slammed Across Parties—And Mocked At Correspondents’ Dinner

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S.E. Cupp, another Republican pundit who also hunts with dogs, pointed out that “there are 592 other things you can do with a dog that won't hunt besides kill it in front of your kid and construction workers.”

The night before, comedian Matt Friend mocked Noem in Trump’s voice at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, saying he was “killing this dinner harder than Kristi Noem kills the puppies”—drawing gasps from the crowd in Washington.

Ryan Busse, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Montana, criticized Noem as a hunting dog owner on social media, writing “anyone who has ever owned a birddog knows how disgusting, lazy and evil this is.”

“Our message is plain and simple: If you want elected officials who don’t brag about brutally killing their pets as part of their self-promotional book tour, then listen to our owners – and vote Democrat,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement in the voice of their dogs on Friday, also pointing out Noem’s past controversial position on forcing child rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/04/28/kristi-noems-killing-of-her-puppy-slammed-across-parties-and-mocked-at-correspondents-dinner/?sh=3e56fa22631b

[Cha]

33. TY!!

[struggle4progress]

55. Wanted to kill something. Went hunting. Puppers no help. Ran around chasing birds.

Still wanted to kill something. Saw puppers. So killed puppers. Successful trip!

[chowder66]

17. The dog was out of control, she took it out hunting, the dog later "escaped" the car, she got the dog back in the car,

took it home and murdered it. Seems to me she made a lot of bad decisions when it came to her young victim.
As for the goat, well he smelled and knocked the kids over.


What really smells... is a woman with a gun in a bad mood.

[Demsrule86]

18. I didn't read her self-serving statement...the whole thing has sickened me. I

want to put my fingers in my ears and chant lalalalalal as we did as kids so as not to hear awful things. She is despicable...a monster really. Poor dog, I feel bad for her kids too...raising future mass murderers with her gun fetish and depraved behavior.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. I wonder if she would have been elected Governor if this were public knowledge back then.

[Ocelot II]

20. She doesn't get it.

The fact that it's legal in SD to shoot dogs who kill livestock doesn't absolve her. The dog, who was still just a puppy, killed a few chickens and nipped at her, so Noem shot her - only because that was more convenient than training her or finding a new home for her. It demonstrates that to her the dog was nothing more than an object that had malfunctioned, and therefore could be disposed of like a faulty machine. Twenty years later she bragged about it in order to look tough (and maybe impress Trump enough with her casual cruelty that he'd choose her as his running mate). There are plenty of other terrible people for Trump to choose from, but I hope this takes her off the list.

[calimary]

85. Casual cruelty. WOW! Now THAT is a killer meme!

If YOU don’t do what she wants, are YOU next?

[Paladin]

21. Vastly unpersuasive.

If she's too dim to leave her dog-killing out of her book, then she's way too stupid for any further public service.

[Voltaire2]

22. Republicans abuse puppies.

From Romney to Noem the pattern is clear.

[AZ8theist]

61. Republicans abuse Americans.....

...unless, of course, you're white and Evangelical. And male.

[Voltaire2]

64. Yes sure but as that abuse is framed as

protecting the beleaguered straight white christian majority from all those other (sub)humans, it is a selling point.

Everyone except Noem loves puppies.

[ShazzieB]

96. And heterosexual.

Don't forget that one, it's key!

[senseandsensibility]

23. Glad she's feeling the heat

[MorbidButterflyTat]

24. Wondering how she treats the still living animal victims at her farm

Maybe someone from the ASPCA or PETA should pay her an unannounced visit. I just know she's abusing those poor animals.

Also, here's her "publisher," check out their other sterling authors:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/center-street/

Good gawd.

[AltairIV]

29. Unfamiliar with that publisher

Quite the selection of losers there.

[yardwork]

40. Check out her glamour shot.

Looks like she's trying to be an Indian princess. Too bad she banned from all the reservations in South Dakota.

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[Deuxcents]

54. I'm under the assumption that American Indians revere their animals

And don’t destroy them or their environment. As mentioned, she’s not welcome at all in their communities. Ugly is as ugly does and she’s the definition of ugly.

[yardwork]

32. Yesterday Noem mentioned she'd recently put down 3-4 horses.

It's unusual to have to euthanize that many horses at once. I wonder what's going on on that farm.

Are there missing people? Maybe LE should check out the gravel pit.

[Fla Dem]

25. So it's your fault. You should have rehomed him where he wasn't around livestock.

Secondly, he could have been put down peacefully at the vets, or have the vet come to your home/farm as I'm sure he does for livestock issue.

That's how you put down a PET. BUT NO you had to shoot him like the wild animals you shoot to show what a tough woman you are.

Your limp ass excuse couldn't have been any more heartless or ignorant.

[LiberalFighter]

26. The message she is sending. That she can't make good decisions.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

27. The banality of evil. The banality of Kristi Noem. nt

[yardwork]

31. What about the goat?

This is just b.s.

She didn't know how to/didn't bother to train a hunting dog puppy, lost her temper when the puppy misbehaved, dragged it to a gravel pit and shot it, then bragged about it.

Then, her blood lust aroused, she killed a goat because it had an attitude. She could have neutered the goat and solved the behavior problem but it was a lot more fun to kill it.

She sounds like a cruel, incompetent moron.

[meadowlander]

34. Best of luck to her kids.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

36. warning to everyone. Don't let Kristi lure you to the gravel pit.

[lastlib]

48. AND her children.......

They may need it more than the "kids" (young goats) ....I can almost feel sorry for them.

[Abolishinist]

41. Too bad she wasn't FIRST chosen to be the former's running mate, and THEN

the release of her 'book'. Now THAT would have been entertaining!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

44. "If looks could kill it would have been us instead of him." NT

[brewens]

45. C'mon man. You guys make it sound like a popular republican governor in a red state could find a home for a cute

puppy, just like that. Sheesh!

[bringthePaine]

46. gutless pscyho refuKKKchicken kills puppy, that is all

[dlk]

49. The damage has been done

Noem did this to herself. Her latest excuses are too little to late. She is a broken and vile person.

[blue neen]

108. Yep!

Kristi Noem is a monster. My God! How could she shoot a puppy?

[ismnotwasm]

50. 14 months old.

She’s full of shit

[hamsterjill]

52. What a crock!

You don’t shoot a pet because you hate it. You have other options. You work with it. You get training. You find another, more suitable home for it.

What she is admitting here (giving her the most possible benefit of the doubt that I can muster) is that she faced a problem with a dog and she “solved” that problem using violence. Is that the way she solves every problem she faces?

Did I mention that I hate this bitch for hurting that dog? No amount of apologizing of explaining could ever be enough.

[Ping Tung]

53. Well, at least she's not claiming that the pup was heavily armed or that God told her to kill it.

She should stick to Teddy Bears. If they get "aggressive" she can shoot them and nobody will give a damn.

[Grokenstein]

56. Yes, that's it!! Double down, you sack of shit!

I hope dim donnie picks you (although I doubt his handlers are so stupid) and you drag him down with you!

[AverageOldGuy]

57. I'm suspicious

First, the puppy was killing chickens.

Now it was biting people.

I think she was tired of dealing with a puppy so she shot it and made up an excuse.

Why write about it at all -- and include the story about wounding the goat, going back to the truck to get some more bullets, then killing the goat? Because she knows her audience -- the MAGAts will celebrate her dedication to the Sacred Second Amendment.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. This statement will NOT help her

[calimary]

102. GOOD!

[rurallib]

62. As I recall her COVID leadership was every bit as bad as Trump's

So citing that as an example of leadership is pretty stupid.
Meat packing plants forced to stay open as workers were dying.

Is she like a death machine?

[ShazzieB]

98. I was thinking the same thing, that it was pretty rich for her to brag about "leading South Dakota through covid."

If leading yout state through covid means denying it was a real problem and refusing to take sensible actions like quarantining and mask mandates, then I guess that was some real fine leadin' you did there, Kristi.

Problem is, a lot of us have a very different definition of "leadership."

[KS Toronado]

63. If my memory serves me correctly..........

She first said something like the dog wasn't learning to be a good pointer for hunting so it was worthless,
now it's because it was biting people. If that was truly the case she would have said so in the book.
Just more repugnut lies.

[miyazaki]

65. Well according to one Du'er we all need a lecture

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132117798

[OMGWTF]

66. I'd call her a c#nt but she lacks warmth and depth.

[prodigitalson]

86. I just served on a jury for this post, now I'm recing it and toasting to it

[Jilly_in_VA]

67. As someone on Threads put it last night

Kristi both shot the dog and screwed the pooch...simultaneously. She's toast.

[0rganism]

68. She could stop explaining, her decision really speaks for itself

Of course, there's some schadenfreude available for enthusiasts, but it doesn't sit well in my gut considering the topic.

[RandySF]

70. If you're explaining, you're losing.

[Vinca]

78. Guess it's too much to ask to pick up a phone and call a humane organization to have

them pick the dog up as an alternative to slaughtering it.

[Kaleva]

81. She'll be forever labeled as a puppy killer

[Peregrine Took]

94. 100% true. Her career is as dead as Cricket.

[orwell]

84. How "Pro Life" of her...

...protect a zygote, well because "JayZus tells me to..."

Shoot a living puppy or goat...no problem...dominion over the animals and all that.

After all...they don't have a soul.

The only thing without a soul here is this MagaMoron.

RIP Cricket...

[no_hypocrisy]

89. "CAN" be put down is NOT "MUST" be put down.

[Marcuse]

90. Noem's competition.

The red square highlights a gift from Noem. It’s a replica of MT Rushmore with a fraudulent head tacked on.

[ShazzieB]

101. Oh, barf!

They both look nauseatingly pleased with themselves.

And the Mt. Rushmore thing? for sure!

[Bucky]

92. I think it's terrible the way she treated that dog as if it was a labor union organizer

[peggysue2]

97. Well, Well!

Nothing more to be said because, of course, being an "authentic" puppy killer makes all the difference.

Keep digging that hole, Governor.

Your legacy is now solid: An authentic puppy slayer who dumped said puppy's carcass into a gravel pit.

A true Profile in Courage.

You will NEVER be VP!

[ColinC]

99. She is an admitted puppy killer

Nuff said

[orleans]

100. it wasn't just the dog -- she's also a goat killer

In the book, Noem also writes that her family also owned a "nasty and mean" male goat that smelled bad and liked to chase her kids. She decided to go ahead and kill the goat, too. She writes that the goat survived the first shot, so she went back to the truck, got another shell, then shot him again, killing him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-dog-cricket-new-book-defense/

[TexasBushwhacker]

106. The goat was "nasty and mean" because they didn't

get him neutered, which was THEIR responsibility. He was chasing her kids? He should have been kept in a locked pen. Again, their responsibility.

As for the young dog, the decision to kill it was not a "tough decision" to be admired. It was rash. The dog could have been rehomed.

[Goodheart]

103. There was an easy, obvious, humane choice: don't let the dog around other people or their livestock

She says it wasn't an easy decision, that it was a painful challenge.

I say BULLSHIT. I say it was a damn easy decision for a gun-loving, blood-thirsty monster to pull that trigger.

[Blue Owl]

104. She may not have realized it yet

But she turned the gun on herself — she will never live this down and essentially blew her own future in politics to smithereens….

[Freethinker65]

107. Telegraphing to Trump she is willing to do his dirty work.

Thing is, she was stupid to blab about it in a tell all book.

Michael Cohen did it from the sideline in secret for Trump for over a decade.

[bamagal62]

109. Puppy killer.

That’s all we should say. You don’t shoot a puppy. It was a friggin’ puppy.

[intheflow]

111. Maybe the dog had rabies, because vaccines don't work,

right Kristi? Also, who cares how old the story is? Makes her sound insane: “Bring back the days when you could tell the world you were a puppy killer and no libtards fainted.” 🙄 And then, the bit about the dog’s aggression toward people! Perhaps if the dog had been raised with love instead of as disposable farm equipment it wouldn’t have been aggressive. Telling on herself a thousand ways ‘til Tuesday.

[ecstatic]

112. What a clown. "Upset about a 20 year old story..."

It's in your book, sweetie.

Your newly released book.

Idiot.

And even if you can spin Cricket's murder, you still have to justify killing that goat. It comes across like a "killing spree" that you had to hide because your kids were getting off the bus and some workers on site saw you. Psycho!

Incredibly, Noem’s tale of slaughter is not finished.

Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.

Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.

At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book