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In reply to the discussion: Governor Kristi Noem issues a new statement justifying her decision to murder a puppy. [View all]ecstatic
(34,003 posts)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, Noems 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 Noems 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 Noems children.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
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 Noems 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 Noems children.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
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Governor Kristi Noem issues a new statement justifying her decision to murder a puppy. [View all]
demmiblue
Apr 2024
OP
Just like Katie Britt tried to clean up her disastrous state of the union rebuttal.
Irish_Dem
Apr 2024
#1
The fact Kristi cannot understand why people are upset about her story says it all.
Irish_Dem
Apr 2024
#2
Her statement only further reveals her utter lack of heart and humanity. Her "responsibility" would have been
LaMouffette
Apr 2024
#3
She definitely doesn't have a public relations person, they would have killed that story so fast.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Apr 2024
#10
I'm relying on other people here... but in the book she doesn't mention the dog biting people
Goodheart
Apr 2024
#105
yep. and it's not just that she killed the puppy... she attached the story to selling a book
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Apr 2024
#9
She killed the goat because she hated it and was too stupid to figure out how to raise goats.
haele
Apr 2024
#74
The right wing loves to do rotten things then use "it's legal" or "I have the right" to justify
unblock
Apr 2024
#7
she's feeling the heat. even on fox news youtube, the comments were 100% appalled that she killed a healthy animal
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Apr 2024
#8
Zero humanity - if she really felt that way she could have a conversation w/the Vet
TBF
Apr 2024
#15
Wanted to kill something. Went hunting. Puppers no help. Ran around chasing birds.
struggle4progress
Apr 2024
#55
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,
chowder66
Apr 2024
#17
I didn't read her self-serving statement...the whole thing has sickened me. I
Demsrule86
Apr 2024
#18
I wonder if she would have been elected Governor if this were public knowledge back then.
TheBlackAdder
Apr 2024
#19
Wondering how she treats the still living animal victims at her farm
MorbidButterflyTat
Apr 2024
#24
So it's your fault. You should have rehomed him where he wasn't around livestock.
Fla Dem
Apr 2024
#25
C'mon man. You guys make it sound like a popular republican governor in a red state could find a home for a cute
brewens
Apr 2024
#45
Well, at least she's not claiming that the pup was heavily armed or that God told her to kill it.
Ping Tung
Apr 2024
#53
I was thinking the same thing, that it was pretty rich for her to brag about "leading South Dakota through covid."
ShazzieB
Apr 2024
#98
I just served on a jury for this post, now I'm recing it and toasting to it
prodigitalson
Apr 2024
#86
Guess it's too much to ask to pick up a phone and call a humane organization to have
Vinca
Apr 2024
#78
I think it's terrible the way she treated that dog as if it was a labor union organizer
Bucky
Apr 2024
#92