I like dogs, but I’ve had enough of the endless Kristi Noem memes.
In case you missed it, the South Dakota governor wrote in her new book about the time 20 years ago that she killed a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket after a disastrous hunting trip in which the high-energy dog chased pheasants, killed some chickens on the way home, and at one point during all this agitation “whipped around to bite me.”
That was just too much for Noem, a contender to be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, who’d like you to believe she has the temperament to be a heartbeat away from controlling the nuclear codes but handles a bad day with her dog by taking it to a gravel pit and executing it.
Makes me pause.
I admit I don’t pay much attention to the MAGA queen, but from what I’ve seen and heard, and now knowing this, she appears to be nothing more than a stone-cold, soulless, dead-on-the-inside bitch.
In other words, a perfect match for the twice-impeached/four-time-indicted/sexual assaulter/tax fraudster/wannabe dictator Trump. Yes, this is another example of how far the GOP has fallen – and it’s not getting up anytime soon.
The firestorm of criticism Noem has faced is well-deserved. Experts say the dog should have received additional training or been turned over to a rescue to find it a home – not given a death sentence.
“I’m not sure which thing she did was stupider: The fact that she murdered the dog, or the fact that she was stupid enough to publish it in a book,” said Joan Payton of the German Wirehaired Pointer Club of America.
South Dakota Democratic Senate Minority Leader Reynold Nesiba noted that the story had been around for years and there were witnesses. Nesiba theorized that Noem might have put the story in the book to get it out before it was revealed another way.
As damning as this senseless killing is, Noem isn’t doing herself any favors with her subsequent spin.
She’s tried to make the incident an example of her willingness to make tough decisions. It doesn’t, but it is an example of her willingness to make incredibly cruel, stupid, and unbalanced decisions.
But what galled me the most are comments Noem made to CNN when she said: “We love animals (I guess killing them is the ultimate tough love) but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down three horses a few weeks ago (triple the fun) that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest, politically incorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder” her book.
The Republican default reply of crying about wokeness or political correctness doesn’t work here. No Kristi, this has nothing to do with political correctness. The issue is killing an animal – a dog for God’s sake – who should never have been killed.
The issue is that this was the solution you came up with -- and continue to defend -- and the life of a family pet meant so little to you that you’d just snuff it out to try to salvage something during your very bad day.
The issue is some state was stupid enough to elect you governor, that Trump might be stupid enough to make you his running mate, and millions of people – many of them men who’d like to sleep with you and who got an erection as soon as you mentioned a gun in your story – will vote for you.
I’m sure that in living on a farm with livestock one will encounter animal deaths far more often than someone living in a non-rural setting, but for you to lump Cricket’s death in with a big pile of dead farm animals tells me just one thing: You’re a stone-cold, soulless, dead-on-the-inside bitch.
I’d advise my fellow Americans to vote accordingly.
Personally, I prefer candidates who aren’t cold-blooded dog killers.
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