I checked out Kristi Noem's twitter page

[senseandsensibility]

She has a big glossy post up there advertising her new book where she brags about killing her puppy. She's apparently added some BS about how these things happen on a farm and she's trying to troll the press and her critics about being politically incorrect.

She's disgusting of course, but like all magats she's all in on anything that makes her money and doesn't require any brains. So I think that maybe her publisher will be hearing from people. Because she is getting ratioed like nobody's business and I don't think people are going to let this go.

[SheilaAnn]

1. I don't care how many people get killed in a movie but they better spare the dog...n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

27. Her Theme Song: Dead Puppies

[ismnotwasm]

66. Holy fuck I forgot about that song

Wow, that was a long time ago!

[TheBlackAdder]

67. I grew up with Dr. Demento.

[XanaDUer2]

2. She's toast

Even MAGAs love dogs. The only supporters she will get will be farmers talking about chicken-killers and the need to shoot them. She really fucked up

[617Blue]

19. Agree. She's done.

Lots a maga loves dogs like any other group. Kids in cages fine, dog slaughter nope.

She miscalculated here. Guarantee next time you see her she'll have a canine companion w her.

[XanaDUer2]

22. Agreed

I know a Trump supporter who spends free time trying to find pets homes. Pretty sure she's disgusted right now.

[617Blue]

24. I don't think Dump was going to pick her anyway

But now she's got a bigger, existential problem. Lol.

[XanaDUer2]

26. She knew their were witnesses

Trump hates dogs. She wants to show she's all tough. Gun nut.

But, truly, she goner. Wrap it up. Finito. All she wrote

ETA: and she shot a goat? Was it a non-hunting , chicken killing goat?

[soldierant]

37. No, it was a goat which

was not castrated and was therefore horny and aggressive. He apparently soiled her kids clothes (boy, do feel sorry for her kids!)

[yardwork]

59. The goat was giving her attitude.

So she dragged it down to a gravel pit and shot it in front of construction workers. A grisly scene. Which she is so proud of she bragged about it in her book.

[usedtobedemgurl]

47. Even farmers will be against her.

In the book it says the dog got out of the truck. On her own? Really? Cause I have never seen a dog capable of opening a truck door. Me thinks she did not secure the door and the poor dog got out. That was her fault. Farmers understand the importance of penning/securing animals..

[yardwork]

57. Competent farmers know how to train their dogs.

Most farmers aren't going to be impressed by her going on a temper tantrum killing spree because she is too incompetent to train her dogs. And she bragged about killing a goat because she hadn't bothered to neuter it and it was getting mean?

She sounds like a wannabe.

[XanaDUer2]

58. I saw some

Comments like that, defending her, on her X page. OTT, she's being roasted. As she should.

[yardwork]

60. Well, there are going to be some other bloodthirsty incompetent dog owners.

After all, they elected her governor.

[XanaDUer2]

61. She signed her political death warrant

Nt

[yardwork]

62. Hope so.

[claudette]

3. She is a typical

violent magat. There are other, more compassionate ways to "put down" a dog. My question is, why put down a dog that is not dying when he could have been adopted by someone who would have loved the puppy enough to train him correctly?

I hate magats - I hate them. That dog could not defend himself against a violent magat with a gun.

[Marthe48]

18. The dog didn't need to be put down

The puppy needed to go to a home where he wasn't seen as disposable if he wasn't fitting the role. Too bad the waste of flesh wasn't background checked before she got that dog.

[claudette]

29. Agree

I would have taken the dog!

[Blue Owl]

4. The Puppy Slaughterer?

Time for her Romney moment…..

[lastlib]

39. "Puppy Killer"--

I want to see her wear that like a face tatoo.

[Cha]

53. Puppy Assassin.

And, the stupid brags about it in a book

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Yeah, creepy AF N/T

[pwb]

6. She is Governor of a population of a small city

in these parts. And they have two Senators? They align with the South right now but that could change real soon.

[Celerity]

49. SD is hardly a huge state pops-wise, but not many 928,767 popoulation cities are considered 'small'

maybe in China or India

you said:

She is Governor of a population of a small city

only 13 US cities have a higher population

I am using cities and not metro areas, as we are discussing one person's political control over a legally defined population

A mayor is not the leader of the entire metro area (Southeast Florida is a perfect example, huge in area and pops, but the cities themselves are nowhere near a million people each):

Miami 456,229
Hialeah 222,996
Fort Lauderdale 183,412
Pembroke Pines 170,472
Hollywood 152,764
Miramar 135,158

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/south-dakota-population

New York 7,931,147
Los Angeles 3,748,640
Chicago 2,590,002
Houston 2,305,889
Phoenix 1,676,481
Philadelphia 1,533,916
San Antonio 1,506,593
San Diego 1,375,452
Dallas 1,295,447
Jacksonville 990,931
Fort Worth 989,842
Austin 983,126
San Jose 932,636

all the rest are smaller:

Charlotte 920,325
Columbus 909,676
Indianapolis (balance) 874,089
Seattle 757,992
San Francisco 746,481
Denver 708,948
Oklahoma City 706,576
Nashville 677,519
El Paso 675,872
Washington 672,738
Las Vegas 665,811
Boston 629,842
Portland 616,840
Louisville/Jefferson County (balance) 616,447
Memphis 610,944
Detroit 603,410
Albuquerque 557,161
Baltimore 556,723
Tucson 550,472
Milwaukee 550,099
Fresno 548,687
Sacramento 530,334
Mesa 519,133
Kansas City 510,411
Atlanta 498,386
Colorado Springs 492,204
Raleigh 488,854
Omaha 477,705
Miami 456,229
Virginia Beach 451,590
Long Beach 437,166
Oakland 420,233
Minneapolis 419,508
Bakersfield 416,113
Tulsa 410,131
Tampa 408,438
Aurora 400,325
Arlington 394,992
Wichita 394,381
New Orleans 356,280
Cleveland 351,397
Henderson 343,791
Anaheim 341,817
Honolulu 338,455
Riverside 326,059
Orlando 324,429
Stockton 322,615
Irvine 318,396
Lexington 318,081
Corpus Christi 314,431
Cincinnati 309,452
Santa Ana 306,457
Greensboro 305,314
Pittsburgh 303,034
Newark 300,075
North Las Vegas 299,895
Durham 299,494
St. Paul 295,222

and some other big names

Buffalo 275,352
St. Louis 272,673
St. Petersburg 263,515
Boise 237,250
Salt Lake City 208,656
Des Moines 208,254
Fort Lauderdale 183,412

[lapfog_1]

7. I grew up on a farm

we had a quite a few dogs, including one that he used for hunting birds.

That dog lost her leg in an accident. And she retired from hunting... and got the privilege of coming inside to lay by the fire and live in the house when she wanted... and lived the rest of her life as a beloved pet.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Ahh...

That's the way it should be.

[WarGamer]

9. Would have been nice if this was announced after she was named VP nominee...

[senseandsensibility]

10. I agree

and it just shows how tone deaf and really antisocial this person is that she thought releasing this before the nominee was picked would increase her chances!

[shrike3]

11. It happened on farms when I was a kid.

If your dog killed livestock of any kind, you shot it. But that was decades ago, and times have changed. Simply no one is going to be cool with the practice. Putting it in a book is the act of an idiot.

[senseandsensibility]

13. Plus this dog didn't kill any livestock

unless I missed something?

[LauraInLA]

14. The story was that the dog killed a neighbor's chickens.

[senseandsensibility]

17. Oh

Well, I got the impression that she killed it because it couldn't be trained, which just means she probably sucks as a trainer as Rick Wilson said. Still, she could have found a home for it.

[LauraInLA]

23. I definitely agree with you! This is a very "old-fashioned" way of dealing with animals.

I can’t believe there wasn’t a shelter or animal organization that could have found the puppy a safe home.

[shrike3]

44. Sounded to me like the dog was having fun in a destructive way.

The dogs on my relative's farm come home with baby rabbits. It's not nice, but there are dog breeds with strong prey drive. The right person could have gotten it some training and a more suitable home.

[Polybius]

50. She claims it bit her too

She added, a tale of it attacking a neighbor's chicken while "the picture of pure joy," then recalled, “[She] whipped around to bite me."

[DontBelieveEastisEas]

52. Sounds like she thought the dog's intention was to bite.

Doesn't say, " whipped around and bit me."

[claudette]

51. That's

what some dogs do sometimes. My neighbor had a German Shepherd that killed birds 🦅 whenever he could. Send the dog away to be adopted but don’t shoot it for gawd’s sake !

[Bmoboy]

15. Killed chickens

In a larger excerpt the dog was reported to have killed several chickens in quick succession.

Still could have been someone's pet, just not around chickens.

[shrike3]

20. It killed the neighbor's chickens.

I can remember when a dog killed some of our sheep. We recognized the dog; my father called the owner, and he shot the dog. I think I should make one distinction: farm dogs back then were not always pets. They were supposed to protect livestock, keep fox and other predators away. In short, they had a job. A dog who killed another farmer's sheep was obviously not doing its job. Also, such dogs weren't treated as pets and might, MIGHT have been difficult to rehome. Kind of like a rural version of a junkyard dog.

I'm not excusing what she did. Times have changed, thinking is different. Also, Noem's dog sounded like an untrained puppy who was having fun in a destructive way. That's on her. It sounded like a candidate for rehoming to me. Instead, she took the easy way out and even seems proud of what she did. See how down to earth I am. Liberals just don't get it. (sarcasm)

On our farm, we had a husky who killed anything unfortunate enough to get within reach. They have a hell of a prey drive. Dad loved that dog and found a new home for it. He couldn't stand us kids crying every time it killed kittens.

[NanaCat]

31. And now we're more civilized

It was a young dog, and clearly not trained properly about how to treat birds. And I know well-trained hunting dogs, thanks to a grandfather who was never without one until he became too sick to hunt anymore. Not one of his dogs ever attacked a chicken--and they had ample opportunity to do so from the coop on his property.

Are some dogs irredeemable bird-munchers? Undoubtedly. But these days, rater than murdering them, you remove them to an environment where they don't get the opportunity to attack birds. Like a home with a bunch of school-age youngsters. Then they're too busy to care about munching on birds.

That's why the 'humane societies' exist: To treat dogs humanely as the first resort, rather than murdering them at will for not meeting the expectations of incompetent dog owners.

I can't believe some as dog-averse as I am must explain this concept.

[shrike3]

43. I'm hardly dog averse. But I'm pointing out this did happen on farms decades ago.

When I was a child. You know what was a real problem? People dumping their dogs in the country. It was a real problem. "Let's dump Fido in the country and he can go live on a farm." These dogs occasionally formed packs, attacked livestock, like sheep, and sometimes local farm dogs would join in. Tragic situation. Things have changed, thankfully, and now dumping can earn you criminal charges in some parts.

[John Shaft]

40. My father was a sharecropper

I grew up on a farm.

Don't recall much dog shooting.

[shrike3]

42. Wasn't a frequent event. Just pointing out it did happen. On our farm, in fact.

One of the neighbor's dogs killed some of our sheep. We recognized the dog. Dad called his owner, and he shot the dog. Dogs on some farms were like junkyard dogs. Not so much pets but protectors. Protect from foxes and other varmints. And wild dogs. I don't know how it was where you lived, but people were always dumping pets in the country. They formed packs, and sometimes farm dogs would join in, instead of driving them away. Tragic situation. Obviously, things have changed.

[Renew Deal]

12. She killed the dog for politics

She could talk about being a gun user. It’s scripted.

[plimsoll]

33. Agree, but don't ignore the "eliminating things that annoy me" aspect.

She said "hated that dog." So the natural answer is to kill it. Agree or disagree, there may even be compassionate reasons to euthanize a dog this way. But this wasn't about the rational reasons you might have to euthanize an animal. This was about enacting violence on something that annoyed you.

[jeffreyi]

48. And furthermore

The dog's behavior is not the dog's fault. It's on the human. Blaming the dog for your own lack of skill and knowledge is lazy and irresponsible.

[Midnight Writer]

16. If they thought she could bring in women voters as a VP candidate, she just scotched that idea.

She's rabidly anti-women's healthcare, she plays up to TFG like a strumpet, and she kills puppies that are too playful for her to train?

Nothing alienates voters like killing puppies.

She should have consulted with David Pecker. He could have told her the best thing to do with this story is kill it and hope no one finds out.

[tinrobot]

21. Wait a minute, aren't the pro-life types all about adoption?

Couldn't she have at least tried to find the pup a new home?

I guess shooting it in the head took less time.

[Aristus]

25. One of the few times I've ever cried (as an adult) while reading a book was because of the death of a dog.

Early in Stephen King's novel "The Dead Zone", the book's antagonist kicks a farm dog to death in a fury. Just before the dog dies, it licks the boot that killed it in a gesture of final submission. When I read that, I put the book down and cried for probably an hour. My heart was broken.

I don't read the self-serving books of Republican douchebags; I don't care how good the ghost-writer is. And I'm not going to read about dog murderers anymore. I don't have the strength.

[senseandsensibility]

30. The stuff of nightmares

Horrible.

[Blue Owl]

28. The Puppy Slaughterer

[erronis]

32. She's trying to up do Sorry Palin - standing in front of the turkey-killing machine

Or was that Sorry Huckabee? Can't keep all these Sorry (r)epuglicon females(?) straight.

Where's that Bobbert "lady" recently? She likes being the most obnoxious - after that mtg character.

[Martin68]

34. She's really stupid if she thinks this is a good look for her.

She will be known henceforth as "the puppy killer." She deserves all the friends that will earn her.

[AllaN01Bear]

35. the rs invented the term polliticly correct a long time agoo. hem still no reason to kill puppy.

[EnergizedLib]

36. Not mincing words might be politically incorrect

Killing an innocent, defenseless puppy who isn’t terminally I’ll isn’t that. It’s evil.

[Nululu]

38. She's banned from 3 reservations for racist comments

Now she's alienating dog lovers.

[we can do it]

56. I think it's 4 now.

[Nululu]

65. Not surprising

[BidenRocks]

41. Melissa will not be happy

Who could hold up to her telling the world that you are a dog killer?

[0rganism]

46. I hope she knows the best way to restore her reputation is to sign on as TSF's VP candidate

Hehehe

[MFM008]

54. Shot her goat

For being a goat.
Sic fuk.

[MaryMagdaline]

55. I can't hear her name without visualizing the puppy murder.

This will never go away.

[Torchlight]

63. Bragging about the kill, and claiming hatred for the animal denies any other justifications she makes.

The killing was motivated by pride, anger, and convenience. The rest is just cover she creates to hide this incredibly huge character flaw. And she seems quasi-successful in fooling exactly the people she needs to fool for their second-line defense and indirect support.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

64. I am still hoping that this "person" is TFG's VP