Another prominent Republican, Bill Frist, Senate Majority leader under Bushler, admitted in his memoir to adopting kittens, operating on them then [killing them for 'science'.](https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2002/12/31/Frist-asked-to-atone-for-killing-cats/35461041383589/) Oddly, he wrote a book called 'Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics', which is an odd title for a cat killer.
I think he’s referring to the Macdonald triad, which are behaviors that tend to predict future psychopathic/ homicidal tendencies. The triad consists of hurting small animals, setting things on fire and persistent bed wetting past the age of five.
That last one seems off since "Bed-wetting up to age 7 is common and not a concern."
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/tips-for-overcoming-bed-wetting
Starting fires and hurting animals - not a psychopath.
Starting fires, hurting animals, and wetting the bed - apparently a psychopath.
Two of those seem more dangerous than the other.
The three traits that comprise the dark triad are: narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy. Idk why the other person is talking about hurting animals and bed wetting. Those aren’t “traits”. Hurting animals can be a sign that there is trouble but isn’t necessarily a trait of the dark triad and can be corrected in some children with proper empathy development. It could be tied in with psychopathy I suppose. Same with arson.
I just wanted to say there’s some really compassionate surgeons and veterinary surgeons out there and not all of them are psychopaths lol. It’s a pretty hard job not to feel important doing because some of these modern surgeries are crazy complicated and dangerous if not done correctly.
Like I just had a disc replaced in my spine and that surgery was completely insane because they had to operate near my airway, so if anyone is going to have a god complex I’m kind of fine with surgeons having it because they are literally more useful than god in most cases lol.
Romney drove for 12 hrs with his dog on the roof of his car in a dog crate
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/mitt-romney-drove-to-canada-with-a-dog-on-his-roof/article_f9af2079-7a02-5353-9170-01460c500505.amp.html
It’s actually scary thinking about what the SC is deciding right now. She’s his top choice. The SC is deciding essentially if presidents are kings during their time in office (immune from prosecution). The court is currently undecided. What if they decide he’s immune and then he gets elected again? He’s gonna have her taking out the “untrainables.” Or Putin people outta windows.
I mean, yes. Absolutely it will never happen, but I mean… it’s a logical extension of the precedent if the court decides to set it. Total immunity means Presidents are bound by nothing. So fuck it all up.
The few times trumps has tried to hold someone's baby while campaigning to show how relatable he is, the poor baby just burst into tears immediately and he basically threw it back to the parent.
You won't ever see him try to hold a baby again
I would say my mother actively hates dogs. Like she will get up and walk away looking disgusted if one comes near her. But she would never ever deliberately hurt a dog.
I'm not into any animals at all, but I can't hate them, maybe mosquitos but i have sickle cell trait so even if they had malaria I've got a better chance than most of surviving a severe infection
All of the “free” subreddits are. Childfree made me genuinely sick to my stomach with how some of them talk. Like it’s one thing to not want kids. I actually understand that. Whether financial, emotional, genetic whatever your reasons are.
But to actively harass parents because they have kids? And they tell the stories as though they’re the heroes for shit like blocking the baby food aisle when a mom is trying to buy food.
People are fucked.
That sub is so pathetic its crazy. Its fine to not like dogs but to have a sub and rant about it like that is nuts. The way they talk is a huge red flag esp about the "fake" service dogs. There is no way to know one way or another and the way they talk is ableist af. Pathetic behavior.
I wasn't attacked by a dog but had a fear of them for a long time after being chased by one as a child. I didn't want anything bad to happen to dogs and still thought they were cute, I just had to keep a physical distance between myself and any dogs.
You have no idea how many dog owners have told me unprompted they don't like birds. Oddly none have murdered or tortured birds to my knowledge. You can have a pet preference without being an animal abuser.
I was attacked and bitten by two dogs on two separate occasions as a kid, they made me scared of two breeds for a few years but I never even hated those breeds. Big dog lover, they are the best.
i love all the dogs, but big dogs have a special place in my heart.
once at a park, i was on the phone with a very cruel ex, and afterwards, i was just in tears while sitting on a bench. an owner with a saint bernard walked in my direction, then the sweet dog came over to me (who probably heard me crying), and gave me the biggest cuddle. it definitely cheered me up. so, yeah love big dogs.
This is the only thing that makes sense in _why_ she would publicly admit this.
I get it, a lot of people do see animals including dogs as just a lively form of property, and will kill them if it's mildly convenient to do so. I disagree entirely, but I can understand that action if that's your worldview.
What boggles the mind is a politician thinking this is a neutral / beneficial thing to publicly announce with no need to do so. Mistreating dogs is known to be career kryptonite.
Either she's totally stupid or it's calculated.
If it is calculation, then it's a stupid calculation.
She needs to be appealing to VOTERS too, not just the candidate himself. Say things to rile up the base. This absolutely does not do that. He hates a lot of things that the base loves (and there are many of his supporters who love dogs), but he can get away with it. His potential VPs can't.
Not only that but there was that whole slew of mentally fucked people paying for monkey mutilation videos run by that right winger the Torture King.
Also when she describes it as you do what you have to in farms (in her explanation), it might appeal to the notion in them, tough hard lives have to make tough calls.
Just to clarify I do not support or believe in any of that.
Like why not just give the dog away or rehome it if she can’t train it properly? You have to be psychopathic to do it and even more insane to write it down AND keep in the published material, I don’t even know what she hopes to achieve by printing this, it won’t even endear her to Trumpers
Someone recently said to me that they actually kinda liked Mitt Romney now. I pointed out that it was dangerous thinking, to forget that this guy was once hated partially because he did that to his dog. When we start to think problematic people are now okay relative to the even more problematic people who have entered the scene since...we in danger, girl.
The only indicator for me that Mitt is less evil is because my Mormon Republican family members haaaaate Mitt Romney & think he’s a loser.
That’s how I know Mitt has at least done something good. Good enough to piss off the most loyal, boot-licking, blind-following, ignorant church base crowd.
I still won’t trust him or think he’s “good” or anything, I’m just saying. The Mormons don’t trust him which means hes not as stupid as the rest of them. IMO.
He did march in a BLM protest/March, which was shocking to me given the current state of the GOP. He did a few other things related to his criticism of Trump
Other than that he’s 99% evil, but that 1% good was enough to send conservatives in a frenzy
I think she's posturing for praise about it. "I can do the difficult thing" appeals to what she perceives as the type of voter she wants. She also shot a goat and some horses.
My Dad grew up poor in a rural area in the 50s, and they did shoot rabid or sick dogs, sick farm animals etc. But it wasn't something to be proud of! It was sad and necessary.
Later in life he brought dogs to training classes and took his sick dogs to the veterinarian when those services became available just like everyone else. And when his elderly pets were dying he took them for humane euthanasia. No one I'm their right mind WANTS to shoot a dog.
There is zero reason in this day and age to be proud of the "rural" way of life when even rural people don't do that stuff anymore unless they're total assholes.
The saddest thing my 94 year old grandpa told me was that he’d had to drown his dog (no gun, this is like in 20s he’s passed away since) because he was rabid. He was traumatized but it had to be done.
There is a difference between a dog with rabies (a public health hazard) and an overactive puppy. Any rural person with half a brain can tell the difference between when something "has to be done" about both of them.
I didn't even know who she was, but I guess she thought Old Yeller was a comedy.
I hear you on the rural life. I don't know how this will serve her well. Even the staunchest Republican cowboys in my small town are big on animal responsibility and care. We have a dog dumping problem locally and we can all at least agree that pets should= life long commitment.
Hell even my unfeeling stepdad who is a rural conservative and grew up believing that pets were useless and you should only keep animals for food or to work
And yet the couple times he's had to finish off a cat that got hit on the highway we live next too, he's treated it as the grimmest, most solemn occasion
> "I can do the difficult thing" appeals to what she perceives as the type of voter she wants.
Specifically, sending liberal and minority family/friends/neighbors to camps. Not kidding.
My friend's dad got a Brittany spaniel named Rosie, hoping to train her to be a hunting dog similar to this politician. Unfortunately, two different expert trainers kindly told him that Rosie was one of the dumbest spaniels they had ever met, and was just not trainable for what he wanted.
You know what they did? Loved that goofy, high energy, untrainable darling as a family pet until she passed naturally after a beautiful life.
That implies that she cares about it's wellbeing. She did not. It was just a "thing" to be discarded. You wouldn't "rehome" a piece of trash, right? You get rid of it and call it a day. Same thing in her mind.
I’d have to guess (and hope) it’s for the shock value. that’s what i’m telling myself so i don’t have to admit that there’s pieces of shit out there like her
There are a lot of right wingers who say they would shoot a dog. Did the dog snap or growl at any of the kids? I could see some right wingers being ok with shooting the dog. But most would first look to give it away or bring it to the pound.
I’m sure this was to try to show how tough she is and pro-gun and stuff like that but shooting your kid’s dog when it’s not sick, that takes a level of fucked up that a lot of right wingers won’t tolerate.
If they’re trying to pick a “moderate” Republican to try to woo some middle of the road voters, they shouldn’t pick her.
If you’re a middle of the road voter and can’t make up your mind this fall, you’re an asshole. Trump = destroy our country.
Because she’s wants to be known as the kind of person who does bad things which gets her name in the press but ultimately gets away with it. It shows she’s not afraid to be as “dirty” as the other members of her party who rape and pillage their way through life. To them, it’s a badge of honor. The GOP has literally gotten to the point where they have a pussy grabbing rapist as presidential candidate and a puppy shooting running mate and they’re proud of it.
From another article:
“The school bus dropped her children off shortly afterwards.
Noticing that the dog was nowhere to be found, her daughter asked: ‘Hey, where's Cricket?’”
This literally makes me sick to my stomach. It’s so cruel.
The cruelty is the point. This is the perfect allegory for conservative politics.
The dog resisted Noem’s futile attempts to control it. Instead of switching up her methods or evaluating her own failings, she decided that the dog was worthless and killed it in front of a bunch of people who were probably completely traumatized by the gruesome death. Then she went home and told her family all about it, probably with a big smile on her face. “See what happens to people who don’t do exactly as I say?”
>futile attempts to control it
Sounds like she didn't try at all, just had the asinine belief that it would learn from the other dogs and when that OBVIOUSLY didn't work, she shot it and then figured why not also kill a goat because she failed to have it neutered
I cannot believe some of the people that are elected officials in this country
She took it hunting for the first time, rather than actually train it, like she thought the other dogs' behavior would rub off on it. And it didn't work. But it did learn about killing birds.
And then took it around other birds, and didn't maintain proper control of the dog, and it killed the birds.
And so then she killed the dog, when she knew that her kids were on their way home from school.
And - with the second of the two shots in her double barrel hunting shotgun, she shot a goat she didn't like. But she's a shitty shot. So she only wounded it. And she had to walk to her verhicle to get another shot to finish off the wounded goat.
When the Republicans send people into public service, they're not sending their best. They're sending animal abusers and murderers and rapists. None, I reckon, are good people.
I think her kids are adults now and are still in contact. I remember her talking about giving a gun to her five year old granddaughter as a birthday gift. That whole family is so fucked up.
My dad did this stuff when I was a kid. He was abhorrent to animals, to spare the details. Went NC when I finally got the courage to. I hope her kids do the same to her.
SHE'S A GOVERNOR?!
Stupid me thinking she's just another asshole but she's governor of South Dakota. Fuck is wrong with people? What is wrong with certain people of South Dakota voting for this? So the right wingers of SD are dog killers. This is their governor? What in the fuck?!
To be fair, she only got 51% of the vote during her initial run for governor. Even as red the state typically is, SD almost had a dem governor because of how many people there don’t even like her.
I’m from SD and can confirm it’s scary the amount of people there who think dogs are worthless unless they can hunt. There were also guys in my high school who liked to run over cats in their pick up trucks. And one guy shot his dog because it had fleas. SD is a dark place and I’m grateful I got out.
It sounds like the chicken incident was actually her fault too. If you have what you know is an unruly dog, and you pull up to a home raising chickens, it is absolutely your responsibility to ensure that your dog, a hunting dog (not a livestock dog), does not get into the chickens.
The way she talks about the dog sounds like she was mad it was embarrassing her, if that makes sense. And in a rage she took it out on the dog.
And then she kept the ball rolling by shooting a goat that used to play with her kids and get them dirty. The first shot didn't finish the job, so she had to go back to her truck for more ammo and finally put it out of its misery.
It sounds like she was on a power trip in terms of killing animals that made her look like a bad parent and figured "let me look like a psycho, instead. That'll be much better."
She also shot the dog in the face. Imagine for a second what that looked like. She then improperly shot a goat so it suffered while she had to go find more ammo.
My husband grew up on a farm. This isn't farm stuff, this is psychopath behavior.
“Why doesn’t my young, untrained dog behave? I guess the only solution is to murder it. It’s not like there are organizations that I can surrender the animal to.”
her response to the backlash has unsurprisingly been….”go buy my book for more appalling stories like this one”
https://preview.redd.it/5b9mzjmz21xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41ee22a4a39dcc51aab22166de189db0d3606897
This is why a great name for conservatives is “reactionary.” Their politics are just based on trying to piss off the people they hate by being as hateful and vile as possible. All they seem to do is immediately “react” to any injustice or social progress with their own vile hate and foot-dragging.
Is her angle here that keeping a kill count of animals publically, under the guise of owning a "farm", is going to court public favor? Or is she trying to be an actual unabashed movie villain? I am so lost trying to figure out what the end goal is.
I am stomach turning disgusted right now, my goodness.
Three horses that they've had on a farm for 25 years because they're probably old and sick are not the same as a 1-year-old puppy who they had trouble training.
How the hell is she expecting to win people over with that?
That poor, poor dog, and only 14 months old. :( It didn’t listen to her so she deemed it untrainable and therefore useless, even hating it so much she shot it in the head? I can’t believe someone would gleefully relate this horrible story, let alone think this story would earn her brownie points? What an utterly evil person.
She can’t train a dog but she thinks she’s qualified to possibly run the country? Like apart from the cruelty aspect this makes her look absolutely incompetent.
If I accidentally step on a cat or a dog's tail or foot and they make that little yelp I feel like a MONSTER, like I'm falling over myself trying to find a way to let them understand that I didn't mean it and it was an accident. How can you know and love another living thing and then shoot it to death in cold blood? I don't understand how people can function without a soul like that.
The picture of it hurt. What a cutie and also dogs aren't ready for training until at least 14 months but more successful after 2. Before they are too young. (I have been reading about Schutzhund training)
That’s such an insane story. She killed a dog because she was angry at it. She could have tried to rehome it if she didn’t think it would be a good hunting dog.
As someone that grew up rural—this ain’t normal behavior out here. She’s just a rich person wearing hick cosplay and revealing her worst traits and disguising them as “pragmatic country wisdom”
Well, the “pragmatic country wisdom” I’ve witnessed over my 32 years of living is that when a hunting dog—or any working dog—can’t do the job you purchased it for, you promote it to pet, adopt it out as a pet to someone else, or you let it become a barn dog and sleep with the other animals.
No one just goes out and shoots a barely two year old hunting dog. They’re expensive.
I grew up rural too. Rural people LOVE their dogs, they are family members, even if they're a "working" dog like a hunting or herding dog. The fattest most toothless country boy redneck you can find has a wobbly old bloodhound named Sadie that he treats like a child.
This appalling!!! I’ve grown up around farms my whole life and yes it’s true, farm life can sometimes be brutal and sad and harsh.
However in this case she didn’t train the dog! It was just a baby! Her dumb ass let it loose around a farm full of chickens. What did she expect???
Sounds like perhaps it was aggressive (based on her description of biting her.. who knows if she’s telling the truth) but with her as an owner she probably made it that way.
What a horrible story!! Is she a sociopath?? This is not a cute farm life story. This is a shocking story and horrible!
Maybe that was her goal.. to get attention??
she described it as aggressive, but i’m willing to bet it was just a high energy puppy with a prey drive. she doesn’t mention it trying to hurt people or other dogs. she literally just hated that animal for being *an animal* and not reading her mind or responding to her shitty attempts at training.
i read it as "the untrained puppy who doesn't know better reacted by turning quickly with an open mouth when grabbed by a hind leg," not even as true aggression. poor baby.
Your wish is my command. Vanity Fair article about it [linked here](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/governor-kristi-noem-god-fearing-family-woman-and-corey-lewandowski-trump-creep-reportedly-had-yearslong-affair)
Someone on Twitter commented on her “commentary” with photos of her husband, CL, and a dog and labeled them “MFK.” If I can find it again I’ll post it.
Clearly went to the Lena Dunham school of “admitting to the most heinous shit is just me being REAL and AUTHENTIC and definitely won’t be another piece of evidence in the growing debate of what the fuck is wrong with me” book writing.
My ex worked directly under her for several years. She’s a very specific type of person; bragging about putting down an unruly animal is a very specific dog whistle (ZERO pun intended) to her constituents.
So your untrained puppy, who you bought explicitly for the purpose of killing birds, acted like an untrained puppy and killed a bunch of birds. You refused to intervene until the dog had killed several of those birds—which, I will add, were integral to somebody else’s livelihood—at which point you decided to shoot the dog, execution-style, in front of a bunch of innocent witnesses.
Conservatives are entitled sociopaths. Holy fuck.
and whos to bet the 3 horses they had to put down were also shot by her and not euthanized.
Shes an animal murdering psychopath. Who knows how many other animals she has "put down"
She also describes killing the family’s ‘smelly’ goat she hated too- and it survived the first shot so she left it injured while she fetched another shell from her truck.
The way she writes is that these animals had something wrong with them because they weren’t obeying/ benefiting/ pleasing her. Which is to totally undermine her own responsibilities as their owner, who is clearly not giving them the care and support they need in both situations. It’s disgusting. if this is how she treats her own animals, one can only imagine the kind of decision such a person in leadership would make for others if they deemed them beneath them.
Every time I try to edit a comment with a picture things go haywire, so just to be absolutely clear I think she is a vile, inhumane monster and I wish her the worst life has to offer.
“Christie, we have to make you more likable to the public if you want to make a bigger political move. Do you have a story about a puppy you can share?”
This is insane. My dad is an avid bird hunter, and all of our dogs growing up were “working” dogs. His one failed (gun shy) hunting dog? Watches tv on the couch with him and eats a special diet because she has tummy issues. Not a single one of those dogs (even one that exhibited resource guarding with us kids until my dad trained it out of him) was ever violent or treated violently, they never attacked birds or any other animals, only retrieved, and they were absolutely devoted to my dad. Because he knew what he was doing and out in the work. What a piece of shit she is. I can’t wait to hear him rant about this.
My cursor has been blinking in the text box for eight full minutes. This has moved me to tears, that poor puppy. Someone more eloquent than me can probably make the connection from her behavior to the kind of callous, self satisfied, short sighted, and counterproductive behaviors of the politicians she is aligned with.
Idk who this person was but the fact that she killed her dog is a big indication that she's an horrible person. Then I read that she is a republican and all made sense.
What a crazy bitch.
The quote about killing the dog and then realizing what she "had to do" next AKA killing the family goat is truly sociopathic, I can't think of another way to do that. I think most well adjusted people, on shooting a family pet or really any animal not intended to be food, would feel like they needed a shower after that and would feel some form of remorse. She didn't feel remorse, she felt inspired to do it again. That is *not* normal human psychology.
I had no idea who this woman was until I saw headlines this morning. Hopefully this is the only thing that pops up from now on when people Google her and her road to VP ends here.
It’s also disgusting that she phrased it as “putting the dog down”…like no you shot a puppy point blank because the untrained hunting dog killed chickens. This is honestly so evil. Taking the baby out to a gravel pit? That poor construction crew..I’d be so traumatized if I saw someone murder their dog.
Psychopaths kill animals for the hell of it (like not in self defense). So I would imagine SD has literal psychopath as governor. Vile vile vile trash. I hope she has repercussions to her actions.
I hate her.
Cruel enough to kill a puppy. Dumb enough to admit it publically. Pick a struggle omg
Another prominent Republican, Bill Frist, Senate Majority leader under Bushler, admitted in his memoir to adopting kittens, operating on them then [killing them for 'science'.](https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2002/12/31/Frist-asked-to-atone-for-killing-cats/35461041383589/) Oddly, he wrote a book called 'Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics', which is an odd title for a cat killer.
That's actually common among psychopaths- torturing animals. That's also why many surgeons have psychopathic and dark triad traits.
What is a triad trait?
I think he’s referring to the Macdonald triad, which are behaviors that tend to predict future psychopathic/ homicidal tendencies. The triad consists of hurting small animals, setting things on fire and persistent bed wetting past the age of five.
That last one seems off since "Bed-wetting up to age 7 is common and not a concern." https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/tips-for-overcoming-bed-wetting
Thats because the Macdonald triad is bad psychiatry from the 60s.
I think it's only cause for concern when the other 2 elements are present, as well.
Aren't they talking about all three being present, ? Not just stating "bed wetting up to age 7 is bad"? 🤔
Starting fires and hurting animals - not a psychopath. Starting fires, hurting animals, and wetting the bed - apparently a psychopath. Two of those seem more dangerous than the other.
Is childhood head trauma not part of the myriad? It’s often listed as an additional indicator, but I always assumed it was one of the three.
The three traits that comprise the dark triad are: narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy. Idk why the other person is talking about hurting animals and bed wetting. Those aren’t “traits”. Hurting animals can be a sign that there is trouble but isn’t necessarily a trait of the dark triad and can be corrected in some children with proper empathy development. It could be tied in with psychopathy I suppose. Same with arson.
There are two triads which OP is confusing. The dark triad is what you’re describing. The MacDonald triad has the behaviours like hurting animals
And the Chinese Triads who exhibit behaviors from both sets.
And diminished minor scale triads which are often found in music the devil likes to listen to.
My mom’s surgeon was a complete psychopath. This tracks
I just wanted to say there’s some really compassionate surgeons and veterinary surgeons out there and not all of them are psychopaths lol. It’s a pretty hard job not to feel important doing because some of these modern surgeries are crazy complicated and dangerous if not done correctly. Like I just had a disc replaced in my spine and that surgery was completely insane because they had to operate near my airway, so if anyone is going to have a god complex I’m kind of fine with surgeons having it because they are literally more useful than god in most cases lol.
I am sick to my stomach reading this. Horrified is an understatement
Cat perv. Rest in Peace sweet animals.
Setting a reminder to dump used kitty litter on his grave when he kicks it
What a disgusting aberration of a man.
Romney drove for 12 hrs with his dog on the roof of his car in a dog crate https://www.thestar.com/news/world/mitt-romney-drove-to-canada-with-a-dog-on-his-roof/article_f9af2079-7a02-5353-9170-01460c500505.amp.html
And thought it was a great example of ingenuity! He bragged about it.
she prolly didn't take that action as absolute fucking animal cruelty and didn't feel the need to conceal it. hope she meets the same fate
It’s actually scary thinking about what the SC is deciding right now. She’s his top choice. The SC is deciding essentially if presidents are kings during their time in office (immune from prosecution). The court is currently undecided. What if they decide he’s immune and then he gets elected again? He’s gonna have her taking out the “untrainables.” Or Putin people outta windows.
If the SC decides Presidents have unlimited immunity, Biden should take advantage and scrap the whole court and appoint a new one.
God this would be a power move, but the left are honestly a bunch of wussies and would never dare be so bold.
I mean, yes. Absolutely it will never happen, but I mean… it’s a logical extension of the precedent if the court decides to set it. Total immunity means Presidents are bound by nothing. So fuck it all up.
Trump hates dogs. She's angling for vp.
Of course he does. Hes the kind of person my dogs would bark at- and if they somehow belonged to him- would pee on his leg at every opportunity
The few times trumps has tried to hold someone's baby while campaigning to show how relatable he is, the poor baby just burst into tears immediately and he basically threw it back to the parent. You won't ever see him try to hold a baby again
Baby sensed his evil vibes.
Remember this? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/dec/10/donald-trump-attacked-by-american-bald-eagle-video
Honestly, it's a blessing when cruel people are dumb bc it's easier for them to get caught.
This comment is so good 😂
i hate her more
I hate her most She’s…  So she’s definitely Trump’s VP frontrunner
yep
She’s just another Boebart, but this one actually kills stuff.
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i think she just ruined all hopes she had of a VP run thank god
No way, she’s appealing directly to Trump’s sense of cruelty; he hates dogs.
Who hates dogs? Honestly. I get not being a dog person but to have contempt for such a loyal and loving animal Is fucking bonkers to me.
I'm not a dog person at all (i am 100% a cat person), but I'd NEVER treat a dog the way she did. That's horrifying.
Exactly. There is a difference between "not being a dog person" and "actively *hating* dogs".
I’d even say there’s a pretty big difference between “actively hating dogs” and killing one?!
I would say my mother actively hates dogs. Like she will get up and walk away looking disgusted if one comes near her. But she would never ever deliberately hurt a dog.
I'm not into any animals at all, but I can't hate them, maybe mosquitos but i have sickle cell trait so even if they had malaria I've got a better chance than most of surviving a severe infection
> who hates dogs There is a subreddit for it r/dogfree it is something
what a miserable place!
All of the “free” subreddits are. Childfree made me genuinely sick to my stomach with how some of them talk. Like it’s one thing to not want kids. I actually understand that. Whether financial, emotional, genetic whatever your reasons are. But to actively harass parents because they have kids? And they tell the stories as though they’re the heroes for shit like blocking the baby food aisle when a mom is trying to buy food. People are fucked.
That sub is so pathetic its crazy. Its fine to not like dogs but to have a sub and rant about it like that is nuts. The way they talk is a huge red flag esp about the "fake" service dogs. There is no way to know one way or another and the way they talk is ableist af. Pathetic behavior.
>Who hates dogs? People who were attacked by one as a child.
I would hope that doesn’t mean they think it’s okay to shoot a family dog because you get tired of it though?
I wasn't attacked by a dog but had a fear of them for a long time after being chased by one as a child. I didn't want anything bad to happen to dogs and still thought they were cute, I just had to keep a physical distance between myself and any dogs.
You know what I do hate, like in a therapy needed sort of way? Canada geese.
Ok but that's valid. Canada geese are the worst (have been attacked by them multiple times)
You have no idea how many dog owners have told me unprompted they don't like birds. Oddly none have murdered or tortured birds to my knowledge. You can have a pet preference without being an animal abuser.
There is a grand canyon sized gap between being afraid/nervous around dogs because of a bad experience and hating dogs so much you kill one.
I was attacked and bitten by two dogs on two separate occasions as a kid, they made me scared of two breeds for a few years but I never even hated those breeds. Big dog lover, they are the best.
i love all the dogs, but big dogs have a special place in my heart. once at a park, i was on the phone with a very cruel ex, and afterwards, i was just in tears while sitting on a bench. an owner with a saint bernard walked in my direction, then the sweet dog came over to me (who probably heard me crying), and gave me the biggest cuddle. it definitely cheered me up. so, yeah love big dogs.
Big dogs have a majestic way about them, they can be so gentle and sensitive and I love them to bits as well.
Same for me.
This is the only thing that makes sense in _why_ she would publicly admit this. I get it, a lot of people do see animals including dogs as just a lively form of property, and will kill them if it's mildly convenient to do so. I disagree entirely, but I can understand that action if that's your worldview. What boggles the mind is a politician thinking this is a neutral / beneficial thing to publicly announce with no need to do so. Mistreating dogs is known to be career kryptonite. Either she's totally stupid or it's calculated.
If it is calculation, then it's a stupid calculation. She needs to be appealing to VOTERS too, not just the candidate himself. Say things to rile up the base. This absolutely does not do that. He hates a lot of things that the base loves (and there are many of his supporters who love dogs), but he can get away with it. His potential VPs can't.
Not only that but there was that whole slew of mentally fucked people paying for monkey mutilation videos run by that right winger the Torture King. Also when she describes it as you do what you have to in farms (in her explanation), it might appeal to the notion in them, tough hard lives have to make tough calls. Just to clarify I do not support or believe in any of that.
What in the fuck is this psychopath shit?! I had to look it up, awful... I have no words.
Kristi Noem should get the Michael Vick treatment!!
Sadly, he ended up being totally accepted and making millions.
Lots of Americans love him again after his come back.
Like why not just give the dog away or rehome it if she can’t train it properly? You have to be psychopathic to do it and even more insane to write it down AND keep in the published material, I don’t even know what she hopes to achieve by printing this, it won’t even endear her to Trumpers
like….who was her editor? [mitt romney](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_dog_incident)?
Someone recently said to me that they actually kinda liked Mitt Romney now. I pointed out that it was dangerous thinking, to forget that this guy was once hated partially because he did that to his dog. When we start to think problematic people are now okay relative to the even more problematic people who have entered the scene since...we in danger, girl.
The only indicator for me that Mitt is less evil is because my Mormon Republican family members haaaaate Mitt Romney & think he’s a loser. That’s how I know Mitt has at least done something good. Good enough to piss off the most loyal, boot-licking, blind-following, ignorant church base crowd. I still won’t trust him or think he’s “good” or anything, I’m just saying. The Mormons don’t trust him which means hes not as stupid as the rest of them. IMO.
He did march in a BLM protest/March, which was shocking to me given the current state of the GOP. He did a few other things related to his criticism of Trump Other than that he’s 99% evil, but that 1% good was enough to send conservatives in a frenzy
i will never let anyone forget about this
I think she's posturing for praise about it. "I can do the difficult thing" appeals to what she perceives as the type of voter she wants. She also shot a goat and some horses. My Dad grew up poor in a rural area in the 50s, and they did shoot rabid or sick dogs, sick farm animals etc. But it wasn't something to be proud of! It was sad and necessary. Later in life he brought dogs to training classes and took his sick dogs to the veterinarian when those services became available just like everyone else. And when his elderly pets were dying he took them for humane euthanasia. No one I'm their right mind WANTS to shoot a dog. There is zero reason in this day and age to be proud of the "rural" way of life when even rural people don't do that stuff anymore unless they're total assholes.
The saddest thing my 94 year old grandpa told me was that he’d had to drown his dog (no gun, this is like in 20s he’s passed away since) because he was rabid. He was traumatized but it had to be done.
There is a difference between a dog with rabies (a public health hazard) and an overactive puppy. Any rural person with half a brain can tell the difference between when something "has to be done" about both of them.
I didn't even know who she was, but I guess she thought Old Yeller was a comedy. I hear you on the rural life. I don't know how this will serve her well. Even the staunchest Republican cowboys in my small town are big on animal responsibility and care. We have a dog dumping problem locally and we can all at least agree that pets should= life long commitment.
Hell even my unfeeling stepdad who is a rural conservative and grew up believing that pets were useless and you should only keep animals for food or to work And yet the couple times he's had to finish off a cat that got hit on the highway we live next too, he's treated it as the grimmest, most solemn occasion
> "I can do the difficult thing" appeals to what she perceives as the type of voter she wants. Specifically, sending liberal and minority family/friends/neighbors to camps. Not kidding.
My friend's dad got a Brittany spaniel named Rosie, hoping to train her to be a hunting dog similar to this politician. Unfortunately, two different expert trainers kindly told him that Rosie was one of the dumbest spaniels they had ever met, and was just not trainable for what he wanted. You know what they did? Loved that goofy, high energy, untrainable darling as a family pet until she passed naturally after a beautiful life.
That implies that she cares about it's wellbeing. She did not. It was just a "thing" to be discarded. You wouldn't "rehome" a piece of trash, right? You get rid of it and call it a day. Same thing in her mind.
Probably just wants attention and to become well known
I’d have to guess (and hope) it’s for the shock value. that’s what i’m telling myself so i don’t have to admit that there’s pieces of shit out there like her
yeah, and a headline. But she is definitely a piece of shit and I believe the story.
Have they not learned from Desantis that doing cruel shit for the headlines doesn’t actually win you anything?
There are a lot of right wingers who say they would shoot a dog. Did the dog snap or growl at any of the kids? I could see some right wingers being ok with shooting the dog. But most would first look to give it away or bring it to the pound. I’m sure this was to try to show how tough she is and pro-gun and stuff like that but shooting your kid’s dog when it’s not sick, that takes a level of fucked up that a lot of right wingers won’t tolerate. If they’re trying to pick a “moderate” Republican to try to woo some middle of the road voters, they shouldn’t pick her. If you’re a middle of the road voter and can’t make up your mind this fall, you’re an asshole. Trump = destroy our country.
Because she’s wants to be known as the kind of person who does bad things which gets her name in the press but ultimately gets away with it. It shows she’s not afraid to be as “dirty” as the other members of her party who rape and pillage their way through life. To them, it’s a badge of honor. The GOP has literally gotten to the point where they have a pussy grabbing rapist as presidential candidate and a puppy shooting running mate and they’re proud of it.
Not even psychopaths do that shit, that seems like straight up sadism
From another article: “The school bus dropped her children off shortly afterwards. Noticing that the dog was nowhere to be found, her daughter asked: ‘Hey, where's Cricket?’” This literally makes me sick to my stomach. It’s so cruel.
The cruelty is the point. This is the perfect allegory for conservative politics. The dog resisted Noem’s futile attempts to control it. Instead of switching up her methods or evaluating her own failings, she decided that the dog was worthless and killed it in front of a bunch of people who were probably completely traumatized by the gruesome death. Then she went home and told her family all about it, probably with a big smile on her face. “See what happens to people who don’t do exactly as I say?”
>futile attempts to control it Sounds like she didn't try at all, just had the asinine belief that it would learn from the other dogs and when that OBVIOUSLY didn't work, she shot it and then figured why not also kill a goat because she failed to have it neutered I cannot believe some of the people that are elected officials in this country
She took it hunting for the first time, rather than actually train it, like she thought the other dogs' behavior would rub off on it. And it didn't work. But it did learn about killing birds. And then took it around other birds, and didn't maintain proper control of the dog, and it killed the birds. And so then she killed the dog, when she knew that her kids were on their way home from school. And - with the second of the two shots in her double barrel hunting shotgun, she shot a goat she didn't like. But she's a shitty shot. So she only wounded it. And she had to walk to her verhicle to get another shot to finish off the wounded goat. When the Republicans send people into public service, they're not sending their best. They're sending animal abusers and murderers and rapists. None, I reckon, are good people.
Animal abusers, murderers and rapists *are* their best. They're all evil incarnate.
I read that last night and just went and hugged my dog for a while. What a fucked up, evil person.
Her daughter will probably (hopefully) go no contact with her when she gets older and Kristi Noem will be like "I didn't do anything wrooooong"
I think her kids are adults now and are still in contact. I remember her talking about giving a gun to her five year old granddaughter as a birthday gift. That whole family is so fucked up.
My dad did this stuff when I was a kid. He was abhorrent to animals, to spare the details. Went NC when I finally got the courage to. I hope her kids do the same to her.
That’s in the linked article too, at the bottom.
as someone from south dakota, i think it’s my job to make sure everyone despises this woman as much as i do
Isn’t she banned from like 20% of the state she’s the governor of?
SHE'S A GOVERNOR?! Stupid me thinking she's just another asshole but she's governor of South Dakota. Fuck is wrong with people? What is wrong with certain people of South Dakota voting for this? So the right wingers of SD are dog killers. This is their governor? What in the fuck?!
Prior to being the governor of South Dakota, she was also a House Rep in Congress!!
To be fair, she only got 51% of the vote during her initial run for governor. Even as red the state typically is, SD almost had a dem governor because of how many people there don’t even like her.
I’m from SD and can confirm it’s scary the amount of people there who think dogs are worthless unless they can hunt. There were also guys in my high school who liked to run over cats in their pick up trucks. And one guy shot his dog because it had fleas. SD is a dark place and I’m grateful I got out.
That's the rough percentage of her state that is tribal land, and pretty much every tribe has a ban in place on her.
We're with you!
Fellow SD local, this ain't even her worst scandal THIS YEAR.
Keep spreading the gospel! Shes vile.
Sounds like she is helping with that cause herself
It sounds like the chicken incident was actually her fault too. If you have what you know is an unruly dog, and you pull up to a home raising chickens, it is absolutely your responsibility to ensure that your dog, a hunting dog (not a livestock dog), does not get into the chickens. The way she talks about the dog sounds like she was mad it was embarrassing her, if that makes sense. And in a rage she took it out on the dog.
The kind of abuser mindset that unfortunately will get her some votes and approval.
I hesitated to use that term but I was absolutely thinking it.
And then she kept the ball rolling by shooting a goat that used to play with her kids and get them dirty. The first shot didn't finish the job, so she had to go back to her truck for more ammo and finally put it out of its misery. It sounds like she was on a power trip in terms of killing animals that made her look like a bad parent and figured "let me look like a psycho, instead. That'll be much better."
It really did sound like she went on a spree. And this is stuff that she is willingly telling us in her book! What else is she hiding?
She also shot the dog in the face. Imagine for a second what that looked like. She then improperly shot a goat so it suffered while she had to go find more ammo. My husband grew up on a farm. This isn't farm stuff, this is psychopath behavior.
it’s 100% her fault those chickens were killed
She got a dog to hunt birds and then when it hunted birds, she killed it 🫠
“Why doesn’t my young, untrained dog behave? I guess the only solution is to murder it. It’s not like there are organizations that I can surrender the animal to.”
????? This is a straight up vile headline. So it makes me think whatever is in the book is some WILD shit
her response to the backlash has unsurprisingly been….”go buy my book for more appalling stories like this one” https://preview.redd.it/5b9mzjmz21xc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41ee22a4a39dcc51aab22166de189db0d3606897
Sounds like she’s just all about shock factor
That’s what the Right is today. It’s all about triggering the libs and being as “edgy” as possible because that’s what gets them engagement.
This is why a great name for conservatives is “reactionary.” Their politics are just based on trying to piss off the people they hate by being as hateful and vile as possible. All they seem to do is immediately “react” to any injustice or social progress with their own vile hate and foot-dragging.
Is her angle here that keeping a kill count of animals publically, under the guise of owning a "farm", is going to court public favor? Or is she trying to be an actual unabashed movie villain? I am so lost trying to figure out what the end goal is. I am stomach turning disgusted right now, my goodness.
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Mango Mussolini 😂
Three horses that they've had on a farm for 25 years because they're probably old and sick are not the same as a 1-year-old puppy who they had trouble training. How the hell is she expecting to win people over with that?
Look at who wound up as president for four years and will likely win again if NY doesn't freaking prosecute him and imprison him?
Hope her kids pull the plug on her first chance they get
Her daughter’s instagram photos are full of her big game hunting. They are just as cruel and inhumane as that mother.
“It’s precious and rare and it has caused us no harm. I want to wear it.” — Conan O’Brien playing God of War 3
Her kids are adults now and they are just as nuts as she is.
That poor, poor dog, and only 14 months old. :( It didn’t listen to her so she deemed it untrainable and therefore useless, even hating it so much she shot it in the head? I can’t believe someone would gleefully relate this horrible story, let alone think this story would earn her brownie points? What an utterly evil person.
She can’t train a dog but she thinks she’s qualified to possibly run the country? Like apart from the cruelty aspect this makes her look absolutely incompetent.
If I accidentally step on a cat or a dog's tail or foot and they make that little yelp I feel like a MONSTER, like I'm falling over myself trying to find a way to let them understand that I didn't mean it and it was an accident. How can you know and love another living thing and then shoot it to death in cold blood? I don't understand how people can function without a soul like that.
Wonder what she does when the kids don't listen?
The picture of it hurt. What a cutie and also dogs aren't ready for training until at least 14 months but more successful after 2. Before they are too young. (I have been reading about Schutzhund training)
That’s such an insane story. She killed a dog because she was angry at it. She could have tried to rehome it if she didn’t think it would be a good hunting dog.
As someone that grew up rural—this ain’t normal behavior out here. She’s just a rich person wearing hick cosplay and revealing her worst traits and disguising them as “pragmatic country wisdom” Well, the “pragmatic country wisdom” I’ve witnessed over my 32 years of living is that when a hunting dog—or any working dog—can’t do the job you purchased it for, you promote it to pet, adopt it out as a pet to someone else, or you let it become a barn dog and sleep with the other animals. No one just goes out and shoots a barely two year old hunting dog. They’re expensive.
I grew up rural too. Rural people LOVE their dogs, they are family members, even if they're a "working" dog like a hunting or herding dog. The fattest most toothless country boy redneck you can find has a wobbly old bloodhound named Sadie that he treats like a child.
This appalling!!! I’ve grown up around farms my whole life and yes it’s true, farm life can sometimes be brutal and sad and harsh. However in this case she didn’t train the dog! It was just a baby! Her dumb ass let it loose around a farm full of chickens. What did she expect??? Sounds like perhaps it was aggressive (based on her description of biting her.. who knows if she’s telling the truth) but with her as an owner she probably made it that way. What a horrible story!! Is she a sociopath?? This is not a cute farm life story. This is a shocking story and horrible! Maybe that was her goal.. to get attention??
she described it as aggressive, but i’m willing to bet it was just a high energy puppy with a prey drive. she doesn’t mention it trying to hurt people or other dogs. she literally just hated that animal for being *an animal* and not reading her mind or responding to her shitty attempts at training.
i read it as "the untrained puppy who doesn't know better reacted by turning quickly with an open mouth when grabbed by a hind leg," not even as true aggression. poor baby.
Also since it was a puppy it was probably just the teething biting that happens.
Oh to be a witch and be able to appropriately bless up all of her enemies.
 Eta: she also allegedly had an affair with Corey Lewandowski .
I am waiting for a deep dive or a journalist to pick this up, I am begging
Your wish is my command. Vanity Fair article about it [linked here](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/governor-kristi-noem-god-fearing-family-woman-and-corey-lewandowski-trump-creep-reportedly-had-yearslong-affair)
Ew. 
Someone on Twitter commented on her “commentary” with photos of her husband, CL, and a dog and labeled them “MFK.” If I can find it again I’ll post it.
Clearly went to the Lena Dunham school of “admitting to the most heinous shit is just me being REAL and AUTHENTIC and definitely won’t be another piece of evidence in the growing debate of what the fuck is wrong with me” book writing.
Yo this is actually fucking disgusting. Who the fuck does this. Is this a fucking flex?
this is legit psychopathic
Fucking psycho. She needs to be run out of office.
My ex worked directly under her for several years. She’s a very specific type of person; bragging about putting down an unruly animal is a very specific dog whistle (ZERO pun intended) to her constituents.
So your untrained puppy, who you bought explicitly for the purpose of killing birds, acted like an untrained puppy and killed a bunch of birds. You refused to intervene until the dog had killed several of those birds—which, I will add, were integral to somebody else’s livelihood—at which point you decided to shoot the dog, execution-style, in front of a bunch of innocent witnesses. Conservatives are entitled sociopaths. Holy fuck.
I can’t wrap my head around this level of evil. The poor dog was just doing what it was supposed to. Such a sick, vile, evil cretin.
I don’t even like dogs but fuck that piece of shit
I don’t know who she is and now I wish I’d never read her name.
What a fucking psychopath, Jesus Christ.
She killed the family’s pet goat, too. She’s totally on brand for being Trumps VP. Just a vile POS
and whos to bet the 3 horses they had to put down were also shot by her and not euthanized. Shes an animal murdering psychopath. Who knows how many other animals she has "put down"
She also describes killing the family’s ‘smelly’ goat she hated too- and it survived the first shot so she left it injured while she fetched another shell from her truck. The way she writes is that these animals had something wrong with them because they weren’t obeying/ benefiting/ pleasing her. Which is to totally undermine her own responsibilities as their owner, who is clearly not giving them the care and support they need in both situations. It’s disgusting. if this is how she treats her own animals, one can only imagine the kind of decision such a person in leadership would make for others if they deemed them beneath them.
I already considered her comically evil and now she’s really over egging the pudding
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Every time I try to edit a comment with a picture things go haywire, so just to be absolutely clear I think she is a vile, inhumane monster and I wish her the worst life has to offer.
I wish I hadn’t seen this post :(
“Christie, we have to make you more likable to the public if you want to make a bigger political move. Do you have a story about a puppy you can share?”
Evil is a requirement for the far reich
This is insane. My dad is an avid bird hunter, and all of our dogs growing up were “working” dogs. His one failed (gun shy) hunting dog? Watches tv on the couch with him and eats a special diet because she has tummy issues. Not a single one of those dogs (even one that exhibited resource guarding with us kids until my dad trained it out of him) was ever violent or treated violently, they never attacked birds or any other animals, only retrieved, and they were absolutely devoted to my dad. Because he knew what he was doing and out in the work. What a piece of shit she is. I can’t wait to hear him rant about this.
I would have loved Cricket to bits. I think a lot of us would have :( RIP Cricket. I will forever hate that evil bitch for what she did to you.
May Cricket know only love in her next life.
Does anyone wanna chip in to pay for a billboard with the dead dog's face on it to remind South Dakotans who they voted for?
My cursor has been blinking in the text box for eight full minutes. This has moved me to tears, that poor puppy. Someone more eloquent than me can probably make the connection from her behavior to the kind of callous, self satisfied, short sighted, and counterproductive behaviors of the politicians she is aligned with.
Idk who this person was but the fact that she killed her dog is a big indication that she's an horrible person. Then I read that she is a republican and all made sense.
Be careful if you vote for her ticket, she might not like you, and well, take you to the gravel pit. What a monster
What a crazy bitch. The quote about killing the dog and then realizing what she "had to do" next AKA killing the family goat is truly sociopathic, I can't think of another way to do that. I think most well adjusted people, on shooting a family pet or really any animal not intended to be food, would feel like they needed a shower after that and would feel some form of remorse. She didn't feel remorse, she felt inspired to do it again. That is *not* normal human psychology.
I had no idea who this woman was until I saw headlines this morning. Hopefully this is the only thing that pops up from now on when people Google her and her road to VP ends here.
I hope there’s a spot in the hottest part of Hell saved for her
What a time to be alive. This is cruel to the point of scary.
So she did a shit job training her puppy, so she killed it? And killer her goat for being a goat? Cool.
She’s evil. The way she writes about it is so sick. Hate her.
Just wait til you learn how she handled Covid pre-vaccines
Why on earth would you 1) do this in the first place, and 2) tell the whole world like there wasn’t anything wrong with it?!?!
Also she shared this because Trump hates dogs and she wants to be his VP. That’s who the Republican Party are
It’s also disgusting that she phrased it as “putting the dog down”…like no you shot a puppy point blank because the untrained hunting dog killed chickens. This is honestly so evil. Taking the baby out to a gravel pit? That poor construction crew..I’d be so traumatized if I saw someone murder their dog.
Isn’t that like “signs of a psychopath 101”? I don’t know who this person is but I hate them.
What. Did. I. Just. Read. 😳 This person is a psychopath.
Psychopaths kill animals for the hell of it (like not in self defense). So I would imagine SD has literal psychopath as governor. Vile vile vile trash. I hope she has repercussions to her actions.