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babylonsister

(171,111 posts) Sun Apr 28, 2024, 08:35 AM Apr 28

A Dog Named Cricket: A Metaphor For MAGAs Everywhere

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A Dog Named Cricket: A Metaphor For MAGAs Everywhere
Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 3:28:48p EDT

The Dog Murdered By Trump's Potential Vice Presidential Running Mate Choice

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That last part there really gets to it. Kristi Noem's dog story was a political calculation. MAGA puts great stock and value in being politically incorrect. What greater way to show how politically incorrect you are than by admitting you shot your dog in the face?

Noem included this story in her book because she believed there was a constituency for it. Noem believed the MAGAs of America would love this story of a rebel against conventional thinking and political correctness. In that calculation it appears that she might be wrong, but that was the calculation she made. She may have miscalculated, but it was a political calculation.

Cricket died just sitting there as his master shot him in the face, still trusting and loving his master through the very end. In that, Cricket may be a metaphor for MAGAs everywhere.

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A Dog Named Cricket: A Metaphor For MAGAs Everywhere (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 28 OP

Politics not necessary for this calculation. AltairIV Apr 28 #1

You sound lovely. babylonsister Apr 28 #2

misunderstood AltairIV Apr 28 #3

I really should have hit the sarcasm button on this. AltairIV Apr 28 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author paleotn Apr 28 #4

Now I'm worried about the horses. yardwork Apr 28 #5

They were at least 25 years old. Maybe they had/have a whole lot of horses? Surprised they had 3 of them that old. nt DontBelieveEastisEas Apr 28 #12

I think Cricket was a female dog? yardwork Apr 28 #6

It wasn't just political correctness. Noem bragged about killing the dog Ocelot II Apr 28 #8

I have never owned my own hunting dog NanaCat Apr 28 #9

How can she prove difficult when she said she hated the dog? nt DontBelieveEastisEas Apr 28 #13

RT in honor of the puppy Kristi Noem murdered, Cricket LetMyPeopleVote Apr 28 #10

Dogs For Biden 2024 LetMyPeopleVote Apr 28 #11

Zen Archer TheBlackAdder Apr 28 #14

AltairIV

(411 posts)

1. Politics not necessary for this calculation.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 08:59 AM

Apr 28

In all fairness, if she killed one of my chickens I'd shoot her in the face too.

babylonsister

(171,111 posts)

2. You sound lovely.

Reply to AltairIV (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:14 AM

Apr 28

This was a puppy who probably never got much attention and I imagine was not trained for anything.
I don't think this whack job should be allowed to go anywhere near dogs.

AltairIV

(411 posts)

3. misunderstood

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:34 AM

Apr 28

I wasn't talking about that poor dog, but that first class loser.

AltairIV

(411 posts)

7. I really should have hit the sarcasm button on this.

Reply to AltairIV (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:40 AM

Apr 28

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yardwork

(61,785 posts)

5. Now I'm worried about the horses.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:39 AM

Apr 28

She had to put down three horses at the same time? How were they killed?

Does anyone else wonder if Kristi Noem is on a killing spree?

DontBelieveEastisEas

(517 posts)

12. They were at least 25 years old. Maybe they had/have a whole lot of horses? Surprised they had 3 of them that old. nt

Reply to yardwork (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:19 PM

Apr 28

yardwork

(61,785 posts)

6. I think Cricket was a female dog?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:40 AM

Apr 28

Ocelot II

(115,985 posts)

8. It wasn't just political correctness. Noem bragged about killing the dog

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 09:55 AM

Apr 28

and the goat because she wanted to portray herself as someone who is strong enough to do things that are difficult "but have to be done," as she puts it, even if those things couldn't be stomached by lesser mortals - that is, normal people who aren't angling for a vice-presidential offer by another psychopath who appreciates cruelty. Normal, decent people who recognize that dogs and other animals are sentient beings, normal people who love them as family members and who are heartbroken when they become old and sick, and have to be euthanized out of kindness. Killing a dog whose behavior is inconvenient is not the act of a decent person. Of course, she didn't have to kill the dog; if she hadn't been so lazy and cold-hearted she could have either made the effort to train the dog properly, or hire someone who could, or find another home for her; and she could have had the aggressive goat neutered. But it was easier and more convenient to just shoot them. As far as she was concerned they were just malfunctioning machines that she could discard like a broken toaster. It's bad enough that she did it; bragging about it shows us exactly who and what she is.

NanaCat

(1,530 posts)

9. I have never owned my own hunting dog

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #8)

Sun Apr 28, 2024, 02:11 PM

Apr 28

But even I know all the ways she failed this one. My grand-da had hunting dogs all of his adult life, so I witnessed much of the process whenever he got a new dog.

What I want to know: Grand-da's family was so poor that he didn't get the chance to finish primary school, yet he was smart enough to know how to train a dog not to kill his chickens. His rural neighbours weren't much more educated, and they didn't have chicken-munching dogs, either.

And yet a college-educated woman couldn't manage what someone with a 4th grade education easily did?