Didn't work for Katie, won't work for Kristi.

She is totally clueless.

She is completely without shame or morals, but she has a clue that her political future is bleak

She just doesn't realize exactly how badly she screwed up. Yet.

She went on the talks shows defending herself.
Made things worse.

Yikes, that must have been a mess! 😱

Humiliated herself even further to no avail.

I just read about them.
Trying to defend her rebuttal speech.
It would have been better if she just kept quiet.

Like Kristi N should do.

to re-home the dog, not shoot it.

Trump is also a soul-less dog-hater. They would have been perfect running mates.

How many people vetted this book? How many editors, how many political advisors, family members, colleagues? The fact that these stories remained (nevermind the horror and cruelty of the deeds) after all of those people read the book shows the ingrained, systemic, and, the very worst part, casual cruelty of their party. Just ask Mitt’s pooch, or the Huckabee’s dog.

I shudder to think about any child-rearing tips Noem might share.

how she had already bought a firearm for her granddaughter (who was two years old at the time)?

The damage here is already done- she already has it in print that she hated the animal.

It's out on May 7, according to Amazon, so we'll probably find out soon. The reviews should be ... interesting.

Was the dog nipping with affection? Or trying to bite to injure? There is a big difference. My grand dog would nip/pinch my belly just about every time I went to walk her. I would tell her no every time, but I took it to mean she was glad to see me. Nobody would have killed her for that.

He was a 10 month old lab mix we got as a rescue. His previous owner let him gnaw on people's hands when they played. The problem was the puppy did it to everyone he liked.

So, instead of shooting him, I yelped everytime he tried to bite my hands. He stopped biting in about a week and grew to be a very sweet dog.

He just didn't know biting hurt. The yelping made him realize he was hurting me by biting my hands. When puppies play they have to be taught their limits so they don't hurt you or others.

so now it looks like she's embellishing.

She’ll wear it around her neck the rest of her life.

"I killed a puppy cuz I hated it"... buy my book for more horrific stories of my psychopathic nature.

She killed the dog because Cricket didn't do what she wanted the dog to do and she was too stupid to verify Cricket had the temperament to be trained to be a hunting dog before she got it - or too stupid to train it properly.
I wouldn't doubt she got it from a puppy mill or backyard breeder, instead of from someone who actually bred or raised hunting dogs for sale.
She killed Cricket because the dog was basically a house pet instead of a tool like her gunz, and she just doesn't do care and affection well at all. I feel sorry for her kids; she's the type to raise them as if she'd have no problems with the biblical dictate to kill or sell ones disobedient children if they don't live up to her rules - it's just that in the here and now, that's illegal.

Haele

things that are nevertheless rotten and evil.

Such as spouting off their bigotry then say hey I have free speech. Yes, you have free speech. You're still a bigot and an *sshole for going around insulting people and spreading hate.

Legal doesn't mean ethical or moral.

These people never do that

With the posting above she's changing her story.. .first it was "I hated the dog...". Now it's "it bit people".

too late... the world knows she has a "gravel pit" of death. Dogs, goats, horse...who knows what else gets hauled to the gravel pit for a bullet to the head. HORRIBLE.

Yeah, she's crossed some kind of line. When you've lost Laura Loomer...

and this is from THE RIGHT-WINGERS.

Chilling episode that was adapted from an even more chilling short story by Jerome Bixby.

she'll take on the tough challenges and painful decisions about who goes to the showers when.

Her mistake was killing a dog instead of an immigrant or other "undesirable."

See Donald -- I am a horrible, unfeeling, murdering psycho bitch from Hell, ergo, your perfect running mate.

He message called for the elimination of lazy, frolicking creatures which kill defenseless life. The right wingers were not discouraged from taking that message to any extreme which they feel is appropriate.

I thought the original story was that it was killing chickens?

"killing chickens".. Which dogs will do. you don't kill the dog.

And the dogs stay in the property fence, although they didn't bother the ducks running around (coyotes got all of those.)

I can see why trump would pick her as a running mate--he hates dogs too. She claims this was a hard decision? Sounds like she enjoyed blowing it away, and throwing the body in a pit with the rest of the garbage. Although, many states have laws permitting killing of dogs who are chasing/killing livestock, but its usually strays.

Link to tweet

She's pretty cute. Wonder what breed?

Puppies like to chew on things. Sometimes that includes humans, but its not like seriously biting.

throw them in the gravel pit.

I don't know about the picture.. I couldn't find anything on google.

Is TSF going o defend this? "very fine people" card.

German Wirehaired Pointer

But I'd bet something valuable and meaningful that it was written to address situations where a loose dog is threatening or killing someone's livestock. It's probably not for when PetSmart training fails the stubborn puppy.

A 200 pound pitbull with rabies.

and talk about whether the dog is just in a wrong environment, or whether it really is a case of needing to humanely end it's life. That is what civilized people do. I'm sure in South Dakota, like other areas, the Vet would even make a home visit for that conversation.

Frankly I think she is a liar. She simply couldn't handle this dog and didn't want to be humane. This is who she is. And when people tell you who they are, believe them.

Kristi Noem’s Killing Of Her Puppy Slammed Across Parties—And Mocked At Correspondents’ Dinner

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S.E. Cupp, another Republican pundit who also hunts with dogs, pointed out that “there are 592 other things you can do with a dog that won't hunt besides kill it in front of your kid and construction workers.”

The night before, comedian Matt Friend mocked Noem in Trump’s voice at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, saying he was “killing this dinner harder than Kristi Noem kills the puppies”—drawing gasps from the crowd in Washington.

Ryan Busse, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Montana, criticized Noem as a hunting dog owner on social media, writing “anyone who has ever owned a birddog knows how disgusting, lazy and evil this is.”

“Our message is plain and simple: If you want elected officials who don’t brag about brutally killing their pets as part of their self-promotional book tour, then listen to our owners – and vote Democrat,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement in the voice of their dogs on Friday, also pointing out Noem’s past controversial position on forcing child rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/04/28/kristi-noems-killing-of-her-puppy-slammed-across-parties-and-mocked-at-correspondents-dinner/?sh=3e56fa22631b

Still wanted to kill something. Saw puppers. So killed puppers. Successful trip!

took it home and murdered it. Seems to me she made a lot of bad decisions when it came to her young victim.
As for the goat, well he smelled and knocked the kids over.


What really smells... is a woman with a gun in a bad mood.

want to put my fingers in my ears and chant lalalalalal as we did as kids so as not to hear awful things. She is despicable...a monster really. Poor dog, I feel bad for her kids too...raising future mass murderers with her gun fetish and depraved behavior.

The fact that it's legal in SD to shoot dogs who kill livestock doesn't absolve her. The dog, who was still just a puppy, killed a few chickens and nipped at her, so Noem shot her - only because that was more convenient than training her or finding a new home for her. It demonstrates that to her the dog was nothing more than an object that had malfunctioned, and therefore could be disposed of like a faulty machine. Twenty years later she bragged about it in order to look tough (and maybe impress Trump enough with her casual cruelty that he'd choose her as his running mate). There are plenty of other terrible people for Trump to choose from, but I hope this takes her off the list.

If YOU don’t do what she wants, are YOU next?

If she's too dim to leave her dog-killing out of her book, then she's way too stupid for any further public service.

From Romney to Noem the pattern is clear.

...unless, of course, you're white and Evangelical. And male.

protecting the beleaguered straight white christian majority from all those other (sub)humans, it is a selling point.

Everyone except Noem loves puppies.

Don't forget that one, it's key!

Maybe someone from the ASPCA or PETA should pay her an unannounced visit. I just know she's abusing those poor animals.

Also, here's her "publisher," check out their other sterling authors:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/center-street/

Good gawd.

Quite the selection of losers there.

Looks like she's trying to be an Indian princess. Too bad she banned from all the reservations in South Dakota.

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And don’t destroy them or their environment. As mentioned, she’s not welcome at all in their communities. Ugly is as ugly does and she’s the definition of ugly.

It's unusual to have to euthanize that many horses at once. I wonder what's going on on that farm.

Are there missing people? Maybe LE should check out the gravel pit.

Secondly, he could have been put down peacefully at the vets, or have the vet come to your home/farm as I'm sure he does for livestock issue.

That's how you put down a PET. BUT NO you had to shoot him like the wild animals you shoot to show what a tough woman you are.

Your limp ass excuse couldn't have been any more heartless or ignorant.

This is just b.s.

She didn't know how to/didn't bother to train a hunting dog puppy, lost her temper when the puppy misbehaved, dragged it to a gravel pit and shot it, then bragged about it.

Then, her blood lust aroused, she killed a goat because it had an attitude. She could have neutered the goat and solved the behavior problem but it was a lot more fun to kill it.

She sounds like a cruel, incompetent moron.

They may need it more than the "kids" (young goats) ....I can almost feel sorry for them.

the release of her 'book'. Now THAT would have been entertaining!

puppy, just like that. Sheesh!

Noem did this to herself. Her latest excuses are too little to late. She is a broken and vile person.

Kristi Noem is a monster. My God! How could she shoot a puppy?

She’s full of shit

You don’t shoot a pet because you hate it. You have other options. You work with it. You get training. You find another, more suitable home for it.

What she is admitting here (giving her the most possible benefit of the doubt that I can muster) is that she faced a problem with a dog and she “solved” that problem using violence. Is that the way she solves every problem she faces?

Did I mention that I hate this bitch for hurting that dog? No amount of apologizing of explaining could ever be enough.

She should stick to Teddy Bears. If they get "aggressive" she can shoot them and nobody will give a damn.

I hope dim donnie picks you (although I doubt his handlers are so stupid) and you drag him down with you!

First, the puppy was killing chickens.

Now it was biting people.

I think she was tired of dealing with a puppy so she shot it and made up an excuse.

Why write about it at all -- and include the story about wounding the goat, going back to the truck to get some more bullets, then killing the goat? Because she knows her audience -- the MAGAts will celebrate her dedication to the Sacred Second Amendment.

So citing that as an example of leadership is pretty stupid.
Meat packing plants forced to stay open as workers were dying.

Is she like a death machine?

If leading yout state through covid means denying it was a real problem and refusing to take sensible actions like quarantining and mask mandates, then I guess that was some real fine leadin' you did there, Kristi.

Problem is, a lot of us have a very different definition of "leadership."

She first said something like the dog wasn't learning to be a good pointer for hunting so it was worthless,
now it's because it was biting people. If that was truly the case she would have said so in the book.
Just more repugnut lies.

Kristi both shot the dog and screwed the pooch...simultaneously. She's toast.

Of course, there's some schadenfreude available for enthusiasts, but it doesn't sit well in my gut considering the topic.

them pick the dog up as an alternative to slaughtering it.

...protect a zygote, well because "JayZus tells me to..."

Shoot a living puppy or goat...no problem...dominion over the animals and all that.

After all...they don't have a soul.

The only thing without a soul here is this MagaMoron.

RIP Cricket...

They both look nauseatingly pleased with themselves.

And the Mt. Rushmore thing? for sure!

Nothing more to be said because, of course, being an "authentic" puppy killer makes all the difference.

Keep digging that hole, Governor.

Your legacy is now solid: An authentic puppy slayer who dumped said puppy's carcass into a gravel pit.

A true Profile in Courage.

You will NEVER be VP!

Nuff said

get him neutered, which was THEIR responsibility. He was chasing her kids? He should have been kept in a locked pen. Again, their responsibility.

As for the young dog, the decision to kill it was not a "tough decision" to be admired. It was rash. The dog could have been rehomed.

She says it wasn't an easy decision, that it was a painful challenge.

I say BULLSHIT. I say it was a damn easy decision for a gun-loving, blood-thirsty monster to pull that trigger.

But she turned the gun on herself — she will never live this down and essentially blew her own future in politics to smithereens….

Thing is, she was stupid to blab about it in a tell all book.

Michael Cohen did it from the sideline in secret for Trump for over a decade.

That’s all we should say. You don’t shoot a puppy. It was a friggin’ puppy.

right Kristi? Also, who cares how old the story is? Makes her sound insane: “Bring back the days when you could tell the world you were a puppy killer and no libtards fainted.” 🙄 And then, the bit about the dog’s aggression toward people! Perhaps if the dog had been raised with love instead of as disposable farm equipment it wouldn’t have been aggressive. Telling on herself a thousand ways ‘til Tuesday.

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!