Some Personal Thoughts on Kristi Noem, Dog Killer
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#kristinoem #politics #election2024 #dogs - Zábava
She literally shot the dog for... being a puppy. A 14 month old dog is still a puppy.
And a badly trained dog is the fault of the owner, not the dog.
Even if Cricket wasn't trainable as a hunter, she could have been a good pet. 😢
She literally said the dog was untrainable, how narcissistic does she have to be to think a puppy not understanding her training is the dog's fault, and not hers. She clearly didn't want to spend money on dog training. I remember helping train some of my dogs some of whom were adults and they learned. I've seen dogs that couldn't be trained, this was just a puppy. People like Kristi Noem, can't take responsibility and will blame everyone else for their mistakes.
This!👆
He killed the chickens because he was being trained to HUNT BIRDS. So if anything, in that moment, he was trying to please Noem. And she murdered him in cold blood for it.
But you can bet she's staunchly pro-life. As long as she gets to decide which life. That is the republican way
My dad (who's in his 80s) said, "That crap right there is why I don't vote Republican anymore," when he heard about this. He voted for Nixon, Reagan, & both Bushes. The Trump era has cured him of a lot of his conservativism.
My Grandpa, who died last year, was a racist retired cop and firefighter (he literally switched from one to the other in the late 60s because the brass told them they had to *stop beating up black folk* for crossing a certain street at night) and a longtime hardline Republican, voted for Biden after having voted for Trump the first time.
Why?
Because, and I quote: "That guy's CRAZY!"
If even HE can see that Trump is bad, I don't think *anyone* has an excuse anymore.
I'm only in my 50s, but I'm like your dad. I voted for both Bushes, and I voted for McCain in '08. I might have voted Republican in '16, as well, but once they nominated Trump, I noped out of it. It was just obvious to me that he had no idea what being president even entailed or how anything worked. And that was on *top* of his flagrant xenophobia.
I gave up on Republicans years ago... and Trump is now the reason why I am never voting red again. It's crazy to me that Noem is getting so much heat for what she did to her animals, but Trump can say and do whatever he wants to and his base doesn't care. Make no mistake about it, though. Noem's ammosexual attitude, especially toward defenseless animals, is why she needs to ride off into the sunset. I hope Trump joins her.
Reagan was the worst, though.
The second term of George W. cured me. I'm embarrassed that it took so long. In 2004, I turned 49. 😢
A person without empathy confuses cruelty with toughness.
I believe the term for such a person is "conservative."
That's very true 👍
Yeah, they’re called bullies. Individually they are cowards but they all have a “ mob mentality”. By “mob”, I don’t mean organized crime. I mean that it’s really easy to be tough in a mob. Vote responsibly.👍🗳🇺🇸☘️
First sign of a serial killer. Have the police checked Noem's crawlspace?
They definitely need to check the gravel pit. Who knows how many animals (or people) annoyed her over the years
You mean the actual serial killers? Investigated their boss? The one who pays them to do the serial killing?
Shes a christian, it's full of children., no doubt
I was thinking that same thing!
And count her kids.
As a disabled person, I often find that that’s the point of view of politicians about me.
I am very sorry to hear you say that friend. I'm also heartbroken to tell you that I believe you have an excellent argument.
Precisely. "Arbeitsfähig" the Nazis used to call it - fit for work.
It’s insane to me that this story only came out because SHE TOLD ON HERSELF. Only a Republican would think this is a good story to share
Serial killers can't help but show off their crimes.
MAGAs like their scraps extra rare.
we gotta confront the reality that a large fraction of Americans can reasonably be described as psychopathic
Actually, there is a bit more to this. She must have told the story a long time ago because local Democrats said that it made the rounds around the state congress months ago. Including it in the book must have been her idea to control the narrative, expecting it to come out if Trump does chose her as VP.
Which makes you think: if this is her idea to put a positive spin on the story, what was the _real_ story? Or, more precisely, what was her narrative when she originally disclosed this story months or years ago? I suspect there was no grandstanding about tough choices and the dog being untrainable, she just hated that dog and that was enough reason.
The words sociopath or psychopath seem to fit here.
When I was in high school in very small town in east Texas, our dog was hit by a car. She was paralyzed from the neck down and in terrible pain. As it was the weekend, the vet’s office was closed. My Dad loved that dog. We all did. Rather than leave her suffering until Monday, he took her away, shot her and then buried her. All by himself. I’ll never forget the look on his face when he came back home. He was completely devastated. I don’t really have a point with that, just wanted to share that story. Made me cry to type it and that happened over 40 years ago. 😭
That was nothing like what she did, be easy in your heart. Your dad did the dog a kindness to shorten her suffering.
I worked in animal rescue for years, and one of the phrases we repeated was, "It's NEVER the animal's fault." Even if a dog is suffering and has to be put down, you DON'T SHOOT IT -- you take it to the vet and have it euthanized painlessly. If a dog gets in with your chickens and kills some of them -- it is your fault for not having a secure chicken coop to protect the birds for whom YOU are responsible. This story is just sickening.
I don't think the puppy walk in and kill chickens she made it all up
And remember, she did not securely lock the dog in her car. How did it "get out?"
As a person who's family had to hunt for food, let me just say. First, you do not let an untrained hunting dog off the slip on a serious hunt. Second, if you have any sense at all, you do not transport valuable dogs in an open pickup with no safety harness. Third, if you can't train the dog, then you get a qualified person to do so. Incidentally, on my farm, that meant giving Uncle Virgie 5 pounds of honey to train up the dog. Fourth, you never grab a dog that has the hunt up in her, she'll bite ya. Fifth, you castrate the goat. Or you at least have better damn well eaten it.
This is basic animal husbandry. Any owner of hunting hounds knows, if you can't handle any of that, you sell the dog.
Yup. I adopted a LGD Great Pyrenees who wasn't working out at the ranch. Now she's a foo foo city house dog and couldn't be happier.
@@Lonsoleil 😊Good deal,for your dog but I think the reason she killed her dog and goat was just plain fury. The dog embarrassed her on the so called hunt. I have heard it done where I live. Sad world.
Thank you so much! Lol @Uncle’s 5 lbs of honey fee. 😂
FFS yes
This lady is a f****** psychopath and a murderer.
Uh oh. Actually being a responsible animal owner?! What heresy is this?!?! That might mean Noem has to, you know, put in the effort for her animals
I have a dog, Pete, who was shot in South Carolina for being a 'bad hunting dog' he lost his eyes due to the buckshot. We adopted him right after his eyes were removed over 14 years ago - he is still going strong and has been one of the best companions we have ever had
Thank you for rescuing him! ❤️
Stupid people hurting a dog but at least he have a happy life with you now
When I was a kid our family had a German Short-haired Pointer, a hunting dog. Her name was Pearl. Pearl couldn't stand loud noises, and ran scared from any loud noise, so was useless as a hunting dog.
Naturally, we took her out to the gravel pit and...of course we didn't hurt her! What the fuck is wrong with people?! She was a dear and treasured family pet until she got out and was hit by a car. She was a goofy awesome lady and it still brings tears to my eyes almost 40 years later. Fucking monsters.
Saddest part is more than the fact she did the deed, she bragged about it. That is a special level of inhumane.
On my grandads farm, dogs, like everyone on the farm, were workers. The dog I remember most when I was growing up was Scamp. Scamp would go with people when they went out into the wheat fields, alerting us to any rattlesnakes and killing any gophers in the crops. That’s what he was trained to do. Eventually, Scamp got old and passed. My grandad got a new dog named Dollar after how much he paid for him. Dollar got the same training that Scamp got, but he wasn’t very good at his job. He’d run right past rattlers without a care in the world. One time we were out in the fields and we saw a gopher digging a hole. We gave Dollar a command, he ran over, killed the gopher, looked down at what he just did, and barfed all over it. My grandad said he overpaid for that dog.
You know what he did?
Well, he didn’t kill the dog. He rehomed him. Gave him to my uncle in town to live as a family dog, then got another border collie, like scamp was, to work on the farm. And whenever my grandad went into town to visit my uncle, he’d pet and play with dollar. Dollar may not have been a good farm dog, but he was still a good dog.
"Dollar may not have been a good farm dog, but he was still a good dog."
If only that worked for humans. "Trump and Noem may not have been good politicians, but they were".....nope, can't do it.
@@Keithustus❤
@@Keithustus good suspects for serial killer and big money crimes?
They're all good dogs. Even the big Burnese that I work with who has some aggression issues. That dog could kill me, but the truth is he's just scared and he hurts from having messed up knees. He's a good boy.
Border Collies are weird, ngl. They’re bred for distance work and sometimes get a little addle brained when asked to do things at hand.
There’s a bunch of moving parts in a working breed dog’s brain and sometimes they don’t all go in an optimal direction to learn tasks that aren’t natural to them.
Like teaching art to a genius mathematician. That’s not guaranteed to work out quite right.
The bizarre part isn't the acts. That's gross and cruel and inhumane. What's bizarre is that she wrote about it and then thought people would... what? Admire her? Sympathize? I mean what reaction did she _think_ she was going to get? That level of obliviousness and lack of social awareness is really, really bizarre in a politician.
A lot of voters will admire her for this, yes. Decades of the normalization of cruelty has had its effect.
She probably expected the exact reaction that the story is getting - to get people stirred up and upset. To "own the libs." Everything that Trump, Noem, MTG and their ilk do and say is performative and meant to stoke outrage on the other side.
Never underestimate the power of Cleek's law. If she thought the story would tweak her opposition and her constituents were the type to reflexively back that no matter how cruel or thoughtless it seemed, then publishing is in her perceived best interests. And sadly, whatever her conservative base was once upon a time or stood for, a story about how she lashed out at an innocent animal in vengeance and grievance would play well with them these days.
For sure. And, additionally, what's alarming is the number of people who live in this wildly delusional and cruel reality they've created for themselves.
She very mistakenly thought it would show that she is capable of making tough decisions. Instead, it showed that she is capable of making monumentally horrible decisions and is a piece of garbage.
There’s literally a seminal book on dog training called Don’t Shoot the Dog.
I've been friends with a surprising number of professional and semi-pro dog trainers over the years, and I am more aware of that than usual because every single one of them started screaming in my head when I read about this. People I hadn't thought of in years were revitalized in my neurons.
She doesn't want to train anyone, she wants an end to her problems, a 'final solution' of sorts. She wants to shoot the dog.
The trouble here is, the dog is us. The dog is anyone who isn't Kristy noem with Kristy noems specific wants. The rest of us make money from one another, use each other's services, and recognize that different people are sometimes useful in their own way. If you shoot the dog, that's the end of that, and who knows what else she will shoot next? She has already demonstrated that once she starts shooting, she doesn't just stop, she plows on through even against the protests of her children and with bystanders watching. Noem is useless to anyone but noem, and she is despicable.
That’s so prescient! I guess it’s happened a time or two before. 😂
Omg I forgot about that. Noem is like the anti-Karen Pryor.
a poorly trained dog reflects on its owner tenfold.
Totally, if you wanna know if you can trust a dog it's better to check how their owner treats them.
To paraphrase Beau of the Fifth Column: "Looking at the wrong end of the leash"
as a breeder of cats, who knows about dogs and cats. generally its a mostly equal mix of genetics and training.
she killed a puppy for being untrainable, a goat for getting her kids clothes dirty and three horses because she didn't like them any more.
She represents who the republican party is. They are people who hate. They have no morals, and limited intelligence
She also killed her political career.
I didn't hear about the horses?
Just recently happened according to her. Said they were in their 20's and old. Which I have a friend who's horse is 33 and enjoying her retirement.
@@spacelemur7955Nah, her Republican thug friends will probably protect her
The whole Noem story shows the conservative perspective. Nobody deserves any happiness or joy, and they are looking for excuses to inflict pain or prove their stoicism to their perceived enemies. The ones with a heart and conscience.
Her rhetoric on immigration has been so heartless and inflammatory that she's literally barred by the Pine Ridge tribe from their Reservation.
Much as I agree with the gist of what you’re saying- that’s not actually Stoic in the ancient philosophical tradition. It’s not “be tough, suppress feelings,”. It’s much more like Buddhist philosophy the goal is not getting attached to things, accepting fate, and perusing justice and virtue. I would consider it something of a forgotten Western Buddhist type philosophical approach, even if they weren’t identical in practice.
You're out of your mind. Conservatives are outraged just as much!!
CRUELTY = STRENGTH for MAGAs. Trump loves cruel dictators more than reasoned, compassionate leaders.
@@Theaddora
Many, I think most are. But by no means all.
The scary thing isn't this woman deciding to do this. It's horrifying but all too common. It's the fact that, in her estimation, this would be positively seen by her target audience. That is TERRIFYING.
She'll be re-elected.
Something about this story that Noem tells... I've noticed that Republicans tend to get utterly livid when they are (or at least feel they are) embarrassed in public. Cricket got loose and killed a neighbor's chickens. That neighbor was probably not very happy about that, though I sincerely doubt it was such a terrible burden, Kristi could probably easily pay for any damages. It had nothing to do with being a bad hunting dog. Like you said, the dog was a puppy and could easily be trained. The real issue was that the dog embarrassed her. In her mind, the dog misbehaving made her look bad. So in her mind it needed to die.
You r right. She got mad at being embarrassed and took it out on living things she could get by with killing
My thoughts exactly.
My chickens were pets, as well as egg providers. I had neighbors’ dogs get in them a few times. It’s not fun, especially when some of them were good old girls who I’d raised from eggs.
But, if the neighbor was polite and immediately accepted the responsibility, it’s fine. Things happen.
Chickens are fragile and it’s difficult to keep them safe while also letting them live normal chicken lives with lots of space to explore and scratch.
I would bet an entire donut that Noem was defensive and resisted paying for the chickens, and tried to claim that it was somehow the fault of the neighbors.
She also used the dog shock collar to punish the dog for ruining the hunt.
- she lost her temper and tortured the dog for a while.
Turns out the untrainable Cricket was actually a bird dog. Cricket was doing what her breed is bred for.
She described Cricket as, "full of joy."
No wonder she hated it
So she deliberately and remorselessly killed joy. Tracks for a Republican.
She wrote that her self? I know it's an autobiography, maybe the ghost writer despised her? How does someone think I shot a puppy is something you would write a supporting propaganda piece that a politician in the midst their said career(previously hopefully) would write about themselves. Shot a young dog that could have been adopted.
And immediately after that she says "I hated that dog" -- she sounds like the kind of killjoy that really lights up a room... as soon as she leaves it.
And because of that, the right wing had to destroy it.
That's serial killer behavior - farm or no farm. She didn't even try to train the dog at all, & taking the dog on a hunting trip where it will be excited and in a large pack isn't going to tone down its aggressiveness, it's going to make it worse. She then killed the dog and threw it in a gravel pit (since the kid asked where it was she obviously didn't bring it home to bury it) and she killed a goat who had lived there for years "because it smelled", instead of... I don't know, taking care of the goat. Honestly, I wonder if they should dredge that gravel pit, I wonder if they will find any remains from undocumented workers who worked on the farm but wanted a raise, or live-in domestics who got tired of the situation. She seems absolutely nuts, but that's just a hypothetical, not making any allegations.
The dog killing the chickens I could maybe believe as it can happen with dogs who have a strong prey instinct, but this is on the same trip, when she still hasn't attempted to train the dog at all. Nearly any terrier, even a little lap dog, unless properly trained, if dropped in the pit with a bunch of rats will automatically kill every single one, it's hardwired into their genetics. The shock collar would have made the situation worse as the dog would have been in pain and that could explain it snapping at her (if that even happened) Also who goes to kill a sizable animal and brings a single shot unless you don't care if they suffer. This is a hypothetical but I bet she took the goat out there, shot it once to watch it die, noticed the construction crew, left in a hurry but got afraid that she couldn't spin the story if they called the cops, so she went back to finish it off and fabricated the ammo thing. If you are going to put down an animal humanely with a gun, most people would have several shots available just in case they missed for some reason so it wouldn't suffer. Just speculation though, I don't want to end up at the gravel pit.
The words sociopath ans psychopath come to mind.
Fits with a presidential candidate who claims he could shoot someone on 5th avenue without repercussions.
😢 Sorry I accidentally posted my comment on the wrong video. Kristi could have re-homed Cricket instead of ending the dog's life. Cricket could have been a great companion for someone.
Giving away something that she has ownership and control over goes against everything that a republican believes in. To a conservative, the moment something isn’t good or useful enough to them personally, they’ll choose to destroy it long before they’d consider giving it to someone else who could still use it. It’s a core aspect of their sociopathic, unempathetic selfishness.
I think it was Her Daughter's Dog. 😢
Oh shit! This! A friend told me about this. Apparently she then went on to shoot a goat, because she had another animal that annoyed her and she wanted to kill. You know, she already had the gun and stuff after shooting the dog. That goat actually took two shots, with the first not doing it so she needed to go and get more ammunition to finish it off. Then her kids came back and asked where the dog was, and she says she made the hard choices. Yeah. Hard choices. Riiiight. These people will do things they want out of frustration and anger, and then claim it was necessary, but really... they just want to do that. Like when they do their best to kick down at the poor and unfortunate. It's like they think being cruel is a virtue, and showing it off will attract the like minded.
You know, I'm against the death penalty. Mostly...
She was on a roll, I guess. What a @$$.
Then there were the horses she put down...
Nah, the Republican Party, such as it is, attracts Sadists in much the same way that the S&M scene seems to. Someone hears murmurs of a lifestyle where people are turned on by being denigrated, hurt, dehumanized... they come across unrealistic and harmful misrepresentations of a whole subculture that will "beg to be abused". Then they either find someone else new to the concept with little understanding of the complex dynamics at play in the relationships, and take advantage of their desire to please and naivete. This inevitably leads to an abusive relationship that has absolutely no resemblance to a Sub/Dom relationship. Or, in the best case, they meet someone well versed who will break them of the delusion that they can hurt people the way they want to. I guess the biggest difference is that, as a Republican, no one ever tells you that you shouldn't treat others like so much trash. In fact, it often seems to be a prerequisite.
She shot the goat for smelling bad, in other words, for being a goat, SMH.
"Hard choice" lol. She didn't want to put in the effort to actually train the dog properly, or pick an alternative like just raise a pet since her kids already loved him, so she made the easy choice instead.
They're all like this. Bloodthirsty people who see anything or anyone that isn't them as lesser and they believe they should have complete power over them
I think it's messed up that *this* is what will torpedo her political ambitions, not her anti-immigration rhetoric or her draconian stances on women's rights or her *multiple* investigations for corruption...
We lost our first dog to a stroke, one to a seizure from a brain tumor, and twoto old age. Together they gave us 45 years of companionship. We lost the fourth last week and are heartbroken at the loss of a family member. Noem is sick and undeserving of any public trust. She is a malignant narcissist and should be voted out of office. Do it, South Dakota.
Don't worry they will elect her again.
Noem is evil!
Well this is her second term so she can't run for governor again, would she run for anything else? Even in SD it's hard to imagine, this story will follow her forever and her opponents will never let her forget it.
@@thud9797 Dog catcher?
The conservative ethos: the vulnerable are to be exploited, and if they cannot be exploited they are to be destroyed. This, to the conservative, is strength: the power to make the world simple, convenient, and gratifying.
I agree. These Rethuglikkkan fascists are role-modeling their Nazi heroes. Those less than 100%, vulnerable, physically and mentally challenged were murdered in the camps. The GQP is loaded with opportunistic predators.
My cousin’s dad made him drown new born puppies because “we can’t find a use for them and they’ll just be a mouth to feed.”
To save the money on ammunition.
He never got over that. Who can?
What kind of psychopath kills a puppy for being a puppy? The kind that has always had the urge to kill something helpless and finally saw her chance. Sickening.
Has anyone suggested that KN is an untrainable human?
Do you know of a solution?😂
The sociopathic behavior is the killing of an innocent puppy. The psychopathic entity is her writing about it and making it public for novel financial gain
The best part of that story is the line she has right after it: "I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here."
That's the understatement of the millennium, right there.
-“but I’m still in the VP running, right?”
-crickets
I used to hunt quite a lot when I was a kid, one day I had to take care of a feral dog, I love dogs, always have and that was the last time I touched a firearm. She killed a puppy for being a puppy, a goat for being a goat, and then proudly tells the world about it. Did she pull the wings off flys for giggles as well? It would not surprise me.
What she did was not make a hard choice. She took the easy way out because she couldn't do her job of training it, that tells you more about who she is. Maybe she will fit right in at a MAGA Whitehouse.
or asking literally anyone else to adopt it.
She was probably one of those kids who liked to burn ants with a magnifying glass.
You're a phenomenal essayist. Moved to tears both by your compassionate tribute to your father's difficult choices, as well as your incisive criticism of Kristi Noem. Especially critical for all to understand is what you shared: this is not making hard choices, given her distaste for the animal. She was not conflicted. She is - as you allude - heartless.
Great observations, I humbly suggest two additional points.
1. Do the Republicans want to choose someone as VP that really can’t read the room? She was unable to predict or have anyone advising her that this was not going to go ever well with the public?
2. Do we really want someone with so little self control that she couldn’t think of another solution for an overly active dog. We certainly don’t want her anywhere near the nuclear codes.
It’s been almost twenty years and I still tear up when I think about the time I almost got myself hit by highway traffic at night after accidentally doing the same to an escaped dog. I can’t fathom the depravity of someone who could kill their own on purpose. It’s just monstrous to me.
Side note, don’t try to run out to retrieve an animal you’ve hit from the middle of a highway, at night or otherwise, no matter what your grief and horror say.
I love that the title of her book is "No Going Back." It's the sort of title I'd imagine the Joker coming up with when he's feeling low.
Modern day republicans are MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than the Joker could ever dream of being.
I was so sick when I heard about this, that I stopped the video that was telling about it and will never watch it. And I used to show dogs. I heard long time breeders speak with grave faces about puppies that didn’t make it or dogs they had to put down, sometimes themselves. These stories weren’t told as brags, they were told to share their sorrows and some of them were very old sorrows. Kristi Noem commented on the uproar by saying basically, this was twenty years ago. People who really care about their dogs remember them and miss them for the rest of their lives.
Apparently because of this story Trump is no longer looking at her as a potential running mate. Y’know, cause he’s so morally superior 🙄
Whatever else can be said of him (and that is a lot) he is media savvy and puppy murder would be difficult to spin.
More like she's too much baggage now to handle.
He probably would do the same, just not tell everyone in a book. it is about optics, not morality.
Thing is, he probably *does* think it's awesome, and has handlers that are desperately trying to keep him from saying so in front of the cameras. I mean, this is a guy who loathes (or lusts after...) his own children...I can only imagine that he'd do the same thing to a pet that Noem did.
He knows he is a smelly, nasty old goat too!
Steve... man, what a storyteller you are. I'm not even necessarily referring to your crafted skits, or narrative subtext within any given video (incidentally, also fantastic). No, you have a cadence to your voice, pausing just the right amount of time to allow the audience to consider the last statement a little more. I contend that, as Mr. Ballen is one of the greatest "Mysterious/Horror Storytellers" I've ever heard, you are one of the most heartfelt storytellers.
I second that.
He's got gravitas.
You've articulate my thoughts on this issue brilliantly. I've had to help bury a dog i loved who had to be put to sleep, and I've known 4 dogs that have passed either after being put down or dying of natural causes. It is an incredibly tragic thing even when it is done out of a sense of love and dignity. Doing the hard thing is a _responsibility,_ not a reward. We take responsibility for fighting wrongs and fixing mistakes. That Noem doesn't seem to realize that fixing the dog's training was _her responsibility_ really highlights how undeserving she is of the trust that's been placed on her.
When I took my dogs to training classes, it wasn't really the dog being trained; it was the humans being trained. If my dogs did not behave the way I wanted, it wasn't their fault. It was mine.
I’m liking every piece of media I can find on this to amplify the algorithm to spread the word about this sicko.
The story of Kristi Noem’s dog reminds me of a beagle I had when I was a kid. My dad went rabbit hunting with a guy who brought some dogs that were too young. They ruined the hunt. The guy shot the male and was about to shoot his sister when my dad stepped in and offered to take her. We called her Lucky.
Not for nothing but if you wanna tell a story, say you’re writing a book, and you want to introduce your villain, generally there are two good ways to go about it. You either show them being mean to a child, or mean/abusive to an animal. Either way, you’re likely to have your audience hate that character, which is normally what you’re going for with a villain. Apparently, no one ever told Ms. Noem this
I propose that we call Kristi Noem “Old Yeller” from now on.
I like the sentiment, but Old Yeller was a devoted companion whose owner actually *did* have to make the hard choice. She doesn't deserve to be associated with either character. She ain't Ol' Yeller, she's the rabid coyote that bit him!
Old Yeller had rabies and was going to die a horrible death. His was a mercy killing. Noem shot Cricket for being a puppy. I call her Barbarian Barbie
You assume she reads.
What? Was "psycho bitch" already taken?
"Young Yeller" maybe? 14 months.
The part that blows my mind is that not only did she think this was a good thing to include in her book, but at least 4 other people read it and thought it was fine (one each for assessment, developmental edit, proofreading, and copy-editing). The alternative is that nobody read it before it went to press.
I don't know which is worse.
I hate to admit this, even though in the couple instances this happened they were purely accidental, but while I've never killed a dog (or a cat), I have on separate occasions had a rabbit and a squirrel run out into the road in front of my car and get caught under one of my tires before it could get clear. On both occasions, I felt absolutely awful for the poor animals. Hearing the story about Noem makes me sick to my stomach.
That's the thing. You did this on accident and nobody can fault you for an accident. And more importantly you still felt bad evil if it wasn't your fault. But she did this for the sake of killing a dog because she _could_ and didn't feel bad about it at all. You situation showed you are a decent human being while she is a sociopath.
Her anecdote and how she frames it is a good reflection on the "making the hard choices" narrative Conservatives love so much. It wasn't a hard choice, it was what she wanted to do, and it didn't benefit anyone. She could have tried harder to train Cricket, or easier to sell or even give Cricket away. A dog that can't hunt can still be a good pet.
There was a right thing to do, multiple options even, but those were harder and most importantly didn't give her an excuse to hurt someone. Similarly, when we look at options for tackling real problems in the world we see the same thing from conservatives. The effects and ongoing costs of homelessness cost the taxpayer more than it would cost to just provide people with homes, but conservatives "make the tough choice" of keeping up the status quo. They go with an option that requires less work from them, doesn't help anyone, doesn't solve the problem, cost more and actively hurts vulnerable people, but that is somehow "the tough choice."
Same with addiction; prohibition has failed, criminalization doesn't work, it's all just a waste of money and energy and peoples lives. Providing people support works, providing people stability works. Fixing the problem requires helping people, it's cheaper in the long run, but it's harder and doesn't let you hurt people. Conservatives "make the tough choice" of doing the thing that wastes money and hurts people.
They make the choices they make because they're easier, because they give an excuse for conservatives hurt people, and because they hated those people anyway.
They will bellyache about all kinds of "hard choices" when they know its not going to make their life any harder. Pure theatric hypocrisy from everything I have been able to read over the decades.
What I’ve found in life (my experience, anyway) is that someone can be cruel to humans, but kind to animals, but NOT vice versa. Most of the people I’ve known to be cruel to animals have also been shitty human beings all around.
Steve, as someone who is unfortunate enough to live in South Dakota, I can safely say that this incident is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Noem and how terrible of a person and a governor she is. You are absolutely right, however, that it perfectly illustrates her complete lack of a soul. Thanks for another great video.
You left out the parts where Noem goes into detail about how happy Cricket was and how much fun she was having.
Also the goat. And the 3 horses. And the homeless man in Reno. And those damn Girl Scouts that kept trespassing trying to sell her cookies.
How many animals do you have to kill for no reason before they call you a mass murder
You did it again Steve, hit me right in the feels 😓
I had the pleasure of nearly 19 years of sharing my life with an eyeless cat. She lost her sight early on in life due to untreatable eye infections. At no point did it ever cross my mind to end her life prematurely like Kristi Noem did. I gave her the best life I possibly could. Miss Noem should he charged. She had options 😥
That dog story is extra personal to me. My grandfather bred German shorthair pointers. The first momma dog I knew was a brown liver and tick dog named Cricket. I wing and point trained her pups. If Cruella doesn't have the patience to turn a hyper puppy into a pointer, she has no business representing or leading people.
Many years ago we had a family dog called Jet. He was a great dog, never hurt our children but occasionally he'd have these manic episodes where he'd be utterly uncontrollable. He'd attack other animals whenever he had the chance. We tried for years to train him out of it but when he was in one of these episodes he just was vicious. We gave him away in the end to a private security firm. where he would be by his handlers side all the time and be trained by people more expert in dog training than us.
That's what we told the children, as far as they know Jet is patrolling somewhere now.
The reality is that 2 weeks later the company returned him to us. They said he was highly intelligent, and they could train him in a day very easily but the next day they would always have to start from scratch, they told us it was probably some neurological condition. We took him to the vet that day to be put to sleep before the children came home from school. I know what we did was best for him and for other animals he might have hurt one day but it still tears me up to think about it. I don't think I could trust a human who didn't feel bad for doing such a thing.
*THE PSYCHOPOTHY - THE TRUE PSYCHOPOTHY* in this story is not that she killed the dog - its that she thought putting the story in a book was a GOOD idea...
Thank God she did put it in her book....now we know how she might act towards people she thought were less than or useless.
It's the attitude that things apathy is strength. It's flaunting how much one cannot care, and believe this is a good attitude for a leader.
She was also comparing that the puppy she was apparently trying to train to hunt birds... hunted her friend's birds when she lost hold of it on someone else's property.
When talking about not having a choice in putting Cricket down, she specifically noted Crricket's happiness. Just... layers of "didn't have to volunteer that information, you're only hurting your case."
EXACTLY
She probably saw the chickens and was like "oh hey, there's some more of those things they wanted me to chase, but these are WAY EASIER! They'll be so happy I found them since we didn't get any of the other ones!". Jesus, just writing that made me a little misty eyed.
This will probably seal the deal for Trump picking her as VP candidate.... 😶
Why do you say that? Not challenging you. Genuinely curious to hear your reasoning
That's what I keep thinking. There is a sunset of the GOP that will see it the way Norm did. And that is depressing.
If “the cruelty is the point”, sounds like she’s got that dialed in.
He likes to say the quiet part out loud, usually
@@DawnDavidson perfectly aligned with his "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, okay?" inhumanity.
It's crazy that this isn't a thing that was found out or dug up about her. She brought it up unprompted thinking it was something to brag about. It's insane.
She knew it would come out at election time- so she was trying to get ahead of it and manipulate us.
I come from a family of ranchers. I known that you can't keep dogs who attack livestock. 30 years ago my grandpa shot a dog who started attacking sheep. I held a dying dog who was shot because she got loose (my 12-year-old self bad) and got into someone else's horses. That was then. It's 2024 and you can find a breed based rescue org with a few taps on a keyboard. Noam had options. She could have found another home for Cricket. She killed her because she "hated" her and she wanted to do it. She's not tough. She's not brave. She's just a bad person.
Mitt Romney needs to send her a thank you card, for taking the crown away him for worst Republican and dog story.
If Trump picks her for VP, he doesn't need to worry she'll invoke the 25th. He does need to worry she take care of it herself.
I have heard some reporting since. This story was already known in South Dakota and apparently also witnessed by some workers nearby. She knew it would come back up in vetting, so I think she put it in the book in an attempt to re-frame as a positive leadership story.
The mere fact that she thought people would admire her for shooting her dog in the face drastically increases the probability that she is a bona fide psychopath. Hallmark characteristics of psychopathy are a total lack of empathy and an inability to feel remorse. I'd say she checks both of those boxes.
We had a dog named Star. She was one of the goofiest, most neurotic dogs I've ever known. She was super sweet, too, you couldn't help but love her. I miss her.
The thought that keeps running through my head in reaction to this story is, if the Christian afterlife does exist, I sincerely hope St. Peter is a dog lover-- both to take Cricket in, and to keep Kristi out.
I had a dog when I was very young; probability 25 years ago. I named her Star. I have never heard of another dog named Star before now 💙
Sounds like she's already outlived her usefulness.
The tribes that banned her think so!
Hello Steve and I just took care of my 10-year-old German Shepherd Baren ( he's totally blind and has cancer & arthritis) by spending. nearly all of my federal tax refund on his Health and Care and I will take care of him and give him all the love he deserves as best as I can. You just got a new subscriber! Greetings from Annapolis MD. ❄️🌎❄️
It bothers me that they lack empathy, but it bothers me more that they are so _proud_ of their lack of empathy.
Funny thing: next video suggested on my feed is about Cersei Lannister. How apropos.
My adopted elderly Irish Staffordshire bull terrier died recently and it breaks me, utterly breaks me that she would do this. No dog should die for the hubris of this human.
Something I haven't seen people talking about (maybe they have and I've just missed it) is why she even mentioned this at all: it's specifically and solely because Trump keeps using, "like a dog," as an idiom in his speeches, mostly, "died like a dog," and similar iterations. She's trying to appeal to Trump's dislike of dogs.
Perfect running mate for DJT. Or maybe (since in my experience dogs are excellent judges of character) since she knew Trump doesn’t like dogs…
You think that would dissuade her? She's been whoring herself for years for more MAGA spotlight.
My conservative father (when he is being generous towards people he disagrees with) sometimes refers to people on the left as people who are compassionate but misguided. As a person on the left, I would rather be misguided and compassionate, then be openly cruel like she was.
We had to put down our 17 yr old Red Nose Pit in September. He couldn't walk anymore, lost 20 lbs, his eyes glassy and his ..um testicles were the size of a soft ball. The most agonizing decision we ever made. And will always weigh on us heavily. We just rescued a two year old Min Pin/Chihuahua 2 months ago. A completely different type and disposition. Our new boy is very active, likes to bark at bigger dogs( which is most), excitable, sometimes has accidents in the house, has a tendency to beg around food, and occasionally has a moment where he doesn't always listen. Its a surreal change . For a long time we had a very steady, cool dog. He was the neighborhood Pit. And he would run from squirrels, cats, small dogs, etc. The most gentle, loving animal ever. I could walk him off leash, he never even looked at another dog. And he liked to chase balls and stuff, but wasn't constantly moving. Our new boy is the complete opposite. We are his 4th family in his first 2 yrs. And we will be his last. We absolutely adore him warts and all. It takes time and patience. He is doing what dogs do. Dogs are immortal souls. Pure love. How anyone can abuse one is insane. Noem isn't just a typical MAGA Republican. She's mentally ill. But of course in the era of Trump this IS TYPICAL MAGA behavior
You are right when you said that people like Noem if a living creature does not serves a purpose for them they are i
useless. That is the same reasoning they use for helping the poor, old and disabled. Just horrible.
My dad, at the age of 12, had to shoot his sick dog. His uncle was supposed to take care of it, but he didn't have the stomach for it.
That's completely different, Boxy.
I don’t care if some ppl do view dogs as nothing more than animals trained to do tasks. Plenty of other hunters have come out to say that when they had dogs untrainable for hunting they dropped the dog off at a shelter for it to be adopted as a pet
Because they recognized that just because the dog couldn’t hold value to them it could still hold value to someone else
Right, this is the type of person where I'd not be surprised if a body turns up in their garden (or in this case, the gravel pit). :(
I had a dog who was scared, all the time. Barked non stop, it didn't matter what we did or tried, it never stopped yapping. He grew quite old, and I wasn't sorry when he finally passed away in his sleep one night. But I never killed him, he was a living breathing being. He had just as much right to exist as I did. And it wasn't his fault he was scared of everything always.
Heh. The funny thing is (and I read this idea elsewhere) that Cricketgate was put in motion by Noem, and apparently her editorial and political team, for the express purpose to impress an audience of one. An audience that doesn't like dogs.
Nice CM Punk shirt. I have and train bird dogs and this story just really pisses me off. I actually know people that do that shit and as people they really fucking suck.
Thanks I was wondering why he had a Chicago flag on his shirt. This factoid ties that question up neatly.
My dad put the family dog down himself because he was an old Yankee farmer DIY person who felt it was his responsibility. But he cried for a full day after and had great compassion for our dog, who had grown very old and was suffering.
That shirt is 🔥🔥🔥.
Chicago strong, bud.
do you happen to know what it means?
I think she possibly made up the part about Cricket killing the neighbor’s chickens because she thought it made killing the puppy more reasonable. 😣
I grew up in SD around ranchers and bird hunters. They all treated their dogs as well, if not sometimes better than, their children. The only animals got euthanized were ill or suffering, and that was basically about the only thing it was acceptable for a rancher to get a little emotional about. She's a moron for letting her poorly trained bird hunting dog loose on a bunch of chickens. She was mad at how stupid and bad at raising a dog she was. Getting mad at a dog you should be in complete control of tells you what you need to know about her bedazzled faux cowboy pantomime.
My dad "had" to put down a male Chow that lived under our trailer. The dog snapped at men regularly, and though he and my stepmother both insisted that it had to be done, I am left wondering. Another time he beat a dog to death that bit him, according to my mother. We gathered under the dining room table with her, too young to understand what the cruel sounds meant.
To my mind, dogs are like children; indicative of what has been brought to them by example.
I have not thought of these things in a long time, thanks for providing the space to reflect Steve.
I taught my dog to do all sorts of things, like run at heel, screeching to a halt with my dog stopping almost instantly when I did. I taught him to respond to hand signals at a distance, and all sorts of other stuff. I never read a book on dog training. I didnyell at my dog. I didn't give him treats. But I did get one very good piece of advice that served me well, and explains Noem's problem as well. Back when I'd started training my dog an old fella told me, "Son, to train a dog, you've gotta be smarter than the dog."
Thanks for sharing your story with your dad. 🐺
My family once got a puggle (Pug/Beagle mix) puppy and he was super aggressive and we were having a hard time training him. We ended up giving him to a family friend who was better able to handle him.
My family is/was compassionate and loving. They were dairy farmers. They respected their animals. They had dogs, cats, cows, chickens, goats, ducks. My grandfather was known as the "horse whisperer". He loved his horses and they showed such affection for him. Like your Dad, having to take the life of any animal was not something to be enjoyed. We understand your families stories. Your Dad had a heart and a conscious. My family and so many of the farm families we knew shared this human heart and compassion. Thank you for making this video.
Noem is a cruel, nasty, sadistic person.
What's amazing is that she included this in her book because she thinks it demonstrates character !! Got to love the title of her book... no turning back 😂😂😮
You can't make this stuff up.
From what I've read, the dog was treated as a family pet and she had a kid who was attached to her. I wonder what the impact was on her kid?
When I first heard of this story, I immediately thought of Old Yeller. Dating myself here I guess. You point out why that popped into my head. Old Yeller is a traumatic story. My first thought was, Old Yeller had rabies. That's why he had to be put down. Not because he was a rambunctious puppy, but because he was ill and there was no cure. It's a sad story, not something to be celebrated.
But the real point of the story isn't the death of Old Yeller, it's about Travis's anguish at having to put him down. And our anguish as well. As I said, it's traumatic.. Probably traumatized a lot of kids growing up.
Yet Kristi Noem sees this as a lesson to be learned. I don't think Kristi Noem, or any Republican for that matter, understand what that lesson is.
I also thought of Old Yeller along with The Yearling (dating myself as well).
Yeah, missed this up here in Canada. I'm completely shocked.
On top of this was the goat the same day, and how she admitted to killing two horses recently...What the hell. Also, thank you for the video.