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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem includes bloody tale in new book – admitting "a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here"
Cartoon by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
(Editor’s Note: She has all the moral qualifications to be president of the United States. Or an Israeli ‘Defense’ Force Einsatzgruppen hospital killing unit commander in Gaza. Talk about a sick puppy. — Mark Taylor)
Trump VP Contender Kristi Noem Writes Ghoulish Account Of Executing Pet Puppy – And Goat – In New Book
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.
By Martin Pengelly
The Guardian (4/26/24)
In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift. [At least he didn’t kill it! MT]
In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.
But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.
“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.
Noem’s book – No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward – will be published in the US next month. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Like other aspirants to be Trump’s second vice-president who have ventured into print, Noem offers readers a mixture of autobiography, policy prescriptions and political invective aimed at Democrats and other enemies, all of it raw material for speeches on the campaign stump.
She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”. …
I’ve been a therapist, Director of Counseling at four universities and a professor of psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level spanning nearly 50 years. This woman moved from sociopath to psychopath upon shooting her family dog. A cold, heartless psychopath who may be on the road to vice-president of the USA. Why am I NOT surprised? Trump is a narcissistic sociopath and Biden is no better … maybe even closer to our dog killer actually. The American people had better start reading, thinking and re-considering who they are electing to office. We have been and are being led by dangerous mentally ill clowns. We are living in a horror film. One presidential candidate is a thief, liar, rapist and dumb ass. The other is a cold genocidal smiling wolf in harmless grandpa clothing. The third person in line for the presidency is a proponent of Project 2025 that automaton Americans don’t even know about. We are at war on four fronts. Educators and students are being beaten and arrested. We ARE in the fascist state we warned was coming 3 years ago now. The videos you are watching now will be played in 20 years as historical proof of the early stages of our downfall. Histrionic? I think not. I won’t be around to see the camps and the war when it comes to our shores… but the children and grandchildren? What will they experience? What will be their reality. I shudder when I think of it. Kills her dog … and glibly reports it in her book. May God have mercy on us.
Trained a few dogs. This person shouldn't own a guppy, let alone a dog.