South Dakota governor and possible Trump running mate says she made ‘a choice between [my children] and a dangerous animal’
The South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful Kristi Noem asked the American public to consider having to “make a choice between your children or a dangerous animal”, as she again defended her killing of a 14-month-old dog.
“I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation,” Noem told CBS’s Face the Nation about her decision to shoot the dog, named Cricket, after the animal ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
“Because that’s what I faced, and I talked about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not.”
Asked why she did not surrender Cricket to an animal shelter before killing the dog, about 20 years ago, Noem repeated her prior claims that the creature was simply untrainable, had tried to bite her, and might have bitten others.
There is simply no way she is going to get out of this. Even lots of Republicans love their dogs and wouldn’t shoot a puppy.
“I would ask everybody in the country to put themselves in that situation,” Noem told CBS’s Face the Nation about her decision to shoot the dog, named Cricket, after the animal ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
Okay. I’m putting myself in that situation.
In that situation, I’d either get someone to properly train the dog or give it up to a rescuer and I would compensate the neighbor.
I doubt she even compensated the neighbor.
So many options on how to handle this that don’t require killing the dog.
Like a lot of gun nuts, she can’t think outside of that very small box. Like a lot of gun nuts, she thinks this story makes her look like a “bad ass”.
It makes her look like a trigger happy moron. Any psycho can shoot a dog. It doesn’t require strength or skill. It’s not impressive at all. It reveals her to be a sick POS with zero problem-solving skills.
I do hope her political career is done. I hope we stop seeing stories about her, so she can take her place in the trash can of history where she belongs.
I would guarantee you that, while there are people who absolutely worship guns and shoot every animal they can get away with shooting, even a lot of them would draw the line at a puppy.
She has one problem solving skill that we’ve identified. She knows how to kill her problems away.
I’m confused, who is the “dangerous animal” in this scenario?
She lied about meeting a world leader and had a fake story about it to make her look tough. She’s on TV as I write this and she can’t even answer any questions about it without dodging. She’s such a real character!
She sounds like a Trump knockoff.
I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not too. I’m very glad she showed us exactly who she is, so we can all decide we don’t want her anywhere near anything important.
Thank you, K. Noem. If you had lied we might have accidentally voted for you.
Her political aspirations are doa and deservedly so. She’ll only serve as tabloid trash now.
You forget that this is America, she will be VP.
Been in a situation with a dog like that and the vet was still the only option. She makes it seem like blowing a dog away is the only option.
Pretending to be what? Like people who deserve power?
One of those core memories. We are at Uncles shacks in the sticks. All the kids are running around and adults milling about. The door swings open and the cutest red dobie is being dragged out the screen door. One pop to the back of the head and my uncle let it slide into the shit pit. Come to find out it nipped at one of the kids. No questions. No apologies, just handled.
It’s too bad I don’t believe in hell because Noem and your uncle both belong there.
I got downvoted for my experience :( I didn’t do it.
You did share it. Very very few people will sympathise with that story.
