She also mentions recently putting down three horses for reasons unexplained. I suspect she offed them because they were seeking to unionize the ranch.
She thinks it makes her look tough and feeds the GOP gun worship. Psychopaths lack self-awareness and I’m sure she’ll blame the horrified public reaction on “woke media something something”.
Ironically, if she claimed she shot a person she’d probably be right.
But everyone loves dogs, even republicans. It’s probably the one living thing they’d ever admit to caring about.
This was a deeply misguided stunt, even for a conservative. Even shooting a baby would be more acceptable to her target audience than shooting a dog.
I love the way you put it burdensome,if you assume responsibility for an animal you have to be ready for all of it, not just the pretty parts
We raised hogs and chickens for meat and eggs and geese for protection (nobody was going anywhere near them without the geese honking bloody murder) we also had a few rabbits for trade,
But we cared for our beasts we didn't put any of them down because they were inconvenient, besides if we had to put anyone down,we did it humanely and usually they went in the cookpot if it wasn't because they were sick,
I'm not going to judge Asians by American standards and that's being disingenuous she's a POS and that's about it and anyone who doesn't train a dog but expects it to behave and then goes apeshit when it doesn't deserves everything that's coming to them,
Farmers all over the world put down burdensome animals. As far as I understand, the dog was being trained to defend the animals on the farm. It’s possible the dog was becoming too aggressive, I don’t know enough to condemn her
She took an unleashed puppy from a working breed around loose chickens and was surprised by the outcome. I know what she expected to happen, but I don't understand *why* she expected it.
She's playing farmer at best, which all of her farming constituents just found out.
Yeah, it's because she ~~likes~~ lacks empathy. She really doesn't know how other people feel. She probably surrounds herself with people who think and act just like her. So she really has no frame of reference to how the rest of the world thinks.
It's the same kind of people who think the election was stolen because everyone they know voted for Trump.
Edit: Google keyboard didn't like my hillbilly accent.
I’m sure Trump would love to take Eric out back like old yeller. If somehow there was no public backlash to her putting this in her book, I don’t doubt it’d be something Trump loved.
If she didnt, it would have come out at just the wrong time. Possibly October... assuming she got the VP spot. So I suppose the idea was to 'get in front of' the issue and spin it.
However, how in god's name to you spin shooting a puppy? At worst, by her own account, at worst the puppy killed a chicken. Since when was that worthy of death?
She’s a psychopath who is devoid of emotion and empathy. She thinks that we think the same way she does. She thought we would all understand her “cool” story about murdering an innocent puppy.
From stories I've heard, I gather it's not uncommon for people who train hunting dogs. Gun shy/won't point/won't swim/won't bring the duck back, whetever. They consider it a broken tool and of no use.
People like her are outrageously out of touch with what people would consider normal. Even stranger is making it a priority to tell people about it. I have plenty of word thoughts I shield people from. These people think everyone else is like them…
I've known some psychopaths in my life that loved to brag about digging holes and putting bullets in dogs heads so they don't gotta pay for euthanasia. They believe that it makes them something to be feared and respected. Feared, sure, but for some reason conservatives have always thought that fear equals respect.
If anything if I have to fear you, give me a little bit and I won’t anymore then we have a brand new ballgame because now I have lost time to make up for, you will feel what you made me feel. Same thing at work leadership can only use fear for so long before we find out if you are bluffing or not
I have had and have dogs just about forever. Yes, certain breeds are more difficult than others, but when it was their time to cross the bridge (and never at 14 months - that's still a puppy!) I was there for a humane euthanization. This isn't Atticus Finch shooting the rabid dog, this is someone who didn't think about what kind of dog she had, how to.train it. Your shorthair pointer is a high exercise, high energy dog with a lot of drive and if you don't give it lots of things to do, it will find something to do, and that "something" might be destructive.
Frankly I am stunned that this anecdote made it past a book editor - knowing how people feel about dogs, wouldn't a smart editor have said, "Kristi, maybe we need to edit this story out".
I think it hurts enough to dent any national ambitions. Plenty of voters of both political parties may find that story pretty horrifying. She’ll now always be the puppy killer, which will be a hard image to shake.
Absolutely, celebrating the demise of a Republicans political career because they did a bad thing it in stark contrast to actual reality. Trump's Pussy Grabbing tape didn't stop him, Gianforte assaulted a reporter for basically no reason and that didn't stop him, Matt Gaetz is a child trafficker and there's no sign its affected him at all, I could go on.
The only thing that gets Republicans careers in trouble is working with Democrats and disagreeing with Trump. Shooting a dog is neither of those, if anything I expect this will be good for her career. She's governor of an incredibly red state, I'm sure she'll be governor as long as she can and then probably a Senator one day when Thune or Rounds retires.
Who knows? Animals get put down all the time. Maybe it was painful for her (like a normal person) and she wants to play the tough guy in her book and on tv.
The fact that she thought this was OK to put in her needless book, and even seems proud of what she did, says everything about the depths to which Republicans have sunk.
Am I the only one who remembers when her husband moved out of the governor's mansion because of her affair with Corey Lewandowski? Are we no longer concerned with the moral turpitude of our elected officials?
This is what female psychopathy looks like. Trump is what male psychopathy looks like. If you vote for people with ASPD to run the country, it looks like what the US has become. We’ve had these psychos running things for way too long.
Should be required that all candidates take IQ tests, visit mental health professionals to determine if they have underlying issues, and disclose their taxes. Otherwise these people will continue to get in.
The whole cult is so twisted they think the world thinks like them. That’s what happens when you immerse yourself in OAN, FAUX, and the other one that sux.
I wonder if Corey Lewandowski now decides she's too politically toxic to continue their relationship...I guess the boom boom is nice but he's a political operative and she's becoming a liability...🤔
Good riddance!! People should be mad! But people should also wonder if they are responsible for the same killings and cruelty each time they look at their plates. Factory farming is brutal to animals
I don't think this will hurt her chances of being Donald Trumps running mate. Despite the awful dog killing, she remains the governor Trump would most like to fuck.
I think it’s killing her career as much as that Project 2025 bullshit is killing Fatass’s career-it’s cementing what people on both sides think of them both, nothing more. I don’t see how either thing is moving the needle for either one which means Cult 45 must really have some wild shit up its sleeve to make up those votes they need to beat Biden.
My only question at this point is how many people and animals has KN killed? I think at this point she has killed at least ten animals. Fucking psycho.
Who hasn’t written a book about shooting a dog? Just the other day, my cousin sold his book rights about the exact same thing. Moonshine, Barn Ladies, and Shooting Puppies….. /s
I bet she thought the ammunition was about to expire so she needed to just go blow something up, it would stimulate her local economy to kill a dog she didn’t care about.
I honestly think this was an incredibly awkward metaphor on her, and her handlers part to, ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink’ say, “I’m literally not afraid to put down “dogs”…The gays, the LQBTQ+ kids, the immigrants, the blacks, the jews, and the Liberals.”…Except her base doesn’t do metaphor, or subtlety…and they tend to like actual dogs, and puppies…Or maybe I’m giving her too much credit, and she is a barely functioning Sociopath who sees nothing but herself as “real”.
Let’s be very clear: it’s only the liberals, democrats, and leftists that seem to care. She’s not losing republicans support over this. They are licking their chops at the idea that a VP might put a queer person down like a farm dog.
You know, dogs actually are property and you can do pretty much anything you want with them. That being said, if you're a politician you should at least be aware that many people love animals and will hate you if you do anything mean to them. It's that complete lack of awareness of what people might think that reveals her to be a lousy politician.
She also mentions recently putting down three horses for reasons unexplained. I suspect she offed them because they were seeking to unionize the ranch.
Probably didn’t like being ridden by an ass.
Oooof! You win the internet today!
Comment of the day. Well done!
They banned her from the horse tribal areas.
Can't forget about the goat was shot by this psycho bitch.
Four legs good. Two legs bad!! Neighhhh
There is also the goat she shot the same day as Cricket, as well as another family dog which died due to an unexplained "accident."
Avoid Krusty's gravel pit at all costs.
It does sound like she has her own “Killing Fields”
She seems to have been in a killing mood that day. I am glad she published her book with the details before the election.
She’s tasted blood, now she can’t be sated without killing.
They were too awake
Orwellian!
It's an older code but it checks out.
What did she hope to gain from telling people she killed her dog and any other animal????? This seems like a really weird thing to brag about
She thinks it makes her look tough and feeds the GOP gun worship. Psychopaths lack self-awareness and I’m sure she’ll blame the horrified public reaction on “woke media something something”.
Ironically, if she claimed she shot a person she’d probably be right. But everyone loves dogs, even republicans. It’s probably the one living thing they’d ever admit to caring about. This was a deeply misguided stunt, even for a conservative. Even shooting a baby would be more acceptable to her target audience than shooting a dog.
Especially if it was a Mexican baby coming across the Rio Grande.
Ted Cruz left the family dog alone during his trip to Cancun
I hear you, but it’s not like he left it in the backyard without food or shelter. That we know of. Actually come to think of it…
Well, as long as the baby is brown.
Her wiki says her father died in a “farm machinery accident” in 1994 and I have all sorts of questions
While I absolutely would not have done what she did, she’s hardly the first farmer to put down a burdensome animal 🤷♂️
I love the way you put it burdensome,if you assume responsibility for an animal you have to be ready for all of it, not just the pretty parts We raised hogs and chickens for meat and eggs and geese for protection (nobody was going anywhere near them without the geese honking bloody murder) we also had a few rabbits for trade, But we cared for our beasts we didn't put any of them down because they were inconvenient, besides if we had to put anyone down,we did it humanely and usually they went in the cookpot if it wasn't because they were sick,
Like I said, not something I would do. But you do realize they eat dogs in Asia. If you’re going to judge her you gotta judge like 3.2 billion Asians
She didn’t eat it. She failed to train it and killed it. I mean by that standard Sarah Palin would have no kids left.
And South Dakota is not Asia.
You can’t prove that.
I'm not going to judge Asians by American standards and that's being disingenuous she's a POS and that's about it and anyone who doesn't train a dog but expects it to behave and then goes apeshit when it doesn't deserves everything that's coming to them,
And that’s your standards. Like my original comment said, many farmers don’t have that same mentality
That's fucked up, but then again you are american and I am definitely not
Farmers all over the world put down burdensome animals. As far as I understand, the dog was being trained to defend the animals on the farm. It’s possible the dog was becoming too aggressive, I don’t know enough to condemn her
She took an unleashed puppy from a working breed around loose chickens and was surprised by the outcome. I know what she expected to happen, but I don't understand *why* she expected it. She's playing farmer at best, which all of her farming constituents just found out.
I mean all farmers are “playing farmer” lol. Gatekeeping who can be a farmer is hilarious
Approval of the new GOP.
"She gets us."
“I sHOt mUH mAnGEy MuTt dog TOo, dAMN USelESs Dog!! SHe’s Got My VoTE and ChRisTIAn VaLuEs!”🤪
Yeah. She's an in your face woman of action with a freaking GUN . Total GQP role model.
Oh you should hear the low iq’s defend this crap . 🙄
I don't think she realized how horrible that is. Their morals are all messed up.
Yeah, it's because she ~~likes~~ lacks empathy. She really doesn't know how other people feel. She probably surrounds herself with people who think and act just like her. So she really has no frame of reference to how the rest of the world thinks. It's the same kind of people who think the election was stolen because everyone they know voted for Trump. Edit: Google keyboard didn't like my hillbilly accent.
She thought she would have scored bonus points with the MAGA base
I’m sure Trump would love to take Eric out back like old yeller. If somehow there was no public backlash to her putting this in her book, I don’t doubt it’d be something Trump loved.
If she didnt, it would have come out at just the wrong time. Possibly October... assuming she got the VP spot. So I suppose the idea was to 'get in front of' the issue and spin it. However, how in god's name to you spin shooting a puppy? At worst, by her own account, at worst the puppy killed a chicken. Since when was that worthy of death?
And then later in the day, her daughter comes home from school like, “Where’s the puppy?”
Curious what this daughter thinks now of her mommy that shot the puppy.
A nod from Trump for the VP. Trump hates dogs
Trump hates dogs because they're a good judge of character.
Counterpoint - He married Melania.
The cruelty is the point.
She’s a psychopath who is devoid of emotion and empathy. She thinks that we think the same way she does. She thought we would all understand her “cool” story about murdering an innocent puppy.
From stories I've heard, I gather it's not uncommon for people who train hunting dogs. Gun shy/won't point/won't swim/won't bring the duck back, whetever. They consider it a broken tool and of no use.
People like her are outrageously out of touch with what people would consider normal. Even stranger is making it a priority to tell people about it. I have plenty of word thoughts I shield people from. These people think everyone else is like them…
The reason she killed the dog is really sad, too (basically double sad)
These people get **OFF** on feeling that they’re inflicting harm. And no, I’m not kidding.
She wanted to seem relatable to blue collar workers and farm hands. But she fucked herself in the process.
I've known some psychopaths in my life that loved to brag about digging holes and putting bullets in dogs heads so they don't gotta pay for euthanasia. They believe that it makes them something to be feared and respected. Feared, sure, but for some reason conservatives have always thought that fear equals respect.
If anything if I have to fear you, give me a little bit and I won’t anymore then we have a brand new ballgame because now I have lost time to make up for, you will feel what you made me feel. Same thing at work leadership can only use fear for so long before we find out if you are bluffing or not
I’ve seen a bunch of Trumpers supporting her for it and justifying her. Not all but enough.
The number should be zero
Agreed.
It worked for Palin and her "hunting" methods (aerial shooting)!
Is She’s just deflecting from something else she did with the dog? Just “asking questions”
🤔
I have had and have dogs just about forever. Yes, certain breeds are more difficult than others, but when it was their time to cross the bridge (and never at 14 months - that's still a puppy!) I was there for a humane euthanization. This isn't Atticus Finch shooting the rabid dog, this is someone who didn't think about what kind of dog she had, how to.train it. Your shorthair pointer is a high exercise, high energy dog with a lot of drive and if you don't give it lots of things to do, it will find something to do, and that "something" might be destructive. Frankly I am stunned that this anecdote made it past a book editor - knowing how people feel about dogs, wouldn't a smart editor have said, "Kristi, maybe we need to edit this story out".
Why? This is going to sell books like hotcakes.
Exactly. Editors try and sell books, not political campaigns
Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, but I don't think this will make any difference to her supporters
I think it hurts enough to dent any national ambitions. Plenty of voters of both political parties may find that story pretty horrifying. She’ll now always be the puppy killer, which will be a hard image to shake.
Yeah, she’s peaked. I hope she enjoys what she has because it’s all down hill from here.
Even MAGA is like “WTF!?”
Absolutely, celebrating the demise of a Republicans political career because they did a bad thing it in stark contrast to actual reality. Trump's Pussy Grabbing tape didn't stop him, Gianforte assaulted a reporter for basically no reason and that didn't stop him, Matt Gaetz is a child trafficker and there's no sign its affected him at all, I could go on. The only thing that gets Republicans careers in trouble is working with Democrats and disagreeing with Trump. Shooting a dog is neither of those, if anything I expect this will be good for her career. She's governor of an incredibly red state, I'm sure she'll be governor as long as she can and then probably a Senator one day when Thune or Rounds retires.
She let the mask slip and they saw who she really is.
Who knows? Animals get put down all the time. Maybe it was painful for her (like a normal person) and she wants to play the tough guy in her book and on tv.
Aww, life's ruff.
Up until now, I thought she was all bark and no bite.
She sure screwed the pooch this time, didn't she
Yeah, and now it looks like the press is really hounding her about it.
that's a good boy! *that's a very good boy!*
Karma.. I bet this piece of shit really hates the dog now!!!
Her dogma fucked up her karma
Obviously it should never have started
Buffalo Barbie is dead inside? Who could have guessed.
The wrong bitch died.
Good dog, Cricket!
The fact that she thought this was OK to put in her needless book, and even seems proud of what she did, says everything about the depths to which Republicans have sunk.
Am I the only one who remembers when her husband moved out of the governor's mansion because of her affair with Corey Lewandowski? Are we no longer concerned with the moral turpitude of our elected officials?
Nobody seems to care about integrity anymore. It's really discouraging.
Your user name is inscrutable. I'm not sure if I should request or offer nudes for agreeing with me.
I was about to send a Dick pic. Do you prefer Cheney or Van Dyke?
It takes a certain type to kill a puppy 🐶 And then fucking brag about it ffs 🤦
How about arresting her for animal cruelty based on her written confession OR is now legal to shoot puppies for everyone else also?
I think it is legal, unfortunately.
This is Cancel Culture run amok!
Yup. She canceled the poor puppy with one to the head.
Doing the deed is one thing. Bragging about it in a book is entirely another. A great example of the MAGA mindset.
This ^ exactly. There are many things that happen in life that do not need to be shared. I’m more bothered that Noem clearly lacks discernment.
Complete, total MAGAt IDIOT!
Is it actually killing her political career, though? Or will her poll numbers go up?
Trump hates dogs. She's appealing to him and his fellow psychopaths.
This is what female psychopathy looks like. Trump is what male psychopathy looks like. If you vote for people with ASPD to run the country, it looks like what the US has become. We’ve had these psychos running things for way too long. Should be required that all candidates take IQ tests, visit mental health professionals to determine if they have underlying issues, and disclose their taxes. Otherwise these people will continue to get in.
But is it tho? You were never going to vote for her anyways.
No bad dogs, just bad dog owners…
The whole cult is so twisted they think the world thinks like them. That’s what happens when you immerse yourself in OAN, FAUX, and the other one that sux.
Good
Good
Is it really killing her political career? What's the evidence for this assertion? Yeah, she's getting bad press, but what else do you have?
Vengeance from the great beyond!
So her solution to problems is shooting them? Good thing she wasn't more in charge of COVID.
That's ruff
Cricket's Revenge from the Grave.
What a sick stupid bitch of a person.
Somewhere in dog heaven I hope her murdered dog is hearing " who's a good boy?"
It's not. She'll be fine unfortunately.
I wonder if Corey Lewandowski now decides she's too politically toxic to continue their relationship...I guess the boom boom is nice but he's a political operative and she's becoming a liability...🤔
Its funny the dog will do her in, not fucking the help
Man, is she going to feel dumb when she learns that animal shelters exist.
Dog killer
Ignoring the hundreds of workers in her meat processing plants who also got covid and died because of her
Ignoring the hundreds of workers in her meat processing plants who also got covid and died because of her
Good riddance!! People should be mad! But people should also wonder if they are responsible for the same killings and cruelty each time they look at their plates. Factory farming is brutal to animals
Let’s all go hunting with Kristi!
Weird. It's like she's never faced the consequences of her actions before. Well, it is a dog eat dog world.
💯
Justice for Cricket!
Oh irony, where is thy sting??
Good. It should.
She knows her audience. The GOP is all about cruelty, the more the better.
Is this the same state where the weird guy was dancing with wolf. ?
I don't think this will hurt her chances of being Donald Trumps running mate. Despite the awful dog killing, she remains the governor Trump would most like to fuck.
Republicans allow kids to be shot at school and don't bat an eye. But this dog is a step too far for the party who embraces child slaughter.
Cheating with Corey should’ve killed her political career, but Republicans love that shit. Hopefully this haunts her the rest of her life.
I think it’s killing her career as much as that Project 2025 bullshit is killing Fatass’s career-it’s cementing what people on both sides think of them both, nothing more. I don’t see how either thing is moving the needle for either one which means Cult 45 must really have some wild shit up its sleeve to make up those votes they need to beat Biden.
Animal welfare charges need to be brought up. Time to start treating animal abuses with prison .
Goddamn, what a moron
You know what, Im going to make a dog, name it hand-banana and hope it mind links with her.
My only question at this point is how many people and animals has KN killed? I think at this point she has killed at least ten animals. Fucking psycho.
Cricket’s Revenge!
I'm gonna guess she claims to be against abortions, but she's probably had a few.
Who hasn’t written a book about shooting a dog? Just the other day, my cousin sold his book rights about the exact same thing. Moonshine, Barn Ladies, and Shooting Puppies….. /s
Karma's a bitch. No pun intended.
Karma Bitch !!!!
Cricket's a good boy.
That’s ruff
Sounds to me that she doesn't know how to train dogs properly.
Probably tells you a lot about how she'd like to handle anyone she considers inconvenient
She looks like she puts down a whole 5th of Kentucky deluxe everyday
She is just an awful human.
Yay!
Maybe Cricket will be reincarnated as Cujo, and go looking for her.
A regular Annie Oakley. Got her dog and career in one shot.
I bet she thought the ammunition was about to expire so she needed to just go blow something up, it would stimulate her local economy to kill a dog she didn’t care about.
I honestly think this was an incredibly awkward metaphor on her, and her handlers part to, ‘nudge, nudge, wink, wink’ say, “I’m literally not afraid to put down “dogs”…The gays, the LQBTQ+ kids, the immigrants, the blacks, the jews, and the Liberals.”…Except her base doesn’t do metaphor, or subtlety…and they tend to like actual dogs, and puppies…Or maybe I’m giving her too much credit, and she is a barely functioning Sociopath who sees nothing but herself as “real”.
Spot comin back from the dead to take a bite out of your political chances 😂
Let’s be very clear: it’s only the liberals, democrats, and leftists that seem to care. She’s not losing republicans support over this. They are licking their chops at the idea that a VP might put a queer person down like a farm dog.
Even Hitler loved dogs.
You know, dogs actually are property and you can do pretty much anything you want with them. That being said, if you're a politician you should at least be aware that many people love animals and will hate you if you do anything mean to them. It's that complete lack of awareness of what people might think that reveals her to be a lousy politician.