The South Park Vids got me “thinking”. I don’t think there ever was a Cricket the puppy. The whole book was a resume by a woman who knew her target audience of one was a dog hater who had contempt for pet owners. She couldn’t make her bones by being a sexual predator like the rest of trump’s posse, so she went the dog killer route. It’s just too weird that someone would include such an anecdote in their autobiography.
Well, it’s not like she’s a normal human. But I hope you’re right.
I called that out over a year ago:
I wouldn’t put it past her to make up such an anecdote but if she lied about it why hasn’t someone spoken up about it?
Stranger
And say what? It was just her and Cricket in the gravel pit.
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
Stranger
Well, she doesn’t live in a vacumn. Surely someone would have missed the dog.
Or if there really wasn’t one, they’d know.
Disgruntled ex-employee fodder.
Maybe they didn’t want to speak up in case they were next (shudder)
What happens at the old Noem place stays at the old Noem place. No one would be inventorying an odd assortment of animals. What dog?
As her story went, her dog sounded more like an untrained or ignored dog than anything dangerous. As such, bragging about killing a dog like that (real or imagined) just makes her sound like a heartless psychopath. But I suppose if you want to get into the Heartless Psychopath Boys Club then she needs to prove her credentials. Truly the lunatics are running the asylum!
Have you heard her interviewed? She is so dumb that next to her Sarah Palin is a Rhodes scholar.
I don’t think killing a puppy is the important thing anyway. I mean, it’s horrible if true, but not illegal and there were no other witnesses. It’s Schrodinger’s Puppy, except in this case it is both dead and just nonexistent.
The important thing isn’t whether she killed a puppy (and a goat). The important thing is that she thinks it’s okay, so much so that she’d write about it in a self-promoting book. Whether or not she’s done it, she’s someone who claims she did it and thinks it shows some strength of character. That’s the really fucked up thing.
I mean, what would be worse… Someone who makes up a story about killing a puppy as a brag, or someone who kills a puppy by accident or in a fit of rage but feels terrible shame and guilt about it afterward? (And never tells anyone because of that shame.)
I have never killed a puppy, to be clear. I love dogs. I mean, I’d euthanize one that’s in agony with something terminal, but only after taking it to a vet to be properly taken care of.
PS: I didn’t know the puppy’s name was Cricket and I went into this thread thinking that for some reason Kristi Noem played cricket.
I remember reading of German SS recruits who had to, in the course of their training, raise a dog from a puppy, and then upon command kill it. Weeds out those less hard hearted, I guess. I could see how this could appeal to a nazi lover like trump.
“Leave the gun. Take the Milkbone.”
At first glance of the thread title, I thought it was about Noam Chomsky, and I didn’t see a connection there either.
Noam Chomsky could definitely construct a fifty minute lecture on how the British used cricket to dominate the world, but Americans are still worse because of baseball.
Stranger
The latest theory making the rounds is that Noem decided the dog was useless to her because it had a peanut allergy.
Actually, from her story, her daughter was doing a good job of training the dog.
Or—just hear me out—she’s a complete fucking nutball with pathological Borderline Personality Disorder tendencies.
Stranger
I dunno, I grew up in a rural setting where the lives of dogs and cats weren’t held in any higher esteem than any of the other animals on a farm. I know of more than one dog whose owner couldn’t dissuade it from messing with livestock (probably because the dog had never received much training of any sort at all) that ended up being shot. The story has never seemed implausible to me.
Hasn’t ever sparked that much outrage in me, either. Is killing a dog that won’t stop killing the free range chickens (real remembered example from my youth) really that much worse than killing a steer to turn into steaks and burgers? I mean, it’s a lazy solution to lack of training, and you didn’t bring the dog into the world for the sole purpose of killing it later, but aside from that it’s pretty much the same thing.
Note: this is not a defense of Noem, just a note that other aspects of her behaviour that outrage me outrage me far more than the dog.
If the dog had an allergy to nuts, being in her presence would be agony.
(That’s probably the case even without an allergy.)