Well, it seems there’s something out that that may carry Americans collectively. Donald Trump being on trial for allegedly paying off a porn star to maintain her silent isn’t doing it. Protesters who couldn’t move a fifth-grade stage quiz about Israel and Gaza clashing with police on faculty campuses is not doing it. The warfare in Ukraine almost did it, however then didn’t. BUT, a bit 14-month old puppy named Cricket has united this nation not like something in additional than 20 years.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican on the quick listing for VP decide by Donald Trump, is hawking her e book and a newspaper bought a replica and launched elements of it. One excerpt particulars the time she shot a puppy dead in a gravel pit. In the excerpt she famous, “I hated that dog” and she or he was “less than worthless.”
Apparently, the 14-month-old wire hair-pointer was bad at hunting pheasant and instead ruined the hunt going, “out of her mind with excitement … having the time of her life.” If that criminal infraction weren’t worthy of the death penalty, the dog then did something unforgivable for a dog trained by nature and nurture to hunt birds, it ate some chickens when Noem stopped by another person’s farm and didn’t have the dog restrained. So she brought the playful, poultry eating pup to a gravel pit and executed her. Noem then further brags about killing a smelly goat that she “dragged” to the gravel pit to kill. But, I’m extra a canine person than a goat person, (though I hear they will make nice pets,) so, let’s follow Cricket.
In an amazing second of irony, the is titled, “No Going Back.” You’re right, sister, there’s no going back from this. With surprisingly few exceptions in today’s political landscape, we’re all — Democrats, Republicans, independents, purple parties, etc. — on Team Cricket.
What escapes my understanding isn’t actually that she did it — murdered a puppy for being a puppy — it’s that she wrote about it as though this somehow demonstrates a good quality about her. Actually, it’s that she wrote about it at all. What kind of hubris must you have to think it bespeaks of a characteristic that is politically, or otherwise, desirable to the masses? I mean, you’re selling a book, you want to be vice president, and you release this tale in the heart of election season? Every book and every political move has a target audience. Who is Noem’s?
Noem hasn’t tried to walk this back. She’s doubled down. Tripled down. Desperately trying to prove that somehow blowing the head off a dog for the grave offense of being a dog who wants to play while hunting and hunt chickens while playing, makes her “tough.” That’s her word. Repeatedly. She said it when she appeared on FOX News and she said it on Twitter (X).
“We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder ‘No Going Back.’ “
Does someone want to tell her that her willingness to also kill horses is not a defense of killing a dog? I mean, I have several questions of why you would have to put down three horses at once. There’s lots of reasons to have to put down a horse, or a dog, but I’m stuck on the three at the same time. Were they smelly like the goat? I doubt they ate chickens.
To then in the same “tweet” reward herself as “real” and “honest” for speaking about her puppycide earlier than crowing about it and her being “politically INcorrect” and utilizing it to visitors her “memoir” is mind-bogglingly vile.
You shot a canine, Kristi, you didn’t storm a seaside or build a rocket or develop a vaccine you do not consider in, you killed a canine and bragged about it. Oh, and a goat and three horses — that we all know of. Although, now I’d like somebody to make use of a kind of ground-penetrating radars at your farm to see how “tough” you really are.
Yes, I know there are working dogs and hunting dogs. Yes, if I were the person who owned the chickens, I’d be really mad. But, why not re-home the dog?
In all her specious explanations and self-defense comments, she not once has claimed to have ever tried that. Now, she’s calling the public outrage “fake news.” What is possibly “fake news?” We know the story is actual, you stated it in your personal phrases. Now you’re making an attempt the “I’ll invoke Donald Trump’s line and Republicans will love me again.” Nope, there’s “no going again” from this.
Ultimately, I do wish to thank Noem for sharing this story and persevering with it in social and conventional media. The “Story of Cricket” has been, is, and will endlessly be, the very last thing Americans agree about. Well, until she writes a sequel.
For those that have fun the Christian Orthodox religion, Happy Easter! Christos Anesti!
Alicia Preston Xanthopoulos is a former political marketing consultant and member of the media. She’s a local of Hampton Beach the place she lives together with her household and two poodles. Write to her at [email protected].
