Kristi Noem dogged by poor polling amid fallout from tale of killing puppy
Source: The Guardian
Sun 28 Apr 2024 02.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 28 Apr 2024 13.47 EDT
Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor and Republican vice-presidential hopeful, saw polling numbers plummet after the Guardian revealed that she writes in a new book about the day she shot dead a hunting dog and an un-castrated goat, a revelation that ignited a political storm.
Announcing what it called its Noem Puppy Murder Poll Findings, New River Strategies, a Democratic firm, said 81% of Americans disapproved of Noems decision to shoot Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haired pointer who Noem says ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbours chickens, thereby earning a trip to a gravel pit to die.
According to Noems account, the goat, which Noem did not name, followed Cricket to the pit because Noem deemed his odour and behaviour unacceptable on her farm. By Noems own detailed admission, it took two blasts from a shotgun, separated by a walk back to her truck for more shells, to finish the goat off.
Noems book No Going Back: The Truth on Whats Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward will be published in May. The Guardian obtained a copy. The governors extraordinary admission made news because she has long been seen to be auditioning to be picked for vice-president by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/27/kristi-noem-dog-goat-book-trump-running-mate-polling
Lunabell
(6,141 posts)Lmao!!!
We saw what they did there...
Old Crank
(3,679 posts)Got her goat....
Good one!
calimary
(81,608 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)this behavior of hers is absolutely horrendous.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,110 posts)Voltaire2
(13,272 posts)Too soon.
Voltaire2
(13,272 posts)She deserves it
Lovie777
(12,407 posts)RWers and theirs polls.
I think humans can decide for themselves without them.
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)I was already reeling from her account of killing her puppy and now that? Uggh.
Apparently (which might be the "ultimate sin even for her MAGA gun-humping supporters" ) she's no kind of 'good shot' either.
What a horrible horrible waste of human life form.
Mawspam2
(746 posts)sheshe2
(84,072 posts)Ef her! I hope she pays a huge price for what she did.
brer cat
(24,663 posts)sheshe2
(84,072 posts)The pup was horrible enough, yet think how that poor goat suffered when she had to saunter back to her truck to get more bullets because she F'ed up!
sop
(10,299 posts)Vinca
(50,334 posts)her book because she must have thought it would impress the gun-humping masses.
I am guessing it did not, except maybe tfg.
hadEnuf
(2,224 posts)viva la
(3,371 posts)By the cruelty.
Island Blue
(5,819 posts)Cruelty for crueltys sake is so on brand for Republicans.
slightlv
(2,873 posts)Was presented as an afterthought there was more to its story.
Curse Kristi Noem
central scrutinizer
(11,667 posts)Are displaying their virility by ejaculating and urinating into their beards. The smell is hard to describe. If youre not ready for it, you should not have goats.
Maraya1969
(22,516 posts)But I figured it wasn't his fault and I could always go wash my hands.
smb
(3,479 posts)Trump better keep her far away...
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)but she was also stupid enough to include that in her book. So that makes her both cruel and dumb.
Great combination for a governor or possible VP.
underpants
(183,043 posts)Center Street publishing
https://www.centerstreet.com/imprint/hachette-nashville/center-street/
Also publish Newt, Vivek, and Ben Carson.
Still. 🙄
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)is a Democrat and left it in intentionally to undermine her political career or they didn't bother to even proofread it before publishing it.
Of course if they "also publish Newt, Vivek, and Carson", I suppose the publisher didn't have a problem with shooting a puppy either.
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)RobinA
(9,909 posts)but she bothers to tell us what a fun time the puppy was having before she shot it and seems to make its high spirits part of the reason she shot it. Apparently just a day in the life where she's concerned, doesn't think it's a problem. Despicable human being.
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)to reveal to us who and what she really is.
Apparently this happened many years ago and she felt she should include it in her memoir. It's not like it just slipped out in a conversation or an interview..."oops". She made a conscious effort to make sure the world knew that she was a puppy-killer, as if people would agree with her.
Obviously she was unaware that many republicans are dog-lovers and nothing turns off a dog-lover more than a person who abuses their pets. This makes her both sick AND clueless.
Pototan
(1,242 posts)If the current hush money trial was televised Trump would be cooked. Lucky break for him.
If Trump picked Kristy Noam as his VP running mate and then this book and story came out, once again, he'd be cooked.
yourout
(7,537 posts)I if.."grab them by the..." Didn't stop him this would not as well.
Jean Genie
(287 posts)Let us hope that Kristi Noem, professional puppy killer, goes off into the sunset, tail between her legs. What a horrible, horrible person! Fourteen months old is essentially a baby dog. She shot and killed a baby dog for ... being a young, untrained dog! God damn the woman! I guess that would make her a perfect running mate for the Orange Menace, because he thought it would have been cool to shoot humans in the middle of Manhattan.
I just don't understand what is wrong with (far too many) people. Did too many of us somehow get implanted with a type of "revenge gene?" OMG! Is that what COVID shots did? Did those of us who got our shots become evil dog-and-human-hating individuals?
But wait! That's not how it works. Remember Joe and Jill Biden's biting dog? They didn't shoot and kill him; despite several aggressive events. They instead found him a happier, safer home with people who weren't in such a high pressure (for dog or human) profession. They had MATURITY, UNDERSTANDING, and COMPASSION for their pup, as they have for their fellow human beings. Maybe instead of getting the revenge gene, some republicans have simply lost their HUMANITY gene!
So sad.
Botany
(70,657 posts)I wonder how many more carcasses are in the Governors gravel pit? She is a Governor
all she had to do was make a phone call and an animal rescue organization would have
picked up the dog and goat with in a day.
TomSlick
(11,150 posts)Republican voters in Arkansas would not.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,311 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)calimary
(81,608 posts)I WONT EVER vote for a candidate like her. Besides, I just DO NOT vote for Republicans. PERIOD.
LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)Not a responsible dog owner. It was not the dog's fault for killing a chicken.
Them she kills a goat because he stunk? It is a shame animals don't have their own laws. I didn't know about the goat until today.
Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)underpants
(183,043 posts)Hooch dies in the film which greatly diminished the box office gross. He was in Letterman and said , they have it written out in hedges now at Disney DONT KILL THE DOG!!!
edbermac
(15,952 posts)On Twitter even the rabid Trumpers are tearing her a new one.
sop
(10,299 posts)"She defended her decision to kill the dog, saying that South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-dog-cricket-new-book-defense/
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,968 posts)Martin68
(22,971 posts)my Plan to Put America down like a Bad Puppy."
PatrickforB
(14,605 posts)She personifies the cruelty of the present Republican party.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)and nobody advised her to take it out before publishing? Commentators have speculated she's pandering to a certain type who is into that sort of thing, to appear macho or whatever. Her context is that she makes difficult decisions that result in pain and death for someone else.
sop
(10,299 posts)Rizen
(728 posts)"Sure it's okay for Trump to rape women but god forbid someone kills a puppy!"
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)They'd still vote for her over anyone with a D next to their name.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)the dog was showing signs of rabid behavior brought on by his control of a space laser that was able to control the weather, causing massive earthquakes, and a stock market crash that would devastate the skies over South Dakota causing everyone in the state to become woke. What was she supposed to do?
Upthevibe
(8,108 posts)Well, other than being a terrible person who had absolutely NO clue that a majority of Americans would be horrified by this act, any belief that she's a good decision is now out the window.
I mean deciding to put that incident in her book shows such a lack of understanding "typical" Americans. I'd say a majority of folks like animals (even if they don't currently own one themselves they possibly grew up with one and/or have friends who have a dog or cat). dt has been very clear about his disdain for dogs so he was probably pleased about her innate cruelty. As others have said, she was probably trying to please him but didn't realize that she'd alienate a significant number of Americans.
I feel especially sorry for the goat because that animal didn't die right away and she had to go to her vehicle to get more rounds.
F her!!!!!!!!!!!!
OverBurn
(971 posts)If we could find a story about Trump and a animal we might get somewhere with his crazies. Remember Mitt Romney cruelly strapped a dog cage on the roof of his car and drove thousands of miles. That hurt him in the polls when people found out.
viva la
(3,371 posts)But supposedly Trump promised Barron a dog if he and his mother would finally move to the White House, even picked out a dog, then insisted that the dog couldn't leave the person who was fostering it for him.
Poor Barron wasn't even given a chance at a substitute.
sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)smb
(3,479 posts)JPK
(656 posts)They killed his puppy.
SunSeeker
(51,813 posts)That's why she put it in her book. She cray!
Traurigkeit
(443 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)brewens
(13,671 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(600 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,312 posts)Specifically, I believe that Noem was attempting to be a younger, newer Sarah Palin. An attractive woman who shoots guns. Get that NRA vote.
My contention is that she didn't count on MAGA voters loving their dogs more than their guns.
SKKY
(11,838 posts)lark
(23,199 posts)Sweet irony
Botany
(70,657 posts)We have some truly screwed up people in America.
Btw I dont think that was Governor Kristis 1st rodeo as per shooting pets
and or farm animals.
Monsieur_Grumpe
(111 posts)shouldn't be in charge of anything of importance.
ismnotwasm
(42,028 posts)I thought these gun nuts had better hardware available to them.
IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)so that's why Republicans need assault rifles with high capacity magazines.
ismnotwasm
(42,028 posts)Just..ugh
catbyte
(34,546 posts)A quote from a Raw Story article on it says everything about her:
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Kristi, ASSHOLE, that pup didn't "attack livestock" and what creature wouldn't be aggressive around an evil thing like you? I'm sure she abused that poor pup prior to murdering it. And what about the goat? Was it also "attacking livestock?"
She's obscene.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)It's what happens when you double down on an intentionally cruel political agenda.
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)and killed a million Americans. Just think of how many more millions could die.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)EndlessWire
(6,580 posts)to be a leader of anything. Didn't she say something about us not knowing the difference between a farm animal and a pet? That it's okay to shoot farm animals? Well, we know the difference between cold-hearted bitches and people fit to be in office.
Dogs mature at different rates. If the puppy had a high prey drive, rehome it. And, who the hell claims to be a farmer, has goats and doesn't know anything about them? She just wants to compete with those Trump boys, who shoot big game animals for no reason other than the thrill of killing. That's so disgusting. I don't understand why she's bragging about this stuff.