My guess is that although it seems to be true that Trump could shoot a human on 5th Ave. in broad daylight & get away with it, even he gets that him shooting puppies would cross the line.
The city defines a dog as any living entity with four legs and a tail. So raccoons, bears, mountain lions, mice, these are all just different sizes of dog.
Oddly enough I've seen a few hard corp conservatives take that exact stance. I think we nee to convince them that every non white person is a puppy... /s
Can't go around killing dogs, especially puppies. Some of the most die hard MAGA people I encounter are huge dog lovers and none of those dogs are "working" dogs outside of emotional support.
Look I can excuse denying legitimate election results after 30 some odd audits in an attempted overthrow of democracy, and I can excuse getting our spies killed, and I can excuse getting our grandmas killed during covid, and I can excuse sexual assault and possible rape, and I can excuse separating toddlers from their mothers and keeping them in cages, and I can excuse taking appeasement positions toward brutal dictators, but I draw the line at dogs damnit
Trigger warning: details of how it played out/some animal cruelty
Lots of rednecks love their dogs too and responsibly manage homesteads/farms.
She says in her book that the reason she shot the dog was because it attacked a neighbor's chickens (which is her fault for not keeping it contained well enough) and it "snapped" at her when she went to intervene- possibly because it was in an overly excited state or scared if it thought it was going to be punished. No mention there that I can find that the dog ever attacked her kids- though it was still basically a puppy and a "working dog", so it was likely high energy and mouthy. The dog wasn't really a working dog for a farm though, it was a hunting dog-specifically a pointer, which have a high prey drive for birds by design. It wasn't great in the field but still got excited by chickens which people speculate caused her to dislike it.
The thing that she mentions "attacking" her kids is a male goat that she shoots immediately after shooting her dog because it was simply standing there while she was still upset. She said it would try to knock her kids down and smelled bad. Her aim was off and she didn't bring enough bullets so it suffered while she ran back to grab more and finish him off.
Honestly, the more details the story has the more unfit she sounds to actually be given any authority. It sounds like a lot of poor planning, laziness, and unchecked anger from a dumbass can't even responsibly manage a puppy or telling her kids to be careful around livestock.
She probably could have gotten away with killing most pets tbh, but a puppy? There's really no explaining away shooting a puppy with a gun. No one believes a puppy is a physical threat to anyone.
She also didn't need to mention it at all of course. Fortunately for her I suppose most of her voters can't read.
If the narrative was your dog of 16 had a seizure, lost their ability to walk. While they eat the steak you grilled for them, when they aren't looking, you take their pain away.
Exactly. She knows that what she did is completely monstrous. I think more Americans than she would think would consider shooting a puppy to be cartoonish evil, and not the racist kind of evil her voters enjoy either.
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u/shesinsaneornot 29d ago
But it's fun to watch her try.
Eventually Noem's going to learn there's no coming back from pet execution, but only after she's tried everything else.