WHY Governor Kristi Noem told the dog (and goat) execution stories herself (Smerconish CNN May 4 

Simply put, She killed a bird dog puppy for being a puppy acting like a bird dog and killed a goat for smelling like a goat

This woman is sick.

The cruelty is shown to pregnant women whose lives are endangered by their pregnancy but are denied medical care. Unreal.

A sociopath with no empathy would think this was a very normal thing to do. The fact that she bragged about it says it all.

She called children in her Bible study classes "little tyrants " ????

Lets keep in mind those shootings were an act of rage! What this tells us is this woman has no self control.

What about her lies about meeting with the leader of North Korea!!!!

Are her underage children safe? Mommy dearest sounds dangerous.

They left out that she's a Sociopath!

Her puppy and a goat being a goat..No defending any of this..

It would seem from an outsider's view that the GOP (right of center party in your country) is just plain cruel.

She told because others would. Pointers are not "Working Dogs," they are Hunting Dogs. They are gentle, loving, not aggressive. If you don't want to or know how to train or supervise your kids dog, surrend the dog. 💙.

Apparently, Smerconish is not looking in the right places if he does not see outrage over the goat. Those of us in animal welfare and rescue are outraged over the goat, the dog, and the 3 horses AND for the untold number of animals she killed and didn't brag about...AND we are also concerned about her kids. This was child abuse. The way she relayed that her daughter asked "Where's cricket?" tells those of us in animal welfare that noem used that dog and other animals to terrorize and punish her family. It is a well-known trait of serial abusers...they torture the animals to harm their victims. We animal folks see the big picture. I have been working in rescue for over 25 years. If someone kicks their dog when they get home from work it is guaranteed that things are ugly behind closed doors. If your mom shoots your dog in the face at a gravel pit, you can rest assured things are ugly in that home. This stupid, vile, cruel, ugly hearted woman picked up a gun instead of a phone. If that is not the epitome of poor decision making, I don't know what is.

Her story keeps changing.

A source in the S. Dakota News said that she was urged not to publish such horrible stories, but she refused to take anyone advice.

Kristi Noem's campaign slogan: Kristi Noem for Veep! "Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!"

Why mention killing the goat? There were witnesses to both killings-- a construction crew.

Yeah, she wants to show you she is able to do the tough thing, but like the Nazis is also the wrong thing, and she wants to do it to you. She will use that same judgement on you. Is that what you want? We don't need heartless monsters showing us how tough and evil they can be.

“ Of all the creatures that walk the face of the earth, Dogs have chosen us, And us alone, to share their lives with. May we prove worthy of such a gift.” ~~~ Anonymous ~~~

I would like to know exactly what Kristi Noem said when her daughter asked "Hey, where's Cricket"??

What was her hard decision? She already said she hated the puppy, was it that she couldn't decide if she should wait till the construction workers left for the day?

Wow, there's a SALES TAX ON FOOD in South Dakota! Being from California that's just SHOCKING to me! 🤯🤯🤯 That's why she brings up her dog story. 🐕🙄 It's to DISTRACT people from issues they SHOULD be looking into.

Imagine a veterinarian bragging about euthanizing dogs.

“Massacred livestock” or killed a couple of chickens? Sounds like a case of Dog Derangement Syndrome.

Trump is untrainable and dangerous too….

The other issue is misogyny. She feels she needs to be tough and act like a man to compete with male politicians.

Noem: "We have made some changes in the book before it gets released and Cricket has now been adopted by Kim Jong Un".

She should been charged with animal cruelty.. DOG KILLER! what's next a cat?

Remember that she cheated on her husband with Corey?!

She forgot to call Cesar Millan.

Kristi Noem got the cruelty wrong. She is supposed to be cruel to working class people and pregnant women, NOT family pets. Her political calculus is horrible, but only with conventional and empathetic people. With Trump, her hotness as perceived by him may outweigh her despicable actions.

What happens if a child "isn't trainable"

South Dogota needs a new guv. This is reminiscent of the rabbit in the pot on the stove scene in Fatal Attraction!

Because she thinks everyone is a sociopath like her. She is out of touch with reality! Her family should be worried around her.

I guess unlike decent people it never occurred to her the humane alternative would have been to take either animal to a shelter then perhaps a humane individual would have had a chance to adopt them. As far as the puppy was concerned there are plenty of places, especially with the amount of money she must have, that could've trained the puppy to behave.

Omg madness

Because she thought it would play well with her base. Which tells you everything that you need to know about her opinion of her base. Think about it: she actually thought that the people whose support she seeks would approve of killing a recalcitrant puppy in a gravel pit.

A criminal psychologist once reported in a court trial concerning a sadistic serial killer that the signs were first exhibited when the killer first started killing animals before moving on to young women

In the end...of her story, I'm pretty sure she had to tell it, that maybe it was witnessed, and if she didn't divulge the cruel act, someone would!

The fact that she thought we'd be impressed by that

Hitler raised his profile in 1933 and we all know how that worked out.

What she did was disgusting, was cruel and vile! It's heart-breaking.. Farmers love their pets and all their animals and sayiing that being on a farm, it's normal. No!! And she could have chosen a number of places for her puppy and goat, if she didn't want them, such as a Shelter or re-homing them. It was sickening to learn about this situation.

I know a guy who knows a guy who witnessed the shooting. Remember those construction workers who were near by? It was a matter of time, and money when this story was going to come out...

How does a dog become a working dog? Her daughter didn't see Cricket that way. Where's Cricket?

No wonder the dog attacked her…..it was probably trying to protect the goat and the horses from this psychopath.

OH MY!! There are other Sinister and Barbaric stories besides the dog and goat and horse killings in her Book!

".....she lacks empathy..." that is the understatement of 2024!

On a positive note, “CRICKETIZED” is the term by, which, “ Execution,” will be known in South Dakota.

One card short of a full deck. Certaintly not VP potential🤔

Are all of the kids she gave birth to accounted for?

Stupidity is the new 🍊 orange

one or two steps from dahmer syndrome ! lol

I feel she is sending a message to Trump. She is saying she is capable of being cruel. And her story about meeting Kim Jung Il, that’s her way of telling Trump she is willing to fabricate nonsense out of thin air, not retract it, not apologize, and to just proceed undaunted. This country is in deep trouble.

If someone threatened my dog, well things go two ways.

Michael Vick went to prison for this.

What did the goat do so bad ???? To get him executed.

The title of her book is so apropos.

Nobody, I mean nobody is surprised. She will make a perfect VP for twump.

Finally someone is getting more coverage than Trump.

She also allowed the huge south Dakota motorcycle rally to take place in the beginning of covid and probably was a massive spreader event across the country

Instead of an autobiography, it can be listed as a "fairy tale" in her mind but an " American Horror Story" with the rest of America.

To paraphrase Countdown, " the worst person in the world! " 🤣😠

Justice for Cricket!🐶

She didn't have a choice in telling it. She had to. It happened and it was witnessed. If she didn't disclose it herself, she would risk it coming out at a time not of her choosing. She chose to have it come out early because she was banking on it running its course.

Talk about native Americans in her state. ❤ I'm on Team Goat. Goats are wonderful creatures. ❤

POOR GOAT!!!😢

Do we want two sociopaths to run the executive branch?

Noem is facing crickets revenge from the gravel pit

"No Going Back" is fitting... it's the obituary title for her dying political career.

If it was extremely dangerous and you hated it then the "DECISION" to dispose of it could not have been a hard one.

She very deliberately published the incident because she desperately wanted to appear tough and decisive, and somehow inexplicably thought this would do the trick. Just based on that slight miscalculation, I have to question her judgment.

"She might be the worst governor you ever heard of.... but now you've heard of her!" 😂

WHAT ELSE IS IN THAT GRAVEL PIT?

I think the book was her audition to be trumps running mate. Oops maybe the dog story backfired.😂😂😂

It's one thing to make the "hard decisions" but the problem is when you make them out of what should be easy decisions

That dog cricket must have a very strong spirit to come back and haunt trumps front runner

Why? Stupid is as stupid does. That kind of lack of judgement completely excludes her from the job she is vying for.

The Defendant needs brown shirts for his reich. He’ll wait a few weeks, call Democrats soft, and pick her for his running mate. The sad truth is that compassionate conservatism is dead and the GOP has given up trying to rid themselves of their orange fever.

Extremely dangerous dog or governor ??? So many logical questions and no answers other than lies and cruelty 😢😢😢

The better question is how is she a governor of anything let alone a state

This is to court favor from Trump. Her childish notion of "courage" and "tough decision" would surely resonate with Trump's childish notion of everything.

KISS should have replaced Ace Frehley with Kristi Noem. She would have fit right in with all that makeup and tacky spandex and leather garb. Missed opportunity.

She said tyrants as in multiple tyrants so I was waiting for someone to ask her who were the other dictators she stared down.

Why did Cruella de Noem even take a dog that was aggressive in the first place knowing training would be absolutely necessary for this behavior having kids??! 🤯🤬🤥

Who was he audience? Who did she think would conclude something good about her? Shame doesn't exist in the world of conservatism.

She claims the dog was extremely dangerous? Why wasn't it on a leash? All pet owners are responsible for their pets...

If she thinks it’s a “tough decision” not to murder a puppy, then she simply doesn’t know right from wrong. They got a hunting dog, failed to properly train it, then left it to roam the neighborhood. What did she expect to happened?

Those are the two things most media, comedians, pundits, people, etc., are not talking about: the goat (maybe because a male adult goat is not as cute as a very young dog) - and the children. How were they affected? The event happened years ago, and her children are now teenagers - how old, exactly? Her eldest daughter is married, at 17 years old - how old is she actually? Do the children have something to say? They are so reclusive that information about them is scarce and contradictory. It is starting to look as a bad sign rather than a famous mother protecting her children from media exposure 🤔

Because cruelty is the point, she thought it would go over well with like minded people,

It sounds like Michael Smirconish found the first republican that doesn’t appeal to him.

When you refer to it as the dog & goat story it sure leaves a lot to the imagination? Hahahaha hahahaha 👍

Regarding "difficult, dirty, and ugly decisions:" The decision to have THAT MANY plastic surgeries will eventually turn out to be an "ugly decision" when the Botox and Plastic surgeries inevitably fail to age well. She was hoping to be the V.P. candidate BEFORE they went bad (which they've already begun to do.)

Why? Arrogance and incompetence.

Unfortunately this happens in the South

Two possibilities, 1 - it would have come out. 2 - makes her seem like the person that can get things done regardless of what it is.

In civilized country she will be in jail!!!

The puppy dog and billy goat execution in the same day bare in mind shows us her sick mind.

Its reasonable to conclude that she wanted to impress others. She has done so in a very bad way.

She's banned from Native American reservations in her own State too

Smerconish has a high opinion of the National Media - I don't agree with his belief that they can "walk & chew gum at the same time".