Kristi and the goat

[rightwinger]

What's the difference between a puppy and a snake or rat?

Wnat‘s the difference between Kristi Noem killing a pheasant and her puppy killing a chicken?

 

[RhodyPatriot]

If only any of this mattered.

Ya know, if she was running for federal office.

 

[buttercup]

Wnat‘s the difference between Kristi Noem killing a pheasant and her puppy killing a chicken?

True... but do you eat chicken? Or turkey, or any other animal?

 

[RhodyPatriot]

True... but do you eat chicken? Or turkey, or any other animal?

Someone who isn't running for national office.

Anyone care that Biden opened the national border to the United States?

Weird.

 

[rightwinger]

True... but do you eat chicken? Or turkey, or any other animal?

I don’t eat puppies

 

[gtopa1]

So shooting the dog was bad enough, but apparently her desire ti kill wasn't satisfied after the dog, so she went and got a goat. A goat that was apparently doing nothing except existing in her line of sight when she wanted something else to kill.

“Walking back up to the yard, I spotted our billy goat,” Noem wrote.

The nameless goat’s only sin in that moment was being in Noem’s field of view.

In the book, Noem tried to justify her snap decision to kill the goat by writing that it “loved to chase” her children and would “knock them down and butt them,” leaving them “terrified.” The animal also had a “wretched smell.”

But apparently none of that had been a big enough problem to do anything about it. Not until Noem got angry enough to kill a dog and decided she needed to kill again.

Noem says she “dragged” the goat to the gravel pit, “tied him to a post,” and shot at him. But the goat jumped when she shot.

“My shot was off and I needed one more shell to finish the job,” she wrote.

She studiously avoided saying she wounded the goat with the first shot, but that’s the implication.

“Not wanting him to suffer,” she added — apparently experiencing her first twinge of feeling, after saying that killing the dog was not “pleasant” — “I hustled back across the pasture to the pickup, grabbed another shell, hurried back to the gravel pit, and put him down.”

The goat story not only reflects a disturbing lack of self-control, but also raises a question of law.
What's next? An aide or page in the governors office?

Noem’s dog killing was bad, but to really understand her, consider the goat

Since Gov. Kristi Noem’s disclosure of her farmyard killing spree, everybody’s been focused on Cricket. That’s understandable. Cricket was a 14-month-old dog. It’s easy to imagine her head jutting out of a pickup window, hair and tongue blowing in the wind. Like many dogs, Cricket probably had a...

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Rubbish. And old stinker is a cantankerous animal; putting it down is good. Same with useless farm dogs.....note USELESS, not USEFUL!!!

OK; you know apples scream when you eat them alive!!!!

Greg

 

[buttercup]

That's different somehow???

No, I believe that needlessly killing ANY animal is wrong. But I know I'm in a very tiny minority here, as a vegan. My point was that probably 95% of the people bashing Noem do basically the same thing on a daily basis, just indirectly.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

In the book, Noem tried to justify her snap decision to kill the goat by writing that it “loved to chase” her children and would “knock them down and butt them,” leaving them “terrified.” The animal also had a “wretched smell.”

Republicans, always trying to defend the indefensible.

 

[DukeU]

No, I believe that needlessly killing ANY animal is wrong. But I know I'm in a very tiny minority here, as a vegan.

Keyword is needlessly.

You can't decide other people's needs, only yours.

 

[buttercup]

Keyword is needlessly.

You can't decide other people's needs, only yours.

Some things are objective, though. But I don't want to change the topic here, and I have to sign off for now anyway.

 

[DukeU]

No, I believe that needlessly killing ANY animal is wrong. But I know I'm in a very tiny minority here, as a vegan. My point was that probably 95% of the people bashing Noem do basically the same thing on a daily basis, just indirectly.

Everyone alive has directly "needlessly" killed living breathing things.

 

[buttercup]

Everyone alive has directly "needlessly" killed living breathing things.

Yes, of course, but when it's in our control to do otherwise...that's a different situation.

 

[shockedcanadian]

So shooting the dog was bad enough, but apparently her desire ti kill wasn't satisfied after the dog, so she went and got a goat. A goat that was apparently doing nothing except existing in her line of sight when she wanted something else to kill.

“Walking back up to the yard, I spotted our billy goat,” Noem wrote.

The nameless goat’s only sin in that moment was being in Noem’s field of view.

In the book, Noem tried to justify her snap decision to kill the goat by writing that it “loved to chase” her children and would “knock them down and butt them,” leaving them “terrified.” The animal also had a “wretched smell.”

But apparently none of that had been a big enough problem to do anything about it. Not until Noem got angry enough to kill a dog and decided she needed to kill again.

Noem says she “dragged” the goat to the gravel pit, “tied him to a post,” and shot at him. But the goat jumped when she shot.

“My shot was off and I needed one more shell to finish the job,” she wrote.

She studiously avoided saying she wounded the goat with the first shot, but that’s the implication.

“Not wanting him to suffer,” she added — apparently experiencing her first twinge of feeling, after saying that killing the dog was not “pleasant” — “I hustled back across the pasture to the pickup, grabbed another shell, hurried back to the gravel pit, and put him down.”

The goat story not only reflects a disturbing lack of self-control, but also raises a question of law.
What's next? An aide or page in the governors office?

Noem’s dog killing was bad, but to really understand her, consider the goat

Since Gov. Kristi Noem’s disclosure of her farmyard killing spree, everybody’s been focused on Cricket. That’s understandable. Cricket was a 14-month-old dog. It’s easy to imagine her head jutting out of a pickup window, hair and tongue blowing in the wind. Like many dogs, Cricket probably had a...

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When I read these stories I can't help but think about the psycho who came outside and killed that girl because she accidentally pulled into the wrong driveway. If you don't have psychological or emotional control, perhaps guns shouldn't be in your proximity. What if she is cut off on her way to.work?

 

[HeyNorm]

She shot a goat because it was smelly?

Did you miss the part it attacked kids?

Let me guess, you got kicked in the head by a mule.

 

[DukeU]

Yes, of course, but when it's in our control to do otherwise...that's a different situation.

So stop killing mosquitos, start trapping them and turning them over to the mosquito rescuers.

 

[buttercup]

So stop killing mosquitos, start trapping them and turning them over to the mosquito rescuers.

Thankfully, where I live there are no mosquitos. (Well, it's rare, put it that way.)

But that's a different matter anyway, since mosquitos are known to carry disease and getting attacked by one and swatting it would go under self-defense.

It's not the same as killing an intelligent sentient animal who is no different than a dog or cat, when it's not necessary.

But like I said, I gotta go, especially before the angry mob comes after me for saying such things, lol

 

[RhodyPatriot]

I still don't understand why anyone cares...

 

[DukeU]

Thankfully, where I live there are no mosquitos. (Well, it's rare, put it that way.)

But that's a different matter anyway, since mosquitos are known to carry disease and getting attacked by one and swatting it would go under self-defense.

It's not the same as killing an intelligent sentient animal who is no different than a dog or cat, when it's not necessary.

But like I said, I gotta go, especially before the angry mob comes after me for saying such things, lol

The only difference between killing a puppy or a snake is perspective.

Some people love snakes.

 

[Hossfly]

 

[22lcidw]

Wnat‘s the difference between Kristi Noem killing a pheasant and her puppy killing a chicken?

I do know this. If it came to survival, she would kill Katie Couric that intellectual stalwart pretty quickly if it came to it. It's all semantics.