South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is widely considered to be on Donald Trump’s shortlist as his 2024 running mate, but a new book Noem has written may have put the kibosh on her chances of ever being anything more than a GOP footnote.
The book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, Newsweek reports, features a section in which Noem admits she executed the family’s puppy, Cricket, because the dog didn’t obey her commands.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” Noem reportedly wrote, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.
She wrote that she took Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs to calm the animal and help it learn how to behave. But on the hunt, Cricket went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.”
Noem said she tried to control Cricket by using an electronic collar, but the dog didn’t respond to the training, so she gunned it down in cold blood.
Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.” This made the chickens’ owner cry and Noem financially renumerated them and helped them clean the mess the dog had made.
“At that moment,” Noem said, “I realized I had to put her down.”
Noem even gives a blow by blow description of how she killed the helpless animal.
The excerpt from Noem’s book set off a wave of anger and revulsion on social media, where she was excoriated as “an utterly callous and despicable woman.”
Kristi Noem is trash.
Decades with hunting- and bird-dogs, and the number I've killed because they were chicken-sharp or had too much prey drive is ZERO. Puppies need slow exposure to birds, and bird-scent.
She killed a puppy because she was lazy at training bird dogs, not…
Knowing Donald Trump fears and hates dogs, Kristi Noem revs up her VP campaign by writing about killing her own dog Cricket, a 14 months old wirehair pointer.https://t.co/8EG3Zwlfm6
Move over Dr. Oz, the Republican Party has a new puppy murderer and this time we didn’t find out because she got sanctioned by the federal government for it.
Kristi Noem thinks her psychopath’s story will attract another, greater maniac to her side. https://t.co/6qkpxKxaDg
I didn't like Kristi Noem before I knew she was a dog killer, which is one of the worst things I can imagine someone doing. I'm a dog lover and I know some will see it differently, but I am boiling with disgust.
Perhaps sensing that he is on the cusp of being convicted for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and interfering in the 2016 presidential election, disgraced former president Donald Trump begged congressional Republicans to “step in” and “take action” to save him from the consequences of his crimes.
Posting on his failing Truth Social site at 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, Trump’s fear was palpable.
“We have a Rigged Judge, who is working for the Democrat Party and refuses to terminate this ‘case,’ which should have never been brought by Soft on Crime Alvin Bragg,”
“Judge [Juan] Merchan should be immediately removed, and the Appellate Courts have to take over. That also applies to Corrupt Judge [Arthur] Engoron, who knew I did nothing wrong, and still fraudulently fined me $500 Million Dollars while having no knowledge of Valuation, Finance, or in any way what he was doing. Same with Judge Kaplan, who allowed a woman, who I have never met (celebrity photo line does not count!), and know nothing about, to get a lawless judgment of $90 Million Dollars. New York Justice is in shambles, and only the Appellate Courts can save it.”
Trump was far from finished, however, adding, “A Republican doesn’t stand a chance. This is not Justice.”
“This New York Cabal, run by Crooked Joe Biden’s White House, is a hit job on a Political Opponent the likes of which the USA has never seen before. For the Good of our Country, it must be stopped. The Crooked Joe Biden Witch Hunts have to be ended. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON MUST TAKE ACTION!”
It’s unclear what exactly Trump thinks members of Congress could possibly do to protect him since the New York court system is not answerable to any Washington political figure. But the online ranting from the failed ex-president suggests he’s incredibly scared and can sense that the trial is slipping away from him as his overwhelmed attorneys try one desperate legal tactic after another, with each one failing.
“Should Mr Trump ultimately be found guilty, he could theoretically face more than a decade in prison, according to CNN chief legal analyst Laura Coates, who points out that the felony counts against Mr Trump are classified as Class E crimes in New York, which are the lowest level felonies in the state.”
“The maximum sentence for each count is four years in prison, which would add up to 136 years behind bars, but as Ms Coates explains, New York imposes a 20-year sentencing cap for this type of offence, with a decision on whether the sentences run concurrently or consecutively left up to the judge.”
20 years in a New York prison? No wonder the 77-year-old is so scared. 20 years would mean he’d likely die while incarcerated.
Oh, well, as the old saying goes, Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
President Joe Biden managed to taunt, troll, and mock Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) with just two words when asked about how poorly her reelection campaign is going.
Jordy Meiselas of Meidas Touch Network was speaking with the president and asked him about Boebert choosing not to run in her old congressional district shortly after Biden visited the area in 2023.
“Is that a coincidence or Dark Brandon at work?” Meiselas asked the president as he was campaigning in Pittsburgh.
“It’s classified,” Biden said with a laugh.
Jordy Meiselas: Just a few weeks after you were in Pueblo, Colorado, Congresswoman Boebert left her district. Is that a coincidence or Dark Brandon at work?
Ironically, despite switching districts, Boebert is lagging far behind her GOP rivals in her new “home.” A straw poll taken earlier this year showed her running a dismal fifth.
Adding to the congresswoman’s political woes are her own self-inflicted gaffes, including her ejection from a theater production of “Beetlejuice” for inappropriate behavior with her date and the recent arrest of her son who has been charged with trespassing and theft.
The president’s remark was met with widespread approval on social media.
Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo chastized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for “creating chaos” in Congress when Greene appeared on “Sunday Morning Futures,” suggesting that she had no actual plan for how to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Bartiromo began by asking Greene, “You’re getting criticized on the left, on the right, in the media … a lot of people are criticizing you. And the reason that they are is because they’re saying that you’re creating drama during this election year. How is this leading to reelecting President Trump? How is this leading to the American people believing that the Republicans can govern? People are saying, ‘Look, she’s creating chaos. She’s making the entire party look like it’s disrupted.’ Your reaction and response to those criticisms?”
“Those that are calling this drama are the very people that are responsible for the drama that the American people are having to live through every single day,” Greene replied. “Those on the left, those on the right, the uniparty that’s in control of our government are the ones that have inflicted the American people with nearly $35 trillion in debt, ripped our border wide open.”
Greene said those criticizing her weren’t actually Americans.
“Yeah, those that are calling this drama are the very people that are responsible for the drama that the American people are having to live through every single day. Speaker Johnson refuses to use his power as Speaker of the House to do any type of negotiating to secure the southern border and stop the madness in our country.”
“The people criticizing me are not the American people,” she added. “The American people agree with me, and I’ve talked to them, and I’ve seen it all over. They are outraged.”
That led Bartiromo to inquire of Greene, “OK Congresswoman, you wanted Mike Johnson out,” Bartiromo said. “What is your alternative plan?”
“Our plan is this: We have to give the American people a reason to trust us and fight for us. The American people are supporting President Trump to be the next President of the United States because they’ve seen him in action. He fought against the Democrat agenda. He put America first. They desperately want him to lead this country again because they trust him and they know he will do that.
“Mike Johnson has betrayed America. He’s betrayed Republican voters. Under his leadership, he’s passed the Democrat agenda, passed the Biden administration’s policies, and fully funded them. We’re going to fight in Congress to do everything we can to stop this type of uniparty leadership. Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.”
The Fox host pushed back at Greene.
“With all due respect, you didn’t give me a plan for the speaker’s role,” Bartiromo said. “And again, does this mean you are going to file that motion at some point?”
Greene: “It’s coming, regardless of what Mike Johnson decides to do. And we have three more Republicans joining us for the special elections coming up very soon. So people need to know this can happen.”
Like all of the extreme right-wing bomb-throwers in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene has no actual ideas, no plans, and no understanding of how to govern. She just wants to promote herself and kiss Trump’s fat ass every chance she gets. She’s a cancer on the Congress and this country.
It’s safe to say that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the most despised member of Congress on either side of the aisle, with both Democrats and Republicans agreeing that all the Georgia GOPer wants is attention and headlines.
At the moment, Greene is trying to push Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) out of his post simply because he’s moving foreign aid legislation forward in the lower chamber of Congress.
All of this led Dulcé Sloan of “The Daily Show” to give Greene the perfect nickname that’s likely to follow the congresswoman for months to come.
According to HuffPost, Sloan began her remarks by noting Greene has “the strongest Karen energy I have ever seen.”
“Damn,” Sloan continued. “Last time I saw a white lady that pissed about a bill, she was getting kicked out of a Chili’s. I don’t know if she’s going to get Mike Johnson fired, but she’s definitely getting store credit for something.”
Then came the nickname.
“The crazy thing is if Capitol Hill Karen does get the speaker fired, that’ll be the second time in six months. If you’re constantly firing speakers, maybe the problem is with you.”
Capitol Hill Karen suits Margie to a T. So do a few other nicknames that can’t be shared in polite company.
