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YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68909801

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is the puppy. Immediately after she shot a pet goat that “disgusted” her. Image

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    She wrote it in her fucking auto-biography! She was bragging about it! She was proud of it, she thought it made her sound tough, but it only made her sound like the psychopath that she is.

    BTW, she also wrote that after killing the puppy, she immediately killed a goat that she said was “disgusting.” So she got angry enough at a recalcitrant puppy that she yanked out a handgun and shot it, and was still so fired up, she had to kill something else, too.

    I’ve been really angry before, but never angry enough to pull a gun and start killing all the innocent animals in my proximity. Now that she is essentially untouchable, what happens if she gets that furious at a person?

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I assume she refers to herself as a responsible gun owner of course

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  • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Less than worthlesss and untrainable” is a pretty accurate assessment of all republicans.

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    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One would clearly take that assessment far more seriously in the republicans though. Cricket was a 14-month old puppy and would very probably have matured into a trainable companion animal. Something that could never happen with a republican.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it’s always projection

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Any Republicans in particular? Which are the most worthless ones?

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kristi “Dog Terminator” Noem

    Image

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      South Park has been the only major media voice giving this Administration the respect that it’s due. It’s the only one uncensored enough that it can.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Apparently you haven’t seen Colbert, or Jon Stewart on the Daily Show.

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    • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I always call her Kristi “I shot my dog” Noem.

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      • Plurrbear@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I call her Kristi “psycho dog killer” Noem.

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  • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I like how this is coming back into public knowledge after some washed up, irrelevant cartoon aired.

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    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That “washed up irrelevant cartoon” got a contract for $1.5B. Totally washed up…

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      • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m just parroting what Trump said after the first episode. I love South Park ❤️

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  • DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh my fucking god what the hell is in the water over there?

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

      Legionnaire’s, Lead and a legal amount of raw sewage.

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  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Has anyone else noticed the high number of outright Psychopaths are in the trump Reich? It’s becoming obvious that they are actively seeking them out …

    I wonder why that is

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They tend to treat dogs in particular as disposable things. Killing something they have control over is a common practice…for psychopaths.

      It helps if your SS thinks of the other as little more than dogs, also shows you how fucking abysmally they must treat all the family pets if they think dogs aren’t worth protection.

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  • Bwaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is there anyone reading Lemmy that wasn’t already aware of this one? I mean, it’s not bad to bring it up again (and again, and again, etc), but it’s hardly news.

    But if you haven’t already, be sure to see the second 2025 episode of South Park!

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I didn’t even know who she was until this post.

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      • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fuck. Sorry you lost your ignorance.

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    • sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or don’t. Decent satire but absolutely horrible episode. I almost did a spit take at the ending. Its barely even a coherent story.

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  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Here is another article that takes a more detailed take about what she bragged about in her book. It also focuses more on the legal aspects, pointing out that her killing of the goat appears to have violated the states animal cruelty laws. If nothing else, the details about this give a clear, and disturbing view into the type of person she is.

    “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.”

    …

    In reality, what Noem did to the goat — dragging it to a gravel pit, tying it to a post, shooting at it once, leaving to get another shell, and shooting it again — sounds an awful lot like the legal definition of animal cruelty. That definition in South Dakota law is “to intentionally, willfully, and maliciously inflict gross physical abuse on an animal that causes prolonged pain, that causes serious physical injury, or that results in the death of the animal.”

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      pointing out that her killing of the goat appears to have violated the states animal cruelty laws

      Killing trillions of farmed animals a year: I sleep

      Killing a pet: REAL SHIT BRO.

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      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The point isn’t the killing of the animal. It’s the method and needless suffering involved. Taking pot shots at them until they’re dead is a little beyond the pale.

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      • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not withstanding what @boddhisatva wrote in reply and in no way a defense of the meat industry, you’re missing the point.

        The point is the woman demonstrably lacks any empathy and in fact appears to be a sociopath. She should never have been in any position of power over others, far less the position she holds now.

        It’s about her, not the animals (as horrible as it was for these, and is for other, animals).

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      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This is exactly my mental response to this kind of story. Total hypocrisy. Try to ignore the pushback, cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But what about the children?

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So not only is she an awful human being, but she’s also an awful shot.

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see… Just normal serial killer behavior. I wonder why someone would want to put scores of people people matching a certain profile in the care of a serial killer?

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Whatever I’ll say it. Is she a dangerous sociopath, very likely. Does what she did to the goat fit the definition of the South Dakota law written above, doubt. A judge/ jury would find she thought a gunshot would kill the goat, and shot it. And since it is her story no one can prove she pranced around or did anything other than what she said she did, which was go get another “shell” to end its life. Her compete disregard for other peoples lives/feelings/wants/freedoms make her a shit person who should fear the possibility of her claimed religion being real. But being a shit person isn’t part of that law.

      What I don’t understand is why I’ve seen people say she used a pistol and she keeps using the term shell. Her wording seems specific to her using a shotgun to shoot the goat, which should make it harder to miss… But it isn’t a guarantee. But my point being is that if she shot the dog with a pistol she had on her, she would have had to put the pistol away, see the goat, go grab a shotgun from the truck and shoot it at least once, and realize she was out of shells and go back.

      She may need to see a specialist to figure out if she should be committed, but I don’t think anyone could prove she broke a law.

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      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        She may need to see a specialist to figure out if she should be committed, but I don’t think anyone could prove she broke a law.

        Can we just say she’s dangerous and untrainable? Just a thought…

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    • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The dog she can justify with him trying to bite her (not saying I agree, but she can provide justification). The goat isn’t justifiable at all.

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  • zymagoras777@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bitch doesn’t look very “american” by her own standards, does she? Time to visit salvador I guess.

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Salvador torture camps explicitly rejects female criminals, their words

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    She’s just proud of completing her SS training

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I hate that I now live in this reality, but the US head of immigration is significantly more cruel to animals than the actual Nazis. She’s roughly aaaalmost on their level when it comes to human welfare though, that’s more sure to public perception than ethics though, I’m sure.

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  • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My father was terrible towards my brother and I but he was even worse towards animals. Any sign of behavior that he could interpret as “disrespect” or aggression from an animal and he’d either abuse it or kill it. And he was also so fucking proud of himself after even bragging about it like he was some paragon of masculinity asserting his dominion over man and beast.

    The fucking psychopath still wonders why I don’t talk to him outside of the holidays and family crises.

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  • EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    She killed her puppy in a quarry, and got such a buzz off of it, she killed her goat right after.

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The sick psycho bastard is worthless and untrainable and she would have thrived in the NKVD, Mao’s CCP and the SA.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same Kristi Noem who as governor spent $5 million of S. Dakota’s COVID money on a tourism campaign, saying her state was coping with the pandemic using “personal responsibility and freedom”.

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  • voluble@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have a theory about her intentions for writing about killing that dog.

    Noem published her autobiography while vying to be the republican running mate in the election. On the one hand, why would she choose to publish something so openly sinister in her autobiography, at such a consequential time for her political career? She must have known that story would get picked up and blasted in the media. But part of me wonders if maybe, that was her goal. Maybe by including the dog story in her book, Noem was sending a signal to Trump that she wouldn’t flinch to do the cruel, dirty work that maga wants done. And now here she is, doing dirty work.

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    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh for sure. Look at the Huckabees, dog torturing/killing family, much beloved by Trump. I’m Sarah Huckabee’s neighbor and her dog Traveler is a total asshole, my dog hates him, but I also feel bad for whatever might happen to him.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Way ahead of you. I’ve known this since she did it.

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    • grte@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t think that’s true. I think you learned it with the rest of us when she wrote about it in her book. Which is honestly way, way more wild, that she would consider doing this as a relatable story that she’d want people to know about her. True sociopath.

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, when I said “when she did it”, I don’t mean when she shot her puppy, I meant when she bragged about it.

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  • sylvieslayer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm,” Noem wrote. “Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”

    Has anyone liimed into these horses??

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Has anyone liimed into these horses??

      Looks at keyboard

      Ok, I guess that could make sense

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      • sylvieslayer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fixed it! My bad.

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    • robotech@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ve got to be kidding me. I’ve been further even more decided to use liimed go need to do look more as anyone can.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know much about her, but I’m guessing she is pro life.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Depends on your definition of pro life.

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  • DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve seen this news story so many times – months ago. And considering the inhumanity of this administration, the blatant violations of the law it commits, the blatant racism, and how it tramples on constitutional democracy, I am constantly amazed that it seems to be this stirring up American sentiment. That’s probably how it is in the age of social media. No reason but a emotional story with a puppy dog is what it takes to reach people.

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  • johsny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What is wrong with her face?

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it’s filled with puppy fat from every one of her victims.

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Stuff removed, stuff added, everything pulled tight. It’s like taxidermy but for still alive vanity-obsessed women, and it often looks like it too.

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      • Bwaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Taxidermy for her dead soul.

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        still alive

        Debatable.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And why should I know this?

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because politicians’ actions should be scrutinized…?

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Then post it in your countries politics community

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      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s true, but you see why you can use that argument to take every single post from any other political community, slap “YSK” in front of it, and post it here, right? That’s not really the point of YSK. At least not why I’m here.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For context watching South park?

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  • bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also, the latest South Park episode went all in on showing her that way, into the credits lol

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  • EvilFonzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I can’t wait for someone to mention her name and I can dimlight 'em like, ‘that famous dog murderer? She’s in politics now?’

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    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are you talking about the tuna melt puppy killer?

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      • EvilFonzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, you know Kristi?! It’s a small world, friend.

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  • LambeauLeap@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    RIP Cricket

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who?

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The US secretary of homeland security and the public face of ICE.

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      • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks. Outside of the top line maniacs I’m not really aware of any of the other names in the American government.

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why do I need to know this?

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    • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because you and everyone else in the world are american and must know about everything every american public figure has ever done.

      yOu sHoUlD kNoW tHaT tHiS rAnDoM cHiCk kIllEd a dOg!!
      No. No I shouldn’t.

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What does it say about her voters?

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  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wonder if krist would be trainable or worth anything in an ethics class.

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  • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You know dogs are by law required to be out down if they have the habit of hitting people.

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