re: #86 Jay C

SRSLY - this is disgusting; even for South Dakota: does Noem think this is going to play well with the public, and make her look like some sort of “tough frontier” type? Or that there are no animal-lovers out there in the rest of the country who are going to be revolted by this?
Sociopathy IS what’s at play here: and yeah: “puppy-killer” ought to be a prominent theme in any campaign she is involved in.

Based on the excerpts I’ve seen from the portion of the book in question, the answer is a solid “Yes.” She took a 14-month old puppy with virtually no training out on a hunting trip, decided in less than a day that it was useless as a hunting dog, states she hated it after the same puppy killed another farmer’s chickens on the very same day, then admits taking pleasure in shooting it in front of a group of construction workers.

All that would in itself be disgusting and cruel, but now she’s (what else?) trying to act the victim by arguing that it was “necessary” and claiming that it’s no different from three horses they had to put down recently. IOW, she is totally trying to put on that “tough farmer” act to excuse murdering a puppy in what sounds like a fit of rage.