I do think we run a real risk of ignoring the threat these people pose by just writing them off as incompetent or stupid. They function on bully logic, and this is pure bully logic. “This creature defies me, so it should die.”
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Even as an example of putting sentiment aside to make the “tough decisions” it seems weird to basically say “I killed this dog once. Really fucking hated it, and wanted to kill it but it was the family pet. So I did it one day when the kids were at school.”
Doing something you want to do and aren’t particularly conflicted about isn’t a tough choice.
Then she goes and makes it even weirder by tacking on “Then I killed a stinky goat too, but I almost fucked that up.”
Lucky for her “I do whatever I want, and fuck everything and everybody else” is also a selling point for her target audience - who also like general incompetence because it shows you aren’t one of those evil “woke” experts.
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Tough decisions or poor impulse control who can really tell the difference!? /s
But I think for a lot of the GOP the selling point is “I abuse my children.”
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“Poor impulse control” would be dragging it into the back yard and shooting it there.
Taking it out to the gravel pit implies planning and premeditation.
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She’s still trying to explain.
I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned.
What I learned from my years of public service, especially leading South Dakota through COVID, is people are looking for leaders who are authentic, willing to learn from the past, and don’t shy away from tough challenges. My hope is anyone reading this book will have an understanding that I always work to make the best decisions I can for the people in my life.
The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did.
Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it’s hard and painful. I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor.
As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way isn’t the right way.
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Still doesn’t get that what normal humans are horrified by isn’t the legality of killing puppies
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I suspect that there’s a more or less fundamental disconnect(I can’t tell whether the blindness is willful or she genuinely doesn’t understand the distinction) between her position that this sort of behavior indicates a responsible willingness to make hard choices that her enemies are too squeamish to understand; and the position that her handling of the situation is that of someone indulging in impulsive and somewhat incompetent violence to solve problems that emerged more or less predictably from her own ongoing mismanagement; which is…not a great look…in someone who would be a leader of men.
It’s conceivable that she got unlucky and managed to have a genuinely unworkable dog; those are a thing that happens; but it’s a lot less common for dogs to be irredeemable demon-seed than for some combination of poor training and poor selection for environment to turn out badly; and it’s not something you typically have a sudden epiphany about because you hate the dog.
As for the goat? It’s sort of livestock SOP in general to castrate the males you don’t want smelling pretty dire and exhibiting characteristic aggressive behaviors at least during mating season, if not all the time, and be real careful with the ones you are keeping intact for breeding purposes. There’s a reason why 4-H won’t even allow bucks that aren’t young enough to still be nursing. It’s downright dire for someone claiming farm-cred to be all surprised pikachu face that an unfixed adult is kind of a malodorous asshole; and to more or less impulsively add its botched execution to the list, since we’re in the gravel pit already.
It’s one thing to “make hard choices” and “do what needs to be done”; it’s another to allow a relatively predictable problem to get ‘hard’ through lax administration and then pretend that a clampdown that could have been avoided counts as leadership.
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any dog that is “untrainable” is the fault of the owner.
My family has been taking in dogs from shelters. Some of these were very mistreated. With love and patience they calmed down and were wonderful .
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Our shelter mutt says he thinks your family is great.
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why, thank you.
A dog’s loyalty and love are always worth the effort.
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And trying to please Big Daddy Tromp.
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and yet she hasn’t learned that cruel is always the wrong way.
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Yikes, doggo, I voted for her twice, what more do you need? Vote for her when she runs for Debbie Stabenaw’s Senate seat? No problem! Sheesh.
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Adding on the goat as a bonus was the poor impulse control part.
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She should’ve let someone else get her goat.
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