Wait—what do I mean become?
Republicans were always “cruelty is the point” asshats with “Life just ain’t fair, Libtards,” mantras that began to take hold shortly after they adopted the Southern Strategy as a thang to win elections.
Fast forward to today, and we have sitting representatives openly whining about not being able to kill their political opponents. Anyone with half a brain cell saw this kind of moment in history coming. You can't have one party actively oppressing minorities and women without it coming to a corrupt and violent head eventually.
In the modern era, Conservatives are chomping at the bit to start riots where they can kill their perceived enemies and do it in the name of Gawd and Patriotism while clueless factions of Democrats and progressives ask us, “Why can’t we all just get along”—
I want to get along—it’s the other side that is actively trying to murder me. I am in self-defense mode, not attack mode.
Nothing illustrates why we need to protect ourselves more than Noem's noticeable bloodlust when describing the killing of a puppy in her new book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.
As an aside, never write a book title longer than one can put on a bumper sticker—uhmkay.
Headline: 'I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family's 'worthless' pup
Know what immediately came to my mind as I read this story? This abhorrent sexually deviant practice (yes, I am kink-shaming here) of women in high heels stomping kittens and puppies to death.
Look it up. It’s a thing.
Now, I don’t know what the name of this thing is, and I don’t care to. I only heard of it when I learned some folks had been removed from YouTube for posting such videos. Usually, upon discovering something new, even if dark, I look it up just to be knowledgeable on the topic
I did not want to look that up
From what I gathered peripherally, some people get off, sexually, on seeing innocent things die in such a despicable manner. Methinks the individuals who enjoy hurting living creatures in this manner would feel right at home in the Modern Conservative Party.
From Mr. Rogers and Lincoln to proud puppy killers—this is where we are at everybody. I am sure Mitt Romney, who lost his presidential bid after placing his poor dog in a crate on the hood of his car, is pissed.
From Rawstory:
The Republican governor wrote in her forthcoming memoir, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, that the female dog Cricket had an "aggressive personality" and proved herself "untrainable," according to excerpts from the book published by The Guardian.
“I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, adding that the 14-month-old wirehair pointer was “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
The governor said she included the story in her political memoir to demonstrate her willingness to take on “difficult, messy and ugly” tasks, and she described an attempt to teach Cricket to hunt with other dogs, but instead the pup ruined the trip by going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life."
Noem unsuccessfully attempted to bring Cricket under control using an electronic collar, but she said the dog escaped her truck as she stopped to talk to a local family on the way home and attacked that family's chickens.
"[Cricket] grabbed one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another," she wrote, comparing the dog to “a trained assassin."
“[She] whipped around to bite me," Noem wrote, adding that Cricket was "the picture of pure joy" throughout the incident.
“At that moment,” Noem wrote, “I realized I had to put her down.”
Noem said she retrieved her gun and led Cricket to a gravel pit.
“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
I just threw up in my mouth a little—I mean, who is proud of some shit like this? Isn't one of the first signs of Antisocial Personality Disorder cruelty towards animals?
Quick! Someone check on Noem’s kids—scratch that—check her basement for missing vagrants!
With all the focus on Trump and the off-the-rails Supreme Court immunity hearing happening right now—why is it NO ONE really hitting home that Biden could easily order Trump killed under the same absolute immunity laws they propose—it is easy to forget the bat-shit crazy that currently runs amok in the GOP.
—And these monsters keep getting elected?? How?! Why are so many people comfortable with nastiness and evil?
Sorry, Kumbaya Liberals, but that is the reason I can’t get into bed with modern-day Republicans.