• @Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    She’s doing a twisted admixture of “the cruelty is the point” and “I think I’m a badass who can make the hard choices” with this sociopath bullshit.

    Sadly it will appeal to a certain type of voter.

    • @eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      913 days ago

      David Brooks and the rest of the NYT editorial board will be totally behind puppy murder in a week, and I’ll have to hear my liberal friends both sides it…

  • @ZeroCool@vger.social
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    6413 days ago

    Republicans are now the pro-dog killing party lol. If there’s one thing you can depend on Republicans to do, it’s make the dumbest choice imaginable in any given situation.

    • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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      1113 days ago

      It’s not so much about the puppies. It’s killing anything that doesn’t respect your authority. It could be a puppy, a kitten, a rabbit, a minority, anything…the important thing is that your unearned status is protected through fear and force.

  • @carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    3913 days ago

    She should open a pet store where you bring your existing pet and then she just shoots it and tells you why she had to.

  • @frickineh@lemmy.world
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    3813 days ago

    I mean, by all accounts, Commander is a problem and biting staff repeatedly wouldn’t fly anywhere but the White House, but the answer isn’t shooting him in the backyard. She’s a fucking psychopath. I shouldn’t be surprised that she’s decided to double down on dog murderer as a good quality.

  • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    3213 days ago

    Guys, I wouldn’t vote for her if I were you. I’m pretty sure if she wins she’s going to kill everyone’s dog

  • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    13 days ago

    Substitute her arguments about a “working dog” for a minority person. Because you hear it all the time in rural areas and her home town…

    • @lost_faith@lemmy.ca
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      713 days ago

      How many non-secret service people have been bitten by Commander? If the answer is zero, what do these secret service people do to antagonise Commander?

  • Aatube
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    913 days ago

    Commander was sent to an undisclosed location after the Secret Service recorded 24 biting episodes involving him between October 2022 and July 2023, about half of which required medical attention.

    The South Dakota governor, who had been widely seen as a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, wrote in the book about a female wire-haired pointer named Cricket that she had hoped to use to hunt pheasant on her ranch. She said that the dog proved “untrainable,” “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog — so she shot her in a gravel pit.

    In the CBS interview, Ms. Noem sought to defend the killing of Cricket — and a goat she also shot the same day — as “a choice I made over 20 years ago” to “protect people.”

  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    513 days ago

    Of course I could see them put real life Cruella de Vil on the ticket.

    The pussy hunter and the puppy slayer join forces at last!