As a Dog Lover

For some American politicians in the 21st century, the cruelty IS the point.

As a dog lover I feel the need — no, compelled — to speak up about the South Dakota governor writing about EXECUTING her 14 month old puppy for being “untrainable”. Maybe you’ve seen a headline about it. If you’re like me, the headlines said enough.

It IS enough.

It tells you ALL that you need to know about the mentality of those wishing to impress the aggro humans who are trying to run roughshod over the rest of us.

The South Dakota governor wanted attention. She wanted street cred with all of the Americans who believe blood needs to be spilled because they can’t force everyone in our country to see things their way.

The South Dakota governor is an otherwise attractive-looking woman who has embraced what — at this point — can only be described as a ‘death cult’. What evidence do I have for saying that?

The far right death cult relishes the idea of a civil war.

The far right death cult worships firearms beyond all reasoning.

They love to use this quote:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

…to justify street violence against peaceful protesters and insurrections which they wish to misrepresent as a “riot”, or as unruly tourists getting lost in the Capitol rotunda.

The far right death cult are willing to hang a god-fearing vice president.

The far right death cult are willing to trample, beat and crush police officers JUST FOR DOING THEIR JOBS because they aren’t getting their way constitutionally or lawfully.

The South Dakota governor had no reason to include the murdering of her bougie full bred pup in her far-too-soon autobiography. Unprompted, she chose to include it. As if she saw it as a rite of initiation. Like the way the Mafia, or the Crips, or the cartel would have you assassinate someone. Or the Proud Boys would have you cite your favorite childhood cereals while they circle around you and try to rack you in the balls.

What she chose to do in that gravel pit was monstrous. Full stop.

It doesn’t show how capable she is. It was not as if she was executing a deer she had hit on the highway which would be the merciful thing to do. I would applaud her for doing that. That would reveal an admirable strength of character.

The act itself was monstrous and cruel. Repeating a story by publishing it in a book when no one was holding a gun to YOUR head is saying to sociopaths everywhere — I’m one with you, I’m capable of being the monster you need. Love me. Vote for me. I won’t let you down. See how cruel I can be?

She’s wretched, and I am being kind.

Slaughtering animals for your own entertainment (the same day she snuffed out her puppy’s life, she snuffed out a goat because it “smelled”) is the mark of a sociopath. In case you can’t remember, sociopaths are bad. Infamous, off-the-charts sociopaths are people like John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy, the Zodiac Killer and probably every mass shooter that has plagued America since the school shootings at Columbine High School.

Sociopaths lack empathy, remorse and social norms. Sociopaths need help, not a welcoming committee to the seats of power.

I hope Cricket, the German wire haired pointer, and the smelly goat didn’t die in vain.

I hope — this time around — the monsters who favor forced birth, razor wires and National Guardsmen at the border, sociopaths carrying the nuclear ‘football’ and another war between the states traveled a bridge too far with the majority of decent humans who inhabit America. I hope this noxious woman some day dies in obscurity having only stalked the halls of the South Dakota governor’s mansion.

I hope her asinine ploy works and the Republican nominee for president taps her to be his running mate. Just imagine the political ads you could use with that toxic pairing? One who hates dogs out right and another who wrote for all the world to read:

I hated that dog.

So, she EXECUTED it rather than putting it on Craig’s List for another kinder person who had the patience to raise and train it.

I would have adopted Cricket in a heartbeat.

The goat as well.

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Here are our rescue dogs NOT being executed for being “untrainable”.

Here’s one who is exhausted from playing with her toys but NOT being murdered for not putting them away when she was done.

Here’s one who was not taken to the gravel pit and shot point blank for getting on the furniture. Furniture I spent my life savings to buy, I might add.