#Cricket had just killed a neigbour's chickens. That isn't just bad behaviour, its a point of no return.
To a dog, food comes in a bowl. Once a dog learns that all these other animals are actually FOOD ON LEGS, and its FUN, it can't unlearn it. No training will ever make that dog safe, and it might decide to see if that toddler tastes good too.
For farmers, its the owner's job to deal with this: you don't ask someone else to clean up your mess. That's what Noem did.
2/3: The Goat.
Then #Noem decided that while she was about it she'd kill an old goat too, because she hated it: it was was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid" and would knock her children down.
So she shot it. And then had to walk back to the truck and get another round because the goat survived the first one. So not a clean kill. Didn't occur to her to have a second round handy.
Unlike the dog, this wasn't from necessity, it was from hatred.
She doesn't feel sadness or regret over the need to kill Cricket, or the needless suffering of the goat. Instead she talks about her hatred, and her willingness to channel that hatred into doing "ugly" things.
So we must presume that she is willing to do "ugly" things to people she hates as well. That's ... not something you want in a president.
“I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here.”. Classic humble-brag. "I'm just folks".
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