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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

I actually WOULD pay Trump $130,000 to not have sex with him, Mitt. And much more.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

Kristi plays:

Fuck - Corey Lewandowski

Marry - whoever she is married to? do I care?

Kill - Cricket

https://twitter.com/marjaane/status/1785854890721308806

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

I will point out that Little Beagle Johnson (yes, the dog's actual name) survived the encounter with the Big LBJ, and also, too, and such as, I sometimes plaster my cat's ears down and tell her she's an otter.

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Patricia Kayden's avatar

Just because he didn’t kill the dog, doesn’t excuse what Romney did.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

No, but I think Republicans get points just for not killing a puppy.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Nothing excuses anything a Republican does.

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Sue's avatar

Only by setting the bar at "at least I didn't shoot my dog in the face" does Romney appear better. But I still wouldn't trust him with my dog. Or my country. And I don't think George W Bush is any better just because Trump is worse. I may have to grade my students on a curve, but not politicians.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

In my experience, there is a breadth of cruelty that extends between the two incidents.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Remember when Gov Huckabee's boy hung up a dog on a tree to kill it and his dad killed the story? And then sacked the guy who pointed out that Huck had told him to kill the story. Kill it deader than the dog his pyscho son killed? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

I had not heard that one, and I think, heading into the weekend, I just might take a pass on looking into it further.

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boo radley's avatar

oh, hell yeah Pepperidge Farm remembers. I was thinking of that since this story broke. The whole Huckabee family is on my shit list for that. I can't with animal or child or dependent abusers.

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insert_something_creative's avatar

What I never understood about this story (or forgot) is why he strapped the dog to the roof? Mittens is fucking loaded following his career as a corporate raider. Surely they could have a car big enough to accommodate the pup too. So what is just because?

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"M"'s avatar

"Surely they could have a car big enough to accommodate the pup too. "

Mittens has enough money that he could've hired a private limo in its own separate caravan for the dog, had he cared to.

And I for one have emphatically NOT reevaluated how I feel about him

Of course, I'm one of those women in a binder, so ...

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Fog of Jen's avatar

He was A Moron to even bring it up. How the hell do you defend strapping your dog to the roof of your car and then taking off down the interstate? And then claim you loved your dog no less.

They are all terrible people.

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Did she literally us a shotgun in puppy's face? Cuz isn't this bad enough without doing a Republican-style embellishment?

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"M"'s avatar

The dog was killed by its human, and the goats too

And if I read her most recent cruelty right where she's really trying to elevate her Pick Me cred with the narcissistic sociopaths in the lead for the Republican nomination, a couple of horses

Are we going to quibble over the location of the shooting now?

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

Who's quibbling? I'm not quibbling. Are you quibbling? I think we can agree Noem is a horrible person.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Think she said head. Not really an embellishment so much as "direct quote"

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

"Head". "Face". Whatevs.

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zb23's avatar

had taken the dog pheasant hunting. and she said she ran out of shells when maiming the goat. so that all says shotgun.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

People have been so freaked out about the act itself that they haven't really focused on a rather serious defect of Noem's personality.

She keeps going on about farming and having to put animals down. Yes, that's the reality, but farmers use the best possible means they can to ensure a quick and painless end.

She grabbed the first weapon available, the shotgun she'd taken to a pheasant hunt, which meant she had birdshot with her. No farmer would agree birdshot was appropriate for "putting down" these animals.

She was completely out of control because these animals had defied her authority and embarrassed her in front of her peers.

If she'd had an AR-15 instead of a shotgun, she would have emptied the clip (excuse me, magazine) into that dog.

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cmd Human Scum's avatar

I swear I once knew Mittens’ dog’s name.

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Deidre Snutz, Mind Goblin's avatar

Eating dogs is one of the things Repubs love to charge Obama with-- according to their story, when Barry was ten, he visited relatives in Kenya, who fed him dogmeat. They've been pushing this a lot ever since the Noem bang-bang story came up, that and "You don't know what farm people do!"

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Ms. O's first husband was Chinese. They went over to Singapore to meet his side of the family, and all the siblings and cousins decided to play Let's Freak Out the White Girl With Food That'll Freak Her Out.

Dog, I understand, tastes like beef.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Can't be great for all those Indians who visited to the USA and had to go back home telling everyone how they tried to make me eat cow! They ALL eat cow! There is no respect for religion in such a nation!

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"M"'s avatar

oh, FFS

Is anyone else getting to the point where they just want to get sick on these peoples' shoes?

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Mark Linimon's avatar

I had not had that particular thought, but, sign me up anyways.

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Permanently Confused@68's avatar

<Raises hand>

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randomnessliz's avatar

It wasn't Kenya, it was when he was at madrassa in Indonesia.

Come on, man! get your racism straight!

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Amanda Mitchell's avatar

Mittens once again proves that even a milquetoast kitten has claws, although once again it appears that the Mitt-Bot is glitching - the software confused his favorite meat (HOT DOG) with dear Bingo on the car roof. AI Senator still has a ways to go.

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Kevin McFoy Dunn's avatar

I'm assuming the not-eating-the-dog thing is neural wire-crossing related to "hot dog" being his self-declared "favorite meat". Mebbe?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I just remember him talking about taking the family on picnics where they had both mayonnaise and Miracle Whip.

And it wasn't self-deprecating humor. He was serious.

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bluePNWcats's avatar

LMAO! Kitten Kitten got claws! Rawr! Hissssssssssss

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HarryButtle, degenerate artist's avatar

"Nobody said anything about eating dogs, Mittens."

Not true. I think it was Jesse Watters who brought up the old rumor that Obama ate dogs. It was one of the FOX shitheads, anyway. So Mitt's just taking a little jab at Barack with that dog whistle.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

They can't give anything up, can they? Ever.

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