Ben Affleck‘s rumored new girlfriend Kick Kennedy has a strange backstory for an environmental activist!

It’s no secret that Kick’s father Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shared some pretty unusual tales amid his failed presidential run, but this one that his own daughter revealed years ago?? It’s maybe the grossest… even potentially incriminating!!

Back in 2012, Kick reflected on her childhood with Town & Country, sharing a story that demonstrated how she inherited her father’s similar “eccentric environmentalism,” as the outlet put it. When she was just 6, she claimed in the profile, a whale washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Her father loved to study animal skulls and skeletons, so he raced down to the beach — to get the whale’s head! Yes, you read that right. He drove down, with the kids, and he CUT OFF THE WHALE’S HEAD WITH A CHAINSAW! Yikes!

Remember, Kick was there, just a little girl! So he not only decided to cut off this whale’s head, which sounds ghoulish enough… He brought his kids along! ICK!

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RFK then bungee-corded it to the family’s minivan — where it stayed for a five-hour drive to Mount Kisco, New York. OMG! The 36-year-old recalled riding down home with this thing on the roof:

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

Jeez!!

How was that normal?! This is an absurd story in and of itself, but as mentioned, it could be illegal, too!!

The Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund is up in arms now that this story has resurfaced. The group’s national political director, Brett Hartl, even urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to investigate. He wrote a letter to government officials on Monday, noting it’s illegal to possess “any part of an animal” protected by the Marine Mammal Protection and Endangered Species acts, which includes several whale species. He noted that “continued possession of any whale skull” would be an ongoing violation of the law.

Also, transporting a skull across state lines would be a “felony violation” of the 1900 Lacey Act, “which prohibits the transportation of any wildlife, dead or alive, that was reduced to possession in violation of any state, federal or international regulation or law.” Per Axios, Brett continued:

“Normally, an unverified anecdote would not provide sufficient evidence as the basis for conducting an investigation.”

But wild animal stories like this aren’t exactly new for this hopeful politician:

“However, Mr. Kennedy has admitted that he has recklessly — and with no regard to legal requirements — taken other species of wildlife for his own personal benefit.”

Earlier this month, before dropping out of the presidential race, Robert revealed he covered up the death of a bear after a woman hit and killed it. He’d planned to “skin” and eat the bear cub, but when he ran out of time to go home and drop the dead animal off before other plans, he decided to leave it in Central Park instead, where he made it look like the creature got hit by a bike. Yeah, he openly admitted to all of this (below), so that’s why this activist group is so concerned!

Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024

This is after that photo of him allegedly eating a roasted dog came out… This is just… wow. Three dead animal stories in just a few months. And we wouldn’t even have heard of this one if Kick hadn’t apparently started dating Ben Affleck! So the question comes to mind…

How many more weird ass RFK stories are out there??

While they’re hoping for a full investigation and any necessary consequences, at the very least, the organization wants RFK Jr. to surrender “any and all illegally obtained wildlife that he continues to possess.” So far, he hasn’t reacted to his renewed controversy. While Ben is denying having any involvement with Kick, this is sure one inneresting look at his potential new in-laws! LOLz!! Reactions?! Sound OFF (below)!

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We can’t believe this story. It’s just… unimaginable cruelty and depravity… and towards innocent animals!

Adam Britton was known as a crocodile expert, often educating viewers on BBC and Nat Geo programs. He even appeared with famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough! But behind closed doors, this zoologist was anything but a friend to animals.

From 2020 to 2022, Britton acquired dozens of dogs through the Gumtree Australia online marketplace, promising to give them a “good home.” And why wouldn’t people trust him? He was a known zoologist! But he wasn’t trying to give them good homes. He was torturing and killing them. According to court docs, he had a “sadistic sexual interest” in dogs. Over this period he tortured 42 dogs, including sexually — and killed 39 of them. He would then send photos he took prior to the torture and send them to former owners to keep up a “false narrative” that the pups were “thriving in their new environment.”

That’s what can be proven, as authorities say the extent of his crimes is likely far worse…

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He finally got caught because he was also posting videos he made of the torture online. He kept his identity hidden in the videos, posting under the names “Monster” and “Cerberus.” But someone who came across a video in which he tortured seven puppies turned it over to police. A dog leash was identified and led investigators to Britton.

He even sexually abused his own family dogs, Ursa and Bolt — though he didn’t torture them. In an online message in evidence, he explained:

“My own dogs are family and I have limits. I only badly mistreat other dogs… I have no emotional bond to them, they are toys pure and simple. And [there are] plenty more where they came from.”

In another message he told viewers:

“I was sadistic as a child to animals, but I had repressed it. In the last few years I let it out again, and now I can’t stop. I don’t want to. :)”

He was arrested in April 2022. Police found tons of evidence thanks to his horrifying recordings he made in his “torture room”. He also had 15 files containing “the worst category” of child sexual abuse material.

Britton ultimately pleaded guilty to 56 charges of bestiality and animal cruelty last September. And this week he was finally sentenced.

The hearing itself brought more horrors to light. Chief Justice Michael Grant told court officers they could be excused and warned those in the courtroom just hearing about the “grotesque” crimes could cause “nervous shock or some other adverse psychological reactions.” According to the BBC, some did rush out of the room, while others in the gallery cried.

Britton was sentenced to 10 years and five months in prison. He won’t be eligible for parole for six years, and he’s banned for life from purchasing or keeping animals on his property. His wife of many years Erin, a biologist and wildlife ranger who once helped Prince Harry wrangle a croc, is said to have been blindsided by his horrible deeds. She reportedly left him after the arrest and changed her name. Just awful.

For resources on mental health, visit https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence and would like to learn more about resources, consider checking out https://www.rainn.org/resources. 

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You’d think it would never get any worse for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. after allegations he ate a dog and sexually assaulted a babysitter. You’d think…

The anti-vax alternative to Donald Trump has yet another scandal which would be totally unbelievable… if there weren’t stunning evidence. And he didn’t just, you know, come out and admit it.

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Apparently RFK got word The New Yorker was going to publish an exposé about the time he killed a baby bear cub, and his response was to just tell the whole story himself the day before. In a video posted to X (Twitter), the presidential candidate sits at a dining room table and casually tells Roseanne Barr the story, saying in that bizarrely shaky voice of his:

“I was taking a group of people falconing up in Goshen, New York… And then a woman in the van in front of me hit a bear and killed it.”

So remember, it was someone else who hit the bear. He just disposed of the body in a creative way, nothing weird! He told Roseanne:

“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.”

He made a point of explaining that was legal in NY state, eating “roadkill bear.” He then recalled they had “a really good day” hawking while the dead bear sat in the back of his car. But they had such a good time, he didn’t have time to go home — because he was having dinner that night with friends in the city. So he left the dead bear in his car all through the dinner. And then the dinner went late, and he realized he didn’t have time to get home to his freezer before having to get to the airport.

“I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in my car because that would have been bad.”

So what to do with this young bear corpse? Well, ever the problem solver RFK thought to himself about the “series of bicycle accidents” in New York because they’d “just put in the bike lanes” — so the wheels started spinning, presumably being spun by the worm in his brain:

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea. And I said I had an old bike in my car that somebody asked me to get rid of… I said, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it look like he got hit by a bike.’ Everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea!'”

DID THEY??? He recalled whimsically:

“We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.”

Two women jogging found the corpse the next morning. People were NOT amused. The story of the dead bear cub actually went viral:

“The next day it was on every television station. I was like, ‘Oh my God, what did I do?’ I was worried because my prints were all over that bike … Luckily, the story died down after a while.”

The video ends with RFK explaining how The New Yorker somehow found out about it and told him they were doing a story, and it was going to be “bad.” He and Roseanne and others in the room share a big laugh about it.

Remember that’s his version, which he captioned:

“Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker”

Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024

Sorry, what spin does this guy think needs to be done on this?

He’s the type of guy who sees a dead bear cub and makes sure to snag that body. But then he loses track of time and leaves a rotting corpse in his car for several hours, to the point he has to throw it away… And his solution is to stage a fatal bicycle accident in Central Park where some child could find it. That’s all by his own admission!!!

What The New Yorker does have is a photo. RFK already said he found the whole thing hilarious, and he proved it. Like with the alleged dog carcass, he took a jokey photo with the bear corpse, puppeteering its head to make it look like he’s fighting with it, and it’s biting him.

[WARNING: This photo is graphic!]

The New Yorker RFK Jr story is up, with a short account of the bear incident and a, um, photo. pic.twitter.com/WyFL1xa0O7

— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) August 5, 2024

What in the hell has happened to our politics in the US? How does someone have the cajones to stay in the presidential race after stories like this?? Is it really just the Trump effect that guys like RFK and George Santos think they can get away with anything? No shame whatsoever??

What do YOU think of this latest RFK weirdness??

[Image via RFK/Twitter/MEGA/WENN.]

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Nicola Peltz Beckham has officially launched her lawsuit against the pet grooming company she believes to be responsible for her dog’s death.

In June, Brooklyn Beckham’s wife took to Instagram to announce the heartbreaking news that her beloved chihuahua of nine years Nala passed away just hours after a grooming appointment. She said at the time:

“nala was perfectly healthy when she went to the groomers yesterday but came out hyperventilating and couldn’t catch her breath. we rushed her to the vet and she passed hours later.”

You can see her full post (below):

Shortly after, TMZ reported the Lola star had plans to sue the New York grooming company… And that’s exactly what she’s now doing.

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On Tuesday, Nicola filed a lawsuit in NYC against HoundSpa LLC, owner Deborah Gittleman, and Jony Ceballos, the employee who groomed Nala. In her filings, which have been obtained by multiple outlets, Nicola accused Jony of “intentional and malicious abuse of dogs.” She claimed the groomer has a “history of complaints” of “repeatedly” mishandling animals, and accused the company and Deborah of “reckless and malicious conduct” for maintaining his employment.

The lawsuit further claims Nala went in for her scheduled grooming appointment in a mobile van outside of Nicola’s home on June 15 “happy” and “healthy,” but “returned injured and in severe physical distress — breathing heavily and wheezing, with her chest pulsating.”

Nicola claimed she sped Nala off to a nearby vet, who discovered the dog’s “tongue was blue, she had fluid in her lungs, and she suffered neurological damage.” The lawsuit added:

“Nala was put on oxygen and cared for as Nicola distressingly and emotionally witnessed her dog suffer.”

Horrible. Ultimately, the filings claim Nala passed as the result of the “injuries and severe condition” with which she was returned from her grooming appointment.

Nicola claims to have been dealing with “damages and emotional distress,” and is seeking responsibility:

“This case is about holding responsible those who abuse animals in their care and shedding light on the lack of protections for pet owners and their beloved dogs and pets.”

On Wednesday, the 29-year-old took to Instagram to share a photo in which she and Beckham held a memorial service for the pup. She wrote:

“I am truly still in so much shock and pain over my baby Nala suddenly passing last moth following what should have been a routine grooming session. I posted the experience on my Instagram to bring awareness, and was heartbroken to hear the horrifying stories from so many others who have experienced the same tragedy. I can’t bear it. I’m outraged to hear how common stories like Nala’s are. We need to do better and change the laws to better protect fur babies and the loving owners who care for them. Our pets are our chosen family. I’ve dedicated most of my life to saving dogs and I can’t in good conscience let this horrifying act happen to more families. I will work for changes and laws to help make sure non one else ever has to experience this heartbreak. I will always use my voice to protect our innocent babies.”

Such a devastating situation. Our hearts are with Nicola!

[Images via Nicola Peltz Beckham/Instagram & Cosmopolitan/YouTube]

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Naria Harutjunjan has her finger pointed at UPS after her dog died in an incident she says was caused by a delivery driver for the company. During a recent interview with KCAL News, the North Hills resident claimed her pooch Lulu passed away last Wednesday after a UPS driver approached her home and threw a 55 pound package over her gate. Sadly, she says, it landed on her dog. The devastated pet owner told the outlet:

“I took the package. I saw my dog was … she couldn’t move anymore. My neighbors were there. They helped me with the dog to bring her to the Mission Hills clinic. But they said she passed away.”

How tragic.

Security footage from Naria’s neighbor does show the UPS employee approaching her home and throwing the package over the gate, just as she described. Her own Ring camera also recorded footage of the driver looking at the gate before driving away.

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Reflecting on how dangerous the situation was, Naria told the news station:

“He could kill me, he could kill any baby playing here, or anybody else.”

She added through tears:

“Yesterday when I [wanted] to let her out, I took her and I said, ‘I don’t know Lulu, why but I love you so much.’ And it was my last time.”

Naria had just adopted the dog last year. So incredibly tragic.

If this is true, she’s absolutely right. Tossing such a heavy package over a fence is incredibly dangerous! In the wake of her story, UPS has announced they’re launching an investigation into the situation:

“We recently learned of the situation in North Hills. We are certainly concerned and will contact the customer. We will investigate and take appropriate action.”

Naria has reportedly been in contact with an attorney and is considering taking legal action against UPS, the driver, and Amazon, as she ordered the package from there. More details (below):

So very sad.

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments down below.

[Image via KCAL News/YouTube]

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Remember two months ago when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said doctors found a worm in his brain? That should have been enough to destroy the guy’s campaign, but maybe just the results of having had a worm in your brain will be enough. Because the way he’s answering these new accusations makes it feel like there’s more where that one little wriggler came from.

The Vanity Fair exposé is truly wild stuff. Hell, the thing is titled RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets. Chilling, right? And the article lives up to its headline! We recommend reading the whole thing HERE if you have the time. But who does, right? We’ll just jump to the two really big shocks…

The Babysitter

In 1998, RFK Jr. and his then-wife Mary Richardson hired a 23-year-old recent college grad named Eliza Cooney to be a part-time babysitter for their four kids. She is now telling the story of RFK’s inappropriate behavior with her that caused her to leave the job. And she has contemporaneous evidence, too — her diary from those days, in which she wrote all this down!

Eliza told VF about an incident in November of that year when, during a meeting about environmental volunteering in the family’s kitchen, RFK kept rubbing her thigh and hand under the table. She wrote in her diary:

“It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn’t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me.”

A few weeks later she found RFK standing shirtless in her room, her open diary next to him on the bed. He asked her to rub lotion on his back. WHAT??

At the time RFK was 45 years old. (Yes, he’s 70 years old now. For all his upper body strength, he’s nearly as old as Donald Trump and Joe Biden.) Not to mention he was married. So obviously Eliza was incredibly uncomfortable, as she told VF:

“I thought, Isn’t Mary home? Doesn’t she do this for you?”

Eliza recalled she quickly did it even though it was “totally inappropriate” as she didn’t know what else to do. Again, he was her boss. That’s why this isn’t ever OK, because of the power dynamic. She says there were more creepy incidents, but she was no longer comfortable writing them in her diary, not after seeing him sneak in to read it. But the worst was yet to come…

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After a yoga class, she came home and — still in her sports bra and leggings — went into the walk-in pantry to get a snack. Her back was to the door, so she didn’t see RFK come in behind her. She says he trapped her in the room with his body and then groped her, rubbing her hips, her rib cage, up to her breasts. She recalled:

“He came up behind me… I was frozen. Shocked.”

She says she was saved when another houseworker walked in, interrupting RFK by saying something like:

“Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want your wife to know about.”

Shortly after she left the job. She notably wrote in her diary at the time a list of things “to leave behind in 1999,” and at the top was “bad men.”

‘Not A Church Boy’

RFK was asked about the article just hours later in an interview on something called Breaking Points. His answer is an all-timer example of how not to respond to sexual assault allegations. He told the interviewer:

“Listen, I said this from the beginning. I’m not a church boy, I am not running like that.”

WHAT?! Is he saying sexual assault is just RFK being RFK? What the actual eff kay??? He continued:

“I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.”

WHAT IN THE HELL KIND OF RESPONSE IS THAT?!

It sounds like he’s saying he warned us terrible allegations were going to come up about him, and he’s just that kind of guy who did some shady stuff! WTF?? He went on to blast Vanity Fair for “recycling 30-year-old stories” and said he was “not gonna comment on the details of any of them.” When he was asked once more to respond specifically to the sexual assault accusation, he refused.

Now, before you watch this cued up answer for yourselves, you should ask yourself if you’ve ever actually heard this man speak. His voice is… jarring for those who aren’t ready. Not exactly what you’d expect from someone running for president. Just sayin’. OK, here it is…

The Dog Thing

This one is tough to write. Legitimately.

So according to Vanity Fair, last year RFK was texting a friend who was about to travel to Asia. He suggested they try barbecued dog while there, sending a photo in which he holds an entire barbecued carcass. He and an unidentified woman both mime eating from it. The implication is clearly that this is a cooked dog. It does seem like he’s joking — but is he really holding up a dog, pretending to eat it? Or just pretending it’s a dog at all?

The photo, VF says, is from 2010 based on metadata. Some folks are sure the carcass in the pic is an actual dog, even if the future Presidential candidate is only pretending to bite into it.

This accusation he did respond to! He confirmed to multiple outlets the photo is real but assures everyone this was a goat, and not a dog. He told Breaking Points:

“The picture that they said is of me eating a dog, it’s actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a whitewater trip many years ago on the Futaleufu River. They say… they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass. It’s just not true.”

Here’s a similar response to his pals at Fox News. Again, brace yourself for the voice…

You think Biden’s having a bad news cycle? RFK Jr is on Fox News answering questions about a photo of him with what appears to be a barbecued dog pic.twitter.com/mH6NgLp3MS

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 2, 2024

After hearing this, the friend maintained to VF:

“[RFK] sent me the picture with a recommendation to visit the best dog restaurant in Seoul, so he was certainly representing that this was a dog and not a goat. In any case, it’s grotesque.”

So it was either an actual dog carcass or a goat carcass, and he was just making a joke about Asians eating dogs. Goats and dogs, man… This guy should be running on a ticket with Kristi Noem!

Also, regarding the dog explanation…

We just have to say, the fact this man is more than willing to respond with a very specific denial to one story and not the other is really telling. Did you eat dog? No, it was a roasted goat, here’s where I ate it, full explanation. Did you sexually assault a 23-year-old babysitter working for you and your wife? No comment, that story is 30 years old. See what we mean? Not exactly balanced.

Brain Fog

It’s worth noting that 2010, when the dog/goat photo was taken, is the same year he contracted the brain worm, which he said in court he assumed he got from food he ate in South Asia. He also said in court the brain worm caused damage that lead to “brain fog.” Many thought that was just something he said in court to get out of paying his ex-wife child support. Apparently that was a really messy divorce that went to court, and he was explaining in his testimony the “brain fog” was the reason he couldn’t work and was having financial problems. So he couldn’t pay what she was asking. Hmm.

So this guy has self-described “brain fog” that keeps him from working? Is that really someone we want to be our president? Is he contending now the brain damage got better? Like Prince Andrew and his healed up sweat glands?

BTW, one of his family members has a different explanation for the brain fog. That Kennedy, per Vanity Fair, has been pushing the idea RFK’s 15 years as a heroin addict might have addled his brain. Apparently the National Institutes of Health reported long-term heroin abuse is capable of “creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed” and “which may affect decision-making abilities, the ability to regulate behavior, and responses to stressful situations.”

So what we’re left with is a guy saying he has brain fog who ALSO has an extremely disturbing response to what seems on its face to be a credible sexual assault allegations… It’s like some of the worst traits of Biden and Trump rolled into one, isn’t it? Our third party contender, ladies and gentlemen! Election 2024!

[Image via Breaking Points/YouTube.]

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Last week, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced Oregon man Jesse Lee Calhoun, 39, was charged with three counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Charity Lynn Perry, 24, Bridget Leanne Webster, 31, and Joanna Speaks, 32. All three women were suspiciously found dead in April of last year.

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You may remember our April 2023 report about Joanna, who was found dead in Ridgefield, Washington with blunt force trauma to the head and neck after going missing in March. At the time, investigators and Joanna’s family alike were puzzled by her death, vowing to not give up on finding answers. Later in the same month, Perry was found dead in Oregon near Ainsworth State Park, while Webster was also found dead about a week later near Polk County, Oregon.

The common thread? Well, investigators say it’s Jesse.

Upsettingly, the convict was out of prison at the time after being granted clemency while serving a four-year prison sentence. The charges? Assaulting a police officer and attempting to STRANGLE a police dog! According to the Associated Press, he was also convicted of burglary, amongst other things. And in June of 2023, he was sent back to prison for allegedly getting “involved in criminal activity currently under investigation,” per Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said, via KOIN. So much for that clemency in the dog-strangling case…

But that means in the brief time he was out of prison, all three murders took place.

In July of last year, KOIN reported that Jesse was a person of interest in the three killings. He’s currently being held at a correctional facility in Oregon, charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of abuse of a corpse, per the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. It’s not clear if he has an attorney or has entered a plea deal.

To think, if he hadn’t been granted clemency, all three of these women would still be alive. We shudder to think how a man would be shown such compassion after trying to kill a dog, but then again it’s clear some folks just don’t view that crime the same as everyone else.

More details (below):

[Images via Clark County Sheriff’s Office, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, Polk County Sheriff’s Office, & Oregon Department of Corrections]

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It’s looking more and more likely by the day Kristi Noem will go down in history not as a footnote Vice Presidential contender but instead for one of the biggest own goals in the history of US politics. An excerpt surfaced a few days ago from the South Dakota governor’s memoir, No Going Back: The blahblahblah, in which she wrote about how she killed her puppy. Yes, really. If you haven’t heard the story…

In short, she tried to train poor 14-month-old Cricket to help her hunt but found it difficult. She was just too rambunctious and playful for the governor’s skills — as Noem put it, she “hated that dog.” Charming. But then Noem made the mistake of taking the pup to a nearby chicken farm, and naturally all hell broke loose. Cricket did what puppies trained to go bite birds did and ran around chomping as many chickens as it could. Noem says she made the difficult decision to immediately execute the puppy herself. You know, to show she’s a strong, no-nonsense politician. She added that while she was at it — “it” being the slaughter of animals she didn’t like — she decided to go grab a stinky goat that was annoying her and shoot it, too. (Anything to make the red mist clear away, we guess? We don’t know, we never understood that logic.) Anyway, that’s when, she writes, her daughter was dropped off by the schoolbus and asked:

“Hey, where’s cricket?”

At first she doubled down, though we noticed she did tweak the story a bit, painting Cricket as having bitten a bunch of people, too — something you’d think she would have mentioned in the first place.

And she’s keeping that same strategy going. She’s making it look like she’s standing firm… while also scrambling to reframe the story with different details until people think she was justified.

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Take her interview with Sean Hannity from Wednesday night. OK, so once again we’re talking about the story she told in her own book. But as she’s seeing the political fallout, she’s still going to the Donald Trump playbook and declaring everything is “fake news.” LOLz! It’s kind of remarkable to watch, tbh. Or at least it would be, if Fox News had the guts to put her interview online! LOLz! Apparently they didn’t think it went very well either, because we can’t find the damn thing anywhere! But here’s the lowlights…

“Well, Sean, you know how the fake news works. They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it, and that’s what happened in this case.”

Ha! We haven’t seen anything about this story we could even call “spin.” The woman said she shot a pointer puppy in the head, one she “hated” and was angry with. No one was in danger, she could have brought the dog to a family or shelter that could give it the patience it needed. She killed it instead. It’s not spin, it’s the natural reaction all the sane people have to this nonsense story.

So seriously, WTF does Kristi say is a “lie” by the lamestream media, considering she wrote the damn story herself? She says:

“The truth of this story is that this was a working dog, and it was not a puppy.”

A “working dog.” Uh huh. Not that we don’t still think it would be shocking and sadistic to personally kill a fully grown dog, but let’s examine that claim. She gave the age of the dog in her own book! 14 months. A wirehair pointer ages from a puppy to a full-grown dog somewhere between one and two years. So statistically this IS a puppy. Obviously, it could have been a very young full-sized dog. But a hunting dog expert from Noem’s own state of South Dakota has said a dog won’t fully mature until 2 years old and won’t be a good hunting dog until 3-4 years. So calling it a “working dog” is a hell of a stretch.

Also, like humans, growing to adulthood isn’t an overnight process. Even a dog that’s reached full size hasn’t necessarily reached full maturity. And this one clearly hadn’t, just by the governor’s own description! This sounds like a puppy to every dog owner who reads the story!

Next, Noem paints a new portrait of little Cricket — as a bloodthirsty monster!

“It was a dog that was extremely dangerous; it had come to us from a family who had found her way too aggressive. We were her second chance. And the day she was put down was the day she massacred livestock that were part of our neighbors’… She attacked me. And it was a hard decision.”

Love how she keeps saying “livestock” to make it sound like Cricket was a chupacabra. It killed a handful of chickens. Who’s spinning now, Kristi? BTW, every dog owner we’ve asked agrees an owner who let a dog she knew to be untrained loose around a bunch of chickens only has herself to blame! As for the “attacked me” line? Noem did not say she ever got bit in her original story. She said the dog turned as if to bite her. That’s hardly an attack.

Finally she went with the whole argument that from the moment the dog had tasted blood, it was too late:

“Farmers and ranchers, they expect it. They know that once an animal like this starts killing, and starts killing just because they enjoy it, that is a very dangerous animal.”

Serious question: if this dog was being trained to hunt, to run after small birds… How was it not doing a version of the thing it was being trained to do? We all agree the dog was not trained well, that fact isn’t in dispute. Noem mentioned she tried a shock collar, she didn’t go into much more detail. Though it doesn’t sound like she had the dog too long if her family was its second home.

Frankly, it still kind of just sounds in her original story like she just got fed up — very quickly — with trying to train a dog that wasn’t easy. She wrote that she “hated” Cricket. Pretending she’s the kid at the end of Old Yeller now, making a “hard decision,” well… we don’t think anyone is buying into any of these modified versions of the story. Or, as they say on the ranch… that dog won’t hunt.

You can see Noem try to defend herself thanks to a local Dakota news network covering it (below):

[Image via Dakota News Now/Fox News/YouTube.]

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That’s certainly what top Trump VP contender Kristi Noem is doing after one of the most horrific and upsetting political gaffes in the history of the country. For those who haven’t heard the INSANE story, the South Dakota governor wrote in her own memoir about killing a puppy. We’ll say that one more time just in case, she said she killed a puppy.

According to Kristi, she tried to train the 14-month-old wirehair pointer to hunt pheasant with her, but little Cricket was too rambunctious. After her first hunt didn’t work out — she just chased the birds around all day — she took her to a friend’s farm where they raised chickens. And, in the least shocking twist of all time, the puppy continued to do what she was doing earlier! Only the chickens couldn’t fly away like the pheasants could, and Cricket killed a bunch before she could be restrained.

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We don’t know about you, but when we hear that story, all we can think is the dog’s owner is to blame. After all, Kristi was the trainer AND she took a dog she knew liked to chase birds and let her loose around chickens.

Talk about irresponsible!

Noem didn’t see it that way. She “hated” the dog anyway and since it was “worthless as a hunting dog” it had no value to her. So she writes about how she took Cricket to a gravel pit (apparently right by where her kids get dropped off by the bus?) and shot the puppy to death. Then her daughter arrived home a short while later and asked, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

OK, so that’s the story. Obviously the response was overwhelmingly shocked and appalled. Even tons of Republicans, including dog owners, hunters, and MAGA diehards, said this story was sick. And remember, this is how she told it. It wasn’t an exposé by Ronan Farrow; the governor chose to include it in her memoir, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward. She was clearly trying to show how tough she was, how she could make the hard choices, but to us it just seems like she made a choice that was lazy (she could have worked harder to train the pup or given it to another home) and psychotic (because it was killing a puppy).

In her first response to the backlash late last week, Kristi tweeted — we kid you not — a plug for her book, writing:

“We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years. If you want more real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping, preorder No Going Back”

We guess at the time she figured it would just be the lamestream media upset. After the massive wave of backlash, however, she wrote a much longer response. Having a couple days to think on it, the extent of Kristi’s reflection was… she was right about everything, everyone else is soft and crazy, and btw her book is coming out next week. She wrote on X Sunday:

“I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned. What I learned from my years of public service, especially leading South Dakota through COVID, is people are looking for leaders who are authentic, willing to learn from the past, and don’t shy away from tough challenges. My hope is anyone reading this book will have an understanding that I always work to make the best decisions I can for the people in my life.”

Tough challenges? Lady, the challenge was “try not to murder any puppies” and it was an easy one, and you failed in front of everyone! She then got into the defense part. First, she made explicitly clear her choice to kill a puppy was legal in this case:

“The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down.”

Oof. We’re not sure anyone even brought up the law. Mostly folks were thinking about morality and, to be frank, mental stability. Because she jumped to killing that dog herself so fast, we’re not sure she isn’t the one who’s “untrainable”! Even if killing the dog was legal… and that feels like a pretty messed up law, to be clear… Who could do such a thing? What kind of person could kill a puppy themselves? Yeesh.

Next, however, she did something truly interesting. She changed her story. She wrote:

“Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did.”

Did you catch that? “Aggressive behavior toward people by biting them.” She’s now saying Cricket bit humans. Except, she didn’t say that in her initial story. When it came time to write down all the details, to give the full truth as she saw it in her own memoir, she didn’t mention a single time that pup bit a human. So why leave that out? Why mention only now?

Simple. She knows she messed up. She’s mostly doubling down, this statement has the posture of doubling down, that she was always right and has nothing to apologize for. But when it comes down to it, she’s also tweaking the story, quietly adding a detail that could only be described as crucial. Because she knows she screwed up telling that story, she knows she stepped in it. She was trying to look like John Dutton, instead she came across like David Eason.

Noem finished by saying once again, she was “right” to kill that puppy, and that’s all there is to it:

“Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it’s hard and painful. I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor. As I explained in the book, it wasn’t easy. But often the easy way isn’t the right way.”

I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons…

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 28, 2024

She showed everyone who she really is, and the vast majority of folks were horrified. Because to all the normal people out there reading it, this didn’t sound like someone who thought killing a puppy was “hard and painful.” She wrote that she “hated that dog” for crying out loud! The choice came across as a particularly easy one for Kristi, as a matter of fact! And that’s still true!

Here are some of the strongest responses to the governor’s new defense:

“Kristi Noem: This is the real me.
America: Yikes.”

“The dog frustrated you. You killed it. That wasn’t a tough decision by an empathetic person. That was a weak and lazy decision by a sociopathic person. Leading in government is making the right choices. You are insensitive and impatient. Your choices suck.”

“How dare you blame a puppy you killed for its death; it’s evident that you are a sick, sadistic person.”

“One cool thing about not killing a pet, is that you don’t have to explain that time when you killed a pet.”

“You’re disgusting. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHEN IT HAPPENED. What matters is that IT DID HAPPEN. You’re a murderer and you go to church? Sit down.”

“Sorry, Kristi, but you’ve betrayed our trust and that of our dogs.”

“It sounds like out of at least three options 1) train the dog; 2) drive any distance to a shelter; or 3) shoot it on the spot, you literally took the easiest one.”

“Kristi blaming the dog is vile. It’s your fault! Bad owners create aggressive dogs.”

“You’re toast. It’s not some people, it’s most people and it’s not a partisan issue. You actually united people on both sides of the aisle with your despicable animal cruelty.”

“You’ve brought both republicans and democrats together in their horror of this story. Congratulations.”

About that last line though… It’s true, for now lots of Republicans are against her. But a lot spoke out against Trump during Charlottesville and January 6, too. And what happened? They came around and started defending his actions. Because that’s how it works.

Believe it or not, there are already hard-right pundits trying to work the spin cycle on all this. And you know what? At this point we wouldn’t be surprised if it works on her Republican fans. Hell, look at what they accept from Trump. Maybe they’ll just move the goalposts again and decide NOT killing puppies is “woke” nonsense.

But we’re guessing it won’t be enough to get her that running mate spot, though. A political ally of Trump told The New York Post on Monday:

“She was already unlikely to be picked as VP, but had a shot. After this, it’s just impossible.”

Well, at least that’s something. We can’t imagine a person with this little regard for life — or this little patience and care — in such a position of power. We’re talking about being understudy to someone who will be 78 years old on Election Day. Someone who can’t even be trusted keeping a puppy safe? No thanks!

[Image via MEGA/WENN/Kristi Noem/Instagram.]

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If you aren’t from South Dakota you may not even know who Kristi Noem is! But the governor has a decent chance of being our next Vice President since she’s apparently a frontrunner on Donald Trump‘s running mate shortlist!

So listen up!

In her upcoming book, Noem tells a story we expect she thought would make her look like a tough, no-nonsense country gal capable of making hard choices. Instead, she comes across to us as an incompetent psychopath dog murderer!

The memoir/political screed is set for release next month, but The Guardian got a copy for review and just had to share this terrible tale early! Noem explains she was training a “puppy” to be a hunting dog. Cricket, she writes, was “a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old” whom she’d been trying to teach to hunt using a shock collar. Apparently she was a crap trainer because she took the pup on her first hunt, and instead of following her directions she just ran after the pheasants. Cricket was “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life,” Noem recalls — but was “less than worthless as a hunting dog.” Noem called the pup “untrainable” due to her “aggressive personality.” She would not get a second chance at hunting, nor would she be given an opportunity to just go be a dog somewhere.

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Noem writes that on the way home from the failed hunt, she stopped to see a family who happened to raise chickens. She let Cricket out, and the dog apparently didn’t know the difference between pheasants and chickens — because she sort of did as she was trained. She attacked, grabbing “one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.” Noem says she tried to grab to dog to stop it, but it “whipped around to bite me.” Notably, she doesn’t say the dog bit her but that it acted as if it would. A pretty big distinction, and one we’ve pointed out before in a story of a creep who killed a dog.

The governor says she apologized to the horrified chickens’ owners, wrote them a check to cover the losses, “and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime.” Cricket, meanwhile, never understood she was doing anything wrong — and was “the picture of pure joy.” Again, doesn’t sound like a foaming-at-the-mouth attacker of its owner, does it? Nevertheless, Noem says she decided right then and there to put down the dog.

Noem says she brought the pup right to a gravel pit she knew and shot it dead.

Please join me in wishing Cricket (the dog Kristi Noem shot to death) a blessed journey to the land of beautiful puppy dog souls. ???? pic.twitter.com/VxBxP1BZgF

— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) April 26, 2024

She tries to makes it sound like a mercy killing, like she’s taking Old Yeller behind the barn, but there are just too many parts of the story with red flags. Like, she writes:

“I hated that dog.”

That’s an emotional response! That’s not euthanasia, not mercy, not making the hard choice — that sounds like she made the choice she always wanted to make from the moment she faced any adversity in trying to train it. This doesn’t sound like the tough, right choice. It sounds like she failed to train a puppy — and took her failure out on the animal! We mean, she didn’t have to kill it herself, right? Again, she’s trying to display her willingness to do whatever needs to be done, no matter how “difficult, messy and ugly.” Those are her words. But these are her own words that make it sound like she’s reveling in it! Remember, this isn’t some hit job, this is her own book, in which she writes that slaughtering one animal made her decide she may has well get another one! She says:

“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

That job was killing a goat the family had on their property. What, was slaughtering an animal like popping a Pringle for this woman??

She says the goat was “nasty and mean” because it hadn’t been castrated. Noem explains the goat “loved to chase” her children around and knock them down. Once again, trying to justify here, but… she also describes the goat as “disgusting, musky, rancid.” She inadvertently once again shows her feelings toward the animal were involved. 

This killing didn’t go as well as the puppy. She writes that the goat dodged, and she missed — only horribly wounding the animal. Once again, she comes across as incompetent here, causing this beast far more suffering than was necessary. She only had one shotgun shell left after the puppy, we guess? Because she says she then ran back to the truck for another shell then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down.” 

Shockingly, this isn’t even the end of the story…

Noem says only afterward did she notice (when the red mist cleared we guess?) a construction crew had just watched this double header animal execution. She recalls how they averted their eyes and went back to work. Again, aiming for “even tougher than these manly men” and landing more in the ballpark of “terrifying to all the normal people.”

Just then, South Dakota’s first female governor writes, the school bus arrived, bringing her children home.

Let’s get this straight… this “gravel pit” wasn’t in the middle of nowhere… it was in plain view of men working on her property… and also very nearby the dropoff point for her school-aged children..? That’s the spot she picked for her afternoon bloodbath!?!?

Noem writes that her daughter Kennedy asked, “looked around confused,” and asked:

“Hey, where’s Cricket?”

Wow. This and other tales can apparently be found in No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward. Does anyone think the thing wrong with politics is not enough Shia LaBeoufs running around killing dogs?? Well, Trump might. He actually hates dogs. True story.

Obviously animal lovers — including many of her fellow Republicans AND some owners of wirehaired pointer hunting dogs — were disgusted by these statements. PETA called Noem “a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to personally blow her brains out.” See a few more reactions to the horrifying story (below): 

Kristi Noem killed a dog like Aldo. He is a German Wirehaired Pointer and he’s the kindest, most dedicated creature you can imagine.

The Gov of South Dakota claimed her GWP was a bad dog. That’s bullshit. Here’s the thing about pointing dogs like this: All you have to do is… pic.twitter.com/59akXh5blK

— Ryan Busse (@ryandbusse) April 26, 2024

This is my dog Maggie. There are 2 things I’m absolutely sure of: (1) Maggie is the sweetest girl that’s ever lived, and (2) ⁦⁦@KristiNoem⁩ is a lowlife piece of shit. pic.twitter.com/SPc4C4Gua6

— Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) (@ColMoeDavis) April 27, 2024

"Hey, where's Cricket?" Cricket deserved love, affection, care, & protection. Instead Cricket was killed by Kristi Noem. Sadism NEVER exists in isolation – it's always accompanied by additional psychological pathology (Psychopathy/Sociopathy (ASPD), Narcissism, Machiavellianism). pic.twitter.com/WoNIYpRWmT

— DrJackBrown ???? (@DrGJackBrown) April 27, 2024

This is Winston. He’s old and mostly blind. Doesn’t hunt. Has to be handed his treats. He sleeps about 23 hours a day. And Kristi Noem can stay the hell away from him. pic.twitter.com/aWre0ODYUg

— Warren (@swd2) April 26, 2024

Kristi Noem is telling everybody that she murdered a puppy because she wants to be Donald's VP and she thinks the story will appeal to him.

She's not wrong.

— Mary L. Trump (@MaryLTrump) April 26, 2024

This is Kristi Noem’s puppy Cricket that she killed.

Imagine throwing this beautiful boy into a gravel pit and shooting it.

Don’t defend this. She shouldn’t be welcome in the GOP going forward. pic.twitter.com/CRWlmE74Gs

— Peter Henlein (@SwissWatchGuy) April 26, 2024

[Image via MEGA/WENN.]

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