I know that’s a harsh thing to say, but an op-ed (here) by South Dakota Searchlight editor Seth Tupper raises the prospect.
He says while everyone’s focused her dog’s fate, “If you really want to understand Kristi Noem, you need to consider the goat.”
After Noem made the death march to her farm’s gravel pit, where she shot Cricket, she was apparently still in an uncontrollable rage. “Walking back up to the yard, I spotted our billy goat,” Noem wrote. … Noem tried to justify her snap decision to kill the goat …. But apparently none of that had been a big enough problem to do anything about it … until Noem got angry enough to kill a dog and decided she needed to kill again.
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This is troubling, to say the least. As Tupper points out, “The goat story … reflects a disturbing lack of self-control.”
People have wondered why she didn’t take the dog to a shelter. And if the goat was a problem, why didn’t she tie it up?
Behavorial experts say serial killers can’t stop killing. I’m not saying South Dakota’s governor is one. But I wouldn’t want to be a critter on her farm.