If there exists a puppy heaven, a certain 14-month-old Wirehair Terrier named “Cricket” is licking his painful wounds with a sense of being accorded a measure of justice. Cricket is simultaneously wondering whether there is a goat heaven to which his fellow farm tenant has been granted ingress. Both the puppy and goat were co-residents of a farm owned by the attractive, but inarguably psychopathic, Kristi Noem, recently fired from her Trump-appointed position as Secretary of Homeland Security for gross monetary corruption.
It seems relevant to this writing to once more observe that the sole criterion relative to Trump’s appointment of members of his bizarre menagerie of Cabinet Ministers was the slavish loyalty to himself. Appropriate considerations of character, discernment, capability, and professional expertise were deemed irrelevant and were absent from consideration; not surprisingly, coterminous with the Nation’s abrupt transmogrification from its universal description as “admirable” to the inverse state of dystopia.
Our female protagonist, Kristie Noem, was thus awarded the impactful position of Secretary of Homeland Security.
At this point in the writing, we would take a moment to reprise our empirical observation that the character of a person may be accurately gauged by the manner in which he treats his pets or animals. Noem’s cold-blooded and merciless acts of killing her puppy, “Cricket,” by shooting him in the face (“because he was a slow learner”), and the callous killing of her goat (“because he smells”) exceed the description of cruel and bizarre and are more accurately (or “clinically”) described as “pathological.” As reported, she notably boasted of the two heinous acts in her published memoirs.
The context of such a demonstration of personality and character is analogous in nature to Trump’s public description, at Arlington Cemetery, concerning the many hundreds of young soldiers buried there, as “suckers” and “losers” and his further revelatory remark, “What was in it for them?” Noem’s performance as Donald Trump’s Cabinet Secretary of Homeland Security notably demonstrated an analogous pitilessness and lack of humanism.
As reported by the media, Noem was recently removed from her post for blatant corruption and gross misuse of government funds, a public revelation obliging Trump to remove her from her post. We are pleased with her firing, but, more fundamentally, displeased with the paucity of meritorious grounds for her dismissal.
We do not deem it necessary or practical to restate the myriad of human abuses overseen and approved by Noem, inclusive of the Gestapo-like masked hoodlum army (“ICE”) that tormented, and without due process, arrested, incarcerated and deported Americans; many of whom had resided peacefully and productively in the United States for decades, on the sole grounds of their tan skin (N.B.: See title) or the use of the Spanish language; not to omit the approval of the murders of Alex Petti and Renee Good, two admirable American citizens, whom she defamatorily referred to as “terrorists.”
The extent and degree of Noem’s encouragement and involvement in unprecedented Nazi-like abuse, incarceration, and banishment, particularly of resident Americans demonstrating other than white skin, or speaking Spanish, her callous destruction of families and innocent lives, are irrefutably Nuremberg-level offenses encouraged and approved by this grinning, cowboy-hatted psychopath.
We speak for all mainstream humanity, plus a small, black, wire-haired puppy, and a friendly, but somewhat “smelly” Billy goat.
-p.
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