Woof — JD Vance inadvertently in contrast Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem to Jeffrey Dahmer and Freddy Krueger.
On Wednesday, the vice chairman stated on a podcast that solely a “really terrible person” would mistreat a canine — however conveniently forgot that his Cupboard colleague Noem bragged about executing a pet in her memoir simply final 12 months.
The subject got here up throughout Vance’s look on the New York Publish podcast “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine.” Devine was complimenting Vance on how well-behaved his German shepherd, Atlas, was when she entered his residence in Washington, D.C., for his or her interview. She then instantly in contrast Atlas to former President Joe Biden’s canine, Commander, who had a repute of being fairly nippy round Secret Service personnel.
After the 2 used the comparisons between the 2 canine to bash Biden, Devine then introduced up one other particular person on the left she felt inclined to vilify — Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
The left-wing influencer sparked controversy earlier this month when a video went viral of Piker presumably utilizing a shock collar on his canine when she bought up throughout a livestream. Piker denied it was a shock collar, saying it was “a vibration collar for reinforcing her training.”
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“Wasn’t that disgusting?” Devine requested Vance of Piker practically seven minutes into the episode, earlier than asking the vice chairman what he believed a willingness to harm canine stated about an proprietor.
“I think it tells you that they’re bad people,” he answered. “If you can actually cause suffering to an innocent animal, you’re probably the kind of person who doesn’t worry about suffering in people as well, and that’s been my experience. If you mistreat dogs, that’s almost a 100% sign that you’re gonna be a really terrible person.”
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“You know, it’s like the Jeffrey Dahmer thing. Like every serial killer ever has actually been really bad to animals, that’s sort of how they started,” Vance continued. “I remember the Freddy Krueger movies when I was a kid… Well how did Freddy Krueger [get] his start? One of the things they show is young Freddy Krueger torturing animals.”
He concluded: “If you’re not taking care of God’s creatures then you are certainly going to be, I think, a pretty bad person in other ways too.”
When Devine requested Vance how Atlas behaved when President Donald Trump got here to his home, Vance stated he retains Atlas upstairs, presumably as a result of canine can odor evil.
However, by Vance’s logic, this makes Noem a fairly unhealthy woman.
Final 12 months, when Noem was the governor of South Dakota, she printed a memoir by which she went into element about killing her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer pet Cricket as a result of she was “less than worthless” as a looking canine. Noem tried a number of instances to coach her pet, and even used an electrical collar, however was fed up after Cricket killed a neighborhood household’s chickens.
So, she shot Cricket in a gravel pit.
“It was not a pleasant job,” she wrote. “But it had to be done.”
