Rhymes of Our Times
Little Bo-Peep put down her sheep;
It was messy but had to be done.1
To get you some more, said El Salvador,
Get our goats.2 They’re lots of fun.
Huddled in there in their underwear,
Males gleamed all bulk and all tattoos.3
Weak in the knees, she told them to freeze
To selfie herself and them, too.
- When then-governor of South Dakota Kristi Noem discovered that her dog Cricket was “less than worthless . . . as a hunting dog,” she confesses, “I hated the dog . . . I realized I had to put her down.” She dragged the 14-month-old dog to a gravel pit, where she shot it dead. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book ↩︎
- Immediately after shooting her dog Cricket, Ms Noem decided to shoot a “musky, rancid” uncastrated goat that chased her children and ruined their clothes. It was a little messier, but she got the job done. As she said in her book,* she was willing to do anything “difficult, messy, and ugly” if it simply needs to be done. *No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward ↩︎
- Another “difficult, messy, and ugly” thing needing doing that Ms Noem was quite ready to do: threaten the world’s immigrants, refugees, fugitives, and huddled masses with imprisonment in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center if any dared to enter Trump’s country illegally — or even legally. Hey, they don’t check. https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-kristi-noems-visit-through-notorious-el-salvadoran-prison-2051165 ↩︎