Cricket's Revenge and The Horror of Kristi Noem. Plus the pending demise of Pam Bondi

Nearly two years after Kristi Noem first revealed her "gravel pit" eugenics to the world, the same impulsive cruelty and narcissistic entitlement have finally cost her. This original character analys from 2004 is is now an accurate blueprint for the scandals that would eventually lead to Trump cutting her loose as Homeland Security Secretary. Today, I updated with Cricket's Revenge

It is a terrible archaeology, sifting through the layers of poor Cricket’s death, revealing a multidimensional political horror of Noem as a human being, an elected official, and a legitimate aspirant to a vice presidency through Donald Trump’s Republican ticket.

There is so much more found in her recounting the dramatic, taboo-crossing cruelty of killing Cricket. In parsing The Guardian report on Noem’s upcoming (now published April 2024) book, three aspects keep turning in my head. Together, these move beyond Cricket’s death, connecting Noem et al. to a horror of Lovecraftian scale that keeps revealing more and more as a reader pursues and ponders the events Noem put forward.

Noem deemed Cricket a "useless eater." Unconforming to the role assigned to Cricket by “genetics” as a bird dog, Noem saw a dog needing an edit from the gene pool. “Less than worthless … as a hunting dog,” reported The Guardian. Cricket was at once untrainable, then acting like a “trained assassin” of chickens later in Noem’s telling of the tale. While ranchers and farmers live closer to cycles of life and death than most of us, Noem’s eugenic judgment of Cricket goes beyond anything that “had to be done” into a fascistic belief in ruthless consequences for non-conformity and non-utility.

Noem simply did not understand that Trump could see her as Cricket at any moment.

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[link: https://newsletter.aprogressiveway.com/the-horror-of-kristi-noem/|Cricket's Revenge and The Horror of Kristi Noem]