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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 30, 2025, 12:57 PM Oct 30

JD Vance says only 'really terrible' people mistreat dogs - apparently forgetting his cabinet colleague shot hers dead [View all]

Vice President JD Vance has declared that only a “really terrible person” would mistreat a dog, apparently forgetting that his cabinet colleague Kristi Noem bragged about executing a puppy in her memoir just last year.

Vance, 41, was appearing on The New York Post’s Pod Force One podcast when he and host Miranda Devine got into a discussion about the controversy that has engulfed Twitch streamer Hasan Piker after his followers spotted his dog wearing an electronic training collar in a video and accused him of using it to administer corrective shocks to the animal, which Piker denied.

Devine asked the vice president what he believed a willingness to hurt dogs revealed about an owner.

“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 a 100 percent sign that you’re gonna be a really terrible person.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/vance-says-only-really-terrible-094318391.html

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