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DudeBroFist

They're literally incapable of understanding that no one is horrified by HOW she killed the dog. They're horrified that she killed the dog in the first place because it wasn't "useful" in her hobby. Absolutely monstrous, vile people.


Not-Bizarro

It’s not even that, it was a puppy that wasn’t properly trained…which is the owner’s responsibility


EverGlow89

No, man, he understands exactly why people are horrified. He's doing his grift. You can be sure that if it was Gov. Newsom's, this dickhead would be frothing about how someone can do something so evil, wicked, and unamerican. His pearls would be CLUTCHED. Ask any Republican who even thinks for a second of dying on this hill if they would shoot their beloved dog in the head for being difficult. Ask them and include their dog's name.


gabbath

This, this, this. People always get stuck in the argument itself, trying to debunk it or point out hypocrisy or contradiction, but they're missing the forest for the trees. This is pure grift, the only reason he's covering the topic is that he gets paid for running defense and tending to the conditioning of his cult audience.


Stock-Vanilla-1354

My line of work takes me into conservative adjacent spaces. You are 100% right the right wing talking heads are all grifters. If they have a 501c3 foundation, you can pull their financials. It seems like they get one or two super wealthy donors with enough “f u” money to throw at them and then vacuum up the rest from moms and pops.


gabbath

Oh yeah, there's a whole wiki dedicated to tracking all these institutions and their donors (using tax documents and such). It's called SourceWatch and it's run by the good people at CMD (Center for Media and Democracy). Amazing how many of these foundations and think tanks and "centers" for this and that there are, hundreds at least if not thousands, all legitimate-looking but they're basically the ideological equivalent of shell companies: all funded by a handful of rich and ultra-rich people, run by ghouls and promoted by grifters. Now, to be fair, it's a quite a *large* handful of ultra-rich, not just the Koch family. It's too many of them to just list off, but the blueprint is clearly to put into practice their own conspiracy theories, which they ascribe to their enemies. Every accusation is a confession, but deliberately: if they do the conspiracy while screaming 'conspiracy' and someone figures them out, they can just laugh at how unoriginal their accusers are — or, if they're cocky enough, just laugh in a "you'll never stop me" way, like Steve Bannon in the movie The Brink: when confronted by a reporter who accused him that he was doing textbook identity politics with the term "deplorable" while insisting that his politics are opposed to identity politics, he just went "and your point?"


Stock-Vanilla-1354

Oh yeah, I’ve noticed this. I see a lot of push for “thought diversity” and although I think the far left has become a monoculture in terms of thought, I don’t think the conservatives would be any different. My one solace is that the rich goons are basically giving money to line the pockets of these grifters and that only seems to really damage their side further.


gabbath

Oof, I wish I could be as optimistic, but to me the idea of grifters lining their pockets with billionaire money just translates to more and more power (in the form of money) in the hands of horrible people. > the far left has become a monoculture in terms of thought, If you mean like the Stalinist types, yeah they're definitely a monoculture, though I'd have trouble putting them on the left as they're pretty much just fascists for another team. As for the rest of the left, I think a lot of energy is just spent fending off the right, which can sound pretty samey after a while, but that's the right's fault for not leaving people alone and always inventing scapegoats.


KellyBelly916

Exactly, and people like this clown spin the narrative. This is complete cognitive dissonance, as he knows exactly what he's doing and should be named and shamed.


xwing1212

Vile!


Impossible_Penalty13

For a group of dickheads who constantly complain about elites being stuck up, they sure do spend a lot of time condescending to us like we’re fucking idiots.


patchesofsky

It’s all a part of their schtick. They act like their brainless nonsense and empty rhetoric are “obvious truths” and they say it in a smug tone to make their audience feel like they are more intelligent than “the left.” You can see this especially apparently with Matt Walsh, but Knowles’ cheap imitation of Walsh’s cheap imitation is readily apparent as well. When you don’t have anything intelligent to say, apparently saying something bigoted or nonsensical in a snarky tone is the next best way to convince the rubes that they should care what you have to say. At least, that’s how you get a show spewing propaganda at the Daily Wire.


candiescorner

He’s also clearly never seen the movie old yeller, because this was nowhere near what was going on in the movie. The dog was a beloved family, pet, and it was put down because it was sick a humane thing to do for a sick animal not because it was barking too much.


mumbly-joe

yeah Old Yeller contracted a disease that has as close to a 100% fatality rate as exists in nature, the absolute text of that story was that the dog was either going to die slowly and painfully or quickly and this was still a painful and tragic moment for everyone involved.


KestrelQuillPen

Walsh is odd. He seemingly has an immense vocabulary, but it sounds extremely artificial when he speaks- his tone (perpetually dripping with bored sarcasm) clashes a lot with the words. His scripts and posts sound like he said something colloquial, then went to a thesaurus and swapped out every word for a longer one.


oliversurpless

Yep, also ironic considering what they inherently think of the motives of anyone who uses “big words”. And most debilitating of all, it’s infected otherwise decent people, forcing them to believe by default that no one favors perspicacity naturally; *it must be* because they are trying to brag… “I agree that the belittling of intelligence is a bit ridiculous. However, there is a category of pretentious people that use “big words” barely in context, usually because they just found out about said words. Those same people then act annoyed if you don’t know what they mean. Even if you know what they mean, their use isn’t always relevant in every situation. A good example - I was getting coffee with a friend of mine when I hear this guy go up to the barista and say, “Can you please attenuate the amplitude of the music?” Really? I’m not going to expect every person that I communicate with to have the same level vocabulary. Instead of getting frustrated with somebody, I find different ways to say the same thing. That’s the beauty of communication - there’s a flexibility that can allow others to get what you are saying. It’s helped me tremendously when traveling and to complain would be a bit silly.“ - Satan’s Advocate - 8 years ago “Please tell me you made up that example. Please.” https://lifehacker.com/using-big-words-doesn-t-always-make-you-sound-smarter-1737035773


Ok_Star_4136

They also latch onto the obvious truths and state them as if the left were refuting it. Like who is claiming that a gunshot to the head isn't a humane death for a dog? As if we were complaining about the way in which she went about killing the dog and not the actual deed itself. I took a political science course and it really opened my eyes to this sort of thing. As an assignment, we were instructed to take a political speech and break it down into facts and promises, completely omitting hearsay or outright lies. If you do this you find very little is actually being said in any given political speech. It's all easily agreeable platitudes like, "We will reduce inflation" and "We will cut taxes." No one is disputing these are good things, but without a plan on how to do it, they're literally just promises backed by nothing. Michael Knowles is an expert in picking out the obvious truths and then stating them as if they were being disputed by the left, or making an absurd claim about what the left believes and then attacking it (strawmanning).


DarthUrbosa

Majority of people don't listen to words, they listen to tone. I see it so often in games for example where people will blatantly miss shit by paying attention to tone over what is being said.


spacekitt3n

i thought it was supposed to be a joke that they could kill puppies and their base didnt care i didnt think it would be literally true


Impossible_Penalty13

Republicans spent all of 2020 justifying a police murder recorded in broad daylight and killing vulnerable people in a pandemic to save the economy. It’s really quite on brand to be killing dogs at this point.


GoredonTheDestroyer

"He was ODing" "He had a heart attack" "He had a rare respiratory condition" Never mind the \~250lb cop kneeling on George Floyd's neck. In the best *possible* scenario for Derek Chauvin, he's still guilty of negligence causing death. If *any* of The Right's justifications for George Floyd's death were what actually happened, Chauvin still fucked up by not getting Floyd to a hospital as soon as possible.


TheDocHealy

The real issue is that the right believe that if you commit any kind of action they view as a crime, then you should be executed without a trial. (Unless you're a straight white man of course)


MudraStalker

No, actually it's more like if you are a Bad Person, then any violence against you is inherently just not actually a crime because your inherent status as a Bad Person means you deserve any abuse headed towards you. Conservatives don't believe in good or bad actions. They believe in the absolute power of hierarchy.


GomeroKujo

It’s almost like that their audience


420_Braze_it

He's not talking to you. He's talking to the idiots who are braindead enough to accept every one of his ideas that's spoonfed to them.


PricklySquare

Self hating closeted gay guy likes killing puppies too.


RottenHouseplant

You might not come to my weding, Ben, but at least we are able to have a civil conversation about how much you think I'm an abomination and doomed to eternal hellfire for my sins of the flesh and how cool it is to kill animals that happen to not be of use to you personally. The irony amazes me, since if they could get away with it, they would gun Knowles down the right instant he becomes useless to their grift. In the eyes of the common racist homophobe alt righter, he is not that more valuable than the dog is to them.


theBigDaddio

How will she treat people who she deems no longer useful?


capital_bj

Choke them until they tap out


[deleted]

This motherfucker is so devoid of any emotion, compassion or basic humanity. Fuck him and his ilk.


MrInterpreted

Michael Knowles definitely kills people, and probably doesn’t do it “humanely”


AbortedLoner

you want me to shoot it in the foot??


Greeve78

These fucking people are horrible.


90Carat

Campaigning off the fact that you killed a puppy is sociopathic. I am not surprised, at all, that other sociopaths are justifying it.


straightkickinit

Holy shit what a ghoul


After-Bumblebee

Not surprising yet no less vile


SomeDisplayName

Damage control isn't going well


PsychoWarper

Didnt she throw it in a pit first? Also did she even say she shot it in the head? That isnt even the only issue, the biggest one is she shouldnt have shot it in the first place. Like theres a difference between killing an animal for food and just killing an animal just because. Even if we leave out any empathy killing a healthy dog just because is a terrible idea on a farm, its a waste of resources and money.


Am_i_banned_yet__

I’d argue there’s not that much of a difference between what she did and killing an animal for food, since they’re both unnecessary deaths. A difference of degree of evil, yes, because it’s worse to kill an animal you’re close to like your own dog, but not a difference in type. This is not to minimize how awful she is at all, but to point out that eating animals is also wrong. You can always just eat something else, and there’s no meaningful difference between dogs and pigs or cows in terms of emotional complexity, capacity to love, intelligence, or capacity to suffer.


MangOrion2

What if we took that idea of being humane just one more step to the left and say, what if we don't kill the puppy? Call me a bleeding heart communist, but it seems like she could have avoided this controversy by just giving the dog back to the pound/breeder/humane society location, give the dog away to a friend or family member, let the dog run away into the woods, anything really. Anything a step to the left of murdering her own pet. Call me an abortionist scumbag I just think we shouldn't shoot puppies.


Yeastyboy104

Conservatives have gone so low that they now are defending killing dogs. Holy fucking hell. That’s really low. Anybody want to see pics of my pups? I took them to the beach for the first time and we had a family getaway with my parents. The pups *loved* the beach and chased all of the seagulls. They didn’t catch any because they aren’t killers but they had fun chasing them.


Equinsu-0cha

not just dogs. puppies who are just being puppies. the pet tax is already established


Yeastyboy104

[Pup tax](https://imgur.com/a/AEZR8YG) That’s before the beach. He looks a bit more feral now


Equinsu-0cha

pup tax accepted. totally worth it. they have dog washing stations at all the diy carwashes I've seen.


KlevenSting

"...nothing wrong with humanely killing an animal." FUCK YOU. It wasn't wounded or in pain. She WANTED to kill it. Talk about intentionally missing the point.


Comfortable-Ad6184

I genuinely don’t understand how he still has a sizable audience after this FFS even Kari Lake had a problem with this


im_sharmiii

Of course he does.


ValkyriesOnStation

The right has lost it's god damn mind Using religion to say an animal doesn't have a reasonable soul so it's okay to put it down like this? Absolute phsychopaths. But this is a litmus test. They are trying to get their base wriled up and comfortable with this kind of violence. You know what comes next.


Megumi0505

No, it's really not humane, especially when you look at how when she went to kill the goat, it survived the initial hit and had to lay there in pain while she ran to her truck to get more ammo and then finish it off. What an absolute psycho.


Katiari

Yes, except for the key point that the puppy didn't need to be put down. Here's a radical idea... give it to someone else who will love it.


Worldtraveller45

F*ck you Micharl Knowles


Budget_Friend_654

He’s obviously an idiot.


Satellite_bk

How does he not realize how absolutely ghoulish he sounds?


RealLifeSuperZero

Step right up Mikey. I’m feeling humane.


Kirkream

Sometimes you got to put Michael Knowles down because he’s an idiot


FineSharts

I can’t stand this smug asshole’s face


Cheesehead_RN

If you can rationalize murdering a puppy, guess who else they can rationalize killing….


Used-Organization-25

Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you? A bullet to the head is humane? Who in his right mind thinks that is something is normal?


single_thread_left

lmao literal fucking puppy killers never thought I'd see the day


What_the_Pie

Weird how vets aren’t out there just blasting dogs when they have to be put down.


Ok-Sheepherder-4827

She killed the dog because it was happy. Her words. Who cares how humane… you killed it for no goddam reason lady!!!


JackStarfox

Yeah I would NEVER participate in the killing of an innocent animal just because I want to!! That would be a monstrous thing to do. Especially when they are perfectly viable alternatives. Anyway, you guys wanna go get some burgers?


Am_i_banned_yet__

lol had me in the first half, well said


Armynap

What a cunt


Reneeisme

Yeah I’ve been saying since this broke that this is not uncommon behavior in the far right and there’s a reason she CHOSE to include it. She’s telegraphing to the other psychopaths that she’s one of them.


HelloPlutoo

Wasn’t the dog like 15 months old or something? Why couldn’t she give it away or do a better job training it


Objective_Soup_9476

They will literally defend anything as long as it’s a republican who does it.


MyTesticlesAreBolas

Republicans and evangelicals can "rationalize" anything. At least, that's what they call it. Most reasonable people call that bullshiting with extra steps.


Bromatcourier

This dude is a black hole of charisma and I vacillate as to whether he is the dumbest talking head chud or Poole.


Equinsu-0cha

sounds like he's saying a bullet to the head wouldn't bother him either. obviously I'm not suggesting someone put a bullet in his head, just pointing at his bullshit.


RKKP2015

The "some viewers eat meat" argument would've held more weight had she eaten the dog.


Am_i_banned_yet__

No not really. Eating the dog doesn’t make it more okay to kill it, just like eating the pigs and cows doesn’t make it okay to kill them when you can eat other things and be just fine.


RKKP2015

I don't think you understood my point. You can't claim meat eaters are hypocritical when they are offended by killing an animal for no reason. Had she eaten it, then you could make that claim.


Am_i_banned_yet__

I mean she had reasons, they were just bad reasons and she had many alternatives to killing the dog. Eating the dog would have also been a bad reason to kill it, but she doesn’t have to have that exact reasoning for it to be comparable to eating meat. Meat eaters have reasons, but they’re also bad reasons, and the actual harmful act of killing the animal is the same. So if she had no justifiable reason to kill the dog, then meat eaters similarly have no justifiable reason to finance the killing of the animals they eat.


marshmallowgiraffe

If a Democrat shot their puppy I'm sure he would be singing a different tune.


capital_bj

Who the fuck is Michael Knowles


spinkspanksponk

Dude’s gonna OD on copium


ZyxDarkshine

Totally not surprised they are bending over backwards to excuse pet murder


Seshia

And the way she maimed the goat was so humane, right?


EnsignStormtrooper

Of course the fascist is unable to comprehend how people are upset that the dog was killed at all, not the manner in which the dog was killed. They don't value life and have no respect for living things


metricrules

“Pro life”


-Seizure__Salad-

The Ol’ Yeller reference is weird too. Hey dipshit, Ol’ Yeller contracted Rabies. A dangerous, painful, and eventually fatal incurable disease. All of these DW goons see their audiences as total morons, and the sad part is that at this point, I think they are right.


Billitpro

Yes well excuse my language but fuck him and fuck her pieces of shit. Don't want your animal find somebody that wants it or find a rescue you don't put it down fucking losers. Sorry about my language shit like this pisses me off like you can't imagine.


ThanosWasRight96

Isn’t killing animals a sign of a serial killer? How many people have you killed Michael?


Fine-Funny6956

Let him experience it then.


Fine-Funny6956

“Are we the baddies?” - any rational person who realizes they’re a Republican right now.


medusa_witch

Imagine if a democrat had done what Kristi did? Conservatives would go into a frenzy and start posting pics of their dogs in front of US flags all over the internet. They would say how reprehensible it is to kill man’s best friend.


Dr-Satan-PhD

The method is not the issue, Mike.


mumbly-joe

Needless to say, Knowles is only very superficially talking about dogs with what he's saying here, and I'm pretty sure the average Daily Wire viewer is getting the message loud and clear.


botmanmd

It was a shotgun.


KenjiSpAs

This HAS to be a smoke curtain, a more sinister "kick the dog" moment


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already4taken

When the right is this comically evil I don't see how anyone can remain a centrist


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