Kacey Musgraves just hit back at Kristi Noem’s shady X post with one of her own.
The country singer, 38, reacted to Noem saying she preferred “Choosin’ Texas” singer Ella Langley to Musgraves after Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico shared pictures of him attending Musgraves’ concert.
“I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day,” Noem, 54, wrote via X on Monday, October 12.
“And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico,” she added, referring to Talarico’s opponent in the Texas Senate race, Republican state attorney general Ken Paxton.
Musgraves later reposted Noem’s post and clapped back, “I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.”
Musgraves was referencing Noem’s admission in 2024 that she once shot and killed her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer dog, Cricket, because the animal was a “less than worthless” and “untrainable” hunting dog.
“It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” Noem wrote in her memoir, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward, admitting she also killed a goat on her farm in the same manner.
Noem defended her decision in an April 2024 X post, writing, “We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down 3 horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”
At the time, Noem’s admission was ill-received, including by the hosts of The View.
“Give it back, bitch!” Whoopi Goldberg opined on the ABC daytime talk show back in April 2024. “Give it back! How you gonna kill it?”
“She better be careful because if a cat gets a hold of her, cats don’t play that,” Goldberg told said. “Cats are like, ‘I’m sorry, are you pointing something at me? Girl, I’ll rearrange everything on your body. You better get away from me.’ Cats don’t play!”
“This is a puppy,” added Alyssa Farah Griffin. “If your dog is acting wrongly, it is because you are incompetent at training that dog. When I grew up, we had big dogs and we had chickens. A dog did once get a chicken. Whose fault was it? Mine, for not having the dog somewhere where he couldn’t get the chickens.”
“If you have a really challenging dog, there are countless organizations to re-home them to somebody who loves the dog enough,” she continued. “I want justice for Cricket. This is terrible.”
Sunny Hostin simply said, “The sign of a sociopath is someone that kills animals.”
