Posted on 03/24/2021 2:43:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
It appears Gov. Kristi Noem is hoping to use the goodwill she earned through her COVID courage to hide her cowardly and deceptive choices about transgender politics.
It appears Gov. Kristi Noem is hoping to use the goodwill she earned through her COVID courage to hide her cowardly and deceptive choices about transgender politics.
If “legal scholars” have told her these terrible things about the bill’s consequences “for many, many months,” why did she pledge to sign just two weeks ago? She didn’t find these kinds of claims persuasive for “many, many months,” but now suddenly does? Why?
It seems pertinent to note that Noem has not been a reliable ally of vulnerable women threatened by transgender politics. On July 13, 2020, the Noem administration okayed placing male prisoners in women’s prisons if the male claimed to be female. Signed by Noem’s secretary of corrections, a state cabinet member, the policy states:
That’s bad enough, but there’s more. As Jon Schweppe of the American Principles Project notes of the 2020 attempt to ban transgender child mutilation in South Dakota, Noem kept quiet on the bill publicly but did “tell one media outlet that she had ‘concerns.’ (Sources within the state have told my organization that she effectively killed it.)”
State Rep. Fred Deutsch said of this bill, “The bill had strong support in the House with a 46-23 majority, but the behind the scene’s [sic] effort by Gov. Noem to kill the bill combined with Senate capitulation put the final nail in the coffin.”
So possibly more honest things came out of Noem’s mouth when she told Carlson, “I’m not interested in picking a fight” and “I’m not even going to let conservatives on the right bully me.” Her course of action will clearly end in denying protection to vulnerable girls while giving Noem the ability to shift the blame for it from herself to the state legislature.
Noem says if the legislature doesn’t pass her preferred version of this bill, she will call them into special session. But the legislature already passed the version of the bill they want, and if Noem had objections, like every other governor she could have made them known during the normal bill process. That is how passing a bill works — when governors actually want a bill they’re willing to sign.
She tweeted her promise to sign the bill with these provisions in it before it passed. A friendly Gov works with the Leg. to raise concerns before a bill passes. Then the Leg. can make changes. She said nothing. She could have easily cured the supposed technical problems. 2/4
— Kristen Waggoner (@KWaggonerADF) March 20, 2021
Instead, all this political theater with the celebrities at a press conference for the “coalition” she’s started are all aimed at making Noem look like a champion for “girls’ sports” while she effectively does nothing to protect girls or sports. She wants credit for talking big and signing no effective bills. She shouldn’t get it.
This would only be a better orchestrated political con than the one Pence pulled off as the first Republican governor to bend over and cry for his mommy when the LGBT left decided Indiana was the place they would start openly using private companies as political assault weapons.
In 2015, Indiana’s lawmakers accidentally became the test case for a new leftist political strategy. When big business threatened the Republican-run state if they did what their constituents wanted by passing mild protections for religious people sued by LGBT activists, the legislature, led by Pence, capitulated so far that they made Indiana “the most hostile state in the country to the conscience rights the original law was designed to protect.”
Ever since, Pence has gone around ridiculously proclaiming himself a “religious liberty” champion, when the truth is the opposite: Hoosiers had stronger religious freedom before he took office. Just like Noem, Pence told his legislature to “fix” the original religious freedom bill that made lefties who don’t vote for them angry, and his “fix” ended up being a corporate-designed crap sandwich. It was a complete lie designed to let them save face and go on TV proclaiming to still stand for principles and voters they had just shivved in the back over 30 pieces of corporate silver.
After his capitulation, Republican governor after governor after governor crumpled like doggie waste bags as LGBT activists accelerated what they had learned from his cowardice was a spectacularly successful tactic. It’s no stretch to say that if Pence had not been so weak, today’s oppressive cancel culture would not be what it is. It’s clear that refusing to bow to the mob is the most effective way to defeat them.
Noem shouldn’t be proposing fake “fixes” to this girls’ sports legislation, she should be calling a special session to demand that South Dakota immediately ban cutting off children’s breasts and penises and sterilizing them for life. That’s a human rights violation of monstrous proportions, and her own advisor works for people who profit from doing it. If she doesn’t, we’ll all know it’s because she’s something other than a “champion of girls” who “won’t be bullied.”
Thought experiment for Noem staffers: what if your boss just signed the bill she promised to sign instead of allowing herself to be bullied by Amazon, NCAA, and the Chamber and then trying to con other people into adopting her cowardly stance to save face? https://t.co/StNcz06AgE
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 22, 2021
This article has been corrected with respect to Venhuizen’s departure from Redstone to work for Noem.
Another hit piece it the same old baseless crap. Fake news no better than libtards.
Correct. Now that she’s outed herself, not a single conservative should support her.
What did they bribe her with and what do they have on her?
K-12 NO Transfreaks allowed. Big hit for cancel culture. If win for South Dakota. Suck it up.
it’s pointless trying to batter politicians or the educational establishment or entertainment establishment on trans
that ship has sailed
the only thing that matters is what YOU can do within your sphere of influence to affirm that boys are boys and girls are girls, and to teach children to grow up and learn the ways of women and men....and then hope that they stay the course
anything else is a waste of time...especially looking to republican politicians to do a damn thing
jesus. why learn the facts when you can scream your keyboard off on an internet message forum?
whom should they support?
The legislature needs to play hardball with her then and say no legislation goes through until they get her signature on this bill.
“Correct. Now that she’s outed herself, not a single conservative should support her.”
Of course. And its been fun watching her support here drop from 80% (or more) to 50% initially after her flub starting 5 days ago, to maybe 15% now, after calling HER OWN BASE - a “Cancel Culture”.
Definition of IMPLOSION.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/briandarling/2021/03/23/kristi-noems-defense-of-college-sports-n1434472
A much more educated opinion found here as to why she did not rubber stamp this bill for the tiny population of South Dakota so many idiots suddenly seem concerned about as well as prevented a republican woman from receiving credit where due.
Can the South Dakota legislature override her veto?
I’ll stand by Noem. Need to see where this goes before crucifying her like the left always does without facts or letting it play out.
Her enemies are trying to discourage all the male voters which in include men. Y? The feminized news media knows the girlie men in the left would get manly and shower her with flowers and chocolates.
“Can the South Dakota legislature override her veto?”
They won’t, it passed 18-17 in the State Senate using a trick, even though the Senate is something like 30-5 Republican. Seems the Special Interests own a lot of Republicans in that body, which is why they don’t give a crap about the base, or girl’s sports.
Stop it, you idiots.
This is a ploy by leftists to discredit Noem whom they fear.
You are falling for democrat and media manipulation.
Noem has a valid legal point. If you idiots had a brain, you would be analyzing her objections, which are valid.
Just say No to Noem.
Maybe Governor Noem’s biggest political problem now is that she is acting like a responsible governor and not a 2024 presidential candidate. Had she only cared about 2024 politics, Gov. Noem would have signed the bill and let her state become a battleground between the radical Left and student athletes. Being a governor, she seems to be trying to avoid making student athletes pay the price for her signing a bill that needs some tightening up
https://pjmedia.com/columns/briandarling/2021/03/23/kristi-noems-defense-of-college-sports-n1434472
Agreed. She chose her real allies. Let them support her political future. *Snicker*
If there was any doubt she’s running for president then this should end it.
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