I’ll admit to being a little befuddled by the explanation here by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. The SD legislature passed a bill to protect women’s sports by banning biological males from participating in biological women’s sports. The bill has overwhelming support in South Dakota; however, Govenor Kristi Noem doesn’t support it.
When asked why she doesn’t support it, Noem seems to say she has received advice and counsel that the law would fail if challenged in federal court. Specifically Noem implies the NCAA would sue South Dakota and she believes the state would lose a lawsuit based on the law. If that is her position, essentially she is attempting to avoid litigation, proactively planning to lose that litigation, on a law supported by the majority in her state. WATCH:
What is your take?
What a shame. Here I thought she was one of the good ones. At least she exposed herself early on before being elected into a higher office.
Verdict and sentence first. Trial and evidence later. Clearly either she or her head must be off and in about half no time!
She was a senator which has always meant she was compromised.
House Rep
My take is Noem knows she’s a target. This strikes me as playing it safe for the inevitable run for presidency. Using the lawyers is either an excuse or a trap. She’s being extra delicate, but she looks weak and came off as condescending.
Not quite Desantis, and still not the most conservative possibility for future runs.
She needs to let them sue and pull more masks off. Bring it to everyone’s attention. God, I’m so sick of never having fighters.
She just lost our vote. This was a no brainer and common sense.
She was all FOR it till she had to SIGN it.
The Democrat strategists must have popped the champagne corks as soon as the Tucker interview ended.
My take is that Kristi talks a good game, and knows which actions to take, to keep her preferred career path viable. But as I’ve said before, there is no more room for political rock stars. It’s not enough to cut a few ‘hit records’ with some well chosen legislation as you wow the fans with a few rocking speeches. The newly woke conservative is looking for politicians who walk the talk.
It’s time for Miss Kristi to put up or shut up. There are no more coronations.
Doesn’t matter. Another battered conservative in retreat bites the dust.
It’s De Santis 2024.
It’s looking that way if he chooses to run or as a VP to Trump.
He ACTS on what he STATES unlike this woman Kristi Noem.
It was a poor excuse. Nothing more. If she believed in what the law was about, she would support it and defend it.
That she didn’t suggests that some influential donors told her that her higher political aspirations would not be funded by them.
Sad really. Thought the woman had principles.
Anything she says Im on board lol. Seriously she’s been good and I’m sure she has her reasons. I would give her that benefit of the doubt on this. How many men are going to go to a high school or college in SD and not get an royal ass kicking if they play a woman’s sport? This is not Califonia guys. If it doesn’t work out as I said should be easy enough to undo.
I think that Noem might think she’s taking the best and safest road to achieving the goal, but there’s one glaring weakness in her argument and approach.
Until she is able to build and get the alleged “coalition” to unify behind a clear policy that they believe will hold up against legal assaults and challenges, the girls in South Dakota are completely exposed to and defenseless against the invasion of their athletics by men posing as transgenders or whatever sick psychological excuses they may use. That could take years. She is not defending her current citizens that way.
I wish Tucker would have challenged her on the impact of her potentially lengthy delay because of her stated “coalition” objectives.
She claims she’s been talking to “legal scholars” for months, yet in her written statement she said “in the last few days”.
If it’s “months”, she should have made sure these concerns made it into the original version of the bill, rather than pulling this out of her a– at the very last minute.
Tucker tried to get her to explain what was in the bill that would invite a lawsuit and she talked around (like a run-of-the-mill politician). She expected him to have read the bill and her request for changes but she refused to explain it so we in the audience could have an inkling of what she is so worried about. She talked about putting together a “coalition” to fight the NCAA but didn’t explain that either. In other words, total politician round-about-ism.
Tucker should have pushed back and asked her if she could be specific and if not, why not.
Tucker is a libertarian. It’s against the code to push other social liberals.
Either that or a JFK style Democrat.
Coalition is politician speak for cash grab and funding for a POTUS primary run.
Coalition is also politician speak for some one else to do the hard work so the politician speaking does not make themselves look too stupid or something like that.
Politicians always feel safer in groups to spread the blame or the dumb moves.
None of them are really leadership material, unlike Donald Trump who is not a politician.
Unfortunately there is some truth to the implied political strength of a unified coalition of states on a certain principle and or policy, however that strength was dismissed in an instant by SCOTUS when they rejected even hearing the Texas (election fraud) lawsuit against PA and had an 18 state coalition along with them, IIRC.
All she has to do is agree with Tucker. Tell us what the NCAA threatens to do – what her citizens are going to miss if they do it. Tell us what the CoC is doing – and WHO is doing it. Tell us what Amazon tries to do. Be outraged like we are. And also, before vetoing give the SD people a chance to say they don’t give 2 craps about whatever NCAA or Amazon is threatening, if they still feel that way.
Definitely don’t pretend this is like your idea and you think this bill is bad for some style reason. You’re on our side! Act like it!
She was wishy/washy when she was in the US house. Our Gov in Idaho used the same argument when we passed a bill to stop the initiative process here, which is loose as goose.in it’s present form.
Are you in north Idaho? That Rep Heather Scott in Bonner County is excellent.
She was not convincing in the interview, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt for now.
Some very worthwhile sounding legislation can be poorly written and not withstand judicial review. Noem did not, however, give even one specific example of this.
Give her the benefit of the doubt!!! ??? You would make a very poor member of a lynch mob with an attitude like that.
Seriously. I’m so over being the kind, gentle, second chances kind of a gal after the last 4 years of watching the Democrats and Rinos kick us in the gut over and over. No benefit of the doubt any more. They’re either with us or against us first time and every time out of the gate.
Your own explanation condemns her reasoning or lack there of.
So I’m curious as to how and why, then, you give her benefit of doubt. Barrett supporters said the same thing and look what happened.
Honestly I will withhold judgement and see how it plays out. I thought her written explanation was good and her interview middling. South Dakota is a power in Division II and NCAA sanctions would be a serious impediment. If she follows through with her stated plan then she is pursuing a course to challenge the NCAA and keep high school girl sports safe.
Two weeks and then I will pass judgement. Execution is the key.
I am tired of talkers.
Completely agree. Give her time. There is a long time until she indicates any further ambitions (if any) she has – certainly enough to see how this issue plays out. It will become clearer if she’s fair dinkum (as we here Down Under say) or just another RINO or, simply a weak leader.
If she is right, and the law in its current form is flawed, the left will pounce on it without any reservations. This will cool off similar efforts by other states.
I’m pretty sure the same people who blame her now for backing off, will blame her then for signing a flawed law.
Yes. Because the benefit of doubt worked so well in Any Coney Barrett’s case.
She got pressured by the NCAA. I would have told the NCAA to shove it and if they did try to ban my state’s colleges, get ready for an injunction and a lawsuit. That’s the only way to deal with these “woke” pigs at this time.
I know what you mean Fish Eggs.
Make the NCAA explain to the whole wide world why they think it is a good idea for college teams to be forced to allow males on female teams.
Why they think it is just fine to make females who have worked for years at a sport to compete against a stronger male who has just decided out of the blue that he identifies as female.
Why do these State Universities not start somewhere anywhere in filing the lawsuits, South Dakota could have been the one and Noem could have been the leader at a time when so many of us are desperately looking for one.
Instead she is on Tucker’s show fumbling and stumbling her way around what seems to be a weak and unconvincing answer.
How about indicting some NCAA execs for extortion.
So, you read the legislation in its entirety and, being an experienced lawyer, you know for certain that Gov. Noem could successfully defend that law -as currently written- against an NCAA (or any such) lawsuit, knowing full well that the entire US media, Lawfare, and DemoCommunist Party would be on a 24/7 attack against her and SD.
I understand standing up to those Leftwing tyrants, but when you stand against litigation attacks, you need to have sound laws as “weapons.”
I haven’t yet fully read the bill that she refused to sign, nor am I a lawyer. So writing her off because of this interview seems premature to me. I’m not impressed with her defense to Tucker, but then I’m not impressed with Tuckers line of questions in what was a very short time slot for such an important issue.
So, tell me this – if she’s truly been speaking with “legal scholars” for months (her written response to the legislature says “days”), why didn’t she ensure that their concerns were reflected in the bill (not law) “as currently written”, in your words?
Why is this the first time we’ve heard of these concerns if she’s been discussing them for “months”?
Since we really don’t know the chronological details of when Gov. Noem spoke with “legal scholars” versus when she knew of the exact contents of the final version of the bill that was presented to her for signature, nor do we know how many back and forth discussions and negotiations have taken place during the months preceding this bill being passed by the legislature, IMHO it’s neither possible nor constructive to start casting blame accurately.
But don’t let me get in the way of everyone’s need to blame someone. I just believe it may be a bit premature until more facts are made known.
Personally I would not care about NCAA attempts to bully the state. Screw ‘em. However I never did value school athletics over academics. But I think I’m in the minority there.
Sounds like a progressive/libertarian governor masquerading as a “conservative” that is intimidated by the LGBTQWERTY population, less than 2% of the aggregate. Mike Pence comes to mind when he acquiesced to the LGBTQWERTY over the IN RFRA. Oh, well, DeSantis/? 2024.
I think Miss Noem is a Mike Pence kind of Republican.
I do not see a problem with her response and reasoning and she seems very educated and active regarding the matter. Perhaps Im missing something but she seems like she knows what she is trying to do.
What you are missing is having the spirit of a lynch mob.
Spirit of a lynch mob? Not sure about that. I DO know that normal folks are being backed into a corner and everything they hold dear is being stripped from them on a daily basis. Every aspect of a descent society is being swept away at an alarming rate. I don’t think folks being yet again extremely disappointed in a politicians weasel words represents a mob mentality. People just want someone to actually stand up to the Satanist who are hell bent on the destruction of Christianity, America and mankind.
I agree but whoever stands up against a lawsuit better have solid legal footing on which to stand.
I will seriously consider dismissive criticism of Noem from proven, experienced lawyers who deal extensively with Title IX legislation and litigation.
“Lynch mob”?
Ludicrous characterization.
Typical emotional screeching of a progressive defending another progressive.
From what I heard, she has it exactly right.
Protect girl’s sports where you have authority (k-12) and then live to fight another day for college sports.
That does not seem that complicated to me.
Did I miss something?
Threat of potential loss of a new Amazon fulfillment center in Sioux Falls?
If Amazon is going to pull a fulfillment center over this, they’ll do it over the K through 12 law as quickly as they’ll do it over a college level law. (I don’t know why anyone would want one of that vermin Jeff Bezos’ slave plantations in their territory anyway.)
Yes. You missed the part where she was accused of practicing witchcraft.
Your blind adulation of Noem based on nothing but blind adulation is the exact syndrome which has brought this country to the disaster it’s now undergoing.
Why subject college women to it?
What is the reasoning for that?
So the people of South Dakota do not have authority over South Dakota’s collegiate level sports programs? Did I miss something?
Apparently the just fork over the money for the Universities David Read.
Live to fight another day! How many many many times have I heard that retort from Republicans? Those politicians may live to fight another day but they sure do leave a lot of casualties in their wake in their quest for power. Time is running out on this Republic. Another day? The fight is NOW. And it’s YOUR fight and it’s My fight. Politicians ain’t gonna get his corrected. We need to hit the streets peacefully pronto! That’s where the “fight “ is. But that would mean folks would have their comfort zone…so evidently that’s out.
Yep. And somehow, that “fight” never materializes.
Just like “Repeal & Replace.”
What do you expect. She’s a politician. Can’t give a straight answer and has ambitions. Surely we’ve learned the agenda in the last 4 years.
Yes. Except – it’s very, very disheartening to see how many here not only haven’t learned, but are utterly clueless.
And here we see it unfolding literally before our eyes in real time.
On the War Room she is still pushing the protection for High School and lower. The strategy for the College level is to band together with like minded States.
Nope, not States.
The coalition’s web site calls on the Federal government to take care of it.
Don’t believe me – read it for yourself:
2) The federal government should enforce Title IX in a way that protects fairness for women’s sports, rather than misusing it in a way that undermines fairness.
https://www.defendtitleixnow.com/
True leaders don’t go along to just get along; now she’s sounding like any other wishy-washy Republican that tries to have it both ways and ends up having neither.
For the record, my husband agrees with all of you who conclude that the K-12 scenario is in Governor Noem’s immediate jurisdiction, but the intercollegiate level question lends itself better to a multi-state effort against NCAA demands. We have agreed to disagree, because I am incensed about this matter.
Women’s swimming, diving, gymnastics, track & field, field hockey, volleyball, skiing, skating (speed and figures), golf, tennis, snowboarding, softball, basketball, and shooting competitions easily come to mind as arenas that will be affected. Does anyone think that the musculature, strength, and lungs of an XX athlete are competitively comparable to that of an XY?
High school girls who are highly competitive in these endeavors will, when they advance to the intercollegiate level, be placed in the position of competing for a team spot not just against other XX-DNA athletes, but also against every XY-DNA adult athlete body who thinks HE can claim “trans” status and cheat his way to a place on the women’s team in her stead. Oh yeah, this is fair. /s
Athletic scholarships, championships, qualification for Olympic try-outs aren’t important to XX athletes?
How about this… A trans athlete competes for a spot on the swim team. Let’s call this athlete Taylor b/c I don’t do pronouns. Taylor’s speed and endurance wouldn’t qualify for a place in the men’s events; but Taylor decides “no problem”, and high-tails it over to the ladies’ team try-outs, qualifies for a spot on the XX team, and disqualifies a 1st year up and coming, but inexperienced XX swimmer because of a limit to the number of swimmers the team is allowed to carry on its roster.
If this bu11$h1t is not stopped cold in its tracks NOW, there will never again be a level playing field for women athletes. In that case, why did we ever bother with Title IX? Because we never anticipated this particular lunacy invading society.
I am a retired high school teacher – one who cheered on all her students in every endeavor to which each aspired. I will not concede defeat to XY-DNA male athletes who intend to cheat the system and thereby earn their medals, and break women’s state records, in competition against XX females in athletics.
“Follow the science.”
Great comment. Thanks for your perspective on the issue itself, as opposed to a reaction solely targeted at Gov. Noem.
Oh GB, so many hills at this moment in history. This is only one of many on which I choose to die. Thanks for the encouragement.
Now is the time for the SD legislature too overturn her veto. As I said our Gov did this in my state ID, and our gutless Rep legislature would not do it.
She said TWICE that she did not veto. She asked for revision, which sounds reasonable. So far, I haven’t seen any comments here that address her revision request. Also, after 4 years of Lawfare demonstrating itself in the limelight, it would seem worthwhile to look into her revision request. Lawfare has been extremely successful at draining money and resources to the point where normal function becomes incapacitated. Too short a timeslot to get into the educational tidbits, but it seemed to me she broached the subject of this hazard more than once.
“Governor Noem, thanks for your efforts but it would be a shame if we found some child porn on your computer in case you vote against our interests…”
You know, an observation I frequently make is that truly MAGA Republicans don’t do this kind of stuff. They’re easily flushed out because, when push comes to shove, they won’t fight.
So what if the courts strike it down? All the better that Normal Americans understand who their real enemies are in the courts, in the bureaucracy, in the media, etc.
Great response from an old timer of the Treehouse.
College football is especially taking off in the Dakotas, so I thought a lot about her response.
Her talking points re attorneys was too nebulous. Exactly how the Deep State talks.
Then I thought about the young college women who get to take the punch. She would SKYROCKET if she took up their cause, in the MAGA world.
She chose not too.
“Coalition” is BS. You don’t get a “coalition” by leading from behind.
Write. Her. OFF.
As a mother of three young girls, I’m disgusted.
And about ready to run myself.
Awesome! God love you!!
Do it.
I have SERIOUS experience working in the news biz and have covered MANY presidential campaigns on a national level.
Willing to help.
Not ready for anything near national level but my rapidly purpling state of SC is in desperate need of people willing to stand against rampant corruption.
We’ll never win nationally again if we don’t retake our states.
Really Miya, do it!
The United States of America. Not the Federal Republic of States. The Constitution recognized the supremacy of the States over the Federal government. D C and every “national” interest group have usurped the rightful power of those sovereign States and have assumed total control. It will take courage to fight to return the rightful balance of power. Career politicians will never get this done. It’s gonna be up to folks like you..who care about their kids.
I hope you do. We need strong principled people that aren’t bullied down..
Do it Miya.
Excellent idea! A true leader stands for the truth and sanity. We the People just want our representatives to stand for what is right and descent regardless of the “political” fallout. Serve the public then go back home. Don’t make a career out of public service for it seems to rot the soul and distorts ones better judgement. God bless your efforts.
Good for Tucker. Good for Kristy. If you are a leader, expect challenges. The Filthy Left is going to jump all over this, but, being filthy leftists, they will again fail, Lies take constant bolstering, the truth stands on it own.
My take is that the University of South Dakota doesn’t want to lose federal funding and NCAA wokeness credits.
And the only ones that lose are the inocent girls that simply want to play their sport, and compete with one another.
If federal funding is the case then maybe it’s time to reassess how the University operates. It’s part of a much larger problem where states are no longer in control of their own best interests. Federal funding should be limited to building highways, the military, and delivering the mail. I know that’s overly simplistic, I just think government at the federal level has way too much power over us at both the personal and local government level.
Full disclosure, I’m against conservatives getting involved in this Trans issue
Reason: LGBT and FemiNazis created this mess, now the FemiNazis are mad. We should make them clean up their own mess.
I want to stay out of it.
I want to see them fighting each other. I want to see the snake eat its own tail.
Amen Kleen! When I started in the workforce as a laboratory technician and ultimately a shift supervisor all I wanted was equal pay for equal work. I never cared to know how much ANY of my co-workers made. All I cared about was that I was happy with my salary. I worked in a predominantly male environment. For instance, I couldn’t maneuver 55 gallon drums, and I wasn’t expected to. My male coworkers didn’t expect me to. I have no doubt they likely made more money than I did. I handled more of the office duties, but we all ran the same lab tests on the products we made.
Evey bit of this insanity is because the FemiNazis have convinced themselves that they are equal to men. The men have been feminized by the FemiNazis, and the FemiNazis can’t have it both ways. If they are equal then prove it.
I saw a study a week or so ago where Babyboomers are the least concerned about this issue. The commentator assumed it was because the Babyboomer generation started this. I don’t buy that for a second. I never equated or compared myself to a man. Intelligence is a separate issue and this is not about intelligence.
These latter generations have cried equality from the rooftops. They’ve marched for it, they’ve demanded it……well, they’ve got it. Perhaps things may start to turn around now that females are truly expected to be equal to demasculated “men”. If they can’t compete with them then all is not equal and they have been lied to their whole lives. I do feel sorry for the little girls, but this has been a long time coming.
Let’s keep voting. That’ll fix things.
At least it used to be presumed to fix things.
Nope. Not buying her double speak. Follow the money. Mollie Hemingway had an interesting piece tonight.
Some summary of Hemmingway’s piece:
Why would she agree to such a thing? The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway thinks the answer lies in Noem’s inner circle. Turns out, the governor’s chief of staff, Tony Venhuizen, is on the board of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce — one of the groups that lobbied Noem hard to reject the bill. Her other “top advisor” is “controversial behind-the-scenes power broker” Matt McCaulley, whose conflict of interest has not gone unnoticed by Republican lawmakers. His clients, Mollie points out, include Sanford Health, owner of Sanford Sports Complex — one of the facilities hoping to “lure” NCAA tournaments to the state.
She lost support.
Her backing down to the GOPe support group (chamber, google, NCAA, etc.) doesn’t pass the “what would President Trump do?”
We have to thank her for giving us the “heads up” on her lack of MAGA bona fides.
The late, great talk show host Lee Rodgers once said: “Don’t ever fall in love with a politician. They’ll break your heart every time.”
Skimmed the interview and gathered this: this is a tug of war to pull the contest into a preferred forum. On the one hand, apparently the NCAA would love to go to court in this particular district, anticipating a technical victory. On the other, she is intent upon keeping the law simple and plain rather than complex and nuanced. The simple approach leaves fewer crags for lawsuits to hang on technicalities, it would appear.
A blunt analogy: “stay off the lawn”. They walk on the lawns anyway. The mayor is being pressured to implement an order that says “You may not intentionally walk or ride on the lawn.”
The LawnWalkers Association files suit after a trespasser is punished. The lawsuit argues that the aggrieved party was RUNNING on the lawn, and the Order says “walk or ride”; it is therefore a violation of the party’s rights, and the city/landowner are obligated to compensate the trespasser.
Ditto for “I tripped and fell and had to walk back to the sidewalk. It was not intentional.”
Ditto for “I was taking a shortcut ACROSS the lawn.” Legal hair splitting strategy in a friendly court: is ACROSS equal to ON? Let’s debate…
To her point (presumably), it remains boiled down logic: were you on the flippin’ lawn or not? Yes or no?
Whether or not that is the gist in this instance, I can see merit in not creating finer distinctions in law and then having to navigate around it to avoid litigation.
I believe I remember a similar maneuver from another politician regarding a popular bill defending traditional marriage in his State. All to grease the skids for his run for higher Office by avoiding more public controversies on supporting or defending it.
I propose we name the political maneuver after that man.
Typical rino, folded like a cheap suit. She’s always been suspect imho.
Disappointed. What needs to happen is all or most of red states need to enjoin in a well developed law. It will take united front to defeat the NCAA, who is all in on the trans train. Enough red states with impacts to NCAA’s bottom line and they will cave.
The half-assed approach of grammar and high schools will not fly as women that work their butts off to get a scholarship just to compete with men is not gonna fly.
In order to save face and stick to her principles she needs help from a collaborative of states to take the NCAA on.
Again, disappointed but she could save her future by enticing other states that the NCAA can not afford to lose. Follow the money. NCAA will fight SD but not major sports colleges, which SC does not have.
Noem made a mistake saying she was going to sign a bill and then backing out. It will haunt her but she needs help from other states. If she can’t garner that support then she has made her own bed and must lay in it.
She explained the need for the United front at the College level. High School is still protected.
Worst case the Blue States has trannies, Red States stay normal when it comes to College level sports for females. I think it’s a good approach.
Another tried and true RINO political trick is to say that this can not be done alone and a “coalition” is needed to fight “something”.
In this case the coalition needed seems to be other red states and the something that needs to be fought is the NCAA.
Of course it always takes years or even decades to gather a coalition of like minded red state governors ( and believe me when RINOs are running for governor they will use this as an “issue” for years and years) but the coalition never seems to firm up for what ever reasons.
The liberal crackpot side will grow stronger and stronger and will win lawsuits in our courts until they are well established.
Meanwhile our side waits for the “coalition” of like minded RINO red state governors to finally to even get to the starting line.
And people like Noem are wealthy and prosperous and their political career is flush while we wait and give her the benefit of the doubt.
I keep thinking of Mike Pence for some reason.
many many legal scholars, many many months. cOaLiTIOn
Just another run of the mill politician, folks.
Yea, let’s not charge that hill. I just got my nails done.
if she signed the bill, the NCAA would ban all tournaments in the state and pressure (sanction, ?) member schools. This would send a message to the other states not to mess with the NCAA. She needs others states to join her fight to combat the NCAA.
The NCAA is nothing but an organization of its member school. It is controlled by the biggest and loudest. Ie, the red states.
imagine if the the blue state schools left the NCAA . The NCAA would be MEMORY
This was enough to turn me off Kristi Noem.
https://kelo.com/2020/12/22/gov-noem-defends-sen-thune-after-president-trumps-backlash/
MAGA lite. I believe Sundance has said that of her in the past.
She simply proved it
The NCAA. Just another American institution that has been ruined
Any entity with the word “National” in its name should be eyed with suspicion and mistrust.
I saw a series of tweets from her, somewhere on the internet. She was trying to explain herself. I did not understand it at all…….but I am not an attorney. My profession involves animals. They are really easy to understand….?
Exactly. I was wondering why Sundance wrote that in a couple of articles a while back. Well, now I know and again the assessment MAGA lite was right.
/snark on. Is Kristi Christopher?
Typical stealth RINO showing her colors on a subject that matters to the globalists. Thank goodness it happened, for far too many true conservatives have been all too enthusiastic about her. This is how we got into trouble, in the first place! All they have to do is pay lip service to conservatism, and we love them for it. Then, they get elected to higher office and screw the nation. The other thing is that she is pretty, and too many people vote for pretty people, instead of foursquare people. We’ve had all we can take of treating serious elections as if they were high school president elections. It’s NOT a personality contest!
I think she believes that a simple change in wording will do just as good a job protecting the ladies while avoiding suits and losses in courts. If that is the case, I support her. I have seen many laws that seem good on the face that fail in the real world due to lack of attention to details. I think Trump would have won the last election if he had ASSUMED his opponents would do everything they could get away with to fight him and prepared better for the oncoming fight. Why were these issues not recorded by Federal agents monitoring the process in real time? Poor preparation IMO.
Yep,
She was very, very poor.
I can’t imagine PDJT publicly acknowledging he would in essence Veto a Republican supported bill because he feared Lawsuits.
Obviously any such threat and she will fold.
Too bad I liked her.
The Greene Lady ( Georgia I believe) there is a keeper
My take is that is just another example of the attempted abdication of accountability that is a rampant cancer in current politics.
‘I defer to the legal scholars’, ‘I defer to the scientists’, how about politicians make the bloody decisions that we pay them to, take the plaudits if they are correct and take the brickbats if they are not.
Then let the voters decide on their performance at election time else put the legal scholar or scientist up in their place so the voters can decide on theirs.
Unelected mandarins are now seemingly those who should be obeyed but how do we sack their asses for screwing up.
Where does the buck stop Kristi?
Truman said looks in a women and charisma in a man are bad and stay away from them.
IMHO they will lead you down their primrose path every time.
Really disappointed, but I’m hoping that when the Chips all come down she is on the right track.
Been planning to leave Oregon, and South Dakota was my number one pick…
Not sure what to make of this. After all, any law that promotes decency or American values will instantly be challenged by the left in court.
I watched and listened very carefully and I failed to figure out the point Noem was trying to make. In other words it didn’t make sense and sounded like a lot of gobble di gook. Her emphasis on having had many legal experts’ advice didn’t help either. In my opinion legal experts are generally double talkers adept at confusing some of the smartest individuals. Needless to say I was disappointed and I don’t even live in SD.
In every lawsuit, one half the lawyers end up wrong! So Noem listens to the wrong half! Find lawyers who tell you “how to do” what you want to do not lawyers who say “you can’t” do what you want. It worked well for J.P. Morgan.
“Specifically Noem implies the NCAA would sue South Dakota and she believes the state would lose a lawsuit based on the law. If that is her position, essentially she is attempting to avoid litigation, proactively planning to lose that litigation, on a law supported by the majority in her state. “
With as much money as the NCAA has and as corrupt as so many judges are, she could have a 100% majority in her state and still lose. And it would seem, likely would.
I suppose she could forget about that and building any coalition and she, and South Dakota, could just charge ahead shouting “Banzai Banzai Banzai!!!” followed by a “Geronimo!” or two.
She caved, like Pence did when he was governor. And we see how he turned out as VP…
Good grief… another wobbly R
I believe that wobbly is the BEST we can get from any R. Amazing isn’t it…..and infuriating. Spit.
A politician who avers to lawyers instead of standing up for the law is…just a politician.
That is when Gov. Noem fell back into lockstep.
Her redemption will only come with working with other red govs, such as Florida, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Oklahoma etc., which have major sports programs state wide to build a coalition that can defeat NCAA, or make them understand their destructive capitulation to wokeness.. South Dakota alone does not have the sports gravitas to take on the NCAA alone. This should be a fight waged by all red states that understand the consequences of allowing fake females to ruin women’s collegiate sports. Too important to have one state lose in the first round. Numbers & $$ = clout. Need major collegiate programs involved. Make it where NCAA has the loss instead of just SD.
The best scenario is if NCAA backs down. That won’t happen until NCAA sees themselves losing money. NCAA will be woke until until they are broke. When they see themselves being broke they will abandon woke.
I fault Noem for her false promise. Big mistake. However, I approve of her plan to build a coalition and go after the NCAA’s wrong think. Time to let NCAA understand they are not in control, their customers are.
Red states have to start working together on all fronts against the tyranny. United we stand, divided we fall.
Pass the law! Form a coalition of like minded states. If the NCAA objects, then object to the NCAA: refuse to allow state funded teams to participate in NCAA events. Form another collegiate organization to set standards. Watch the NCAA fold!
But haven’t most all the colleges been communist for quite some time?