Rep. Brandei Schaefbauer defends Rep. Logan Manhart, quoting Shad Olson (who was just sentenced for assaulting a woman)

Dear Dakota War College,

I never believed those stories you wrote about on your blog until one night it happened to me!

I swear. It’s like you put my blogposts into a blender and took what spilled out and threw it on social media.

It’s so random and literally off the wall looney, that you can’t make this up.

So, State Rep. Brandei Schefbauer, (remember, you can’t spell her name without DEI), has leaped into the fray in defense of her fellow Toby Doeden-follower State Rep. Logan Manhart.

Manhart of course, is taking heat over his instagram post about it being white boy summer which is receiving statewide and national attention.

And because BranDEI is challenged to think for herself, she cites the overly verbose former newsreader Shad Olson to be her words in her defense of Rep. Manhart.

Nevermind the fact that it was just in the news that Shad was just sentenced for assaulting and choking his former girlfriend, after pleading no contest to charges, where he is now required to attend anger management counseling, consent to search and seizure, consume no alcohol for the next 365 days, and have no contact with the victim or the victim’s address.

In other words, they are all awful people, defending and feeding off of each other in this round-robin of awfulness.

Please. Just make it stop.

Logan Manhart appears to wish for “white people” to have own country in March 29th social media post.

It’s just not stopping.

In am Instagram video that’s starting to circulate, Logan Manhart’s old tweets are being featured, including a reply to a post that seems to show that the “white thing” is less of an aberration and more of a trend that pops up from time to time:

Of course, this tweet has mysteriously disappeared from Manhart’s twitter account, but seems to have been preserved for posterity by others.

You can view the instagram video via this QR code:

Toby Doeden does not understand what his campaign worker Logan is trying to say

Toby Doeden seems to be confused over what his campaign worker was trying to convey when Logan Manhart was posting about ‘white boy summer’ while wearing his Doeden campaign team jacket:

Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden, who is running for the 2026 Republican nomination for governor, said in a text message that he saw Manhart’s post, and saw that Manhart wore a “Toby Doeden for South Dakota” jacket in the post.

“I don’t really get it. I am not at all sure what he was trying to convey,” Doeden said. “Seemed like a pretty stupid use of words if you ask me.”

Read that here.

“Seemed like a pretty stupid use of words if you ask me,” according to Toby?

Kind of like this?

Former newscaster Shad Olson gets off nearly scott free after receiving suspended imposition for assaulting girlfriend

From Dakota News Now it looks like Meade County, South Dakota is the place to be if you’re so inclined to lift your girlfriend by the neck and shake her, as former newscaster Shad Olson was accused of doing:

The state was asking for a 180-day suspended jail sentence, and the judge gave Olson a suspended imposition of sentence.

Olson is required to attend anger management counseling, consent to search and seizure, consume no alcohol for the next 365 days, and have no contact with the victim or the victim’s address.

Read the entire story here

In case you’re forgetting the why of why Shad found himself being thrown in jail until a political ally paid his bail:

As alleged by the girlfriend who managed to escape, 8 years of abuse until his victim managed to escape the cycle of violence.

And it was not even worth the suspended jail sentence the prosecution had asked for.

House Democrats call on Rep. Manhart to apologize for his white boy post. The first one, not the new White one.

KELOland is reporting that House Democrats in South Dakota are calling on Representative Logan Manhart to apologize over his “white boy summer” post on instagram.  (not to confuse it with his latest social media post defending white men.)

Manhart said in a now deleted Instagram post on July 4 “It’s white boy summer and the boys are back in charge.”

The South Dakota House Democratic Caucus sent a letter to Speaker of the House Jon Hansen and Majority Leader Scott Odenbach calling for Manhart to make a public apology.

“We are calling for Representative Manhart to issue a meaningful public apology —not a deflection, not a ‘sorry if you were offended,’ but a clear and direct acknowledgment of how his comment was wrong, who it hurt, and how he intends to grow from this moment,” the letter, signed by five Democratic state lawmakers said.

and..

“Dismissing that post is sending a message that hate and exclusion is welcome from elected officials, and it shouldn’t be,” Healy said. “We believe that government should serve everyone and not just a powerful few.”

Read the entire story here.

Ezra Hays resigns from SDGOP Exec Board

Notice is out this afternoon as Ezra Hays has apparently resigned from the SDGOP’s Executive Board.

Hays had ran the campaign organized to oppose Amendment H on last years’ ballot, and most recently ran to become the Chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party, but lost to (former 32-year Democrat) Jim Eschenbaum.  It’s interesting that this comes at a time when the party’s finances are in danger of collapse, as his position takes very little time at all.

Is he getting out, while the getting is good?

Stay tuned… it’s only going to get more interesting as we get into the fall.

Rep. Logan Manhart says people who object to his “White Boy Summer” Instagram post criticize white men for “existing.”

When State Representative Logan Manhart finds himself in a hole..  he really needs to stop positioning himself as the defender of white men.

If you recall my post from this last week, Rep. Manhart adorned in full “Toby Doeden for Governor” regalia posted to instagram declaring that it’s “white boy summer.”

Predictably, he has taken a number of hits on social media over it. And that instagram post has disappeared as if it never existed.

But, the Internet is forever and as he continues to rack up hit points, Logan felt the need to respond to the controversy. And proves the adage that when you find yourself in a hole at the bottom of a pit, it’s time to quit digging:

..the same legislators who are criticizing me have spent their unremarkable political careers chastising and criticizing white men at every turn, oftentimes for, simply, existing.

Jesus H.. STOP taking about the plight of the white man!

Seriously, Rep. Manhart needs to quit while he’s behind. Because he did no benefit for himself by continuing to portray himself as the defender of the white.

Promoted as ready for a comeback by her party, watch for the next democrat candidate to announce to be Nikki Gronli.

I caught this image on the Minnehaha Democrat Party’s facebook recently. And if we were in a movie or a book, I would consider it foreshadowing.

What’s my thought process on it? Hear me out.  Everyone in the photo declaring their comeback is a current or former candidate for the Democrat Party. Except one.

  • Billie SuttonRan for Governor, narrowly lost to Kristi Noem
  • Jamie SmithRan for Governor, was completely crushed by Kristi Noem, and is now running for SF Mayor.
  • Sheryl Johnson – Yes, she did run for office. She ran as “SD Mom” for Congress in the last election, where she received 28% against Congressman Dusty Johnson
  • Julian Beaudion – announced he is running for US Senate.
  • Nikki GronliAppointed as USDA State Director for Rural Development by President Biden.

Everyone in the photo has ran, or is running for statewide office. Except Nikki Gronli. (a.k.a., Nikki “three shell” Gronli, if I could remind you):

Upon her departure from USDA, Gronli recently took the lead for Democrats in being the face of their Democrat town halls, which seems to have a large self-promotion component, given that she’s the one leading them on the SDDP’s behalf as opposed to a member of the opposition party’s leadership or current officeholders being the face of the party on this.

So, if cynical me were to go out on a limb, I would offer an educated guess that this the dog & pony show – at least in part – is to raise Gronli’s profile among Democrats prior to announcing her candidacy for public office.  Interestingly, South Dakota Democrats are having their annual state dinner fundraiser this weekend in Sioux Falls, featuring Tim Walz, their party’s most recent Vice Presidential offering.  It’s entirely possible that we may see an announcement of what she’s going to run for at the event.

Stay tuned.

Conspiracy minded goofs laud MTG chemtrail legislation. While conveniently forgetting about MTG Jewish Space Lasers.

The local conspiracy theorists are at it again.

Over the weekend, several of them were clucking because Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced a measure to ban cloud seeding, which they seem to translate as supportive of efforts to shoot down planes that have jet contrails.

Here’s one of them who somehow manages to connect chemtrails with bitcoin, florinated(sic) water, and hand-counting ballots. Because in their words – they are “evil”:

And it’s great they can find their validation in Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But this is also the “Jewish Space Lasers caused the California fires” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“Then oddly there are all these people who have said they saw vhat looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires, and pictures and videos. I don’t know anything about that but I do find it really curious PG&E’s partnership with Solaren on space solar generators starting in 2009. They announced the launch into space in March 2018, and maybe even put hem up before that. Space solar generators collect the suns energy and then beam it back to Earth to a transmitter to convert to electricity. The idea is clean energy to replace coal and oil. if they are beaming he suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! l nean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”

If MTG is the kind of Republican they want to be, I think I’ll stick with Reagan Republicanism.  It involves a lot less time being paranoid about made-up things in the sky.