There’s a new Sheriff in town
By Rep. Dusty Johnson
March 8, 2024
BIG News
I welcomed Butte County Sheriff Fred Lamphere as my guest to the State of the Union. He has seen the how the border crisis impacts communities in South Dakota and is an advocate for stronger border security measures. Sheriff Lamphere did an excellent job of sharing his observations about the border crisis, and what needs to be done to secure our nation.
We were both disappointed the President talked more about “shrinkflation” instead of the border. His attempts to shift the blame to companies are not working. Businesses large and small are facing record inflation (18% since January 2021) caused by Biden’s reckless spending packages. The cost of just about everything is up, and families are paying $11,400 more per year to have the same quality of life they had in January 2021.
America is the greatest country in the world, but we have major challenges we have to address. I’m doing all I can in Congress to stop reckless spending and secure our border. Americans deserve it.
BIG Idea
TikTok, as it is configured now, is a national security threat. It is owned by ByteDance, who answers to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Essentially, TikTok takes orders from our greatest foreign adversary. Not only that, but the CCP has influence over the minds of our youth and conversations in the public square. I’m sure you’ve seen the effects of their influence—more mental health problems and more support for terrorists and bullies like Hamas and Russia.
I’m supporting a bill that would require TikTok to divest from ByteDance, or the app will be removed from app stores. TikTok is fighting back against this bill—it’s clear they know the risk of losing Americans’ personal data. It’s not a ban. This bill gives TikTok the choice—continue operating in America or continue to operate under control of a foreign adversary. We can’t continue giving the CCP undue influence and access to our data.
The bill passed unanimously out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently, and I look forward to voting for it on the House Floor soon.
BIG Update
The forestry industry in the Black Hills is facing a lot of uncertainty. Last weekend, I was in Spearfish, South Dakota with a couple members of the House Agriculture Committee who know the importance of maintaining healthy forests. During our tour of the Neiman Mill, we heard how hard it is for them to operate when the Black Hills National Forest (BHNF) doesn’t hit their harvest targets.
After the tour, the Ag Committee members and I hosted a roundtable with members of the U.S. Forest Service and representatives of the local forestry industry. The timber industry has a significant impact on the Black Hills communities. It employs over 1,000 people and makes a big contribution to the local and state economy. The need to hit these targets is dire to prevent losing this industry in the Black Hills.
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representative johnson, thanks for your long service and hard work for sd. your sincerity has never been in doubt, at least until donald trump’s shadow-presidency began in Jan of 2021.
many of us longtime fans saw in you a person with a rare talent and courage not often found in political leaders. most of us understand bipartisan coalitions as a good thing, and not some kind of RINO “uniparty” betrayal – we trusted your constancy on conservatism AND your sense of when to do the most good for the most people. we sense that this quality has been targeted and burned out of you during trump’s takeover and looting of the GOP, which greatly accelerated over just the past few days. you can’t be happy about it.
you, thune and rounds appear to be dressed in ill-fitting suits now. at the end of the day, it was probably unkind of you three to avoid the rapid city trump rally last year. it put governor noem in the sad position of having to call you out as chickens, and making the assembled thousands boo and rattle their pitchforks at you. it ought not to have happened, for all the good that holding things at arms length did any of you leading to today.
two years ago when the wyoming MAGA branded liz cheney a traitor and turned her out, two things were obvious – trump turned much of the gop into his private army, and he would keep a death grip on the party at all levels so that it could be looted as needed for his inescapable legal battles.
we are at that day in the fullest sense.
today at his home, trump is warmly embracing viktor orban as a global partner. it’s as troubling as bill clinton’s pivot and embrace of china was in the 90s. then as now we needed a bipartisan coalition to stand for our national interests. oddly enough, the democrats under biden are the paul reveres now, and would call as many republicans who still have the courage and endurance of john mccain to come forth and make a clear stand too. what say us?
i rest my case. it’s up to each of us. *mic drop*
Please wipe your mouth, you still have some bullshit on your lips.
“Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.”
– Proverbs 9:8 NKJV
So then I shouldn’t have posted anything to you….got it.
so you say.
The sheriff is right we all at risk from the boarder crisis. Biden fly’s in aliens from foreign countries. AP is right it is not Biden secretly doing this he is doing it in your face. Quoting AP “On Jan. 26, the agency reported 327,000 were vetted and authorized for travel. There were more than 67,000 Cubans, 126,000 Haitians, 53,000 Nicaraguans and 81,000 Venezuelans.” Looks like Biden can not get enough aliens to walk into US for the replacement project.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-immigrants-parole-biden-trump-musk-dbd634820b3f8d07b859b8a05b2b20a7