Dakota Town Hall is out with another edition of their excellent podcast with Murdoc & Jake Schoenbeck. Guests this week include House Assistant Majority Leader Taylor Rehfeldt who talks about what she’s glad to have accomplished this session.
Check it out, and listen every week! New Episodes are available every Friday.
It’s too bad they don’t like Noem. I’ve listened to several of them.
Hate to break it to you, but most of the state doesn’t like Noem. You really think people who listen to podcasts are supporting Noem and the boomer ideology?
I’m just tired of the Haugaard crowd and establishment wing like the Schoenbeck’s dumping on the governor.
She could remake this state.
when you ask people who don’t like Noem WHY they dont like her, you get some of the most batshit crazy answers imaginable, as well as just stupid on steroids:
“she should have shut down the state for covid”
“she allowed local governments and school boards to shut down for covid”
“she didn’t make vaccination mandatory”
“she didn’t stop employers from making vaccinations mandatory”
“she didn’t sign the anti-caffeine women’s sports bill”
“she signed the anti-trans women’s sports bill”
“She hasn’t done enough to get the Keystone Pipeline restarted”
“She hasn’t done enough to stop the Summit Pipeline project.”
“She spends too much time out of the office” (it’s a desk job, she can work from anywhere, fools)
When you listen to this, you realize the state is full of a bunch of holes who think a woman’s place is in the kitchen.
Well, that is how opinions work, you think these are all batshit crazy on steroids perceptions, while others think it is completely reasonable. I know it sounds unacceptable that something you think about as so clearly black and white in front of you is very blurry for others, but that is how it works. I can assure you, they think the same way, it is just transposed.
The solution to this problem is to NOT legislate one person’s opinion, even if you can get 51% of the population (or state legislature) to support it. Years ago, before MAGA, the GOP cited “limited government” as a core value, that is the solution. This notion to force everyone to accept your opinion by law, has really discredited so much of our government. It is to the point being a “criminal” doesn’t really matter anymore, look at our elected officials, nobody cares. Government should only be used when there is a need, and a vast majority agrees, something like murder is an easy example; when we get into any of the legislation “for the children” it is clear it shouldn’t be law, that is the role of parenting not government. Let’s not forget, every one of these laws, we have to pay for through paying for stuff we already own.
given that half the population thinks she’s too conservative, and the other half think she’s not conservative enough, it is surprising her favorability is at 43%
So many dissatisfied people…..
Well bless her new teeth and Thanks for the listens. 😀
Rehfeldt is one of the most smartest, sincere, and hardworking legislators in the state Capitol. So nice to listen to her on the podcast.
I’m a bit mixed with her. She generates an opposition argument (e.g. “well, I don’t really know how this works, and I don’t think it is needed, nobody has really cited any problems as to why this law is needed”), then before the vote a *pause* and Aye! She follows the mob every time, her parting joke about banning porn for the kids at the end of the last podcast is a great example. I don’t see many “free thinkers” in the legislature in Pierre, they all seem to be controlled by outside interests and quickly get in line.
that’s because of holes mailing out scorecards.