63 thoughts on “Dusty Johnson Video: The power of impeachment does not lie with Nancy Pelosi or Adam Schiff”

  3. I agree with Dusty. The House can impeach Trump. The Constitution reserves this power to the House. It’s not complex. To exercise its power, the House must vote to impeach the President. That’s what happened to Andrew Johnson. Democrats control a majority of the votes. What do they fear?

    Progressives should demand a vote to impeach. Transparency demands it. No shady, backroom deals. Democracy dies in darkness, I’ve heard it said…

    1. Learn your Constitution. There are no Constitutional requirement to vote to start an inquiry nor are there House rules to do so. There has never been a more oppressing need to impeach a president until now. No impeached president has had such a high polling result to impeach and remove than Donald Trump. He is a disgrace to the Republican party and to our nation.

      2. Jeff – “had such a high polling result to impeach”

        So, we should rely on polls when deciding as the public whether to support impeachment? Like the 90% poll that indicated Hillary would win?

        This THIRD impeachment attempt is a Soviet style hit job.

        You should justify your comments that he is a disgrace. Most of America is pretty proud of his good faith work, and they are smart enough now to ignore the polls.

        1. John Dale, it was mentioned as a matter of the general opinion of Americans toward impeachment and removal. Most of America is pretty proud? You mean the far right cult members of the Trump phenomenon, correct. Mainstream Republicans, Democrats, and Independents want him out of office over his behavior and damage to this country. The people you are referring to are the ignorant ones and they are not Republicans.

          1. Jeff – this illustrates perfectly the problem I have with the impeachment sham. I watched The Gangs of NY. I get that the fabric of The US is comprised of many elements, many of them criminal. However, an overarching desire for goodwill has always driven our way of life here, and corruption has, is, and will forever take a back seat to the Bill of Rights.

            You say “Mainstream Republicans, Democrats, and Independents want him out of office” – if there were two from each group that agreed with this absurd statement, then your premise would be correct. However, shouldn’t more than 6 be required to trust your analysis? There are nearly 400,000,000 people in The US, and 380,000,000 of them are presumed legal.

            The lack of quantification of your position, that “generally Americans want him out” is the “sizzle”. The “steak” is that the silent majority understands all that is happening right now.

            So, what is happening right now?

            A group of thugs tapped into the treasury some 50+ years ago and used it to amplify their votes through blackmail, coercion, extortion, bribery, and force. In essence, a crime syndicate is stealing the vote using money to develop mind control techniques and purchase the free will of other people.

            Now, these people have control of polling data. CNN (and others) use the polling manipulative power to try to create self fulfilling prophesies, but it only works when people don’t know how the hustle works.

            The jig is up my friend, and the people are awake. Polls mean nothing. Corruption means everything. President Trump is our champion, but he is only the figure head. When he’s not in office, the real fun begins because the field will be level and the losers will lose again .. and not just in the polls.

            MATTHEW DOWD, ABC: “I think she’s got about a 95 chance to win this election, and I think she’s going to have a higher margin than Barack Obama did in 2012. Higher margin. She’s going to win by more than 5 million votes. She’s going to win a higher percentage. And itnerestingly she’s going to have amore diverse coalition than Barack Obama even did when you take the final vote into consideration. Every piece of data points in that direction.”

            1. What a diatribe John Dale and it is difficult to respond to someone who appears to be a far right Trump cult member. I’m sure you are highly religious and approve of Trump’s stoic behavior and stoke the flames of white supremacy in South Dakota but your kind are a small percentage of the Republican party and a tiny percent of the American electorate from many population groups rather than just the South Dakota farm community that runs the politics in your state. And no other American matters to you, just your selfish self serving wishes.

              Polls do matter and Hillary won the popular vote precisely what the final polls predicted and like Obama she would have been a horrible president, however a much worse criminal was elected instead.

              Sorry that’s all I can decipher from your diatribe.

              1. Jeff – “I’m sure you are highly religious and approve of Trump’s stoic behavior and stoke the flames of white supremacy in South Dakota but your kind are a small percentage of the Republican party”

                1 – I’m not very religious, have two degrees, am a technologist
                2 – I do not approve of behavior from Trump that is racist .. although I have seen none. On the contrary, Trump’s results with minority unemployment and his track record with minorities from before he was President leads me to believe that the racism claim is a false premise.
                3 – I am not a member of the Republican party (I’m independent).

                So the first three things you wrote are incorrect.

                My diatribe was admittedly somewhat rhetorical and analogous, but what do you expect from a Philosophy major? 🙂

                “no other American matters to you, just your selfish self serving wishes”

                In fact, the reason I support President Trump is that he wants to countermand a very strong propaganda campaign to make Americans ignorant of the new-age attacks occurring against her.

                Fluoride in the water, 5G, fructose in the food, glyphosate on the food, and psychologically weaponized commercialization (Communist command economy in disguise).

                I can defend the following claim:
                I am conservatism .. nothing “neo” about me.

                I do what I feel is right, which is why neither party really appeals to me. I believe both party platforms have been designed by neoliberals and neoconservatives to divide us.

                Note – this is me:
                https://PlainsTribune.com/cc4l

          2. I’m Republican and support President Trump, and I don’t consider myself ignorant. You obviously have a pretty high opinion of yourself to call others ignorant because they don’t believe as you do.

            You seem like a never-Trumper, and you simply have a hatred for President Trump that can’t be overcome by logic or results.

            1. Ok then tell me your wisdom on Trump’s trade fiasco or his border crisis failure. Do you really think you have the knowledge to debate me on these issues given I am only giving you two issues of many to ponder?

              1. The unbalanced trade of the past has resulted in the decimation of manufacturing and intellectual property theft to the tune of billions. The working conditions and back end deals are awful. Both parties contributed and benefited from it. Your trade argument hold zero credibility.

                Most of the polices like the “cages” were implemented under Obama and bt not enforcing existing law through bias judges we have created an incentive to break laws that current politician have supported and voted for. Your inability to call balls and strikes debating you a waste of time. Your hated is obvious.

              2. the trade logic is paying off. I work with the steel market every day. China was selling steel super cheap, much less than American steel. The goal? Two fold, bring the large steel consumers to China, you do that with a lower price. Two, force American steel to close up shop at which point the Chinese essentially own the steel market, a monopoly so to speak. This is a communist run operation, and the business model keeps them in power.

                Once the Chinese own the market they can raise prices as they now have the monopoly. Good on Trump, he saw this. Once tariffs hit, companies began to shop around again, thus making the market place competitive again. Go look at steel prices over last 60 months, you’ll see both sides on this one product. Without equivocation I state, the trade war as we call it with China helped steel prices and cut China off. Companies came back here to buy the steel and not pay the tariff cost. Trump says some dumb things, but he is dead on with china. A 30 year problem will take some pain to fix.

      3. Sounds like you have a lot of TDS going on there, JL. Maybe you should seek help.

        Perhaps you’d prefer Hillary or Bernie?

        He’s done more good for America than the last four presidents.

        1. What has he done? The border crisis? The repeal of Obamacare? Foreign policy of N. Korea? His devastating trade wars? Dividing the country? Signing a bill to lower taxes, a Republican signature bill when the Rs had control of both houses. In reality he has done less than any POTUS in modern history.

          1. Actually cutting the corporate tax rate give the Us a better shot of keeping business profits in the us. Slowly it’s working. Trump should reign in the rhetoric, I’d argue that his policies are the best of any president in recent history. But because its Trump it will never get acknowledged.

            1. Cutting taxes was a Paul Ryan program and the Republican held congress for Trump’s first two years. How about his failure on repealing Obamacare, the North Korean failure, the infrastructure failure, the inability to solve the border crisis, his trade war fiascos, the USMCA fiasco? Other than using a Republican platform on curbing overreaching regulations, Trump accomplished very little. You must be listening to Trump tell you he’s the best president the world has ever known therefore he is. Right?

              1. Jeff – you seem to think that USMCA is Trump’s to pass in congress. Congress is preoccupied with a bull isht impeachment inquiry when it should be looking over Trump’s plans for infrastructure, the wall, and USMCA.

        1. How do you debate facts with a democrat?
          You don’t.
          Democrats in prior years stated and did the same thing that happened to Garland. There is no time requirement for that vote.
          No back on point. Following prior impeachment procedures agreed to by both parties and the constitution, the current situation has no precedent.
          Double standards to fit your ideology is wrong on both sides. It’s like be prosecuted with no defense or legal council. You have the right to council, unless your Trump of course.

          1. I never said, that what McConnell did was wrong. I am just asking how do you reconcile McConnell and Dusty’s positions.

            Oh, and by the way, the right of counsel is found on the Senate side of an impeachment process and not the House side. What you are asking for on the House side is like a seat at a grand jury, or within the prosecutor’s office.

            1. No it’s not. The minority has the right to call witnesses and subpoena them in a normal impeachment inquiry. The Dems are putting on a show. Fallow prior accepted practices They are not. Please do some more research

              1. The “minority,” but not the person of interest. What you have identified are the potential two sides of the inquisitor. Don’t worry they won’t vote for impeachment without an inquiry.

                  1. There’s no “limiting.” Both the majority and the minority will have proper counsel on the committee side regardless of which committee or committees are inquiring.

                    1. Not the ability to call witnesses. Again, read the cooperation agreements that dems and republicans agreed to in prior impeachments.

  5. The dems are hoping by this charade of impeachment to try Trump in the court of public opinion. If you look at his rallies though, I don’t think it is working!

  6. It cracks me up that guys like John Dale, Gary Coe and Sam Kephart can just parachute into South Dakota thinking they can fix things native South Dakotans have been working on for decades.

    1. One of SD’s biggest problems is yellow-bellied louts that don’t sign their names to what they do/write.

      For the record, we came in a UHaul.

      People with ideas like this – “thinking they can fix things native South Dakotans have been working on for decades” – are why SD has been unable to solve its “problems” in decades.

      Perhaps you should parachute out and give someone else a chance?

        1. Tough guys sign their names to what they write. My Grandma would call the Anonymous thing “chicken isht”.

          She would be correct.

          Anon – I came from SD to Guantanamo Bay in the early 1980’s.

          So, DONE!

          Sign your name. Anon is true cowardice.

            1. Dear Anonymous Internet Keyboard Cowboy – I am not a tough guy. Tough guys seek street fights in the middle of the night. That’s not me. Let’s be brave enough to sign our names to everything we write online. You have to admit, that takes some courage .. so, goodfella, care to sign your name? Why/why not?

              But then, this is pretty far off-topic.

  7. Dusty, yes Donald Trump is our president and this is our country and Donald has shown he is not fit to occupy the Office of the President of the United States. His lies and corruption are far beyond what the U.S. culture demands of its elected officials while his actions and departures from the Constitution for his self-gain should make you, a so-called Constitutionalist, pause in your blind obedience to this “bad person”. It is unlikely an Article 25 action against this president will occur, since there are few confirmed Cabinet members left in his administration to write the letter, so impeachment and removal, although a political maneuver, is required to save the Republican party and the United States from his tyranny. Redistribution of wealth is just one of his crimes against the principles of the Republican party by taking tariff money from importers that are struggling and giving it to the farmers as a matter of garnering votes for his re-election, not to mention his abuse of power in the matters of Syria, Ukraine, violations of the emolument clause of the Constitution, etc.

    I would hope Dusty you come to your senses with you limited knowledge of world events, trade, and basic understanding of U.S. politics.

    The Republican party is our party that Donald Trump is making a mockery of. He just couldn’t shut his mouth or get off of Twitter. Those behaviors by itself show he’s unfit to occupy his office. Like many of we Republicans Dusty, we woke up. It’s time you, Rounds, and Thune wake up.

    1. Jeff – I see the same talking point claims coming from CNN (CIA News Network) and other COG lackeys corrupt as the day is long. Yet, the evidence is just not there .. or, it is there one minute (secret meetings), then gone the next (when publicized).

      Trump derangement is all sizzle, no steak.

      It is a mafia afraid of getting caught that will say anything and do almost anything to preserve ill gotten power.

    2. Here Here, Jeff. My name is Matthew Ristau and I worked for the GOP in 2002 and worked for the Pro-Life side on Referred Law 6 in 2006. I have become more moderate in several of my views since I was younger, but still consider myself a conservative. I would certainly be labeled a RINO by the prevailing winds at the Republican Party these days. Above all else, above party affiliation and personal convictions, I believe in the primacy of our constitution. I can’t help but notice, because I am not afflicted by whatever particular rot that has ensconced itself into many conservatives brains, that our President is currently violating many of its core tenants, not to include the nebulous “high crimes and misdemeanors” which seem to be up for debate. I feel that now is the time for people to body declare their allegiance, so that after the ruin of tis utter charlatan has ended, we may take stock of who was for and against this assault on our democratic republic. I will not carry water for someone that violated our constitutional norms with nothing but an uninformed and ignorant shrug, and anyone that did so should be held to account. I am not afraid to put my name to these declarations, I have the Constitution on my side.

      1. Thanks Matthew. I am and always have been a hard line conservative at least on fiscal Republican values and am a follower of the party of Reagan. Having said that I could never follow the likes of Trump considering the very damage you talk about toward our Constitution and our belief in the sanctity of the office of the president. I also have a dog in the fight having lost millions due to Trump’s illogical trade wars. Trump attacked the core of our democracy in going after entrepreneurs and the Republican concept of free trade so most definitively, Trump is not a Republican. At first he was amusing and I was like many on this blog and supported him at all costs. I woke up as have millions of others.

        1. Jeff – “and am a follower of the party of Reagan”

          Pre or post assassination attempt?

          Prior to the attempt, Reagan looked a LOT like President Trump.

          If it meant you could make millions of dollars, would you advocate that the rest of the country lost billions or trillions, or would you be willing to retire the Constitution?

          1. John, please. Your statements are just buffoonery and your lack of reason is clear. Where, by our dealings with China are we losing billions? You certainly are a corn fed South Dakotan who has zero background experience to understand so I’ll leave it at that.

            1. Dear Jeff;

              “Your statements are buffoonery” — this is not an argument. It is an insult.

              “You are a Corn Fed South Dakotan” — You have me stumped here. Why would you insult me, then give me a compliment like this? You’re all over the map, Jeff.

              Chinese manufacturing reduces the velocity of money domestically. It usurps the opportunity of our creative American people to innovate and create value through lowered costs (work is a great ethic, but working hard AND smart is the American way). Taxation opportunity goes down (would rather have taxes be a smaller piece of a bigger pie), incentive to raise taxes goes up in the face of decreasing velocity of money and GDP. A diverse economy favors the many. An outsourced economy favors the few. Favoring the many is the goal of Capitalism and Communism. Totalitarianism seeks to favor the few. Capitalism seeks free markets, which increase innovation and lower costs while Communism relies on theft of the innovative and wealthy to survive, like a cancer.

              The Chinese outsource model reduces velocity of money, increases taxes, and invites Totalitarianism.

              As near as this South Dakota boy can figure (thanks, by the way), arguments against Chinese manufacturing are pretty strong, but consider this – when we outsource to a Communist society like China, we’re enabling theft of innovation and wealth.

              Good day, sir.

              1. John Dale, when was the last you traded anything out of China and I ask that because you know nothing relevant to the truth. I would argue every point as an expert in international trade including 20 years out of China and Russia and 30 years throughout the world and am a spokesman for the largest U.S. industry that need imports so our manufacturers, to produce their products, can compete in the world markets. You see John, I trade commodities to our nation’s factories both domestically and from overseas and in addition export U.S. made goods and commodities abroad.

                Now who do you think knows a little more than you on this subject: You, who gets his talking points from Trump and Steve Bannon, the two conspiracy theorists, or an expert in trade issues?

                If you can’t take the heat of a debate John, I advise you to get out of the kitchen.

                1. Dear Jeff – I’ve worked for 20 years in IT. My China is India. Offshore outsourcing of software manufacturing to India has been a disaster to the US and taken away some of its best entry level jobs for young people to prepare them from the new age economy, maybe moreso than the off-shoring of the manufacturing of cheap, crappy McDonalds toys and other plastics monstrosities since information is itself a currency and a precursor to innovation of many kinds.

                  Labor arbitrage created a large national security rift since information systems can provide recon to find weakness in a nation politically. And, to appropriately attribute Bannon, politics is up stream of law. Control the culture, politics, and law, and you can take over a country without firing a shot (the way that China prefers it). Control the information, control the world.

                  I realize that I’m conflating Indian offshoring and Chinese manufacturing offshoring, but the two things are very closely related, and have the same effects on taxes, wages, velocity of money that I mention (none of which you reasonable address, IMHO).

                  I get it, you are a globalist neocon commodities trader who bet against America and should lose for doing that. You are arguing with a 20 year veteran of IT with a Masters degree in business from The Eller College of Management. To add to that, I have ethics and moral sensibilities driven by my studies in Philosophy (ethics, morality, epistemology, truth).

                  I am not driven by profit as much as I’m driven by value, which makes my analysis seem pretty foreign sometime to brainwashed greedy businesspeople who measure the worth of a person by cash and not by net worth (IP is very valuable, which is why China steals it all the time).

                  Also related to China – if I owned any Cisco stock, I would dump it unless and until they could elucidate a strategy that relies on growth from the municipal installation of fiber. 5G is for the birds .. especially Chinese 5G. If you are heavily vested in 5G technology production, deployment, and maintenance, you deserve to lose your entire portfolio for negligence in the analysis of the ethical and moral ramifications of deploying such a dangerous technology – typical neocon.

                  1. By the way John Dale, I teach MBA students as a guest lecturer and the MBA degree is a wholly overrated degree in today’s colleges and universities, useless as a matter of what real businesses need in terms of productivity and success in entrepreneurships. As an IT guy you should know that Apple would not be the company it is today without China or any high tech conglomerate for that matter. And here’s something else taken from my testimony to the ITC a few years ago that the total China input into the entire U.S. GDP is only 1.2% for fully manufactured goods imported into the U.S. and .6% of our entire GDP on commodities and parts manufactured in China for U.S. assembly. John, that’s less than 2.5% of the entire U.S. GDP however accounts for trillions in total production by U.S. manufacturing units. How is China stealing billions?

                    Trump lies that there is a $500 and sometimes he stretches it to $600 billion dollar trade deficit which is not counting the $387 billion dollar revenue by hundreds of U.S. companies like Apple, 3M, Nike, Sherwin Williams, etc. who manufacture in China and sell within China their goods while its revenues goes on their U.S. balance sheets plus the $141 billion China buys from the U.S. US/China’s deficit is small compared to the European Union and other countries per capita.

                    Why do we go to China you ask? Well U.S. venture capitalists won’t invest in many industries to manufacture goods as in building materials and most other manufacturing industries other than high tech, internet, and solar power sectors as is not a sexy investment for these so-called U.S capitalists. But China will, so we go to China who will invest in these sectors to produce the demand of the U.S. consumer. There is also the issue with populating U.S. factories with people who are willing to work in them as they cannot even hire enough workers today to fill all the positions let alone following the stupidity of Trump to bring all these factories to the U.S. Whose going to man those factories John Dale?

                    So your masters degree in business shows me you didn’t learn anything in college and lack the experience and knowledge of trade, especially out of China. You should also note that the biggest problem trade has had is crooked U.S. corporations violating U.S. trade laws for financial gain and a federal government who won’t enforce their trade laws. I’ve been involved in that for decades.That issue has caused a lot of grief for U.S. domestic manufacturers and trade companies, something they probably didn’t teach you in school.

                    I also suppose that federal agencies asking me to work with them to corral these corrupt U.S. companies do so because I don’t know anything about macroeconomics and the trade issue in general.

                    John Dale, I suggest you tell your high tech companies to learn how to deal with the Chinese (which is what this entire China war is all about) as their inability to run their companies correctly is the problem, not the Chinese. If Americans ask the Chinese to invest in factories and tooling and then the Americans flee sticking the Chinese with an investment in capital and brick & mortar buildings then you realize why they take the IP and recover their losses. Appears the only ones having the problem of IP theft is the tech industry; we don’t have that problem but we also know what we are doing.

                    In essence, John Dale, you know nothing on the issue and probably should stick to IT issues, that for which you were trained and leave the other issues to those who were trained in them. And please start a regiment of critical thinking rather than listening to inept politicians and right wing know-nothing commentators and you will be a much smarter American.

                    BTW, Cisco’s mistake was of their own making and deserve to lose in their Chinese business interests. Not everyone is as dumb as Cisco was. But John Dale, that’s business. Try and export something to Mexico even with NAFTA; you’ll see what a real corrupt country is for trade purposes and yet your three amigos here in South Dakota back the USMCA, the worst deal in the history of trade deals, behind NAFTA, in not dealing with Mexican dumping into the U.S.

                    I would hope you have learned something here, if not, than keep your nonsensical views to yourself if you can’t come to a debate with an open mind and respect authority.

                    1. Jeff – I have my Master of Science in MIS (it’s not an MBA) with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from McGuire (ranked 12th in the nation).

                      If you’re teaching MBA students, you might want to tone down your rhetoric about the quality of their degree. Yikes.

                      “we all know the reality to be to the contrary” – This kind of statement puzzles me (proof I’m not a know-it-all). How could you know that with such certainty? We’ve never even met? Surveillance capitalism? I worked before I got my degree. I worked while I got my undergrad. I worked before I got my graduate degree. I worked after I received my graduate degree. It’s Sunday, and you know what? I’m working.

                      “you are the one that elevated this conversation to name calling…just check back through your diatribes when you first responded to my response” — where is the quote? Are you sure it wasn’t just the fact that I said something you disagreed with, or perhaps made a relevant point that made your position look weak? You’ve called me an extreme right wing extremist (whatever that means), among other things. I have tried my best to keep my comments focused on the things you’ve written, provided quotes, and been honest even when that means I’m not kissing up.

                      “and quit due to their lack of knowledge and forethought” — I think I agree with Anon..this conversation is going nowhere pretty fast. Jeff you imply I’m a know it all, while making statements like this. It gets heated in the forums sometimes. I’ll chalk this strangeness up to that.

                      “considering I knew more than the professors” — Jeff, everybody knows something others do not. When we humble ourselves to that disposition, it strengthens our own positions. I see a certain arrogance in your writing suggesting maybe you’re a little bit entitled and perhaps somewhat overqualified to do what you’re doing. I hung tough and got the Masters (not an MBA). There were a couple of times when I wanted to give-it-up, but I suck with it and got my shingle. I have continued my education in work ever since. IT moves fast. Very fast, and it takes all of my energy to keep up with developments, but I also like to take the extra step of marrying what is happening in technology to what we’re doing in policy.

                      In closing, IT codifies the logistics that makes all aspects of manufacturing possible these days. Computer Science (my undergraduate minor and painstakingly acquired skill of 20+ years) controls the machines that do much of the automated assembly. IT IS MANUFACTURING. In my estimation, and I think you will agree with me, is that IT has over extended its welcome in manufacturing by threatening to consume it completely and sideline people doing those jobs without a plan to prevent harm to the work force.

                      In terms of conservatism – I much prefer a model where we can augment human labor with technology tools to reduce error, increase throughput, and increase product quality, but that always has a real person in the supply chain loop. This is a conservative position. The singularity is an extreme position that threatens to replace people with machines. No thanks on that.

                      That said, being in IT gives a unique perspective on what is about to happen in manufacturing in the next 50 years. It is ALL IT, and we have machines that make the machines that make the things. The singularity is here, in effect. So, how do we transition the labor force? In this paragraph I have given you the key to diversification of SD’s work force. You’ll have to lead the target, and put humans first.

                      I respect your passion, but you’ve flown off the handle and started attacking me personally (denigrating a degree – the MBA – that you incorrectly assume I have, disregarding all of the things about me that have nothing to do with my education, distilling me down to those five letters MS MIS, and trying to sweep me aside as an educated idiot when in fact I have a lifetime of experience that would probably serve one of your teams very well if you could calm down). However you have obtained it, I think you have received some poisoned information regarding me. I would be happy to correct the record, and if you’d be willing to sit down in a deposition, I’d be interested in hearing more about where you heard these things about me.

                      Have a super day,

                      John

      2. Matthew – “violated our constitutional norms”

        What norms have been violated by President Trump?

        Do you think that the US is under attack through the UN and Agenda 21?

        Are globalist banks leveraging the Federal Reserve to redraw America’s borders and steer the resources and culture?

        Was JFK really assassinated?

        Would our government’s power be infiltrated and used against its people?

        Not a RINO, but a Neocon.

        1. One can see why John Dale is a Trump supporter, he is yet another conspiracy theorist like Trump, Bannon et al.

          1. Jeff – you’re dealing with some very high minded, advanced arguments that require you to fill-in some blanks to understand.

            When I was studying Philosophy, I often found myself in the same position until I worked at it. Understanding takes work and dedication, much like working a shovel or driving a rig.

            Put in the work, increase understanding, contribute meaningfully to the conversation.

  8. John Dale, once a buffoon, always a buffoon. You have no experience to make a sound argument and remind me of one of the climate activists that act just like you do from the left side of the spectrum. Yes John, I’m also a scientist and have been working on the climate issue for decades with the top U.S. and world top scientists as skeptics. In fact one of my colleagues worked for the White House recently as Director of the Office of Emerging Technologies & Science and the White House climate liaison to counter the green new deal. I was co-founder of Prop 23 in California along with fighting over regulation against the national resource industries in the state and the U.S.

    We were hurt badly by Obama, however Trump is far worse. Trump is also a friend of the American unions and John Dale, that ain’t no Republican. Before you comment, learn a little bit about these issues, including trade, rather than parroting your favorite right wing extremist television opinion commentator.

    I am also from South Dakota, born here and here temporarily, to help diversify its economy but find it an impossible task considering the lack of issue IQ in this state by its residents.

    A philosophy major, now that’s a contradictory in terms. My philosophy of you is you are a parrot of far right wing commentators.

    1. Jeff – how do you know when you’ve won the argument? When the insults start. How do you know when you’ve destroyed the opponents argument? When they keep hurling the same insults at you.

      Regarding climate science, I take a very conservative approach and think that stuff like this makes it really difficult to make a decision (link). Do we hedge and guard against mother nature, or conveniently become anti-human and seek drastic population control measures. With data like this, it is apparent that we should consider a citizen scientist initiative that works like the census. Rather than paying out government welfare to globalist corporations for things like TARRP, we should be paying our own citizens to audit the federal reserve and take more accurate weather data/samples:
      https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/5/climate-change-whistleblower-alleges-noaa-manipula/

      If you’re in charge of the diversification of our economy, I can’t say with confidence that a sound America first agenda is driving that diversification. You seem to be one dimensional – sell-out to China and other globalist interests, take it in the shorts with velocity of money, incentivize governments to raise taxes to keep people paid, and keep innovative ideas away from the high schools.

      Listen, I will help you. Just ask, but get our your checkbook. It may require you to actually pay an American citizen.

      Sincerely,

      John Dale, MS MIS/Entrepreneurship
      The Eller College, The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship
      The University of Arizona

      1. John Dale, many of the MIS degrees are awarded by online courses and while pursuing these types of degrees is okay, they don’t stand up to the degrees in the STEM fields that cannot and are not offered for online courses and degrees. For example, physics, chemistry, biology, … the hard sciences, are not available online and that is my background along with engineering. I wish I could have earned them online so i wouldn’t have to sit in the endless lab classes.

        1. I attended all of my classes in person at a top flight university that lead the mission to discover water on Mars.

          Computer Sciences and ways in which they can be ethically and most usefully applied should be the top area of study in US high schools and universities right now.

          STEM is all the rage. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, China, Eastern Europe, and India seem very happy we’re not as focused information systems and surveillance.

          The third eye. We must own the third eye. It’s a matter of national security and the continuity of the republic.

          Be the rancher or be the cattle.

  9. Wow John Dale, you are really what we call in industry one that if they can’t do it, teach. So you with zero experience other than your academic background working at an obscure program at the UA actually thinks you know more about trade and now climate as do experts in the field?

    Recall John Dale, you contacted me, not the other way around so your whining about insulting you is irrelevant, you the quintessential academic know-it-all when we all know the reality to be to the contrary. Your bragging about a Master’s degree in business is uncanny and also typical of the arrogance and failure of today’s education system giving note to grade inflation where no one fails and is a lazy and easy life for its professors…and why they do it.

    I work with PhDs in physics et al and economics from Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and hundred of universities across the country and globe yet I don’t hold a PhD but are able to debate and win climate science and the physical sciences debates. Why because I studied and sought out and befriended real academics and private industry scientists of the highest caliber, not your typical university academic professor who lacks the prestige of success in their scientific field. This also holds true for business issues concerning trade where I currently debate these PhDs and DBAs and John they can’t hold a candle to those who have developed their skills over decades of real-life experience. Books do not teach 99% of the knowledge needed in real life.

    So John, knock off the sarcasm as you are the one that elevated this conversation to name calling…just check back through your diatribes when you first responded to my response. That and get off your horse and note that you still remind me of a lunatic left wing climate activist, one with a political science degree or law degree who thinks they are real physical scientists. It elevates your diatribes to the extreme far right category in comparison to the extreme far left socialist progressive.

    BTW, these same political scientists and lawyers all whom lack any trade experience are manning the United States Trade Representative Office and those are the lackeys making the decisions on trade. I have been appalled at how dysfunctional their knowledge is in debating them one on one. And they even agree they have no experience yet the South Dakota three amigos, Thune, Rounds, & Johnson will only take their factoids, factoids without substance just because they work for the federal government. I did also work for the feds, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and quit due to their lack of knowledge and forethought. These agencies are political John, remember that.

    BTW, my Chinese products were invented in China and only made in China and will take over the U.S. building industry as it already has in Europe. They will save lives as are fireproof and waterproof and resists all insect and mold damage. There is no venture capitalist interested however will dwarf the high tech industry competing in a U.S. $7 trillion dollar building and building product industry.

    Free trade made this country; you are a protectionist and sway far away from Republican idealisms. No more responses from this end; I’ve wasted enough time on yet another extreme far right extremist.

    BTW, I have four academic STEM majors in a BS degree. One of them is multiple times more difficult than a business degree and I stopped my MBA effort as a waste of time considering I knew more than the professors.

    1. If I might also correct the record, Jeff.

      “you with zero experience other than your academic background working at an obscure program at the UA”

      I worked at The University of Arizona College of Ag post graduation, and did independent contracting with them for years. I had a great time working with Arizona farmers and ranchers, and wish I could do more to help them. Luckily, finally, we have a commander in Chief who understands strategically how to make life better for US farmers and ranchers, but there will be some change costs.

      I have worked for/with:

      8 billion dollar publishing company.

      The largest credit union in Canada.

      Billion dollar research institution.

      For/with new venture startups.

      250 million dollar hospice company.

      Law enforcement.

      You can find more information and my statement of capabilities at the link below. Who is not telling you the truth about me?

      https://GrowingBusinessSolutions.com

      Also, you should know, my #1 project that gets most of my time right now is my family.

      1. Is it okay for Trump to attack everyone that disagrees with him by Twitter? Since you’ve attacked everyone on this thread with your grandiose comments that you know better than everyone else then I can see why you support Trump, a Trump clone for sure.

  10. Jeff & John-

    You both just made yourself look like petty and petulant people. Grow up and learn to disagree without being disagreeable.

    I personally think Pence would be a better POTUS than Trump has been- but then again I’d rather dance with the devil I know, than the devil I don’t.

    Trump’s trade war is killing South Dakota Ag producers on top of a terrible year for them, they need to wake up and find a better option.

    I’ve yet to discover a South Dakota form affected by Chinese intellectual property theft- not saying it’s not happening just not really relevant.

    One of my parents works in a factory in South Dakota, we need to pay our labor force better in this state to keep people here instead of leaving to other states.

    I think there’s nothing wrong with going through the process – but it should be transparent and an open process.

    1. I tried, but this buffoon, John Dale, keeps coming back for more. He attacks me and then responds its the other way around. Chinese IP theft is a non-issue and only affects the high tech industries who fail to track and orderly protect their IP. Trump has sold the American public a lemon of a used car in his tradewars and has accomplished nothing, albeit that is not what he brags about on Twitter. The USMCA and the Japan deal are basically one in the same of NAFTA and the former deal with Japan with no discernable increase in US GDP…actually it will be zero. Other than an increase of $70 million in milk product exports to Canada there are no benefits over NAFTA and a lot of disbenefits in billions of dollars in higher priced American cars to be paid by the consumer. Trump never tweeted about that did he. But those that know a little bit about trade, and there are none in South Dakota that do, it was a easy shady sell by Trump to those here and other states where trade is not a staple of the economic system and who know better and see a con artist at work.

      Yes, the agriculture industry will lose markets for decades to come and it is the U.S. that has lost face, not Trump’s trade targets.

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