South Dakota Delegation Slams Park Service Decision to Cancel Rushmore Fireworks

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South Dakota Delegation Slams Park Service Decision to Cancel Rushmore Fireworks

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), and Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) issued a statement after the National Parks Service denied South Dakota’s request to hold a national firework display at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day, citing “health and safety” and the opposition of tribal partners.

“Let’s be clear, this decision is political, not evidence-based,” said the members. “President Biden just said himself that Americans can safely gather by July 4 – what’s changed in a day? Last year millions watched the celebration in awe, and it’s a shame the administration is denying Americans that opportunity this year.”

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7 thoughts on “South Dakota Delegation Slams Park Service Decision to Cancel Rushmore Fireworks”

  1. Dual sovereign nation? Nation States? Enumerated powers? Is this not a decision our governor has the power to make?

    I’m sure DJ, JT and MR are familiar with the Federalist Papers.
    Is a statement as far as their stand will go?

  2. Noem should invite Trump again, and follow with a laser light show. I bet the crowd would be even bigger this year!

  3. Makes Biden look petty and highlights his “President for all Americans” was just a lie to get elected.

    1. You blame Biden for this? I don’t agree, but if that was indeed the case, maybe Noem’s acknowledgement that the election was free and fair (which she never gave) would have made a difference in this decision.

  4. Seems like so many of our problems today are solved with insistence of re-running clean POTUS elections in AZ, GA, PA, MI, and WI. If the legislatures in those states pass reform, decertify legislatively, discover ballots tampered, invalid, evidence destroyed, it is our responsibility (theirs, too) to re-run the election. Period. Nobody is president until this happens. Thune made a grave error with his whip, and the military is likely in control of the country with Bitin’ Biden propped-up in a stare-at-goats super genius Army hustle? It raises the value of last year’s show. I would like to see that happen every year, and to see if there is something that can be done to prevent or clean up the mess.

    Warning, the following is one of those stunning derivations that I have become South-Central-Spearfish-across-from-papa-murphys famous for: I have a sinking feeling that, related to this event tangentially, the reservation system in the US will come to an end and statehood will be an option as would being absorbed by surrounding states. Over time the fragmentation will grow creating dangerous divergence in unshared ideology. While most of us would be somewhere in the middle, the fallout of sovereignty of tribal nations will be violence between the extremes, and innocents always get caught in the crossfire. I mean for gosh sakes .. what’s next? Will the US native population start building walls around the reservations?

    1. Fragmentation due to the signals being sent out by the 5G frequency network. It will be the end of the world as me know it.

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