I’m in their heads! I’m in their heads! ha ha ha ha!
32-Year Democrat and South Dakota Republican Party Chairman Jim Eschenbaum gave an hour-long interview to one of the “so hard right they’re left” kooks, Katie Hoffman out in Spearfish for her Rumble channel.
Was the first topic how much the GOP is going to raise over the next cycle? No. Was it about the challenges of what the party may face in the upcoming 2026 general elections? No.
It was about… me.. One person described it to me as “PDS” or Powers Derangement Syndrome, but I told them I prefer a cruder “PMS,” as in “Pat Powers is a MF Syndrome.”
Either way you cut it when it’s the absolute first thing out of their mouths, obviously I’m under their skin.
“So first, since Pat Powers likes to, know, dig on us a bit, I thought it would be fun to talk about how he likes to give you a hard time about being a Democrat. At first, I guess. And um, if you wanted to just give a brief background about your political journey, about where you started verus where you are now…”
“I will. Um, And On the topic of Pat Powers, I never, ever go to his site. Almost daily Katie somebody says ‘you need to go and see what Pat Powers is saying about you.’ I said I refuse to give Pat Powers a click. The South Dakota GOP fired him from their uh ranks and relationship for a reason.. because I think he’s extremely liberal myself. But whatever. He can.. We live in a free country and he can say whatever he wants to say. But I don’t bother myself.. I do not bother myself with going to see what he’s posting on his site.”
“I have posted on his site in the past. Never once without signing my name. To what I posted on his site to what I say, and he will delete your comment if he doesn’t like it. I will not… He’s as bad as Mark Zookerman. I left Facebook because Mark Zuckerberg censored my speech. I will not tolerate that. On that topic, I give Pat Powers very little credibility because he will not engage in open and honest conversation if he deletes your comments and manipulates the narrative. So.. we got off on Pat Powers…”
I guess he’s spent a lot of time contemplating Pat Powers, eh? According to my records, despite his whining about his comments I’ve allegedly deleted, his narrative doesn’t match reality, since I can’t find a single comment that actually was rejected as being off-topic.
So, there’s one thing he’s untruthful about right out of the gate.
But, as one of my daughters noted to me “If you ain’t got haters, you ain’t poppin.” Word.
I did find amusement with the chair calling someone like me liberal, yet he defined his vote for Obama in terms of liberal identity politics, where he voted for him not for the content of his character or ideas, but literally because he was black. But that was thrown out the door when he was faced with supporting a woman (Hillary Clinton) for president. In that instance, he cited a trail of bodies behind her, as if he spends too much time on conspiracy chat groups.
The one thing that troubled me in the hour long puff piece was later in the interview was when the interviewer was asking him if the South Dakota GOP, like the Montana GOP, could kick people out of the party.
Katie Hoffman asked. “The Montana GOP censored some of their legislators for working with their democrats. We had um like Drew Peterson outright admitted in an article that they worked with Democrats to get stuff done. I don’t know how this all works. Does that pique your interest at all?
“I’ve had 2-e-mails already are we gonna do this. If I wanted to take that power upon myself, I suppose I could say here’s what we’re gonna do. I would never to that without a vote of the entire Central Committee that is properly convened and voting at a scheduled meeting with an agenda. There would have to be a vote for censor, and a second to that motion, the discussion allowed and a vote.
Why does this bother me? The Montana GOP did not censor anyone. They CENSURED them.
Censor: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
Censure: express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement.
Good gosh. If they are too stupid to know what they’re talking about, pick up a damn dictionary.
But I suspect the SDGOP not having a clue what they’re doing is going to be trending in South Dakota politics for some time to come.
Kris Hoffman is nuts. That whole fraction has gone way off the rails.
Add Karla Lems and Mark Lapka to the censure roll. Every Democrat in the legislature voted for their HB 1052, and Dakota Rural Action, Farmers Union, and Frank Kloucek were proponents in committee. Kick ‘em out!
Thune is working with Dick Durbin on year-round E15. Kick him out!
https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/4/thune-durbin-ask-trump-to-permit-the-nationwide-year-round-sale-of-e15-fuel
Probably should note Hoffman lives in Belle Fourche not spearfish. I doubt they want to claim her.
Every single one of the “kooks” has been created, inspired and motivated by His Orange Majesty in the White House. Every day, as the markets tank and the tariffs rise and Elon’s chainsaw wreaks havoc on libraries and museums and scientific and medical research and Meals on Wheels and Head Start and virtually every other worthwhile institution in America — it’s getting harder and harder for you “reasonable Republicans” (including our poor unfortunate congressional delegation who have been either in hiding or traveling incognito) to continue spewing your insincere lip service to the conspiracy maestro whose tune you all still dance to. Even the billionaires and sweaty podcasters are starting to utter words of anguish that sound a bit like buyer’s remorse. One by one, the scales are falling from their eyes. Finally they can really see him. Sad!
you’ve thought about this a lot.
None of us grassroots patriots vaccinate and are lookin to attend these upcoming Lincoln Day and Natural Immunity Booster Dinners. We may show to these dinners sicker than dogs puking, coughing, drenched in sweat but we know exposing others and gettin exposed will boost our immunity. That is what we patriots do! Finally new leadership!
This is what we get with an election system that empowers the fringes.
I painfully watched the first couple minutes.
‘As a democrat, I never voted for a pro choice candidate.’ But yet voted for Obama twice. The moral conviction is astonishing.
LBJ could be linked to JFK’s assassination.
Brings up scorecards on republican legislators.
He just confirmed he is still a democrat and in serious need of a speech coach.
At the Central Committee meeting at which these malcontents voted to discontinue Mr Powers’ printing and mailing services to the SDGOP, I opined “I think they just bombed Pearl Harbor” and my husband remembered the famous adage “never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.”
Pass the popcorn.
Anne, I really think they make far more of trying to cancel me than I did. It meant I wasn’t going to do a 4 page newsletter anymore that I gave them a deep discount on, and no more deeply discounted ad on my website.
It didn’t stop me from helping candidates, which is my bread and butter. And it’s certainly not like the party had (or has) any money to do publications, because of the toxicity that a number of the central committee members brought to the process and caused people to quit donating to the party.
Off and on the party can be a good partner to do business with, or a bad one. I remember a number of years back eating a several thousand dollar bill on the promise that if I did, they would advertise with me the next year. And of course when it came time, it was a new chairman and they went back on that promise.
Since that time, There was another change, and I then I had a good long run of working together to get Republicans elected. And that time came to an end when the populists decided that it’s all about their feelings and not electing Republicans to office.
There may come a point in the not distant future when the Republican Party cares about electing Republican candidates again. If that’s the case, then maybe we can find common ground.
If not, NBD. I will just find other people who share my goals of getting good people elected.
Good people includes members from the Democrat party. You have acknowlege that you have no interest in Toby Doeden, but if he becomes the nominee, does that mean you will support in your view most qualified for the job or the fact that he is a Trump Republican override whatever the Democrats provide.
Toby won’t become Governor. You might as well ask me something else mythological, like what I would do in the face of chemtrails?
Agree with all this. Stop deleting posts based on political content. If people act rudely or disrespectfully, I get it. But deleting posts, particularly any about Noem, has gotten out of hand.
I’ll let this one stand, simply for purposes of response. Off-topic posts – such as this one – are subject to deletion, as are those using proxy servers to spam/astroturf the system. If you disagree, then start your own website and you can manage it as you choose.
How is he off topic?
Statesman work across the isle, Peterson, Thune, me.
When you are trying to do what’s best for the state, it’s necessary.
Zealots lock themselves in their echo chamber, worship their score cards and celebrate their tribalism.
I’ll stick with the Statesman. Thanks
Did you just call yourself a statesman? I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard anyone call themselves a statesman.
Travis Ismay does it all the time. Declares himself a statesman and not a politician. And then threatens librarians. You know, like a statesman would do.
Sun Tzu?
Statesman Sun Tzu to you
Statesman Sun Tzu to you.
gesundheit