While some legislators like House Majority Whip Brandi Schefbauer and State Rep. Dylan Jordan are busy snuggling up to the nuts who want to shoot down airplanes over made up chem trail paranoid fantasies, I wonder if the former Democrats now running the South Dakota Republican party paid any notice to this rally that happened in Sioux Falls:
A crowd estimated in the thousands protested Saturday in downtown Sioux Falls as part of a nationwide movement to resist President Donald Trump’s agenda, with attendees focusing on the protection of things such as abortion rights, Social Security and free trade.
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There were also protests in Pierre and Rapid City. The South Dakota chapter of the national 50501 Movement (50 protests, 50 states, one movement) was an organizer, saying that the protests were staged to “resist executive overreach, defend democracy, and oppose the harmful policies of Project 2025.”
Not sure when the last time a crowd of more than 1000 people got together to complain about anything political in Sioux Falls, much less attend a rally against the President/GOP.
If the economy is not able to rehabilitate itself in the next year, or we’re in a drought, or both, it could be a bad mid-term election for the Republican Party. When fortunes changed from Democrats to Republicans in a couple of statewide offices, it was the Obama midterm election.
Something to pay attention to.
You truly are a leftist, Pat. Anywhere else, you’d be an open Democrat.
THERE. THIS. This wretched knee jerk attack pattern played out on on mainstream Republicans, calling them Democrat to shame them into silence. Fight back. Fight for your own freedom, fight for your vision of the GOP or these Trump jerks will keep voting your proxy for you like this.
Next up: turds attack Reagan and Thomas Jefferson as leftist plants and demand a return to the 3/5ths rule.
Go ahead and ignore the next election, and see how that goes for you.
Anonymous 11:39 is practicing some intellectual laziness.
Pat’s been carrying water for the elephant since Moby Dick was a guppy. Few have done more over the past 25 years.
Now, we have Obama/GOP folks attacking real Republicans like Pat. George Orwell couldn’t have written it better (that’s an author who’s books you maybe can still find in libraries if you knuckledraggers ever take up reading)
Lee, the fact that you still use Obama as an equivalent boogeyman to the unhinged idiocy of the likes of Travis Ismay and Logan Manhart is exactly the same kind of pandering sensationalism to not-so-closeted racists that empowered these delusional jackasses in the first place.
This morning, at the Conservatives with Common Sense Breakfasting, the opening rant will be delivered by a fellow from the Valley who has had it, craw full, with these RINO Internet Populists. Prepare for a good rousing before your gravy taters and sausages.
Instant gratification crowd.
How dare they oppose policies that are tanking their retirement, laying off hardworking Americans, and the spurning of our long term allies.
They just need to suck it up and suffer for the glory of Trump and his Billionaire Butt-Buddies yes? All hail MAGA, reality and truth be damned yes?
who is getting laid off, besides government employees? The national jobs report was good. Better than expected..
The retirement fund we all should be worried about is the imaginary fund called Social Security.
The only way to keep that Ponzi scheme going is to get more people into the workforce at higher wages, and the best way to do that is to bring manufacturing back.
Lots of places are announcing large layoffs. I don’t disagree we need to bring manufacturing back but it must be done over a period of time and with precision. Doing it in a week with a machete is going to screw a majority of us over while the wealthy buy everything up.
well as Joe Biden said, back in December 2019, in Derry, New Hampshire, those laid-off workers need to learn how to code.
As opposed to what, the Baby Boomers (aka the ME generation), the most spoiled, shortsighted, and narcissistic generation in modern history?
There has never been a more self-entitled tantrum throwing crowd than MAGA. Ever.
MAGA boomers would have been mentioned by Dante in their own special circle of hell.
They are very narrow minded fringy political extremists. They just cannot help themselves. It is who they are. Markets tank, retirements are wiped out, more hardships across the board and they are on to the next hell bent driven culture war bills. What next? cameras in bedrooms? That action is not approved!
Don’t know much about nothing at all, but I do know this…
1. The markets were long overdue for a correction, and it’s doing so right now — almost entirely through institutional investors, not individual like myself — and, as usual, the reliably atrocious experts are wrong and blaming tariffs. Good grief, that’s not tanking, that’s economics. We’re still well ahead of where we were two years ago. Anyone who follows the Dow and Nasdaq daily is a fool. Buy and hold.
2. Just like markets, political parties must rejigger to adjust to new circumstances. It’s uncomfortable, but necessary. If we are in a tizzy about every little thing, we lose sight of the bigger picture. Mr. Schoenbeck is among our smartest and bestest legislators, but even he freaked out a decade ago at this site about some long-forgotten issue. Then he regained his balance and went on, and we were blessed with his leadership again. I’m confident the GOP as a whole will do the same after this latest episode.
3. Finally, the “nationwide protests” are not grassroots, just people who’ve never made anything or ever provided any service of value. The one thing they get paid to do is protest. They’re now protesting saving people money the government and Dems waste and steal. Why should conservatives pay attention to such ilk? Frankly, I like our crazies with harmless chem trail fantasies than their crazies whose fondest wish is America’s collapse.
You’re only right about one thing, you don’t know anything.
Rather than go ad hominem, as you did here, please tell me where I’ve gone astray.
1. If it was a simple market correctiom, I’d agree. But noticed how the market ping ponged every time a tariff was announced or retracted? He is creating market instability, which is TERRIBLE long term as he destroys investor confidence.
2. This “phase” has only accelerated since Trump became the de facto leader. What makes you think this will suddenly just change course, who knows? You just kinda asserted it.
3. You pulled this directly out of your butt with zero evidence, so I am going to respond in the only way it deserves: Nope. You’re dumb.
Anonymous at 2:28…
1. The market pros look out for their own interests, not yours or mine. Their “confidence” is driven only by profits, which overcomes instability, which is a good thing.
2. I’ve been a Republican my entire adult life. I’ve seen how all the smart people tore into Goldwater and Reagan, who strangely were attacked for almost exactly what you bring up. So I’m not at all worried about the latest cycle.
3. Try to keep up with the news. The Tesla attacks have all been staged, and this “Hands Off” silliness is the next iteration and a complete farce. Hands off what? Latin gang bangers? Fraudulent government programs? Phony fed workers who can’t name five things they’ve done in the past week?
1. The need for profits is hampered by instability due to a capricious President who lashes out with tariff and annexation threats. Please, stop trying to sell this nonsense.
2. K, so still no reason other than you said so.
3. Still. No. Evidence. Then you move the goalposts and start ranting about latin gangs, for some reason. Stay focused, Cliff.
No evidence, you say? The Left stopped protesting for free back in the 1970s. It’s all highly orchestrated and choreographed these days, and paid for by Soros and friends. There are receipts…. Why do you think pallets of bricks were so conveniently available in M-SP when people rioted after Saint Floyd? Or Kamala letting rioters would get her help if they’re arrested? Or the preprinted signs for the anti-Jew mobs?
There’s a reason you call yourself Anonymous. Perhaps your handle should be Brave Sir Robin.
So, still no evidence provided for your claims, just reasserting it over and over again. You suck at this, Cliff.
Chickenshit. Still no proof
Cliff – you guys always laugh and say “Let Trump Be Trump” when we bring up specific and serious complaints. I hate even responding to your blithely dreamy pink-skied world you live in as you presented it. It’s wrong in its deepest fundamentals.
Every one of us who voted against Trump SAW HIM CLEARLY last year, laying out all his tariff-loving NATO-hating reign of retribution. We voted no, and we are at the mercy of you Cliff and your like minded Trump fans.
Trump has offended and alienated all of our traditional allies – making us alone in the world. The damage Trump inflicts on our economy through his treacherous policies is magnified out in the world as well. His cozy affection for Putin is another reality that you all laugh off and we who really took time to study this guy are sick to death of your apologetics and blind trust in him.
He will never not belong in prison for 1/6/2021.
blah blah blah.
Here’s what had been happening for the past several years: something cheerfully described as a “jobless recovery.” That is what happens when the people who have invested in companies which moved their production overseas get great returns on their portfolios but the people who work for a living were trying to stay afloat on shrinking wages and higher cost of living.
This is just another way of explaining how the rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer.,
It’s really a form of colonialism, profiting off cheap labor overseas, while the larger population at home can’t find jobs that pay enough to support their families.
The resulting income inequality has a destabilizing effect on society. The elitists have managed to convince large numbers of people that Trump is to blame.
You have just described and lambasted the social class Trump hails from, and holds in highest regard. He told them, THEM the rich not US po’ folk, that he Trump was about to make them all super rich. That you blame Trumps main billionaire buddies for our problems, but not Trump, is crazy. He and his rich buddies are playing us all.
Trump is attempting to bring production back. That is the whole point of imposing tariffs.
The middle class depends on production work. It is hard to climb out of poverty when the only jobs are service jobs, because service jobs don’t pay enough.
I don’t recall Trump ever promising to make the rich richer. I do recall him capping the deductions for state & local taxes, a measure which really hurt the very rich who could no longer deduct the property taxes on their multi-million dollar homes. the sales taxes the paid for luxury goods, etc.
The overall problem is that jobless or service-focused economies result in income disparities which destabilize society. You have the very rich, who enjoy high returns on their investments in overseas production, and the poor, whose only job prospects are in pool and lawn maintenance..
History has shown us this doesn’t end well. We need to bring back the production jobs that sustain a middle class.
Anonymous at 11:40…. Trump has the best common touch for a GOP politician since Reagan. Construction and factory workers, farmers, and Walmart clerks vote for Trump because he’s the first politician they’ve heard that speaks to their concerns and does something about it. The rich and comfortable are the ones sweating the disruptions. No matter what happens, though, they’ll come out fine. The rest of us, though, trust Trump to have our backs. Let’s see how it plays out.
You trust a billionaire to look out for you while he has spent his entire life looking out for himself? It’s either a cult or you are just gullible, or maybe both. Trump’s first term was nothing more than a giant wealth shift and you poor souls are begging for it again. Dumb.
Nothing says “common touch” like defecating in gold toilets. So down to earth. So friend of the little man.
Trump has a consistent world game plan, with the tariff-job-creation and hammering of NATO causing all good things to bloom. The problem is that he unveiled that plan to the world of 1988, and he’s implementing it as if it’s always 1988. As they used to say on Mythbusters, “well there’s your problem.” You people who enable him are the problem.
“When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”
Republicans are terrible for business.
All of us who actually know our history, instead of incessantly chanting about the importance of history while deliberately remaining hypocritically ignorant about it, have been aware of this for years.
PP is right, the midterms are shaping up to be very very bad for Republicans. This is not an ordinary market correction – this is financial calamity brought on by one man with a few bad advisors. I agreed with DOGE, but they jumped the shark on this one. They will throw us into a massive recession if they stay on this path. Uncertainty and for a lot of people less income is really not good and won’t make America great again. Trump wants things to be like they were in the 60’s and they want us opening up manufacturing plants – Wake up – Americans don’t want those jobs. We’re not going to make Nike shoes is America when we can make them in Vietnam and pay employees $5k a year.
I’m starting to think that we need to stop electing people almost 80 years old. Trump is going to lose a lot of support over this misstep.
I love that anyone who dislikes the actions of MAGA is a dem now, fine, I guess I’ll be a dem then. We are taking a massive gamble on disrupting at stable economy the last two few years for something, and we don’t really know what. No more income taxes? Lower prices on goods that will somehow drop? I don’t understand the end-goal here, and if we don’t get results those same MAGA people will just say it was the dems fault, again, when it doesn’t work. How about taking responsibility, I see the gamble and am not excited about it, that doesn’t make me a raging liberal, that makes me a free thinker.
but it is not a stable economy. The rich have been getting richer, the poor have been getting poorer, and the middle class has been shrinking. As investments and production jobs have gone overseas, younger people cannot afford to buy homes, have children, or save for their own retirements. There is nothing stable about this situation. It will lead to economic and social catastrophe.
Better shoot down aircraft because chemtrails, then.
Looks like the South Dakota political class are showing their leftist stripes.
I take that back. They’re showing their corporatist tendencies.
Now they want to include the South Dakota Civil Air Patrol for military action against chemtrail spreading military and civilian aircraft. It is doubtful the Civil Air Patrol will attain the speed or altitude to do much since their mission has historically been so different.
Btw! How will these conspiracy nuts be able to get ground to air or air to air missiles? Illegal arms market? illegally obtained US military surplus shoulder fired stingers?
just train Canada geese to fly into jet engines