Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
You know who is laughing right now? Nikki! Haley is, because Kristi Noem may have derailed her own electoral freight train as it rolled down the conservative governortrix tracks toward the GOP nom in 2024. Now, Nikki! is a total non-starter, though she doesn’t seem to realize it. Her astonishingly weak submission to the forces that hate us – she was not to be seen at CPAC because she would have been booed – has totally killed her dreams, though the GOP establishment has this fantasy that she can cruise into the White House by pretending to be hardcore when she’s just Jeb! in a skirt. But Noem has – perhaps had – a future as a conservative conservative, and her utterly insane unforced error last week has hugely damaged her prospects. There are lessons here, people.
What did she do? She vetoed a bill defending women athletes from the insanity of letting men dominate them and then offered the most weaksauce weasel word explanation imaginable. Here tweet thread trying to explain it was lame; her appearance on Tucker was condescending gibberish. Watching it, woke cons started out disappointed with her and ended up infuriated at her. Here’s the irony – Kristi Noem stepped on her Ted Lieu in the context for a transexual policy issue.
It was really quite remarkable how amateurish and totally unnecessary it all was, but we’ve been seeing a lot of this lately. Recently, Greg Abbot decided to label all of Gab’s users “anti-Semites” because…well, who knows? It’s one of those things that you do that ticks off the base while the liberals continue to hate you. Good plan.
On the plus side, it lets us disqualify the weakhearts now.
It’s unclear who told Noem this was a great idea, but that person ought to be exiled to one of those other Dakotas. It’s 2021 and there are Republican consultants who still think the base is dumb. SMDH. The base is not dumb. The base is based. And we’re not going to be fooled with painful tweet threads and interviews about how 2 + 2 = 5 and how we need to not fight because it might make our enemies angry with us or – horrors! – cost us something to make a stand. Noem decided that instead of holding strong on an issue that conservatives care about, she would not merely rollover to the tech/Chamber of Commerce lib axis but also attempt to talk us into thinking this was just a routine administrative decision and that she is totally behind us 100 percent.
Except she isn’t.
We’re not stupid. Is she? Because if she thinks that conservatives, the cheated-on spouses of American politics, are not hyper-vigilant to any sign of betrayal then she’s too dumb to be our prezzy. We’ve been shafted too many times, and she is hallucinating if she thinks anyone will get a pass – including her. One of the most basic things we expect GOP politicians to do is protect our girls from getting clobbered by boys pretending to be girls. This is not one of those fringe issues where we’re, “Yeah, okay, sometimes you gotta compromise.” This is foundational.
But she didn’t see that? I hope not. Her best case is that she was dumb instead of squishy. But it begs the question of whether if she shafts us on this – and this was an easy call – then what else will she shaft us on in office when the Establishment tells her to?
Cons aren’t psyched to find out. Fortunately, we have other options who don’t roll up into a ball and sob when the establishment whines.
Perhaps we dodged a bullet with her pulling this now. I got a weird vibe when I met her at CPAC, in the hotel bar, when her handlers had brought her to mingle with the activists. It was deer/headlights time. It was clear she wanted to be elsewhere, and she seemed to make no connection with the activists. She was pleasant, but I was not particularly impressed. Sure, she says she likes guns (but after this, if a bunch of corporations tell her to support “common sense gun laws,” will she just nod?) and she dresses like Annie Oakley, distinguishing her from the bitter wine moms that make up the Dems’ suburban base.
She has impressed us with her COVID paranoia-resistance in the past, but that and the fact she is not a hideous crone are literally the only things you hear about when people talk about her. She is the governor of a small state we don’t think about much – hey, haven’t we been down this road before? – and now we have to worry that she’s weak. We know she’s totally tone-deaf.
Yeah, those are problems.
Candidates, understand this. We are woke. We expect you to be woke. Period. If you don’t know what time it is, it’s time for you to go away.
There’s no way to split the difference, no needle-threading or insulting “explaining” that will mollify us. We didn’t like Trump because he was on TV (we didn’t watch that crap), or because he was an ideological conservative (he was not), or because he sent mean tweets (okay, a little). We supported Trump because he fought for us and did not compromise with the people who hate us and want us disenfranchised, subservient, or dead.
Noem did not fight for us and she did compromise – she said on Tucker that she was afraid she might lose! – and now we will always have to worry that she will go all 1940 France every time the other side cries.
I don’t know if this killed her chances. I, and the many conservatives who have expressed their disgust at this cowardly surrender, are not quite Never Noem like we are Never Nikki!, but Kristi is on double-secret probation.
One more failure like this, one more awkward flirtation with Jeb!ism, and Noem shall henceforth be assigned the ironic explanation point that identifies an establishment supplicant.
Kristi, you better get it together or we shall know you as Noem!.
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Norm should have signed the bill into law while working with other states to stand against future bullying from the NCAA. But, she has only hurt herself with those who only read the headline.
Noem said, “I won’t let Conservatives on the Right bully me.”
She has a 58% lifetime score while in Congress from the Heritage foundation.
She is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Tucker obliterated her.
So long, Noem! We hardly knew ya.
More like a sheep in wolves clothing…
Yes, and she’s not the Anti-COVID restriction fighter that she claims to be either. Yes, she refused to issue lockdowns/a mask mandate. But South Dakota is still under a state of emergency even though “cases”, hospitalizations, and deaths are down significantly since December 1. Local tyrants still have mask mandates in 4 of the 5 largest cities. Kristi! should have done what DeSantis did and quashed these petty tyrants by issuing an executive order banning these mandates, but she did nothing while galavanting around the country with Trump. Forget the presidency, she’s going to be hard-pressed to get re-elected governor now in one of the reddest of red states.
To be fair, the Heritage Foundation is just neo-lib light.
I think that’s why former Senator Jim DeMint left and formed his own ngo.
Is HF still all retired military officers ?
I am sure the main requirement is still how hard they are willing to fellate on AIPAC.
Just about all Vichy-GOPee call themselves conservatives. 58% is an F score for us white supremists…
Don’t excuse it like there was more to it than the headline, as though more sophisticated people understand the necessity of her action. She caved. I could tell before this that she’s a phony. The female John Thune.
Not that I waste alot of time on it, but I have advised my state’s people to get banded together with the other red states.
Plus you silly girl, the NCAA won’t give you a tournament now just out of spite cause they know you’re a chicken.
I had recruited several young engineers from South Dakota and not once was disappointed with any of them. Bright hard workers who would listen and learn and a few sought out leadership positions. I’m guessing several of them-if they went into politics-could do a better job for their home state than does Noem.
For the most part, I agree with just about everything Kurt stated in his article. What is left unsaid and where I’m at is, what difference does it make now? Unless there is voter integrity in EVERY STATE, which I never see him mention, no conservative on the right has a chance in hell of winning. And, even if the voter integrity issues were worked out, which is the longest of long shots, 98% of any elected official is offered big bucks to compromise and, if that doesn’t work, they get to watch the Zapruder film of what happens when you don’t play ball.
IT’S ALL THEATER!
Sorry, Kurt, you are several veils behind on waking up to reality in today’s world.
There’s probably still a margin of fraud that a Republican presidential candidate could overcome. If it used to be 1-3%, it’s probably now up to 5-7% with mail-in ballots and other malarkey. I can imagine Kamala Harris getting flushed in 2024, but how much difference will it make? Politics follows culture and American culture is fucked.
It was 5-7% in 2016. 2020 was upwards of 20% in battleground states. Any given district or state can be subject to massive fraud. The machinery is all there, it just takes the money to get it organized. Most election rigging is done at the primary level and always has been. Usually by simply having the same people fund 2-4 candidates for the various parties.
Joe and Greta for 2024?
The cool thing about reading Schlichter’s stuff is that he lets you know right away when he’s pushing bullshit. In this POS he announces: “It’s 2021 and there are Republican consultants who still think the base is dumb.” That’s because you voted for baby bush, cheney, romney and mcshit. Dumb doesn’t begin to describe how stupid you are. Kristi was just playing the odds. Libertarians like to call Dummos the dangerous party and Repos the stupid party. Any questions?
And Libertarians are the pot smoking Idiot party….
I agree. Voting is for suckers.
Cancel your voter registration-it’s easy to do online.
Head in the clouds insanely delusional party of “our utopia is better than yours” AKA LOLbertardians. Ultimately the US Constitution (such as it is) is not going to hold up well under the weight of any ideology.
Pfff, her career isn’t over. She’ll be rewarded with an UN Ambassadorship.
Remember, Nicki removed a flag….
It’s over. Between this and not banning mask mandates, the conservative people in SD have had it with her. She’s going to have a hard time getting re-elected governor, if she even runs.
Maybe she and Lynn could open a liquor store on the Wyoming/South Dakota border.
Nah…she’ll be a VP on the ticket.
We’re talking bout the GOP.
When the citizens of her state passed a measure in Nov. to fully legalize cannabis (a couple of years ago they nearly passed a measure that would have completely legalized cannabis – just no more laws, not more regulations with legalization, just NOTHING….real freedom…while this bill was the typical “freedom” with lots of government restrictions, etc.), she had her AG successfully fight the measure in the state Supreme Court saying that the people made a huge mistake in passing the initiative. She is the classic republican – no real principles to stand on whatsoever. A big talker when it comes to freedom and liberty, but either a sellout or one who simply cannot fathom individual freedom and liberty when push comes to shove. Glad to see that she has been exposed early on. Those of us who knew better about W. Bush got shouted down time and again that he was just saying what he was saying to get elected. Then we had 9-11 under his likely coordination.
Exactly. They are useless.
Amen. It took 40 some years of being a Republican, but it is starting to sink in they never had any real principles.
That’s not what happened. The bill as written violates South Dakota law. You and other potheads will be glad to know that the medical marijuana bill passed and you can now get your precious weed if you have a medical excuse.
They did and said the same thing in OK. Ultimately, the state and local’s opted to tax the crap out of every step of the process after initially trying nullify the citizens’ vote. Even with the max tax, the mj sales are off the hook in OK.
Guns will be illegal to card holders….it’s coming.
It’s hard to name a woman in national politics who isn’t a Jeb!…Maybe impossible…Women are natural appeasers and egalitarians…
And after 7 years of marriage they no longer get horny.
Joni used tell the story of how she’d fix the little boy pigs in the spring roundup.
hmm, up close there’s a lot of bondo…
I like your comment and will use it without attribution.
I honestly don’t get why men go gaga over her.
Her cheekbones make her look part indian
Saw a pic of her a month ago that showed the back of her arms-hideous wrinkles in need of lots of Bondo. Fast forward to yesterday’s pic of Merkel’s hands/wrists that make her look 10 years past death.
Maybe the ‘pubs need to find an attractive, dumb blonde???
I’m at the point where if a person actually desires to participate in the system as it now exists, I don’t trust them.
Noem is done in the MAGA world. Was very hopeful, but she is dead to me now. It is a mortal wound. she has revealed who she really is. Better to know now, than later. 95% of politicians are deceitful, strictly self serving parasites. Most of the 95% are hopelessly corrupt and evil.
You are much too optimistic, the real figure is 100%.
Do I hear 110%?
Noem= Butt-Ugly Heifer.
Here’s my take on candidates: if he/she looks like an asshole, then they’re worse than they look. Noem looks like a butt-ugly asshole.
My take on candidates: every one of them is an asshole or they could never get nominated.
Selling your soul causes a lot of personal stress in the first few years and makes you less and less photogenic. But later on it becomes second nature.
Doesn’t make one bit of difference. There will never be another election. The left will never allow the dirt people to have a voice again.
Of course there will still be elections-they have massive propaganda power. It’s just that they won’t matter.
Oh, Legal Scholars. Very Scary.
Matt Walsh … “Legal Experts. shut up with that.” LOL!!!!! About 22 minutes in.
Wanting to be a politician of any sort makes me wonder about her and the rest of the psychopaths in office. I’m not sure voting is worth it anymore. I think I will just try and deal with the people from both corrupt parties and how they want to make my life harder. I just opt out on BS.
I still can’t believe even boomers are so feminized that they think a CINC should be a woman in a sane society. It is literally as ridiculous as saying a woman can have a penis.
I take issue with the last part of your comment.
I feel sorry for your man
But my man is queer.
Michelle-aka Big Mike
Shame on Kristi Noem or any politician who thinks they can force this crap on us. It will never work.
When the biological male wins the females race, tag its win with an *.
* First place in women’s mile is Rachel* (*= biological male).
For the first place winner among the competing biological females, tag her win with a + after her name.
+ First place in the biological women’s mile is Susie+ (+=biological female).
Give the grandstand honors to both winners, one fake, the other real. This will embarrass the crap out of the fake female winner, and people can decide on their own who really won.
A man dressed as a woman, claiming to be a woman, will not be embarassed of anything.
Women should never have a political office, but even worse are the men who seem to want women in office.
Be awake – not woke
The gun toting chick from Western Colorado seems to be a straight shooter and is not yet afraid of all the hyenas amongst her. Her administrative experience is as owner/operator of a popular restaurant-but maybe has enough common sense and appeal for veep in the 2024 race. I think she could roll the Ho in any debate.
So? What are you, some kinda fuckin republican over there?