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South Dakota\u2019s legislative bodies wrote a law to keep boys and men from competing in school sports as women.\u00a0 Fearing that the NCAA and their corporate sponsors would punish South Dakota she caved and attempted to neuter the bill at the collegiate level.\u00a0 That bill has now died in the veto override process.\u00a0 Noem has supposedly covered the two age groups, college and pre-college, with separate executive orders to achieve the same effect as the original bill and is reconvening the legislature in May to address this issue again.<\/a><\/p>\n

So, what happened here?\u00a0 I think the firestorm of criticism that she received from conservatives has frightened her.\u00a0 She has been rightly applauded for her intelligent and courageous handling of the COVID crisis.\u00a0 This has raised her national profile to a level where lots of people are mentioning her as in the running for the 2024 republican presidential nomination.\u00a0 The last thing she can afford to do is look like a waffler on a social conservative hot button issue.\u00a0 This is very similar to what happened to Mike Pence when he had to walk back the religious freedom law in Indiana when the LGBTQ mafia threatened him.\u00a0 I think what she\u2019s hoping to do is get a do-over.\u00a0 I think she knows now there is no way to finesse this thing.\u00a0 If she takes a strong stand and the federal government comes after her, she\u2019s still better off than just caving ahead of time.\u00a0 Plus, several states have also signed similar legislation.\u00a0 Joining with them to come up with a united front to promote their position and maybe brain-storm a common strategy to combat the federal attack is a reasonable approach.<\/p>\n

Even if Governor Noem does manage to walk back her earlier cowardice I don\u2019t have confidence that she\u2019ll have the courage it will take to stare down the feds once the guaranteed Supreme Court betrayal occurs.\u00a0 But it is possible that one of the other governors will have the cojones to tell Washington where to go.\u00a0 That would be something to see and could act as the first example of state nullification of unconstitutional federal laws.<\/p>\n

At this point I think it\u2019s only a fifty-fifty chance that any of these politicos have the grit to stand their ground but at least it shouldn\u2019t take too long before we know the answer.\u00a0 And from my point of view that\u2019s all we\u2019re looking at here.\u00a0 We\u2019re waiting to see if there is any leader who wants us to rally around him.\u00a0 The common people are no match for the KGB.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have the resources to win a war against a well-armed and well-organized secret police force.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to take the legitimately elected governor of a state along with the backing of the legislature and people of a state to stand down the FBI when a gangster administration decides to crush us.\u00a0 That\u2019s what it will take.\u00a0 But do those things exist anywhere in this country?\u00a0 I assume we are about to find out.\u00a0 And once we find out that answer each of us can then make our own decision.<\/p>\n

So good luck Kristi Noem.\u00a0 Choose wisely.\u00a0 Your political career and a lot more depends on whether you pass the test you are about to take.\u00a0 You flubbed it the first time but you\u2019re going to get a do-over.\u00a0 Don\u2019t waste the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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