This is fascinating. If you want to know what a combination of desperation and an utter lack of imagination look like, here is your tutorial. Kristi Noem is down at the southern border and she is giving hell to a fence post. I mean, she’s waling on it. She looks like “she’s jacking off an elephant” and other irreverent comments which have been made, but that doesn’t stop her, away she wales. This is to hammer home the concept to her constituents, I guess, that even though South Dakota is closer to the Canadian border than the Mexican, Kristi Noem is going to save you from whatever might come across that border. Because if I was a South Dakotan, I would worry myself sick over migrants crossing three states and almost 2,000 miles to get to me. Wouldn’t you?
@kristinoem is using Morse code to contact the puppies she's buried over the years to tell them she's going to shoot their mom and dad too. pic.twitter.com/I6Q8SUxBT8
— Jamison Daniel (@AntiquarianMuse) May 18, 2024
Puppies and baby goats, get ready, Noem’s going to effect a family reunion. She can bang on the dirt as much as she wants to, she’s finished in politics. Donald Trump is not going to pick her as VP and she’s finished in South Dakota. She’s banned from a large portion of the state that she purports to govern. The Hill:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has been banned by at least six of the nine Native American tribes in her state as of Wednesday, after she made comments earlier this year the tribes say were offensive.
Relations between the governor and the tribes have been strained since she took office in 2019, but her comments, including saying tribal leaders benefit from drug cartels, have caused the tribes to vote to ban her in recent months.
The most recent tribe, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, voted Tuesday to ban Noem, and one tribe’s vote, the Yankton Sioux Tribe, is still up in the air. Nevertheless, Noem may soon be unable to step foot in about 20 percent of the land in the state she governs.
Here’s what you need to know about the bans.
The Oglala Sioux Tribe became the first tribal nation in South Dakota to ban Noem from its land in early February. The tribal president released a statement banning Noem after she made comments about the U.S.-Mexico border in late January.
Noem delivered remarks to the state Legislature during which she said South Dakota would send more resources, like South Dakota National Guard Troops, to Texas as it dealt with the influx of migrants arriving at its border, calling it an “invasion.”
The tribe’s president also pushed back on Noem for placing blame on President Biden for the border crisis.
In April, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe became the second tribe to ban Noem from its reservation. Members of the tribal council were frustrated when Noem unexpectedly showed up at the quarterly Pe’ Sla meeting March 29 in Rapid City.
The tribe’s chair claimed Noem attended the meeting with cameras to use it for “her agenda,” Indian Country Today reported. He also criticized Noem for her comments about drug dealers.
“We’ve got some tribal leaders that I believe are personally benefiting from the cartels being there, and that’s why they attack me every day,” Noem said at a town hall in Winner, The Associated Press reported.
That was a stupid, MAGA-esque comment to make, and the Native Americans weren’t having any of it. Following that crack the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe intergovernmental affairs officer told The Hill “that many tribes believe Noem doesn’t respect or ‘fully understand’ tribal sovereignty.”
She doesn’t understand a lot of things. Noem is pure MAGA. Her qualifications are meager and her ego is huge. She wants to get cosmetic procedures done, have photo ops, and be like Donald Trump. Somewhere in her heart of hearts she knows he’s a complete moron but I daresay that excites her, the realization that a know-nothing can wield such power. She wants a piece of that action. That’s the siren call of MAGA, right there, take advantage of this time in America when all morality and common sense is in a state of flux, if not out and out suspension, and go in and pull a TV takeover. Look good, say the right things, and the rubes will vote for you.
Doesn’t look like that plan is going so well, Kristi. And your career as an author is stalled. I guess you go put in an application at OAN, what’s left of it. Or maybe Steve Bannon will give you a job. He’s tight with Lewandowski, we hear. Get Cory to get you in the door.
Lewandowski already had his fling with Noem and moved on to new “conquests.”