Olson on South Dakota RINOs

Editor's note: Americans for Prosperity is a Koch-soaked dark money group masquerading as a grassroots organization that has an agent in tiny Sundance, Wyoming in a state where Democrats are threatened with violence if they even run for public office. 

South Dakota's Earth hating legislators and candidates have enjoyed millions in lobbyist benefits from the Kochs' contribution arm, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the state's junior senator was elected with cash from ALEC-backed National Federation of Independent Business. It doesn't take long to follow the money from these guys to the TEA movement and to Donald Trump's lunatic fringe. In 2015 reporter Lee Fang discovered that the Trump campaign roster read like a Koch/AFP tabloid.  

South Dakota's Political Porker squeals with glee over the efforts of the Koch-powered AFP and pretends to be offended by the uncoded misogynistic hate speech being delivered in the center ring by the leading performer in his party's clown show. And, Kristi Noem's anti-civil rights actions are no accident because she's a graduate of ALEC, an anti-think tank think tank that teaches how wedge issues raise campaign dollars for the extreme white wing of the Republican Party. 

But if the Southern Poverty Law Center can expose Moms for Liberty as a hate group why isn't AFP so branded? 

South Dakota's favorite former teevee anchor, Shad Olson pulls no punches as he again exposes Pat Powers and other Republicans In Name Only as the stinky floaters in the public pool that they are. The following appears at Olson's Faceberg page.

So, small preview of the carnage, mayhem and stupidity that awaits in 2026 and beyond in the imploding personality conflict disaster of the South Dakota grassroots.

Dakota First Action and Liberty Tree PAC will now wage candidate wars against each other, mostly with Liberty Tree attempting stupidly to unseat lawmakers with 95%-plus conservative voting scores under the auspices that only Liberty Tree and their leadership are qualified to select "good, solid, grassroots, conservatives."

This is the same organization that ran the single worst homeschool legislation in the history of the state, nearly gave away family curriculum control to the Department of Education and split the Pierre conservative caucus down the middle. A split that now appears permanent, as I rightly predicted.

Kristi Noem planted the seed, passed off the AFP horseshit HB1020 into previously dependable legislative hands and fooled the foolish into believing it was a "School Choice" bill, despite a first line of the legislation that limited all future curriculum choices to approval and purchase via the Department of Education "Marketplace."

Hint: Anyone stupid enough to be fooled by that nonsense has ZERO business choosing equally myopic and compliant canddiates to join the AFP-AIPAC subversion of what was six months ago a very promising groundswell of a promising and durable conservative supermajority.

As I said contemporaneously, in real time, 2025's HB1020 was the original sin sabotage of the movement and much of the reason for loss of trust in the exact same "let's have a summer study," legislative "leadership" that now expects total support and compliance in the 2026 gubernatorial showdown.

Nope and nope.

Just for fun, someone should run a "2025 South Dakota Super-Duper 2nd Amendment Lovers Firearms Freedom and Free Ponies Everyone Act" and have it contain a single line banning all firearms sales and ownership in the state along with a South Dakota nullification of the 2nd Amendment. Hell, maybe it could also include Kristi Noem coming back to home base to personally confiscate and execute all privately owned ponies in her gravel pit, just for good measure. After the guns are confiscated, of course.

30% or better would read the title, vote for it on name alone and sit by their mailbox for weeks waiting for their "free pony." And then make Rumble clips wearing curlers and mumu calling anyone who actually read the contents and rightfully recognized and opposed it a, "RINO."

"You voted against Firearms Freedom." Right.

HB1020 was exactly that bill. A "School Choice," trojan horse for total DOE thought control. And those who championed and defended it are still out of the loop and no less comical. Now, they admit they'd vote for Joe Biden before supporting a self-funded MAGA patriot who more than anyone else, is financially responsible for getting grassroots candidates elected to the 'supermajority" that's been thoroughly squandered.

Good news is, things will get much simpler after conservatives blow off their remaining good foot and no longer have any committee control or legislative power in Pierre. Simpler and more familiar that way.

"Proven leadership."

"But we fought the pipeline better and more prayerfully than you did...."

Yep. You sure did.