Guest post: Pierre is a shit hole part n

Watching the South Dakota Republican Party kicking the shit out of one another is invigoratingly therapeutic and South Dakota's favorite former teevee anchorperson Shad Olson isn't known for pulling punches.

In the age of false narratives and the desperate uniparty push to fill the looming post-MAGA power vaccuum [sic] in Pierre, South Dakota, Representative Phil Jensen is just the latest and once again whipping post for defamatory claims and bad treatment by "true fighters" legislative leadership.

In culmination reprise of the 2025 attempt to remove Jensen from his seat on the House Education Committee, Leader Scott Odenbach, through his sidekick, Jon Hansen, finally finished the task, calling Jensen "disruptive," removing him from the committee and replacing him with Representative Liz May, a Hansen for Governor supporter and a special session "YES" vote on the billion dollar prison debacle.

Pay attention to the adjectives, the history and the motivations. Jensen has publicly endorsed Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden for Governor. He sports a perennially near perfect voting score over 18 years as a lawmaker and is a frequent target of leftists, RINOs and of course, illiterate jabberjag RINO blogger, Pat Powers.

Critical smear artists describe Jensen as "disruptive," "belligerent," "radical," "extremist," "hostile," "far right," etc. The usual list reserved for anyone who not heeled to the woke agenda and equally averse to the neoconservative corporatists who pose as "true fighters" in Pierre while overseeing continued domination of state policies by AFP and the selling off of South Dakota utility companies to BlackRock, Vanguard and the World Economic Forum.

Phil's real "sins" and the reasons for his punishment reside in his membership of the Freedom Caucus, his endorsement of the only outsider, non-career politician running for Governor and his well earned status as a gold standard of conservative voting score that exposes purported "conservative" leadership as frauds and duplicitous pretenders to the throne.

In the wake of a clearly pretextual kerfuffle over an Education Committee seating chart shakeup on the first day of session, sources say Leader Scott Odenbach's expressed threat to no less than four other conservative Education Committee members was to remove them en masse, presumably to pave the way for committee passage of his latest attempts at AFP-approved "School Choice" dictates and whatever other monstrosity RINO crank Lana Greenfield decides to inflict on her Ed Committee fiefdom.

Last year, Representative Phil Jensen was thrown off of his House Education Committee Vice-Chair after introducing a bill to temporarily defund the Huron School District as a vehicle to highlight that district's systemic nonresponsiveness to female student complaints about a male student who was using female restroom facilities at Huron High School.

Jensen's 2025 Huron school defunding bill was later withdrawn as House conservatives succeeded in passing Representative Brandei Schaefbauer's HB 1259, an outright ban on men in women's public multioccupancy bathroom, lockerroom and changing areas. After House and Senate passage, interim Governor Larry Rhoden unceremoniously signed the Schaefbauer transgender bathroom ban bill into law.

Despite demonstrated courage for hotbutton issues and the toughest of political fights earning her constant blowback of threats and intimidation from the isnanity of the political left, Schaefbauer herself has been similarly targeted and maligned by House leadership for similar motivations. Schaefbauer, like Phil Jensen, has endorsed Toby Doeden for governor. Schaefbauer, like Jensen, voted against the billion dollar prison project and has been an outspoken critic of backroom tactics and troubling reports of quid pro quo in the final prison vote tally.

So, Jensen is out. Liz May, duly supplicated to the Hansen ticket and a self-described "crazy" "YES" vote on the September 23 prison boondoggle is in, as the Odenbach-Hansen appointee to fill Jensen's Education Committee seat.

And the beatdown goes on.

Jensen, Schaefbauer, John Carley, Dylan Jordan, Logan Manhart, Josephine Garcia and others have been summarily targeted by Odenbach mouthpieces and Hansen-Lems sycophants, despite sporting more conservative voting scores than the people casting stones from voting record houses made of Tiffany glass.

Obey, [bend] the knee, shut your mouth, or stern private excoriations by Odenbach and Hansen will be followed by public defamation and distortionary destruction campaigns by the Pat Powers-Katie Hoffmann Tweedle-Twaddle tagteam.

Such is the persecution, retribution and vindictive small man treatment doled out by the Hansen-Odenbach-Lems-Beving-Pat Powers AFP consortium in these early days of the splintered and doomed 2026 legislative session that is fulfilling every easy prediction for acrimonious stench and grassroots schism beneath the scorched earth power scramble of the upcoming GOP Gubernatorial [sic] primary.

It's Pierre, [after all]. And the idiot RINOs are in control.