Nader on Trump

These disparate groups—members of Congress, bar associations, the small business community, medical, public health and scientific societies, civic groups, religious groups, former presidents and retired military—must pull together to save our Republic.

— Ralph Nader (@nader.org) June 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM

I suggest a FOURTH OF JULY announcement to Declare Our Independence from the unstable, self-anointed King Donald—the embodiment of the deepest fear of our Founders—and press for the ultimate remaining remedy, wisely foreshadowed by the framers of the Constitution...

— Ralph Nader (@nader.org) June 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM

...Donald Trump's IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE! -R

— Ralph Nader (@nader.org) June 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Marty Two Bulls 'toon worth a few billion words

Remanding most land in the public domain to the people who were here first can't happen soon enough.

Another bear at risk to South Dakota Republicans

In South Dakota over a hundred native species are at risk to the Republican Party including the endangered pallid sturgeon, paddlefish, black footed ferret, northern long-eared bat, the black-backed woodpecker that feeds on bark beetles and a bird that actually walks underwater – the American dipper, just to name a few. 

So, how would the presence of moose, wolves and bears in eastern South Dakota not automatically make them candidates for endangered species protection? Because Republicans hate the Earth.

'Train Trek' schedule released

From my inbox.

Hello Everyone, 

I am pleased to announce that All About Northwest will be holding a series of "Train Trek" presentations across South Dakota next week discussing the FRA Amtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study findings and what we can do to bring passenger rail back to South Dakota. The Study found the routes across South Dakota are feasible, defensible and could, in fact, outperform other routes across the county. 

https://fralongdistancerailstudy.org/

Kicking off Monday evening in Sioux Falls, we'll travel to Canton (Lincoln County), Fort Pierre, and Wall before wrapping up Thursday evening in Rapid City.

We hope you can attend to learn more about bringing long-denied passenger rail services (and the economic benefits they bring) to South Dakota.

https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/make-your-voice-heard-and-demand-congress-brings-passenger-rail-through-south-dakota 

Presentation Schedule

Sioux Falls

Monday June 23rd, 6:00pm

Siouxland Libraries Downtown Library

200 N Dakota Ave

Sioux Falls, SD 57104

Hosted by All Aboard Northwest

Canton (Lincoln County)

Tuesday June 24th, 6:30pm

Lincoln County, Board of County Commissioners Meeting

Lincoln County Courthouse, 6:30pm

104 N Main St
Canton, SD 57013

Hosted by Lincoln County, Board of County Commissioners

Fort Pierre

Community Youth Involved - Nonprofit Organization

Wednesday June 25th, 6:00pm [Central time]

19 E. Main Avenue
Fort Pierre, SD 57532

Hosted by Fort Pierre Chamber of Commerce

Wall

Wall Grand Hall

Thursday June 26th, 3:30pm
501 Main Street
Wall, SD 57790

Hosted by Wall Economic Development Corporation

Rapid City

“The Hive”

Thursday June 26th, 6-8pm
512 Main Street, Suite 160
Rapid City, SD 57701

Hosted by Visit Rapid City

Conclusions

So please come down and learn more about bringing passenger rail services back to South Dakota. We deserve the same freedom of mobility, economic opportunity and quality of life that passenger rail services bring communities in many other parts of the country. 

Please share this with your networks for anyone who may be interested in these things. 

Thank you South Dakota!

Dan

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Dan Bilka

Co-Founder & President, All Aboard Northwest

Coordinator, Greater Northwest Passenger Rail Coalition

Blue states are more patriotic: WalletHub

Hi Larry,
 

With the Fourth of July approaching but America troubled by issues like high inflation and mass shootings, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2025's Most Patriotic States in America, as well as expert commentary.

To determine where Americans have the most red, white and blue pride, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 13 key indicators of patriotism. Our data set ranges from the state’s military enlistees and veterans to the share of adults who voted in the 2024 presidential election to AmeriCorps volunteers per capita. Below are some additional highlights from the report.
 

Top 20 Most Patriotic States
1. Virginia		11. Alaska
2. Montana		12. Utah
3. Vermont		13. Kansas
4. Colorado		14. Wyoming
5. Oregon		15. Iowa
6. Washington		16. Idaho
7. North Dakota		17. Hawaii
8. Maryland		18. Nebraska
9. Minnesota		19. Kentucky
10. New Hampshire		20. Delaware

 
Key Stats

• Blue states are more patriotic, with an average ranking of 21.21, compared with 28.13 for red states (1 = Best).
   
• Alaska has the most veterans per 1,000 civilian adults, which is 3.2 times more than in New York, the state with the fewest.
   
• Minnesota has the highest share of adults who voted in the 2024 presidential election, which is 1.4 times higher than in Arkansas, the state with the lowest. 

 

Best, 

Diana Polk 

WalletHub Communications Manager

Source: WalletHub

Olson escalating scrutiny of SDWC

Editor's note: it's always exhilarating, hopeful and reinforcing watching two despondent GenXers like Shad Olson and Pat Powers pounding the shit out of each other.

The assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and the attempted slaying of another Minnesota lawmaker and his wife early Saturday motivated quick action by South Dakota legislative leaders who moved today to scrub lawmakers' private addresses from the state's legislative website in effort to protect them from similar attacks.

The move comes too late in the case of a few conservative legislators who've been targeted for doxing and exposure to violent threat by deranged political activists and even at the hands of jettisoned former SDGOP blogger, Pat Powers, who eleven days ago, published the private home address of Aberdeen Representative Brandei Schaefbauer under the guise of "investigating" Schaefbauer's connections to Aberdeen businessman, rental real estate investor and MAGA gubernatorial candidate, Toby Doeden.

During the 2025 legislative session, Schaefbauer sponsored House Bill 1259, signed into law by Governor Larry Rhoden, to keep biological men out of women's private spaces including bathrooms, locker rooms and sports and activities travel sleeping rooms. The controversy over transgender use of public restrooms and other women's private facilities swiftly made Schaefbauer a target of violent threats and online harassment by leftist haters and "trans allies," who consider words violence but oddly see actual death threats a proportionate political response.

On his political commentary-turned-tabloid smear factory website, South Dakota War College, Powers' publication of Schaefbauer's private home address simplified search and verification work for nefarious actors seeking to confirm Schaefbauer's whereabouts, just days before the lawmaker assassinations and additional attempts in Minnesota.

Previous 'War College' posts found Powers publicizing the private address of Clear Lake Representative Dylan Jordan as well as the addresses of Jordan's father and grandparents. Vital details for three generations of a South Dakota lawmaker's family, no waiting, thanks to RINO scum blogger, Pat Powers.

South Dakota Codified Law 22-19A-1 defines stalking to include willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly harassing another person through electronic, verbal, or written communication. This could potentially apply to doxing activities if the doxing constitutes harassment.

Federal law is even clearer, making the intentional dissemination of physical location a federal felony if it can be proven as an intentional attempt to expose the victim to harassment, intimidation or violent threat.

Doxing has become weapon of choice on the part of leftists and establishment political ideologues who use community gangstalking and intimidation as a means to subject opponents to the whims of the violently unhinged social media flashmob.

Sensing the urgency of the moment and hoping to avoid similar tragedy in South Dakota, legislative leaders from both parties acted decisively Saturday to remove lawmakers' home addresses from state internet sites and issued a joint statement, mourning the deaths of Minnesota Speaker Emerita, Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, as well as the attempted murder of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

"As leaders of the South Dakota House of Representatives and the South Dakota Senate, we are heartbroken by the senseless act of political violence against our fellow lawmakers and neighbors in Minnesota. We stand together to strongly condemn this attack, which has deeply shaken the Minnesota Legislature."

"We mourn the tragic loss of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. Our deepest condolences go out to their loved ones, colleagues, and the people of Minnesota."

"We are also keeping Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in our prayers as they fight for their lives. We stand with their family and community during this deeply painful time."

"In this moment of grief, we also pray for peace, compassion, and a renewed commitment to civility in Minnesota and across our country."

Read it all here.

Gaia poised to strike DC

#SPC issues Day 1 Marginal Convective Risk at Jun 14, 19:54z for LWX Link

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— IEMBot Baltimore/DC (@lwx.weather.im) June 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM

LawCo biker shootout leaves one dead

Well, that's one way to reduce the number of Trump loving bikers in the Black Hills and with the deaths of Lyndell Petersen and Mac McCracken that's three fewer Earth haters living in South Dakota.

Powers still attacking his fellow Earth haters

Pestiferous pug, Pat Powers is persisting in his feces flinging at his fellow Earth haters most of whom have far more firepower than he has and even know where he lives.

New prison would incarcerate more Natives

Anyone believing African-Americans, Latino-Americans, or American Indians are disproportionately imprisoned because they are more often criminals is wrong. In fact, white people per capita commit at least as many drug-related crimes than their non-white brethren o amigas. 

In South Dakota alone mass incarceration fuels the white foster home industry: a pet project of a Republican former governor's wife and the state's relations with tribal nations trapped there are at historic lows. Racism is endemic in South Dakota, especially in reservation border towns like Rapid City and with guidance from the Koch's American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC Republicans routinely pass legislation that disenfranchises Native voters.

While Native Americans make up one-tenth of South Dakota’s population, they make up 35% of those in state prisons, according to Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit public policy group. [South Dakota set to spend $2 billion on prisons]

Even though Mitchell is already a prison residents there have convinced local politicians to protest putting a new dungeon south of town. 

In a related story, South Dakota has hired a former CoreCivic employee as the warden for its state penitentiary as Democratic New Mexico US Senator Martin Heinrich calls for ending the contract Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE has with CoreCivic at a prison complex in Estancia.

Poll: Trump is circling the drain

NEW Economist/YouGov Poll Net job approval for Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age 18-29: +5 | -24 30-44: -1 | -13 45-64: +15 | 0 65+: -1 | -8 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) June 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM

NEW Economist/YouGov Poll Net job approval for Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among... White Americans +17 | +4 Hispanic Americans -5 | -27 Black Americans -31 | -51 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) June 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Economist/YouGov Jun 6-9 % who approve | disapprove of Trump's job performance U.S. adult citizens 43% | 52% (-10) Last week 45% | 49% Start of term 49% | 43% Democrats 5% | 93% Independents 36% | 56% Republicans 85% | 11% Men 49% | 49% Women 37% | 56% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) June 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Olson: SD Earth haters could come to blows

Editor's note: anarcho-capitalist and South Dakota's favorite former teevee anchorman continues to handicap the Earth haters running in the SDGOP gubernatorial primary.

Deepening the acrimonious divide in South Dakota's grassroots gubernatorial scrum, try this on for size.

Rumblings abound that a 2025 legislative session already cooling as evidence of a leadership sellout of the conservative base is about to be eclipsed by a policy betrayal that will stagger the imagination.

If reports are true, conservative legislative leadership has been tasked with the "good cop" sales pitch role on the very same mega-priced prison project that the House of Representatives already rejected not once, but twice on reconsideration. The new price tag, apparently the fiscally conservative version, is a paltry $600-million, to be peddled and pushed upon rank and file attendees of the upcoming legislative special session by the very same people ostensibly committed to fiscal responsibility, lower property taxes and all things sensible and good.

The "new," "cheaper," and "better," version of the penitentiary white elephant is said to be contained in a bill vehicle sponsored by Representative Scott Odenbach, whose apparent transformation into henchman for RINOs and moderates began with the inexplicable HB1020, a "School Choice" bill that would have given the Department of Education full curriculum control over homeschool and private school families. A Trojan Horse by any other name would foul the paddock similarly.

On social media, House Speaker and conservative gubernatorial hopeful Jon Hansen is distancing himself from the exorbitant "from scratch" prison project proposed to be located near Mitchell, calling instead for expanding inmate capcity at existing prison locations in Sioux Falls, Yankton and Springfield.

If a soon-to-be-released polling snapshot of the governor's race proves true, Hansen's preemptive adherence to populist opposition to the prison boondoggle, (which seems to have replaced the derided and deposed CO2 pipeline as the establishment's big boy toy spending of smoldering pocket money) could be too little, too late, for Hansen's already faltering, possibly premature and heretofore underfunded gubernatorial tilt.

And all of this predictably adds kerosene to an already blazing brushfire of division between Team Hansen and Team Doeden in what if allowed to persist, can only be a fantasy scenario for RINOs Rhoden and Dusty Johnson, looking to proffer again the "divide the base, run the turd" formula for establishment monopolized power. The grassroots divide is political ambrosia for South Dakota's establishment GOP, clinging to an apartheid power structure despite the ascendace of Donald Trump and MAGA as the dominant brand in the Republican scrum.

Hinted internal polling purports to show collapsing election fortunes for Governor Larry Rhoden, a stagnant Hansen-Lems number and surging support for Aberdeen businessman and rumored Trump pick, Toby Doeden, who hopes to make it a two-man race between himself and tiny RINO, Dusty Johnson, long before the June 2026 GOP primary.

Healing the grassroots divide after smoke clears the election battlefield will determine whether 2025's conservative Pierre majority is a repeatable phenomenon, or be relegated to history via a Trump-DeSantis style entrenchment of animosities, bad blood and apportioned righteous indignation of the jilted camp.

Check it out here and be sure to read the comments from members of South Dakota's most disaffected voting bloc.

Democrats need to retake the Flag

Bill Maher finally got Donna Brazile to agree with him because he's absolutely right. Democrats need to retake the Flag.

'Past tense' is prologue to ICE terrorism

In Star Trek canon the Eugenics Wars cause WW3 so an episode of ST: Deep Space 9 written in 1994 and broadcast in 1995 but set in 2024 is unfolding today in LA under the specter of Tiananmen Square.

If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.

Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.

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— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) February 6, 2024

Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l

Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard. pic.twitter.com/Ob6EWzqm08

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 8, 2025

"The Attica Prison riot served as a source of inspiration for the Bell Riots from this episode.[4] Another inspiration for the episode were original teleplay writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe's experiences with homeless people in California.[3]

In his first term, it was the myth of the savvy businessman. As he ran for his second, it was the myth of the "strong leader." But now, Trump’s entire persona is crumbling in real-time as he struggles to hide his profound weakness as a leader.

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— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM

LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need. The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.

— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) June 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Rhoden not scheduled to join fellow Earth haters in Santa Fe

South Dakota's Earth hating governor isn't scheduled to join other members of the Western Governors' Association for its annual meeting in The City Different at the Eldorado Hotel and Spa hosted by Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham where she's expected to present a special report on housing. 

So far some four hundred people are registered along with Earth haters Mike Dunleavy of Alaska, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Arnold Palacios of the Northern Mariana Islands, Spencer Cox of Utah and Mark Gordon of Wyoming. Four Trump Organization Cabinet secretaries are also scheduled to attend the June meeting in the oldest capital in the United States.

Governor Larry Rhoden of South Dakota looks exhausted and isn't expected to run in his party's crowded gubernatorial primary.

Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis is also set to attend.

Mitchell is already a prison

In 2015 Mitchell's resident prisoner, Steve Sibson chided Cabela's for exploiting a tax increment financing district. Now, he's doing it again.

Morbidly obese Port dishing out health advice?

Few people are fatter than Pat Powers but North Dakotan, Rob Port sure looks like he is.

South Dakota’s still among worst state economies

Source: WalletHub

At 47th in state economies and 49th in economic activity rank South Dakota's economy is circling the drain with little hope for the future according to WalletHub. 

Creighton University's Ernie Goss follows the economies of nine midwestern states including South Dakota's and May found the regional manufacturing economy is slowing down even more due to the Trump tariffs and volatility in the markets.

The May Business Conditions Index for South Dakota slumped to 48.7 from April’s 55.8. Components of the overall May index were: new orders at 50.0; production or sales at 47.1; delivery lead time at 52.4; inventories at 48.3; and employment at 45.6. According to ITA data, the South Dakota manufacturing sector exported $411.0 million in goods for the first quarter of 2025 compared to $499.1 million for the same period in 2024, for a 17.7% decline. [Mid-American Economy]

Learn more at The South Dakota Standard.

If federal funding programs aren’t restored and if Congress approves SNAP cuts included in the reconciliation bill, officials with Feeding South Dakota say the effects will be felt in South Dakota.https://t.co/8OqxZKsRdP

— SDPB News (@SDPBNews) May 27, 2025

Olson on Powers

Editor's note: what follows is another blistering takedown of rotund Brookings blogger, Pat Powers at the fingers of Shad Olson. On Thursday jurors will decide Olson's future after he allegedly assaulted a domestic partner.

Discarded former SDGOP in-house blogger, Pat Powers, whose Lilliputian writing skills are gigantic in comparison to his tiny following is now undertaking outright doxing and publication of home addresses of conservative lawmakers who won't date him.

On his abandoned wasteland of a RINO political blog, South Dakota War College, Monday, Powers delved into a listing of state legislators who've been identified as outright or potential backers of candidate for Governor, Toby Doeden. In an article slamming Doeden's campaign and ancillary lawmaker supporters, Pat Powers published the home address of Aberdeen Representative Brandei Schaefbauer, a particularly bright example of legislative courage in the 2025 session, carrying legislative bills to ban males from female public bathrooms and lockerrooms and to sue the nation of China and the creators of the COVID-19 bioweapon for financial damages, among others.

In his trademark incoherent syntax, Powers attributes Schaefbauer's apparent loyalty to Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden to a history of mutual political financial support and additionally, to an unconfirmed assertion that Doeden owns a rental unit Representative Schaefbauer lists as her home address.

Given Rep. Schaefbauer's fearless championing of even the most sensitive and incendiary political topics, it should be no surprise that she has reportedly already been the target of hateful and threatening communication via both electronic and physical mail to her official campaign address.

Via his typically malicious style, Powers' publication of Rep. Schaefbauer's unpublished private address could potentially run afoul of both state and federal laws regarding doxing, stalking and harassment.

South Dakota Codified Law 22-19A-1 defines stalking to include willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly harassing another person through electronic, verbal, or written communication. This could potentially apply to doxing activities if the doxing constitutes harassment.

Federal law is even clearer, making the intentional dissemination of physical location a federal felony if it can be proven as an intentional attempt to expose the victim to harassment, intimidation or violent threat.

Doxing has become weapon of choice on the part of leftists and establishment political ideologues who use community gangstalking and intimidation as a means to disrupt quality of life and subject opponents to the whims of the unhinged social media flashmob.

South Dakota War College has previously listed an official Reddit channel for the republishing of website content on a social media echo chamber inhabited and enforced as a hivemind of far leftist derangement. Reddit has been previously traced as a radical leftist proving ground and recruiting tool for domestic terrorists implicated in the burning of Tesla vehicles and dealerships, home vandalism of conservative targets and even assassination attempts on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump.

During the afforementioned 2025 Pierre contentiousness over the transgender bathroom issue, South Dakota School Administrators Director, Rob Monson, published the home address of Rapid City Representative Phil Jensen. Jensen was stripped of his House Education Committee co-chair and threatened with censure after floating a bill to defund the Huron School District following the Huron district's unresponsiveness to parental complaints over allowing a male student to use female restroom facilities.

SHS will run for governor: Olson

South Dakota conservatives better figure this out quickly, or the ending is foregone conclusion. A divided conservative base calling real MAGA candidates RINOs while ensuring a Dusty governorship in 2026. If Stephanie Herseth doesn't clean his shrimpy phony clock in the general. Herseth will be their pick. And as long as we're talking, Marty Jackley is NOT running for Governor. He's likely running for Congress. All establishment apportionments subject to change of course, poll numbers depending. [Shad Olson]

Editor's note: in 2010 former US Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's reelection bid was sabotaged by a member of her own political party who threatened to run against her in the primary because she believed she was representing the majority of South Dakotans. 

Sam Hurst wrote a viral postmortem of her tenure: a sobering reminder of how Democrats lost the word war in the state. Hurst's Dakota Day piece about the defeat of the incumbent Sandlin to Kristi Noem defined the choice of the South Dakota Democratic Party to enable Dr. Kevin Weiland to mount a primary run against Sandlin instead of a general election run against the unopposed John Thune. 

It’s a struggle if not impossible to imagine either Stephanie or Max Sandlin living in a fetid pond like Pierre and if SHS has learned anything it’s that she’s over getting into any election where she could lose. In 2017 she told friends she was done with politics and was selected as the 24th president of Augustana University. In 2021 she chose not to seek a position on the federal bench.

Bobcat in the trail cam!

A big, wet snow that fell a few months ago broke all the supports for the wire that kept critters out and the coop has been empty of chickens for several days but DM wanted to know what got all the hens so she left the door open and had an interested party mount the trail cam across the yard. She bought pullets about a month ago and they are in the enclosed pen near the rump of that bobcat. The time on the camera says AM but it tripped last night.

Pope schedules eclipse of Trump's fragile ego

Born in Omaha, Blase Cupich was raised in a catholic household, attended a Benedictine elementary school, a diocese high school then graduated the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. When this interested party lived in Rapid City in 1998 he was made bishop by John Paul II and was consecrated in a ceremony at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. In 2004 when some in the cult wanted to ban Senator Tom Daschle from the Eucharist because of his defense of reproductive rights Cupich called it "cherry picking" and in 2008 he called racism a sin and was named Cardinal by Pope Francis in 2016. 

In 2018 Cupich's predecessor in a Pennsylvania diocese was accused of covering up sex crimes after a grand jury found the church hid predator priests from prosecution. 

Today, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is pushing back on plans by the Trump Organization to raid churches and schools and will say Mass while the Draft Dodger in Chief holds a parade in his own honor the same day Pope Leo XIV appears via video stream.

Please join me on June 14 to celebrate Pope Leo XIV, a leader to the world and a native son to us. Witness firsthand a special video message that Pope Leo will offer to the young people of the world at Rate Field. https://t.co/bbXzHaBV3W

— Cardinal Cupich (@CardinalBCupich) May 30, 2025

Huether, Bengs running against South Dakota Democratic Party; Doeden, Hansen harmless

Rumor has it that former Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether is planning to run for governor as an unaffiliated candidate effectively ruining any Democrat's chance to win so go to his Faceberg page and convince him to run in the 2026 Democratic primary for the nomination instead. But honestly? It's really difficult to imagine any Democrat wanting to live in Pierre especially if it's in the Governor's Mansion near the swamp where even six-legged blood sucking mosquitos breed. 

Jon Hansen and Tubby Toby Doeden are completely harmless since the Earth hater gubernatorial primary is fixed for Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson so if Doeden or Hansen had any integrity whatsoever they'd run in the 2026 General Election as unaffiliated candidates. It's difficult to imagine interim Governor Larry Rhoden running in the upcoming very expensive primary especially for a party that's broken since he already looks exhausted and his Faceberg page currently has nearly no traffic.

Nobody is independent so Brian Bengs is running a vindictive race against the South Dakota Democratic Party because he's a jerk.

Trump driving economy into the shitter: WalletHub

Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO), gold's at $3,300 and WalletHub noticed.

Detailed Findings

Year-over-year, consumers felt less confident about their financial outlook in May 2025, with the value of the overall index registered being 27% lower than in May 2024. While this is the sharpest yearly decrease in consumer confidence recorded since December 2020, it’s worth noting that the magnitude of the decline is due partly to May 2024 having been the most optimistic month for consumers' financial outlook.

Decreasing financial optimism: In May 2025, consumers’ optimism about their finances recorded an increase (+4.2%) from the previous month. However, the level of optimism decreased by almost 10% over the past year.

Increasing stress: Consumers’ stress levels regarding money are higher (+1.8%) in May 2025 compared to the same period last year.

Decrease in optimism: In May 2025, consumers’ optimism about whether their finances will improve in the next six months is lower (-13.8%) than it was last year. This represents the most significant drop in financial outlook sentiment since December 2020.

Less new employment opportunities: The share of consumers who feel new employment opportunities are “abundant” is lower (-9.9%) in May 2025 compared to last year.

Weaker sense of job security: People’s confidence in having a job in the next six months is lower (-16.1%) in May 2025 compared to last year. This marks the steepest decline in job security sentiment since December 2020.

Real estate popularity drop: Home-buying interest among consumers decreased by nearly 30% in May 2025 compared to last year, marking the largest decrease recorded since December 2020.

Decreasing interest in auto purchases: The share of consumers who expect to buy a car in the next six months is over 32% lower in May 2025 compared to last year. This is the highest drop in auto purchase interest on record since December 2020.

Large purchases are not a priority: In May 2025, consumers’ likelihood of making a large purchase in the next six months is almost 22% lower than it was last year, the sharpest drop in consumers’ interest in large purchases since December 2020.

Decrease in debt-reduction confidence: The share of consumers who expect to have less debt after the next six months is lower (-3.6%) in May 2025 compared to last year.

Credit score insecurity: The share of consumers who expect their credit score to increase in the next six months is lower (-10.2%) in May 2025 compared to last year. At the same time, this represents the steepest decline in consumer confidence regarding their credit score outlook since December 2020.

The WalletHub Economic Index decreased by 27% between May 2024 and May 2025. This means consumers are less confident about their financial outlook this month than they were at the same time last year.

Powers apparently only semiliterate

Yo Semites! 

South Dakota's fattest blogger not struggles with his health he can barely write in English!

Public radio stations sue as First Amendment under threat

NPR, Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, KSUT sue over executive order defunding public media

May 27, 2025

Free press is not optional in a democracy—it is foundational. At a time when trust in American institutions is fragile and disinformation is rampant, the public’s access to independent, verified news and information is more essential than ever.

As nonprofit public media organizations, each of our stations exists to serve the people of our communities and Colorado with independent, fact-based journalism. We take our role very seriously. Our mission — and our responsibility—is grounded in the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of the press and protects our ability to hold those in power to account without interference. This includes protection against government interference in our editorial decisions as well as in purchasing, acquiring, producing, and broadcasting information.

Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, and KSUT Public Radio have joined this important lawsuit because we believe the recent executive order threatens that core constitutional protection. This is not about politics—it is about principle. When the government tries to limit press freedom or control the flow of information, we have not only the right, but the obligation, to speak out and defend our rights that make independent journalism possible.

These participating Colorado stations reflect the diversity of public radio across the country—we are each independent, nonprofit organizations that represent rural, mountain, and urban communities and together serve every district of Colorado. We also share a deep commitment to providing local, fact-based news and information without government interference.

We stand with NPR in invoking the First Amendment to protect the vital role that independent journalism plays in a healthy, functioning democracy.

This is active litigation. Therefore, no additional comment is available at this time. 

Statement from NPR CEO linked here.  Interview with the attorney for Aspen Public Radio linked here.

Olson: Trump, GOP toast

He's nothing if not blustery but according to South Dakota's favorite anarcho-capitalist teevee anchor Republican is not just another word for Earth hater it's another word for traitor. So as Shad Olson pines for the End Times his predictions are becoming more and more prophetic but Americans might have to wait until 2027 for the traitors to rid us of the Orange Plague.

Elon Musk is being given frontrow seat to why the Republican party is a worthless pile of political corruption even worse by false pretenses than the Demo-Communists who are at least honest about their aims and objectives. After risking his life, his fortune and his sacred honor by turning X into the free speech firehose that was pivotal to Trump's 2024 victory, milquetoast idiots in the GOP House and Senate can't even accomplish a durable memorialization of the DOGE cuts. Because they're all in on the graft and want it to continue. And Musk's rare skillset and infinite pockets have been squandered and left wanting.

Those of us who've tried to fight and been chewed up and spit out by the power structure know it all too well. A tale too bitter to tell.

Democrats, whether in or out of power are ruthlessly dedicated to destroying their enemies and insolubly unified in the accomplishing of their goals. This is why they will win and American patriots, the MAGA movement and America herself will likely lose, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

There is neither the moral will nor actual intention within Republican ranks to turn aside the ongoing globalist communist revolution on our soil. No arrests. No laws passed. No victory. If Musk's disillusionment with the GOP includes his financial withdrawal and personal retreat from the process, Republicans at every level absolutely deserve their inevitable defeats in 2026 and 2028.

The House flips in 26. Trump will be impeached by Congress and convicted by Tillis, Thune, Cornyn and the RINO U.S. Senate. Emboldened resistance stymies the rest of the Trump term. A return to reinstalled election fraud and MAGA infighting to fill Trump's absence engineers Democrat victory in 2028.

The uniparty wins. The demolition agenda resumes. The plot succeeds. Democrats wounded and discomfited by empty threats of justice suffer no similar pangs of inaction and protocol in exacting backlash revenge against MAGA. Mass arrests. Kangaroo courts. Life sentences for patriotism. And those bitching and moaning for years about lack of opportunity to avert fatalist prognostications of America's end absolutely deserve to lose. You had your chance and played patty-cake while leftists exerted every decisive action required to keep the swamp alive and thriving.

Utterly predictable.

I'll write Musk's demoralized farewell address to D.C. in eleven words and four sentences.

"I did my best. You all suck. Fu*k off. Don't call." [Shad Olson]