The Consent of the Governors: Kristi Noem's Failed Leadership

Gov. Kristi Noem Says If You Don't Like Vaccination Mandates, Just Quit Your Job - The Last Refuge

"It’s always there, right below the conservative veneer; and if you wait, it surfaces.  This tweet highlights the difference between ‘conservative’ corporatism (traditional GOP class), and MAGA pragmatism (the blue collar dynamic).

The disconnect is found in the difference between what looks like a good ‘talking point’, and the reality of workers having to deal with the issue of mandated vaccinations in the workplace.  Just quit your job… not so easy in practice. The SD Governor seems to overlook that entire sectors of the economy are impacted by federal rules, not just individual companies.  Hotel workers, restaurants, cooks and cleaners, mechanics, service industry writ large, are subject to forced business owner compliance with regulatory agencies.  When the federal government initiates a mandate, all businesses within that sector are hit with the mandate.  Switching jobs offers no security or escape from the mandate.".......

It’s couched in the words of empowerment. But it accepts the premise of coercion.

Gov. Noem: "Here’s the classifieds. You’re welcome."

She didn’t lock down South Dakota. But she can’t dine out on that forever.

Let's compare and contrast to another governor--a Mr. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, the "Man in the Arena".

If she were truly “in the arena”, she would be fighting Corporate Jab-Nazi Mandates on workers and customers. She would have been fighting for Honest Elections for us. She would be drawing chaff and countermeasures–but not a peep.

She’s not in the Arena; she’s in the Board Room and the Faculty Lounge.

Teddy Roosevelt was a rugged individualist and a populist: “It is a peculiar gratification to me to have owed my election…above all to Abraham Lincoln’s “plain people’; to the folk who worked hard on the farm, in shop, or on the railroads, or who owned little stores, little businesses which they managed themselves. I would literally, not figuratively, rather cut off my right hand than forfeit by any improper act of mine the trust and regard of these people…. I shall endeavor not to merit their disapproval by any act inconsistent with the ideal they have formed of me.”

A fierce nationalist, not a globalist: “I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world. Experience teaches us that the average man who protests that his international feeling swamps his national feeling, that he does not care for his country because he cares so much for mankind, in actual practice proves himself the foe of mankind; that the man who says that he does not care to be a citizen of any one country, because he is the citizen of the world, is in fact usually and exceedingly undesirable citizen of whatever corner of the world he happens at the moment to be in.”

An opponent of Corporate Mega-Monopolies: “There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare …and in my judgment this conviction is right. When men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations … Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury. It should be as much the aim of those who seek for social betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence.”

and a moral traditionalist: “To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

Yet Kristi can't seem to rouse herself to find a way to to keep girls' sports for girls--a position that pleases her Boardroom buddies endlessly.

Gov. Noem strikes me as Jeb Bush with bigger biceps and better taste in cocktail dresses.

Please clap.

Guy: Swap murders?
Bruno: Each fellow does the other fellow’s murder. Then there is nothing to connect them. The one who had the motive isn’t there. Each fellow murders a total stranger. Like you do my murder and I do yours.
Guy: We’re coming into my station.
Bruno: For example, your wife, my father. Criss-cross.”—Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers On a Train”, 1951

“We’re too chicken to force the GMO-Jab on you ourselves, so we’ll just have Corporate Sponsors do it for us! Look, Ma–no fingerprints!”

Her job is to fight for our Rights, not make excuses for the Boardroom.

She failed her job.

The Actual Winner: “One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people. This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it.

He Fights. Do You?