Senator Marion Michael Rounds thinks the day after voting to ignore Donald Trump’s lying and lawbreaking (not to mention Reagan’s birthday!) is the perfect time to announce he’s really for-truly running for another term in the United States Senate:
Now is the right time to officially announce I am seeking re-election to the United States Senate. South Dakotans sent me to Washington to bring South Dakota values to a broken federal government [Rounds for Senate, campaign e-mail, 2020.02.06].
I keep wondering how these Republican incumbents get to run against the broken federal government of which they are part and of which their mad President gleefully wrecks more each day.
As a first term U.S. Senator, Mike fought through the bureaucracy during the Obama-era, he remains among President Trump’s strongest supporters and he has found many legislative successes while establishing a reputation as a serious policy expert – all by employing South Dakota values [Rounds for Senate, campaign e-mail, 2020.02.06].
Looking at how the rest of Smiling Mike’s party approaches legislation, I’m not sure Republicans can claim that their “South Dakota values” lead them to any “serious” or “expert” policymaking.
But o.k., Scyller, Dan, and Clara: now you have confirmation from the big cheese himself. Mike is in. Now let’s vote him out.
I didn’t know lying, cheating, fraud, assault, etc, were “SD values.” That is sure as heck the mentality Mikey must have taken to D.C. Trials without evidence are really popular with Mikey. No witness, no documents, no problem. Of course, we know what Mikey was after we caught him using the state plane for personal use. Sure, he paid up AFTER he got caught, but that is his moral core. EB-5? He never heard of it. Joop Bolen? He never knew him. Please, folks, post a list of all the legislative victories Mikey has proposed. He is a freaking rubber stamp with an “R” by his name and nothing more!
Now is the right time to officially announce I am seeking re-election to the United States Senate. South Dakotans sent me to Washington to bring South Dakota values to a broken federal government
You have sucked the seed bringing one party corruption and lawlessness, with zero accountability to the cesspool of drumpf’s DC. You and Malboro Barbie are nothing but a gutless pair of rubberstamps for constitutional violations and drumpf’s continuing criminal enterprises and nepotism.
In the real world you wouldn’t get hired to clean up after the elephant parade. You and your phony kristian values disgrace every decent, Democracy loving, constitutional abiding citizens of South Dakota. Choke on it, reptile.!
I think I know why Rounds wants a second term. His job isn’t done. He wants to break the government further, and help install a dictatorship.
I just read a history of the end of the Weimar Republic, entitled, “The End of Democracy.” That time in Germany had ideologues on the left and right vying for power, to be sure, but it also had a government that was broken by politicians much like Moscow Mitch. There are lots of books on Hitler’s rise to power, and lots of theories. This one points to the failures of conservative leaders in the Reichstag, who thought they could control Hitler, as they provided him with more and more power. Rounds, Thune, and Johnson all remind me of these mistaken German conservative leaders.
EB5 Rounds is part and parcel to the whole charade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=113&v=n9k5v6bjwGA&feature=emb_title
EB5 Rounds is Larry, Chubby is Moe and Thune is Curly
“establishing a reputation as a serious policy expert”
I think my tablet must have failed to download this emoji 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 following that statement.
Mike, you’re being to nice to Immoral Marion. Seriously.
Educate yourself, Immoral Marion.
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another graduate of Mitch Mcconnell liars school.
Ag producers should ask EB5 Rounds about why he supported the tariffs and trade wars that have dwindled their markets. It’s all about Huawei and 5G. Anything to slow the networks down to protect the telecoms. They should ask if he is invested in Nokia or Ericcson as Bill Barr is talking about the United States purchasing them as an investment to slow Huawei. Farmers, it seems it’s all about the Benjamins and you ain’t getting any. Boy’s, it’s a suckers game and EB5 Rounds knows how to be the pivot man.
“U.S. Attorney General William Barr suggests that the U.S. should counter a threat of Huawei domination of next-gen equipment by taking a controlling stake in Nokia (NOK +4.7%) or Ericsson (ERIC +2.1%).” https://seekingalpha.com/news/3539364-u-s-should-buy-control-of-nokia-ericsson-barr-says
Wm Barr should propose the purchase of Greenland, again, Jerry!
At midnight Jeff Flake spoke to BBC “On Point this week” along with several commentators including another more obvious right week spokesman. The program was extensive and probing, but I had the sense that most of their “conclusions” broadcast to the world as fairly authoritative, were that Trump was mainly a victim and even Kavanaugh was too. Republicans have clearly mastered messaging while completely hobbling rules and process for fair hearings, which get lost in the static of distraction, much as Sen Rounds did to get elected. The means justifies the ends for these Republican faux-patriots. I have to believe Thune, sitting at the arm of McConnell, believes no matter how horrific Trump is short-term, it is more important that the GOP can keep him in their power, and ameliorate a nuclear catastrophe. A climate catastrophe seems beyond their comprehension. “Lazarus” died today, along with 15-30 other California Sequoias, which have until now, survived 2000-2500 years of weather, fire and Jesus Christ.
We have got to put an end to GOP manipulation for power. Since 1964 Republicans have retaliated for Nixon’s resignation, investigated Whitewater and impeached Clinton for lying about an affair, started the Iraq war based on false mass destruction assertions, used a supreme court majority to stop vote recounts in Fla swinging Gore’s election to Bush, completely obstructed Obama’s 6 years of his two terms, refused to hear, advise and consent Justice Garland, packed the federal court system and SCOTUS with mostly unqualified partisans, and elected a completely unqualified President who was then just given an impeachment pass for his gross misbehavior.
There has to be an alternative to making up with Republicans, the GOP, their billionaires, and their impeached president. They must be held accountable. They have gamed the system and cannot be rewarded. Besides delegitimizing truth, it is certain their next move in progress will be to destroy our elections.
And of course the actor Reagan the delegator’s Iran-Contra, and Guatemala invasion (? its late); and even the assignation of JFK wouldn’t surprise anyone if Republican’s hired it done?
“assassination”, (stupid autocorrect)
He is a regular at Bloomberg Economic segment. Not sure if he changed since Bloomberg is now declared himself as a Presidential Candidate.
Leslie, you got the a-s-s part right, spell check or no.
Thx mfi, was up too late, w/coffee, baking to raise $ to resist GOP/Republicans/red billionaires and putin’s puppet, moscow mitch and his john boy :)
Moar ammo to use against Cardboard Mike… https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/trumps-trade-war-is-making-american-family-incomes-decrease-by-1277-a-year-government-report/
GAO report not good for lower wage earners, but, wingnuts won’t shed a tear for them.
What hath South Dakota’s two useless senators wrought? Sin and destruction, that’s what.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/impeachment-trump-flaunting-impunity.html
yep mikey was a corrupt one and fits right in with the trump bunch..
EB5 Rounds is proud of his support for the “Great American Comeback”. Of course, just like the rest of this lying liars lies, it makes no sense. Look around South Dakota to get a real feel of poverty and fake comeback, we’re flat on our back with debt, crappy jobs with low pay and a farm economy that is in the crapper…all thanks to Rounds and company.
“First, let’s be clear: There’s no “great American comeback.”
Low overall unemployment means little when half of Americans now work low-wage jobs. Manufacturing remains in decline, farm bankruptcies are spiraling, and union membership just hit an all-time low. Even as 140 million Americans are poor or low-income, the administration is working relentlessly to shred Medicaid, Social Security, and the food stamp system.
Trump has little to offer this class but half-truths about the economy and hateful lies about immigrants. Still, he’s only accelerated a partisan realignment along class lines for white voters.” https://otherwords.org/theres-no-great-american-comeback/
Why put this fraud back in for 6 when he has put us all in a fix?
Great American comeback started a decade ago under Obama and Democrats. It is still rolling along. Not even having to drag every wingnut’s dead weight into the 21st century was enough to slow the Obama “MO.”
Senators Mikey and johnny are useless
as chestral accoutrements on a boar
Cardboard stiffy Mike wants re-election
Pertinent question is what for?
What has he done for an encore?
Except rubber stamp corrupt prez
Certainly not titilating as such
Certainly not worth rewarding so much
Fed from the government trough through his life
state local and fed better pay
send him back for another 6 years
might be he’ll accomplish something some day
his resume appears to be a might thin
R behind his name is all that matters
nothing to recommend a return bout
make an attempt to vote the bum out.
You can do it, South Dakota.
Low wages, 3 jobs, stagnant productivity, crumbling, fall on the head infrastructure is not The Great American Comeback. What we see is barely survival…only to get worse.
“The Great American Comeback is for the gilded, the wealthy. These times are their comeback to when their view of Make America Great Again was happening, when we had the Gold Standard. Then came the wars and how to pay for them. We borrow and borrow from our future, that future is now here. There are only 24 hours in a day, so how will we fit in the 4th and 5th gig economy jobs?
EB5 Rounds on the senate floor with a speech about why he needs to be in power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=uTmfwklFM-M&feature=emb_title
The Bard of Primghar has returned! Nice rhymes Mike.
What indeed, is the point of reelecting Immoral Marion? What has he done to help the average South Dakotan have a better life? On the other hand, what has gotten worse in his 6 years in DC? Fire him!
Rounds and Thune are 1/26 of the national vote keeping Trump in office rather than checking his obvious continual abuses of power.
Trump for example ignores AZ/MX tribal treaty rights to consultation violating NAGPRA. https://naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Grijalva%20DHS%20Border%20Wall%20Construction%20Letter.pdf
Perhaps Roger will tap Tunkasila on the shoulder reminding of the orange man’s self dealing.
Andrew Yang just dropped out of the race for potus.
That’s too bad. I kinda liked Yang, though he didn’t have a chance. The Democratic president needs to make Yang the Secretary of her new all-things-digital-technological Department in 2021.
Bennett is out too.
The senate power imbalance (Thune/Rounds 1/26th of Trump “impeachment acquittal” vote) solution: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/case-new-states/606148/
I say add Puerto Rico, Marshall Islands, and perhaps Guam