Governor Kristi Noem made one noteworthy deviation from the prepared text of her budget address yesterday. Compare this brief admonition to fight for taxpayers over special interests from the speech as published:
Remember, every interest group has a lobbyist in this Capitol building who wants a piece of this budget during legislative session. It is our job to be advocates for the South Dakota taxpayers [Gov. Kristi Noem, FY 2025 budget address, prepared text, published on NewsCenter1, 2023.12.05].
…with that passage as delivered from the House Rostrum yesterday afternoon:
Now remember, every interest group has a lobbyist in this Capitol building who wants a piece of this budget during Legislative Session. It’s our job here as elected advocates to be here and to be advocates for the South Dakota taxpayers [Gov. Kristi Noem, FY 2025 budget address, spoken text transcribed from SDPB video, 2023.12.05, timestamp 13:23.].
The apparently ad-libbed words exemplify how when Noem goes off script, her words become a redundant mess (here and advocates repeated within four seconds in a single sentence with little if any structured emphatic impact).
The deviation from the script does emphasize one key point: the Governor appears to be telling useless District 3 Senator Al Novstrup he’d better not plan to take his usual mid-Session vacation down to the go-kart convention down in Texas this year.
More importantly, the Governor is promising that she will not spend this Session traveling the country campaigning for Vice-President. Evidently recognizing the mistake she made last year, jetting off to Washington D.C. to make speeches while letting the Legislature flush her neglected policy priorities down the toilet, Noem is saying that her job, too, is to actually stick around Pierre during Session and do the people’s business.
So hooray for Governor Noem leaving her carry-on in the closet for a few months and getting back to her real job! Now if we can just get her back to talking to the local press….
More a “tell” erupting from her unconscious confessing to her numerous unauthorized absences from the South Dakota taxpayers for whom she claims to advocate.
Good. Maybe Noem and her republicans will stop their infantile preoccupation with the southern border.
Illuminating facts:
– Next year the US population of those over 65 will out number those 15 and younger.
The demographic hole is real.
– This year the US has a structural shortage of 400,000 workers. This shortage increases every year for the next 11-12 years culminating with an annual shortage of 900,000 workers. Immigration is the only solution. If fiscal capital is freely fungible, then so too human capital ought be fungible.
– This year the mean age of the US population became younger than the Chinese population. China, as a nation, is toast. Globally the industrial plant is fleeing China. Global shippers expect to cut jobs and a shipping recession in 2024.
You wonder which lobbyists have already dipped their hands into the Governor’s proposed budget as the Noem administration was working on it. The elite lobbyists and special interests don’t wait for the Legislature to get their piece of the budget. They’ve already gotten much of what they want.
John: I see you follow Marshalltown IA native and geopolitics guru Peter Zeihan. He does good work and communicates it well.
We’ll see. Probably should leave the state and let Senator Schoenbeck handle the heavy lifting.
The whole border nonsense is the world turned upside down.
The traditional republican position is having wide open immigration to depress labor wages.
The traditional democratic position is having reduced immigration to support higher wages for labor (and the unions).
Given the US demographic hole . . . we need immigration to survive and thrive.
Well, we’ll see–I believe that Trump will name his vice-presidential candidate much sooner than is normally the case, and a good part of that reason is that he will be tied up in his numerous criminal indictment trials. He’s going to need someone to campaign for him, and it won’t surprise me if he names Noem as his choice. Why? She’s pretty (can you imagine Trump naming a woman for that position–or virtually any position, for that matter, who’s not?), she’s fairly articulate, good at reciting talking points, and is completely deferential to him (another prerequisite). If Trump does choose her, and if I’m right that he’ll do so soon, Noem will appear in Pierre only often enough so that her absence is not 100% scandalous, and it won’t make any difference whether the Legislature is in session or not.
You heard it here first!
Hey South Dakota Democrats, are you sick of six (seven? eight?) month winters, rampant racism, chilling effects on civil rights, an extremist legislature, living in a chemical toilet, sacrifice zone, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area?
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