Gov. Kristi Noem says Georgia elected 'communists' to serve in the U.S. Senate

[brooklynite]

Source: Argus Leader

A day after calling for healing and peace as a country, South Dakota’s governor is alleging “communists” have infiltrated the United States Senate.

Gov. Kristi Noem this week used social media to denounce riots in the nation's capitol and to remind people, "There are consequences for how we talk to each other in this country."

That didn't stop her, though, from going after two Democrats who won a pair of runoff elections Tuesday in Georgia, contests resulting in Republicans losing control of the Senate for the first time since 2014.

In an op-ed on the alternative news site The Federalist, Noem accused Senator-elects Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of being communists, calling one a "33-year-old with no accomplishments" and the other a "smooth-talking preacher."

Read more: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/01/08/gov-kristi-noem-says-georgia-elected-communists-serve-u-s-senate/6605474002/

[gohuskies]

1. Noem is an irresponsible Covid mass murderer

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She needs to STFU!

[thucythucy]

2. That's rich, coming from unabashed supporters

of Moscow Mitch and Benedict Donald.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Idiot probably can't even define communism.

[safeinOhio]

4. So says a Godless

Ayn Rand Capitalist, about a Christian Minister and a Jewish man.

[still_one]

5. What the hell happened to SD? This was the state of George McGovern

[Blues Heron]

10. Same thing that happened to half the country

at some point they lost their minds. This is insanity writ large.

[Mister Ed]

18. Which is: FoxRushHannity, and more. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. Not actually insanity, but is loss or lack of reasoning skill, making them suckers for propaganda

Of course the extreme cases are somewhat insane, like the violent ones such as the ret. Lt. Col. in the well of the chamber with the tactical gear and Plasticuffs. His friends and family stated that they have withdrawn from him because he is so obsessed with trumpanzee conspiracy theories.

If it were really true that a Presidential election had been stolen by about 5 million votes, then yes it would be sane rational and reasonable to fight for democracy in the streets and elsewhere.

But they are not entitled to an alternative set of facts. They were never reasoned into their views, though they will cite mountains of "evidence" and string it together with what seems like logic on the surface. Because of a lack of basic reasoning they get emotionally attached to theories and can't be reasoned out of them. They rationalize away counter-evidence and have confirmation bias.

Anytime you take the time to examine it, their evidence and their purported logic quickly falls apart.

So, mostly not insanity; mostly they never learned critical thinking or they lost the skill of analyzing and reasoning carefully.

What remains is a susceptibility to emotion and thus they are easy targets for propaganda.

[TwilightZone]

22. It's been downhill ever since they replaced one of the most powerful members of Congress...

Tom Daschle, with chair-warmer John Thune, who hasn't done anything of note since.

[pazzyanne]

44. Agree wholeheartedly! nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

61. South Dakota is where the GOP attack campaigning was started...

... this goes back to 1980 and the concerted GOP attacks on McGovern and Democratic Party members, especially in South Dakota.

Remember that slimey Paul Erickson guy, who was convicted of defrauding investors in a, "retirement home", scam? Yeah, Maria Butina's boyfriend. When he was head of College Republicans at the University of South Dakota, he stole address and phone number lists of voters and they used it to start sending out and phoning their, "hate McGovern", messages.

"He coordinated a youth campaign for Rep. Jim Abdnor in 1980 while working on his bachelor’s degree."

[link:https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/paul-erickson/|

The down the line rancor for McGovern by the South Dakota GOP, and even from school teachers, still has me shaking my head as to where the hatred came from. I was a senior in high school in, "small town South Dakota", at the time.

And then jumping to the 2000 election, Bill Janklow was the GOP governor of South Dakota, and he went down to Florida to be a leader of the Brooks Brothers Riot at the election center.

I have noticed many times that the crap they pull in South Dakota is a precursor to what is going to be pulled by the GOP further on down the road.

[diane in sf]

65. It's really cheap for fascists, like the Kochs to buy media time in small markets. Makes it very

cheap and easy to push propaganda. Especially after defunding education for the last 50 years.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Elected officials must stop lying to citizens. The lies are killing people and this country.

[trusty elf]

25. Hear, hear!

[luv2fly]

7. If I have to choose...

... I'll go with communism over fascism every day of the week.

[CottonBear]

8. How dare she. My newly elected Senators are patriots. Noem is MAGA trash.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. +1000s

[Cha]

21. Congratulations on WINNING! What

a Night that was!



EarlG

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017629853

[CottonBear]

50. It's amazing! I hope that we'll truly be able to celebrate when they're sworn in.

Stacey Abrams was interviewed on TV right before Election Day. She was asked if she was worried. She said no, but that she felt a sense of urgency and that she and everyone else was focused on GOTV up until the polls closed.

I’ve never experienced elections like these before. I voted in the primary election, the general election, the December 1 special election runoff which was won by Deborah Gonzalez who is the first Latina DA in GA, and the January 5 statewide special election runoff for senate and public service commission.

Unfortunately, African American Democratic PSC candidate Daniel Blackman lost his election. However, he had a very good turnout and he’ll stay involved and hopefully run again. As James Carville says, “You’re a loser until you’re not.”

I was able to meet Daniel Blackman and Jon Ossoff in my town the weekend before the January 5 runoff election. The energy and urgency were palpable at that event.

[Cha]

80. Aww.. Thank you for all

that on the ground Georgia voting experience of yours, CottonBear!

So Grateful for Stacey Abrams & all of Georgia's GOTV Efforts!

I stayed up all night on Ossoff Watch & Celebrations.. Grateful that Rev Warnock had already Won!.. and then of course we didn't have much time to celebrate when all hell broke loose in DC because trump planned & incited a deadly attack on the Capitol with our People doing their jobs.

[still_one]

9. And SD elected a nazi as governor

[idziak4ever1234]

31. Under ordinary times, the rhetoric could be considered "typical"...

however, in these times and with her past open-throated support of Trump, I think anti-semitic and racist overtones are legitimate criticisms.

[Squidly]

11. Shes 100% completely worthless

tRump bootlicker extraordinaire. She was pathetic as a congresswoman, even more so as a governor

[central scrutinizer]

17. She's doing a bang up job aiding and abetting the virus

One word: Sturgis

[BlueStater]

12. He got elected to the Senate at 33 in a red state as a Democrat.

I’d say that’s a pretty impressive accomplishment.

What’s your accomplishments, Kristi? Killing over a thousand of your constituents?

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. more projection from a brain dead repub

[beachbumbob]

15. are we to be surpise, considering how many of her state residents she has killed with COVID

rightwing falling back into the communist accusation, ignoring the fact that trump is knee deep in russian money issues is ironic

[rownesheck]

16. What i hate

is this crazy lunatic from a state which has about 14 people living in it, is given so much press. Ignore her and her stupidity and she will be spouting her garbage into the vast emptiness of South Dakota.

I don't have anything against South Dakota, but come on, it's a state with a teeny, tiny population. I'm saying this governor is given WAY too much attention.

[colsohlibgal]

19. Go Read About What Communism Is Kristi

The epidemic we are experiencing now is bad enough but we have another epidemic causing problems and that is stupidity. Communism is an Autocratic system much like your hero Trump strived for. Democratic socialism is different, it is just a more equitable sharing of the pie. They have that system In Scandinavia and are free to vote it out but why would they?

[Cha]

20. Fuck Off you Stupid fucker, Noem.. mind

your own GD business. Don't you have a fucking COVID crisis that you let foment.. to tend to?!!!

[oasis]

84. Subtlely putting herself out there for a possible 2024 VP spot. Sarah Palin II.

She'll stumble and fumble a few more times while seeking the spotlight. That's what they do.

[Cha]

85. Yeah, that's what they

do.. regurgitate gaslighting trigger words for Idiots.

In this case from the '50s.

Aloha, oasis & a Happy Healthy New Year to you & yours!

We are so Fortunate to have all 3 Branches Now.. we have to keep them!

[oasis]

87. Dems will work hard through 2022 to maintain 3 branches.

Meanwhile, GOP is in disarray with the Trumpists vs. the Old Guard.

Mahalo for all your well wishes Cha. Have a fabulous 2021.

[Cha]

89. Mahalo! you

Happiest I've been in 4 years politically speaking.

Read my sig line..

[mountain grammy]

23. As she kills her constituents..

[madaboutharry]

24. Noem is a racist jerk.

There is some real old fashion code going on her comments. "Smooth Talking Preacher" - hmmm, let us all put on our thinking caps and figure out what she really wanted to say here!

Jon Ossoff has a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics, was a congressional staffer to two United States Congressman, and had a career as an investigative journalist.

Let us look at Noem's accomplishments. Her springboard into politics was winning a beauty pageant. She eventually earned a BA from South Dakota State University in 2012 at the age of 51.*

*In no way is there any intent to disparage alumni of South Dakota State University.

[BlueStater]

46. She's 49.

She would have been 40 in 2012.

[madaboutharry]

47. Sorry, it was early.

[turbinetree]

26. FUCK YOU ...........your a seditionist supporting authoritarian fascists'...

fucking resign you have Blood On your Hands literally how many South Dakotans are dead because of your willful malicious malfeasant and incompetence the only thing you are is a former has been Snow Queen beauty pageant winner..............look at what the Aberdeen News said about your qualifications:

https://www.aberdeennews.com/news/local/kristi-noem-cherishes-time-as-snow-queen/article_aad5455d-b7ae-5a12-84d2-95a430b70d90.html

Practical pageant skills paved the way from queen to congresswoman for one Hamlin County native.

[Marthe48]

27. Real news:fascists in the White House

noem is a traitor

[riversedge]

28. whow. Noem is a #Trump bootlicker!

[Jon King]

29. Isolate the right wingers over time..

This is easy, continue to isolate these deep red areas, grow the suburbs of GA, NC, TX, PA, WI, MI to keep the Presidency forever. Govern well to keep the Congress. Let these deep red staters whither economically.

[George II]

30. Doesn't she realize that the "communist" tag died back in the 1980s?

[NCjack]

32. South Dakota elected a fascist governor.

[patphil]

33. When Republicans call for healing and peace, those are code words for...

everything must be done our way.

They only say this when they realize that people are taking a stand against their reactionary policies. For them, change is only good if things change "back to the way they used to be".
Of course that means back to a time when whites were supreme.

[mdbl]

40. +1000

[moose65]

48. You hit the nail on the head!

I have seen lots of comments on local newspaper reports where they say things like "Violence is wrong on ALL sides." They will not specifically condemn a group who forced their way into the United States Capitol building.

And you are right - whenever they call for healing and peace, or for our country to come together, they mean only that everything should be done the way THEY want it done.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

34. Kristi Noem is a wealthy Welfare Queen, who has received millions in Government welfare payments:

Despite Noem’s speeches railing against taxes and big government, she has shown no hesitation in cashing millions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies.

Between 1995 and 2016, her family-owned Racota Valley Ranch in Hazel, South Dakota deposited over $3.7 million in government farm subsidies. In 2012 alone, they cashed $232,707 in subsidy checks, according to the Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidy Database.

https://inequality.org/great-divide/kristi-noem-fudging-estate-taxes-cashing-3-7-million-taxpayer-funded-farm-subsidies/

Governor’s Brothers Get $346K in Trump Farm Welfare Checks

Money is tight, says Governor Kristi Noem in defense of her visionless budget. But the Governor’s kin are seeing no lack of government money, thanks to Donald Trump. Our discussion of the $665 million in farm Trumpfare checks that are keeping South Dakota farmers on life support led me to peruse the Environmental Working Group database and find that Racota Valley Ranch, the corporation held by Noem’s brothers Robb and Rock Arnold, has received $345,775 in Market Facilitation Payments from 2018 through October 31, 2019.
.........
Racota Valley Ranch has raked in $4.13 million in farm subsidies since 1995. Noem owned a share of the farm during much of that period. And with Trump now saying he might keep the trade war going until after the 2020 election, Noem’s kin may get to sit back and cruise on another full year of six-figure farm welfare checks.

Also of note among the Trumpfare handout recipients is Former Ag Secretary Walt Bones’s Hexad Farms has gotten $350,344 in MFP. Just a few weeks ago, the state approved $756,000 in tax kickbacks to subsidize an expansion of Bones’s Turner County Dairy into Minnehaha County.

That’s South Dakota: run by Republicans, fed by socialism.

https://dakotafreepress.com/2019/12/06/governors-brothers-get-346k-in-trump-farm-welfare-checks/

Just another wealthy, lying POS GOP fascist hypocrite, sucking at the government's teat, while whining about the government giving crumbs to help working folks who are just struggling to survive.

[dalton99a]

39. +1

[Wellstone ruled]

52. Thanks for posting this story.

Farm incorporated using a associated product name from Davis Companies Cheese Plant in Lake Norden. Spouse and I once owned a lake lot just down the road for many years. Spent many a Summer in the area and observed the transformation from sanity too one of Religious Ignorance in real time.

[MarcA]

71. Also they don't want anyone else to get any of "their" money.

Otherwise they couldn't have their indebted slaves. They are very open about this with their
actions if not always their words; they have to keep feeding propaganda to their rubes.

[Voltaire2]

35. Smooth talking is a dog whistle

for uppity n*r.

[dlk]

36. When someone has no conscience, they can say or do anything

Noem has shown us.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. She should do stand-up comedy, she writes like it

[Botany]

38. a "33-year-old with no accomplishments"

Noem is just an idiot who helped S.D. become a national leader in C-19 cases.

From Wiki:

Early life and education

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Ossoff was raised in Northlake, an unincorporated community.[16] Ossoff's mother, Heather Fenton, an Australian immigrant who moved to the U.S. at age 23,[17] was born and raised in Sydney.[18] She co-founded NewPower PAC, an organization that works to elect women to local office across Georgia.[4][19] His father, Richard Ossoff, who is of Russian Jewish and Lithuanian Jewish descent, owns Strafford Publications, a specialist publishing company.[17] Ossoff was raised Jewish.[20] He previously held Australian citizenship through his mother.[18]

He attended the Paideia School, an independent school in Atlanta.[17] While in high school, he interned for civil rights leader and U.S. representative John Lewis.[17] In 2009, Ossoff graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attended classes taught by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren.[21][22] He earned a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics in 2013.[21][22][23]
Early career

Ossoff worked as a national security staffer and aide to U.S. representative Hank Johnson for five years.[24] He left Johnson's office in 2012 to earn a master's degree at the London School of Economics.[25] Before working for Johnson, he served as an intern for U.S. representative and civil rights leader John Lewis, who recommended him to Johnson.[26][27]

Since 2013, Ossoff has been managing director and chief executive officer of Insight TWI, a London-based investigative television production company that works with reporters to create documentaries about corruption in foreign countries.[28][29] The firm produced BBC investigations about ISIS war crimes and death squads in East Africa. He was also involved in producing a documentary about the staging of a play in Sierra Leone.[29]

[mdbl]

41. This comes from a Putin lovin Trump supporter

what an idiot

[lutherj]

42. In her mind a "communist" is anyone who is against fascism, just as in the south "liberal" is

anything that contradicts the Christian fundamentalist worldview. Thus science is “liberal”, and promoting the general welfare is “communist” (even though it’s in the preamble to the Constitution). Of course she would argue that a free market and Christian faith are the truly American path to general welfare.

[raccoon]

55. Well said! Nt

[MarcA]

72. +1,000 n/t

[mackdaddy]

43. Calling someone "Communitst" seems less Racist/Biggotted then the terms she wants to say.

This is apparently the fill in the blank for the words she is really saying to the "Base".

[JohnnyRingo]

49. "Smooth talking preacher" !?

I'm not sure why that's bad, but it certainly describes every popular preacher in the country.
It's not like he was one of the televangical scam artists that conservatives revere.

As for "communists", I don't think either of them ever lived on a hippie farm where they shared work and material belongings.

[NHvet]

51. Its all about 2024

She is walking over the dropping seditionist carcasses of her fellow GOPers who had aspirations to run in the 2024 Presidential race to be first in line. Unfortunately, she first has to shed the deaths under her watch as Gov of SD. Not sure how you turn #1 in COVID deaths into a campaign slogan, but I'm sure someone will try to spin that as a plus.

[hibbing]

53. Straight from scary socialism to communism

It really is quite something, of course the Trumpster has called Biden the same.


Peace

[SpankMe]

54. If they're communists, she's a fascist. Can't have it both ways. n/t

[Zorro]

56. Fascist dumbass says what?

It seems that a prevailing RWNJ belief/fear these days is that Democrats are socialists or communists intent on turning the US into another Venezuela.

It's time to use some pejorative language and label them the fascists that they are.

[Traildogbob]

57. How many of the terrorists

Were from South Dakota?
Personally let Covid take her and them out.
From wise words of a very fine woman, “I really don’t care, do you”?

[lonely bird]

58. We need some standards for intellectual capacity and critical thinking

Before someone can run for elective office.

Also psychological screening for belief in conspiracy theories.

[marieo1]

59. Sad, sad, sad

Noem is an idiot...............and contributed to hundreds of deaths from Covid...........what gives her the right to say anything about anything? How stupid were the people of S Dakota to make her governor!!

[marieo1]

60. Sad, sad, sad

Noem is an idiot...............and contributed to hundreds of deaths from Covid...........what gives her the right to say anything about anything? How stupid were the people of S Dakota to make her governer!!

[bucolic_frolic]

62. Can she spell and define "communism"? This sounds like "I can see communism from my house."

Legitimate question, the media should ask and tell.

[ornotna]

63. If you can't believe the past South Dakota Snow Queen

Who can you believe. Accomplishments.

[jmowreader]

64. Coming from someone whose "accomplishment"...

...was being a beauty queen, that’s basically a compliment.

[W T F]

66. Typical republican playbook response, when all else fails resort to McCarthyism

[Mr. Sparkle]

67. She is another nasty piece of work who needs to be removed from office!

[Warpy]

68. Trying to cover for her utter abdication of responsibility as governor

She's not just incompetent. She has refused to do her job.

[Paladin]

69. Blow it out your ass, Gov.

And keep backing trump for as long as possible---I like what happens to clueless politicos who do so.

[PatrickforO]

70. Let's hope her voters hold her accountable for these statements,

as well as her criminal negligence in handling the pandemic.

[MarcA]

73. palin 2.0 n/t

[Captain Zero]

75. tell her no but we will have a GOP Russian Congress Lady from the northside of Indianapolis now.

If she wants to red bait.

[apnu]

76. Who the fuck do these out-of-state assholes think they are?

Since when does the governor of South Dakota know a single fucking thing about Georgia?

Oh I know why, my state, a very blue state, is often a whipping boy for the whole GOP. Its OK for them to give shit to blue anything.

[steve2470]

77. Callous idiot who lets thousands of her citizens die, says what about democracy ?

If you want to label Warnock and Ossoff communists, then we'll label you a Nazi. See how that works ? Both labels are wrong.

[bdamomma]

78. Go away

Noem is she a Q Anon member????

[usajumpedtheshark]

79. South Dakota is completely dominated by Republicans and a majority of

the citizens would agree with her. They all hate socialism and communism, but not tRump's puppet master putin or getting checks from the federal government. The state receives way more money from the federal government than it contributes. The state would quickly whither away if not for AG bill appropriations and tourism.

Also, the state AG is still under investigation for killing a man but Noem still supports him.

[Volaris]

81. Ya know what?? SO FUCKING WHAT.

The people of GA are free to elect whoever the hell they want to the offices open for election in their state.

If the majority of GA voters decided that they wanted an immigrant, Iranian Mullah who runs his own mosque in Atlanta, to rep them in the Senate, what business is it to anyone who doesnt live in Georgia?! It most certainly IS NOT the business of the governor of South Fucking Dakota.

I'm so tired of this bullshit from them. Maybe they ARE communists. THATS NOT DISQUALIFYING IN AMERICA.

They've been on this shit for almost a hundred years now.
It's time for them to find a new hobby horse.

[BHDem53]

82. I didn't vote for her.

[Aussie105]

83. Bad communication skills, Kristi Noem!

Sticking a label on people doesn't mean anything other that you just don't like them.

Now take a deep breath, and explain WHY you don't like them. Give you a few minutes to put the words together, if you can. There's a nice person!

[FakeNoose]

86. She should be banned from Twitter immediately

Liars have no right to free internet.

[badboy67]

88. GOP returns to its attack.

That didn't take long...