Kristi Noem's statement on pipes not being infrastructure sums up her party's confusion

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Joe Biden unveiled the first part of his $4 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday, and almost immediately a host of Republican lawmakers criticized the bill for allocating funds to measures not specifically related to physical infrastructure, such as climate change and research initiatives.

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was one of them, but she offered an unorthodox definition of physical infrastructure: one that doesn't include pipes.

In an interview on Thursday, Noem discussed the president's infrastructure bill with Fox News' Sean Hannity, and as the interview progressed, she elaborated on her definition of infrastructure, saying housing doesn't qualify either.

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Shortly after the interview aired, critics on Twitter highlighted the "pipes" comment in particular, and left-leaning media figures were especially critical. For instance, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan said Noem had "revealed she doesn't know what infrastructure is."

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kristi-noems-statement-on-pipes-not-being-infrastructure-sums-up-her-partys-confused-reaction-to-bidens-plan/ar-BB1ffyxb?li=BBnb7Kz

[ShazzieB]

1. Well, we already knew she was an idiot.

She's done so many stupid things in the last year where the pandemic is concerned that this seems like.... par for the course?

Keep on being you, Kristi.

[elleng]

2. 'the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads,

roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
"the social and economic infrastructure of a country"'

[dchill]

3. Also, too, and such as...

"On November 18, 2019, Noem released a new meth awareness campaign named 'Meth, We're on It'. "

Evidently, there ARE dumb steroids. And they're in the water in South Dakota. In the pipes.