South Dakota
South Dakota
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 3/13/2023
I read the tea leaves in Minnesota before I departed the state. George Floyd was a hero. Minneapolis burned. The closest Target to my residence was shut down because of attacks on the store. My church was ordered closed down. While I was deemed essential at the place I worked, I was suspended for not complying with the company’s nor the union’s regard for themselves as my personal doctor as it relates to wearing masks. I decided that I had enough of Minnesota and moved myself to South Dakota. I did this because churches were open, job opportunities were available, and I didn’t have to worry about being harassed by employee at stores for refusing the face diaper. South Dakota had no emergency declared during COVID-19. Two and a half years later, I wonder, did I make the right choice?
After moving, the first thing I did was walk into a bar (bars were closed in Minnesota), sat down, ordered a beer and a burger and relished the idea that I had the freedom to dine in public. Another thing I immediately noticed was that there is no state income tax is South Dakota – I really appreciate that. I found that living in a constitutional-carry state makes me safer. Overall I like the way South Dakota handles government.
In Minnesota, there was something in between the city and county governments and the state government called the Metropolitan Council. I actually went and spoke at this council when they passed the MET Council’s Thrive 2040 plan. Of the 17 members of this unelected, governor appointed, travesty of Marxism in thriving in the United States, only 3 actually understood what I was speaking about. The plan was a cut and paste of The Rio de Janeiro UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 which produced Agenda 21, among other documents. The global government found a path into the homes and lives of every human being on earth with their climate change narrative, governments ate it up, and the MET Council was no exception. Only the three members of the MET Council familiar with what they were actually imposing upon their 7-county ‘jurisdiction’ smiled and laughed as I spoke. The other 14 glared at me as I repeatedly described them as Communists.
I was new to the game when I gave that speech. Today I wouldn’t describing them as Communists. They are totalitarian technocrats who are interested in three things. The first is consolidating power in their unelected body. The second is conducting espionage by aligning with global agendas and disregarding the US Constitution as well as Minnesota’s constitution. The third is committing cold blooded murder especially against their political opponents.
I noticed that Sioux Falls didn’t have anything similar to the MET Council. What I did not research, to my chagrin, was whether or not Sioux Falls operated under a sustainability plan, which they absolutely do. The first Sioux Falls Sustainability Plan came around in 2012 and set goals like have people drive slightly less miles per year. The new plan kicks Sioux Falls residents out of their cars by just getting rid of gas stations altogether and replacing them with electric charging stations. After rallying Sioux Falls residents to go out and purchase electric vehicles the authors of the plan tell residents, “transportation should be convenient, reliable, and accessible for all community members. For those residents who cannot afford to, or choose not to, own a vehicle, public transit and other multimodal solutions (e.g., bicycling) are critical. In fact, increasing ridership on these transportation modes is an important component not only to the livability of our community but to an increasingly sustainable transportation system.” Whatever idiot wrote down, on paper, that Sioux Falls residents should use bicycles for transportation can go take their bicycle and ride around on a breezy day with a high temperature of -15 degrees. That person can go walk to a bus stop and sit there hoping the bus isn’t late in wind chills at -45 degrees. Actually, I would like to see Paul TenHaken start walking back and forth since he is the face of the new Sioux Falls plan. In between 5 and 10 minutes is all it would take for them to get hypothermia. It won’t be me – I know not to expose myself to that kind of weather unless absolutely necessary and know exactly where the nearest warm place I can enter is. Hopefully the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan in Sioux Falls is thwarted because it will make this city unlivable.
During COVID-19 the mayor of Sioux Falls, Paul TenHaken, a loser and a worker of lawlessness and espionage, did all he could without the state’s backing to wreck Sioux Falls by declaring that businesses cannot facilitate more than 10 customers at once, along with other measures. Despite that, when I had my burger and beer in late August or early September of 2020, there were more than 10 customers in the establishment. While Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s governor left the decisions up to individuals, the city of Sioux Falls demanded that misdemeanor violations would be issued to violaters of the 10 customer edict. Other cities completely closed down their so-called ‘non-essential’ establishments in the state. TenHaken was looking to do the same but feared the lawsuits which would ensue since he had no state backing.
But all of this made me curious. Is Sioux Falls really a good place to be? No, not with whack-job ‘I want to be globally inclusive and suck from the globalist government’s teat’ TenHaken in charge. He will destroy what Sioux Falls is if he gets his way. The city will go from an agricultural powerhouse to a realized vision of the hell these types of people call utopia by 2030. The only problem is that everyone else running for mayor in the last election was even worse than TenHaken who calls himself a republican.
So, then I asked myslef is South Dakota a good place to be. Sort of, under the current conditions, but not really. Some of the republicans at the state level are cut from the same cloth TenHaken is. That cloth of course is RINO skins. For instance, if the governor of South Dakota were to declare an emergency it would be unquestionable for six-months per §34-48A.5 of the codified laws of South Dakota. A bill was introduced in House Bill 1152 which was read and sent to the 13 member (2 of which are democrats) House State Affairs Committee where it was amended to become House Bill 1152B and then tabled in a 12-1 vote. 1152 and 1152B both make any declaration of an emergency decreed by the governor subject to review for continuance by legislative vote every 30 days. Tabled.
Another House Bill, 1235, sought to provide a consciousness exemption from this murderous COVID-19 ‘vaccine.’ While it doesn’t do much because the Bill would allow the regulations of the CDC and Medicare and Medicaid to override a persons conscious objection, it would provide recourse for the tyranny institutions have wrought throughout the COVID-19 debacle. There are 7 democrats in the SD House of Representatives with 6 voting on this Bill (1 was excused) all against. 33 RINOs joined the democrats and defeated the Bill.
While the South Dakota Senate has done some favorable things such as ban ranked-choice voting (SB 55) and refusing to validate LGBTQ ‘rights’ through commemorating them (SC 810), they have also produced completely banal legislation such as Senate Bill 183 which has been dealt with in the most underhanded way possible. Senate Bill 183 sought to get rid of the idea that newspapers were to maintain a certain status for one year prior to being able to publish official and legal notices. Never mind that the paid circulation need only have 200 subscribers and be available to the public – SB 183 only sought to remove the one year requirement. But this bill, like several others, was rescheduled for the forty-first legislative day. There are only 40 days of legislative days.
Sometimes the SD Senate uses this egregiously and also uses the idea that the legislative effort be tabled as well. One instance of tabling an important bill that deserves to be voted on is SB 94. The Bill establishes the crime of grooming and punishments if convicted. It does not seem to me this law is over-broad nor too narrow to catch those engaging in grooming. It was read, referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee and promptly tabled in a 6-0 vote. All of the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee claim to be republicans. Senate Bill 125, “An Act to prohibit the imposition of additional immunization requirements on children” was read once, sent to the six republicans and one democrat on the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, and scheduled for legislative day 41 unanimously.
So maybe the SD Senate has important things to be doing in the legislative session? Not according to their schedule. The next time they meet will be March 27. They will be considering SB 108 and SB 129. SB 108 was vetoed by the governor and allows alcoholic beverages to be tasted by enrolled students as part of their education. SB 129 sought to put assaults occurring against school employees on the same level as assaults against police officers, firefighters, EMS, and DOC employees and was also vetoed by the governor.
Two House Bills have been vetoed by the governor. One in particular, HB 1193 would allow CBDC, NFTs, and other forms of payment to be used as legal payments and documentation in commerce within the state. The House will be trying to overturn the veto on March 27. Noem also vetoed a bill, HB 1109, trying to make hotel rooms more expensive by $2.00 a night – the effort in the House to override the veto fell 6 votes short of the 47 needed and HB 1193 will hopefully suffer an even worse fate.
But, again, I have to ask myself, what exactly are these guys accomplishing? They refuse to address the murder jabs. They won’t allow bills defining and criminalizing grooming activities to be passed out of committee. And they are going to war over bills which would harm people in South Dakota. Even at the state level it seems that our representatives are off in some fantasy land dancing in daisies while we are being treated as lab rats, having our children legally groomed, and have very weak barriers to a governor suffering the state with an emergency that not only never ends but one that is reviewed twice a year by the legislature.
As for Sioux Falls, it is not a good place to live. The mayor wants to make Sioux Falls just like every other democrat run city with rampant crime, absolutely asinine environmental statutes and policies, and a falling standard of living. What TenHaken will get is a mass exodus from his stupid policies. Maybe he can recruit new residents from the city he apparently wishes Sioux Falls was – Minneapolis. That would, of course, inspire even more residents in Sioux Falls to consider relocating because we don’t need more BLM rainbow mafia warriors in Sioux Falls, we need a mayor that tells the UN to take its Agenda 21 plan and shove it.
South Dakota in general; however, is not a bad place to be, for now anyway. There are plenty of opportunities for the hard working and ambitious. I love the rugged terrain and the fact that the mountains are not so far away, even from Sioux Falls. I love not paying state income tax. I love the constitutional carry. I also really appreciate that, even if an emergency declaration is declared in this state it is set in law that gun rights are not affected. Also, we don’t murder our babies in this state.
What we need; however, are lawmakers who are not a bunch of cowards. What conservative in their right mind would deny that grooming is an issue which should be addressed by the legislature? The legislature is composed of 63 republicans out of 70 members in the House and 31 republicans out of 35 in the Senate. Yet they are tabling and irregularly scheduling all kinds of Bills promoting conservative values. Maybe the republican party in South Dakota really doesn’t represent conservative values. Democrats surely don’t represent conservative values. Maybe a new state party is in order to more accurately reflect conservative values? To demand that death jabs are never mandated? To ensure our school children are not required by an unelected health board to serve as pin-cusions for ‘vaccine’ manufacturers against their parents wishes? To protect children from being taught how to appropriately be sexually abused? To run from, instead of embrace, the mark-of-the-beast commonly referred to as CBDC? To make sure that if a South Dakota governor declares an emergency it will be reviewed ever 30 days instead of once every six months? Take it to the Lord in prayer that South Dakota can find some state legislative members who vote for conservative values and start replacing mayors who want to be a candidate for the biggest donor of US sovereignty to the global government – there are a lot of those these days. Pray that God gives you the nod to be that maker of change in whatever state or country you happen to live in. I’ll pray with you.
Bless God and God bless.