The Worst Thing About Kristi Noem’s
Sports Capitulation Is Her Lies
The Federalist,
by
Margot Cleveland
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/27/2021 5:40:00 PM
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem raised some valid concerns when she returned House Bill 1217 to the state legislature for “style and form” changes. But two of the proposed amendments to the bill that legislators drafted to prevent males from competing as females in athletic events, coupled with the spin since Noem announced she would not sign H.B. 1217 as written, give the governor’s game away: She caved. (Snip) Had Noem truly sought to “fix” the law, as opposed to rendering it meaningless, she would have presented “style and form” recommendations to Section 4 that narrowed the scope of the private right of action.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/27/2021 5:41:39 PM (No. 736951)
Cleveland is not just a journalist. She is a legal expert. FTA:
Noem’s statement did more than merely misrepresent the NCAA’s policy; it suggested that female collegiate athletes from South Dakota would be deprived of the opportunity to play college sports if H.R. 1217 applies to post-secondary institutions. The NCAA, however, has never suggested (publicly at least) that it would punish female athletes for laws their home states pass by banning them from NCAA-sanctioned events.
Yet Noem continued to push this false fear at her press conference earlier this week, stating: “If South Dakota passed a law that’s against [the NCAA] policy they will likely take punitive action against us. That means they could pull their tournaments from the state. They could pull home games. They could even prevent our athletes from playing in their leagues. That’s their prerogative. So a fight that doesn’t truly protect women’s sports and doesn’t allow women to compete will ultimately hurt South Dakota families.”
In other words, she lied.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/27/2021 5:54:03 PM (No. 736955)
It is a disgusting, unworkable depraved policy and needs to be eliminated at all levels.
But not before some 240 pound behemoth soccer player runs over and flattens Megan Rapinoe.
Right after that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
red1066 3/27/2021 5:57:32 PM (No. 736959)
Feelings get in the way of common sense once again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Miceal 3/27/2021 6:18:04 PM (No. 736971)
Sadly, I now trust Kristi Noem about as much as I do Niki Haley. Oh, and that's NOT AT ALL...
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We waited 28 years after Reagan for Trump to come along. Most here are content to quickly dump Governor Noem and then wait another 28 years for their idea of a perfect conservative candidate to appear on the scene and try to rescue the country. Gonna be way too late, by then.
And speaking of Trump, where does he stand on this kerfuffle?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
aasilver 3/27/2021 6:21:59 PM (No. 736973)
The NCAA is noted for moving basketball games out of one of the Carolinas because the state 'violated' an NCAA liberal policy. She didn't want to admit it but the NCAA bullied her into her position. There is no question in my mind that the NCAA is going to go along with Biden's Exec order on Transgender 'woman' athletes and they will enforce it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gop_guys 3/27/2021 6:36:05 PM (No. 736984)
FTA: Many on the right would still be disappointed, even angry. After all, if you can’t remain firm over something as scientifically undisputable as biological sex, what hope is there left for our country? Below poster is right about the NCAA. They’re no better than the NBA trying to bully their craziness onto the public! Understand Amazon had a hand in it as well. NOEM is in over her head. This transgender thing is from the pits of Hell. It’s demonic. We’re either fearfully and wonderfully made or we’re not!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ribicon 3/27/2021 6:42:54 PM (No. 736989)
Rightful President Trump bucked the Marxists and threw Transgender-Americans out of the military. But it's a mystery where he stands on men competing against women in sports, really?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 3/27/2021 7:22:51 PM (No. 737007)
The NCAA doesn’t give a rip about an athlete that has devoted most of their lives to play a sport at the top level. All they care about is the political correctness of the present time. Two teams , that I know of, in D-1 hockey had their season end because of one player testing positive for COVID. Just before the national tournament. Talk about insanity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Foont 3/27/2021 8:06:44 PM (No. 737029)
"We waited 28 years after Reagan for Trump to come along. Most here are content to quickly dump Governor Noem and then wait another 28 years for their idea of a perfect conservative candidate to appear on the scene and try to rescue the country. Gonna be way too late, by then."
Is it too much to ask that a "conservative candidate" be supportive of reality? Or refuse to allow basic institutions to be turned into travesties and degraded by deranged deviants? Is there NOTHING that cannot be compromised?
The simple fact is that the GOP is not going to save the country. Reagan didn't save it. Trump didn't save it. The GOP is as much a major contributor to the decline as the left but are far more insidious in that the mouthpieces for that party go about blathering about their "principles" and how hypocritical the left is while doing absolutely nothing effective to halt the decline. Reagan signed the amnesty bill in '86. He signed off on no-fault divorce and oversaw the emptying of mental institutions while governor of California. Trump made noise about closing the government rather than sign the bloated spending bills sent to him and then signed off on every one of them. Trump hired enemies and put them in charge of the bureaucracy and then marveled at how he was opposed and undermined on every side. The GOP is worthless and it is worthless because of people like Noem who will fold on any issue if the left so much as threatens opposition.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/27/2021 8:26:50 PM (No. 737039)
I am astonished that anyone here would be in doubt about where President Trump would be on this. Apparently we still have a few who never took the trouble to get to know him - not difficult with someone who is WYSIWYG - but then some are clueless about a lot of things. Or simply in denial when they’ve become starstruck over a Noem?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/27/2021 8:29:46 PM (No. 737040)
BTW, are some Conservatives actually kind of mushy themselves on the issue of two sexes, male and female, dictated for life by chromosomes - which cannot be excised or transplanted? Doubters of about the only thing that is Settled Science? That kind of ignorance is scary. Just as scary is the recognition that they don’t care about that two sex reality. That it’s no big deal. Spare me.
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Well, at the risk of chatting, I'm posting a second time for clarity.
No doubt where Trump stands on the overall issue and it was easy for him as the CinC to sign a policy directive banning them from the military. I'm just curious to see if he dumps Noem, also, from his list of favorites over this incident or concludes that there may be some political give-and-take at play here.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 3/27/2021 9:01:24 PM (No. 737059)
Noem has joined Haley as a Republican woman who I won't ever trust, won't ever vote for.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/27/2021 9:35:52 PM (No. 737074)
Every time I listen to her - - or read what she has said - - Kristi reminds me more and more of a female John McQueeg.
And that ain't good.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/28/2021 6:41:13 AM (No. 737245)
Kristi, Nikki, Hilliary, Difference?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
franq 3/28/2021 8:33:03 AM (No. 737320)
Well, somewhere in the continuum between "barefoot and pregnant" and "empowered modern womyn" is what God wants and men long for. Off-topic perhaps, but I can't stand shoulder-length hair that is angle-cut. Don't know why, just doesn't seem feminine.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Shells 3/28/2021 9:14:29 AM (No. 737381)
I vote #2 Post of the Year.
I rarely laugh these days.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/28/2021 12:35:56 PM (No. 737584)
We have to get better at vetting. I was impressed with Noem, but I'm back to taking my time and trusting no one until they've proven themselves Done!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/28/2021 1:20:42 PM (No. 737635)
When a lib/Donk says something that is correct, I will observe that broken clocks are right twice a day (if they're analog, that is).
Kristi is the opposite. Maybe this is one of the two times a day that she is wrong. She's been a 'working clock' most of the time. She was right on masks, shutdowns, covid and schools. We owe her for that. If she could be pressured by the NCAA, she can be persuaded by us. Let's try that first, wot?
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