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S. Dakota governor deploying National Guard to border funded by private donation

theprestige said:
If the point is they're all jackasses blindly publishing the same AP blurb without any investigation of their own, then yes, I get the point quite clearly.

Think about this. Does anything about the OP's claim sound remotely plausible to you? Do not have even a single skeptical question about what the AP is actually reporting on, I'd what the governors is actually talking about?
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This all smells like bull ****. All of it.
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Actually, all of it doesn't smell like bull ****, only parts. So what part do you think is bull ****, her sending the NG to the border, or the funding?
 
mgidm86 said:
Will this actually happen? Can she legally do this, and if so, how? And she won't name the donors? No way. It won't happen.

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She'd be sending troops to another state for one thing. Is that state's Governor gonna be just okay with this? Someone mentioned political theater above. Someone looking for votes probably.
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Texas asked for help, some states are sending it. SD is being paid by:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...rd-border-deployment/ar-AALBenS?ocid=msedgntp

“I’m trying to help out the governor and help America,” said Willis Johnson, the billionaire founder and chairman of a global company called Copart Inc., which auctions used, wholesale and wrecked cars.

Johnson, a Vietnam veteran who doesn’t live in South Dakota but rather in Tennessee, told POLITICO in a brief interview that he met the governor at a political fundraiser “a while back.”

“I believe in her state and Texas,” he said, calling himself “a hardcore Republican.”
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The next MyPillow Guy?

Seems to be part of a "There's a disaster on the border" narrative being created again.

"Oh my gawd, Abbott needs help in Texas!!! The humanity! It's so bad private citizens have to pay!!!" :rolleyes:

The money smells like a campaign contribution.
 
There's a good reason not to send military people willy-nilly just because some random donor has a bug up their ass to somehow solve the border. On the other hand sometimes I think the more eyes on the border the better. IMO understanding an issue actually lessens some of the paranoia surrounding it. It's no mystery to me why many Mexicans (& Guatemalans etc.) want what we have: A decent shot at making a living; a better life for their kids. Some of them take a direct route, walking here and seizing work deep in the interior. That takes guts, IMO. Some would say lawlessness. You can celebrate or revile that. I'm toward the celebration side. Free people saw a chance and grabbed it.
 
There should be a handy term for when the state and private capital get together to do armed violence against undesirable ethnic minorities.
 
Johnson has access to car crushers, South Dakota has troops, Texas has undesired aliens -- hey, this might be the solution, a Final solution, to the liberal border crisis and to the growing menace of impending racial pollution by Montreal* hordes who aim only at destroying our ancestral rights and prestige!!

-- no, wait, I mean, our precious bodily fluids.

My head hurts.

* Supposed to read "mongrel," but this Jewish app on my phone, well, you know how it is.
 
autumn1971 said:
Depressingly, I’m pretty sure they are totally into it.

And not for the enviable reason that they get their asses out of South Dakota
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I am not so sure about that ...

After all, if this deployment of state guard troops is validated, then such a development rather implies National Guard troops from any state could be sent to any other state, provided that there is someone around to pay for such a deployment.

Therefore, I can forsee some awfully weird, and possibly dangerous, situations arising.

For example, if South Dakota National Guard troops are needed to to support the government of Texas, then that implies that the Texas National Guard troops are not capable of supporting the government of Texas.

Which does not say much for either the Texas National Guard troops or the government of Texas.

And if the government of Texas cannot protect its own state, then since Texas is such a large state, then I expect that a large number of National Guard troops from other states will need to be sent to Texas as well.

Anyway, it sure sounds like a dangerous situation when one has dozens, hundreds, and possibly thousands of out-of-state National Guard troops in Texas all of whom may know very little about Texas but who are trying to protect Texas all the same.
 
The way this work fo rmost states is that if the Guard is activated by the feds, or are sent in response to a plea for help from another state, the feds or the other state pick up the bill.
Incidently, the pay for just being in the guard is much smaller then what a full time soldier gets.It's a part time job, basically. In most states, however,when a guardsmen goes on full time active duty, his pay increses to what a full time soldier in the regular army gets. This can be costly.
All the Guardsmen who were in DC after the insurrection , though they were members of a state guard,were paid by the federal government.
I don't get why Texas was not asked to pick up the bill instead of a private donor.
It's the private donor that sticks in my craw.It's making the SD Guard into a bunch of soldiers for hire a la the Hessians.Maybe Noem will see this as a source of income and hire them out overseas, like the King of Hesse did during the American Revolution.
The poor Hessians solkdiers were not even true Mercenaries, since they were conscripted into the Hessian Army. Which might account for the very high desertion rate they had once they reached the Colonies.
They might have to been that effective even as soldiers. See The Battle of Trenton for details...
 
Minoosh said:
There's a good reason not to send military people willy-nilly just because some random donor has a bug up their ass to somehow solve the border. On the other hand sometimes I think the more eyes on the border the better. IMO understanding an issue actually lessens some of the paranoia surrounding it. It's no mystery to me why many Mexicans (& Guatemalans etc.) want what we have: A decent shot at making a living; a better life for their kids. Some of them take a direct route, walking here and seizing work deep in the interior. That takes guts, IMO. Some would say lawlessness. You can celebrate or revile that. I'm toward the celebration side. Free people saw a chance and grabbed it.
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DId she even clear this with the Texas GOvernement before doing this? Texas should pick up the bill for this.
 
I don't know the personal politics of national guard members, but getting sent on some BS deployment seems like an awfully crappy way to treat volunteer, part-time soldiers. What are they even going to do down in Texas? Stack sandbags and roll out barbed wire and stand around in the hot sun? Do all the crap work that border agents would rather not do themselves?
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
I don't know the personal politics of national guard members, but getting sent on some BS deployment seems like an awfully crappy way to treat volunteer, part-time soldiers.
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Any situation in which you are a member of the military and get caught in any political Dog & Pony show sucks.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
I don't know the personal politics of national guard members, but getting sent on some BS deployment seems like an awfully crappy way to treat volunteer, part-time soldiers. What are they even going to do down in Texas? Stack sandbags and roll out barbed wire and stand around in the hot sun? Do all the crap work that border agents would rather not do themselves?
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I agree, but then, it's not unsual for Guardsmen to help out another state in a time of crisis, like during a natural disaster BUt this is total B.S.
I have to disagree about crap work. Any soldier does a lot of crap work,period.
 
dudalb said:
I agree, but then, it's not unsual for Guardsmen to help out another state in a time of crisis, like during a natural disaster BUt this is total B.S.
I have to disagree about crap work. Any soldier does a lot of crap work,period.
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Yeah, but it's hard to imagine getting the satisfaction of a job well done on such a BS deployment. It's not like their actually responding to any disaster or emergency. No floods to fight, or emergency supplies to distribute, just putting in the elbow grease to keep the right wing propaganda machine turning.

Odds are good these 50 soldiers just end up dicking around at the border for a few weeks not accomplishing much when they could have been at home enjoying their summer.
 
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Cain said:
I love how liberals just ignore the fact S. Dakota's governor is kinda hot.
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I heard an excerpt of Alex Jones when he first saw her photo, I think it was when he was talking to Ted Nugent about flying with Noem somewhere. Alex called out to his son Rex (jokingly in creepy voice) - hey Rex, come here, meet your new mommy, heh heh.

Ignoring it is probably better than that.
 
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