Thread by @SteveDeaceShow

Thread on what's happening here with mental illness as public policy and Kristi Noem. @seanmdav previously described it as "dissembling" and that is perfect term.

Noem, who made clear and definitive statements when pushing back on Covid fascism for the past year, suddenly has a catechesis to offer on why she refused to sign a very simple bill. A 22-tweet thread. You read that right -- 22 tweet thread!

Her thread is over 400 words! Or more than 5 times the total words found in the First and Second Amendments COMBINED. And all to explain away her dissembling on the first fundamental fact stated about every human being ever: "it's a boy/girl."

I have told my audience, as well as causes/politicians I've worked for or covered for years, that whenever the explanation is longer than the accusation -- you lose. Her explanation is full of fanciful words, signifying nothing of substance.

And given how she stood tall for the past year while so many others bowed the knee to Fauci's fiendishness, we know it's not that she just doesn't have it in her. So, there must be another motivation at play. Hence, the term "dissembling."

In the end, especially in politics, you are the hills you die on. Regardless of rhetoric, you know a tree by its fruit. Noem is basically a proxy for the Chamber of Commerce and other corporatist interests here, who themselves push woke paganism and/or worship Mammon above all.

Noem is trying to thread a needle that doesn't exist. Claiming she'll protect minor girls while the adult females get thrown under the bus, because she doesn't want to lose money for not getting business from woke organizations like the NCAA.

And herein lies the rub. The old GOP, party of big business, versus the new populism -- regular people just trying to hold on to whatever is left of their traditional way of life.

The Democratic Party has already ejected these regular folks from their ranks, which we saw Trump capitalize on as their willing voice. The Republican Party is willing to welcome them, but only if they buy the cultural Potter's Field, too.

What does it gain to have the whole world, but lose your own soul in the process? To add a point or two of GDP in exchange for unleashing mental illness as public policy?

Noem thinks she'll out-smart this cultural confrontation. Come up with some third way to not confront the true spirit of the age. She is wrong. Because the spirit of the age will permit nothing more than a direct confrontation.

Two worldviews are vying for control here. Not mere political ideologies with distinctions. This is reality vs unreality (or a new one). There's no path to navigate when it's a fork in the road. And as Yogi Berra once said, "When you come to a fork in the road -- take it."

All will choose this day whom they serve. There will be no middle way, for what's driving the Western Left wants no middle way. It's their new way or the American way. But all will choose.

Noem, I believe, is also hoping that by issuing such a long explanation of nothingness she'll chart a path for other GOP future standard-bearers to follow her lead. That this will be the new "pro-life with exceptions" scam of the last 20 years GOP.

We're now "pro sanity with exceptions." Except unlike the lucid Molech worshippers at Planned Parenthood, this insanity will permit ZERO accommodations. Noem and her ilk will be every bit the haters and bigots as they would if they just stood up for reality.

In fact, by restricting minors alone from gender-bending, they're now going to be confronted with "they hate the children" propaganda, too. Team GOP never learns. Not because it's stupid, but because it doesn't agree with us.

We're up against an opponent that dies on EVERY hill. Our "side" meanwhile will die on ZERO hills. Ever read a history book? Guess who tends to win such existential conflicts? Hint: it's not the side with no balls.