Kristi Noem just took her shadow campaign to be Trump’s running mate to another nauseating level
South Dakota’s gay-hating governor Kristi Noem has taken her shadow campaign to be Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate to the next level by attacking LGBTQ+ college students in her state.
“Across the nation, higher education is in a state of crisis,” Noem, who dropped out of college when she was 22, tweeted the other day. “From prioritizing feelings over facts to radical indoctrination, as a country, we should be ashamed of this. As a state, South Dakota can show the nation what quality higher education is supposed to look like.”
The tweet also included an infographic of all the things Noem is directing the South Dakota Board of Regents to do to combat this “crisis”, including an order to “remove all references to preferred pronouns in all school materials and any enforcement of such” and another one to “prohibit drag shows from taking place on university campuses.”
Ironically, sandwiched right between those two demands is an additional order to “remove any policy or procedure that prohibits students from exercising their right to free speech.”
Noem, who herself has been known to dabble in drag on occasion, also launched a whistleblower hotline for people to report any suspected drag shows happening at colleges, saying it “will help keep institutions accountable and ensure that we are all aware of what is happening at our taxpayer-funded colleges and universities.”
She also lamented that too many states have allowed “liberal ideologies to poison their colleges and universities,” teaching students “the importance of diversity and equity and given access to ‘safe spaces’ instead of learning to tolerate the disagreement, discomfort, and dissent that they will experience in the real world.”
Here’s how folx on Twitter have been responding to Noem’s latest move targeting LGBTQ+ people…
How are you not embarrassed to show this, by the way the tip line is already broken 😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/MRaAm8nio8
— South Dakota Department of Propaganda (@SoDakTruth) May 26, 2023
If you completed 7 yourself, you’d know that 4 and 5 are contradictory.
— The First Amendment (@USConst_Amend_I) May 31, 2023
Well, four of these points would improve education. The other four are political posturing.
— Reader Steven Pennings (@rdrstevenpenn1) May 31, 2023
God, MAGAs are so weird
— B (@ChewSquatch) May 26, 2023
Yup it’s apparently very evident that your education short changes you! How did you get so far in life?
— BDH (@USDmb1985) May 26, 2023
You literally dropped out of a public state college.
— Asap_Cody (@Asap_Cody_) May 25, 2023
Your drag show/free speech goals are a bit contradictory, no?
— Kelly Clisham (@KellyYeti) May 26, 2023
Lmao did you really follow up “free speech” with “prohibit”
— LT² 👻🎃🐳🌳♻️🗳️ (@laureenmt) May 31, 2023
If Kristi’s version of “quality higher education ” is based on her twisted worldview, then South Dakota will continue to fall behind, and our best and brightest will continue to leave.
— Jennifer Selken (@selkenjr) May 26, 2023
Is there any penalty or punishment for calling that whistleblower hotline if you’re not a whistleblower? Asking for a friend.
— Part Time Loon (@thePartTimeLoon) May 25, 2023
