Re: WTFFFFFF

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How is that legal?


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 6:38 AM
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Pacing!

At least the billionaire is doing it through a nonprofit foundation. I wonder when we'll see Amazon renting service members to bust unions.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 6:39 AM
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I don't know if I mentioned this before, but a former classmate of mine was appointed by the governor in the OP to a state job that didn't involve leading a private militia of the rich.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 7:06 AM
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Maybe I should save the Voting Machines post for tomorrow?


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 7:29 AM
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"States' rights!" is the political science version of "the aristocrats!"

Texans, this is South Dakotan Jade Helm. Blink and before you know it, the Rio Grande Valley and the Panhandle will declare themselves as independent
nations, Manchukuo style.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 7:38 AM
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I've been thinking of starting a Go Fund Me to pay the North Dakota National Guard to invade South Dakota, while the SD Guard is off doing their stupid thing in Texas.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 9:08 AM
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Dakota: the only place where shitheel overly proud conservatives actually want their polity to be split.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 9:17 AM
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Then Nebraska could take them both in the distraction.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 1-21 9:23 AM
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I want answers for 1.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 12:52 AM
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It's legal because they're going to get away with it.


Posted by: (gensym) | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 6:52 AM
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If the state they were going to didn't want them, they'd clearly have a case. If they were going to be put to work on some for-profit endeavor, some sane South Dakotans would probably have a case, despite the donation. I'm not sure how private donations to state governments are regulated, but I assume those regulations are aimed at preventing bribes, which doesn't seem relevant here. Aside from those, we're just talking about fascist political theater by one state government, only involving states whose governments support it, and I don't think that has ever been illegal.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 10:58 AM
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Have you ever met a South Dakotan?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 12:18 PM
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I guess I don't know anyone raised there.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 12:23 PM
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What law would it break? The government is allowed to accept donations, even donations with strings (eg land for state parks). SD has a couple of statutes that make this explicit, but even if they didn't, it's far from obvious there the donation is the problem.

The real problem is out-of-state deployment, but that strikes me as more political than legal.

(Several states sent police folks to SD when it was having pipeline protests and requested assistance.)


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 12:59 PM
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There's an interstate compact that deals with this stuff: https://www.emacweb.org/index.php/learn-about-emac/emac-legislation, I'm not saying there's no avenue for legal challenge -- maybe a SDNG soldier could object -- but it's far from obvious, in my not very well informed opinion.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 1:59 PM
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There's an interstate compact that deals with this stuff: https://www.emacweb.org/index.php/learn-about-emac/emac-legislation, I'm not saying there's no avenue for legal challenge -- maybe a SDNG soldier could object -- but it's far from obvious, in my not very well informed opinion.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 2:00 PM
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Is Chopper from South Dakota or did I make that up?


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 2:06 PM
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Ask him to say, "Pierre." If he says "pier" but insists he's saying something different, then he is.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 2:16 PM
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Yes, Chopper is from SD.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 3:04 PM
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Don't tell the LAPD, but South Dakota was a great place to buy fireworks that were illegal in states run by sane people.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07- 2-21 6:09 PM
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14: Did the border states request the help or did the billionaire go to South Dakota and say "this is my pet idea that I will fund?" To me without a request from the states they are "assisting" it has the flavor of a semi-privatized militia.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 07- 3-21 5:39 AM
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21 Texas and Arizona both made EMAC requests on June 10.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 07- 3-21 8:12 AM
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I don't doubt that this bit of political theater was cooked up by a combination of bad hombres.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 07- 3-21 8:13 AM
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