As am I.  I am not an anti-vaxer -- I've gotten a bunch of them, but trials take a long time and the people pushing this one have been lying to us from the beginning.

BINGO. I’m not an anti-vaxer either by any means.

If this was strictly a medical decision between my doctor and me, I would give it more weight. But because politics has invaded this space so perversely with Covid, it is REALLY hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Back to the OP.  This was a brilliant political move by the Lt Gov and a really dumb move by the Gov. 

She has now made the Gov expose himself, and this will cost him votes next year.

The biggest badasses in the GOP are women. The ID  Lt. Gov.; Krist Noem; Marjorie Taylor Green; Lauren Boebert.  I LOVE IT! 

Man up, GOP men. Ask your wives to give you your testicles back, or the women above will wipe you out.

I did say except for voting Democrat. But you can still support something and vote the other way. I usually vote for the Republican even though I support the opposition on some issues. For example back in 2016 or thereabouts Trump made a statement in support of civil asset forfeiture which I vehemently oppose but I voted for him anyway. I wouldn’t want to be accused of supporting civil asset forfeiture just because I voted for Trump.

To be fair, that’s probably because you knew the democrats were far worse on civil asset forfeiture, and you only had a binary choice for president.

As for Steingar’s militia canard, the problem that we all see is that his position mirrors what four out of nine Supreme Court justices said in Heller, and what anti-gun zealots often use to claim that individuals don’t have the RKBA.

For YEARS Steingar has used the militia argument to imply that ordinary citizens don’t have a RKBA even though he claims he’s happy that bearing arms isn’t currently being infringed. For YEARS I’ve referred him to the intellectual study of that prefatory clause, and for YEARS he’s utterly ignored the analysis put forth by Scalia in Heller.

So for YEARS either:

A.  He truly doesn’t believe it, just like Biden who says he supports the 2A;

B.  He is anti-intellectual and refuses to examine the militia issue that HE himself constantly raises, despite being presented with evidence in the form of historical examination of the issue in Heller; or

C.  He’s just being a fucking troll once again. 

If I said I was pro-life, but worked for years to support Planned Parenthood, pushed to pass laws making abortion as free and easy as buying eye drops at Walgreens, and pushed for public funding of abortion clinics, you would tell me that I’m not pro-life at all. I think it’s the same with the 2A.

Right to bear arms.  If we're going to ignore the stuff about a militia, bearing arms means carrying them with you.  Can't prevent folks form doing it, it's in the Constitution.  You guys should keep in mind that I myself could move to Texas and carry a concealed weapon. Unintended consequences and all that.

Have your ever read anything about the Second Amendment? 

The Militia clause is a prefatory clause that announces a purpose, not a limitation, of the operative clause. 

Even Wiki gives you a decent digest of the District of Columbia v Heller decision. You should read it.

And why would you being able to carry concealed in Texas be an unintended consequence?  That’s an intended consequence if I’ve ever heard one.

The problem is that the Tyrants - from federal, state and local governments, school boards, and uneducated bureaucrats- weren’t given enough notice that their rein of tyranny was coming to an end.

They are shitting their pants with the idea that the proletariat thinks that they can now think for themselves instead of having to kiss the ring of the ruling class for a crumb of bread.

Let the feds investigate.   The funny part is she thought by saying that she paid for it would get the spotlight off of her, when in fact he made it worse for her and the company.   She's a fuckin' buffoon of the highest order.

I totally agree. We dissolved titles of nobility in 1776, yet there are many in the elected class who consider themselves incapable of traveling like the plebeians.

All it would have taken to avoid this was to hop on a Delta flight to Florida. 

it's not quite that black and white.

TB patients are supposed to wear medical-grade masks when not in isolation.  (not a bandana covering the nose and mouth but a real mask, preferrably an unvented N95 or better)

ok, I suppose that would fall under the "just about nobody else"

so disregard all....

14 months ago Fauci said that masks may make you feel better, but don’t do much good and could actually cause harm. 14 months ago.

The science didn’t change. The opportunity to impose tyranny changed.