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Episode 3

• Toby Doeden - Unfiltered • Episode 3

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In episode 3, we discuss:
-Mike Rounds & other SD politics
-Trump's plan for the department of education
-FCS football playoffs 
-Biden's son presidential pardon
and more!

Speaker 1:

What an amazing place we live, south Dakota. My mission statement is simple to re-energize the true conservative values of South Dakota. You're listening to Toby Doden Unfiltered. Hello again and welcome to episode three of Toby Doden Unfiltered. I am your host, toby Doden, and we have got a pile of interesting topics to discuss again this week.

Speaker 1:

I hadn't planned on talking about Senator Mike Rounds again this week, but the stupidity continues. In fact, he went actually like a little viral this last week, not because of the nonsense he said about Ukraine and how we should send more money to Ukraine, but he said something maybe even crazier this week and Mr Mike Rounds' behavior continues to get more and more sporadic and questionable. So we're going to talk about what Senator Rounds said again this week. We're also going to talk about President Biden and his pardon of his son, hunter Biden. We're also going to talk about Donald Trump's recently released plan from the federal standpoint anyway for K-12 education in our country. You're not going to want to miss that. Some very, very interesting things. World and in our country. I think a lot of people have missed what soon-to-be 47th President Donald Trump has said about what his plan and his administration's plan is for our education system. We're also going to talk about a pretty neat story about the Macy Day Parade. Sioux Falls Lincoln High School had their band perform at this year's Macy Day Parade, so we're going to talk about that a little bit, and we've got a few other little things to talk about. Before we get into those things, don't forget you can find us anywhere. Podcasts are available. We're on Apple, we're on YouTube and we're on Spotify. We're also on pretty much every social media Instagram, facebook, x, tiktok, you name it. We got it. A quick, simple search of Toby Dode and Unfiltered will get you right where you need to go. So let's talk about Senator Mike Rounds one more time.

Speaker 1:

Last week we talked about Senator Mike Rounds. We talked about his background a little bit how he was in the insurance business, made a little money, parlayed that into becoming governor and then a US Senator, and then, about a week and a half ago, he inexplicably gave a seven-minute speech. That was as about as much warmongering as I've heard from a US Senator in a very long time, if you didn't listen to last week's episode. Basically what Mike Rounds said was that the nearly $200 billion in aid, weapons equipment and everything in between that our taxpayer money has provided Ukraine in the last two to three years. He said unequivocally that the American taxpayers in our country have not done nearly enough to help Ukraine, that we needed to send them more aid, more equipment, more ammunition, more everything. Well, this week, just when everybody thought well, mike Rounds had his five minutes of fame.

Speaker 1:

Nationally, he flies under the radar. He came out in very, very strong support of current FBI Director, christopher Wray. Yes, the same Christopher Wray who has targeted conservatives with investigations, including Donald Trump. Donald Trump, under the tenure of Director Wray, the FBI has had a significant bias against conservative political views and he has weaponized the government against political opponents. Yes, that, christopher Wray. Then there's the FISA abuse, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It includes claims that under Wray's leadership, the FBI illegally used FISA Section 702 collection methods against American citizens, which was recently highlighted by court findings.

Speaker 1:

What about school board protests? You remember this? Director Wray of the FBI labeled parents who protested at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists. At school board meetings, as potential domestic terrorists. This action was seen as an overreach into First Amendment rights. You think he and his FBI also pressured social media companies like Facebook, like Twitter, to suppress free speech, like Twitter to suppress free speech, particularly around the time of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Let's not forget if the Hunter Biden laptop story had not been suppressed by people like Director Wray of the FBI, donald Trump would 100% have been elected president in 2020. I think he was anyway, but again, we're not going to get into that. That's water under the bridge. He also ordered investigations into Catholic churches the FBI's investigation into traditionalist Catholic groups, which many saw as unconstitutional intrusion into the religious freedoms of Americans. Yes, that, christopher Wray, mike Rounds said, and I'm quoting I don't have any complaints about the way he, as in Director Wray, has done his job.

Speaker 2:

Listen to this short video of Mike Rounds talking about FBI. Director Wray Picked a very good man to be the director of the FBI when he did that in his first term. When we meet with him behind closed doors, I've had no objections to the way that he's handled himself, and so I don't have any complaints about the way that he's done his job.

Speaker 1:

X, formerly Twitter, absolutely blew up last week and over the weekend as news began to spread about what Senator Rounds had to say about Christopher Wray, the current FBI director. Sean Davis at SeanMDAV on X. This guy has more than a half million followers. He's the co-founder of the Federalist. He's a well-respected independent journalist and a conservative independent journalist and a conservative. He tweeted either Mike Rounds has an IQ of 85 or he's a co-conspirator in the corruption or Ray has pictures or videos of him being naughty, because there's no way an honest person with a functioning brain can possibly believe Chris Ray has done a great job as FBI director. That's pretty harsh, but it's true. You either have to be grossly incompetent or you have to be part of the deep state Based on Mike Rounds' career successful businessman, governor of South Dakota, us Senator. Clearly the guy does not have an IQ of 85, which would lead many to believe that he is, as uniparty and as deep state and as establishment, as any other rhino in DC and as an establishment as any other rhino in DC.

Speaker 1:

Jesse Kelly on X, nearly 800,000 followers. He's an independent reporter. He has a syndicated show. Very successful independent reporter, very successful conservative, universally respected. He tweets.

Speaker 1:

South Dakota is one of the reddest states in the union. They could have the most bloodthirsty right-wing senators if they wanted to. So if losers like Mike Rounds torpedo the most important nominations, the GOP primary voter only has itself to blame. So, jesse Kelly, you know indirectly blaming primary voters in South Dakota, and that's fine, I guess, but the fact of the matter is I don't think he understands that there has not been any other options. In South Dakota. You get to these primaries for these US senators and congressmen like Dusty Johnson, and there's hardly ever anybody on the primary. It's just them. So you have no choice, because the deep state, the national GOP, the South Dakota GOP, the people that have traditionally held all the power and all the money, they have single-handedly made sure that these hack rhinos continue to not face actual tough competition in the primaries. I have a feeling that's going to change moving forward, don't you?

Speaker 1:

Here's another tweet. I like this name Texas Boomer. South Dakota is an R plus 30 red state. Why the hell is this guy holding a Senate seat? Good question, mike Rounds Liberty score is 52%. That's an F. He's up for reelection in 2026.

Speaker 1:

Now would be a good time to recruit a solid primary opponent. Don't worry, texas Boomer. We're on it. Mike Rounds, what the hell are you doing? Mike Rounds? What the hell are you doing? Mike Rounds?

Speaker 1:

You've been overshadowed by John Thune. You've been overshadowed by Kristi Noem. You've been overshadowed by Dusty Johnson, mostly for negative reasons. But why, like? We've seen your voting record. We know you're a rhino. We know you've put south dakota in the rearview mirror many, many years ago, just like the rest of them did.

Speaker 1:

But why now, have you asked yourself, why now has senator mike rounds decided to go parabolic? He knew when he said these things it was going to go parabolic. He knew when he said these things it was going to go viral. He knew the national mainstream media was going to pick it up. He knew X was going to pick it up. He knew people were going to talk about it.

Speaker 1:

Traditionally in the past, mike Rounds has hid from his voting record. Now he's out front bragging about his establishment and deep state ties. Maybe there's somebody behind him kind of nudging him up to the microphone, I don't know. You should let us know your thoughts. We're going to post all this on social media. I'd like to know what a lot of you guys think. But listen, let us not forget, it's not just Mike Rounds. How about John Thune? John Thune, as everybody knows, was recently voted to be the next Senate Majority Leader. He will be replacing Mitch McConnell, who has had several alleged strokes or some sort of significant brain function episodes. Have you seen the videos there's many of them online of Mitch McConnell over the last several years literally freezing up in front of cameras, in front of hundreds of reporters on national TV, and he just freezes up and his staff literally has to assist him off, away from the podium. Take a look at this cooperation and a string of.

Speaker 3:

And a string of Anything else you want to say. I'm sure it's good.

Speaker 1:

This is one of the people running our country. Well, everybody thought it was good news. After Thune was elected as majority leader, he came out right away and said that he was going to support Donald Trump. He was going to support Donald Trump's policy positions and he was going to help Donald Trump get his nominations through the Senate. Then, a couple of days passed and guess what John Thune did? He made Mitch McConnell yep, the same one that you just saw, who repeatedly freezes up just like this for like two minutes and his staff has to come get him. He's in his mid-80s. The guy clearly has cognitive issues. Right, this guy should be in assisted living. He's been running the Senate, running the Senate, and now John Thune, just when we think Mitch McConnell is done being in leadership, going to serve out his term I don't know how, but serve out his term John Thune makes him head of the Rules Committee in the Senate. That is a massive F-you to Donald Trump and the Republican party. Why do you know what the head of the rules committee does in the Senate? They control the legislative flow.

Speaker 1:

People in South Dakota that are watching this and I I know we get a lot of listeners and viewers in the tri-state area. But South Dakota voters, john Thune hates you. He could give two shits less about you. He comes back once in a while, slicks back his hair, puts a bunch of hairspray in, wears a tight pullover and walks around and waves at crowds at football games. He goes back to DC and he completely fucks you. South Dakota, the majority of South Dakota strong majority are America first conservatives that support Donald Trump and his agenda and our elected leaders don't care. They don't care, they don't care. They think they are Tom Daschle proof. Tom Daschle in 2004 thought he was going to serve forever, that he was going to be Mitch McConnell and his brain was going to be freezing up when he's 85 years old. I think John Thune and Mike Rounds and Dusty Johnson have short memories. John Thune's up for election in 2028. He hates Donald Trump, he hates South Dakota and, moreover, he could give two shits less about anything positive happening in this country. Here's another tweet Many Republicans were upset about the J6 tapes being released.

Speaker 1:

These Republicans said that the J6 tapes being released were a threat. 16 Republican came out in unison and said the January 6th video that would have proven innocent hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Republican Trump supporters that were persecuted, politically persecuted. Mike Rounds and John Thune and Mitch McConnell were three of the 16. That's the Senate. Dusty Johnson, over the House, also voted for the January 6th committee. He also opposed the video coming out Speaking of Dusty Johnson.

Speaker 1:

You want to talk about disdain for soon-to-be 47th President, donald Trump? If you look up disdain for Donald Trump in the dictionary, right alongside Mike Rounds and John Thune, is a picture of Dusty Johnson in all his glory. Liz Cheney, the former congresswoman from Wyoming who lost by, I think, 50 points. If her last name was Peterson or Jones, nobody would know who the hell she is. She rode daddy's coattails as far as she could and then she lost to somebody that I can't even remember the name of in her congressional race, I think by 50 points, literally. I don't even know if that's ever happened before. Liz Cheney is a fraud hack.

Speaker 1:

Liz Cheney has made it her life's mission to tear down Donald Trump and his supporters. As a Republican an elected Republican serving a leadership position in the US Congress, made it her life's mission this isn't a secret, this is public information to tear down Donald Trump. So other members in the House took action. They wanted to strip Liz Cheney of her leadership position because, after all, if you owned a small business, if you owned a company, if you were the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and one of the leaders in your organization was tearing you down and spreading hate and discontent, wouldn't you fire them? Yeah, guess who voted for Liz Cheney to keep her leadership position in the House? Dusty Johnson, take a listen.

Speaker 3:

The reality is that she is a strong, conservative, independent voice, and I think we need to make room in leadership for those kind of qualities.

Speaker 1:

Don't forget what else Dusty Johnson did. He's done many things. As I said, he's hated Trump from the beginning. He hates everything about Donald Trump. You see Rounds, thune and Dusty Johnson. They are literally intertwined into the fabric of the DC establishment, which has a unified front that will try to crush, imprison or kill literally any outsider that tries to make changes to their oligarchic system. But let's not forget, in 2019, as violent criminals were crossing our southern border by the millions and beautiful Americans like Lakin Riley lost their life because of this when Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border to secure funding for the wall, guess who voted against it? Dusty Johnson. Dusty Johnson in 2019 openly defied Donald Trump. Openly defied the American voters. Openly defied Donald Trump. Openly defied the American voters. Openly defied South Dakota voters.

Speaker 1:

So I am excited to tell you we are going to have our first guest on the Toby Doden Unfiltered podcast. The first two weeks, we didn't have a guest. We just kind of wanted to figure stuff out. This week there's been so much going on with Senator Mike Rounds as I've discussed Senator John Thune, dusty Johnson and some other political stuff around the state and around the country, we decided to bring on a political expert to discuss this with us today. So the person you're going to hear from next is a South Dakota political insider. This guy lives and breathes politics, specifically South Dakota politics. He has worked for some of the top lawmakers in the state of South Dakota. He is universally respected in the Republican Party in South Dakota and he is in touch as anybody in the state when it comes to South Dakota politics. Let me introduce to you our first guest on the Toby Doden Unfiltered Podcast, brian Lewis. So indeed, we are joined by the aforementioned Brian Lewis. Brian, how are you?

Speaker 3:

I'm good. How about you, Toby?

Speaker 1:

Man, if I was any better, I don't know what I would do my friend. Well, that's always good to hear, that is good to hear. Well, let's get right into it. Surprisingly, Mike Rounds never comes out of his shell. Really, he kind of flies under the radar. We talked about that the last couple weeks. Thune Dusty, Kristi Noem all kind of seem to get more of the headlines nationally. But recently, two weeks ago, Mike Rounds came out and said that the nearly $200 billion that taxpayers had sent to Ukraine wasn't enough and that we needed to send more. And then he doubled down last week and when asked about current fbi director christopher ray and everybody knows his history he not only supported him but like he, like, overtly supports christopherray keeping his job as director of the FBI. What says you?

Speaker 3:

Well, I mean, I think it's important to understand here that this type of behavior is utterly fundamental to the nature of the rhino politician, just as a cat would meow or a dog would bark. What defines a rhino ultimately is a lack of care for what their voters think, a lack of desire to represent them properly and an arrogance, really, that they know better than the voter, and a misplaced sort of fake stoicism in the face of shifting political winds, as we're seeing right now. So, no, it doesn't surprise me at all that Mike Rounds would take some bizarre stance like this, that President Trump's choice of Kash Patel as FBI director would somehow be inferior to a guy like Christopher Wray, who has presided over the Mar-a-Lago raid, who permitted the FBI to pressure Facebook to censor the stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and who significantly aided the Russia collusion hoax through his own inaction, and who significantly aided the Russia collusion hoax through his own inaction?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely. Do you ever remember a time or a specific topic or a policy or an appointee, anything where Mike Rounds has came out and been like the face of South Dakota national politics for like a two-week period? I don't ever remember this.

Speaker 3:

No, well, I mean, a lot of people don't know that Mike Rounds voted for almost every single one of Joe Biden's cabinet appointees, and now, when it's time for Trump to make his cabinet appointees, rounds suddenly is a massive critic and is very strict about the requirements that he wants for the people that he's going to vote on to fill these positions, and I think that that's ridiculous and it's so emblematic of the Uniparty as we know it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely. And John Thune transitioning here a little bit. You know, everybody thought when Mitch McConnell announced earlier this year that he was stepping down from Senate Majority Leader that hey, that's great, exciting, we're going to have a new Majority Leader. We didn't know who it was at that time. Everybody knew John Thune was going to throw his hat in the ring, so to speak.

Speaker 1:

Then John Thune gets elected by the Senate to be the majority leader. He immediately comes out with really warm and fuzzy Donald Trump tweets, donald Trump. He got interviewed a couple of times and said I'm here to support my president, I'm here to support his agenda, his policies, his nominations. He said everything right the first few days and the national media picked it up and said John Thune, he's all on board with Donald Trump. And then boom, as every sane conservative expected, he turned his back on Donald Trump by appointing brain freeze Mitch McConnell to the head of the Rules Committee in the Senate. And this is significant because the head of the Rules of the Senate kind of controls and dictates what happens in the Senate, right, brian.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, I mean, president Trump a few years ago referred to John Thune as, quote, mitch's boy, and we've seen that that certainly is the case.

Speaker 3:

And yes, the Rules Committee is the Freedom Caucus, and the 20 that held out on a speakership got from him was the placement of three conservatives on the House Rules Committee, and that was so big because it determined so much of what was able to get done. It was an effective check on the power of the establishment. And so, yeah, it's definitely a huge deal that Mitch McConnell is being put in charge of this committee. Yeah, it's definitely a huge deal that Mitch McConnell is being put in charge of this committee. I think that Mitch stepping down is in large part due to a recognition on his on his part that he can do more to undermine the America First agenda on the outside, not being the face of the Senate Republican caucus, than he can be by leading the caucus and being that face. And I think that, to a large extent, there's a lot of establishment figures, even in South Dakota, one in particular, who recognize that reality.

Speaker 1:

So put your political thoughts aside just for a second. As an American voter, how does it make you feel that somebody like Mitch McConnell I'm not making light of his health issues, I'm simply pointing it out because he's got a very important role to play in our federal government he has had these alleged stroke-like incidents where, in front of hundreds and hundreds of people on national TV, he freezes up. A lot of experts say that it's along the lines of a stroke, and so he freezes up to the point where he can't talk, he can't move, he can't function, and you see his supporters in some case John Thune or other staff members helping him away from the front of the cameras. How does it make you feel, as an American voter, that people like Mitch McConnell, who literally frees up, can't talk, can't speak, can't function, are in charge of some of the most important issues in the day-to-day Senate of our country?

Speaker 3:

Well, I guess you would have to look at who's really in charge. I mean, you could look at another example of Senator John Fetterman. When he was in the hospital for a long time and his office continued to function, his staffers were the ones in charge of that office, as are in large part Mitch McConnell staffers here in his office, and I mean that is what we refer to as the deep state, that is, the unelected bureaucratic class, that is the secret power behind how our country actually functions. So, yeah, it doesn't make me feel good. I mean, we're supposed to be a representative democracy and it doesn't strike me as a representative democracy in really any way to have a reality like that be the reality of our government.

Speaker 1:

So let's transition to Dusty Johnson here quick, before we wrap this up. It's no surprise, it's not a secret. Dusty Johnson has had disdain for Donald Trump and everything he stands for for a very long time, as has Thune as has rounds, for that matter. Do you think the South Dakota voters are starting to see these three for who they actually are?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think voters Republican primary voters in particular all across the country are beginning to see who their representatives are and if they do or do not represent them. You can look at what we did this year in South Dakota, where you had a record amount of legislative incumbents ousted. We didn't have any congressional races on the ballot in the primary. We didn't have any Senate races on the ballot in the primary, but you saw what we had in South Dakota replicated in other states as well Texas, west Virginia, wyoming all across the country.

Speaker 3:

This year, people woke up and ousted a lot of rhinos in their state legislature, in their state legislatures, and I think that in 2026, you're going to see a record amount of congressional incumbents ousted, as well as even a few senators. And it is notoriously hard to primary senators, sitting senators. That is the last one to actually do it. That, being an elected senator, was Richard Murdoch in Indiana in I believe, 2014, or I think it was 2012, actually, but that was the last time that that happened. Luther Strange, who wasn't elected, was primaried in 2020 by Roy Moore.

Speaker 3:

Sorry, I guess it would have been like 2017 or so, but yeah, you don't see that very often. I think that that's going to change. There are a number of very vulnerable incumbent Senate rhinos coming up, and Mike Rounds might just be the most vulnerable of all. We've already demonstrated in South Dakota that we have the ability to oust rhino incumbents at will, basically and you can look at the 14 legislative incumbents that we took out as precedent for that- yeah, you mentioned some South Dakota-specific stuff, so let's transition to that quickly here before I let you go.

Speaker 1:

When I saw all of the conservative leaders all around the country on X and doing their news hits on Fox and elsewhere and they were talking specifically about people like John Thune and specifically Mike Rounds the last two weeks and I saw a lot of people saying what's wrong with the South Dakota primary or primary voters in states like South Dakota that keep reelecting the same rhinos, you know, election cycle after election cycle, and my thought was well, the primary voters in South Dakota haven't really had any options and even when there is an option, they get outspent 100 to 1 by all the national money and the GOP and everybody that's supporting these guys. Like, how do you feel about the way that not only Rounds has been attacked, and rightfully so but it's kind of spilled over to, hey, what the hell is wrong with South Dakota? I've seen that a lot, brian.

Speaker 3:

Gotcha. Yeah, I mean, I certainly reject those characterizations of South Dakota politics, South Dakota primary voters. We are an incredibly conservative state when the conservative movement is effective and organized and able to properly propagate a conservative message. When conservatives are disorganized, disunited and candidate quality is lacking, as it has been in certain other races when we've had to go up against billions of establishment dollars, it's not on the primary voters to be able to see through the millions of dollars of lies that people like Dusty and Mike Rounds and John Thune are propagating through the state of South Dakota. It's ultimately our responsibility to make sure that they have a counter narrative and that we're able to expose the lies when they pop up. So I think South Dakota is incredibly conservative. I think that as of now, we might just have the most conservative state legislature in the entire nation and coming up I mean, hey, we might have the most conservative Senate delegation in a few years if all things go right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, absolutely. That was a great segue into my last question for you. You know my PAC, dakota First Action, which you're obviously a part of as well. Brian, for those of you that don't know is, yes, a rumor is the political director for Dakota First Action.

Speaker 1:

So, based on what's happened in South Dakota and you mentioned it going into the year 2024, I'm just going to give a real quick recap the year 2024. I'm just going to give a real quick recap. The state was basically being ran by left-leaning, what I call fake Republicans. All of the leadership positions in the state legislature, the House and the Senate, you know, were people like Will Mortensen and Casey Crabtree and just a whole list of left-leaning fake Republicans. Well, that has since changed. We have a new leader in the House, a new leader of the Senate. All of the leadership positions have been flipped to conservative legislators. What do you see moving forward in the state of South Dakota, specifically with the new conservative leadership in the January, february and March legislation session, as well, as you know, moving on to the 2026 election cycle?

Speaker 3:

Sir, do you mean like legislative priorities in the upcoming session?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, like, what do you expect to see? Like, if we were talking in April and we were recapping what happened in the state legislator, what do you expect is going to happen?

Speaker 3:

I think that you'll finally be able to see movement on school choice legislation, which has been a conservative priority, all across the nation. I think that you'll see property tax reduction, which is vital because there's a lot of people being killed out there, both by inflation and the sky-high property taxes that I believe are unnecessarily high sky-high property taxes that I believe are unnecessarily high, I'm sure you agree as well as movement to kill the unsafe and unnecessary carbon pipeline project that Summit Carbon Solutions is trying to drive through rural East River South Dakota, and they don't care whose land they have to seize in order to build it, and a lot of their strongest cheerleaders in the legislature are now powerless and we have the ammunition to protect landowner rights and to protect the overall rights and lives of South Dakotans. So that's what I think that the upcoming legislative priorities will be. I have full confidence in Speaker John Hanson, Majority Leader Scott Odenbach and President Pro Tempore Chris Carr over in the Senate to get that done and to build a more conservative South Dakota.

Speaker 1:

Well, that sounds amazing, brian. Hey, I tell you what it's been great catching up. I appreciate your time. I know you're a busy guy and we'll talk to you soon. All right, sounds good. All right, thanks, Brian. Don't forget how to find Toby Doden unfiltered. We're on Spotify, we're on Apple and we're on YouTube. You can also find us on Facebook. You can find us on X, insta, tiktok, you name it. We got it. A simple search of Toby Doden unfiltered will get you where you need to go.

Speaker 1:

Next, we're going to talk about Donald Trump's recently released plan for the education system in the United States. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a national education expert, but I'm also capable of doing research just like anybody else. And I'm also capable of doing research just like anybody else, and I'm also capable of looking at facts and data and making reasonable assumptions as to how things are going and maybe whether or not we should look a different direction. And there's a growing, growing sentiment in this country and I am one of those that believes the federal government, when it comes to supporting education in our country, like everything else they do, is super inefficient. Billions of dollars are being wasted by the federal government. I think the Department of Education needs to be significantly reduced or outright gone, abolished, and all of the federal capital, the money, the resources that the federal government in the past has spent on education should be reallocated directly to the states and the school districts. Nobody's ever going to convince me or any sane thinking person that the bureaucracy in Washington DC is somehow more able to efficiently plan how our children in South Dakota should be educated and be able to allocate funds from you know 2,000 miles away to small, local, rural school districts in South Dakota. So I'm all for taking the federal education money and reallocating it to the states.

Speaker 1:

So what did Donald Trump say recently about his education plan? First, he said we will respect parents' right to control their children's education Amen. Second, we will empower parents and local school boards to hire and reward great principals and teachers and fire those who perform below par, where, because you do your job long enough, you get what's called tenure and even if you're terrible at your job, it's nearly impossible to fire. You Just take the emotion out of it. Does that make any sense? Listen, the overwhelming majority of teachers I had in my life were wonderful. The overwhelming majority of teachers in this country are wonderful, but there are some really terrible teachers. I've met them, you've met them. It's not just the teaching profession. There's great lawyers, there's terrible lawyers. There's great physicians, there's terrible physicians. Every single occupation in the world has a percentage of that occupation that aren't very good at their job, and so one of the things that Donald Trump has talked about is revamping the system so that if a teacher is terrible and is not good at educating children or mentoring them or raising productive young individuals and keeping them at or above the educational pace of their peers, they shouldn't be teaching anymore.

Speaker 1:

Third, he wants to ensure that our classrooms are focused on non-political indoctrination Aim N. We need to figure out a way to do this in public universities and private universities as well, but that's a whole other discussion. We should be teaching the skills needed to succeed Reading, writing, math, science, arithmetic and other beneficial subjects. Fourth, we will prepare students to love their country and not hate it. I remember as a youngster, going to school every day, and we started every day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, like why wouldn't young children attending public schools in the United States? Why wouldn't we want them to have a deep sense of patriotic pride, for their country to have a deep sense of patriotic pride for their country. Fifth, him and his administration are going to support bringing prayer back to schools, amen. Sixth, we will achieve safe, secure and drug-free schools with immediate expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student. Expulsion for any student who harms a teacher or another student. This woke ideology and this woke mindset in schools.

Speaker 1:

Have you seen the videos online? There's a video going around right now. We'll show it to you in a second. There's a youngster, a young girl, in a supermarket Maybe it was a Walmart Systematically ruining produce, breaking bottles, destroying the store, and in the background you hear liberal enablers going. Don't touch her, don't say anything to her. She's having some kind of an episode or something. Are you kidding me? If an 8, 9, or 10-year-old kid is tearing up a grocery store, you kick them straight in the ass and you drag them out to the parking lot and you give them another one.

Speaker 2:

Are you kidding me? Oh, whoever she's with, we are going, but she is in this store. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't get with her. Don't get with her. You don't know she's missing you. Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't report her. That doesn't matter, you don't know what she's doing. You're a little girl, you don't know what she's doing. Don't y'all do that to a little girl. Y'all don't know what she's doing.

Speaker 1:

Seventh, we'll give all parents the right to choose another school for their children. School choice School choice is a complicated subject. I'm not going to get into the specifics of it, but at the very least, the discussion needs to be had. Eighth, we'll ensure students can access project-based learning experiences and help train them for meaningful work outside the classroom. Listen to this again, this is important. We will ensure that students can access project-based learning so they can acquire meaningful work outside the classroom, getting students ready for the labor force. We know that over half the jobs in this country don't require a college education. Yet our guidance counselors and our leadership in these educational facilities try to push 100% of the students to higher education. That needs to end. There are many legitimate careers that require a formal college education. I understand that, and those people should go to college. I didn't go to college. Most of the entrepreneurs and small business owners that I know that are very successful never went to college. Most of the people I know in my life that are successful never went to college. So why are we trying to push everybody to go to college? We'll talk about that in another episode. Ninth, we will strive to give all students access to internships and work experiences that can set them on a path to their first job. Aim N I've been talking about this for years. We should be identifying those students in high school that they already know they don't want to go to college. Community leaders can identify these young students and start preparing them for really good, high-paying careers with great advancement and benefit opportunities. Tenth another thing that trump will be doing very early in his administration, he says, is closing up the department of education in Washington DC and sending all the education back to the states. We just talked about that a few minutes ago.

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I applaud Donald Trump for being very proactive policy-wise ever since November 5th. If you listen to the mainstream media or the crazy liberals, they talk about retribution and how Donald Trump wants revenge and all this stuff. Have you been listening to what Donald Trump and his administration has been saying? The most that they've talked about, the most common thing they've talked about since November 5th is policy. Donald Trump is already leading the country. He's been in talks with Prime Minister Trudeau from Canada. In fact, he jokingly told Trudeau this weekend in a meeting that if Canada couldn't survive with the tariffs we were going to put on them, trump would make Canada the 51st state and let Trudeau be the governor. Oh, I'd like to be a fly on that room. I would have loved to see Trudeau's face, but Trump's been talking policy. He hasn't been talking revenge or retribution. It's all made up. Trump wants to lead this country, make it better than it's ever been. He's been negotiating on things overseas, with the Ukraine-Russian war, the southern border with the president of Mexico. All he's done is show his leadership and presidential skills. So amen to you, donald Trump and Toby Doden, for South Dakota 100% supports your education plan. Again, to find our show, go to anywhere where podcasts are available Spotify, apple, youtube and, of course, we're everywhere on social media. Next, I want to talk real quick, very, very quick. I'm sure most of you saw this.

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Joe Biden pardoned his son, hunter Biden, but not just any old regular pardon, but not just any old, regular pardon. He pardoned Hunter Biden, his son, for anything and everything from 2014 through December 1st of 2024. It just so happens 2014 was the same year Hunter Biden started serving on the board of directors of Risma and was paid millions and millions of dollars, and we remember the stories about the big guy. Joe Biden got 10% of the kickback 4 months. Now 6 months or longer, not only has Joe Biden been telling the world he would never pardon his son, every mainstream network has been saying the same thing, all of them, time after time after time MSNBC, abc, the AP, cnn, cbs all of them. Joe Biden is a man of character. He will never pardon his son because nobody's above the law. Jill Biden, when asked several months ago, said my husband will never pardon Hunter because nobody is above the law. And Joe Biden said it a dozen times I will not pardon my son, nobody is above the law. Well, it turns out Hunter Biden is indeed above the law for the last 11 years.

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Guess what the mainstream media is saying in the aftermath. Did they finally have a come to Jesus moment? Where they go hey, this guy is dirty, he lies all the time. We've been made fools. No, they came out and they said oh man, joe Biden, the type of strength and compassion it takes to do what he did for his son by pardoning him Not kidding Any one of them, you would think after the results of the 2024 presidential election, the fact that Donald Trump won the popular vote, the fact that he won the overwhelming majority of electoral votes, the fact that he won every single swing state. You would think that would be a wake-up call to the uniparty deep state establishment in DC.

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But no, their strategy hasn't changed. Their game plan hasn't changed. It's lie, lie, lie, deny, deny, deny. They don't realize it's not working anymore. The American people are seeing through it. We're seeing it here in South Dakota. Our local politician, our Republican leaders, or, excuse me, former Republican leaders in the state legislator, casey Crabtree, lee Schoenbeck, you know, will Martinson, all these people they haven't changed their tactics either. If they were smart, if they were career minded, if they really wanted to gain power and influence, they would, you know, mosey on over back to the Republican Party and play nice, but they are in the same position. These hacks in DC are in. They're either incompetent. These hacks in DC are in. They're either incompetent or just really stupid, or both, because they're continuing to use the same failed tactics that have got them in the position they're in.

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So the Macy Day Parade for anybody that grew up as a kid mom or dad or both grew up as a kid mom or dad or both in the kitchen preparing this massive Thanksgiving feast right. When I was a kid, we only had one TV right and that TV had maybe two or three channels, and when you turn the channel, this is. I'm going to age myself. I'll go like right, like we didn't have remotes, like I was the remote, toby changed it to channel two, toby changed it to channel nine, right? So whatever mother was watching or father, that's what you watched. Well, we watched the Macy Day Parade every single Thanksgiving. It's pretty fun.

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Actually, this year, sioux Falls, lincoln High School, their band walked and performed in the Macy Day Parade, and so that got me thinking. How often does this happen? That's really cool. By the way, shout out to Sioux Falls, lincoln. That's amazing. Like I was in marching band, I was in field band, I was in band all four years of high school. We loved band trips. You know how fun it would have been, as a groton high school band member back in 1992 or 3, to go to the macy day parade would have been amazing. So congratulations to all the students that got to experience that. I think this is the first time since 2008 that a south dakota high school band has been in the parade. Apparently, they performed America the Beautiful, which is awesome.

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The parade started a century ago, in 1924, and it was originally started by Macy's employees, which I did not know. Helium balloons were not included, but they did have animals from the Central Park Zoo like bears, elephants, monkeys and camels. I'm glad I didn't have to follow them with a shovel. The first parade route was considerably longer. Elephants, monkeys and camels I'm glad I didn't have to follow them with a shovel. The first parade route was considerably longer. It was six miles long and had an estimated 250,000 people. Congratulations, sioux Falls Lincoln High School band. That's pretty awesome.

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Listen, if you're from South Dakota, even if you didn't attend SDSU or USD, you got to be really excited right now by these FCS football playoffs. I'm sorry we meant to talk about this last week but everything got a little long. I tell you what you're going to be hard-pressed to find a better sporting event to go to than an FCS football game, let alone a playoff intensity. Fcs football game, sdsu, defending national champions. 10 years ago their program wasn't very good. It was NDSU, ndsu, that's all anybody talked about. Well, sdsu has caught and surpassed NDSU the last few years. Ndsu still a great program, still very competitive there in the playoff. But USD University of South Dakota in Vermilion has, I mean, just shocked people by the year they put together. This year I think they're 10-2. They are also in the playoffs.

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They do a multi-round system in the FCS, unlike the FBS which is, like you know, alabama and Florida and all that. They only have four teams that go to the playoffs. Well, there's a whole bunch of teams in the FCS and the championship game is January 6th in Frisco, texas. I got to attend in person last year and watch SDSU win the national championship. It was amazing. So we are really hoping, since USD is in one half of the bracket and SDSU is in the other side of the bracket, we're hoping that USD and SDSU both make it to Frisco. That would be amazing. If either of those teams make it to Frisco, we are planning to travel down there and take it all in again and cheer on our local FCS favorite team. North Dakota is our neighbor right, so we've got to talk about them a little bit.

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Ndsu also in the playoff this year. I believe they play this weekend. They play. They're the number two seed. They play at 3 o'clock on Saturday against Abilene Christian. They play. My readers aren't strong enough. South Dakota State also plays on Saturday against Montana and the University of South Dakota plays Tarleton State, I think. Anyway, we will update the results of those games on next week's episode.

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Thank you again for listening. I know everything hasn't been perfect. I appreciate those of you that have tuned in to all three episodes or even if you've only listened to part of one of the episodes. As long as the content keeps flowing, we're going to keep doing this and as long as we still have a good amount of viewers and listeners, we're going to keep doing this every single week.

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The response has been sort of overwhelming. Honestly, we didn't really know what to expect, but we've had overwhelming. Honestly, we didn't really know what to expect, but we've had tens and tens of thousands of views and interactions and comments and all kinds of stuff. So people are consuming this in a pretty large manner, I would say, for a South Dakota podcast with very little fanfare. So, on behalf of me and a few staff folks that help out with this show it actually takes about four of us to do this believe it or not, we appreciate you tuning in, we appreciate you following and subscribing us and we can't wait to talk to you again next week on Toby Doughton Unfiltered. Thank you. Thank you for listening to Toby Doden Unfiltered.