{"id":5557,"date":"2020-12-09T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:38:59","slug":"elizabeth-cook-lynn-republicans-simp-out-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/09\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-republicans-simp-out-for-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: Republicans simp out for Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-attachment-id=\"5560\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/09\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-republicans-simp-out-for-donald-trump\/donaldtrumpyourefired\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/donaldtrumpyourefired-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"donaldtrumpyourefired\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/donaldtrumpyourefired-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/donaldtrumpyourefired-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"donaldtrumpyourefired\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5560\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A crowd celebrates the defeat of Donald Trump in front of St. John&#8217;s Church in Washington, D.C., on November 7, 2020. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Chastising South Dakota\u2019s legislative whimps<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, December 9, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nFormer Senator Joseph Biden won the 2020 election for President of the U.S. in November of this year. \u00a0 He defeated one-term Donald Trump by substantial margins in\u00a0both the <a href=https:\/\/cookpolitical.com\/2020-national-popular-vote-tracker>popular vote<\/a> as well as the <a href=https:\/\/cookpolitical.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-11\/2020%20EC%20Final.2.pdf?>Electoral College<\/a>.\u00a0 \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn spite of these facts, Trump refuses to concede so we citizens are subjected to a disastrous couple of months as what is called the &#8220;transition&#8221; drags on. Trump has 71 days to disappear. \r\n<P><\/P> \r\nOur hope that he actually will do that fades at the close of every day.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=row><div class=col-md-7>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/24\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-shedding-light-on-the-impostors-in-power\/elizabethcooklynn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1195,1673\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"elizabethcooklynn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-731x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1195\" height=\"1673\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg\" alt=\"elizabethcooklynn\" class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/> \r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"col-md-5 align-self-end\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Courtesy photo\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe thuggish pitiful behavior of our South Dakota national representatives (all Republicans) in the face of this spectacular rejection of their leader would be a childish joke if it weren\u2019t so pitifully ignorant. \u00a0\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAbout the dozen or so futile legal suits filed by Trump concerning his claim of &#8220;fraud&#8221;, \u00a0 Rep. Dusty Johnson says &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying anything is crooked, \u00a0but I don&#8217;t blame the president for wanting to get to the bottom OF IT,&#8221; (a clear implication?). He says in response to a reporter&#8217;s question, \u201cNo, I am not offended.&#8221; \u00a0\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nJohnson has always struck me as one of the dim-ist bulbs we have elected in a long time and this response to Trump&#8217;s bush-back position affirms my thoughts.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nSen. Mike Rounds, blaming the media, says: &#8220;The race has not been certified; I fully support the president&#8217;s interests and his supporters.&#8221; Rounds, as a legislator, has never failed to do the wrong thing. \u00a0\u00a0\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/chastising-south-dakotas-legislative-whimps\/\">Chastising South Dakota\u2019s legislative whimps<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Professor of Native Studies. She taught at Eastern Washington University and Arizona State University. She currently lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  She has written 15 books in her field. One of her latest is <a href=https:\/\/amzn.to\/2GuQfJk>Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya&#8217;s Earth<\/em><\/a>, published by University of Illinois Press.<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pitiful behavior of our South Dakota representatives (all Republicans) would be a childish joke if it weren\u2019t so pitifully ignorant.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[4,75,56,115,551,209,2,55,85,98],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-4","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-cook-lynn","tag-john-thune","tag-mike-rounds","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-native-vote","tag-republicans","tag-south-dakota","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1rD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/donaldtrumpyourefired-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}