Probably by getting judges who are simply willing to acknowledge corporations aren’t people.

Yup citizens United was the beginning of the fucking end.

Sorry, don’t mean to rant like a crazy person, but these fuckers have just about driven me to that point.

I don’t plan to leave if I can avoid it. I love New Orleans and most of the people here for better or worse. When I moved here, even the conservative Catholics seemed laid back compared to the southern Baptist bullshit I grew up with in TN.

Honestly at this point I blame the Heritage Foundation for just about every fucking problem in this country. It basically began with their mandate for leadership they delivered to Ronald Reagan. Instead of saying wtf is this horse shit, he said, sounds great. Let’s make it happen. Now here we are and they are finally in a position to make their dreams come true with project 2025. They want the entire world to look like what I grew up in and what I couldn’t get away from fast enough. They don’t give a shit about any of the ideology. It’s about control and power.

Keep people divided, make shit so bad in places like Louisiana it drives away anyone that votes against them or stands in their way. It leaves only the extremely wealthy controlling all the resources and the extremely poor completely relying on them. The poor will keep voting them into power based on whatever they can use to in-group (race baiting) or whatever scraps of hope they dangle in front of them (jobs and the economy) with no intention of ever allowing social mobility or fixing anything. There’s a reason they’re destroying the economy. They do much better when it’s broken.

I also feel at this point there’s really nowhere to run where they won’t also eventually take over. These state policy networks exist in all 50 states and Europe. They have way too much power and it’s no different than any dictator. They use Heritage Foundation money to push for the same policies they’ve already purchased at a federal level, and disguise it as representing the people of the state. They will take and take until there’s nothing left.

We can run until there’s nowhere left to hide, or we can try to push back. I know not everyone agrees, but even if we lose, why make it easy on them? If they didn’t care about shit being exposed at this point, there’d be no reason for them to try to keep the information suppressed and hidden, so fuck them.

Well when they want to work together instead of grinding us up and using us for biofuel we can talk, but until then I will stay angry and be demanding they give back all the shit they are stealing from me, which was less than I deserved to begin with.

In Louisiana, our current Governor snuck in a new section to a recent renewal of the former Governor’s executive order declaring a state of emergency to handle cyber security.

The new section granted the director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) authority to act as he sees fit to handle the emergency.

What makes that especially concerning is that the same day, he placed all of GHOSEP under the command of the Louisiana National Guard, gave the director of GHOSEP a new title, and named a member of the guard interim director.

I think we might have TX beat, but our state’s Heritage Foundation/SPN affiliate think tank is actually trying to argue we should be trying to be more like TX. Fun times. It’s like every day I learn some outrageous new bullshit that makes me more angry than the day before.

Here is a video they made describing their brilliant idea

The CEO/president of GNO Inc that speaks throughout the video was also chosen by our Governor to be the official “Superbowl Czar” which has got to be the dumbest fucking title you could ever waste money on.

But I guess I can’t complain too much bc Landry might have me shot by the National Guard things could always be worse I guess.

We didn’t even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.

There’s no way this motherfucker couldn’t just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he’s just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don’t fucking comprehend that’s not the God damn solution to everything!?!

Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much

God, I bet all of history’s previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.

These people aren’t even giving us the minor concessions. They’re actively taking away the shit that we are more than entitled to and exploiting us at every opportunity while reassuring the people that somehow still don’t see the truth that eventually there will be a big pay off for their continued loyalty.

It’s like just sit and wait patiently in this burning building. I’ll be back to rescue you eventually. I understand it’s getting hot, it’s a little uncomfortable for all of us right now. I know you want oxygen, but I NEED this oxygen mask so I can save us all from the fire I started by fucking around with these matches.

Sometimes I volunteer at a homeless shelter. I’ll never forget this one dude with mobility issues that kept asking me to do things like find out if he had an appointment scheduled with a doctor, and if I told him he could just look online and find the information he would always say ok then come back and ask me to do the same thing again the next time I saw him.

Finally he admitted to me he didn’t know how to read, so even things that we usually think of as simple like just look up contact information for places online to call and ask was impossible for him to do.

I was able to help him get some things taken care of and I learned that he had been helping somebody work on a car and the jack had broken and crushed his hip while he was under there.

He’d lost everything and ended up homeless, and since he had mobility issues following the accident, not being able to read and get things taken care of just caused even more issues. Things had just kind of spiraled out of control from there and he’d gotten kind of stuck in the situation

I took time one morning to help him take care of a bunch of things. We were able to call his pharmacy and figure out the reason he hadn’t been getting his prescriptions was bc they were waiting to hear back from him. I helped him get set up with PT so he could work on his mobility issues, and then I found the number for a transportation service to help him drive to PT.

He left the shelter eventually, so I’m not sure what ultimately ended up happening, but the point is he had been stuck like that for over a year feeling like he was spinning his wheels and going nowhere.

He was just one person among so many that needed just a little help with something we all take for granted. Just think about how many people are in similar situations and dealing with so much more than we can visibly see.

I know, right as Musk is “backing away” from his role aiding the president.

Almost makes you wonder if that whole Trainwreck was in part a distraction so we would let our guards down with him gone. I feel like even if Musk does actually step away, Theil has had Trump’s ear since his first term when he picked several people to serve in his science cabinet including Kratsios. I am not 100% sure on this, but I also suspect he was likely involved in getting Trump to pick Vance as VP.

I do know that Yarvin was a mentor to both Vance and Theil and the three have been close for a long time. It’s an odd group and weird as hell to imagine being stuck in a room with those 3, but somehow their friendship has lasted.

Also a reason none of us should breathe a sigh of relief of Trump ever decides to step away from the presidency. Trump is a toddler with an automatic weapon, Vance is Patrick Bateman with a Sniper rifle and some very scary connections to not just Yarvin and Theil, but also people like Adrian Vermeule.

It’s part of the heritage foundation/SPN bullshit to recruit people at the state level to push federal policy

You should, it’s a really interesting post. Still available here:

https://apnews.com/article/leaks-pentagon-polygraph-trump-investigation-685b08e14d813050a722cec89eb5c323

Sorry wrong link, here is the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1jsp8d5/us_active_duty_or_reserve_military_have_you_given/

You can still read the original post here

He was saying many Russian soldiers that have been captured have said they weren’t aware they were actually supposed to be fighting in a war, and had been told what they were doing was a military exercise. So it’s possible in some cases that even if a soldier is given an order, they may not realize the extent of consequences of following it.

Why did you delete it? You’re allowed to have a different opinion on things. This isn’t reddit 😉

I think we should all be thinking about this stuff and having honest discussions about it. Even if I don’t agree with you, the disagreement is not meant as an attack on you or your beliefs. It’s just an explanation for why I may have a different point of view.

Thanks for posting that. I appreciate what she’s saying and I would like to think that is what would happen, however, chaotic situations lead to very unpredictable outcomes. When you have chaos, an angry mob of people, and armed soldiers being told their job is to keep things under control, you’re putting a lot of faith in the individual good vs group think mentality that tends to be a sad aspect of human nature.

1. Especially given that you have corrupt governors pushing federal policy at the state level, there is a very good chance you will have the national guard called in to handle dissent. I’m watching my own governor abuse his power and grant some very questionable authority to the guard already. Kent State is a really good example of why this should be very scary. It’s not “fear mongering” to make sure people are aware of overlaps between fairly recent U.S. history and the current reality.

2. I do know there are soldiers who truly would refuse an illegal order, but I think it’s naive to rely on that when it comes to what we’re seeing now. Especially considering the goal of this administration is to deconstruct and tear down everything they dislike about the current U.S. system.

As someone pointed out, Hegseth is now in charge of the military and seems to be doing everything he can to root out opposition to the administration. He’s setting a tone for what is to be expected of anyone not following orders. Apparently ignoring the whole incident where he ended up texting war plans in a group chat on signal where a journalist somehow got added, the Pentagon has also started threatening department of defense employees with polygraphs in order to determine who is leaking information to the press. They actually sent this memo out threatening employees late on Friday night and news of Hegseth accidentally leaking sensitive information broke on Monday.

Soldiers get issued an RoE card. The card specifies the procedure for Escalation of Force. Usually it’s “Verbal Warning, Show of Force, Warning Shot, Lethal Force” with the option to skip steps in case of self-defence.

However, soldiers sometimes still do illegal and immoral thing time while deployed in other countries. Sometimes because they’ve been ordered to, and sometimes because they choose to. Is that representative of the entire U.S. or the military? No, but it definitely happens way too frequently.

3. There are a lot of comments from military members in the original post. A retired member of the army commented this. It’s in the 3rd screenshot of the pictures, and the original post is gone from the subreddit but still available to view here if you want to look over it:

by the time “effect martial law on [insert US city] and summarily execute anyone who does not comply” makes it’s way to the commander of a maneuver company, it is formatted in an operations order in a way that is devoid of any subjectivity. orders are distilled to a rigidly-formatted set of instructions that almost anyone in the formation are able to understand and carry out.

the reason for this is so the people who carry out the orders don’t hesitate and don’t contemplate the wider meaning. an infantry platoon’'s task won’t be to effect martial law; it will be “seize and hold objective [whatever] (could be a street intersection, train station, etc) by 1700 hrs”

Again, I believe at the individual level, most people would choose to do the right thing, but we’ve seen over and over again, that especially in times of panic and chaos, frontal lobes go offline, lizard brain takes over, and herd mentality kicks in as a defense mechanism.

Maybe elected officials that keep defending this moron out of some kind of false sense of protection can take hint?

I think it’s a bit more complex than that, because it still depends on the conviction.

Clearly he is not getting off from some kind of murder charge. I don’t know much about the trial, but I would assume his lawyers are arguing a state of physical and emotional distress which would have kept him from being in his right mind when he allegedly shot the guy.

It would be a pretty bold move for a “free country” to execute someone like that. Not saying it wouldn’t happen, but I know we’re already being monitored for human rights violations by other countries. It would seem to be a weak hand to play, but then again strongmen usually play pretty weak hands when they want to prove how powerful they are. We have entire histories worth of atrocities to prove it.

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For a second I was going to say it’s like they’re trying to make us hate them more somehow. Then I realized, yeah, that’s probably exactly what they’re trying to do. Antagonizing people into violence is the goal.

I’m not sure if it’s to use it as an excuse to declare martial law, or kick off a civil war, or both? Idk I guess I’ve just been around enough passive aggressive pieces of shit in the past to recognize it when I see it.

Started 2 days into Trump’s new administration: https://www.theconsultingreport.com/guidehouse-partners-with-homeland-security-investigations-for-data-driven-solutions/