We’re no longer the laughing stock of the south? Wtf are you talking about?
Yes we are. I think we’re about to close more rural hospitals than any other state in the entire U.S.
We have more alligators than we do doctors. We barely have laws or regulations unless they can be used to benefit you and control poor people.
We’re basically a lawless state run by you, your friends, and the alligators.
What are you even…!!! Why is there a saxophone and why is it playing smooth jazz that sounds like Kenny G?!?
Louisiana isn’t the laughingstock of the South? I’d say that’s partially true. But only because Mississippi exists.
What is he trying to get across with the mention of Huey Long? From what I remember Huey was super cutthroat against his opponents in kind of a fascist way. It feels like the “Mussolini made the trains run on time” sort of argument where isn’t even true but it’s truthy enough to make the population satisfied
Yeah he definitely wants to be Huey Long.
Long was a left leaning authoritarian, but in fairness he is like the only reason Louisiana got bridges and roads so people could actually travel across the state. People fucking hated him, but they still talk about him for pulling this state out of poverty almost 100 years later.
He also used the Louisiana national guard to invade New Orleans bc he had so many enemies in the city, and the only reason he called them off is bc the POTUS told him to. Seems like a lot of Landry’s strategy is borrowed straight from Long and Robespierre.
He seems to be convinced that AI will be the modern “roads and bridges” that pulls Louisiana out of poverty. Or he wants us to be convinced of that at least. Seems like the AI bubble is going to shift to cryptocurrency, so I would guess the giant data factory the size of Manhattan that he’s building in Louisiana can be useful for mining crypto too.
AI isn’t going to solve housing problems or wealth inequality. Sounds to me like Landry wants to sell off water resources to the highest bidder without fixing the other issues like education reform and improving readiness for global warming
It’s a stark contrast to Huey Long, since he was all for taxing the rich with wealth taxes and this dude will probably give handouts to the rich. Huey Long and Regan in the same picture?
Yeah idk he wants the Huey Long legacy but combined with Reaganomics it’s weird.
I don’t think Landry’s idea of AI/crypto mining was ever supposed to help anyone but the wealthy. In his opinion bringing money to the state, even if just goes directly back into the pockets of the wealthy is somehow going to trickle back down on to everyone else I guess. More likely he doesn’t give a fuck.
I’ve never experienced any kind of elected official as blatantly corrupt as this guy. He rewrote the rules for industrial tax breaks so that corporations no longer even have to meet a job creation requirement to receive it. Yet he somehow argues it’s ultimately going to be for the good of Louisiana.
Imagine gigantic $10B empty factories that destroy the environment and drain resources, automate jobs, and get corporate welfare simply for building the empty factory in Louisiana and exploiting our resources. In addition to wanting to loosen safety and environmental regulations for these corporations. How tf anyone could possibly believe that could somehow help anybody but the corporations, the shareholders, and the politicians getting kick backs is beyond me.
Like the ultimate trickle down. Maybe the money won’t ever trickle down to you directly, but surely you’ll see some kind of benefit from the CEOs who don’t even live here building their exploitation factory. Somehow. And if not who’s going to do anything about it once it’s already built and in use?