Did you happen to read or hear what our ass-clown of a governor said at the Republican National Convention? H really laid it out there for all to see just how backward us rednecks must really be down here on the bayous and in the swamps.
Talking about the attempt on Donald Trump’s life by Thomas Crooks and defending his absurd requirement that all public classrooms display a copy of the Ten Commandments, this genius in psychoanalysis and theology said, “I would submit that maybe if the Ten Commandments were hanging on [Crooks’] wall at the school that he was in, maybe he wouldn’t took (sic) as shot at the president.”
Seriously, Landry? You’re going with that? You sound like those evangelicals who are saying that divine intervention kept Trump from being killed while overlooking the fact that that same divine intervention did not prevent an innocent man, Corey Comperatore, from being killed by the same shooter. Wasn’t his life also worth some of that divine intervention?
But back to Landry. Maybe if the idiots attacking school and public libraries would step back and allow kids to read, maybe, just maybe a few other problems might find a solution.
Some of the books being attacked by people like Greg Abbott and Rhonda Sandis include:
Catch-22 – Well, hell, we can’t be allowing these kids to read about the absurdities of war. They are, after all, the cannon fodder of the future for wars we haven’t even thought about yet.
Slaughterhouse-Five – See above.
Of Mice and Men – Now why would we want to enlighten kids about mental illness when we shut down all the mental health treatment facilities under Bobby Jindal? Or bring the problems of migrant farm workers to their attention with all the illegal migrants flooding the country?
Huckleberry Finn – Jeez, that one’s about the warm relationship between a white boy and a black man. Can’t be having that just as we’re trying to return to the wonderful days of Jim Crow now, can we?
The Pentagon Papers – Why on earth would we teach kids about the rotten politics that leads us into so many frightful conflicts just at a time when we’re trying to re-write the history books with videos from Prager-U?
To Kill a Mockingbird – Listen up. We aren’t going to let you read that claptrap just when our guvner is enacting laws that make it more difficult for a wrongfully convicted person to prove his innocence.
Brave New World – Like A Handmaid’s Tale, this is about grooming. Instead of women, it’s children who are being subjected to unlearn emotions and individuality. Let ‘em read that and they might figure out what Project 2025 is about.
But here’s a thought. Perhaps if Landry had read Huckleberry Finn in school, maybe, just maybe, he’d get on a raft and float on down the Mississippi.
But here’s a better thought:
Force Landry and his Repugnantcan buddies to take a long hard gander at the following and then explain to the rest of us how divine intervention allows this to happen?
Divine intervention and the Ten Commandments don’t seem to be helping a lot in these two photos.
In a nutshell, Landry’s childish 15 seconds of fame was just so much gibberish. The utterings of an adolescent who thinks he’s a grownup.
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The good news is that 514,671 people in Louisiana voted for someone else other than Landry for governor. The bad news is that 547,828 voted for him (avoiding a runoff because he won 51.56% of the votes). The further bad news is that we have almost four more years (likely eight) of this obvious imbecile. Over half the voters in this state approved of him. The rest of us have to endure him because of their ignorance. In the end, they too will suffer as they did with Payush.
I always appreciate how you give dishonorable mention to the closing of health care centers, mental health facilities, and other health care services under the Jindal administration. Never let us forget how we have gotten so far down the drain and have allowed others to take us down further. The only hope is in the vote.
Thank you, Tom! Couldn’t bear to watch the convention.
I missed you Tom and I am so glad that you are writing again. I never thought I would think of leaving Louisiana; my entire family is here but Jeff is making me think about it. Please keep writing.
Why should anyone even need to see the 10 commandments? Using the BS logic of these evangelicals, people should be godly already because they see “ in God we trust “every time they look at coins or bills.
The modern evangelical – Protestant or Catholic – is the first century Pharisee of whom Jesus said, “You are like whitewashed tombs,” beautiful on the outside, full of dead men’s bones on the inside. For Landry and his ilk, like the Pharisees before them, it’s all about the outward appearance of reverence and faith not the actual substance of reverence and faith. That this does not offend a majority of (people who call themselves) Christians is exactly why the church is shedding members like a dog sheds hair.