Louisiana Voice

Jeff Landry and his Repugnantcan allies in the state legislature so wanted to be first to jump on the Robert Kennedy Jr. bandwagon but alas, the best they can hope for now is third. Utah and Florida, it seems got in under the wire despite the best efforts of Landry et al. But that didn’t deter efforts to resurrect a political hot potato that dates back to at least the Eisenhower years.

There’s no denying that the mass hysteria that grips the Repugnantcan Party (and the MAGA MOVEMENT) is very much akin to the adulation and hysteria bestowed upon first Elvis and later the Beatles by raving, screaming teeny-boppers. A custodian who worked one Beatles performance revealed that the squealing girls literally saturated the floor of the concert hall when their bladders gave way in unison to the appearance of the Fab Four onstage. He said the screaming was such that the group could have sung a laundry list and no one would have known any better.

Such is the mental state of many so-called adults, male and female, in the MAGA CULT and among the Louisiana congressional delegation and the state legislature.

Thus, we have the issue du jour: fluoridation of water. Because Robert Kennedy says so, apparently.

SENATE BILL 2 (couldn’t wait to get it filled, could they?) by Repugnantcan Sens. Michael Fesi of Houma, Heather Cloud of Turkey Creek and Patrick McMath of Covington would “prohibit the fluoridation of any public water systems” unless 15 percent [or more] of registered voters in the precincts served by the water system sign a petition” and voters subsequently approve fluoridation, according to the bill’s DIGEST, a brief synopsis that generally accompanies each bill filed to boil down the language to layman’s terms.

The bill has already passed a Senate vote by a 24-10 margin. Click HERE to see how your senator voted and to see who the five were who took a walk when the vote came up. It now goes over to the House where it will be heard by the Committee on Health and Welfare.

Try as they might, Landry, et al just couldn’t make it to the front of the line in order to gain Donald Trump’s blessings. Oh, they’ll get the obligatory pat on the head from Tub-A-Lardo, but Utah (May 7) and Florda (May 15), bless Rhonda Santis’s heart, got there first.

Utah wins the sweepstakes with its fluoridation-prohibition law actually having taken effect on May 7. Rhonda signed the Florida bill on May 15, but their law doesn’t go into effect until July 1. SB-2, should it ultimately pass both chambers and be signed into law by Landry (and there’s little reason to believe the cult won’t follow through on the banning of this latest assault on the mental health of Amurikens, wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2026.

Besides Louisiana, OTHER STATES currently considering prohibitions of this dastardly affront to our well-being include Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska and South Carolina. (Wait. What? Massachusetts?)

Charles and David Koch should be so proud for their dad, Freed Koch, was a founding member of THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY which first began the DRUMBEAT AGAINST FLUORIDATION more than half-a-century ago. Charles filled with the same ardor as his dad, would later join the Birchers himself. And now, Robert Kennedy is echoing the Birchers and the dialogue of one of the greatest nuclear WAR PARODIES ever filmed, Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. (Who can forget Slim Pickens, as Maj. “King” Kong, riding that bomb down in the final scene? And how many know that the film was the film debut of the great James Earl Jones?)

The bottom line of all this Repugnantcan insanity is that the groundwork was laid by the John Birch Society which, though it failed in its efforts to elect Barry Goldwater in 1964, did go on to CREATE such Repugnantcan architects as Karl Rove, Lee Atwater, LEWIS POWELL (who wrote ATTACK ON AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, the forerunner to Project 2025, in 1971), Ronald Reagan and, of course, Donald Trump.

So, as you can see, if you opened all the links I provided, the events we see taking place before our astonished eyes are not by chance. They are a carefully-orchestrated being performed by a bunch of misfits who got their supporting roles through their fealty to the main character, a reality show actor named Trump. The millions of panting, devoted followers with their red caps and T-shirts emblazoned with slogans are but bit players – extras – with no real role other than to froth at the mouth, chant and applaud on cue.

And to take up the latest issue whenever it comes up, be it abortion, immigration, law and order, tariffs, vaccinations, fluoridation or cybercurrency. It really doesn’t matter how you feel personally of even if you don’t have a position – you’re now expected to take up the cause with all the fervor expected of a devoted cult member.

That’s why a fluoridation ban for Louisiana is a done deal – never mind that it’s proven to help prevent tooth decay That’s a non-starter to these people.