I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…
i don’t care if the kid stole the whole goddamned store you can’t chase somebody and shoot them in the fucking back and get away with it what the fuck are we doing
If the POTUS can make himself and his ENTIRE family immune from the IRS, why the fuck should any of US pay taxes from now on? Y'all aren't angry enough. 🗣️
This is so corrupt that the lawyers who crafted this should be disbarred & removed, the acting AG who signed it should be disbarred & removed, and the president who orchestrated it all should be impeached & removed & finally at long last made irrelevant.
Staggering corruption
Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”
BREAKING🚨 Nearly 800,000 Louisianians just sent Gov. Jeff Landry a message he can’t spin: they voted, they showed up, and they shot down EVERY one of his constitutional amendments.
On May 16, voters across Louisiana went to the polls for what was supposed to be a quiet, low-turnout spring election. Instead, nearly 800,000 people cast ballots — an unusually strong showing for an off‑cycle contest — and together they delivered a clean sweep that stunned the state’s political establishment. Every single one of the five constitutional amendments on the ballot lost. All five had been pushed hard by Gov. Jeff Landry and the Republican legislature.
The amendments weren’t small tweaks. One would have let lawmakers and the governor carve more positions out of civil service protections, making it easier to turn state jobs into political patronage. Another would have created a new breakaway school district in the Baton Rouge area, widely seen as a move to siphon resources and students out of existing, majority‑Black districts.
A third would have reshuffled education trust funds and retirement obligations, tying permanent teacher pay raises to complex changes in how schools are funded. Yet another aimed to give local governments more room to cut inventory taxes for businesses, and one would have raised the mandatory retirement age for judges.
Voters looked at all of it and said no. The “no” margins weren’t close either: most amendments went down by 15 to 30 points, with some losing nearly two‑to‑one statewide. Even the teacher pay amendment — the one Landry’s allies thought would be their best shot — couldn’t clear 50%. After pouring close to a million dollars into a campaign to pass these measures, Landry and his political machine watched them all go down in one night.
This is also déjà vu. Just last year, Louisiana voters rejected another slate of Landry‑backed constitutional changes dealing with crime, courts, and taxes, also by wide margins. Two years in a row, the same pattern: the governor and his allies try to re‑engineer the state constitution from the top down, and ordinary voters — across parties, parishes, and racial lines — refuse to give them that power.
It’s easy to feel like nothing we do matters, especially in deep‑red states where gerrymandering and voter suppression are baked into the system. But this weekend, Louisiana proved that showing up in “small” elections still counts. People read the fine print, talked to their neighbors, ignored the scare ads, and voted to keep their constitution from becoming a playground for politicians.
“WE NEED TO LET THEM DO INSIDER TRADING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES.”
Congress makes $174k.
Median income is about $63k.
Minimum wage is $7.25.
If your “public servant” needs Wall Street crime to survive, that’s not a government, that’s a cartel.
Welcome to neo-feudalism. You’re the peasant, they’re the aristocracy.
This is so fucked up. If you can't support your families on $200k/year then how can people making $20/hour? Fucking scumbags. Johnson needs to go. Stock trading MUST end. We need reps who aren't looting the markets, period.