Susan Guidry

Retired New Orleans City Council Member representing District A. Retired attorney. Staying engaged and having fun.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Republican Thomas Massie is pushing to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over allegations involving the Iran war and unauthorized military action. The Pentagon disputes the claims. Should Congress investigate? What evidence would convince you?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: KNOCKOUT PUNCH! Sen. Jon Ossoff wipes the floor with his MAGA opponent during their debate with one of the most brutal soundbites ever.

Republican Mike Collins should have just stayed home...

"Georgia has voter ID, and that's good. Mike Collins and Donald Trump, they're still obsessed with overturning the 2020 election," Ossoff said in response to a question about voting rules. "Mike Collins still believes the 2020 election was stolen.

"Mike Collins has supported Donald Trump's effort to overturn the election, and he wants to give your tax dollars to the violent thugs and criminals who sacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th," he continued. "Mike Collins is attacking your voting rights, but that's not a surprise when you consider who Mike Collins is..."

"This is a man who cheered on a group of young men who were mocking a black woman on a college campus with monkey sounds," said Ossoff.

And then came the haymaker, a takedown that's already spreading like wildfire on social media—

"If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club," said Ossoff. "His office has been in cahoots with some of the most notorious white supremacists in the country. He himself has amplified neo-Nazi propaganda. He's never apologized for it, and he should tonight."

Not surprisingly, Mike Collins did not apologize on stage. He's a MAGA Republican, which means, just like his cult leader Donald Trump, he's pathologically incapable of admitting when he was wrong or when he did something immoral.

And that wasn't Ossoff's only standout moment of the night. The senator is one of the best orators that the Democratic Party has seen in decades, which is why there are already calls for him to run for President one day.

"First of all, no Georgia family or small business should pay a dime more to subsidize the energy consumption of these data centers," Ossoff said. "No local community should have these data centers imposed on them. But that same budget bill we've been discussing all night, the one that slashed Medicaid, the one that doubled your health insurance premiums, it also gave $70 billion of your money to data center developers."

"Just think about this, when you are paying more for your health insurance, when a hospital in your community is closing down, Mike Collins voted to take that money out of your pocket and out of your community and give it instead to data center developers," he continued.

"And that's the problem, Mike. It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online," said Ossoff. "It's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors."

Collins has come under repeated fire for the neo-Nazis in his orbit. His former congressional intern posted swastikas and KKK imagery, his former chief of staff communicated with prominent white nationalists, his son-in-law shared pro-Nazi and antisemitic content, and two campaign organizers previously held leadership positions in a group founded by an ex-KKK leader.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Please ❤️ and share if you'd vote for Jon Ossoff!

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Five people were killed in a russian overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia, including two children.

Thanks, Trump. We’re impressed. Diesel comes first, apparently.

The cynicism of your administration knows no bounds. Neither do russia’s crimes.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald pens a viral takedown of Pete Hegseth's brutal announcement that the U.S.A. will now hold public executions.

We're being dragged into a bad dystopian novel...

"Not only has the US never televised public executions in its history, but not even the Nazi defendants sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials had their executions televised (it was deemed violative of the human rights that post-WW2 institutions were trying to re-establish)," Greenwald, who's best known for helping to break the Edward Snowden surveillance story, wrote on X.

"The most amazing part of this is that Nidal Hasan is paraplegic and close to 60. So this disgusting spectacle will involve rolling him out in a wheelchair, then live-streaming his body as it's pumped full of bullets," he continued.

"When I and others pointed out last night that public executions are carried out only by the countries we're told are the most primitive and savage (Afghanistan, North Korea), MAGA enthusiasts replied that we were too weak," he added. "Pummeling an old guy in a wheelchair with bullets -- as a reality TV show -- seems like an odd and dubious definition of 'strength,' let alone an expression of the western values they endlessly claim they and they alone are trying to salvage."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcement this week that Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 people and injured 32 others in 2009, will be publicly executed has been met with rapturous applause by the MAGA crowd. These so-called Christians are positively giddy about the prospect of watching a Muslim be killed on TV, seemingly oblivious that these kind of primitive displays make them identical to the Islamist radicals they so despise. ISIS broadcast execution videos to terrorize their enemies. Now, the Trump administration hopes to do the same.

None of this is to say that Hasan deserves our affection or even sympathy. This mass murderer belongs in prison for the rest of his life. What we're saying is that killing him for public consumption and entertainment debases us as a nation, morally and spiritually. We can choose to be better than this.

Please ❤️ and share if you oppose public executions!

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇦 Have you noticed how much our President has changed throughout these years of war?

Look at Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019. Then look at him today. The difference is written on his face, in his eyes, in every expression. These are not merely the marks of passing years. They are the marks of war, responsibility, exhaustion, and unimaginable pressure.

People, I don't think we can truly comprehend the burden this man carries.

It is enormous. Overwhelming. Almost beyond human endurance.

To those who constantly criticize our President, I would say this: Try putting yourself in his shoes for just one minute.

Imagine waking up every morning knowing that millions of lives depend on your decisions. Imagine carrying the weight of a nation fighting for its very existence. Imagine negotiating with world leaders, confronting betrayal, facing impossible choices, and knowing that every mistake could cost human lives.

Many would not survive a single day under such pressure. Many would simply give up.

But Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not given up.

He stayed when others expected him to flee. He stood firm when the world doubted Ukraine's survival. And he continues to fight for his country, its people, and its future.

This does not mean he is perfect. No president is. Criticism is a fundamental right in a democracy, and leadership must always remain accountable.

But before condemning him, remember one simple truth: while we argue, criticize, and demand the impossible, he carries the responsibility of leading an entire nation through the bloodiest war Europe has witnessed in generations.

War offers no comfortable choices. No easy victories. No guarantees.

And yet he continues.

Ukraine does not need blind worship of its leaders. But neither does it need endless division, hatred, and accusations that weaken us from within.

Ukraine needs strength. Unity. Courage. And an unshakable belief in what we are fighting for.

You can disagree with Zelenskyy. You can criticize his decisions. But you cannot deny the extraordinary weight he has carried since February 24, 2022.

History will judge his presidency.

But history will also remember that when Ukraine faced its darkest hour, Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not abandon his country.

He stayed. He stood. He fought.

🇺🇦 And Ukraine is still standing.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[Susan Guidry @susanguidry]

@AnnieForTruth 🤚

[Victoria @victoriaslog]

Russians bombed Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people, including three children.

The video begins with a family being pulled from the rubble. Their daughter was killed.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Trump doesn’t belong in the White House. Trump belongs BEHIND BARS.

WHO here is inclined to agree? 🖐🏾

[Redline America🇺🇸 @tutututututulip]

🇮🇹🇺🇦 Giorgia Meloni: “Italy considers it a sacred principle that Russia should primarily pay for the reconstruction of the nation it attacked.”

Do you agree with Meloni? 👀

🅰️ YES 👍
🅱️ NO 👎

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE? 👇

[Susan Guidry @susanguidry]

@tutututututulip 👍

[Susan Guidry @susanguidry]

@AmericaRecharge 🇺🇲

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨🚨🚨 Ukrainian President Zelenskyy just BLASTED Trump for making a "weak decision" and accused him of using Ukraine's peace negotiations in Florida as a "smokescreen" while cutting a deal with Putin that could help fund Russia's war.

In a strong statement, Zelenskyy noted that while Ukrainian negotiators were meeting with Trump's team in Florida to discuss ending the war, Trump was simultaneously speaking with Putin and agreeing to allow Russian diesel exports.

"This is additional money for this ongoing war, and this is additional money for all that suffering inflicted upon us," Zelenskyy said.

He warned that Trump's deal would give Putin more money to continue attacking Ukraine.

"I truly believe that our team, our entire group, is simply being used as a convenient smokescreen to hide the truth," Zelenskyy said.

He continued: "Frankly, this is definitely not how partners should act."

He then added called this a "weak decision made by strong partners."

Watch his full statement below, translated into English.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

With Trump’s latest betrayal of Ukraine, MAGA Republicans who continue to defend Trump when he licks Putin’s balls can all go fuck themselves.

Trump is a feckless, pathetic traitor — and he has the blood of innocent Ukrainian children on his hands.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy TEARS into Trump's "obvious weakness" after the American President announced, in a stunning betrayal, that he will allow millions of tons of Russian diesel fuel to enter the global market.

Putin's Puppet has hit a new low...

"Peace never comes through weakness. Today, representatives of the U.S. Congress were in Kyiv – a bipartisan delegation – and I am grateful to them for visiting Ukraine at such a difficult time. They asked: what is needed to end the war? The answer must be strong," Zelenskyy wrote on X. "There must be sanctions under the Lindsey Graham bill, there must be support for Ukraine in protecting lives, and there must be pressure on Russia for its war. And today, there was a conversation between the leaders of America and Russia. A conversation that leads to something different."

"Recently, there was a European decision to lift sanctions on Russian oligarchs. Since then, Russian strikes and the torment of people have only increased," he continued. "This past week alone, there was a brutal Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pryluky, aerial bombs were dropped on Kramatorsk – on ordinary city buses – and there have been constant attacks on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure and on the life-sustaining infrastructure in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Odesa, and our other cities. Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds wounded."

As ever when considering this war, it's worth remembering that Putin started this conflict for deeply unjust, vainglorious reasons. His dreams of reconstituting the U.S.S.R. or even Imperial Russia have resulted in over 2 million people being killed, injured, or reported missing.

"The Russians are compensating for their inability to achieve their objectives on the battlefield with this kind of terror. This year, Russia is weaker on the battlefield than at any other point in the war," Zelenskyy continued. "That is why Putin is relying on terror. That is why he is relying on attempts to strike backroom deals to secure some form of pressure relief for Russia, in order to buy more time and more opportunities for war."

The Russian dictator is engaged in a campaign of remorseless terrorism against the Ukrainian people, which makes Trump's announcement today that he will be allowing 300,000 tons of diesel fuel into the American and global markets, followed by another 500,000 and then 1,000,000, utterly inexcusable. Every dollar that flows into the Kremlin is a dollar being spent to bomb, murder, and maim innocent Ukrainians.

"Any easing of sanctions against Russia without a clear and lasting de-escalation agreement with Russia is an obvious weakness," Zelenskyy went on. "It plays into Russia’s hands – allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer, have even less respect for America, and inflict even greater losses and damage on the world."

"Ukraine is ready to take symmetrical de-escalatory steps, and the American team knows our position. Our strikes on Russian oil refineries and other oil facilities are a response to Russia’s years-long campaign of terror against Ukraine’s energy sector. Ukraine will not set Russian oil refineries on fire if Russia does not destroy our energy infrastructure. This is the kind of agreement we are proposing to America, and we believe the United States has enough power to achieve such a compromise."

"Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world. Russia will 'repay' the diesel with further terror and perfidy. Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged. What is needed is real de-escalation with Russia on a reciprocal basis."

"We count on America’s fair support for our defense of life, for our defense of people in Ukraine – and on the United States having a correspondingly strong conversation with Russia. A strong one, not a weak one," the Ukrainian President concluded.

What do you think? Do you stand with Putin or Zelenskyy?

[Susan Guidry @susanguidry]

@SenJohnKennedy, @BillCassidy,@SteveScalise,@RepTroyCarter,@ClayHigginsLA, @RepMikeJohnson, @RepJuliaLetlow
If you and all of Congress do not fight Trump to keep him from doing this, all of Congress is participating in the slaughter of Ukranians & the destruction of their country

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: TRAITOR! Trump betrays Ukraine in shocking fashion by agreeing to bring millions of tons of Russian diesel fuel to the global market — giving Putin money to drop bombs on innocent Ukrainians.

This is beyond unthinkable...

"I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel," he continued. "Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!"

Obviously, the U.S. doesn't have "total control" over the Strait or else this deal with Russia wouldn't be necessary. Trump is scrambling to get gas prices down ahead of the midterms because he knows that the American people rightly blame his pointless, illegal Iran War for the inflated prices they're paying at the pump.

"Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority," Trump added. "This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

It cannot be overstated just how massive of a betrayal this announcement is. The U.S. rightly banned imports of Russian diesel in 2022 under President Biden because of Putin's murderous invasion of Ukraine. Those restrictions have deeply damaged the Russian economy, limiting Putin's ability to wage war and ensuring that Ukraine has a fighting chance to defend itself.

Now, because of an oil crisis that he himself created, Trump is reversing Biden's policy to pump money directly into the Kremlin's pockets. That money will then go towards bullets, bombs, and drones to kill our Ukrainian allies. Congress must block this deal and more than that, they must impeach this President.

There's a reason why they call this man Putin's puppet.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that Congress block this diesel deal!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: TRAITOR! Trump betrays Ukraine in shocking fashion by agreeing to bring millions of tons of Russian diesel fuel to the global market — giving Putin money to drop bombs on innocent Ukrainians.

This is beyond unthinkable...

"I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel," he continued. "Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!"

Obviously, the U.S. doesn't have "total control" over the Strait or else this deal with Russia wouldn't be necessary. Trump is scrambling to get gas prices down ahead of the midterms because he knows that the American people rightly blame his pointless, illegal Iran War for the inflated prices they're paying at the pump.

"Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority," Trump added. "This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

It cannot be overstated just how massive of a betrayal this announcement is. The U.S. rightly banned imports of Russian diesel in 2022 under President Biden because of Putin's murderous invasion of Ukraine. Those restrictions have deeply damaged the Russian economy, limiting Putin's ability to wage war and ensuring that Ukraine has a fighting chance to defend itself.

Now, because of an oil crisis that he himself created, Trump is reversing Biden's policy to pump money directly into the Kremlin's pockets. That money will then go towards bullets, bombs, and drones to kill our Ukrainian allies. Congress must block this deal and more than that, they must impeach this President.

There's a reason why they call this man Putin's puppet.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that Congress block this diesel deal!

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine
and Zelenskyy! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

[Susan Guidry @susanguidry]

@kangaroos991 🇺🇦

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: AMEN! The Catholic Church SLAMS Pete Hegseth’s big public execution announcement as a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”

The gloves have really come off now…

“It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War’s decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an official statement.

Yesterday, our alcoholic Fox News host turned “Secretary of War” proudly revealed that Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 people and injured 32 others in 2009, will be publicly executed. The announcment proved to be red meat for the so-called Christians in the MAGA movement, because apparently they’d rather live in Ancient Rome than in a civilized western democracy. They delight in carnage.

“Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” Archbishop Coakley continued. “The word of God exhorts us: ‘do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”

“I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances,” he added.

We couldn’t agree more. Hasan, who is confined to a wheelchair due to gunshot injuries incurred during his attack, deserves to spend the rest of his life in a prison cell. Executing him in a public has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with an administration that fetishizes violence, particularly “holy” violence against Muslims, above all else. Hegseth and Trump are pandering to their base and dragging our entire nation into the gutter in the process.

You can feel perfectly justified anger and even hatred for Hasan’s murderous actions and still not want to live in an Iron Age culture where people are killed in public by the government. Hegseth is taking a page right out of the ISIS playbook with this one and no doubt hopes that this display of brutality will prompt bloodthirsty young men to enlist in the military or ICE, which is exactly why the caliphate spread its execution videos online. These Christian Nationalists are exactly the same as the radical Islamists that they despise.

America is truly circling the drain now. Thankfully, the Catholic Church is using its full weight as a 2000-year-old institution to take a moral stand against this demonic regime. We must all lend our voices to their fight for a juster, kinder, more Christ-like society.

Please ❤️ and share to thank Archbishop Coakley for speaking out!