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News & Current Events May 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM

Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office

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Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
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Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat was set to take office.

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DarthBrooks69420 May 2, 2026 +2910
The year is 2026 and conservatives are *still* filling public swimming pools with cement.
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Xenoscion May 2, 2026 +380
I thought it was sulfuric acid.
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Personal-Bonus-9245 May 3, 2026 +148
They did cement too. The small town I grew up in had a beautiful community swimming pool, but the racist bastards who ran the city  chose to fill it with cement rather than have to share it with people of color.  There was a rash of kids drowning about ten years later, because there wasn’t a place for them to learn how to swim safely, something that might be a good idea considering the town was built along a swift river, with a smaller river running right through it.  So finally in the 80’s they added an indoor pool to the community high school that could be used year round. The town was 99.99% white. There were less than 10 POC in the entire freaking town when they decided to fill in the pool.  They denied 10,000 people access to a community pool because 10 POC might be able to use it. 
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JustHereForCookies17 May 3, 2026 +81
Similar to how a tiny population of trans folks are being targeted by truckloads of legislation.
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jemappellejimbo 6 days ago +6
The moral rot runs so deep
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Septopuss7 May 2, 2026 +132
Razor blade slides and salt and vinegar swimming pools
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SleepingToDreaming May 2, 2026 +36
Salt and lemon; get it right.
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A_Nonny_Muse May 3, 2026 +2
Piss and vinegar
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AverageLiberalJoe May 2, 2026 +8
Pressurized xenomorph blood
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Ishidan01 May 3, 2026 +11
Muriatic. Because in very dilute amounts, muriatic acid is an accepted chemical for pool maintenance. Calcium hypochlorite, a solid chlorine compound that is a nice easy way to add chlorine to the pool, also makes it basic-the acid can balance it again. Dump a gallon of concentrate straight into a well chlorinated pool, however, and you get a few minutes of choking chlorine gas off the point of impact. Unlike filling in the pool with concrete, of course, once you have driven off the unwelcome it's a simple matter to add more cal hypo to replace the chlorine you turned into a weapon.
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Oldman32092 May 3, 2026 +4
The acid in the motel pool. Happened in St. Augustine Florida. The infamous historic picture is from that motel in St. Augustine. St. Augustine was also where Hoss Manucy lived. He was the Klan leader of all north Florida. Strange that those two things were in the same little town.
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pinkbuzzbomb May 3, 2026 +2
That was the 1960s trend
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weededorpheus32 May 3, 2026 +4
Gonna be 50 more years with all this bs
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Ancient_Loan2606 May 3, 2026 +14
2026 and those same libs voted for trump or didn’t vote for Kamala because idk. I actually don’t know why.
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MsMoreCowbell828 May 3, 2026 +11
Lies. It was because of nasty lies.
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A_Nonny_Muse May 3, 2026 +5
I heard it was because the.... *checks notes*.... price of eggs.
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AgnewsHeadlessClone May 3, 2026 +1
I'm a bit confused though. I get that by reading the headline this seems very racist. But the incumbent that he beat was another black male Democrat. If they had a problem with a black man holding the position they likely would have done this previously no?
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DarthBrooks69420 May 3, 2026 +32
It's about saying FU to police accountability. Who do you think is going to put effort towards rooting out police corruption? The dude who has been in office for awhile and hasn't done these things, or the guy who lost 30 years of his life to it?  I mentioned the swimming pool thing because this is a public service that was being denied, and once access to it is allowed it is destroyed so it can't ever be used. This also is not a random phenomenon, republicans in recent years are notorious for dismantling aspects of government when they lose an election. 
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A_Nonny_Muse May 3, 2026 +11
Much the same as when North Carolina stripped their governor of most of his power just a few months before a Democrat was to become governor.
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Oldman32092 May 3, 2026 +1
Was it Roy coming in to be Governor? And now with any luck he will be their next Senator.
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AgnewsHeadlessClone May 3, 2026 -5
Yeah, just feels like the article is really trying to sensationalize it into racism when it is clearly just love of police and protection of their misdeeds.
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mystad May 3, 2026 +10
Its definitely both
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nevertoomanytacos May 2, 2026 +1029
So Louisiana is suspending elections AND eliminating elected positions? Wonder what they will do next...
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[deleted] May 2, 2026 +308
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Buddhas_Warrior May 2, 2026 +112
Is....is that possible?
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008Zulu May 2, 2026 +88
There's a saying in Louisiana; When you reach the bottom of the barrel, punch your way through it.
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ToastAndASideOfToast May 3, 2026 +18
Thank God for Mississippi?
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bros402 May 3, 2026 +16
Mississippi is actually doing better than Louisiana in K-12 education iirc
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spdelope May 3, 2026 +8
Big improvements recently. Currently ranked like 16th. I checked the other day.
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bros402 May 3, 2026 +3
They're 34th - https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12
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spdelope May 3, 2026 +2
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/06/11/mississippi-worst-for-kids-education-getting-better/84148271007/ I guess I was looking at something a little more dated.
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machsmit May 4, 2026 +1
what, are they gonna lose their grasp of object permanence?
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calmdownmyguy May 3, 2026 +15
Probably make don jr the duke of louisiana.
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VPN__FTW May 3, 2026 +12
Take a portion of the population and put them in camps. Honestly, nothing would surprise me now.
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Still-Cut1098 May 4, 2026 +3
Considering a report was just announced that New Orleans is going to be permanently underwater sooner than later... probably ignore that.
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NewWaverrr May 3, 2026 +1
Hopefully implode.
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SLGuitar May 2, 2026 +906
You know, it'd be real nice if these mother fuckers start finding out. They've been f****** around for too long as is.
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Slypenslyde May 2, 2026 +179
We just have to keep waiting apparently. It isn’t polite to personally deliver knowledge.
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Sterbs May 3, 2026 +47
They're actively making peaceful revolution impossible.
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shwarma_heaven May 3, 2026 +58
Merrick Garland is still getting around to it.... any day now.
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EatingShitSandwiches May 3, 2026 +17
Sorry the "find out" step is only for black teenagers who get caught with a joint in their pocket.
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whenitsTimeyoullknow May 3, 2026 +2
Just keep voting for the lesser of two evils every two to four years. Hell, let’s commit to voting for a party no matter what so they feel no pressure to make meaningful change. 
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NewsCards May 2, 2026 +1359
> Calvin Duncan, who spent nearly 30 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, easily won election to the criminal court clerk position in November, beating the incumbent and earning more than two-thirds of the vote. He had been set to take office next Monday and has asked a federal judge to allow him to take office as scheduled. > “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction," Duncan said. "They will do what they do, and I will do whatever I have to do to vindicate the voters of New Orleans and make sure that what happened to me never happens to anybody else.” F****** Republicans, taking away the will of American voters. Cheating and generally being scumbags is the only way they know how to seize power, and it's sad that it has worked so well for them.
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trailerbang May 3, 2026 +237
2/3rds of the vote. That’s a filibuster-proof level of votes if this were the US Senate. The voters should be organizing recall petitions for the members of the State legislature.
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Niceromancer May 3, 2026 +102
Those same republicans will scream that they aren't racist though. Just that all of their polices happen to negativly impact black people, just to make white people feel more comfortable. But no they aren't racist. Because democrats are racist, because over 50 years ago they were the racists.
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TimothyMimeslayer May 3, 2026 +21
I wonder if black people in Louisiana are gonna rise up like their grandparents did. Imagine how the ecinomy of Louisiana would fair if they all just started striking.
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dangerousluck May 2, 2026 +929
The South will find out again.
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BorkDoo May 2, 2026 +474
Louisiana has basically always seemed to be the shining example of just what a corrupt and/or racist shithole the South can be. Back during Reconstruction it was an abysmally violent place with frequent race riots, massacres and political assassinations. That a tin pot wannabe dictator like Huey Long could come from there or that someone like David Duke could win an election there as late as the 1980s says a lot.
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11bztaylor May 2, 2026 +188
Woah there, don’t let my great home state of Alabama get jealous it’s being left out of the “worst human ethics” race
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solitarium May 2, 2026 +63
As much as I love pointing out the blatantly racist economic policies of Tuscaloosa, I think Louisiana has us beat by at least a country mile
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Worn_Out_Nikka_L May 2, 2026 +53
*Arkansas backs into the bush Homer meme*
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ASimpleWaterBottle May 2, 2026 +39
The Arkansas state moto, “Thank God for Alabama.”
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MentalDisintegrat1on May 3, 2026 +8
Idk parts of Mississippi are really bad. I'm bi my wife is trans we went to go eat and dude who was 40ish had a ankle monitor he said we haven't seen your kind. He had what I thought was his daughter and he said no that's my girlfriend she had to have been 14-15.
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WreckNTexan48 May 2, 2026 +6
Bush was grown in Louisiana
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The_Burninator123 May 3, 2026 +2
It did make for a cozy spot to stick the Nazis for NASA. 
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Original_Slothman May 2, 2026 +33
It’s worse than most people would think. The judicial system is bananas levels of racist.
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nola_throwaway53826 May 3, 2026 +21
Louisiana had some of the worst racial massacres in US history. There was the New Orleans massacre in 1866 at Mechanics Hall, the Opelousas Massacre in 1868, the Coldax Massacre in 1873, and more. The 1866 massacre was when a mob of white rioters attacked a peaceful demonstration by black freedmen. Officially, there were 38 dead and 119 wounded, of whom 34 dead and 113 wounded were black men. Unofficially, the results were estimated to be higher, with some saying 40 to 50 were killed, others go as high as 200. The Opelousas massacre has a wide variety of estimated deaths, but its said between 150 and 300 blacks were killed, along with a few dozen whites. Black people were lynched for weeks after the event. The Colfax Massacre had estimates between 62 and 153 black men killed, they were outright murdered when they surrendered to a white force of former Confederate soldiers and the Ku Klux Klan. Most were killed immediately after surrendering, but others were murdered later that night. Black republicans were worried that white democrats would use force to take control of Colfax, so a group of them held out in tnelmhe local courthouse to stop that. The whites started spreading rumors of atrocities by the black men (there were none) and saying that the black men were going to kill all of the white men and take the white women for themselves. This attracted white volunteers to Grant Parish (where Colfax is). There were 300 white men with rifles and horses, and they gave the blackened inside the courthouse thirty minutes to leave, and after the time was up, started shooting. Eventually, the blackened raised the white flag and surrendered, were ordered to throw down their weapons and leave, and the whites subsequently massacred the surrendering men. That doesn't cover the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans in 1874, where there was an Insurrection by the Crescent White League against the reconstruction era state government. 5,000 members of the White League fought against an outnumbered and racially integrated New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state milita (they had 3,500 men). The insurgents held the armory, statehouse, and downtown for three days before federal troops arrived. It was a result of a contested election in 1872, between democrat John McEnery and Republican William Kellog; both claimed victory. There were multiple instances of violence related to this election, and the earlier mentioned Colfax Massacre was an earlier instance. In 1891, the city of New Orleans erected the Battle of Liberty Place Monument. This was an inscription added in 1932: "McEnery and Penn having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state." The Monument was removed in 1993. And there were lynching all over the state of course. And naturally any black schools or infrastructure did not receive state funds. For instance stance, when Huey Long started having the government provide free textbooks to Louisiana schools, he had to leave out black schools, as they would have killed all support for the measure.
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MentalDisintegrat1on May 2, 2026 +13
Give that shit back to the French.
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thebarkbarkwoof May 3, 2026 +1
Yes, they were the poster child of it.
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myfrigginagates May 3, 2026
Say what you will about Long, but he improved roads, built Charity Hospital to serve the poor, provided text books to school kids and sued the timber and oil companies that were raping the state lands while giving little or nothing back. The poor loved him still well into the 1970s when I was a kid.
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MentalDisintegrat1on May 2, 2026 +72
Sherman should have kept going.
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dangerousluck May 2, 2026 +42
Every officer, every statue, every uniform, every flag.
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MentalDisintegrat1on May 2, 2026 +19
Funny enough Im originally from Memphis we had a Nathan Bedford Ford statue and when we removed it then clan/confederate idiots came out from Mississippi throwing a fit. Like dude you guys can have that piece of shit just take it with you. The statue itself looked unhinged.
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doneandtired2014 May 3, 2026 +17
South should have found out the first time. One of the greatest self owns the US has ever inflicted upon itself was handling the Confederacy and its "citizens" with kid gloves. Every single officer, politician, and member of the judiciary should have been publicly executed for sedition and unceremoniously dumped out to sea. Every civilian than aided and abbetted them on their own free will and without durress should have been thrown on a chain gang for 15 years of hard labor. Every single Confederate structure bigger than an out house should have been burnt to the ground and had its foundation destroyed. Richmond? Montgomery? In a better timeline, there would be no evidence they existed. And then, during the Reconstruction, anyone and everyone showing Confederate sympathies should have been thrown in the stocks or shipped off to a f****** penal colony. As it stands, the only thing that would "fix" the south would be a gamma ray burst cooking off the majority of the red districts in each of their 3rd world shit hole states.
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hughhuckleberry May 3, 2026 +3
As a southerner, Sherman should’ve been allowed to continue his total war strategy across Bama, MS, and Louisiana. The often retort to this is that I, who’s family has lived their for atleast a century, would probably not exist today. I wouldn’t care honestly, it should’ve been done, not to mention my ancestors literally hunted confederate soldiers and sabotaged railways during that time across South Mississippi and Louisiana, so they may have been spared. Reading old journals, they were incredibly disappointed that slave owners that funded the war weren’t all hung and even called out how that will backfire.
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silask93 May 2, 2026 +7
Yeah might be time to remind them
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Sad-Adhesiveness429 May 3, 2026 +3
100%, it's time boys.
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Stravinskysdog May 3, 2026 +1
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pontiacfirebird92 May 2, 2026 +127
Large areas of Louisiana believe the earth is only 6000 years old. Mike Johnson's district especially.
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2HDFloppyDisk May 3, 2026 +40
Ah yes. A mysterious white man in the sky created the planet himself and spawned everyone like some kind of Age of Empires strategy game.
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JustTestingAThing May 3, 2026 +24
I'd like to speak to the dev who made our air and food holes the same one, please.
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2HDFloppyDisk May 3, 2026 +4
I laughed way too hard at this one
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Puckhead1973 May 2, 2026 +84
Time and time again, I’m reminded that the 2nd Amendment doesn’t scare tyrants.
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AlanShore60607 May 2, 2026 +29
That's only because no one uses it against them.
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clouds31 May 3, 2026 +10
And if they did, here comes the drones.
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heroic_cat May 4, 2026 +3
Yeah, 2A was intended to arm the state/national militia system and nothing else, and was functionally obsolete within a few years.
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Antique_Eye_3200 1 day ago +1
Correct. 2A is the great lie that Americans love to tell themselves. Makes them feel tough and in control. But deep down they know what would happen if they exercised 2A to attack the government in earnest. It’s an outdated lie. And in the meantime, it facilitates horrendous violence. Sick, sick country.
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StillAll May 2, 2026 +78
As a non-American I am constantly amazed at how chaotic the American political system is. Absolute batshit insane that this is how the world's superpower behaves. Logically you expect it to be so much better than it is.... but it's a f****** dumpster 🔥 much of the time.
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Nbdyhere May 3, 2026 +23
All of the time….its a dumpster fire ALL of the time. Always has been. We only play a solid reasonable government on TV. In real life, it’s always been power handed to the few that rarely have any interest in anything but their own. Trump has put a magnifying glass on it, airing our dirty laundry to the world, but it has literally always been this way.
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RainyDayColor May 3, 2026 +5
Name me just one president and his cabinet/administration in the history of the United States that has intentionally created comparable global and domestic social, economic, diplomatic, trade, and financial disruption and chaos, and with such blatant amoral grift and extortion, on a self-proclaimed platform of neochristian anti-democracy. US federal governance has never been this corrupt, depraved, and destructive, let alone "always."
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Nbdyhere May 3, 2026 +4
😂 are you serious? How far back do you want me to go? Washington is an easy one so…. Jefferson: Barbary Wars. Also slavery Madison: War of 1812. Also slavery Jackson: Openly funded and armed “settlers” to move in the Texas are. Indian removal and subsequent land sell off. Nominating the judge that ruled on the Dredd Scott v Sanford decision. OH…and slavery Van Buren: STRONG stance against abolition. Rallied against US v Amistad. Also slavery Johnson: Actively tanked reconstruction and allowed the southern states institute Jim Crow Cleveland: tanked the economy and actively rallied the Lodge bill and any bill with a semblance of voting rights (seriously too many things to list about this guy) McKinley: annexation of Hawaii Teddy Roosevelt: Panama Canal Wilson: BIG supporter of the Klan, League of Nations, policy towards black military vets and military vets in general Hoover: Great Depression, believed civil rights wasn’t the issue, the minorities just didn’t work hard enough, did not support the federal anti-lynching law Freddy Roosevelt: failure to act against Hitler prior to Pear Harbor, allowed the ‘39 Nazi rally at MSG, Japanese interment camps, treatment of colored troops Truman: dropped two nukes Eisenhower: Cold War, Iranian coup, Guatemalan Coup Kennedy: Cold War, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis Johnson: Vietnam War Nixon: Vietnam, Watergate Reagan: Iran/Contra, Lybia, supporting apartheid, AIDS epidemic Bush Sr: Desert Storm Clinton: Bosnia, Crime Bill, Defense of Marriage Act Bush Jr: Iraq/Afghanistan, DHS, National Security Act, Guantánamo Bay Obama: Iraq/Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay And the rest you SHOULD know. Oh, not to mention that not one President from ‘79 to current had a DOJ that properly investigated and punished Trump, Epstein, or the Koch Brothers. Everything I mentioned were cliff notes. Barely the icing on the USA cake. Read a damn book before you ask something like that.
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RainyDayColor May 3, 2026 +1
Not a single president you mentioned is remotely comparable WRT the scope and impact of intentional global and domestic disruption, chaos, and destruction. You need better Cliff Notes.
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Septopuss7 May 2, 2026 +16
🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🇺🇸
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Then-Understanding85 May 3, 2026 +7
We have an inordinate amount of people that are *really* unhappy about having their slaves taken away 150 years ago.
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Nbdyhere May 3, 2026
Not to mention the other group that didn’t appreciate people showing up in a boat with a flag claiming this land and that land…
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ProfessionalOil2014 May 3, 2026 +4
The tenth amendment was a mistake that has caused irreparable damage. 
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Nbdyhere May 3, 2026 +2
I would say then poorly written Articles 2, 3, 5, and Amendments 2 and 7. And let us not forget Amendment 13, that’s a classic. It’s almost like they had a greed motivated idea and then face planted the landing
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Mr_Safer 6 days ago +1
It's just more *open* now. The same shit been going on since founding.
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tabrizzi May 2, 2026 +45
From the party of law and order.
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29187765432569864 May 2, 2026 +53
Racism is king in Louisiana.
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donkeybrainhero May 2, 2026 +31
I honestly didnt realize Louisiana was *this* problematic. This is shit I'd expect to see in Arkansas or West Virginia.
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All_Hail_Hynotoad May 4, 2026 +6
The only the way they can win is to cheat
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Ok_Friend5225 May 3, 2026 +4
Jim Crow is alive and well in Texass, Floriduh, and Lousyanna.
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TreeInternational771 May 3, 2026 +5
White supremacy has always been the MO of America. Remember when people tried to gaslight us into thinking we were a post racial society and racism died on Nov 4, 2008?
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inknpaint May 3, 2026 +3
The shame they should be feeling is shocking the rest of the world.
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Kooky-Key-8891 6 days ago +1
Louisiana is very racist.
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summerofgeorge75 1 day ago +1
Let me guess: a non-white was elected to the position.
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erisandy101 May 4, 2026 +1
But like…. The clerk before him in that position was a POC Democrat … the civil clerk currently that the position is being merged into is a POC Democrat. I don’t see how this change is anything else but what they say, a reorganization and streamlining effort. It’s already been done in other Parishes. It’s shitty that they waited till his first day to do it, yeah, but it otherwise doesn’t politically benefit them at all.
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