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[–] [email protected] 48 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

Fucking racist cunt. Good job Louisiana. The next time New Orleans is destroyed, we shouldn't bother giving a shit since they continually elect this shithead.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

New Orleans is an incredible place full of incredible people. Try directing your justified anger at the villains.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

The guy is a senator. He was voted in by his state.

If they don't want to be represented by him, they should have voted him out in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

New Orleans did vote against him. It was the only parish in the state to do so

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

One city cannot vote out a senator an entire state voted in.

All mayors of New Orleans since 1872 have been Democrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_New_Orleans

Several mayors, including the current mayor, have been black too.

Do you think people voting black Democrats into the mayor's office want John Kennedy representing them?

Edit: The entire city council are also Democrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_City_Council

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

New Orleans is the only parish in the entire state where he didn't win the vote, with only 16.2% voting for him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is him being a Republican he only "won" due to voter suppression and gerrymandering. I would be shocked if he even had the popular vote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

He's a senator, so prepared to be shocked.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 12 hours ago

To be fair to New Orleans, they’re not all that responsible for this guy being elected.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in Nola and I don't vote for this cunt. Be mad at the real enemy

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So you choose to live in a place prone to disaster and which is a state largely run by those you wouldn't elect. Genius!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or, hear me out, they were born in a place without their consent, raised in that place as a minor without their consent, and now are not financially or physically capable of leaving that place on their own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

They are right, I moved here and I have means to leave so it is a fair criticism. I fled Texas and my ex wife to be by family. First time I have been close to them in 15 years. But I agree. I don't want to be in the south. I hate the heat and the politics and the fact that Poseidon keeps trying to reclaim the city. But my sister won't leave, so for now I am helping her out.

Now all my low income brothers and sisters here? They have no fucking choice.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago

Way to be a part of the problem