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Not that I have any use for the guy myself, but it sucks to see folks that were willing to stand up for America a bit be pushed out over disloyalty to one man. Cholesterol can't do its thing fast enough.
The problem is that all these Republicans even those "seeing the light" are doing so way too fucking late.... They let this train go so far because they were benefiting.
It's like if I saw a bank robbery and kept quiet and just kept picking up the money the robbers dropped as they plundered people's bank account, but then the robbers also started shooting people and now I want to act shocked that these criminals are worse than I thought!
Republicans do not exist anymore.
It's MAGA, a death cult and all their enablers
I mean Jan 6 was too late but it's still years earlier than most of his ilk.
I was going to flip the situation to demonstrate Republican hypocrisy. If Biden had pulled the shit Trump did over the 2020 election and his supporters had responded the way maga did...
But that can't make sense. Biden wouldn't have done that, nor would supporters in any significant numbers.
The mass lunacy is all on one side. J6 is the most glaring example of this con man and his army of degenerates in action, and Republicans/followers are completely OK with knowing the truth of this.
After Trump dies of malignant narcissism and has been gone awhile maga will find itself in a hopeless state of irrelevance. But even then they won't admit to themselves that it was their own doing.
Just FYI, you will definitely be told upcoming primaries in red states, (and most likely the midterms themselves) have been officially "cancelled" and rescheduled.
You should still plan to vote in the "cancelled" elections.
Cassidy was the deciding vote in RFK's senate fitness hearing. As in, he could have single handedly changed the course of history by just doing the job he was selected to do. He's also a medical doctor and my senator.
I wrote a very heartfelt letter to Cassidy begging him not to declare RFK fit to serve as secretary of HHS. Not that I thought my letter was going to persuade him to change his mind on anything, because he already knew Kennedy was unfit to serve. I wrote the letter because I was hoping he would know he had support on both sides to do what he already knew was right. He could have stopped him, but he didn't. He failed to protect America from the ridiculous level of harm RFK has already unleashed, and it's only May of 2026.
Anyway, despite my anger and disappointment, between the 3 Republican candidates running for Louisiana Senate in the "cancelled not cancelled" primary, I would have voted for Cassidy if I had the option. (It was a closed party "cancelled not cancelled" primary, and I'm a registered Dem).
Why would I prefer to have Cassidy elected and continue to fail to do his job? He did do his job and protect America at least once (prior to Trump's second election), and it actually cost him a lot of MAGA loyalist support. I assume that's a big part of why he buckled so easily under pressure to approve RFK. He probably figured by doing so, he was sealing his victory in the primary.
Shitty behavior, no doubt, but who is going to take Cassidy's place as Senator, if it remains a Republican held seat?
Landry is currently redrawing voting maps hoping to ensure a Republican wins, and the clear Republican front runner following the closed party "cancelled not cancelled" primary is Julie Letlow.
Letlow is a relatively unknown candidate that Landry has fervently thrown his money and support behind to mow down other Republicans and steer her to the top of the food chain. Why?
Landry wants to be kingmaker in Louisiana. He’s annoying other Republicans.
They speculate in the article it's to show loyalty to Trump, but the other Republican who defeated Cassidy, Flemming, is a Trump loyalist. So why would Landry need Letlow to rise above Flemming and Cassidy?
Flemming and Landry have been having a very public feud, and about a year ago, Flemming expressed concern that Landry, in his never ending attempt to live as the Republican reincarnation of Huey Long, is planning to get Letlow elected so he can claim her Senate seat.
Louisiana treasurer accuses Gov. Jeff Landry of Senate election scheme involving Julia Letlow
Fleming alleges Landry intends for Letlow to resign after winning, allowing him to appoint himself and give Letlow a lucrative position.
(Historical context side note: Before he was assassinated, Huey Long served as both the Governor of Louisiana and a U.S. Senator simultaneously for nearly a year, and was despised throughout Louisiana for strongman tactics and antidemocratic power grabs.)
As sneaky as Landry is, attempting to hold both offices actually seems very likely, and makes me a bit nervous that it could explain why he's been so silent regarding the ongoing recall effort against him. It makes me sick to even think about this possibility, and I know it sounds "crazy," but Landry is one power hungry and crazy motherfucker.
When people push back against Landry, he typically overreacts in very predictable strong man fashion. He makes a big show of his power, tries to intimidate his enemies, and simultaneously cries about being the victim of the leftists and the Demoncratz.
Landry recently schemed with state legislature to eliminate the New Orleans clerk of criminal court. He is currently trying to intimidate several New Orleans city officials simply for calling for a new election to determine who should hold office for the position that will replace the eliminated clerk of criminal court and combine duties with civil court clerk.
Once the criminal court clerk office was officially eliminated, (after the new clerk had already won an election, been sworn in, and sat down at his desk only to be escorted from the building on his first day), the clerk of civil court was simply supposed to default to now holding the new position without actually being elected to hold it. People are understandably very pissed and pushing back by demanding a new election. Landry's AG is now helping the "unelected elected official" who defaulted to this new position, sue New Orleans city officials in retaliation for calling for a new election, accusing these officials (including the city mayor) of breaking state laws simply by asking the state to respect the democratic process.
If that's too confusing for you to understand, I understand. It's a clusterfuck, and not even my main point. The reason I bring that up, is because it's an example of how Landry typically behaves when anybody tries to check his power. Yet, he is being relatively silent about the current recall efforts against him. Why?
What if he doesn't care about being recalled bc he's hoping to do what Huey Long did?
The recall effort is being framed as a "long shot," but I'm honestly not sure why.
They only have to find 700k people across the entire state of Louisiana who are registered to vote and will provide a signature to prove they hate Jeff Landry. And they have until October to collect all those signatures... Does that really seem difficult? Especially considering all of the voters in the most densely populated cities and districts of Louisiana he's openly trying to disenfranchise?
So, hypothetically, what if the recall succeeds in October, and Letlow wins in November? The recall isn't going to go in effect immediately. What happens in the meantime if Letlow is elected and immediately steps down? Landry can always downplay "temporarily" holding both offices by saying he's been recalled and won't be governor much longer anyway.
Once he's officially sworn in and "temporarily" holding both offices, who can actually remove him from office? Maybe he changes even more rules and laws and somehow grants himself even more unchecked power.
Maybe he does actually step down as Governor, and best case scenario, all we have to worry about is him being an awful and embarrassing POS senator who claws his way further up the GOP totem pole and runs for POTUS in 8 years.
Maybe he does what Huey Long did and steps down as governor to "respect democracy" but only after picking a successor. Maybe he'll decide he'll be funny and Letlow can be governor while he's senator. Who knows?
Maybe he decides to just make it official and declare himself Boi King 4 life of the New Republic of Louisiana. Maybe he decides to finally invade Greenland with the help of Trump, or whoever is president of the confederacy of the former U.S. by then.
Kinda seems like the world is the oligarchy's oyster as long as the U.S. keeps letting them slowly strangle democracy right in front of us while gaslighting us about being crazy and making a big deal out of nothing.