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Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:33 pm to davidsheroes
This guy is a total fricking moron.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:33 pm to Breesus
Great post, and I agree with all of it. I too have defended my home town for years. I am done doing that now, this is stupid to say, and I feel kinda stupid for saying it, but all this makes me sad. I feel disappointed, this stuff never happened here, New Orleans was different, but alas it is not.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:37 pm to 610man
To answer another thread on this board, the saddest day of my life will be when I move out of this city in a year or two. It'll depress the frick out of me and I shutter just thinking about it. It's not depressing because they won. Because really they didn't. No one won. The money and the talent is going to leave this city at an even faster pace and then the city will collapse on itself. One day it will be a forgotten relic of unrecognized potential.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:45 pm to Breesus
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I've staunchly defended new Orleans my entire life and always held that I'd never live anywhere else.
For the first time in my life I'm considering moving somewhere else.
Mitch just showed we aren't welcome here. Honest, tax paying, hard working, middle to upper class people of any race are not welcome here. Especially if they're white. We aren't welcome here and we won't be listened to.
Not only did he tear down works of art and squander tax money and lie and fraud the city in a massive display of overreach, but then he made fun of anyone who was against it, and said specifically that he could raise 15 million for water sculptures as long as idiots didnt complain that that money should be spent on infrastructure improvements.
He had almost a decade in office to address education and crime and poverty and the loss of college educated minds and he did nothing. He claimed the city was too broke and too divided.
Then he orchestrated this fiasco last week.
It used to be a back and forth. There was a yin and yang to this city.
The precedent Mitch set yesterday and the group of people he bowed down to destroyed that. They'll never be satisfied. They've been pampered and pandered to for far too long and now they smell blood in the water. I fear the worst for this city. And I'm leaving before judgement day gets here.
I'm done discussing it. And I'm done being angry. It's too disgusting and depressing to dwell on. But Mitch got what he wanted. The Landrieu name is forever cemented in the minds of a great many New Orleanians. I've never been this depressed and saddened about my own home. A feeling of hopelessness and despair at the future of this place. It's done.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:53 pm to davidsheroes
I legit thought this was an Onion article. The amount of just unabashed word salad vomited to the reporters blows my mind.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 9:59 pm to GeauxLSUGeaux
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quote:Chalmetteowl quote:The St. Bernard Parish city of Chalmette is named after Ignace Martin de Lino de Chalmette, quote:Despite his impeccable pedigree and wealth, the battle fought on his plantation’s land may have ultimately cost Chalmette his very life. As the British approached, Chalmette and his family were forced to quickly abandon their mansion, leaving little time to move their belongings to safety. The family’s slaves hastened through Jackson’s military lines carrying whatever they could of the family’s treasures—only a small fraction, however, of the home’s grandiose furnishings. You need to change your screen name Bigot. There's no room for racist bigot lovers of slave owners around here. LINK
Damn son, that is one of the best takedowns I have ever seen on this board.
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:42 pm to Jcorye1
Not an Onion article - I heard the interview live on TV. Mitch blamed migration over the past 30 years on the monuments. Local news covered this for one segment then dropped it and of course the national news is not going to cover this theft of history by a lame duck mayor that is on his way out. Mitch is hoping to win over the Democrat elite to win a seat in their future. Landrieu will go down as the mayor who stole New Orleans history, ignored infrastructure, tried to close Bourbon Street at 2:00, economy who cannot support college graduates, murder rate that ranks on the same level as Detroit and Chicago and the mayor who Divided the city. Hey Mitch, migration of our people was not caused by the monuments.
This post was edited on 5/20/17 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 5/20/17 at 10:50 pm to Comp721
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The fact is they were traitors and they fought against the United States. They shouldn't be honored with statues in our streets.
They were given their citizenship back, dumbass. If the US doesn't hold a grudge, why should you?
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:01 pm to upgrayedd
Frick that POS..
Posted on 5/20/17 at 11:35 pm to Breesus
I grew up on the Westbank (Shaw grad, LSU grad), and moved to Atlanta for my first professional job. (Federal Reserve). I had kids early in life and wanted them raised in New Orleans, near g-parents, aunts, uncles and cousins and in the best set of Catholic schools in the USA. So we moved back when they were still young. Now that they are married and live in BR and BAMA, I don't know why I live here.
I left work a few minutes early Friday and watched as Lee was taken down. It was sad. It will not change a thing and was not worth the cost. Why do we have such a stupid Mayor? I almost want to move to lower Alabama. Will the fishing be any good?
I left work a few minutes early Friday and watched as Lee was taken down. It was sad. It will not change a thing and was not worth the cost. Why do we have such a stupid Mayor? I almost want to move to lower Alabama. Will the fishing be any good?
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:01 am to Breesus
Don't give up the ship. All large metropolitan areas have the same problems. New Orleans is still the coolest city in the South and maybe the whole country.
The Landrieus are trash. They scored a cheap touchdown in garbage time, but they didn't win. The people and the things that make this city great are still here. The Monuments are a loss but we'll see them again somewhere like Mansfield or Biloxi.
It's a beautiful night in this magical city. Get out and enjoy it. Don't let some petty bald little man bring you down. He won't last. This city will.
The Landrieus are trash. They scored a cheap touchdown in garbage time, but they didn't win. The people and the things that make this city great are still here. The Monuments are a loss but we'll see them again somewhere like Mansfield or Biloxi.
It's a beautiful night in this magical city. Get out and enjoy it. Don't let some petty bald little man bring you down. He won't last. This city will.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:02 am to Tall Tiger
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It's a beautiful night in this magical city. Get out and enjoy it. Don't let some petty bald little man bring you down. He won't last. This city will.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:17 am to Breesus
quote:
I've staunchly defended new Orleans my entire life and always held that I'd never live anywhere else.
For the first time in my life I'm considering moving somewhere else.
Mitch just showed we aren't welcome here. Honest, tax paying, hard working, middle to upper class people of any race are not welcome here. Especially if they're white. We aren't welcome here and we won't be listened to.
Not only did he tear down works of art and squander tax money and lie and fraud the city in a massive display of overreach, but then he made fun of anyone who was against it, and said specifically that he could raise 15 million for water sculptures as long as idiots didnt complain that that money should be spent on infrastructure improvements.
He had almost a decade in office to address education and crime and poverty and the loss of college educated minds and he did nothing. He claimed the city was too broke and too divided.
Then he orchestrated this fiasco last week.
It used to be a back and forth. There was a yin and yang to this city.
The precedent Mitch set yesterday and the group of people he bowed down to destroyed that. They'll never be satisfied. They've been pampered and pandered to for far too long and now they smell blood in the water. I fear the worst for this city. And I'm leaving before judgement day gets here.
I'm done discussing it. And I'm done being angry. It's too disgusting and depressing to dwell on. But Mitch got what he wanted. The Landrieu name is forever cemented in the minds of a great many New Orleanians. I've never been this depressed and saddened about my own home. A feeling of hopelessness and despair at the future of this place. It's done.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:20 am to Breesus
Breesus you and I have had our disagreements but I could not agree with you more with this post. You pretty much said said exactly how me and most of my friends are feeling.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:28 am to tgrbaitn08
Another typical night in Landrieustan.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:28 am to Breesus
It's really interesting to think about how long he's been in office and what he's chosen as his legacy.
This post was edited on 5/21/17 at 1:43 am
Posted on 5/21/17 at 2:08 am to Tall Tiger
No, he won and has caused irreparable damage...and it's not over
Posted on 5/21/17 at 2:43 am to PowerTool
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It's really interesting to think about how long he's been in office and what he's chosen as his legacy.
He's thrilled with this legacy. He believes this will further his political career and his supporters believe the same. The goal is obvious whether or not you agree with him.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 6:41 am to dat yat
quote:Totally understand this. Mine live in CA, TX and GA. We live in FL. We miss our kids and our NO and SoLA family. But we moved away from GNO in 1984. It was hard - big culture shock at first. But we found we could still bring the things about NOLA that we liked to our home wherever we lived. And we could finds things we liked about the places we lived and enjoy them all in our home, making a cultural gumbo of it all. And we could still travel home once or twice a year and not miss a beat. And close fam traveled to visit us every year, so our kids were not disconnected. That was all good.
Now that they are married and live in BR and BAMA, I don't know why I live here.
But since 1984 we started noticing "things" in NOLA were troubling. And things that would remind us of what we honestly never liked about our beloved home city. Crime. Political corruption. Ignorance. Complacency. Potholes galore and a generally decaying physical infrastructure and a consistently inept human infrastructure. Trash thrown everywhere in the streets. Ridiculously expensive real estate.
Nobody's fault is the hellishly hot and humid climate and the fact that almost everything that creeps, slithers or flies also stings or bites. Add Katrina to the mix and... a lot of our loved ones and family have either moved away or died over the years. Things home are not like they were before we moved. And definitely not better.
We began questioning the wisdom of moving home again one day on retirement. That's coming inside 2-3 years. Life in FL is good. Our kids. Our memories. Tough choices are coming.
But mini-Moon has now brought back to the forefront the reality of life in NOLA, with all the stuff we never liked about it. And ironically, his removal of the statues became the straw that broke the camel's back as to why we won't move back home. It's been a steady cumulative erosion. We can get decent French bread and make our own NOLA roast beef or fried shrimp po boys and stuff like that in our own home kitchen. And not have to endure the ugly reality that will be the Landrieu legacy for all time to come.
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