re: I think it's time call a spade a spade... Governor Landry

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This entire website blamed him for Kelly's firing saying no coach would ever come here. So if he gets the blame, he should get the credit for hiring Kiffin.

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Yes. Everyone was saying how Louisiana/LSU looked like a bunch of retards with the governor getting directly and publicly involved with the firing/hiring of coaches and ADs. And maybe we did look stupid and maybe Landry was just lucky. But LSU got Kiffin.

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And maybe we did look stupid and maybe Landry was just lucky.

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But what Landry said wasnt stupid

The media wanted it to "sound" stupid because of his cajun accent and typical Louisiana meddling.

His entire concern was that given the way contracts (like Kelly's) was written that the state was on the hook financially if LSU couldn't afford his enormous buyout ... as the Governor of the state and, in effect, the financial steward of the state, he had every right to call out the cavalier nature of the decision.

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Why are data centers bad? Tell us your own thoughts as to why and not just the regurgitated MSM talking points There is only one CC project on that list, and dollar-wise, it is small compared to everything else.

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Ai was invented 20 years ago on aol instant messenger and they called it smarterchild. It did what ai does now minus being good at excel

It ran on windows 95 beige box computers and a dial up internet connection

When they realized how powerful it was and that they weren’t making money the technology was buried


They don’t need extra computing power to run this stuff, they’re using data centers to power mass surveillance


Any time a carpetbagger comes to Louisiana and pretends that that they will make our lives better they’re lying.

The ten commandments thing was silly, the Omar stunt was really silly.

Getting a space port in La is pretty damn good, along with how he has made LSU great again

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I really dislike his coziness with the trial lawyers.

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Yeah I would guess that tort reform and anything meaningful that would reduce the ambulance chaser industry and lower auto insurance rates is out of the question.

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Ai was invented 20 years ago on aol instant messenger and they called it smarterchild. It did what ai does now minus being good at excel

It ran on windows 95 beige box computers and a dial up internet connection

When they realized how powerful it was and that they weren’t making money the technology was buried


They don’t need extra computing power to run this stuff, they’re using data centers to power mass surveillance.

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This entire response is bullshite.

AOL Instant Messenger wasn't AI, it was iMessage at best. Smarterchild was a chatbot created by a company ActiveBuddy and used scripted responses.

Hey kid. Read up on Gov Mike Foster (1996-2004). You might learn something.

I loved Mike Foster. Voted for him twice. He appointed me to a state board that governed my profession. He refused to get on a plane and fly to Japan when they were looking to build in the US. He raised up Jindal (who I also voted for) who was a huge disappointment. Don't really "like" Landry,but you have to give hime props on economic development and starting on getting rid of some of the BS things eating tax revenues in NOLA

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Who you a big fan of?

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Until he betrayed Trump, I like Garret Graves. I was a huge Kip Holden fan. I really liked Mike Foster. I disliked Vitter’s personality, but he was absolutely fantastic politically. Meanwhile, I like Kennedy’s persona, but don’t particularly like his politics.

I really don’t like Billy Nungesser or Bill Cassidy. Higgins tends to vote the way I want, but says some truly unfathomably stupid stuff. Jindal was such a huge disappointment. I’m still not sure about Mike Johnson, and I haven’t been overly impressed by Letlow.

I like Mayor Sid Edwards, but I fear his administration is in over their heads. I don’t think he has enough good experienced people in his camp to seriously change the city/parish bureaucracy for the better while also surviving the massive fiscal crisis his predecessor purposely left behind.

Landry is an excellent politician, and he occasionally gets great results, but he screws over his own allies a lot. It makes him seem slimy. I disagreed with some of his legislative agenda as well with how he went about some of his agenda (especially with how he seemed to sabotage his own tax reform, the inspection stickers, coastal lawsuits, sediment diversions, etc).

All politicians are grifters to an extent, but something about Jeff is just so cynical and open about it, it doesn’t make me feel good about supporting him even when we agree, even when I vote for him. He just seems like your stereotypical corrupt machine politician.