JCPegasus

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Yet, I've heard since the 80's from folks over in Laffy

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So you’re not from Laffy, but you know how the entire student body and community feels about LSU because of a few interactions. Got it.

Doesn’t matter how many here from Acadiana / UL (or USL if it makes you feel better) tell you that you’re misled, you want to make yourself believe what you want.

Everyone knows that Louisiana State University is the flagship.

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Watch Rod Woodson highlights. Or Ronnie Lott. They never apologized for trying to kill people on the field and often celebrated their violence.

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The sport is getting softer and the fans are getting softer with it

My dad used to make me watch Ronnie Lott highlights on repeat

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why does that surprise you? illegal immigrants and migrant workers have always been used in industries like that where labor cost is 1 thing that can sink the business quickly.

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It doesn’t surprise me, but it’s a reminder that we’re being hit from both sides.

My grandparents and their parents were small farmers in Louisiana. The family grew and the land was carved up. My papaw was the first to go to college.

That’s not that long ago that we used to farm our own land.

My point of this whole post was to connect the dots between both labor and white collar professional jobs and how both are competing globally now.

We joke about crawfish farming a lot here…


It’s still strange for me to see all of the immigrants working the crawfish, sugar cane fields, rice fields

It doesn’t matter if you’re a laborer or college educated. You’re competing globally now.

I see a lot of conversations here about H1Bs and other conversations about the southern border and even less around workshare arrangements with various countries. Now add in AI too…

All of these impact our jobs - blue collar and white collar. I’m not sure that I’ve seen this conversation had together in one place.

Many here support one or the other in some way for various reasons.

In 2014 I noticed more work move to India. In 2026, all office jobs are moving overseas or they are being brought here by visas.

Field labor is being completed overseas (modules), and non licensed trades completed by our friends coming over the border.

- Engineering done in India
- Engineering done locally via H1Bs
- Accounting and billing in South America
- KPI / analyst work in India
- Large scale fabrication done oversees and shipped in on modules (labor jobs)
- Residential construction and other miscellaneous non licensed trades being occupied by those coming over the southern border. Either by cash, or by H2As and H2Bs. Crawfishing, farming, etc..

I’m 40 and have young kids. Growing up I’d hear, “go to school to be a Dr., Lawyer, or Engineer”. I’m not sure that’s sound advice anymore. Everyone is now saying, “go learn a trade”, but those jobs are being outsourced also.

You may say, “well it’s only the corporations”, but big corporations / supply chain is driving us to minimize use of local companies. They want us to leverage our scale for perceived competitiveness.

How screwed are we? And what advice are we giving younger kids in our family now?

For the record, I have been very blessed. I’ve made good money in the trades before going back to school, and have since built a really good professional career.

Some of you may think I’m young. To some I’m probably old. I’m not someone thinks the older generation stuck it to us. And I also don’t think that every young person is lacking work ethic.

I genuinely wonder if everyone can see the bigger picture and I’m curious of what the future looks like. How we guide our children…

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schedules a Zoom call between Coach Kiffin, Jayden, and Pickett. Kiffin and Pickett take the call from Kiffin's office. On the call, Pickett expresses his sincerely admiration for Jayden and respectfully asks Jayden if Pickett can wear #5

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Sometimes I wonder how many LSU football fans have actually played football. A lot of soft people on this site.

It’s football… schedule a Zoom call to ask permission wear a number? lol

Man, I always underestimate the amount of degenerates in this world.

Even this place which is for the most part conservative is full of dope heads.

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People are going to smoke pot no matter if it’s legal or not.

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Wrong… things that are illegal are a very much a deterrent for law abiding citizens even if not 100%.

In my adult life I’ve watched society degrade… ironically and in parallel society wants to normalize weed. So much that even pundits on ESPN have pushed for it. You used to never hear this kind of talk from a sports show when I was growing up. I’m tired of smelling it in parking lots. At community events, football games, etc..

I say keep locking ‘em up. If you say it doesn’t matter “that you’ll smoke it anyway”, then these laws shouldn’t bother you…

Yes but I’ll still watch for now.

I used to memorize the 3 deep as early as my high school years and watch those players work through the depth chart. Followed recruiting closer.

I also prefer to watch Louisiana bred players at LSU. In the age of the portal, I’m happy that we’re competing, but I’m not as emotionally invested in these California, Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas recruits even though they’ve always been sprinkled in.

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I bet you argued that this wasn’t a war too

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Huh? What does this have to do with anything?

If you’re talking about Iran, I don’t care about what’s happening over there.

I care about our issues here at home - the blue hairs and the ones that say “they’ll convert our children”. Stealing elections. DEI garbage. Crime. Schools being left wing indoctrination camps. Illegal immigration coupled with H1B/H2A&B robbing Americans of opportunity. Misuse of taxpayer funds and fraud…….

I don’t give my opinion on foreign policy because I don’t know what the intelligence community knows.

I do know what I see with my own two eyes here at home, and I don’t know of any organization that is doing more with our youth than TPUSA in fighting the culture wars… conservatives are trying to tear it down while insulting a widow who’s trying to keep her husband’s legacy alive.

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bigotry

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anti

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bias

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Threw in every victimhood buzzword you could think of

Playing victim is not a Cajun mindset, but BR isn’t very Cajun so I wouldn’t expect most here to understand that