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re: Memphis is talking secession

Posted by JCdawg on 5/9/26 at 11:16 pm to
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, we be go'n secession
Everyone knows the democrats cheat with absentee ballots. I don’t think votes are being changed remotely, that wouldn’t hold up an audit, I think the network connections are in place in the voting machines to get live counts so that absentee ballots from registered voters can be filled out to the number they need with legal voters who haven’t voted because they are either dead or have not voted in years.
It’s because the medical industrial complex stands to make over three million dollars per patient who undergoes a sex change as a child with ongoing care and medications.
This would be the demarcation of the first and possible evolvement to the third world.
He has always seemed like a pretty straight shooter who basically doesn’t give a frick about anything these days.

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Because they all look like that Katie Porter woman and are pissed about it. Seriously. That’s it.


Bingo.

Social media exacerbates it, which is why we are seeing the calamity we are today.
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I just love recognizing when constitutional conservatives, and originalist textualists at that, disregard it for Daddy.


At least you recognize Trump is your daddy after not having one most of your life.
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The other good one is whether Biden won the 2020 election.


Oh yeah totally. Biden definitely got 81 million votes and only won 1/19 bellwether counties wink wink

re: Hawks playoffs

Posted by JCdawg on 5/5/26 at 6:23 pm to
Move the team to Winnipeg.
The south was sending their crop to England which is why they blockaded Charleston.
They want one thing, and that is attention.

Unfortunately unattractive people like her have to act ridiculous in order to get it.
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I'm sorry, but we're talking about the Louisiana House of Representatives here. The place where Jeff Landry got his start. These people aren't thoughtful about anything other than what freebies they can secure for themselves.



You've gone of course and lost me here. I'll put this back on you, what evidence to you have to support this claim?

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Do you realize you're suggesting New Orleans takes more tax money than it generates for the state?


I never suggested that. The big picture is that Orleans Parish has a tax base that is substantially lower than it once was. They have to make cuts in accordance of their tax revenue. Just because it feels mean doesn't matter. We don't make decisions on feelings.
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Correct. In an already backlogged court system, how will eliminating judges improve efficiency for the people of Louisiana?


Doesn’t matter. You can only work with the confines of the budget. Thinking anything otherwise is flawed.

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What are your assumptions supposed to prove here?


The system has to do the same level of work it has been doing because the remaining constituents are the ones requiring it.

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A “best guess” isn’t a justification for restructuring the courts. Even if that number were accurate, it’s a narrow view of cost. Reducing judges doesn’t magically create efficiency in an already backlogged system. This will just further slow dockets and create more backlogs, which means longer pre-trial detention. This just shifts costs elsewhere.


Those making these decisions aren’t using “best guess”. I’m sure they are looking for the most effective way to work within the confines of a budget for a parish that is under 300k population vs a parish that was closer to 500k. Efficiency really isn’t the motivating factor here, even if said. You have to work within the confines of a shrinking budget and population if you do not want a substantial increase in taxes. Otherwise you are going to attempt to tax a tax base that is already a giant subsidy where the majority of them don’t pay any taxes in the first place.
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how much money is the merger saving?


The opinion article you posted doesn’t contain those numbers for obvious reasons.

However, the central chart does show the number of positions being eliminated.

- 4th circuit court of appeals - 2 judges
- Orleans Parish - 5 judges
- clerke of court - 1
- Bill also combines 3 separate court systems into one. Doesn’t specify how many might be cut, nor physical property eliminated.

The author speaks of tourism, which adds revenue, but that revenue has always been part of the equation. New Orleans was once close to 500k residence, it is now under 300k. That is a massive loss in tax revenue, and most of that is probably affluent. The affluent float the system while the remaining 300k are probably the users of the system.

So to answer your question, my best guess is this move is saving the parish $600,000 to $800,000 in salary alone. Real estate could factor in more, along with administrative cuts.


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Definitely reads like a parody, but then again the whole world is a joke.


I was thinking the same thing, but then I’m reminded we have imbeciles like AOC and Omar in the United States congress, and the incompetent voters who elect them. We live in a parody at this point.
I just don't understand why we say it in Spanish. We should just be saying the "5th of May" like we say the 4th of July.
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The law merges just the clerk’s offices of the two courts, but leaves the two courts entirely separate.


Your 3rd world parish is losing population hand over fist, thus tax base is leaving. You have to make cuts.
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To be fair, we don’t know for a fact that she’s fat.


Deductive reasoning and logic.
Some of these circumstances probably have to do with fraud being taken away.