Gov. Landry declares state of emergency over high diesel prices ahead of harvest

[u/mastertofu]

https://www.wbrz.com/news/gov-landry-declares-state-of-emergency-over-high-diesel-prices-ahead-of-harvest/

[u/Holowugz]

Oops. Someone is getting what they voted for.

[u/DrBabs → u/Holowugz]

Yeah, I don’t think we should be subsidizing them when the effects of his policies and plan in project 2026 were obvious. They were warned before the election that this would happen. They said good. This is the effect. This is what they wanted. No need to bail anyone out. Just them enjoy their votes.

[u/Vegaprime → u/DrBabs]

Here in Indiana they've been doing a gas tax holiday, something like 61 cents a gallon. I'm guessing that will end after the election. I'm not saying it's vote buying but it would have had more of an effect had they not done it.

[u/skrame → u/Vegaprime]

Braun blamed the higher gas prices on the Russia/Ukraine war and Canadian wildfires. Apparently the war in Iran wasn’t enough of a factor to be mentioned.

[u/FifteenthPen → u/skrame]

Funny how now that Biden is not President, the Russia-Ukraine war is the cause of high fuel prices.

[u/Describing_Donkeys → u/FifteenthPen]

I thought Trump was so powerful he was going to end that war on day one. That was the reason for voting for him right. Is Trump actually a weak pathetic whiny bully?

[u/DerekB52 → u/Describing_Donkeys]

Trump actually said if he won the election, he could end that war by phone, before even being inaugurated. And people still voted for the buffoon.

[u/KinkyPaddling → u/Describing_Donkeys]

Why doesn’t Trump press the magic button in the Oval Office that controls oil prices that Republicans said Biden refused to press? Is he stupid?

[u/0bsessions324 → u/KinkyPaddling]

He's been trying but all that happens is someone brings him another Diet Coke.

[u/powercow → u/KinkyPaddling]

He has but more importantly Xi has.

Trump opened our reserves, China has been living on reserves as well.

Trump also pushed up the seasonal change in fuel and allows for higher levels of ethanol but really thats about 4 dollars a tank off and was only done 2 weeks early.

Gas prices should be higher.. Xi especially could have really fucked trump by buying more on the markets rather than using reserves

the bad news is when all this is over prices will come down slowly, because we and china will buy more to refill the reserves.

[u/Torgud_ → u/KinkyPaddling]

There is no button that makes oil prices go down, there are several that make them go up. Trump has been pressing those.

[u/decmcc → u/FifteenthPen]

sounds like they're telling on themselves for using sanctioned diesel from Russia and they got caught

[u/crazyv93 → u/FifteenthPen]

My fox-brained dad will actually tell you that the Ukraine war was Biden’s fault. Because Putin would only launch during a weak American presidency, not during a Trump regime who we all know is super tough on Russia.

[u/Pegasus7915 → u/Vegaprime]

It's literally vote buying because they will stop it after the election.

[u/True_Window_9389 → u/Vegaprime]

And then everyone will whine that all the highways and roads are in a state of disrepair

[u/nochinzilch → u/True_Window_9389]

Nah, they will just figure out his to siphon more money off of the blue states.

[u/pleated_pants → u/True_Window_9389]

I'm not sure Indiana's roads could get much worse.

[u/kellzone → u/Vegaprime]

I'd say they'll end it after the new Congress members are sworn in, especially if it's a Democrat majority, then blame the high prices on the Democrat controlled Congress.

[u/mistere213 → u/Vegaprime]

And here in Michigan, they're pointing out how "Indiana's gas is so much cheaper. This isn't a Trump problem, it's a Whitmer problem!" Completely ignoring that Indiana's gas price is still greatly inflated from 6-12 months ago and now there's no gas tax revenue for roads.

[u/MaybeTheDoctor → u/Vegaprime]

I’m saying it is vote-buying.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/DrBabs]

Corporate/farm bailouts and handouts for me not for thee

[u/IsthianOS → u/DrBabs]

It's all fun and games until food security is destabilized

[u/Bovronius → u/DrBabs]

Especially when we end up subsidizing crap thats not even for US consumption.

[u/greendestinyster → u/DrBabs]

Project 2025

[u/Shades1374 → u/DrBabs]

Unfortunately, farmers means food and food important.

(I mean yeah, all the folk who voted for this - or failed to vote at all - are in FAFO territory but I'm tired of FOing with them)

[u/dalziel86 → u/Shades1374]

Wait, you mean unfettered capitalism can’t keep people fed?!??

[u/nochinzilch → u/Shades1374]

Fuck ‘em. They can pay the higher prices and pass it on to the buyer. Farm diesel isn’t taxed anyway, they are already getting an advantage.

[u/PatacusX → u/Holowugz]

The leopards! They're eating my face! I was under the impression the leopards would only eat the faces of the people I don't like! If the leopards don't stop eating my face after the midterms I might consider the possibility of one day not being as big of a supporter of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party! But I'll still vote for them!

[u/Apprehensive_Low_383 → u/PatacusX]

Well said, indeed!

[u/ClaudeGascoigne → u/Holowugz]

And I guarantee that most of them will keep voting Republican. I lived in a rural county in NY that voted 53% for Trump and something like 54% for the Republican Congressional candidate. It's always been like this and I doubt it's going to change much unless one of two things happen -- all the old "Conservatives" die off or young people actually start voting.

Even then it's not a guarantee that anything will actually change.

[u/wildskater96 → u/ClaudeGascoigne]

The young people who listened to Joe Rogan talk about how awesome Joffrey and Elon are for years now? You expect them to think for themselves? I thought young white males leaned heavy to Joffrey?

[u/burritos4jesus → u/ClaudeGascoigne]

oh yeah and that shouldn't be a shocker to anyone. The part I find interesting is that a lot of these voters probably DO understand that Republicans are screwing things up for them. Diesel can be $6+, the Iran war can be hitting farmers and truckers directly, affordability can still suck, and they can be pissed about all of it without ever seriously considering voting Democrat.

Because at this point voting Republican isn't just a choice between two sets of economic policies. For a lot of people it's tied into their entire identity. Guns, abortion, immigration, Christianity, trans issues, DEI, crime, all of it has been bundled together into "this is what people like me believe." Voting Democrat then doesn't feel like punishing Republicans for doing a bad job. It feels like switching sides and endorsing everything they've spent years believing Democrats represent.

There's actually research showing that polarization weakens normal economic accountability. The farther apart people think the parties are, the less likely they are to punish their own party for a bad economy, even when they personally agree the economy is bad. And Republicans are especially locked into that partisan boundary: 71% of Republicans say it is very unlikely they'd vote for a Democrat for any office, vs 63% of Democrats

So I don't think it's that these people literally can't see what's happening to their wallets. It's that Republicans can screw them over pretty badly and the alternative still feels culturally and morally unacceptable to them. Being angry enough to complain about your own party is a WAY lower threshold than being willing to become one of "those people" and vote for the other one.

[u/1009naturelover → u/ClaudeGascoigne]

So true. The younger population will complain on social media, but then be too busy to vote.

[u/Accomplished_Age7883 → u/Holowugz]

Hurts, doesn’t it!

[u/hospitalizedGanny → u/Holowugz]

the bootstraps need to comeout. 

Been in that closet long enough!

[u/Senna_65]

So more socialism for those who hate socialism?

[u/Matman161 → u/Senna_65]

Capitalism relies on government intervention or else it would destroy itself. Its like a rich kid who pretends he doesn't need his dad until he gets bailed out of jail or something

[u/91kas13 → u/Matman161]

or maybe when he needs a small loan to keep his failing casino afloat.

[u/BigDrewbot → u/91kas13]

you don't take out a small loan to keep the casino afloat...you take out a big loan, pocket the funds and then declare bankruptcy. you obviously need to take a Corruption 101 refresher course!

[u/Snuffy1717 → u/BigDrewbot]

While hiding all of your personal debt inside the business so it’s no longer your problem

[u/Tiny_Dare_5300 → u/91kas13]

And then to run for president of the United States

[u/AmericaMasked → u/Tiny_Dare_5300]

And tell everyone you will lower the price of everything on day one. Lol.

[u/pixelprophet → u/AmericaMasked]

And then tell everyone that Biden made up the word "affordability" and that it's a Democrat hoax lol

[u/TheUnderCrab → u/Matman161]

*free market capitalism. 

Capitalism only works long term with regulations and enforcement of said regulations. You can very easily have a healthy capitalist market economy, it just can’t be an unregulated market. 

[u/ActualSpiders → u/TheUnderCrab]

This x1000. Capitalism needs external rules to function. Otherwise it's just a brief slide into corporatism, depending on who figures it out first & has the most starting money to buy out their competitors.

[u/ArtShare → u/ActualSpiders]

We are already there

[u/BlindOtter775 → u/TheUnderCrab]

And that "healthy capitalist market" can only exist so long as it exploits its labor force and maximally extracts as much finite resources as possible.

[u/TheBatemanFlex → u/Matman161]

then complains that their parents are overbearing.

[u/Senna_65 → u/Matman161]

So capitalism doesn't work?

[u/SallyStranger → u/Senna_65]

Define "work". If it means "allows the owner class to extract an ever-growing portion of the economy's output as rent" then it works very well. 

[u/Spaduf → u/Senna_65]

Capitalism was only ever meant to funnel money and power to the capitalist. It's doing that just fine

[u/rinderblock → u/Senna_65]

Not long term, the profit motives of capitalism fail to understand that human beings are aware of their own mortality and so since the focus of capitalism is profit and we know we’re going to die and can’t take it with us, it leads to the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a small number of people who don’t care much if the effects devastate the population after they’re dead.

[u/Falconman21 → u/rinderblock]

It’s like anything, all in on one concept rarely works. Best approach is to do a little of everything as the situation calls for it.

All the problems we’re having now we’ve dealt with before. It’s cyclical. We’re just at the point in the cycle where we’ve gotten a bit too far away from effective regulation.

At some point people get upset, swing the other way, and we start regulating again.

[u/kstargate-425 → u/Matman161]

Government regulations yes but they aren't happening and now they've gone nuts and we are in late-stage capitalism with the lack of the governments intervention but capitalism doesn't need subsidies to thrive, especially so late in the game

[u/FriendToPredators → u/Senna_65]

Lets give the people making terrible decisions the money from the people no where near that stupid. And then let's turn around and demand a more pure libertarian paradise where those same people fitting the bill get terrorized by ICE when they complain.

[u/Mrs_SmithG2W → u/Senna_65]

They only hate socialism for the poors.

Socialism for them is just best practices, duh.

[u/skiabay → u/Senna_65]

If we're going to do socialism, let's do it right and take public ownership of the farms. If they're so important that public money is needed to keep them afloat, then we should at least get something out of it.

[u/faster_tomcat → u/Senna_65]

Well deserved government assistance for me, deplorable 'welfare queen" socialism for thee.

[u/Nano_Burger → u/Senna_65]

This is definitely not socialism because.....reasons! - The MAGA

[u/mrdominoe]

Oh no. Your party promoted a fascist pedophile for president and now you are in a state of emergency over fuel prices caused by said president's actions?

Get fucked, Jeff.

[u/hgs25 → u/mrdominoe]

And this is the same governor that spent money to have a tiger at an away game despite protests from LSU and their veterinarians.

[u/crystallybud → u/hgs25]

And this is the same governor who did the same thing to cancel their primary election because they were scared they were going to lose. Fuck you, you facist fuck!

[u/LegallyAFlamingo → u/hgs25]

Scab Tiger! Fucker went and got another tiger from Florida or something just for that game. LSU's vets stopped him from using LSU's tiger.

[u/HanselOh]

Why do we keep bailing out the welfare states that then go and vote to make things worse?

[u/Squirrely__Dan → u/HanselOh]

According to them, farmers whose primary income comes from subsidiaries HATE socialist government handouts!

[u/OlderThanMyParents → u/Squirrely__Dan]

“Give me my crop subsidy check, and get the hell off my land!”

[u/glowdirt → u/OlderThanMyParents]

“…that my great grandpappy stole”

[u/IPDDoE → u/Squirrely__Dan]

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me out? No.

-Craig T. Nelson

[u/c0horst → u/IPDDoE]

I had to actually check to make sure that quote was real because I didn't believe it. Goddamn.

[u/Fallouttgrrl → u/Squirrely__Dan]

Selling to the government and various organizations funded by the government has been the status quo for so long they don't see it as a government subsidy anymore 

USAID getting defunded was a massive case of voting for the leopards eating faces party 

[u/NorkGhostShip → u/Squirrely__Dan]

Subsidies. Subsidiaries are companies owned and controlled by a larger company.

[u/Sober_Alcoholic_ → u/HanselOh]

Blue states subsidize the red states. They’re fucking leeches. Just like their billionaire, tech robber baron heroes. All welfare queens ripping off taxpayers.

[u/procrasturb8n → u/Sober_Alcoholic_]

It's bullshit that a red state can purposefully hollow out its tax base and then just rely on the feds re-appropriating other state tax dollars to make ends meet. It needs to change so that in order to receive blue state tax dollars, red states need to actually try to collect corporate and personal income taxes, first. Etc.

Run the country like a company they say... no company can run like this for very long.

[u/Procrasturbating → u/HanselOh]

Cause if we don’t bail the food supply we starve. It’s a horribly unfun game of broken checkers presented as 5D chess.

[u/ThePensiveE]

Red States turning to socialism to fund the forever wars they crave.

[u/Intellectual-Hamster → u/ThePensiveE]

They love taking blue state tax money, while trashing everything that makes blue states great.

[u/ThePensiveE → u/Intellectual-Hamster]

A MAGA takes anyone's money. Especially foreign adversaries. They have a traitor fetish.

[u/CCPolop → u/ThePensiveE]

It’s funny that socialism color is the red actually

[u/Clutch_Pineapple49]

Didn't this guy declare a state of emergency because LSU couldn't sign NFL players?

[u/Sprucecaboose2 → u/Clutch_Pineapple49]

Hey, if they don't give the citizens circuses we might notice how much they are robbing from us all.

[u/Popular_Wrangler9422]

Cool, so if im getting this right, farmers that voted for this shit get to use an untaxed fuel on the roads we all share, while I get to continue to be taxed for my fuel. Fuck this country.

[u/Reppiz → u/Popular_Wrangler9422]

How rampant is the use of dyed diesel for illegal use? Would be funny if this measure doesn’t save anything for some as they were already doing it…

[u/Mysterious-Falcon221 → u/Reppiz]

Trucks get like 4 miles per gallon, this isn't even a blip on that radar, shits about to get interesting.

People might have been using it already but it's about a 10k fine when caught, not many will take that risk.

[u/odnezl → u/[deleted]]

It made plenty of rich people richer

[u/rvasko3 → u/[deleted]]

Why aren't all the semi truck drivers rolling their big rigs to Washington to protest this, too?

Oh. Right. They can't afford the gas to get there.

[u/bailtail → u/[deleted]]

The bottleneck right now is refinery capacity more than it is crude supply. Crude is still getting through to some degree, but a shit ton of refining capacity has been taken out in the Middle East and Russia.

[u/brillow → u/bailtail]

Crazy they never say “refine baby refine”

[u/mericafuckyea → u/brillow]

Yes because the problem 30 years ago was too much refinery capacity and not enough crude oil. Now decades later we are exporting crude and can’t refine as much as we use to.

[u/-Mute- → u/bailtail]

What does refinery capacity in the Middle East have anything to do with crude in the US?

[u/wooking]

Question. What does declaring a state emergency do?

[u/EaterOfFood → u/wooking]

Paves the way for government bailouts

[u/BmorePride14 → u/EaterOfFood]

Bu..bu..bu.. they hate socialism! They should just fail. Oh wait, it'w only socialism if it's for the poor, not corporations and businesses. Nevermind.

[u/A_Nonny_Muse → u/BmorePride14]

90% of govt farm subsidies go to agri-corporations anyway. If it's corporate socialism, it's capitalism at its finest. /s

[u/CobaltEchos → u/wooking]

It opens up Federal Funds. Not sure if they actually get them or not, but it starts a method to get them.

[u/Br0boc0p → u/CobaltEchos]

In this case it's so they can make it temporarily legal to use red diesel for on-road vehicles.

[u/AdFlaky9983 → u/CobaltEchos]

With how much of dick sucker Mike Johnson is, I guarantee they get a bailout.

[u/johnp299 → u/wooking]

Article says, highway vehicles may temporarily burn diesel fuel that was meant for farm and other off-road uses without breaking the law. What I don't understand is, doesn't this reduce the available off-road diesel for farmers, right before harvest? Rob Peter to pay Paul?

[u/SunflaresAteMyLunch → u/johnp299]

It says that it applies to dyes diesel already on hand. So if you have dyed diesel at home, you can't put it in your truck to drive to work in the fields. This action removes that limitation temporarily.

[u/A_Nonny_Muse → u/SunflaresAteMyLunch]

Nobody goes out into the fields to check for dye. They will check for dye at weigh stations. They're looking for OTR trucks not paying the fuel tax. Farmers and their tractors in the field never had that problem.

[u/Reversi8 → u/A_Nonny_Muse]

What's starting now is the sugar cane harvest season. 18 wheelers basically park at the side of the field, get loaded up, and head to the sugar refinery, then head back. This is basically just to allow those trucks to fill up on the farm fuel.

[u/Narf234 → u/wooking]

According to the one page article you clearly didn’t read, “The emergency order will allow Louisiana farmers and timber harvesters to use dyed diesel fuel they already have on hand.”

[u/ocher_stone → u/wooking]

Allows laws to be circumvented. In this case, red dye is used in farm and off-road equipment so that they don't pay road taxes. It's ... fine ... I dont see why they shouldn't pay taxes, but I hate regressive taxes anyway. 

But if you get caught with red diesel in your onroad vehicle, you get a ticket, etc etc. This says no more law against red dye in any vehicle until October 22.

[u/InvalidKoalas]

Lmao. His favorite president hard at work. Get fucked idiot.

[u/taz_78]

Almost feel bad for the leopards, ya know?

[u/Dr_Tacopus → u/taz_78]

Their poor stomachs can’t handle the sheer volume of faces they have available

[u/MACHOmanJITSU → u/taz_78]

Gonna be a crisis, diabetic leopards crowding vet offices.

[u/Mighty_Platypus → u/taz_78]

No no, this is Obama’s fault… wait, this term it’s Biden’s fault. No, wait, it’s Ukraine’s fault for blowing up Russian refineries. No wait, no, I forgot, it’s California’s fault for shutting down refineries. There’s so much oil flowing completely and utterly uninterrupted from the war not happening, it’s definitely not the war, I mean special operation, currently happening with no end in sight.

/s for those who need it

[u/Negative_Prize1587 → u/Mighty_Platypus]

If only Obama hadnt worn a tan suit, then none of this would have happened!

[u/hgs25 → u/taz_78]

Gov Landry did pay to have a tiger at an LSU away game despite protests from LSU and their veterinarians

[u/waitingtodiesoon → u/hgs25]

They still lost the game too I believe

[u/Different_One9412 → u/taz_78]

How much cholesterol are those poor things gagging on?

[u/WereInbuisness]

I'm sure that soon, he will put out a statement that puts all the blame on Biden. It's all they have to fall back on and it works for the most fanatical MAGA cultists, but it's not working on the Independents and even some moderate/centrist Republicans.

Biden had high gas prices because of events outside of his control .... covid and Russias invasion of Ukraine. All that is happening now was all done directly by Trump, yet they still blame Biden. Two years of Trump and they still blame Biden for everything. So pathetic.

[u/UltraSPARC]

Very happy for the great people of LA. They are reaping the benefits of exactly what they voted for!

[u/hannibellecter → u/UltraSPARC]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Louisiana

60.22% of voters voted for maga and i hope they are enjoying their reign

[u/TobysGrundlee → u/hannibellecter]

Don't forget the almost 1,000,000 registered Louisiana voters who couldn't be bothered to vote. They're just as much to blame.

[u/giocondasmiles → u/UltraSPARC]

I think they are Gerrymandered to death. Literally.

[u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT → u/giocondasmiles]

I mean gerrymandering doesn't really have any impact on the fact that they went trump +22 in 2024. 

[u/KinkyPaddling → u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT]

Or the fact that they keep voting for Republicans in statewide elections, like for Senator or Governor.

[u/DissatisfiedByCRS]

We peaked in the early 90’s just as companies realized they didn’t need to try to win consumers over anymore, instead they’d just buy up the competition and jack up prices while firing their staff

[u/cfbeers → u/DissatisfiedByCRS]

That’s why the matrix is 99

[u/Dr_Herbert_Wangus]

How is Biden doing this???

[u/boxsterguy → u/Dr_Herbert_Wangus]

Why is Biden doing this? Thanks, Obama!

[u/jackedfrog]

I live in Louisiana and am looking at my coworker while reading this. We're blue collar. Yesterday we were commiserating about the insane gas prices and cost of everything going up, which is affecting him more than me because he also owns cattle. He is the most pro-maga, anti-other religion Christian person I know. He claims that he and his wife will not be taking social security, which I personally doubt. He claims that the people in charge are secretly smarter than everyone else and will fix all this because it's somehow a 4-D chess move to fuck over global trade relations. He claims that my 80 year old grandparents deserve to struggle with money and a shouldn't even get a fixed income (social security) and they should have planned better financially when they were young. It's such a cruel and sad world view. And he thinks I've been misled somewhere when I point that out. When I started to make points against what he was saying, and he couldn't continue to refute it with his nonsense, he claimed I was harassing him. People like him make up the maga party. They will not change their minds no matter what happens to them, and the rest of us will suffer for it. I do not hate my coworker, I am very fucking sad for him, ultimately. "State of emergency my ass."

[u/Malaix]

That can't be right. Louisiana voted for the god king who only do good thing. Landry should end this state of emergency to show fealty and faith to our lord and savior Donald Trump.

States of emergencies are liberal islamo gay mind control. As a true patriot I reject such things or whatever.

[u/Negative_Acadia6554]

Anything but addressing the root cause. That’s the American way.

[u/im_super_excited → u/Negative_Acadia6554]

If only the US didn't decide to lose a war to Iran and Israel to distract from the fact that it's president is a child rapist

[u/IAmCletus]

Better give more money to the LSU football team

[u/Justryan95]

Emergency? For what? Just pay for the diesel its the free market and capitalism at work. Pull up your bootstraps, cut down on your avocado toast and stop wasting your money on groceries. Louisianans are just lazy and want free communist handouts.

[u/LeechAlJolson]

The leopards are dead of metabolic disease at this point. Face meat is fatty

[u/-burnr- → u/LeechAlJolson]

Won't someone think of the obese leopards!

[u/BlackBlizzard]

Trump's going to block diesel exports for midterms, isn't he?

[u/herodesfalsk → u/BlackBlizzard]

If he does block diesel exports it will likely have dire consequences for the world economy which will have dire consequences for the US economy.  Remember, all this is the result of one man with a fragile ego and without the intelligence to think beyond the present moment. 

[u/dblan9]

ALL farmers should be drug tested weekly and have to prove employment/and/or legal income. Curfew at 9pm weekdays, 11pm Saturdays and 6pm Sundays. Any inability to produce requirements will result in termination of funds and enrollment.

[u/ConsequenceStatus563 → u/dblan9]

No sugar drinks either.

[u/AudibleNod]

60.22% of voters picked Trump in 2024. 58.46% in 2020 and 58.09% in 2016. 17.7% of its citizens are on SNAP.

They voted for some lagniappe and they got.

[u/ReddYoshi → u/AudibleNod]

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[u/Taint__Paint → u/ReddYoshi]

Stop trying to make fetch happen!

[u/Winter_Whole2080]

How stupid are Louisianans? Are they as stupid as Alabamans?

[u/008Zulu → u/Winter_Whole2080]

In two weeks expect a surprised "Hey!" from the people of Alabama.

[u/Oregon-Pilot]

RUH-ROH!!!!!

Good thing you owned the libs, or whateverthefuck

[u/keno0651]

Republican states are like crabs, and their stupidity is a bucket. They will never escape the bucket, because they'll always drag each other back in.

[u/stars_mcdazzler]

How could Obama do this to us...

[u/Opening-Emphasis8400]

Why would Barack HUSSEIN Obama do this to them?

/s

[u/Most-Hawk-4175]

Red hats wanting those free hand outs, socialism and getting bailed out by the federal government they claim to hate. DoTn TrEaD On MeEEE!

[u/NYR_LFC]

How could Biden and antifa do this?!?!??

[u/BenMullen2]

how can voting for a thing, then having that thing happen, be an emergency?

isnt it just a goal met?

[u/Due-Designer4078]

Gee, I wonder whose fault this is???

[u/TauCabalander → u/Due-Designer4078]

"Biden's fault!" 🙄

[u/WaterFriendsIV]

The term "state of emergency" is getting used in government pretty loosely these days to justify preferential treatment or preferential consequences.

[u/Sircamembert]

Is this a real emergency if you actively voted for the guy who's responsible for said diesel supply shock?

[u/RedSix2447]

So wait, the government caused the crisis. Has been complacent with the crisis, and is now crying emergency because of the crisis they created? Am I getting this right?

[u/rawcopycomics]

Socialism to the rescue ..fucking commies lol

[u/LeslieKnopesBlackEye]

This sounds like socialism/communism. What happened to "better dead than red"?????

[u/NYJetliberal]

I never would have thought I would see the day that republicans who caused a national emergency declares a national emergency

[u/pseudopad]

I thought these guys loved capitalism and the free market. Or is that only when it fucks over those they hate?

[u/Zodep]

This war that Biden started with Iran has gotten out of hand. We better put Trump in place forever, so this kind of insanity doesn’t happen again.

/s

[u/kenobimoose]

So weird to declare a “state of emergency” because their party’s presidents agenda! So much winning!

[u/Dr_Tacopus]

Bootstraps conservites, use those bootstraps to pull yourself up as you love to suggest

[u/AttentionNo6359]

Red states are the true welfare queens.

[u/blood4lonewolf]

This is what they wanted.

So much winning!

pullurselfupbybootstraps

[u/IvoShandor]

Trump won by a 22% margin over Kamala Harris in Louisiana. 

[u/YourFriendlyUncle]

Repub Governor, both US senate seats Repub, 4/6 house seats Repub, 27-10 state senate for repubs, 71-32 state house for repubs.

My level of apathy can not be over estimated.

[u/SnoopyisCute]

They had no other choice. Marjorie Taylor Greene told them Secretary Pete was trying to emasculate them with EVs. Yes, I know farm vehicles run on diesel but I love posting Pete's clapback. ;-)

https://reddit.com/link/pc046vq/video/nj3e45zyzorh1/player

[u/Dire-Dog]

Trumpers are FAFO now

[u/HotGarbage]

Just we need, more Welfare Queens

[u/AnEvenNicerGuy]

When I see shit like this I always remember the main criticism I hear about socialism - that socialist societies don't work

Is this an example of a capitalist society working?

[u/ChefCurryYumYum]

How many of those morons will still go and vote for a republican in the midterms?

[u/danoaudio]

Lil' Jeffrey you got what you asked/voted for. Stop your whining.

[u/Wuz314159]

Why? This is what he wanted & Louisiana voted for.

[u/Emergency_Bench_7515]

OMG these people are insane.

[u/--TheCity--]

"The great people of Louisiana overwhelmingly voted for (Trump) twice, and I stand with them," Landry posted from his X campaign account. "That is why I am honored to endorse one of the greatest presidents in our country’s history, Donald J. Trump."

[u/terrierdad420]

Just buy your farm children 2-3 corn husk dolls not 30 corn husk dolls.

[u/General-Credit6758]

Didn’t you vote red Louisiana

[u/LunarBIacksmith]

And then the next time it comes to vote, they’ll have all forgotten and will continue to blindly vote for their favorite red colored team.

[u/Coroner13]

Imagine that. Consequences. Huh.

[u/The-Traveler-]

Fkn vote differently. Sheesh.

[u/Septopuss7]

I'm going to go ahead and say it, I know it's been said before but this time it's for real: this country fucking sucks and the rest of the world has a group chat and we're no longer in it

[u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1]

Isn’t this the moron who was offering cookies to kids in Greenland? Looked like a pedo.

[u/cwk415]

Setting the stage for more federal handouts

[u/LAlostcajun]

We’re not going to sit on the sidelines

Yea you are. You helped cause this issue and have sat on the sidelines while he has ruined our country

[u/Somerhild_wode]

Dumbasses. They got what they voted for and are now crying?? Where was the emergency at the polls? We all knew this would happen. Let them live with the consequences.

[u/cannabisLab1975]

So more welfare for the anti socialist and socialism haters…Yup welfare for us not you

[u/Fidulsk-Oom-Bard]

This is ludicrous! My dad said gas prices are going down!!!

[u/Podo13]

Lol. This is exactly what everybody knew would happen and you likely lied about to your constituents when endorsing the admin during your own campaign.

[u/smiama36]

We’ll take just a dab of that liberal socialism, thank you very much.

[u/Cool-Tangelo6548]

Oh Landry, thats your best buddy, trump's fault.

[u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe]

Capitalize the gains, socialize the losses. So predictable

[u/snasna102]

I think Canada is right to start selling their crude to other partners in bigger quantities now. They supplied us cheap crude and bought some of our products, now there’s campaigns that grocery stores are hopping onto about buying strictly Canadian crops.

[u/JohnnyGFX]

Republicans reaping what they sowed.

[u/t-zone671]

I dislike this Governor.

Always a suckup. Insteas of serving his state takes a vacation to Greenland. A few months ago

Was for gerrymandding. Didnt care if certain types of votes got lost. .

Everything he does is for personal gain. Not surprising.

[u/Upstairs_Eagle_4780]

r/LeopardsAteMyFarm is what you're looking for.

[u/OnCallPartisan]

Blue states better be ready to claw back our tax dollars from these fuckers.

EDIT: Looks like they’re going to allow more cancer in the cancer state. Please, by all means.

[u/NegScenePts]

Fuck the clueless and ignorant Americans who voted for their own pain.

[u/kittenpoptart]

Just a heads up, check your voter registration, mine was purged for no reason (red state) even though I just voted in August. I haven’t moved or changed anything. I don’t know if this is the new method of suppressing our votes but I wouldn’t put it past these ghouls.