The Dark Side of the Super Bowl

I'm surprised they didn't give them tickets to the game.

 

There’s that MAGA Christian love for you.

 

Sounds familiar.
Give overpriced no bid contracts at inflated rates to cronies. Highly illegal, nobody cares.
Just like the flights desi paid for hoping to boost his national exposure

 

“on a pre-dawn morning in January, state police and other agencies directed by the Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, descended on homeless encampments throughout downtown New Orleans.

The hastily assembled site had been arranged under a no-bid contract thanks to emergency powers invoked by Landry – who took office in early 2024 – and opened before an unprecedented winter storm that ultimately dumped about 10in of snow on some parts of the region.”

 

So your headline says "unheated" but the article says otherwise. Your headlines are just like the real liberal rags, False.

 

per article….
“The site did not have sufficient cots, adequate heating or even enough blankets when it first began taking in people on 15 January. Unhoused residents who didn’t want to go to the warehouse scattered, some forced to leave behind everything they owned just days before the dangerous blizzard hit on 21 January.”

 

I'm no fan of MAGA, but this feels more like a Louisiana thing (especially the no-bid to a buddy) than a MAGA thing. Like, could easily see the same thing happening under any of the last several administrations.

 

nothing like sensationalizing the news on this- warehouse may have not had heat but neither did living on the street

my bigger questions would be did they feed them while in the warehouse and

if the price was truly $17.5 million, while crazy- what did they get for that huge amount of money and was the NFL involved

in the end this is for the people of Louisiana to deal with

 

And that does not say it was unheated. Why did you quote that just to back up what I posted? It say right there that there was heat. Now someone opinion was that it was not adequate but that is not unheated by a long shot. I would think not adequate is a lot better than what they had in the tents or sleeping bags on the side walks were. There was obviously heat and someone decided for the article that it was not adequate. what a bunch of BS.

The article goes on to say that some of the early problems like the heat were improved later. With the freezing snow storm that came through it is a good thing they had a place for the homeless people to go. Was it set up for the weather that was headed that way maybe and not so much for the Super Bowl?

 

Based on the thread title I thought this was about the halftime show

 

I don’t know. It seems the MAGA way is to always mistreat humans who have little to no power and then say they’re doing them a favor. It’s sort of like saying they rescued Africans from running around naked, gave them free passage to this country, and then gave them jobs in agriculture. It sounds good but we all know what it is. Louisiana is a MAGA state so I have no reason to believe warehousing humans isn’t a MAGA plan.

 

It's a pattern of using "emergency " powers to reward your cronies and punish your enemies.

How many national emergency did we have under Biden? How many in the last month? Normalize the concept and then use it for martial law after a terrorist attack induced by maga rhetoric, djt decisions, Musk neutering our defenses. This isn't a series of random events

 

Saved all those native American children. Same thought process but with a bunch of grift included to reward the morally superior

 

Had it been held in Miami the same folks would be howling about DeSantis.

 

And for good reason.

 

I really want to understand the issue in the story.

Louisiana government moved homeless people to warehouses that were heated, but not adequately for the 100-year blizzard that just hit Louisiana. They threatened to arrest them but apparently never followed through. One of them had a leaky roof.

Some "scattered" and went to other places to shelter. Only person mentioned dying was in a car somewhere else.

Some homeless guy built a fire at the old Navy base because the shelter "reminded him of prison".

Only one local person dying in that blizzard seems like a successful operation in N.O. The sensationalists on the news certainly predicted a lot more.

If I missed something important please fill me in. I don't need Edward Woodward showing up at my house at 2 am with kids under his Santa suit.

 

They can light fires for heat when not at the warehouse on the street (in New Orleans, they sleep under I-10 in a big encampment). I doubt they can do that at the warehouse. They also generally have tents for warmth. For very cold nights, the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and a few other groups run shelters, although Salvation Army can be a bit difficult as it is a trip uptown and requires them to not be using drugs (obviously, many homeless are drug addicts).

I would certainly assume, given that they pulled them away from the other shelters and groups that feed the homeless in New Orleans.

An empty warehouse not fit for human habitation, 8 unarmed guards making $50 an hour, counselors making $100 an hour, and food and water (but no working plumbing).

BTW, it should be noted that Lesli Harris, one of the few genuinely good people in government down there, offered a plan to the state that would have cost $8 million from the state, with the city sharing some of the cost, which would have housed the homeless in a reasonable facility, with 8 unarmed guards making more what a standard security guard makes, and never heard back from the state, likely because the governor hadn't figured out a way to raise money by solving that problem along with city officials.