Jeff Landry’s To-Do List
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(1) Somehow find the money to pay Brian Kelly’s buyout. Brian Kelly was just fired as LSU’s football coach. The most notable accomplishment of Kelly’s 35-year coaching career to this point has been killing a student at a football practice when he had the head coaching job at Our Lady of Notre Dame. That, however, didn’t get him fired, as opposed to losing three straight SEC games, which just did (It Just Means More Down South).
(2) Putting up a statue to Charlie Kirk on the LSU campus, to honor the greatest free speech champion of his or possibly any generation:
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) called on his state’s flagship university to honor the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk by erecting a statue of him on campus.
In a video posted to the social platform X, Landry challenged Louisiana State University (LSU) to become the first campus in the nation with a Kirk statue after speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Baton Rouge, La.
“We’re here on campus, next to Mike the Tiger, and we’re going to put a challenge out to the LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses,” Landry said in the video, filmed from the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.
“Come on, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s see if we can be the first campus to do it,” he added.
LSU did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
A friend of mine at the University of Michigan ended up on Turning Point USA’s “watch list,” for committing the following violations of the Sacred Principles of Free Speech:
Anna Kirkland, J.D., Ph.D., is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She also served as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) from 2017 to 2022.
Professor Kirkland is very outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. In response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she was featured in a University of Michigan News article titled “Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: U-M experts available to discuss.”
She stated that “abortion access is about to be dramatically restricted across large swaths of the United States.” She said that people will be forced “to give birth against their will” and that some “will die from pregnancy complications.” She added:
“This is by far the most radical right-wing majority we have ever seen on the Supreme Court, and so I am wondering whether and when they will take further steps like declaring that a fetus is a person, making all abortions illegal no matter what the state would like to do, or removing rights of access to same-sex marriage or contraception.”
Kirkland has also been outspoken about her beliefs that everyone should get the COVID vaccine. In a Michigan Advance article titled, “How the anti-COVID vaccine movement mobilized in Michigan before anyone ever got their first shot,” she states:
“I do see some new things [about the anti-vaccine movement], and that is the move from a feminized, mother-focused, natural living focus to this highly masculinized, anti-mask, gun rights mobilization.”
She further argued that the anti-vaccine movement has an “inner core that’s probably realistically unreachable” and is dominated by “overwhelming whiteness” and “fundamentally led by the right-wing.”
That Charlie Kirk doesn’t — oops, didn’t — see any contradiction between trying to unleash right wing mobs on professors who expressed opinions he disagreed with, while at the same time making his “brand,” as I believe Ezra Klein might put it, “defending free speech on college campuses,” indicates that intellectual consistency isn’t a mystery to the American right wing: it’s more like a rumor.