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Hey, everybody. Tim Ohr from the Bulwark. Every once in a while, I got to do a video for me. And so I'm asking you to stick with me while I go off on the governor in my state. The worst governor in America. Janky Jeff Landry. Janky Jeff, over the last 72 hours, has been talking about building statues to Charlie Kirk, interfering in private universities, business. He has been getting numbers back about just how much of a disaster his governance of the state is. He's been telling Donald Trump that he can send the National Guard into our state even though we don't need it. And most importantly and most defensively, he's been interfering himself in the LSU Tigers football head coach search. And let me tell you, he can fuck all that other stuff up, but if he screws up this search, if he damages LSU football, that might be the one thing that could take him down in the state. And it's certainly enough to get me onto this YouTube page to talk about him. So let's run through all of his offenses. Our little Donald Trump bootlicker. In this video I'm about to play you. And this isn't just like, this is so embarrassing. Sometimes Louisiana politicians, you know, they got attitude, they're funny, they got weird accents. You know, maybe they're a little corrupt. You roll your eyes, but that's just Louisiana. He has all that, but with no swag, no Riz. I mean, he just is just like sort of taking his little tongue and just coddling Donald Trump's tiny sack. It's just so shameful and embarrassing. Look at him. Okay, you guys probably don't know this whole story. You don't need to care about LSU football to care about this. But just for the background, we fired our football coach, Brian Kelly, because he was an absolute disaster. And that's been a downer for me this fall because that was going to be a big distraction. And now the question is, who's going to replace him? Who's going to hire the replacement? The governor of the state should not really be involved in that in any way, but he has inserted himself and he's asked about that as his press conference, and here is his answer.
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We are not going down a failed path. And I wanted to tell you something. This is a pattern. The guy that's here now that wrote that contract cost Texas A&M 70 something million dollars. Right now we got a $53 million liability. We are not doing that again. And you know what I believe? I believe that we're going to find a Great coach. Maybe we'll let President Trump pick it. He loves winners.
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I mean, you might notice his accent, but, like, you don't have to know anything about who the LSUAD is or any of that to know that we don't want Donald Trump choosing the next football coach. And, like, the fact that you have to, like, sidle up to him and try to get, oh, Mr. Trump, love me. Go and bring him up during, like, what are you doing? This is so pathetic. It is such sub behavior, beta male behavior. It's fucking embarrassing. Look at that outfit. Ugh. Okay, then. Then just a little bit more. Here he is. He's continuing.
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Because here's what y' all reporters need to do. Y' all need to start looking at who represents all these people. Like, these agents. You know what's interesting, if I'm not mistaken, Woodard's agent, Kelly's agent, the Texas A and M, they're all the same agent. Like, you realize if I would be. I don't know how y'. All. How many sports riders we got here today? Just you. We should have a bunch of. Okay, like, this is ridiculous. Lawyers would be this bored for the way these agents act and the way they're able to represent. In fact, they may. There's no doubt they may even represent some of the players now. Like, it's really time for the NCAA to put on some guardrails in college sports.
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You don't need to know the details of this, but, like, there's a super agent, Jimmy Sexton, who is a key player in. In. As the. As the manager, lawyer, agent for a lot of these big coaches. Some of the coaches that we're gonna be trying to get. How is it helpful for the governor of the state to be, like, randomly trashing him? Like, randomly trashing other agents and other teams and ads. Like, stay the fuck out of it. Stay the fuck out of it. The only thing you're supposed to do when it comes to sports if you're a governor, is cheer on your team. Cheer on your team and promise that they'll have the resources from the state and the support from the state that they need. That's what you're supposed to do. Not, like, try to micromanage this and seem like you're going to be involved. No, shut up. Shut up. If we lose out on a coach because you're shitting on their agent, I'm going to come up there to Baton Rouge myself and I'm going to be holding a one man vigil outside your office. I'll Be taping the podcast from there. Stop it, Jeff Landry. Like I said, it was just that he also, in addition to the Donald Trump hagiography and just becoming like a Donald Trump fan girl, the governor of the state is also, you know, doing everything he can to try to ride the PR wave following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. You know, he wants to co opt the Charlie Kirk legacy as much as possible. Once again, interfering. What's happening on LSU's campus here is Jeff Landy's proposal for what he wants to see built there in Baton Rouge.
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Hey, everyone. Governor Jeff Landry here tonight wanting to thank the entire Turning Point family. Because Tonight, unbelievable, over 1500 people came to listen to Turning Point USA. Thank you. Big shout out to LSU Turning Point. And so we're here on campus next to Mike the Tiger and we're going to put a challenge out to LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses. Come on, ladies and gentlemen, let's see if we can be the first campus to do it.
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Okay, I'm taking a deep breath here. Everybody here knows I'm not asking anybody to be rude or nasty or whatever to Charlie Kirk or his family. After his assassination, he's dead. Like, I think we can move forward and be respectful. The idea that he deserves a statue on LSU's campus is fucking insane. Okay? Chuck is a college dropout, all right? So it's not somebody that you're kind of trying to honor at a university. He isn't from Louisiana. He didn't go to lsu. He has no connection to the university. He didn't even finish college, okay? Like, there is no reason to honor him. There are a million LSU graduates out there or people from the state of Louisiana who have done great things, who've done honorable things, who are, who have, you know, reflected the values of free speech, the values of the state in the country. You could build statues too. Like, I don't. I don't really care that much about statues. It's not my big issue. But, like, this is ridiculous. Like, why would you build a Charlie Kirk statue at lsu? You know what I mean? Like, it doesn't make any sense.
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I wouldn't want a statue of a resistance hero that is not from Louisiana that didn't go to college to be built at a college in Louisiana either. So it is pathetic. You think even the MAGA people could see through this? It's so sad. Like in addition to this, he intervened at Loyola University right down the street from me here and is saying that the state is going to intervene because Loyola's campus rejected a TPUSA chapter. Again, I don't care about what the rules and regulations are around formation of clubs at private universities and neither should the governor. Okay, maybe Loyola should let the TPUSA people in. Maybe not. Maybe they filled out the paperwork wrong. I don't. Who cares? Who cares? That's a problem. It's an issue for the Loyola University student newspaper and for their Board of Regents and for the alums of that school. The governor of the state should not be interfering in a private university and forcing them to have a club, okay? That is not how things work in a free society. If there are people that don't want to go to Loyola because they're upset about this, they can go to other universities. There are plenty of universities in the country. People can choose to go there. Like there is no mandate from heaven in America. It's not like we're not in China where every university has to have a tribute to Chairman Xi in their quad. That's not how things work. Some universities are more conservative, some are more liberal. It's a pluralistic society. Jeff Landry, focus on something the fuck else. And to my point of why you should focus on something the fuck else. You know what else came out today amidst this whole furor where the governor of the state is like micromanaging a football coaching hire, attacking the athletic director of university, attacking a separate private university for their club policies demanding that statues be built to people who are not even from the state of mitzvah. He's doing all that. Here's another news item that I saw reading my local paper. There is a new wallet hub that it's new ranking of the states. Kind of how they're doing on a bunch of metrics. Economically, here's Louisiana. It comes to overall rank for job market strength and economic vitality. 49th, 49th 40th for job opportunities. 42nd for unemployment rate, 48th for median annual income, 50th for job security. Shout out to Louisiana. We do have one of the shortest work weeks that tracks. But like what, we're last in the country in job security. Louisiana is the governor should be the one worried about his job security. If what you're doing in the meantime is micromanaging the head coaching hire and the club accreditation and the statue building at colleges and trying to do the most that you can to get on the weekend Fox and Friends show. Okay, like you should be worried about your job security because that is what actually matters in the state. People having economic opportunity, people being able to get jobs. This is not a news item today, but just broadly speaking, if you look at Jeff Landry's record here, US News and World Report goes over a bunch of different categories, not just jobs. Overall ranking for Louisiana, 50th pop quiz. Jeff later. Do you know how many states there are in the country? Maybe not because you're trying to honor a college dropout at a College University, but 50 is the answer. We're 50th out of 50. Crime and corrections, 50th economy, 50th education 46th. Health care, 44th. Infrastructure 48th. That feels high. Opportunity 46th. Bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom. That's where we are in Louisiana. If you are overseeing this state where there is a crisis in the insurance market, where your crime is the worst in the country, where the economy is the worst in the country, if you're in charge of that state, then you should be Spending all of your time dialing in on how to make life in the state better for people, rather than distracting them with the shiny little object of, oh, we're gonna build a brown statue of this, of a political activist. Oh, I'm gonna go on TV and start shouting about trans people like, oh, I want to seem like a big, tough guy who's gonna, you know, be in charge of the football coaching hire. No, no, stop, stop. Jeff Landry. Try to make the state better for people. Okay, how about that? How about that? And if you are grading on football, if you're going to add all this, I should note that the last LSU football championship was in 2019, when John Bel Edwards, the Democrat, was the governor of the state. So you're even failing on that score. The final thing, when it comes to this crime, it is true that we're at the bottom of the crime rankings. And though a lot of the places where that crime is not here in New Orleans, there's huge crime issue in Shreveport and in Baton Rouge, other parts of the state. And so in order to deal with that, what Jeff Landry is saying that needs to be done is we have to send in the troops. Because Donald Trump likes to have do, like, kind of fascist cosplay. He wants to send in the troops and send guys in fatigues to, like, walk around Bourbon street and do selfies with drunk people. Like, that's the plan. So instead of actually, like, investing in our communities, investing in police, you know, investing in, you know, community engagement, investing in activities for after school, activities for youth so they're not getting into trouble. Right? Instead of doing that, like, what we're gonna do is have, like, guys in military costumes standing around the French Quarter having, like, depending on what their political persuasion is, people take drunk selfies with them or people drunkenly, like, moon themselves. Like, that's what's gonna be happening right now. Huge cost separating these people from their lives and their families are in the National Guard. And Jeff Landry's all in for that. Because whatever you want, Mr. Trump, I might even let you pick the football coach. It's just like, you have to laugh to not cry. It's so embarrassing. This governor in this state. And I gotta tell you, to my fellow Louisianans, just look at the numbers. If you're not happy about being last in the rankings and everything, hopefully, hopefully, you'll get unhappy if Jeff Landry costs us Lane Kiffin or Dan Lanning or another good football coach that can bring LSU another championship because he's meddling in it and thinks that him and Donald Trump are better suited to make that higher than the professionals. I mean hopefully that's a wake up call for everybody. Appreciate you guys sticking around for this one if you did. Otherwise it was just, maybe it was just for me to get off my chest and a couple of my buddies down here. Go Tigers, Louisiana. I should say one other thing. I love living in New Orleans and it's great for me. It's good for my family. People are great. The people here are so great. The people deserve better. The people deserve better because it's the people that are not as blessed as me who are suffering because of the bad leadership of this governor and it's those folks who are my neighbors and in my community who have welcomed us here who especially deserve better than Janky. Jeff Landry. Subscribe to this feed. We'll see you all soon. By the way, I'm not running for anything.
Podcast: Bulwark Takes
Host: Tim Ohr (of The Bulwark)
Date: October 30, 2025
Episode Focus: A blistering, personal critique of Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana—mockingly dubbed “Janky Jeff”—for his governance, political stunts, and meddling in state affairs, especially college football.
This episode sees Tim Ohr venting his frustration about Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s recent decisions, antics, and public statements. Framed as a cathartic “rant” for himself and his fellow Louisianans, Ohr argues that Landry exemplifies the worst tendencies in political leadership—from sycophantic behavior toward Donald Trump to micromanaging issues far outside the governor’s lane. The tone is biting, energetic, irreverent, and often profane.
[00:00-02:07]
[02:07-03:49]
"Maybe we'll let President Trump pick [the coach.] He loves winners." — Gov. Landry (02:29)
Ohr explains the background: LSU recently fired a disastrous head coach, raising the stakes of the search.
Ohr rails against Landry for disparaging agents involved in college sports and for possibly sabotaging the coaching hire out of ego or ignorance.
[05:18-05:48]
“We're here on campus next to Mike the Tiger and we're going to put a challenge out to LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses. Come on, ladies and gentlemen, let's see if we can be the first campus to do it.” — Gov. Landry (05:26)
Ohr’s retort: The idea is “fucking insane”—Kirk was a college dropout with no ties to LSU or Louisiana.
[08:22-09:25]
[09:25-12:50]
“If you are overseeing this state where there is a crisis in the insurance market, where your crime is the worst in the country, where the economy is the worst in the country...then you should be spending all of your time dialing in on how to make life in the state better for people, rather than distracting them with the shiny little object...” — Tim Ohr (10:45)
Ohr references the last LSU football championship (in 2019 under a Democratic governor) as symbolic of Landry’s failures.
[12:50-14:45]
[15:20-end]
Tim Ohr’s takedown of Governor “Janky Jeff” Landry is an excoriating tour through the many ways, both petty and profound, that the governor fails the people of Louisiana. Ohr cross-cuts between sarcasm, outrage, and deadpan analysis, calling out performative MAGA politics, executive overreach in sports and academia, and the neglect of real issues plaguing the state. His central theme: Louisiana’s residents deserve leadership focused on economic opportunity, public safety, and genuine community investment—not national Republican theatrics or Trump sycophancy.