A bizarre incident involving Louisiana legislators leaves perhaps only one thing for certain: the sender(s) of so-called “lynching postcards” seem to have caught a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that makes the act appear inexplicable using reason and logic.

Recently, several representatives – all Republicans except for a Democrat and apparently chosen in alphabetical order, various reports reveal – received in their official mail two kinds of postcards depicting lynchings, with one identified as nearly a hundred years ago in Indiana and the other over a century ago in Minnesota. They state “Thank you” have Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s name attached to them, and were sent from Denver.

This raises many questions. Why Louisianans? Why only representatives? Why just names close to the beginning of the alphabet and sent to official addresses as if plucked from the website? Why is Noem’s name attached? Why depicting lynching? Why the scrawled sarcastic message? Perhaps these and others will be answered as the Federal Bureau of Investigation has gotten involved because this could be construed as a threat using the postal service. Even if no threat is determined to be present, the Comstock Act as amended makes it illegal to send these through the mail.

But for now, it’s an interesting exercise trying to figure it all out. First, it seems to have a racial component to it. Of course, lynchings in the past were performed by misbegotten whites against mainly blacks, although also inflicted on other races, and these postcards – which appear to be of modern construction – depict blacks having been lynched. So, we can assume it involves some kind of issue where white legislators are being blamed for something affecting members of a racial minority.

A review of the House of Representatives web site bolsters this case. Legislators are being tight-lipped about details, but it appears just a few were received, and among the first ten names alphabetically, nine are Republicans, one is a Democrat, and all are white.

The Noem nomenclature may also signal that the complaint is about treatment of nonwhite illegal aliens. A few months ago, an obscure far left website posted an overheated article comparing pictures of Noem with deportees to El Salvador to a kind of lynching postcard. The sender(s) may have read this and, feeling aggrieved over some action by legislators dealing with illegal aliens, fired away.

Yet in 2025 the Legislature passed only one bill, signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, on this subject. It disallowed recovery by illegal aliens of some damages in vehicle accidents – hardly something to get that worked up about, and in fact was voted against by the first name on the House roster, Democrat state Rep. Roy Daryl Adams.

Perhaps it had something to do with recent state decisions to send its National Guard troops to help out around the Texas border with Mexico, or to devote space at the state’s maximum security prison to house criminal illegal aliens for the federal government. But the Guard story is old news and, rather than representatives entirely uninvolved in that decision resting with Landry, the governor would be the expected target of ire. And while the Angola story is recent, again it came as Landry’s responsibility and of the initial 51 alien inmates, almost none come from Central or South America. And why would someone from Denver get all agitated over any of this in Louisiana (it seems unlikely that someone would go to so much trouble who didn’t live in the Denver metropolitan area wanting to do something like this to try to make it appear these came from there).

In short, the motivation seems baffling, considering all the clues. Maybe several days ago some far leftist obsessed with Republican Pres. Donald Trump and the numerous wins he is piling took to strong drink to drown sorrows and in a state of inebriation hit upon this brilliant scheme, created the postcards, printed them, scrawled on them, picked Louisiana out of hat, looked up the addresses of Noem and the legislators, but got tired after a few so quit after posting them nearby, then collapsed and woke up later in the morning with a terrific hangover and no memory of any of this. When really blasted, dumb ideas look like strokes of genius, after all.

Or maybe it’s just some completely sober idiot at work. Unless the FBI comes up with something, your guess is as good as mine.