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JD Vance invokes Huey Long in a speech to Ohio Steel Mill workers
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:32 pm
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If tweet fails to load, click here. JD Vance on Huey Long:
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The great Southern populist—an interesting, kind of a crazy guy—Huey Long once said, “Every man a king” was the goal of his political program.
But no man is a king if their castle is under siege by criminals.
What are your thoughts on Huey Long and what he did for Louisiana?
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Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:34 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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What are your thoughts on Huey Long and what he did for Louisiana?
He both saved and ruined it.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:36 pm to Indefatigable
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What are your thoughts on Huey Long and what he did for Louisiana?
He both saved and ruined it.
Would you say he is most responsible for Louisiana today?
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:40 pm to FlyingTigerBo
As a proud white liberal male I’m appalled. I’m so sorry black people. JD Vance actually started the KKK.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:44 pm to FlyingTigerBo
As I recall from my Louisiana history class
1) He built first class roads all throughout the state
2) He built bridges (railroad and auto) across the Mississippi River
3) He made sure there was a chicken in every cooking pot or a ham in every oven.)
1) He built first class roads all throughout the state
2) He built bridges (railroad and auto) across the Mississippi River
3) He made sure there was a chicken in every cooking pot or a ham in every oven.)
Posted on 8/21/26 at 8:48 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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Would you say he is most responsible for Louisiana today?
Honest Edwin.
Huey's been dead for almost 100 years. His programs as governor (roads, textbooks) weren't that radical. Even his tactics were in line with other machine politicians. He was just better at it.
Crookwards squandered the opportunity to benefit from the New South.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:12 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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Would you say he is most responsible for Louisiana today?
It would be difficult to ID another person as impactful, but I’m no Louisiana historian
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:24 pm to Bestbank Tiger
The poliboard cognitive dissonance will be overwhelming. Will they throw JD under the bus or will they use enough pretzel logic to decide Huey was proto-MAGA? Place your bets.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:25 pm to FlyingTigerBo
He was destructive and corrupt. His family continues to benefit from some of the most crooked ill gotten oil leases in state history. He built thousands of miles of what were later discovered to be substandard roads. He put public hospitals and universities across the state that we still pay for but do not need.
All of it for personal political gain. He was amazing for LSU but everything else makes him a 100 year disaster rolled into about six and a half years in office. Most people think he was in office for decades. He wasn’t. Shot dead in the Capitol while screwing over the state.
All of it for personal political gain. He was amazing for LSU but everything else makes him a 100 year disaster rolled into about six and a half years in office. Most people think he was in office for decades. He wasn’t. Shot dead in the Capitol while screwing over the state.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 9:29 pm to Deep Fried Gravy
All this
Posted on 8/21/26 at 10:00 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Read it as "Huey Lewis" at first. 
Posted on 8/21/26 at 10:09 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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What are your thoughts on Huey Long and what he did for Louisiana?
He drug it kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
I am a firm believer Louisiana was meant to be like the Amish.
Every single person in this state is most happy when they are doing something that was common 120 years ago.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 11:07 pm to FlyingTigerBo
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Would you say he is most responsible for Louisiana today?
I think our abundant French heritage is to blame for most of it.
Posted on 8/21/26 at 11:31 pm to FlyingTigerBo
Just as an experiment, go to YouTube and listen to some of Huey’s campaign speeches. Then listen to some of Obama’s. I’ll wait to hear y’all’s comments on this.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 12:09 am to FlyingTigerBo
No.
That's Edwin Edwards.
That's Edwin Edwards.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 12:16 am to Gee Grenouille
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I think our abundant French heritage is to blame for most of it.
That was LSU History Professor Mark Carleton's view. The French and then the Spanish used Louisiana as a source of raw natural resources. The goal was to get rich quick and then get out rather than build something to last. That attitude became ingrained to this day.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 12:36 am to FlyingTigerBo
When Trump ran the first time, I said that if you liked Huey Long and Edwin Edwards, you’re going to love this guy. He has an R by his name so you can pretend it’s different. It’s all the same.
Posted on 8/22/26 at 1:12 am to Jim Rockford
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The poliboard cognitive dissonance will be overwhelming. Will they throw JD under the bus or will they use enough pretzel logic to decide Huey was proto-MAGA? Place your bets.
Is this "poliboard" in the room with you now?
You fricking kook, WTF does that word salad even mean?
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