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re: September 8, 1935. The Kingfish Gunned Down
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:18 pm to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:18 pm to blueridgeTiger
That statute of his in front the Capitol should be thrown into the river.
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Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:22 pm to L1C4
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I can see some similarities in Long and Trump.
I don't know about that. Maybe it's just tough for my simple mine to relate Long on a state level to Trump on a federal level.
However, similarities between Long and JBE and Jeff Landry....absolutely.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:27 pm to ragincajun03
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However, similarities between Long and JBE and Jeff Landry....absolutely.
In that they were all LA governors?
That's about it.
JBE is the closest thing to a centrist this state has had in a long time, but unfortunately, the political landscape is set up to where centrists just get shat on by the staunch supporters on both sides. He also botched COVID, but so did literally everyone else so I can't blame him much on that.
Jeff Landry meanwhile is just all about putting his cronies in power.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:29 pm to Broski
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In that they were all LA governors?
That's about it.
In that they all crave for all the power in the state to be centralized in Baton Rouge, and specifically with them on the 4th Floor. Long and JBE, I understand. Jeff Landry, he's supposed to be a "small government" conservative.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:30 pm to SidetrackSilvera
There is a theory that FDR had HPL killed.
Long was rising in the polls and connecting to people nationwide.
Weiss was just a convenient 'fall guy' and that HPLs body guards had been infiltrated by the FDR mob.
Who knows? We will never know.
Long was rising in the polls and connecting to people nationwide.
Weiss was just a convenient 'fall guy' and that HPLs body guards had been infiltrated by the FDR mob.
Who knows? We will never know.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:44 pm to blueridgeTiger
That's why they made sure he didn't live. His stuff sounded kinda socialist and or self serving. He walked up to FDR and told him to f off basically. In the WH. I think he was crazy. LSU itself and many highways in Louisiana are credited to him at the same time.
This post was edited on 9/8/24 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 9/8/24 at 7:59 pm to The Cool No 9
In what world is David Vitter like David Duke?
What????
What????
Posted on 9/8/24 at 9:12 pm to CitizenK
reefs off the coast............apparantly you never saw the dredges at work in lake ponchartrain bring up the shell. Lake was always muddy but cleared up miracle wise after the dredging was shut down. The hot spot for catching catfish was in. the wake of the dredges.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 9:31 pm to blueridgeTiger
Yes….we would’ve hit Socialism much, much earlier
Posted on 9/8/24 at 9:34 pm to SidetrackSilvera
Catholic High motto: “ Assassination? We don’t miss”
Posted on 9/8/24 at 10:05 pm to Juan Betanzos
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Yes….we would’ve hit Socialism much, much earlier
Louisiana is less socialist than it was in the late 19th and early 20th century. Winn Parish had a newspaper called the Weekly Comrade, and elected a socialist mayor and state senator. The Socialist candidate in the 1912 presidential election garnered 40% of the vote in Washington Parish.
Source: I still have my notes from the GOAT LSU history professor, Mark Carleton.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 10:21 pm to L1C4
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I can see some similarities in Long and Trump.
Long was good at hanging ridiculous nicknames on opponents; "Turkey Neck Walmsley," e.g.
Long didn't like his media coverage so he created his own media outlets that bypassed the mainstream press.
Long was an ardent isolationist once he became a Senator.
Long could orate for hours without a break.
Long used religious themes when it suited his purpose but never had any personal religious faith, as far as can be determined.
Long held grudges and attempted to ruin the lives and careers of people who opposed him or who he believed had wronged him.
Whether that sounds familiar is an exercise left to the reader.
Posted on 9/8/24 at 10:23 pm to Jim Rockford
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The Socialist candidate in the 1912 presidential election garnered 40% of the vote in Washington Parish.
Well we’re all retarded here, so there’s that.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 2:19 am to blueridgeTiger
Where’s the Deduct Box?
Posted on 9/9/24 at 2:29 am to Jim Rockford
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Long was good at hanging ridiculous nicknames on opponents; "Turkey Neck Walmsley," e.g.
Long didn't like his media coverage so he created his own media outlets that bypassed the mainstream press.
Long was an ardent isolationist once he became a Senator.
Long could orate for hours without a break.
Long used religious themes when it suited his purpose but never had any personal religious faith, as far as can be determined.
Long held grudges and attempted to ruin the lives and careers of people who opposed him or who he believed had wronged him.
Whether that sounds familiar is an exercise left to the reader.
People are hating on that post but that's what I picked up on the first time I watched the Ken Burns doc. He's not saying their policies are the same but their political styles and the way people reacted to them are very similar.
In addition to what you said, they're both hated by the political establishment and party leaders. They're both hated by the media. They're both loved by people in rural areas and blue collar workers. They're both absolute bulls in the political china shop. They were both shot.
"He was often called a buffoon. But he was brilliant. He could be a buffoon, but that was a character of Huey Long. He was brilliant."
- Sen Jennings Randolph
"I was elected railroad commissioner of Loosiana in nineteen hundred and eighteen. And they tried to impeach me in nineteen hundred and twenty. When they failed to impeach me in nineteen hundred and twenty, they indicted me in nineteen hundred and twenty one. And when I wiggled through that I managed to become governor in nineteen hundred and twenty eight. And they impeached me in nineteen hundred and twenty nine."
- Huey P Long
This post was edited on 9/9/24 at 5:33 am
Posted on 9/9/24 at 3:54 am to Trevaylin
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the payoff for supporting the dem.s at the time was a dump truck load of clam shells for your personnel driveway. Made a good road bed but difficult to walk on bare foot
My dad in the 1960’s and 1970’s worked in tugboat industry moving barges of clamshells. He claimed that they were so plentiful and reproductive that eventually you will be able to walk over the lake because of the clamshells shallowing up the lake.
I know this would be controversial, but with today’s technology I wonder if those shells could be mined without disturbing the heavy metals and silt or filtering the slurry better to where the water going back into the lake is clear and the silt and polluted heavy metals is disposed of onshore instead of throwing back into the lake.
The shell material was actually pretty good when compacted and used as an asphalt material and was pretty cheap compared to limestone and asphalt used today. That is why you could call your local politician around election time and get your load of shells it was cheap and plentiful.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 5:14 am to The Boat
quote:This. For many years, I had that documentary on a VHS cassette that I purchased at the State Capitol gift shop.
The Ken Burns Huey P Long doc is fantastic
Posted on 9/9/24 at 6:29 am to The Boat
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He’s up there with Teddy Roosevelt on the list of the most fascinating 20th century American politicians.
Communism is not fascinating.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 6:47 am to TygerTyger
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And why I am glad I left and won’t go back.
Then stop posting here?
I'm sure wherever you are is great.
Stay there.
Posted on 9/9/24 at 6:50 am to Broski
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JBE is the closest thing to a centrist this state has had in a long time,
JBE is a conservative with zero fricking principles. Which is why he was willing to constantky do things he didn't believe in just to curry political favor.
Landry is pretending to be a conservative with zero fricking principles. Which is why he was willing to constantky do things he didn't believe in just to curry political favor.
They should both be tarred and feathered.
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