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Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:18 pm to Jimbojambojumbo
I was at the Capitol last week with the Governors aide and the subject came up when we passed the spot. He flat said it’s pretty accepted at this point that HL was hit by a ricochet.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:39 pm to 308
Grandma grew up with Huey, his brothers and cousins. Maybe dated some of them. Idk.
I clearly remember her telling me, they were all trash and should always be avoided. Knowing them so long, she had a non-political but personal opinion of them.
I clearly remember her telling me, they were all trash and should always be avoided. Knowing them so long, she had a non-political but personal opinion of them.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:36 pm to 308
Go to 12:00 minute mark
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:39 pm to 308
My great grandfather’s cousin was John B Fournet, associate justice of Louisiana SC at the time of Long’s shooting, and was in the corridor in eyeshot of Long when he was shot. He always told the family it was a bodyguard firing wildly that got him.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:41 pm to 308
He was a MAGA populist 100 years ago. Same people sucking off Trump would have sucked off Huey.
Don't believe it, tell me his party line.
Poor people should have their voting privileges revoked. Prove you earn $500k/year or shut the frick up.
Don't believe it, tell me his party line.
Poor people should have their voting privileges revoked. Prove you earn $500k/year or shut the frick up.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:47 pm to MMauler
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Wasn't his supposed motive that Huey Long had somehow gotten his father-in-law replaced from a government position?
Doesn't sound like much of a motive to me. I can see not being happy about it. However, assassinating Huey Long and either getting killed or ruining your entire fricking life because of it?
Long was trying to gerrymander the father-in-law's judicial seat away with a bill that very night.
To your point about it being a weak motive, there are a couple of things that make it hard for me to believe Weiss intended to kill Long over that.
1. Weiss made a home visit to a patient after Sunday dinner, and reportedly called an anesthesiologist to schedule surgery for the next morning. Why would he bother if he didn't intend to be there?
2. Multiple witnesses identified Weiss at the Capitol waiting to talk to Long. I think it was an historian on Unsolved Mysteries who said Weiss tried to approach Long twice before the actual shooting, but was brushed aside. If Weiss intended to kill Long, why didn't he just shoot him the first time he saw him?
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:11 pm to tigerfan84
@tigerfan84
Thanks for posting up that Unsolved Mysteries video.
I watched the Huey Long segment in full. Very interesting!
p.s. The son of Carl Weiss came across as a very impressive individual.
Thanks for posting up that Unsolved Mysteries video.
I watched the Huey Long segment in full. Very interesting!
p.s. The son of Carl Weiss came across as a very impressive individual.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:13 pm to fightin tigers
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He was a MAGA populist 100 years ago. Same people sucking off Trump would have sucked off Huey.
Exhibit A of a deranged leftist.
What kind of filter are you looking through, bud?
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:19 pm to tonydtigr
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Exhibit A of a deranged leftist.
What kind of filter are you looking through, bud?
Tell me how I am wrong
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:45 pm to fightin tigers
I won’t wallow in the mud with you Scooter.
Suffice it to say one was a socialist and one is a capitalist. I can’t help you with your lack of political acuity.
Suffice it to say one was a socialist and one is a capitalist. I can’t help you with your lack of political acuity.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:46 pm to nvasil1
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1. Weiss made a home visit to a patient after Sunday dinner, and reportedly called an anesthesiologist to schedule surgery for the next morning. Why would he bother if he didn't intend to be there?
2. Multiple witnesses identified Weiss at the Capitol waiting to talk to Long. I think it was an historian on Unsolved Mysteries who said Weiss tried to approach Long twice before the actual shooting, but was brushed aside. If Weiss intended to kill Long, why didn't he just shoot him the first time he saw him?
On the other hand, why did he bring a pistol if he didn't intend to use it? Maybe he was trying to work up his nerve with the multiple approaches. Or maybe the brushoffs angered him and he did it on the spur of the moment.
Or maybe it was the bodyguards, but without Weiss the fracas never would have started.
Huey had an authoritarian streak and much of his criticism is justified. OTOH, ask yourself, how bad were things in Louisiana that people would look to him as an alternative? Louisiana had been misruled since colonial times. By the 1920's, a coalition of upstate planters, Standard Oil and the New Orleans Old Regulars had a vice grip on state government. Nothing got done unless it benefited their interests, and everybody else was ignored. For all his excesses, Long built roads, hospitals, and schools. He provided schoolbooks for children where previously they had to buy their own. He dragged Louisiana kicking and screaming into the 20th Century.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:47 pm to tonydtigr
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Suffice it to say one was a communist and one is a capitalist
Huey wasn't a capitalist. Far from it.
Trump......he certainly has communist vibes. He says he isn't though. So I bet you believe him as he consolidates power.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:49 pm to fightin tigers
Damn you are running in reverse.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:50 pm to fightin tigers
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Tell me how I am wrong
I don't know many MAGA people who believe in massive redistribution of wealth policies.
A better modern-day comparison to Long's populism might be Bernie Sanders.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:04 pm to nvasil1
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I don't know many MAGA people who believe in massive redistribution of wealth policies
Yes they do. They just don't realize they ar voting to move money fron the poor to the rich.
Communism is built on an elite class keeping the poor class voting for them. Exactly what Trump is doing.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:09 pm to fightin tigers
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Same people sucking off Trump would have sucked off Huey.
You are literally the definition of a moron.
Long was one of the original "Let's give everything away" democrats.
To think otherwise is both retarded and insane at the same time....
Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:11 pm to Portballs
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Long was one of the original "Let's give everything away" democrats.
Yeah yeah, Trump is all about giving you "back" your money. Making everyone else pay you. Make the immigrants pay. Make the Chinese pay. Make the poor people pay.
Bitch, aint no one paying you.
Your taxes aren't lower either.
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 9:12 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:18 pm to Jim Rockford
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On the other hand, why did he bring a pistol if he didn't intend to use it? Maybe he was trying to work up his nerve with the multiple approaches. Or maybe the brushoffs angered him and he did it on the spur of the moment.
While we know Weiss owned a gun and kept it in the glove compartment of his car, we don't 100% know if he even had it with him in the Capitol. At some point, his car was mysteriously moved from where it was reportedly parked, the glove compartment appeared as if it was broken open, and the keys weren't found.
The gun also went missing for decades until it was found in the lockbox of the daughter of one of the investigators, and it didn't match the caliber of bullet extracted from Long.
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Or maybe it was the bodyguards, but without Weiss the fracas never would have started.
Probably not. There are written statements that Long was treated for a busted lip, and that Long himself claimed that's where Weiss hit him. So yeah, I think there's a good possibility that Weiss got agitated and punched him. However, if that's true, I think it's even more unlikely Weiss THEN pulled out his gun and got a shot off before Long's bodyguards reacted.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 9:42 pm to UncleLester
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He was shot in 1935. Do you think there are a lot of eyewitnesses posting on TigerDroppings?
Some o you cats are getting up there in age, for sure.
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