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re: What's your opinion on Huey Long?
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:35 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:35 pm to fightin tigers
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The wave that is going to cross this country in the next decade is going to erase the conservative base. The MAGA folks don't even see it coming.
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Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:39 pm to The Midnight Rider
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But he also wanted to dismantle big oil and spread the wealth of the upperclass.
We all know how well that goes over in this state
Couldnt possibly be more false. Huey, and all of the subsequent "Long factions" following his death were so completely in bed with big oil that they needed degreaser by the morning.
Any corruption involving big oil, little oil, or anything even indirectly connected comes from Long and his minions. That's a fact.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:40 pm to OweO
He was a criminal despot whose corrupt policies cost LA billions of dollars and set the state back decades.
But he built up LSU so that makes him OK in my book!
But he built up LSU so that makes him OK in my book!
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:40 pm to The Midnight Rider
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Was he corrupt and did he constantly abuse his power? Absolutely, but it was always for the greater good.
Sounds like Hitler.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:quote:Sounds like Hitler
Was he corrupt and did he constantly abuse his power? Absolutely, but it was always for the greater good
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:46 pm to Kafka
Yep, people love a crooked authoritarian as long as it's their crooked authoritarian.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:52 pm to RogerTheShrubber
He was a player that played the poor, just like Bill C and Jimmy C. People never learn. 
Posted on 2/21/18 at 4:54 pm to Kafka
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But he built up LSU so that makes him OK in my book!
And muh roads!
Posted on 2/21/18 at 5:20 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
This was his "share our wealth" proposal. Income cap, inheritance cap, basic income...
He'd probably be a frontrunner in today's Democratic Party.
He'd probably be a frontrunner in today's Democratic Party.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 5:47 pm to lsu13lsu
Answer: Self serving power hungry scum like most politicians.
Jerry Long great nephew to Huey says that back in the day politics didn't pay much. To prove his point he slow pays or underpays all invoices.
However, his "legit OT baller" CCLA house directly behind the clubhouse on 18th hole suggest otherwise. And of course he treats you like a servant to bring home the point.
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I think his family and friends ancestors still collect.
Jerry Long great nephew to Huey says that back in the day politics didn't pay much. To prove his point he slow pays or underpays all invoices.
However, his "legit OT baller" CCLA house directly behind the clubhouse on 18th hole suggest otherwise. And of course he treats you like a servant to bring home the point.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 5:50 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
He was one helluva defensive end, not that big of a fan of him as an analyst.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 6:47 pm to tigahbruh
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Couldnt possibly be more false. Huey, and all of the subsequent "Long factions" following his death were so completely in bed with big oil that they needed degreaser by the morning.
Any corruption involving big oil, little oil, or anything even indirectly connected comes from Long and his minions. That's a fact.
Didn't Long basically get elected because of his open hatred of Standard Oil? Didn't he also make a legal career fighting big oil...? I mean, those are the historic facts I know about Long. Do you have sources for what you're saying...or is it just like, stuff your paw paw used to tell you...?
I feel like Long just fought the Man and everyone hating on him in this thread is middle-aged to old.
For God's sakes, he was the first politician we had to look around and go, "Hey, maybe the state government's job should be to build roads and bridges to connect all this swampland between our important cities. Also, books and colleges are good things, so we should care about those too."
Like other people in this thread have said, he dragged Louisiana kicking and screaming into the 20th century...where it has remained since.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 6:55 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Built a bridge just low enough to keep ocean going vessels from reaching Memphis. A lot of people own him for their jobs.
Also a crook!
Also a crook!
Posted on 2/21/18 at 6:59 pm to Ohiotigerfan
Every Man A King!
Posted on 2/21/18 at 8:27 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Didn't Bernie give about the same speech?
Huey Long: Share the Wealth Speech on Youtube
Trump could have used this one.
Huey Long - Difference between Republicans and Democrats on Youtube
Huey Long: Share the Wealth Speech on Youtube
Trump could have used this one.
Huey Long - Difference between Republicans and Democrats on Youtube
Posted on 2/21/18 at 8:29 pm to Cosmo
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Communist
Posted on 2/21/18 at 8:33 pm to Ohiotigerfan
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Built a bridge just low enough to keep ocean going vessels from reaching Memphis. A lot of people own him for their jobs
You think ocean going vessels could reach Memphis if the bridge wasn't there?
Posted on 2/21/18 at 8:33 pm to Bison
quote:There you go Bison. Show those Leftist tendencies
He was a good kind of corrupt.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 8:47 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Just listen to The Kingfish from Randy Newman's Good Old Boys on Youtube and you'll all feel better.
Posted on 2/21/18 at 9:04 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
He was big in the 1980s.
Power of love
If this is it
Do you believe in love
I wanna new drug
Power of love
If this is it
Do you believe in love
I wanna new drug
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