1/ THE ASSASSlNATlON OF HUEY LONG
Do you know Huey Long?
If you’re from Louisiana you sure do
If not: he was the biggest non-Kennedy threat to [Them] long before Kennedys or Trumps came on the scene
& the expected outcome came about
2/ Know: we wouldn’t like a lot of his policies
But we’d also like a lot of his actions
He was operating in Great Depression, decades before WWII & McCarthyism
He became the Governor then a Senator, with an extremely populist following
That last one remind you of anyone?
3/ And if you know Louisiana, you know corruption festers just as grotesquely as DC & NYC
He was crushing them: corporate & political
The oil monopolies & the Mayor of New Orleans
He also set up major infrastructure, & dismantled the sex worker industry
The people loved him
4/ He also was sick of us fucking with other countries & didn’t want to enter the World Court
Paramilitary orgs tried to kill him
He broke out the NG again
He started spooking Roosevelt; & Long responded by saying he’d arrest any Fed that infringed on the 10th Amendment
5/ Roosevelt & allies pulled ALL the tricks
- Investigated Long’s people with a weaponized IRS
- Trumped up a bullshit Impeachment trial
(Sounding familiar?)
But Long was a Dem & he was a BIG threat to Roosevelt
Then in a “providential occurrence”
...he was shot to death
6/ The thing is, the cause of his murder is still debated
It was a lone shooter with minimal reasoning
or he was “accidentally” shot as his bodyguards shot the original “shooter” 24 times
7/ Witnesses say Weiss only punched Long
& the insurance investigation for the payout of Long’s death
kept secret for *50 Years*
Say he was shot by his bodyguards
All I could think:
“When was it reported Trump Jr dropped his SS detail?”
This has been going on forever
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