Huey Long: Share the Wealth

[@Awakeningspirit20]

“The only way to feed the balance of the people is to MAKETHATMANCOMEBACKANDBRINGBACKSUMMADATGRUBHEAINTGOTNOBUSNESSWIT”. My favorite part!

[@internuf5754]

0:30

[@ThePhack3]

Fucking amazing!

[@joespitler3929]

Ole Kingfish spits the truth

[@tyl2322]

I read that while he was saying it lol

[@Odinsday]

Spitting the truth that still haunts us today. Why can’t we have more people like Long or FDR?

[@Augalv]

“They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.” -Huey Long

[@jackp.richardson6415]

"There's only one difference I've found between a Democratic leadership and a Republican leadership is that one of em' will skin you from the ankle up & the other from the ear down!" - Huey Long

[@skylerthompson8652]

Truly ahead of his time

[@icechiller8073]

There's only one item on the menu, the Kosher Sandwich

[@kenetickups6146]

@@icechiller8073 bluepilled as fuck

[@bobcostas6272]

@Oliver Kuperman simp

[@styrmirsnorrason2333]

Damn only 4% owning just 85% of wealth? Them days were soft

[@WhoBeSilly]

Nobody "owns" wealth. Money doesn't evaporate if someone has billions of dollars. It's still there, and the wealthy spend a lot of it.

[@lubu2960]

@@WhoBeSilly of course not, its not literal, it means the wealth generated goes in great part to particular groups and individuals

[@ShadowZero27]

and yet we live many times more comfortably than people in the 30's

[@leboyneski5464]

@@ShadowZero27 The pie has gotten bigger, our share of it has not.

[@morgott13]

@@WhoBeSilly wow you are a moron, the OC was being sarcastic because the disparity is worse now

[@michaelkraemer5846]

EVERY MAN A KING, BUT NONE WEAR A CROWN!

[@KlaireMurre]

So communism.

[@grumpysorc3744]

Communism is rather like every man a slave, but no one wears a chain XD

[@michaelkraemer5846]

@@KlaireMurre Communism? Boy you must mean Syndicalism, and Huey ain't no Syndie.

[@AltayrNeto]

@@michaelkraemer5846 Communism? What a childish fantasy... The real thing is a O R G A N I C empire!

[@Messiah114]

Ha! That be the day the Elite breaks a crown and shares it.

[@jayrosen6663]

Huey built roads, hospitals, schools, and bridges putting people to work. With all the corruption in Louisiana they still had one of the lowest costs of state governments in the US. He built Louisiana's infrastructure! jayro

[@shreve99]

Jay Rosen We still benefit from the things the Longs did. Louisiana was a MESS before Huey came along!

[@candidethirtythree4324]

+Jay Rosen And Bobby Jindal tore it all down.

[@michaelk9907]

+Candide Thirtythree ^^^^ thankfully we have John bel Edwards coming up

[@candidethirtythree4324]

Desmond Bear Yep, I will be voting for him but it is too late, I am moving, Jindal has made such a mess that it will take decades to clean up all his messes.

[@michaelk9907]

Candide Thirtythree so you live here too, then?

[@michaelk9907]

I love the way southern people talked back then

[@haskellbob]

+Desmond Bear Yes. It was distinctive and unique - really from a specific region, and musical in a way.

[@spicolijeff2017]

That wasn't the common southern accent, it's the mix of the Louisiana Cajun accent and southern.

[@veronikamars445]

damn rockefellers

[@jameshaynes7062]

spicoli jeff He wasn't Cajun. He was from Northern Louisiana. Cajun country is Southwest of New Orleans, along the gulf coast.

[@dramkilgallen5237]

Desmond Bear we still talk like that in Louisiana

[@m.jeanlorsbach6464]

FDR was concerned that Huey was a potential challenger in 1936.

[@_Patton_Was_Right]

President Rosenfeld? Nah, he knew Kingfish could be killed just like any other threat to the establishment. One man playing their political games can't stop the Clique, something more like 1776 required

[@durnel2001]

@@_Patton_Was_Right more like 1917

[@ianhines2302]

No, Huey’s plan to run in 36 as an independent to split the Democratic vote, giving Alf Landon the victory. Long would than run against Landon in 40’ and probably win.

[@davidweiss9891]

@@_Patton_Was_Right huey long was pro-jewish

[@jerrysmith7449]

@@_Patton_Was_Right - Why the nickname "Rosenfeld"? I guess you hate Jews, right?

[@victorbraun8481]

Huey Long was one of the few politicians who really did care for the less fortunate, even blacks which was no small thing back in 1930s Louisiana.

[@firewizzard86]

+Parodoxal Irony That just makes me aprichiate the man more, he had a good moral fibre.

[@channelingusllcix3512]

you know huey was incredibly corrupt right? He forced state workers to pay 10 percent of their income to his re-election fund, he fired you if you weren't his supporter, expelled you from the state university if you wrote anything bad about him, paid bribes to get state roads built at vastly more cost than they were worth.

[@DAngelo136]

Channelingus Llcix But from his point of view, since HE was responsible for the state worker having the job in the first place, why shouldn't he contribute to his campaign? Republicans call that a "free rider", and hate them with a passion. So Huey Long is "corrupt" because he takes from them but the Republicans aren't when they don't give them anything in the first place? It's that kind of thinking that explains why Louisiana is in the mess that it's in after Republican Piyush "Bobby" Jindal left office.

[@parodoxalirony6072]

DAngelo136 Even with Governor Edwards taxing the state to death, the budget still can't be balanced. It goes way further back than any one leader. The current administration is even using temporary budget fixes that they lambasted the Jindal administration for using. And political party aside, nobody should just be given anything. If that's your mentality, I think Europe is taking in people.

[@DAngelo136]

Parodoxal Irony *"Even with Governor Edwards taxing the state to death, the budget still can't be balanced. It goes way further back than any one leader. The current administration is even using temporary budget fixes that they lambasted the Jindal administration for using."* You'd be wrong. Jindal put faith in many things; oil prices would remain high and supply side economic theory. _"Many of the state’s economic analysts say a structural budget deficit emerged and then grew under former governor Bobby Jindal, who, during his eight years in office, reduced the state’s revenue by offering tax breaks to the middle class and wealthy. He also created new subsidies aimed at luring and keeping businesses. Those policies, state data show, didn’t deliver the desired economic growth. This year, Louisiana has doled out $210 million more to corporations in the form of credits and subsidies than it has collected from them in taxes."_ [www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/04/the-debilitating-economic-disaster-louisianas-governor-left-behind/] Had he anticipated "bad days" which happens in a capitalist economy, the tax revenues could have been in reserve as a "rainy day fund" for just such an occasion. Instead, he gave the tax money to oil corporatons who made record profits. And you can't cut your way to a balanced budget. _"On Jindal’s watch, nearly every agency in Louisiana shed employees, and state lawmakers say some teetered because of the losses. The Department of Children and Family Services shrank to 3,400 employees, from 5,000 in 2008, and social workers began carrying caseloads larger than national standards. The state also cut funding for youth services and mental health treatment."_ *"And political party aside, nobody should just be given anything. If that's your mentality, I think Europe is taking in people."* I disagree. Huey Long's plan was actually not too far ahead of it's time and might be useful now: it's called the "Guaranteed Basic Income" _"Credible research overwhelmingly supports the concept. A World Bank analysis of 19 studies found that cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty...concerns about the use of cash transfers for alcohol and tobacco consumption are unfounded. An MIT/Harvard analysis of seven cash transfer trials found "no systematic evidence that cash transfer programs discourage work." The Brooks World Poverty Institute found that money transfers to the poor are used primarily for basic needs. Basic Incomes have been shown to lead to reductions in crime and inequality and malnutrition and infant mortality."_ Like he said:"Share The Wealth".

[@ClayandPapyrus]

Normal people: oh cool a southern guy that built infrastructure, nice. Kaiserreich Fans: EVERY MAN A KING!!!

[@WhiskeyPatriot]

He isn’t the best option, he’s the ONLY option.

[@noahnutter2737]

KING FISH BABY! HUEY LONG WILL CONQUER AMERICA EVERY TIME!

[@daidaiwu9421]

We march north as traitors. But we will. Come. Home. As. Kings!

[@wokecaesar3157]

HUEY LONG-DONG

[@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY]

You are a Syndicalist CHICKEN.

[@LeanderAuditore]

Let me guess, he was assasinated right?

[@dra7895]

@@rogerreyne1877 funny

[@undefinedhuman7404]

Don’t look up who assassinated him, it will make “certain people” upset...

[@fatfuck5556]

@@rogerreyne1877 based

[@alanbrito5239]

Leander pana has jugado Kaiserreich? en este espectacular mod de HOI 4 y DH )darkest hour) él es el presidente de la union de estados americanos

[@RealAugustusAutumn]

By small hat tribe, yes

[@jacobking4504]

I unironically love this guy. His methods were perhaps authoritarian but he got shit done and his populism was genuine.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

He was the epitome of a populace dictator a benevolent king just because a man may be named a dictator does not mean that man is evil

[@kenetickups6146]

Nothing wrong with using force for good

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@kenetickups6146 sometimes to make an omelette where everyone gets to eat gotta break a few eggs

[@bachkawrd]

based

[@robertpaulson4151]

Huey Long was a lot less corrupt than any US politician alive today. That is for sure.

[@aaronschreffler3023]

Proud to say this is my great great uncle

[@Gamenetreviews]

You should play Kaiserreich for HOI4, you can win a civil war in America playing him.

[@jaypea30]

@@Gamenetreviews HAIL TO THE KINGFISH

[@theroaringryan1470]

Hail to the Kingfish!

[@treytrapani9813]

American Royalty

[@eldbecks9299]

HAIL THE KING FISH!

[@chipshirley]

Huey long was painted as a would-be dictator by the rich and powerful in 1934 when he made this speech and their rich heirs have seen to it that the history books continue to portray him that way, when all he ever really talked about was Share the Wealth. He was also the first southern Caucasian politician who wasn't a race-baiter. His words are quite prescient to today's' politics.

[@cjaquilino]

Chip Shirley He definitely spent time in the black church nicking their style, I can say that.

[@paulcruz168]

@Julian Apostata I don't think he was Iranian, so Aryan wouldn't make much sense either

[@lonotalonota5779]

@@paulcruz168 With the exception of Iranians, and a small sect of 8th century catholics (possibly extinct), there is only 1 kind of person that calls whites "Aryans" on the internet A person who dosent know what "Aryan" means.

[@idontwantmyrealnameonhere5955]

@Julian Apostata Though it's an outdated term that doesn't really make sense when you think about it (as people from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are darker-skinned), it's a term that means white. I mean, pretty sure the US government classifies white people as caucasian. It comes from a pretty weird theory of race origins, but it stuck.

[@kenetickups6146]

@Julian Apostata Cringe

[@intelismynameandregretismy5541]

Huey Long was the politician I never knew I wanted.

[@unatco1148]

The hero america deserved but never got

[@ShaquilleOatz]

@@unatco1148 even FDR was scared of the Long Dong

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@ShaquilleOatz he had the absolute elephant dick energy

[@titanatrolla6172]

@@ShaquilleOatz it’s Huey p long. Dong is not in his name

[@ShaquilleOatz]

@@titanatrolla6172 that’s the joke, meaning he had a long dong

[@mrbobspongeful]

Support the American Union States. All hail Long.

[@lukenaganohara]

Bob Sponge E V E R Y M A N A K I N G (Oh and All Hail Eli Ayase)

[@johndanes2294]

Suddenly McArthur and A M E R I C A N S T A T O C R A C Y

[@hopseshopsidis]

@CurryCel#6930 I dont think you got the argument right

[@dsbmaldia13]

@CurryCel#6930 It's a reference to the alternate history mod of HOI4 Kaiserreich, where Germany wins WWI, starting an early Great Depression for the USA, which comes to a peak in 1936. A Second American Civil War breaks out between the Federalists (MacArthur's USA), Democrats (Pacific States or Democratic USA), Unionists (Huey Long's American Union State), and Syndicalists (Jack Reed's Combined Syndicates of America). Yeah, I don't think you got it, chief.

[@MeowasarusRex]

@@dsbmaldia13 WW1

[@MCO18]

Impressive how he doesn't have notes or a copy of the speech. Did he memorize his speeches beforehand or did he just wing it?

[@shreve99]

Max Power Huey would just wing it. He knew what he wanted to say and he knew how to say it. It was a VERY rare occasion when Long would follow an outline.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

+Max Power Notes are just a crutch. A speech just makes one sound like a gibbon on speed, and like you're reading in the best case scenario. The only real way to give a speech is to know what you're going to say and say it from the heart. Its a matter of confidence.

[@talbotpearson2511]

Class warfare. Divides and destroys. Failed ideology. Corrupt.

[@flipshod]

"Class warfare" isn't an ideology, but either way, reality has never, and never will be, subject to an ideology. Ideologies and models are abstractions, no one even agrees on what they mean, and attempts to impose them (from all sides) fail. All market systems rely on government, laws to protect property, to allow contracts, provide for mobility, etc. And all democratic governments address the inequality that naturally arises from free markets. To say that the "ideology" is failed would be to so that no modern system works.

[@talbotpearson2511]

True, "class warfare" is more of a tactic the left uses to give governments more control to re-distribute wealth of free and prosperous citizens.

[@Red_Diaries24]

E V E R Y M A N A K I N G F I S H

[@Unknown-ls8yw]

a ahmad every mana king fish?

[@dautunhudanhealh2568]

@@Unknown-ls8yw Every man a kingfish!

[@jayrosen6663]

When people are desperate and without hope, their rights don't matter that much. Like him or not, Long did more for Louisiana's poor than any other Governor. He changed the state forever. Look at Louisiana and Kansas now! Both broke because of tax reduction for those at the top!

[@joespitler3929]

Every time you drive down a paved road or over a bridge in Louisiana thank the Kingfish

[@Odinsday]

If Long came back to life right now, he would have a meltdown at what Jindal did to Louisiana and start a revolution.

[@TheTrueAdept]

@@Odinsday He would probably have a heart attack just from getting a shortlist of what Jindal did... before being consumed by righteous rage.

[@cs0345]

Louisiana is broke for far worse reasons than tax reduction. You can't build an economy on an uneducated population, so they just end up with an extraction economy like in poor undeveloped countries

[@Cythan]

That's also something Huey tried to counter he gave out school books so people being uneducated after almost 100 years would be sad for him

[@LilMOMMAson]

Huey was the man, and never will there be another like him.

[@nothingsavailable7721]

Bernie

[@kommi7658]

Huey was an American hero.

[@shogun7p7]

Trust me someday.....It will come soon

[@SuperGman117]

@@nothingsavailable7721 Bernie is a democratic socialist, Huey was more of a Social democrat. There's quite a big difference, despite the similar names.

[@nothingsavailable7721]

@@shogun7p7 Yeah I know. I just meant that Bernie is like him.

[@Nikkidafox]

"4% of the American people own 85% of the wealth of America" Corporations: Damn that's awful. We need to bump those numbers up!

[@chnb517]

100% of the american people own 100% of the wealth. Problem solved

[@Stand_watie]

Blame the corporations as the only elites that is communism

[@joanshore7989]

82 years ago....and what he's saying about the unequal distribution of wealth in America is still true today!

[@yogismithandiloveyou6843]

income inequality and other things still plague America today. we need another Huey Long and would need to be run

[@merccadoosis8847]

*Federalist Papers* Essay #10 - the unequal distribution of property as the cause of factionalism and disorder in society. Many deluded people of the far right will say that only a communist believes in this. History clearly shows it was James Madison (4th president of the USA) who taught this truth.

[@nothingsavailable7721]

Dan Blade Bernie is kinda like Huey in a way

[@nothingsavailable7721]

It's even worse now

[@landochabod7]

Joan Shore It is *again* true today. For decades, thanks to the New Deal programs and the Great Society, the US were a fairer country. Starting with Reagan, and none of his successors have been able to reverse that trend, income and wealth inequality are now back to pre-Wall Street Crash levels.

[@Interstellargaming]

Anyone here from kaiserreich?

[@jon250]

ayy lmao hail MacArthur

[@phoroz1905]

Moon Man HAIL LONG

[@jakelabelle9759]

New England or bust

[@enriconorbedo8386]

Moon Man glory to Jack Reed : )

[@Army-ef3ti]

LOL

[@misterbubbles6389]

87 years later and everything he's saying is still as relevant as ever

[@veritusahriman9720]

If anyone came along and was as much of a hard-hitting yet honest firebrand, they'd have my unwavering support until the day I die.

[@johnsonlong57]

This guy is my hero! He says the same thing the now a days liberals would say, but is actually doing the job for the people and not their masters.

[@understorymainchannel8326]

As a liberal I respect this man

[@hnys7976]

I mean no ideal liberal candidate has taken office so you don't know that. If anything conservatives are the ones who follow their masters because they still think the Republican party still cares about workers, at least liberals know what they want and need...

[@SlapStyleAnims]

I’m a conservative but economically I’m much more inline with Long’s beliefs

[@artiefischel2579]

Because what passes for liberal these days is a fake populist where Long was an actual populist.

[@therandomcat4695]

when i waa a young boy much like Long, I was wanting this to do someone trying

[@nathanielcrosby2426]

Huey Pierce Long was and will always be an American hero. God rest his soul, but let us fight to make Every Man A King!

[@mikefallopian3191]

December 11 1935 huh. He talks pretty good for a guy that's been dead 3 months.

[@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN]

I think that is the date that this was possibly aired....probably in some cinema theater.

[@jakebaumfalk3965]

It's 1934, not 1935.

[@rangermike5571]

“None shall work too much, none shall be idle” brilliant.

[@RyanTheMan000]

Me:there are no good dictators Huey Long: exists Me: *Well shit, got me there cheif-*

[@jacobduggan8008]

Jack Lang: Also exists

[@Bluesonofman]

Penochet

[@dogeyes7261]

Somewhere between Long and Stalin is the perfect man

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@dogeyes7261 *between Long and Hitler

[@st.martinlutherofwittenber5523]

@@TomorrowWeLive correct

[@markwinchester3005]

Holy Sh#@ if ever there was a time for another Huey Long & his Share The Wealth program its now.

[@veritassmith6967]

He was a genius.

[@candidethirtythree4324]

+Veritas Smith he really was, he read law books and took the bar exam and passed without going to college. He was too poor to go.

[@Paul-oi2wz]

1934: "4% of the people own 95%" 2021: "That's cute"

[@epicjorjorsnake2525]

Coming back to this video is always a treat. We need another Huey Long. We don't need capitalism, socialism, communism, or fascism. We need our own political and economic system. This was already laid out by great Americans like Huey Long and Theodore Roosevelt.

[@JSA-Studios]

Huey Long and Theodore Roosevelt where capitalist just a different type

[@Turdinkledge]

This is a great point.

[@WHYIMHERE350]

I agree

[@TheZombiesReanimated]

Huey long is the perfect example of of a truly good Benevolent dictator. Able to rule well, solve problems efficiently and do what communists always claim they want while at the same time fighting the communists and keeping capitalism running smoothly.

[@ΟΜΑΚΕΔΏΝ-ο5λ]

That's called third positionism. (fascism) had the same ideas and governments.

[@Captpolak]

He is the king we need

[@nullnull9478]

Micheal Ellis and?

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

Notice the Kingfish used no notes. Ne never did, it was all in his head with his photographic memory. What happened to the Kingfish is what happens to every charismatic leader for the people, he was assassinated. Most history books will attempt to propagandize and brainwash but he was killed as a result of a cabal run by Standard Oil. Most people do not realize that Huey initially survived. He was operated on, not by his own physician who was on the way, but by an incompetent quack. He would have lived with properly performed surgery and it was a great loss because he was on track to become President. He was not a demagogue or a dictator, only the aristocracy called him such.

[@PaulineTriage]

Dude even his wiki is full of references to his dictatorial ways. He was on point with his policies & we would all be better off if we'd done stuff his way but he was crazy ruthless & determined to reach his utopian goal.

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

@@PaulineTriage Pauline, let me break this to you gently, no scholar of history relies upon "Wikipedia" as a reference source. I could have made you the butt of a bad joke but I prefer to be kind.

[@SevenFootPelican]

Yup. It's always the charismatic leaders that address class inequalities that get quickly taken out in America. It's a pattern that anyone who pays close attention to definitely would have noticed by now. JFK, MLK, Huey Long, and the list goes on and on.

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

@@SevenFootPelican Definitely add RFK and research indicates John Lennon as well. Hoover feared Lennon, had his phones tapped, John was under surveillance. Hoover tried to have him deported but lost the case. Read "Who Killed John Lennon" by Fenton Bresler and you might agree.

[@bumplegumple3162]

E V E R Y M A N A K I N G D I R E C T R U L E F R O M A T L A N T A

[@watsonpaddy]

My great hero I was in baton Rouge and laid on the marble floor where he stumbled and fell. The bullet wholes are still in the walls. He was America's last great defender of the powerless regardless of race. I am a Republican but words fail me how much I admire this great man.

[@Turdinkledge]

Legend 👍

[@FionnigantheCinemaHeretic]

One of my heroes.

[@dautunhudanhealh2568]

"We march north as traitors, but we will COME HOME AS KINGS!"

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

Says a lot about him that even when he criticized FDR, FDR would actually take some of his proposals for the second new deal.

[@TheTrueAdept]

From my understanding, the relationship between Long and FDR was pretty cordial, if anything. Long criticized FDR in such a way as to shame the rest of the New Deal coalition into marching lock-step. Remember FDR only got as powerful as he did because he had a 'dream team' of party officers and politicians at his back, from his own wife to the various offices in the house and senate to the various state-level offices. Long was simply another person that helped FDR get that power.

[@Turdinkledge]

FDR said, "I aim to steal his lightning" (in regards to adopting some longist policy's)

[@CharlieBruinsFilms]

Huey Long is gonna give me a radio. :3

[@ASwagPecan]

*Plays Every Man a King daily on the clock like North Korean propaganda*

[@dirkdiggler6483]

Date of this video is wrong. Huey long died September 1935. This is showing December 1935.

[@CascadianGal]

Huey Long rose from the grave to give this speech

[@andrewmcmillan8132]

Not even death could ever stop The Kingfish

[@JGalt-em4xu]

@@CascadianGal History books suppress that Huey Long was JC 2.0

[@wfdady]

Damn, we need more truthful men like him in this world. Rest in peace Huey P. Long, a great man.

[@majmulBahrain67]

Huey Long shows that crony capitalism is not the only way of economic thinking in America. We don’t need no foreign communism or socialism, America’s got its own tradition of progressive economics stretching from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR

[@Robb1977]

Yeah, and unfortunately longs idea is far more in line with Adam smiths "wealth of nations" than anyone realizes. The whole goal of that text was america can and would be a model for a land where none are too wealthy to be corrupt, and none too poor to be destitute. Where actual work is the primary determining factor to your wealth, and not how many people worked for you.

[@lonotalonota5779]

Thomas Jefferson*

[@SlapStyleAnims]

Absolutely. Capitalism can still work in American society if we look at those who made it actually work.

[@Cythan]

What's unfortunate about that that's the ideal world

[@Stand_watie]

Hell yeah

[@possiblystappert4315]

EV E R Y M A N A K I N G

[@dutchdoggo]

"Every man a kings" -Huey Long Dong

[@daviddabeatty7887]

We need a man like this accepting the Democratic nomination in Milwaukee in 2020.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Hell yeah

[@SlapStyleAnims]

Guess that didn’t happen did it.

[@Jx-kj9fs]

EVERY

[@samuelcampo3611]

MAN

[@kenetickups6146]

A

[@KnightSpecter]

KING

[@ByWho-js5bq]

*DirectRuleFromAtlanta*

[@NicholasEzclapz]

@@ByWho-js5bq Sir, it is actually New Orleans now. *READ THE LORE NERD*

[@gravitykat714]

We need Huey long today. With social media he’d blow up big time.

[@RYN988]

Great orator. The physicality and rhythm of his speeches are something else.

[@ScrubbaDubDub]

I wholeheartedly agree with this man. God bless his soul.

[@Turdinkledge]

🗿🍷 Same, he was ultra Based.

[@purromemes7395]

EVERY MAN A KING!

[@rocknrollchicago1]

he did drink alcohol at times and other times he was sober he was a very busy dedicated man and even though im not a democrat i respect him for his dedication and sleeplessness for what he thought the people of Louisiana needed

[@jmart4197]

He would have won in 2016...

[@malachi1767]

He would've won in 1936 if he wasn't killed. If Americans ever considered communism it was then

[@christianschwalbach7561]

Malachi well FDR was pretty progressive in his own right.

[@ZoneofA]

+J MART No he would not, democrats would have rigged the primaries to stop him.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

Long was less a Nazi than he was a con-man. He knew how to appeal to peoples desperation, a classic demagogue and a would be authoritarian dictator. He however did make many of the same promises as Hitler did. Taking from the richest (Jews) and providing for the poor. Although I do not think Long ever specifically mentioned Jews in this context. However I do believe he would have had a fair chance in this day and age.

[@theamericana999]

Malachi Huey Long was more on the side of Fascism. The thing about fascism is that it follows the collectivist ethos and hence why he sounds like a communist. It is about socialism for the nation and more importantly for the nation interest of defending the American. Along with that Nationalism was a strong counterpart to this. What makes communism/socialism different from fascism is the nationalist and ethnocentric parts of it.

[@grokagain]

every time i watch this i am amazed at his oratory talent… his mannerisms and such… puts on kind of like a rube, but supposedly had one of the most brilliant legal minds of his day.

[@jrutt2675]

This guy is a hybrid of a Christian Preacher and a blazing Politician! I love it!❤❤

[@ianhines2302]

Shot 85 years ago today. Rest In Peace sir.

[@EctInc]

Some damn fine rhetoric.

[@syourke3]

As relevant today as it was in 1934 - But can you even imagine any U S Senator making a speech like this today? Share the Wealth.

[@parodoxalirony6072]

+Steven Yourke Not really. Back then, the majority of the US couldn't read at all much less have the chance of an education. Today, everyone gets the opportunity to go to school and to make something of themselves. We shouldn't punish those who are successful in life because some didn't ever try to further themselves.

[@AReyes-uw6qf]

This speech kills syndicalists

[@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm]

?

[@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm]

Well, it was the destruction of the unions that caused neoliberalism.

[@mansonsacidtrip6862]

Nah that was Reagan, and I kinda doubt Long would've vibed with Reagan if they were of the same time

[@kebabkebob7808]

@@mansonsacidtrip6862 The unions were long dead before Reagan. I like how Leftism has basically become "blame everything on Reagan because he basically proved why our ideology has failed and that conservatism works"

[@Makarosc]

@@kebabkebob7808 No, he proved that Rightists are so dogged they'll still vote for you even after you break the laws you made

[@JGalt-em4xu]

Don't be deceived by his folksy style and drunkeness, Long was incredibly well read and intelligent. His childhood, like Lincoln, was spent making enormous efforts to secure as many different books as possible, in addition to his father's well stocked library (especially impressive for rural Louisiana). His later efforts to ensure La school children had access to the latest textbooks was likely a product of his childhood.

[@cd6xc]

William Howard Taft (who I assume was no fan of his politics) once called him "the most brilliant lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court".

[@gareginnzhdehhimself]

HUEY LONG DONG, a man ahead of his time. I wish he was the president instead of Roosevelt

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Of course they have to kill him, same with Lincoln, Garfield and Kennedy

[@TheHouseAlwaysWins20]

"Where do you get your ideology from" me:

[@GlennForbes20]

This man was no communist. A real American patriot.

[@TerracottaPie1987]

Needed today as much as ever.

[@JimChap]

Whatever you could say of the man's politics, what a unique speech maker - those arms are out of control.

[@robertpaulson4151]

Huey Long's words stay true till this day.

[@Turdinkledge]

👍

[@daviddoyle4516]

Huey was a good guy,, with balls ,,, I wish he got his way,,,, dark clouds above us now,,,,, May God Help Us

[@blackphillip564]

Spoiler alert: they killed him

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

Who's 'they'?

[@undefinedhuman7404]

@@KitchenSinkSoup To tell you would be “””anti-Semitic”””...

[@mobiuschair9971]

@@undefinedhuman7404 it was fdr

[@tablo1394]

@@undefinedhuman7404 no its not some jewish conspiracy you made up in your head it was just the FDRs administration.

[@Chex2331]

@@KitchenSinkSoup the ones with the money the ones who own the wealth the ones from a certain religion

[@divinityvrms6743]

exactly what we need in 2020....goosebumps...love this guy!!

[@TheWorld_2099]

There was Bernie, just waiting for everyone’s vote.

[@OGRoachDoggJr]

0:37 The Louisiana in him came out

[@jameshaynes7062]

Gore Vidal was right: Huey Long was the lone politician of the 20th C "who got it." The really remarkable thing about Huey Long (as well as his brother, Earl) was that he never resorted to race baiting. Vidal once noted that the south was populist about everything but race; Huey, however, was populist about everything, period.

[@epicjorjorsnake2525]

Bring back Huey Long! We need another strong man with a great vision for America!

[@garyspence2128]

Governor Long is still responsible for building the most roads, the most schools, including free textbooks, and raising the standard of living for the people of Louisiana more than any other public official in the history of that state. He was even bold enough to include the minority and black citizens of the state in such improvements, back in the 1920's and 30's, when other Southern politicians were working in tandem with the KKK. Was he corrupt? Probably. But he operated in the system as it existed back then, and was a genius at it. It's difficult to predict what would have happened had he not been assassinated, but we're still fighting some of the same problems that he outlined in that clip. We need more "radicals" like him right about now. And we need folks to be bold, instead of timid, as we try to get some of that BBQ brought back to the table for the rest of us.

[@laserdiscisawesome1263]

We need a modern day Huey Long. Sadly, he will be branded as a communist and a socialist

[@mansonsacidtrip6862]

Bernie was the closest we're gonna get

[@DrWongburger]

@@mansonsacidtrip6862 Too bad Bernie doesn't have the same fortitude. Huey would have threatened with a third party run if the democratic party did to him what they did to Bernie these past two elections. Instead Bernie goes out of his way to support the very party that actively works against him, and by extension the American voters. Inmy opinion he loses credibility through his timidness to rise to the occasion, especially with the support he received. Can you imagine? Stadiums full of supporters... He only had to take what was his at that point. Such is life, in the words of the great Gordon Lightfoot, "heroes often fail"

[@mikekaatman3194]

Like Sanders.

[@lonotalonota5779]

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[@RazgrizWing]

@@DrWongburger Yeah because the third party doesnt work. You have to work within the system you have, and that is what bernie is doing. This takes time, his credibility doesnt exactly hurt at all. Aside from credibility among the minority bernie or bust left which are frankly a bunch of idiots. You wanna know what will severaly hurt Bernie's credibility? Forming a third party which then leads to a Republican victory, and then no democrat will want to work with him. So end with dogmatic crying, and be pragmatic for once.

[@ronweiss4115]

A Great Speech which needs to be heard Loud & Clear Today.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Love how he slurs and sways like he's drunk

[@calebstarcher4934]

He probably was drunk

[@ashevillecat]

@Shotgunmad xl typical Yank using the word fascist when they mean authoritarian. There is no evidence Long was an anti-semite. Don't believe everything you see on the interwebs.

[@ashevillecat]

@Shotgunmad xl I disagree for multiple reasons: (1) Fascism is, by definition, a ultranationalistic ideology, which Long never espoused. (2) Fascism always uses an "other" to scapegoat; For the Germans it was the Jews, Italians it was Slavs and Jews to some extent, and for the Spanish it was the Catalans and other non-Castillians. Long avoided race baiting in general. (3) All of Coughlin's anti-semitic statements were made after Long was assassinated, it's not fair to associate Long with anti-Semitism. (4) Long never opposed capitalism (he did say he was trying to save capitalism on multiple instances) and Mussolini abandoned his syndicalist leanings for corporatism in the early 20s to appease squadristi militias. Kingfish was a very rare example of an effective liberal authoritarian, nothing more.

[@mankn9098]

@@ashevillecat Fascism doesnt have a definition, Fascism is a way of thinking of seeing and understand the world arround you, a view that can present itself via multiple ideologies. You cant understand by Fascism as long as you follow "definitions" created by non Fascists.

[@MrAtlfan21]

Eat shit fascist

[@cpklapper]

Huey Long was talking about WEALTH inequality, particularly controlling wealth, and NOT INCOME inequality. He advocated a tax on excessive stock ownership by any one person.

[@attygarland6909]

Love him or hate him, the man knew how to give a speech. No notes, teleprompters, etc. . He got up there and delivered it directly from his heart and mind .. I think that's a forgotten art with today's politicians, unfortunately ..

[@caffeinerick]

I'm sorry, but Bernie never has and will never match the intelligence, charisma and sharpness of this guy. Also, Huey had a more enthusiastic but serious fanbase.

[@volta2aire]

1:38 "Leave something else for the American people to consume, and that's the program. We're not going to destroy the Gulf refining company. We're not going to destroy the Standard Oil Company. But, we're going to say that the limit of any one man's stock ownership in the Standard Oil Company is from three to five million dollars to that individual and that the balance of the people of America owned the balance of what the standard oil company is worth." *-what I heard him say!*

[@edgyhoodlum2135]

It was a glorious time, when the left wing weren't pre occupied with regurgitatating what pointless social issues the elite fed to them, and actually DID something for the working class. When they didn't talk down to trailor park southern boys like me. I admire huey long, i wish we had a man as half as good as he around. Rip Kingfish

[@harrisonschneider8333]

I want to follow in his footsteps

[@jayrosen6663]

So was every Governor before and since! He did more to help the poor of his state than anyone! I suppose you think Jindal has done a better job? He did a great job of dismantling everything that Huey did, brilliant!

[@_Patton_Was_Right]

"WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY!" Patton and Kingfish were murdered for speaking the truth

[@fearfeasa1]

My God - this is amazing - it's still relevant today !

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

@0:11 it states that this speech was December 11, 1935. There is a mistake somewhere, because other sources affirm this politician was assassinated September 10 1935.

[@heraldofoblivion499]

The virgin communist vs the CHAD HUEY LONG! EVERY MAN A KING BABY

[@cjvoerman5591]

Man speaks with the words of a politician but the cadence of a preacher. Had he not been a man of legislation, he definitely could have been a man of salvation.

[@Thomas-sw4eu]

I wish the Democrats had someone who talked like this today

[@asaadlewis328]

We had Bernie but the DNC and the establishment didn’t want him

[@kennarajora6532]

@@asaadlewis328 I think he means the accent.

[@alswann2702]

Huey's my write in for president this year!

[@NEARReiCtor8799]

Bernie will never live up to him

[@him12672]

They were both politically different. There's really no comparison besides their goal to redistribute wealth.

[@NEARReiCtor8799]

@@him12672 Huey never sold out and got shit done.

[@him12672]

@@NEARReiCtor8799 At a state and senatorial level they both didn't sell out and get stuff done. As candidates Bernie and Huey cant be compared since Huey died like a month after announcing his run.

[@grimmsby3011]

@@him12672 At a state level, Huey Long basically revitalized every aspect of Louisiana during his term as governor and is remembered quite fondly by those who were living there at the time. Bernie Sanders has done almost nothing politically to help his state on as wide a scale as Long, and is pretty weak when compared to Huey Long as well, he also sold out to the party who ruined his chances for the presidency. So they can definitely be compared on a state level since both of them have held positions that influence their states.

[@7ElevenTruther]

@@NEARReiCtor8799 He 'sold out' by agreeing to be the chairmen of the senate budget committee because he realizes he doesn't have much time left. You people already hate anything that has to do with the subject matter of 'socialiam'. What difference does it make to you? What, was there actually some previous period of time where you ever liked socialist bernie sanders? You're more full of shit than an overflowing septic tank. When have you not hated everything he stood for? For god's sake, I'm not even very left leaning on a variety of issues but alt righters are less consistent than dementia afflicted elderly people nowadys. What does 'conservatism' in the context of american politics mean anymore? The party of reagan is dead and evidently there's nothing to replace it execpt a cult of dipshits who have embraced sterotypical california liberal anti vaxxerism, oppose reagan style free trade, and believe the federal government should directly control social media platforms as if they are 'utilities'.

[@eddenoy321]

Where is this man when we need him in 2020 ?

[@sakkra93]

"Communism? Hell no! ... This plan is the only defense this country's got against communism." - Huey Long

[@pauls7056]

A man needed for his age; a man needed for our age. Thank you, Huey Long. Thank you for posting, @ajfowler

[@bohemianbum6082]

Love Huey Long, my favorite Politician of all time, died for a good cause

[@jackh337]

John Goodman should play Huey in a biopic

[@kombuchababy6542]

He did play him in a movie.

[@jerrysmith7449]

John Goodman portrayed Huey Long in a 1995 made for TV movie entitled "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long". It's available for purchase or rent and it's an OK movie about a crazy topic.

[@MMTT55792]

Me: So you are a socialist? Heuy Long: Yesn’t

[@ubelmensch]

A socialist, and a nationalist

[@MMTT55792]

Jimmy Two-Times a Left-Wing Nationalist

[@cristeromexico3366]

Very Fake News Long wasn’t a Nazi lol

[@iain3713]

@Psychdelic Fren he's a succ not a socialist lol

[@CitysuedeJr]

@Johnny Fash Most communists and socialists didnt even like long... He was more of a distributist

[@CoolNinja925]

We need a hero like this man today.

[@VespertineDeepwood]

Huey Long = Greatest American Hero

[@FireurchinProductionsByzantium]

*EVERY MAN A KANGZ*

[@megakillerx]

Fireurchin Productions DATS RIGHT

[@pedrosampaio7349]

@Gavin Lane AND HIS NAME WAS LONG HOYABEMBE

[@ChrisRedfieldsbloodline]

SO U BE SAYIN *redistributes Barbecue** YO HOLE UP **shares the wealth**

[@JWIZZY4real]

@Gavin Lane white hillbilly bruh

[@nhmooytis7058]

Fireurchin Productions you’re a fucking moron. Read some history, fuckwit.

[@irene_deneb]

The decentralized Socialist school of thought stresses not the ownership of a government over the means of production, but the workers (in effect, "the people"). In such a society, the workers would own and operate the factories, mills, mines, etc. through democratic councils; reigned in, perhaps, by an economic constitution, and the requirement of working with other councils on a municipal level to distribute resources and goods equitably and efficiently.