“Short People” may be little Randy’s undoing. 🙂

Justice for Ashli Babbitt!

Huey no doubt got his hands dirty. It’s possible he might have gone in a very bad direction in the end. We’ll never know. He had announced he was going to oppose Franklin Roosevelt for the nomination of the Democrats in 1936, and many thought he had a very good chance to win, as FDR was not doing well in the polls and Huey had a huge following buttressed by the popular nationwide broadcast of his radio program and his announced intentions, there in the Depression, to do such things as limit inheritances and provide each head of a household with a “grubstake” to get a fresh start. When he spoke of “Wall Street money devils” he included FDR. I think it’s worth noting that this was homegrown American populism, not another European import like Anarchism, Communism and Socialism.
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Huey Long was assassinated in late 1935.

– Miklos

The Democrats must have expected Long to win.
Trump surprised them.
Always enjoy your comments – so much to learn.

They have learned not to delay, but to get things done as quickly as possible before opposition gets in gear.
All of those EOs and legislation were ready to go, probably even before the election.

Republicans aren’t smart enough to agree on what they want to do on Day One, or at least agree which faction of the party gets to do something first.

Add that to the list of apocryphal statements which ought to have been made then.

That’s cool re Hindenburg. As a penurious student back in the 80s, I washed dishes in a restaurant where another part-time student employee was a Papen in the direct line. She and her sister were solid 9s out of 10. Breeding will Out.

Good-looking enough that I kept in check my natural propensity (no, not that one) to put my foot in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

Biden has set a new record of 30 Executive Orders over just five days time. The average is three, by Obama did five.

Yet only months ago, here was Biden on TV:p, warning against trying to legislate things you cannot do through an EO: “ Things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”

HOW MANY EOs can you do before you become the Dictator, China Joe?

Original quote:

“ STEPHANOPOULOS: “So, there’s not going to be any delay on the tax increases?”

Biden: “Well, I got to get the votes. I got to get the votes. That’s why, you know, the one thing that I — I have this strange notion, we are a democracy. Some of my Republican friends and some of my Democratic friends even occasionally say, ‘Well, if you can’t get the votes, by executive order you’re going to do something.’ Things you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”
https://menrec.com/watch-biden-in-october-2020-you-cant-legislate-through-executive-orders-unless-youre-a-dictator/

Zaphod:

Are you ex-NOLA? I once jogged on the levee from where I lived uptown to the Huey P. Long Bridge and back. Long was a complicated fella, known as the Kingfish. Let Randy Newman tell part of the story.
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There’s a hundred thousand Frenchmen in New Orleans
In New Orleans there are Frenchmen everywhere
But your house could fall down
Your baby could drown
Wouldn’t none of those Frenchmen care

–Randy Newman, “Kingfish” from the album, “Good Old Boys”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riOxEDVfkt8
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My bet is that Long’s bodyguards shot him, but that’s complicated too.

I keep wondering when the cancel culture comes for Randy Newman because of his “Good Old Boys” album.

You might want to explain how the filibuster is a bad thing in the current political environment. You made sausage of your argument.