have you ever heard the tale of the business plot of 1933? i thought not. it's not a story the republicans would tell you. - ThreadSky

djinnandtonic.bsky.social • 16 hours ago

have you ever heard the tale of the business plot of 1933? i thought not. it's not a story the republicans would tell you.

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thoreauaway.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I thought the business plot was a hoax

djinnandtonic.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The NYT published an opinion piece in 1934 calling it a hoax, but Smedley Butler testified to the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, and the committee's final report on the matter read:

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I think that there WAS a real plot? Just not a terribly effective one? But that's kind of OPs point I guess because I'm totally not sure! I haven't read about it.

redblackhistoryman.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It’s similar to the Mountbatten Coup plot in ‘68 during the Wilson administration - angry people sat around a table, talked, and realized that it can’t happen when they put feelers out.

mikedavis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

something probably happened; it was the provenance of weird freaks. now that's not exactly reassuring these days - but it was weird freaks with no real power to do anything.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•15 hours ago

oh okay yeah we TOTALLY had one of those! They trashed the Capitol!