Donald Trump thanks Andrew Jackson
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Don't forget almost starting a war by going into Spanish Florida to kill Native Americans for, beyond just being Native Americans, having the audacity to accept escaped slaves into their settlements.
Ben Carson: It was just America's first Family Vacation.
Ben Carson: It was just America's first Family Vacation.
Fucking LOL, this got me.
Angelus Errare
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Seeing as Obama's administration was trying to get him removed from the $20 bill...no.
He seems to be a fan
Unless Bannon told him to put that up
I love the pic of Mel Blanc in the back there, it actually might make me change my mind about donnie... the man who voiced Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny was an honest-to-goodness national treasure!
Nothing1016
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The only two good things about Andrew Jackson, he supported direct election of Senators and the abolish mention of the Electoral College. Too bad he killed countless people and had an irrational hatred of banks.
Indian Removal Act and the "spoils system", directly violated human rights.
Indian Removal Act and the "spoils system", directly violated human rights.
Generalpsyduck
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Nvm
Don't confuse terrible person with terrible president.
Andrew Jackson is a pos that has done more immoral things than pretty much everyone except for a few handfuls of people.
As a president he helped this country grow through a lot of ill gotten means and is the father of a lot of modern progressive ideals. He also one of the main players in why Florida and Texas(which lead to the rest of south west and California) is part of the U.S.
As a huge history buff, his legacy is always interesting. The citizens of the us benefited from the horrifying things he did.
Andrew Jackson is a pos that has done more immoral things than pretty much everyone except for a few handfuls of people.
As a president he helped this country grow through a lot of ill gotten means and is the father of a lot of modern progressive ideals. He also one of the main players in why Florida and Texas(which lead to the rest of south west and California) is part of the U.S.
As a huge history buff, his legacy is always interesting. The citizens of the us benefited from the horrifying things he did.
Complex Shadow
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theignoramus
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In what way did slaves and American Indians "benefit from the horrifying things he did"? Or do they not count?
Hence why I used the term citizen.
Slavery was important to the framework of developing US trade and indeed the US as a whole. Doesn't make it less terrible.
sans_pants
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i mean, of course they dont? this is america we are talking about
they were immigrants so their dreams get deferred.
Angelus Errare
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So then we (us minorities) can continue to call him a terrible person AND President, gotcha.
that doesn't exactly make him a good president. that he was profitable.
or I guess it does, and we just need to finally accept that we are the baddies.
Is it just me, or is the thanks to God kind of out of place and almost comedic?
I understand the compulsion to throw "God bless America" at the end of every speech, but this is a picture with superimposed text over it celebrating Andrew Jackson's life. No need to force the God reference in there.
I understand the compulsion to throw "God bless America" at the end of every speech, but this is a picture with superimposed text over it celebrating Andrew Jackson's life. No need to force the God reference in there.
Same way every president before Lincoln was a terrible president.
Same way Asians can call FDR a terrible person and president. Actually no fdr was worse at least Jackson had an excuse of the times and the fact that they weren't citizens. FDR did his terrible thing to citizens and in a more civilized time.
Study us history and there's no way you don't get the sense that we are the baddies.
GoutPatrol
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Yeah it doesn't surprise me that he is doing this. The historiography of past American heroes and actions has changed so fast in the past 10 years.
Oh so when it comes to the bad shit now it's "we".
My people were victims in this. We were pretty content endlessly fishing, plucking berries, and praising the sun in the Caribbean.
theignoramus
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Thankfully, historians are now factoring in the human rights legacies of past Presidents when they evaluate their job performance. Thats how, after 3 quarters of a century of Confederate sympathising smear propaganda, President Grant's legacy has been resuscitated and redeemed.
As citizens we all benefit in some way for the terrible self serving shit the us does. Not just terrible things Jackson did but everything in her history.
My heritage is one of the most discriminated in this country and my parent still immigrated here because of the benefits of this country versus their own.
BlazinSkatinAxel
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Andrew Jackson was First Ballot HOF F Boi.
Trumps working on that.
shawnbuddy
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That Andrew Jackson is just like Frederick Douglass. Real up and comer that more and more people are talking about.
Justin Bailey
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Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
I told people that's who he wants to be "trail of tears" included
Zap Rowsdower
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He would have to actively commit genocide to be as bad as Jackson and as much him and that neckbeard piece of shit Bannon want to, they ain't getting it.
cartographer
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Genocide.
Internment camps. Racist social security system. Etc.
I don't like to play atrocity or oppression Olympics, but get some perspective.
BinaryPork2737
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He would take that as a challenge. We have NK and Iran and a crazy person with keys to nukes and people we continually hope to keep him in check but keep disappointing. Never say never.
You mean the same guy that prevented Chinese people from becoming citizens?
CrispyBoar
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By the time Trump's presidency is over, no one in their right mind will remember him positively.
He will be just as hated as Andrew Jackson.
He will be just as hated as Andrew Jackson.
Wag
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Probably not much more than that. I'm sure it was Bannon's idea to put the painting up in the Oval Office and this bullshit today...
Zap Rowsdower
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Jackson isn't nearly as hated as he should be unfortunately.
But putting him on the $20 was the biggest fuck you you could ever give to the bastard. He despised fiat currency.
GloriousBagel
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Well common sense says yes, this is the new age of outrage culture, whatever Trump does, however minuscule it may be, yeah he will be shit on. I mean he's a fucking literal Nazi that is doing everything he can do destroy our rights.
Isaac Otherworld
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This. The dude was a bloodthirsty genocidal monsters. To put this into perspective, on his death bed his only regret was that he didn't kill more people.
Vicetrailia
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Trump likely doesn't know a damn thing about what he's saluting.
theignoramus
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He wasn't perfect, but he did more to enforce voting rights and combat racial terrorism than any president over the next 90+ years.
"Barak Obama wasn't born here and Nixon'd me"
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