I’ve never done this before, so please forgive me if I slip up a bit.
I have an irrational annoyance with American five-cent pieces: nickels, if you will. Rotten, silly things, those. I don’t like them at all, and think they are stupid, in general. Pennies, at least, are lucky (some would say…if they’re heads-up when you find them, at least), dimes don’t suck overly much, and quarters are still worth picking up (mm…gumball machines…), but nickels? I mean, sure you could fill up a tube-sock with a bunch of them and all of a sudden you’ve got something like a club, but still. I can’t stand them. The thought of them doesn’t make me violently angry, or anything, but I try to avoid them whenever possible. There’s no childhood trauma associated with them, or anything, either; I just think they’re dumb.
Does anyone else hate anything that sounds this silly? bamf
I don’t mind nickels, but I hate twenty-dollar bills. When I have to carry them in my wallet, I console myself by remembering that I’m sitting on the bastard’s face.
I still have no idea how that motherfucker ended up on the $20, Liberal. But if it helps, try carrying the bills with the portraits facing each other. Then it’s like they’re kissing.
Because his shutting down of the National Bank and decentralization of the banking system led to the growth of state and private banks and the creation of the modern banking system in the US.
Except for quarters, I hate all change. It’s bulky, noisy, and just not as easy to use as bills or plastic. I get rid of it all the first chance I get.
Yeah, but the reason he did it was because he hated Nicholas Biddle and was jealous of the fortunes of entrepreneurs. It was the right thing to do, but he stumbled into it like a blind pig into the trough. Only revisionists credit him with some sort of quasi-libertarian ideology that he cleary did not have. Freedom loving men don’t drive people out of their homes by force and march them a thousand miles across mountains through the snow, murdering women and children along the way. “A tree is known by its fruit.” — Jesus
First, I’m not going to speculate on why he did it, or even on whether or not his doing it was a good thing. But he did do it.
And second, Jackson wasn’t the only one to “drive people out of their homes by force and march them a thousand miles across mountains through the snow, murdering women and children along the way.” The Cherokee Removal didn’t happen until 1838, as you well know, and Jackson wasn’t president at that point. Martin Van Buren was, and it was Van Buren who drove people out of their homes by force…
Of course, Jackson approved of the removal, and the trail of tears, and he was a racist and a bigot, who believed that only white people should have rights. But he also wasn’t the only one responsible for it happening, and he wasn’t even the one who caused it to happen. The Cherokee had been forced to sign treaties ceding land 24 times between 1794-1819, and in 1819, the Cherokee nation was only half as large as it was in 1794. I understand you don’t like Jackson, and I don’t blame you for disliking him, but he also doesn’t deserve sole blame for that.
Don’t worry, I’m not letting anyone else off the hook either, but Indian Hater Jackson had more than just a substantial role. At least those before him, for forty years, had honored the treaties they made, even though they were largely coerced. And there was nothing near the mass exodus of Jackson’s holocaust. It belongs to him because he is the one who fought to make it happen. Ten years before becoming president, he began to advocate Indian removal. And upon taking office, he pushed through his Indian Removal Act. When the Supreme Court struck it down, his response was basically that it was none of the court’s business. Under his leadership, Congress completely reversed the way it had dealt with Indians before, and peaceful productive Indians began to be seen as some sort of problem in need of a solution. It is difficult to find in history a greater hubris than that of the Indian Hater in his 1830 State of the Union address:
Due respect, but no revisionist is going to convince me of any latent altruism in this monster. His record is his record, and now he’s dead.
Fuck that. The SMDB hamsters would have hell of a lot less to do if something as radical as “reading comphrension” became widespread. And I’m all for making the little buggers work!
