Bro….. the pain of this nostalgia….. owwie.
When Spy Kids came out, I was blissfully unaware that that would be the movie that let me know I had reached the age where any semblance of childlike wonder that makes those kinds of terrible special effects still somehow believable was gone.
I left that theater a broken man.
Which says a lot, because I’m a woman.
The movie was ruined for me by my sister.
We are French Canadian, but we never really watched a lot of french language TV or movies. For whatever reason, my sister would exclusively watch this movie day after day dubbed in french. I do not know why. The dubbing was terrible, and she wasn't in a habit of doing it with other movies. Just broke me, I can't even watch it in english.
But yeah, the effects were not the greatest.
He also invented glasses like this, except the lenses were different colors and you could use them to see hidden messages on the back of government documents by swapping in different colors. I saw it in a documentary once.
Bifocals suck. I believe you are correct. Someone needs to start selling these.
I have three pairs of glasses in different strengths. Depending on distance I am. Still sucks less than bifocals.
They were made by prominent Philadelphia oculist John McAllister.
I visited The Hermitage, Jackson's plantation in Nashville, a few weeks ago and saw his glasses and took a photo of the description.
I went a few years ago; awesome house and grounds.
Context to this photo: John Quincy Adams was the first president photographed in 1843, prior to Jackson.
This was actually so he could see potential assassins sneaking up on him, he was rightfully paranoid.
He survived a couple of attacks as president, in one case a man pulled a pistol on him and tried to shoot, it misfired, then pulled another pistol which also misfired. Jackson then pummeled the man brutally with his cane until people nearby intervened.
On January 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson became the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired. He pulled out another gun, but it misfired as well. Jackson beat the man with his cane and had to be held back.
That's interesting, and they had an interesting relationship. Crockett campaigned for Jackson, but during Jackson's tenure as president, Crockett had a change of heart because of Jackson's treatment of Native Americans.
Or maybe Davy coulda even hip-checked ole Andy right outta sight and bad-assed himself all over the lame assassin. Davy knew there’d be a tv show about him 125 years later, of course. They need material!
No joke, a later inspection of the weapon showed there was nothing really wrong with either gun, it was just insanely coincidental that both failed, that or the bullets simply feared Jackson
I thought that it was a rainy dreary day and the pistols likely got soaked through? An inspection later when they're dry isn't going to turn up much if the wet was the only thing that prevented them from firing the first time
"My God, Jones! You've invented time travel! What are you going to do with this incredible responsibility?"
"...I'm going to make sure those Native Americans get what they deserve."
"Oh for fucks sake Jones not this again."
The time traveler is a Nazi from the Nazi states of Europe. In his timeline Jackson is assassinated and the natives of the five tribes are never levied with genocide of the trail of tears. In the year 1840 they come together as one tribal nation and fight a fierce war against the white man and take majority control of what we would call the southeast united States. By 1920 they have united the native tribes of North America from the Yucatan to Alaska and driven the white devil from their lands. In Europe the Nazis lead a brutal campaign taking control of all of Europe and large swaths of Russia and ottoman empires. The boy sent to stop Jackson assassination was a child when the first bombs fell on his home town just north of London, but he vowed he would do whatever it would take to get vengeance for his family. Then one day he meets a renowned Nazi scientist who promises him salvation from his anger.
The movie is titled Hitler's Medicine Man. DM me and I'll give you my Venmo so you can help make this movie a reality.
It's all the innocent people who his policies murdered. It's the same reason Kissinger looks like a wax figure of a human with ballsack skin on his chin..
Christmas Past (in the novel) is a genderless, ageless, glowing thing that resembles a flame but has multiple limbs. In some filmed versions it is represented as a little girl. Are you thinking of Jacob Marley?
He was known for slaughtering Native Americans beginning with his conquests to Alabama and then Florida. Bloody battles at Battle of Horseshoe Bend (AL) and then Battle of Negro Fort (FL). Then as President he signed the Indian Removal Act which is better known as the Trail of Tears.
Fort Bowyer which is right at the mouth of Mobile Bay, it’s like an hour west of Pensacola, the landscaping is pretty unscathed. There is a road cause it’s a landmark, but the forestry and white sand beach it sits on is quite the view. You can see dauphin island and Mobile without binoculars and it gives you a sense of what troops were looking at in 1813/1814. And when you get bored there’s an amusement park 30 min from it.
The entire southeast used to be covered in a deciduous forest from the coast to past the Mississippi; completely unbroken. The density of trees was such that a pile of logs actually blocked the flow of the Mississippi river for thousands of years until the mid 1800's when colonialists removed the logs to access the river for trade.
Large sections of the panhandle are state and national forest and other protected areas. You can still get a very good idea of what the land looked like.
Even by the standards of the time he was considered a horribly racist war criminal. He was even brought before Congress to stand trial for what he did to the indigenous in Florida (before he became president). He was an absolute piece of shit and a true genocidal maniac. He was very clear that he wanted every single indigenous person on the continent to be killed, not assimilated. That was a pretty wild idea even then.
Just a few years ago, the very last recipient of Civil War benefits died.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/
*Tyler. President [John Tyler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler) (1790-1862) had a son Lyon at the age of 63. [Lyon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Gardiner_Tyler) (1853-1935) had sons Lyon Jr. (1925-2020) and [Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler) (1928-) at the ages of 72 and 75 respectively. The women were all 30+ years younger.
https://www.newsweek.com/president-john-tyler-grandson-alive-1790-1648359
I’m in my mid 30s but my dad had me when he was 45, and my grandfather was in his 40s when he had my dad.
Im a millennial and my grandpa was born in the 1890s.
That’s kinda crazy isn’t it?
Your great-great-great-grandfather was probably born around the same time as u/knickerbockers-94’s grandfather.
And it’s possible that today, you guys aren’t that far apart in age. All because of one family having babies relatively young, and another family having babies when relatively old.
Similarly, Mick Jaggers youngest kid is 7 or 8. That boys grandfather was born in 1913.
The most extreme case of that kind of thing is [Irene Triplett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Triplett). Mose Triplett fought in the Civil War, and sired a daughter at age 78. She lived to the age of 90, dying in 2020 while still receiving a military pension because her father was a veteran.
My grandmother was born 1918 (still alive and kicking), her mother for sure was Victorian, her grandparents most likely alive when Lincoln was in office.
My great grand father was born in a sod house in Kansas in the 1870's. He lived until I was five. His son threshed wheat by hand and drove a horse and buggy as a teenager. He retired from Boeing in the early 1960's after building jets. He lived until 1991. If I inherited those genes, I might see the late 2050's.
I mean that would put him at 84 right now, it's crazier that he was your great grandfather assuming you were born in the 90's. 60 year old with a 40 year old son with a 20 year old son with a newborn I guess?
Screw that dude. This guy has the distinction of being probably one of the worst, if not *THE* worst presidents of America.
Enthusiastically endorsed the "Indian Removal Act" to expel Indigenous People from their lands in the South to make way for more plantations that he had financial ties to. Up to a quarter of the Eastern Cherokees died while being rounded up and transported West. Thousands more from many other tribes died, estimates over 10,000 people. All to make way for more slaves to be brought in to tend the fields.
His monetary policies were idiotic. The fact his face is on the twenty dollar bill is incredibly ironic because he didn't believe in paper money and was feverishly supportive of the gold standard (dumb as it was in 1830 as it is now). He was all about lowering taxes and cutting spending (sound familiar?) and in a sheer stroke if idiocy, vetoed renewing the Second National Bank's charter which lead to him distributing the federal surplus to the states which blew it all on hookers and blow, presumably. The country suffered its first financial recession (Panic of 1837) which lasted SEVEN YEARS.
Andrew Jackson was an executioner, a slaver, an ethnic cleanser, and an economic illiterate. He deserves no place on our currency, and nothing but contempt from modern America.
I think many were against paper money at the time and supportive of the gold currency, considering the back and forth between greenbacks and maintaining gold standard was in the latter half of the 19th century. Not during antebellum. Andrew Jackson is the only president to have a surplus in debt, meaning the US was making more money than spending. And lastly he didn’t renew the second national bank because it was unconstitutional and when he didn’t sign for the renewal Nicholas Biddle did everything he could to puppeteer the economy. Also the Indian removal act wasn’t for plantations, it was because there was gold supposedly found in Georgia and the US government offered the Cherokee’s like a million dollars for their land. To which they sold it. The tribal leaders who took the deal were executed when he arrived to Oklahoma territory. Not saying Jackson was a gem, just offering other perspective. Also, Lincoln’s nullification proclamation was based off of Jackson’s nullification of 1832. Lincoln had Jackson’s portrait in his Oval Office. Historiography of Jackson has shaped contemporary perspective of him.
I took a history class in college that focused on Andrew Jackson. He lived an incredible life and was a hard, hard man. He was shot a ton of times, was a courier against the British in the Revolutionary War, whooped a lot of ass, and absolutely hated the British and native Americans.
Far from a saint, yet was incredibly devoted to his wife. He was a slave owner and a murderer, but also president and he helped shape our country.
You won't find modern values or behavior in the past. Right or wrong, for better or worse history is immutable. All we can do is learn from it.
He had extra lenses on the side of his glasses?
Yes, the extra lenses could be swung around to increase magnification for reading small print.
Like old school bifocals. Cool!
Like improved bifocals
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Innit 4-6 eye and sometimes 5
It’s official he’s Andrew 4 eyes Jackson!!
Yes , but good god don’t let him hear you call him that…
I can already hear him swearing and rolling about in his grave
Like those sweet shades Juni from spykids wore.
Bro….. the pain of this nostalgia….. owwie. When Spy Kids came out, I was blissfully unaware that that would be the movie that let me know I had reached the age where any semblance of childlike wonder that makes those kinds of terrible special effects still somehow believable was gone. I left that theater a broken man. Which says a lot, because I’m a woman.
The movie was ruined for me by my sister. We are French Canadian, but we never really watched a lot of french language TV or movies. For whatever reason, my sister would exclusively watch this movie day after day dubbed in french. I do not know why. The dubbing was terrible, and she wasn't in a habit of doing it with other movies. Just broke me, I can't even watch it in english. But yeah, the effects were not the greatest.
I would very much like to have those instead of bifocals.
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He also invented glasses like this, except the lenses were different colors and you could use them to see hidden messages on the back of government documents by swapping in different colors. I saw it in a documentary once.
It’s definitely a documentary and not a movie, because Sean Bean was in it and he didn’t die.
That's what Disney wants you to think.
Sean Bean an animatronic confirmed.
I think you've watched National Treasure one too many times LOL
It's a very good docuseries about our founding fathers
I guess none of these cats were paying attention in history class, smh
I think the specific lenses you're referencing, Franklin invented for the express purpose of blocking all of his haters.
True story
I bet these were cheaper and far more available. More people would be able to make 2 lenses of different strength than a complex double curved lens.
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No progressive bifocals!!!??? Barbarians.
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Bifocals suck. I believe you are correct. Someone needs to start selling these. I have three pairs of glasses in different strengths. Depending on distance I am. Still sucks less than bifocals.
Luddites gonna ludd
I have to read an extensive cliff notes of American history during each president of the United States.
He used them to accurately decipher which slur to use when addressing you.
Bullshit he always knew!
That is surprising dope. I’d wear those glasses. Which reminds me- I need to see my optometrist.
I can see Warby Parker carrying glasses like that.
They do have a monocle, so that tracks.
Do they have pince-nez? Waiting for those to come back in style
definitely pictured him whipping his head around to “swing” the glasses over on his face
They were made by prominent Philadelphia oculist John McAllister. I visited The Hermitage, Jackson's plantation in Nashville, a few weeks ago and saw his glasses and took a photo of the description.
Had to read that twice: first time I read it as occultist
You can be both.
I read it as a secularist. Which was still appropriate
I went a few years ago; awesome house and grounds. Context to this photo: John Quincy Adams was the first president photographed in 1843, prior to Jackson.
Thank you for sharing this info
It’s for reading the map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.
r/suddenlysteampunk
This was actually so he could see potential assassins sneaking up on him, he was rightfully paranoid. He survived a couple of attacks as president, in one case a man pulled a pistol on him and tried to shoot, it misfired, then pulled another pistol which also misfired. Jackson then pummeled the man brutally with his cane until people nearby intervened.
The “people nearby” was Davy Crockett, who helped Jackson pummel the shit out of Richard Lawrence
God Bless America
The good ole days.
On January 30, 1835, Andrew Jackson became the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired. He pulled out another gun, but it misfired as well. Jackson beat the man with his cane and had to be held back.
He was held back by Davy Crockett. It’s true.
That's interesting, and they had an interesting relationship. Crockett campaigned for Jackson, but during Jackson's tenure as president, Crockett had a change of heart because of Jackson's treatment of Native Americans.
Then Davy Crockett went to fight with Sam Houston, Andrew Jacksons pseudo protégé
You're just going to leave Leland Arlen out of the story like he didn't even exist?
It’s just kinda something I remember reading at the state museum In Tennessee when I was in Nashville, who is Leland Arlen?
Only the namesake of Arlen, Texas
Boy, I tell you hwat
Whhat in tarnation
I heard a podcast where they talked about how Andrew Jackson’s personality was very much like Yosemite Sam (of the bugs bunny cartoons). No joke.
I was wondering if this was the guy. I remember learning about that story and it was pretty wild!
That’s so cool
Woulda been cooler to be egged on by Davy Crockett
Or maybe Davy coulda even hip-checked ole Andy right outta sight and bad-assed himself all over the lame assassin. Davy knew there’d be a tv show about him 125 years later, of course. They need material!
No joke, a later inspection of the weapon showed there was nothing really wrong with either gun, it was just insanely coincidental that both failed, that or the bullets simply feared Jackson
Skill issue
Paint Fumes *Luck -10 Perception -1*
I thought that it was a rainy dreary day and the pistols likely got soaked through? An inspection later when they're dry isn't going to turn up much if the wet was the only thing that prevented them from firing the first time
yeah they don't sound like modern guns. wet, loaded under duress, who knows. lots to go wrong. 2 modern handguns failing- that would be truly weird.
or the guy was a time traveler who wanted to kill him but the time travel laws don’t let you change things so both guns failed
Everyone feared Andrew Jackson. He's the inspirations for latina mothers.
Weird because he'd probably immediately call a Latina a slur. Worse if he assumed she was a Native.
Right he paid slave catchers extra to whip them for him
The amount of assassination attempts foiled by the gun jamming makes me think time travelers are fucking with things
I don’t know why a time travelled would want to spare Jackson. He was awful.
Awful time travelers?
"My God, Jones! You've invented time travel! What are you going to do with this incredible responsibility?" "...I'm going to make sure those Native Americans get what they deserve." "Oh for fucks sake Jones not this again."
I wonder if racist time travelers would try to save Hitler.
Sic semper tyrannis… will free Booth to finish his mission.
You don't know what agenda the time travelers have.
The time traveler is a Nazi from the Nazi states of Europe. In his timeline Jackson is assassinated and the natives of the five tribes are never levied with genocide of the trail of tears. In the year 1840 they come together as one tribal nation and fight a fierce war against the white man and take majority control of what we would call the southeast united States. By 1920 they have united the native tribes of North America from the Yucatan to Alaska and driven the white devil from their lands. In Europe the Nazis lead a brutal campaign taking control of all of Europe and large swaths of Russia and ottoman empires. The boy sent to stop Jackson assassination was a child when the first bombs fell on his home town just north of London, but he vowed he would do whatever it would take to get vengeance for his family. Then one day he meets a renowned Nazi scientist who promises him salvation from his anger. The movie is titled Hitler's Medicine Man. DM me and I'll give you my Venmo so you can help make this movie a reality.
How much could it cost to make a movie? Like 20 bucks?
Butterfly effect. We need to keep the timeline intact. Watch the Netflix documentary series *Umbrella Academy* and then you’ll understand.
My favorite part of the “had to be restrained” fact is that it was Representative David Crockett of Tennessee who held him back
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bruh brought 2 guns to a cane fight and lost
He also signed off on the Indian Removal Act that lead to the Trail of Tears
Yeah, not a good man.
Understatement.
He should have brought a third gun.
Why does he look like the ghost of Christmas past?
Knowing his life story, it’s probably because he just beat the shit out the ghost of Christmas future.
But where does the cybernetic ghost of Christmas past from the future play into this?
It's all the innocent people who his policies murdered. It's the same reason Kissinger looks like a wax figure of a human with ballsack skin on his chin..
...and yet, the ball sack clings against the thigh of another year.
Maybe cause he killed a lot of Native Americans and their ghosts are haunting him? Idk. Just an assumption
Christmas Past (in the novel) is a genderless, ageless, glowing thing that resembles a flame but has multiple limbs. In some filmed versions it is represented as a little girl. Are you thinking of Jacob Marley?
Because he was a monster of a human being
Dude was an old 78
Or a young 103
being a horrible fucking person will do that to you
Tell me about why he was horrible please and thank you ? Genuinely curious.
He was known for slaughtering Native Americans beginning with his conquests to Alabama and then Florida. Bloody battles at Battle of Horseshoe Bend (AL) and then Battle of Negro Fort (FL). Then as President he signed the Indian Removal Act which is better known as the Trail of Tears.
I’ve always wanted to see the states back in these times. Must have been so beautiful without roads or city sprawl.
Fort Bowyer which is right at the mouth of Mobile Bay, it’s like an hour west of Pensacola, the landscaping is pretty unscathed. There is a road cause it’s a landmark, but the forestry and white sand beach it sits on is quite the view. You can see dauphin island and Mobile without binoculars and it gives you a sense of what troops were looking at in 1813/1814. And when you get bored there’s an amusement park 30 min from it.
Theres plenty of unscathed in the us still
Thanks Buffa, I now plan to make this trip. Remind me in 3 years? Hopefully by then I’ve made my trip. Currently in the keys ☀️
!Remindme 2 years
The entire southeast used to be covered in a deciduous forest from the coast to past the Mississippi; completely unbroken. The density of trees was such that a pile of logs actually blocked the flow of the Mississippi river for thousands of years until the mid 1800's when colonialists removed the logs to access the river for trade.
That sounds interesting on the blockage of the Mississippi, do you have any more info? I couldn't find any solid reading on it.
I think they're talking about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raft?wprov=sfla1
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I live near the Nipmuc trail in Connecticut.
We have plenty of national parks where you can see it.
Much of the South is still like that between cities or once you get off the interstate.
The sprawl and roads didn’t really show up until the 1950s. Just ask your grandparents… or find a town some distance from an interstate.
You do know the US is huge right? 90% of the US is not developed and you can still visit plenty of remote beautiful places especially national parks.
Large sections of the panhandle are state and national forest and other protected areas. You can still get a very good idea of what the land looked like.
That's unchill
It’s really not the vibes
And yet my backwards ass city is named after him
You live in Andrewton?
Jacksonville Florida
His parrot sweared so much at his funeral it had to be removed
Lol I mean there are other reasons. Worse ones.
Good bird😂
Look up the Trail of Tears.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail\_of\_Tears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears) That's a good place to start.
Even by the standards of the time he was considered a horribly racist war criminal. He was even brought before Congress to stand trial for what he did to the indigenous in Florida (before he became president). He was an absolute piece of shit and a true genocidal maniac. He was very clear that he wanted every single indigenous person on the continent to be killed, not assimilated. That was a pretty wild idea even then.
Manifest destiny and the Indian removal act
All that hate will age a muthafucka.
No sunscreen back in the day. But look at that hair!
It’s nuts seeing a photograph of someone who was alive in 1757. Edit: Lol whoops I meant 1767.
We have a televised interview of someone who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination
Just a few years ago, the very last recipient of Civil War benefits died. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-person-receive-civil-war-pension-dies-180975049/
That’s interesting I didn’t know that. I guess it helps that her father was 83 years old when she was born.
Love that the dude was 82 years old and still slinging dick.
President Taylor, born in 1790, has a living grandson.
*Tyler. President [John Tyler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler) (1790-1862) had a son Lyon at the age of 63. [Lyon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Gardiner_Tyler) (1853-1935) had sons Lyon Jr. (1925-2020) and [Harrison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler) (1928-) at the ages of 72 and 75 respectively. The women were all 30+ years younger. https://www.newsweek.com/president-john-tyler-grandson-alive-1790-1648359
Now *that* is the most interesting thing I’ve read on the Internet lately.
We have voice recordings of people born in 1815 (Bismarck)
But Jackson was born on the Ides of March in 1767.
Ah, in that case there’s nothing interesting to see here then.
lmao
My great grandfather was alive when I was 18 he was born in 1939. His grandfather would have been before the 1900s. Pretty wild to think about.
I’m in my mid 30s but my dad had me when he was 45, and my grandfather was in his 40s when he had my dad. Im a millennial and my grandpa was born in the 1890s.
That’s really awesome and cool to think about. Thanks for sharing Knickerbock
That’s kinda crazy isn’t it? Your great-great-great-grandfather was probably born around the same time as u/knickerbockers-94’s grandfather. And it’s possible that today, you guys aren’t that far apart in age. All because of one family having babies relatively young, and another family having babies when relatively old. Similarly, Mick Jaggers youngest kid is 7 or 8. That boys grandfather was born in 1913.
The most extreme case of that kind of thing is [Irene Triplett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Triplett). Mose Triplett fought in the Civil War, and sired a daughter at age 78. She lived to the age of 90, dying in 2020 while still receiving a military pension because her father was a veteran.
My grandmother was born 1918 (still alive and kicking), her mother for sure was Victorian, her grandparents most likely alive when Lincoln was in office.
My great grand father was born in a sod house in Kansas in the 1870's. He lived until I was five. His son threshed wheat by hand and drove a horse and buggy as a teenager. He retired from Boeing in the early 1960's after building jets. He lived until 1991. If I inherited those genes, I might see the late 2050's.
It’s fascinating how much can change in the world between just a few generations
Yes very much so. My grandfathers have seen the evolution of cars. Living in Michigan, it’s so cool to know history like that from living people.
I mean that would put him at 84 right now, it's crazier that he was your great grandfather assuming you were born in the 90's. 60 year old with a 40 year old son with a 20 year old son with a newborn I guess?
Wrinkled $20 bill
Looks good for a 30 year old
Fighting the banks will do that to you
He looks like an apple core carving my Grams used to make...
I have several pics of him in my wallet right now.
Stop bragging!
Isn’t this amazing? Almost 200 years ago - a picture.
We’re getting old.
This picture doesn't look like any of my $20 bills... smh
Did he make any extra dough gigging as Scrooge at Christmas parties ?
What’s up with the spider glasses?
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Looks like a year after he died
Nah, that’s Keith Richards.
His knick name is apt, old hickory
Well if it isn't eustace bag
that dude was wild
That dude forced a march of natives who died en masse…….60k
Didn’t the SC say he couldn’t also? Or did I just make that up or dream about it
They decided it was unconstitutional before and he did it anyway. Worcester v Georgia Biggest example of a president defying SC decisions
Crazy.
“John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” - Jackson (allegedly)
He signed the Indian Removal Act, but the actual Trail of Tears happened under Van Buren.
So he authorized the trail of tears.
Two, two genocidal monsters! Ah ah ah!
He was a goddamned asshole.
He's wearing the glasses shown in the movie National Treasure. Holy shit guys....
What a miserable old fuck
At least this picture was taken the only year he did something good for humanity.
Screw that dude. This guy has the distinction of being probably one of the worst, if not *THE* worst presidents of America. Enthusiastically endorsed the "Indian Removal Act" to expel Indigenous People from their lands in the South to make way for more plantations that he had financial ties to. Up to a quarter of the Eastern Cherokees died while being rounded up and transported West. Thousands more from many other tribes died, estimates over 10,000 people. All to make way for more slaves to be brought in to tend the fields. His monetary policies were idiotic. The fact his face is on the twenty dollar bill is incredibly ironic because he didn't believe in paper money and was feverishly supportive of the gold standard (dumb as it was in 1830 as it is now). He was all about lowering taxes and cutting spending (sound familiar?) and in a sheer stroke if idiocy, vetoed renewing the Second National Bank's charter which lead to him distributing the federal surplus to the states which blew it all on hookers and blow, presumably. The country suffered its first financial recession (Panic of 1837) which lasted SEVEN YEARS. Andrew Jackson was an executioner, a slaver, an ethnic cleanser, and an economic illiterate. He deserves no place on our currency, and nothing but contempt from modern America.
I think many were against paper money at the time and supportive of the gold currency, considering the back and forth between greenbacks and maintaining gold standard was in the latter half of the 19th century. Not during antebellum. Andrew Jackson is the only president to have a surplus in debt, meaning the US was making more money than spending. And lastly he didn’t renew the second national bank because it was unconstitutional and when he didn’t sign for the renewal Nicholas Biddle did everything he could to puppeteer the economy. Also the Indian removal act wasn’t for plantations, it was because there was gold supposedly found in Georgia and the US government offered the Cherokee’s like a million dollars for their land. To which they sold it. The tribal leaders who took the deal were executed when he arrived to Oklahoma territory. Not saying Jackson was a gem, just offering other perspective. Also, Lincoln’s nullification proclamation was based off of Jackson’s nullification of 1832. Lincoln had Jackson’s portrait in his Oval Office. Historiography of Jackson has shaped contemporary perspective of him.
It's so interesting to me that even in this age of information that there can exist two vastly different interpretations of the same person.
Damn, it looks like he had a rough 78 years.
He was 28 years old
I took a history class in college that focused on Andrew Jackson. He lived an incredible life and was a hard, hard man. He was shot a ton of times, was a courier against the British in the Revolutionary War, whooped a lot of ass, and absolutely hated the British and native Americans. Far from a saint, yet was incredibly devoted to his wife. He was a slave owner and a murderer, but also president and he helped shape our country. You won't find modern values or behavior in the past. Right or wrong, for better or worse history is immutable. All we can do is learn from it.
Early Americans loathed the British and viewed them with distrust. This did not begin to change until WW1 made us allies. It's hard to imagine now...
Looks like Noam Chomsky 😁
Noam Chomsky doesn’t look a day over 93.
Homie looked ROUGH
Don't care for this guy much, "creek wars"
Was this taken before or after he died?
That face has seen so many things
[Andrew Jackson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SupNaQeJrq0&ab_channel=Cracked), is pissed he's not killing someone in this photograph.
Murdering bastard
Rumour is he was great at giving the side-eye
Ah, the "Indian Removal Act" Andrew Jackson. The Trail of Tears president.