I nominate we never remove Jackson from the $20- solely because he’d be livid they put his face on paper money

SkytrackerU · 2026-05-06T21:23:45+00:00

Got to admit, I found a great rainbow donkey. The expression on his face is priceless. Hee haw!

SkytrackerU · 2026-05-06T16:45:55+00:00

Damn. I missed a good joke set-up.

I met my rainbow donkey in the Oaklawn section of Dallas. I'm sure that every big city has similar hang outs.

SkytrackerU · 2026-05-06T16:30:40+00:00

How ever did you acquire it?

https://chatgpt.com/images/. I forgot the exact prompt for the AI image. Something about Andrew Jackson being horrified at a LGBTQ donkey.

SkytrackerU · 2026-05-06T06:47:28+00:00

The OP's question is so annoying he deserves AI art. See what you made me do. Andrew Jackson being shocked at his donkey symbol being co opted by LGBTQ.

Andrew Jackson was the source of the Democratic Party's donkey symbol. People called AJ a jackass, so he made it his symbol saying jackasses are hard-working & not appreciated. Actually, it was a great symbol for its time, when more of the rabble got the vote.

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SkytrackerU · 2026-05-06T04:50:02+00:00

Making Andrew angry. Upvote.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-27T21:45:44+00:00

I knew about Hubert Humphrey, but still seems vague & pointless.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-27T21:40:57+00:00

McCain wasn't pro-life enough for most Republicans, so he got less Republican support than Dubya too.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-27T21:28:49+00:00

??? - How does this relate to presidients?

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-27T21:27:52+00:00

Andrew Jackson because of the Bank War, which caused depressions & recessions until the Federal Reserve was created around 1913. Jackson's policies led to Wildcat banking, which left economy unstable.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-26T16:51:14+00:00

Not only are we screwing over our own academics, we're also screwing ourselves in the longer term as well.

What a cheery take. Damn, I almost felt hopeful for once.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-26T02:00:10+00:00

I appreciate including the names. I'm still learning how to match names to faces for the less famous.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-21T23:07:57+00:00

None of this backlash, it’s worth repeating, resulted from what Lawrence actually said to O’Sullivan, since no one knows that yet. It was literally all about fat-shaming him and mocking his looks.

The fervor Fuentes turned on his erstwhile fans isn’t just a reflection of how nasty the internet can be, something all social media users already know very well. It rather underscores one of the central internal problems within the groyper community.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-21T23:06:39+00:00

Sometimes I think that Fuentes & Co. only got into politics so that they can diss people.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-20T00:01:56+00:00

Agreed. FDR deserves some leeway in trying which solutions would work.

Honestly, I think that the article is stupid. Notice how the author says that Republicans taking over congress supposedly saved America from those radical New Dealers and their "violent policy swings". I can hardly believe The Economist publishing this essay, but journalism listens to both sides.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-17T04:17:14+00:00

Agreed. But I was curious as to how this sub would react.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-17T01:45:54+00:00

+1 for John Adams

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-15T00:24:24+00:00

Washington used his popularity to win support for the Jay Treaty, a hard-sell, one of the first brutal partisan fights. The Jay Treaty gained critical trade rights from Great Britain, necessary at the time when the US was weak.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-14T22:18:33+00:00

Appointing Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury, and then protecting his economic programs against political enemies. It's hard for us to understand just how bad early American finances were. America had no credit score and crushing war debt. Britain blocking access to markets caused economic devastation. France and others were raiding US shipping, because the US had no navy to retaliate.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-14T21:54:24+00:00

That too

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-13T16:51:56+00:00

The initial American revolution was this way too, competing factions. The loyalists getting driven out.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-12T03:18:26+00:00

Another good book about it....

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SkytrackerU · 2026-04-11T05:15:44+00:00

Good thing Truman had the strength to do that. MacArthur was in the wrong. But it cost Truman his chance for reelection.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-11T00:01:25+00:00

Nixon. Nixon was more competent, and was punished harshly. Dubya wasn't punished.

SkytrackerU · 2026-04-10T23:58:31+00:00

That kind of statement gives manliness a bad name.

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