@This has got to be the most inhumane administration in the history of this country.
https://bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyto.bsky.social/post/3mfbduvaqxs2l
Ricardo Harvin@990000 Andrew Jackson still holds that title, but it's a rapidly tightening race.
Weird Socks
Becca@ohmu @ricardoharvin @990000 Three way race between James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Donald Trump?
"Experience has clearly demonstrated that independent savage communities cannot long exist within the limits of a civilized population . . . To civilize them, and even to prevent their extinction, it seems to be indispensable that their independence as communities should cease, and that the control of the United States over them should be complete and undisputed." #JamesMonroe
Andrew Jackson did everything he could to literally kill them all, from exhorting and rewarding his troops and settlers to commit murder (the only good [one] is a dead [one]), to deliberately giving tribes blankets infected with smallpox, knowing they had zero immunity, to the forced migrations designed specifically to kill as many as possible before they reached the new reservations.
And we haven't even begun discussing slavery.
white people 😮💨
@ricardoharvin @ohmu @990000 "In response to Seminole attacks and their provision of aid to escaped slaves, Monroe ordered a military expedition to cross into Spanish Florida and attack the Seminoles. In this expedition, led by Andrew Jackson, "
He got it from his boss who did it first.
@ricardoharvin at this point you're asking which of two co-conspirators was worse. they *worked together*. it's a little like asking if Hitler or Goering was worse. Is it worse to be the one in command or the one pulling the trigger?
these men were not separated in time. they existed together as boss and employee. they worked together, contemporaries, co-workers. mentor and protege. teacher and student.
one does not exist independent of the other.
next argue Trump or Vance.
@ricardoharvin @ohmu @990000 https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/mss/maj/01049//01049_0271_0274.pdf
"James Monroe to Andrew Jackson, July 19, 1818, from
Correspondence of Andrew Jackson."