I'm seeing a lot of people saying "no US president has ever threatened genocide before," and I would like to please remind those people of the existence of Andrew Jackson.
@theleftistlawyer Isn't Trump on the record as saying Jackson was his favorite president? 😬
@theleftistlawyer U.S. presidents are typically too busy actually committing genocide to find the time to threaten it.
@theleftistlawyer At the risk of joking at a time not fit for joking, isn't Jackson the one with the two-ton block of cheese?
@theleftistlawyer and let's not forget that there were US states offering bounties on Native Americans until 1885.
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James Madison LOVED him some genocide too.

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More than threatened, IIRC....

@theleftistlawyer Wait, is Trump trying to adopt an orphaned Iranian child, the way Jackson "adopted" a Native American girl whose parents he slaughtered?
@theleftistlawyer Who is, it should be noted, Trump's favorite President.