Grrrrr. Looks familiar

His wife Rachel, to whom he was absolutely devoted, had been married in what’s known as a frontier wedding which often times were not anywhere officially recorded. The man she married was abusive and she had the wherewithal to leave him and got a frontier divorce. The rumors dogged both of them for the rest of their…

It is a glorious story of a curmudgeonly old man beating up (didn’t kill him) a much younger man who tried to kill him with not one but two guns. If nothing else Jackson was a tough old sumbich. I don’t know how you can be critical of this episode.

Do you have a problem admitting that some of the people on the other side of your pedigree were horrible people too? Or that some of the white people were good, competent people who did good things and left the world better off than it was before?

Hardly. Andrew Jackson came from as hard of an upbringing as anybody today. There was no privilege of any kind afforded him. As a boy he was taken as POW by the British and almost killed. His mother was a domestic servant and his father was murdered on the street by a group of Indians raiding the town. This is hardly…

Really? What else did he do that was so horrible? Outside of the issues you stipulated I mean. He took on the ingrained monied bankers and took them right out of business. (Maybe not right out, it took a while.) The Jackson administration was the last time this country did not carry a debt. He led a fairly small…

That’s cultural appropriation!

He also caught a bullet in the chest in one of those duels and carried it around in there for the rest of his life. My understanding is Jackson only killed one person in a duel. (Only one!)

This is one of the ways in which white Americans differ from non-white Americans. White Americans have only this country and this culture to call their own and with certain exceptions (Irish and Italian come to mind) have lost any real connection to their earlier ancestral homeland. In regards to the Irish and…

Zachary Taylor said he’d hang anyone involved in secession, including his son in law. (His son in law was Jefferson Davis)

Wow. I’ve heard your hair keeps growing after you die. You’d think Marx would have a little more beard by now.

On top of that he’s famously unpopular with the democratic party establishment. And on top of that top. This isn’t a young man we’re talking about. And talking about him being in a job that ages people quickly. Who he would pick as a running mate would have enormous consequences and whoever accepted it would face much…

In a weird way I think I agree?

I seriously doubt any black people want to eat you. You’re safe there.

Tell me about it. I’m getting hungry

I don’t get that idea from him about any prejudices. Or let’s put it this way, if he knows any people that do have such prejudices (and he surely does) my guess is they don’t think much of (what they consider) his progressive stance on race relations. But what do I know?

But we disagree on the bbq thing. Try Tulsa Ribs in Orange. If you don’t like that, my backyard is currently making a bbq chicken that’ll knock your socks off. Got those little dried california peppers and roasted tomato and grilled onion marinade, smoked up right through the rain. No, bbq is not dead in this town!

We’re in agreement on all of that

If I was wrong beforehand and then tried to justify myself afterwords, denying that his ankle collapses, I’m not sure if you saw the clip of that bubble wrapped piece of china getting in the car, but if I were to deny all those obvious things after having been so demonstrably wrong with my original point then I agree,…

I dunno. Sounds logical to me. After all Mr.DuckSauce said it