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American Giant. One of the best to have ever done it.
Be Andrew Jackson
>Born 1767. Carolina backcountry. Edge of civilization.
>Father dies before you’re born.
>Mother raises you alone. Hard woman.
>American Revolution breaks out. You’re a teenager.
>Age 13. British soldiers capture you.
>Officer orders you to clean his boots.
>You refuse.
>He slashes your face and hand with a sword.
>Scars never fade.
>Thrown into prison.
>Contract smallpox.
>Nearly die.
>Released in a prisoner exchange.
>Return home broken and fevered.
>Shortly after, your mother dies of cholera.
>She was nursing American prisoners of war.
>You are 14.
>Completely orphaned.
>Frontier life hardens you.
>Study law. No schools. No polish.
>Become a lawyer. Then a judge.
>Honor culture.
>Duel repeatedly.
>One duel goes wrong.
>Shot in the chest.
>Bullet lodges inches from your heart.
>Doctors cannot remove it.
>You carry it for life.
>Rise in Tennessee politics.
>Become a general.
>New Orleans.
>British Empire returns.
>Veterans of Europe. Best army in the world.
>You have militia. Riflemen. Pirates. Farmers.
>They expect a massacre.
>You annihilate them.
>Victory so decisive it shocks the world.
>Become a national hero overnight.
>Enter presidential politics.
>Win the popular vote.
>Lose in Congress.
>“Corrupt bargain.”
>You do not forget.
>Run again.
>You win.
>First true populist president.
>Enemies immediately: elites, editors, bankers.
>They call you dangerous.
>You agree.
>Then comes the real war.
>The Second Bank of the United States.
>Private. Politically connected. Foreign investors.
>Controls credit. Controls elections. Controls survival.
>They call it stability.
>You call it tyranny.
>Bank president Nicholas Biddle believes you can be managed.
>Congress renews the Bank’s charter early, to force your hand.
>You veto it.
>Publicly.
>“The rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
>The bankers panic.
>They unleash newspapers.
>Contract credit.
>Trigger economic pressure to break you.
>You escalate.
>Remove federal deposits.
>Shift them to state banks.
>The central bank begins to suffocate.
>The Bank collapses.
>No central bank.
>No financial sovereign above the people.
>The bankers want you dead.
>January 30, 1835.
>Capitol steps.
>Assassin approaches.
>Pulls a pistol.
>Click.
>Misfire.
>Second pistol.
>Click.
>Another misfire.
>You don’t flee.
>You attack him with your cane.
>Beat him until restrained.
>Courts declare the assassin insane.
>You are not convinced.
>Leave office having paid off the national debt.
>Only president ever to do it.
>Die 1845.
>Age 78.
Leaves behind:
The destruction of the central bank.
The precedent that finance answers to sovereignty.
The expansion of executive power.
A nation reminded that elites are never permanent.
Proof that an orphan from the American frontier can defy empires.

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@DailyLoud Why tf would you do that? Just bring the kid inside if no one can watch them 😢
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@amuse To be fair, he was brain dead before he hopped in front of the vehicle.
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