Jackson's Out, Tubman's In

[Ben]

On the $20 bill. Looks like they're leaving the $10 bill alone.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/20/change-for-20-treasury-to-replace-jackson-with-tubman-on-bill.html?intcmp=hpbt1

[RevDisk]

They're keeping that monarchist on the $10, and removing the most awesome President that the US has ever seen?   

While I appreciate Ms Tubman's services to the US as an armed scout and spy, as well as her civilian women's suffrage and anti-slavery activism, but seriously? To be put on the $20 bill?

We've had stranger choices for US currency, but not recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_United_States_banknotes

As a random trivia factoid, she would not be the first woman on US currency. That was Martha Washington, 1886.

[Boomhauer]

This is bullshit!

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2016/1/28/freedom-fighters/

[AJ Dual]

Hmm...

Removing the founder of what's become the most destructive force in American history, known as the Democratic Party, with a Republican who carried a gun?

I'm good with it.

Whether you agree with this literally, or you simply see it as a good way to dole out a little cog-dis and emotional anguish onto the modern PC Left, doesn't matter.

[dogmush]

I don't really have a problem with this.  It's obviously a pander to the usual suspects but Tubman was pretty much a bad ass.

Besides, I can point out that she personifies the idea that if I think a federal law is morally wrong, I should circumvent it. With firearms if needed.

[AJ Dual]

I don't really have a problem with this.  It's obviously a pander to the usual suspects but Tubman was pretty much a bad ass.

Besides, I can point out that she personifies the idea that if I think a federal law is morally wrong, I should circumvent it. With firearms if needed.

Exactly.

Watch for PC/Leftist whining closer to the adoption date for the new bills.

[Ben]

I don't really have a problem with this.  It's obviously a pander to the usual suspects but Tubman was pretty much a bad ass.

Besides, I can point out that she personifies the idea that if I think a federal law is morally wrong, I should circumvent it. With firearms if needed.

Heh. Keep that under wraps until after they start printing, then bring it up. Many more splodey heads that way.  

I think it's better than doing the tenner because I'm pretty sure the $20 is now the most ubiquitous bill (or maybe after the $1?), isn't it? So they get a woman on the most used bill. Can't cry discrimination there, and it's not society's fault if people don't know their history. :)

EDIT: To add to the "wait till they start printing", apparently as of right now, "Who is Harriet Tubman?" is the top Google search term.

[roo_ster]

They're keeping that monarchist on the $10, and removing the most awesome President that the US has ever seen?   

While I appreciate Ms Tubman's services to the US as an armed scout and spy, as well as her civilian women's suffrage and anti-slavery activism, but seriously? To be put on the $20 bill?

We've had stranger choices for US currency, but not recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_United_States_banknotes

As a random trivia factoid, she would not be the first woman on US currency. That was Martha Washington, 1886.

Pretty much my thoughts.

I can see myself getting a custom stamp made to correct this problem on all $20 bills that come though my hands.

[RevDisk]

"They're replacing the founder of the Democratic Party with a a gun toting, law breaking, anti-government, cop killer domestic terrorist Republican that routinely threatened to shoot disobedient slaves."


All of which is entirely true. She routinely broke the Fugative Slave Act, a federal law. She kept a gun handy in case she needed to shoot local police enforcing said law, or cops objecting to someone liberating slaves. And threatened to kill any former slave that decided to change their mind. And made it clear she'd blow her own head off rather than be captured. She assisted the Harpers Ferry raid, which was a terrorist operation to seize US weapons. And obviously, she was a Republican.

"There was one of two things I had a right to – liberty, or death.
If I could not have one I would have the other; for no man should take me alive."

One, I really like Ms Tubman. Two, this is going to be hilarious. That said, I still wish they were giving Hamilton the boot instead of Jackson. Jackson was an evil and terrible person, but also epic and awe inspiring.

[roo_ster]

$1 bill: buck
$5 bill: fiver
$10 bill: sawbuck
$20 bill: tubbie
$50 bill:
$100 bill: c-note

[grampster]

$1 bill: buck
$5 bill: fiver
$10 bill: sawbuck
$20 bill: tubbie
 $50 bill: --Fitty.  fify
$100 bill: c-note

[Perd Hapley]

$50 bill: G-money

[Phantom Warrior]

According to this article 20s, 10s, and 5s are all changing.  Not just Harriet Tubman is getting added.

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-biz-harriet-tubman-0421-20160420-story.html

[HankB]

I hear the new $10 bill is going to feature Malcolm X.  (Don't know if there's a Malcolm V or Malcolm L for the five or fifty dollar bills . . . )

[wmenorr67]

Imagine being a stripper and get a Harriet Tubman $20 spot stuffed in your cleavage.

[TechMan]

Imagine being a stripper and get a Harriet Tubman $20 spot stuffed in your cleavage.

The guy will have a chubbie and a tubbie.

[brimic]

Hmm...

Removing the founder of what's become the most destructive force in American history, known as the Democratic Party, with a Republican who carried a gun?

I'm good with it.

Whether you agree with this literally, or you simply see it as a good way to dole out a little cog-dis and emotional anguish onto the modern PC Left, doesn't matter.

I fully embrace this change.
However, those on the far left will quickly point out that the Republicans and Democrats switched parties about 2 generations ago.

That said, I still wish they were giving Hamilton the boot instead of Jackson. Jackson was an evil and terrible person, but also epic and awe inspiring.

That too. Hamilton was only evil of the far reaching statist sort- those are a dime a dozen these days.

[AJ Dual]

However, those on the far left will quickly point out that the Republicans and Democrats switched parties about 2 generations ago.

I love it when they give me that opening. I will argue that there was no "switch", and starting with LBJ's "Great Society" the overt racism of the Democrats simply switched to the soft racism of low expectations, and co-opted the black vote in the process.

[Perd Hapley]

I love it when they give me that opening. I will argue that there was no "switch", and starting with LBJ's "Great Society" the overt racism of the Democrats simply switched to the soft racism of low expectations, and co-opted the black vote in the process.

As would I. I've been thinking about starting a "dialogue" with the Southern Poverty Law Center, about all the ways in which the Democratic Party meets the definition of a hate group. It's the most successful one in our history, I think.

[brimic]

As would I. I've been thinking about starting a "dialogue" with the Southern Poverty Law Center, about all the ways in which the Democratic Party meets the definition of a hate group. It's the most successful one in our history, I think.

Those are hatespeekz. You'll be put on a trrrist watch list for sure.

[Angel Eyes]

Hmm...

Removing the founder of what's become the most destructive force in American history, known as the Democratic Party, with a Republican who carried a gun?

I'm good with it.

Whether you agree with this literally, or you simply see it as a good way to dole out a little cog-dis and emotional anguish onto the modern PC Left, doesn't matter.

Does Iowahawk read APS?

http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2016/04/iowahawk-is-national-treasure.html

[AJ Dual]

Does Iowahawk read APS?

http://smallestminority.blogspot.com/2016/04/iowahawk-is-national-treasure.html

(Austrian accent?) COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO BE FREE.

[brimic]

I love it when they give me that opening. I will argue that there was no "switch", and starting with LBJ's "Great Society" the overt racism of the Democrats simply switched to the soft racism of low expectations, and co-opted the black vote in the process.

But, but, but freedom = free *expletive deleted*it!!!111

[roo_ster]

http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/dishonoring-general-jackson/

In Samuel Eliot Morison’s “The Oxford History of the American People,” there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.

“An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.”

Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War — Andrew Jackson.