Jamie Skipper

[American Nostalgia @AmericanNstlg]

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.

[Jamie Skipper @WeeBzz]

@KatieUhlmann You're welcome Katie! Good luck!! =)

[Jamie Skipper @WeeBzz]

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