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Benjamin franklin more like benjamin fartin
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Gouverneur Morris’ obituary of Alexander Hamilton, 1804
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This old article is a nice read for all you van burenites out there and i'm pretty sure it's one of the things that really got me into mvb back in the day! It's super detailed on all his messed up political maneuvering and is full of fun anecdotes (which as far as i know are mostly historically accurate)
#martin van buren#historyposting#historyed#i dont remember how i stumbled upon this article it was as if the stars alligned for me that day
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me and gng on our way to draft the declaration
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this man must have bled and cummed dollar bills
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Which founding fathers would be into looksmaxxing 🤫🧏♂️ and which would not
This has been sitting in my drafts for so long and everytime i come across it i feel it taunting me
Ok maybe james monroe. Have u seen his jawline???
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Last night i had a vivid dream where i was staying at this history themed hotel in japan and i picked the martin van buren themed room! The room however was barely martin van buren themed and only had like 2 framed photos of him on the wall. Needless to say i was disappointed
#virathoughts#martin van buren#also the dream involved the japanese government intentionally creating deadly acid rain to eradicate its own population#but thats a story for another day
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What would the Jqa x Jackson ship look like 🤔
Awful. Nightmarish. There's blood on the floor. Whose blood? Who knows.
On a more serious note, i did kinda explore them as a pair in this ask where they're put on the same presidential ticket, but im convinced either way they just wouldnt work well together. Jqa sees jackson as a dangerous crazy general and jackson blames jqa for his wife's death. They seriously hate each other and im not sure what they have in common HAHAHA. Unless ofc, ur going at this from the enemies to lovers angle, which in that case all power to you
#opalite-illusions#virasinbox#john quincy adams#andrew jackson#historyposting#i remember seeing this ship pop up a few times back then when the bbaj fandom was alive and well
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You mentioned you're not fond of the historical Hamilton, but you like the historical Burr, why is that? Just curious.
historical Burr was pathetic and ludicrous and ambitious, strangely principled on subjects like women’s equality and slavery, yet shamelessly conniving when it came to turning the Tammany Society into a political machine (mostly organizing New York’s immigrant population as a voting block) or lying to the federal government about why he needed a loan (to start a bank in opposition to Hamilton’s monopoly.) He rose as high as vice president and then was arrested on charges of treason; at one point he was the most powerful man in new york, but he died there in debt and ignominy.
he made enemies as easily as breathing, among america’s most luminary founders—Jefferson micromanaged his indictment & trial from the White House, Hamilton rather ironically accused him of being power-hungry (“his conduct indicates he seeks supreme power in his own person” yeah okay ham like that doesn’t remind you of anyone), and Washington himself said that while Burr had been a “brave and able officer….the question is whether he has not equal talents at intrigue.”
what’s more Burr seems so unapologetic through all of it, and almost confused as to why he should be—”my friend hamilton who I shot” and his journal’s bald recitation of the cost of each “rencontre“ with a prostitute. His flippant wit made him notorious and gave him a reputation for callousness; he wrote to theodosia that one of his friends’ wife had died, while another had given birth, “and so you see how the balance of life is preserved.” Yet he is simultaneously the doting father (theodosia once wrote that she would “rather not live” than be anyone else’s daughter) and was benefactor to more children than was entirely reasonable (most of them likely his own.)
more than any other founder, burr resists any attempt to make him palatable, to brush him with golf leaf or cast him in marble. James Parton’s The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, written in 1858, tries its damndest, but it comes off sounding ridiculous—the real burr has more than a few shades of boss tweed and pt barnum, a dionysian quality that you wouldn’t expect.
it makes him easy to caricature and cast as a villain, but not an easy character to grasp. He’s one of those unexplained fascinating personages of American history, and I like him for that.
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HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT THERES PEOPLE WHO ARENT NORMAL ABOUT PRESIDENTS??? ON TUMBLR LIKE *ME*??? <- genuinely excited as someone whos not normal about vaclav havel :]
WELCOME ABOARD!!!! Nobody here is normal abt their favorite dead ppl :))) (including yours truly)
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puppyfication of founding-fathers
#thomas jefferson#george washington#john adams#benjamin franklin#alexander hamilton#james madison#historyposting#save#THE HOUNDING FATHERS
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Dolley Madison would have made killer GRWM videos if she had instagram, a true influencer born too soon RIP queen I know you would have had the best Amazon storefront😔
So real you KNOW her sense of fashion would be impeccable in the modern era. Rip queen
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Wait your bday is on Presidents Day 🤯 Happy (late) birthday 🥳 But i do not think this is a coincidence 🫡
NO HAHAAHA im just passing along the president day wishes to mvb
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He's reading a wikipedia article on how to bang ur mom
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Happy birthday <3 (it's presidents' day)
I FORGOT IT WAS PRESIDENTS DAY. Thank you for the bday wishes im sure mvb would be delighted
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If the founding fathers were alive today
George washington: skibidi toilet
John adams: HATES skibidi toilet
Thomas jefferson: ??? Too busy having sex
James madison: disintegrates upon watching skibidi toilet
James monroe: flatlines
John quincy adams: HATES skibidi toilet
Andrew jackson: skibidi toilet
Martin van buren: skibidi toilet, but only because jackson did it first
William henry harrison: flatlines
John tyler: i actually know nothing abt john tyler. Maybe he'd like it
James k polk: skibidi toilet, but only because jackson did it first
Bonus
Abraham lincoln: got shot in the head while watching skibidi toilet
#george washington#john adams#thomas jefferson#james madison#james monroe#john quincy adams#andrew jackson#martin van buren#william henry harrison#john tyler#james k polk#historyposting#historymemes#i need to be euthanized actually#the demons told me to post this#oh yea#abraham lincoln
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