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At least Teddy's got it half-right...
Much as I don't like Jackson in general, he's right.
spambot2000
#1 *Japanese internment intensifies*
Eunoterp
Post all the feel good homilies you want, but how about some real solutions.
violetlovesjasmine
The trouble with quotes on the internet is you never know if they're real. - Abraham Lincoln, 2017
stefansf
Go Canada! At least our neighbors have a brain and heart
NiceBluishHue
Word is Lady Liberty is feeling a bit awkward these days.
FoxPesdassi
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when God hates all the same people that you do." -- Anne Lamott
catznstuff
Lady Liberty:Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Dude lives in NYC and doesn't even know this one
polmyrr
"If you are a racist I will attack you with the North"
JackHarknessNerdySidekick
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
warick
*zerg rush ensues*
Ilikatodoathechacha
"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel sanders
DrForester
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but how your country can profit me..." ~ Donald J. Trump
PrettyFlyForARabbi
" Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Datsinginguy
Franklin D. Roosevelt for President 2020. Campaign slogan: "Even dead, he's still a better president than Trump"
frustratedwheelofcheese
"Grab them by the pussy" -45th president
OccasionalPunctuation
Admittedly, many of these men owned slaves, said horribly racist things, and caused things like the Trail of Tears, so...yeah.
warick
And passed laws like this: http://historythings.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/usconstitution2.png
YourTrueThoughts
GaySpacePirate
Except I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, lol. And I fail to see how the quotes of the men who made this nation are "autistic screeching".
DoseOfScience
I suspect it's more of an 'I'm tired of seeing politics, make with the meme!' response.
TheKarateChimp
Stop beating around the bush. What's your point?
OdoThePure
Immigrants are great if they are willing to assimilate into the host culture and values. Islam refuses to assimilate.
Raserenus
Which is exactly what Teddy was saying in the first quote that was listed by him.
mericanidiocracy
briank33
"Millions of peaches, peaches for free" The Presidents of the United States of America
DefNotUrMaMa
Millions of pesos... pesos for free and a wall.
D1RTYPENGU1N
LOOK OUT!
AGenerationLost
Well Carter was from GA!
jessenator
MILLIONS OF PIECES! PIECES FOR ME! ~Borderlands Psycho
spookyactionatadistance
Everyone deserves a equal break. Wow. That was forgotten pretty quickly now wasn't it.
4Outof5DentistsRecommend
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past...
4Outof5DentistsRecommend
...Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." ~JFK~
Dsoir
That's all good , and I'm for it, I'm an immigrant myself, how about the ones that don't want to be american?
GaySpacePirate
I said Teddy only had it half right, so...
herro2u
Honest question: what part do you think he got half right? Background for proclivity: 1/2 Canadian, raised in East Asia, joined the 1/2
herro2u
Marine Corps, deployed, am an American.
johnvictor
They'll find it exceedingly difficult as time goes on to continue living somewhere they refuse to acclimatize to.
NotACanadian
Fun Fact: All 38 dead Presidents would need to spin in their graves at 12% the speed of light to supply the entire U.S with energy.
NahYouDontKnow
How does something spin at the speed of light?
NahYouDontKnow
Err I mean to say, angular speed (spin) and speed (of light) are two very different units
TheGuyBehindTheOtherGuy
"Be excellent to each other " - Bill & Ted
grabthembythepussy
And the best of em All "Grab them by the pussy".Donald G.Trump
BettinYouLoveFreakMode
Kewra
Bill and Ted for POTUS and VP
harambesghost18
You realize the goal isn't to keep hard working LEGAL immigrants out... It's to keep the low life scum that want to hurt you and I out...
Jsupes
what does that have to do with Bill & Ted?
NoNightDigging
At what point did we stray so far from the excellent timeline?
lxix
Dude, we gotta rescue the babes!
happytreeleaf
If you're one of those asshats that didn't vote, or gave a protest vote, instead of voting for Hillary then this is your doing. You own it.
Datsinginguy
Bill & Ted For President 2020.
FuriousSalt
being racist assholes might not be a uniquely american trait, but i must say you guys do it better than anyone.. aside from hitler
RavingChemistGuyScienceBitch
We really do take the cake man :/
happytreeleaf
If you're one of those asshats that didn't vote, or gave a protest vote, instead of voting for Hillary then this is your doing. You own it.
Jsupes
"and party on dudes"
BipolarBat
Station.
noforeplay
-Abraham Lincoln
sahdad
As a Native American not all immigrants have been for the benefit of the land.
GaySpacePirate
I have native ancestry as well. I think it's a shame that natives and whites couldn't have lived in peace. America would have been better.
Tanwolf
I think looking at both groups as a group rather than individuals is a disservice. There were bad natives and bad whites.
Rainblowjob
on the upside, native government was a HUGE contributor to (among other things) the US constitution. on the downside, that isnt taught...
2boocoo
About time to drop that Native bullshit. You would all be assimilated or have been killed in nearly every other nation in the world.
sahdad
Excuse me? "Native bullshit"?
IAMCRAIG
It doesnt change the fact that what happened to them was awful and that first nations still continue to live in abhorrent conditions-
IAMCRAIG
throughout north america. Saying "oh you should be happy you weren't outright exterminated and instead genocided a little" is fucked up.
LlamaLingo
"Assimilate himself to us" - the thing many muslims refuse to in western countries.
IAMCRAIG
It would be easier for them if they weren't met with such xenophobia and racism.
LlamaLingo
Are you for real?
IAMCRAIG
Uhh, yes? Do you live under a rock?
LlamaLingo
They're met with "xenofobia" by some people because how they and/or other immigrants act. And many fail to prove the "xenofobes" wrong
IAMCRAIG
I'm not sure why you're purposely mispelling xenophobia. Also I'm pretty sure you have never actually interacted with these people in your
FreyaNicci
Ignoring the millions of Muslim Americans that are already doing this.
LlamaLingo
Ignoring the many that dont, across the WORLD.
FreyaNicci
Thanks for proving yourself a bigot. History is rife with examples of why you are wrong.
LlamaLingo
Hmm?
KingPrometheus
1/ As inspiring as this may be, the majority of these quotes came from a time when it was hard work to simply get from shore to shore.
KingPrometheus
While I agree we should be open to people of all races, religions and cultures. America is not a Benti Box, we are a mixing pot. A stew of
KingPrometheus
Peoples from all over the world, and separation only causes conflict. Abandon bits of your culture and assimilate to make the whole of
KingPrometheus
Our culture a better place, trying to maintain your original culture and keeping yourself separate from society in that way only has one
KingPrometheus
Outcome, and that's animosity.
OhGodHowDidThisGetInHereIAmNotGoodWithComputer
So I take it you won't be visiting Chinatown anytime soon?
Tanwolf
Teddy has also said the only good Indian is a dead one.
HelpHelper
Well he wasn't wrong.
imhereforthepuppies
Christ dude wtf
coaltrain1
Actually some people attribute this quote to General Philip Sheridan.
Arsikere
also, according to Peter Nguyen, Walt Whitman feels than the only good Chinaman is a dead Chinaman
RodStrongo
Thought that was Jackson
Relykwastaken
And FDR authorized the Japanese internment camps... I think Trump is learning from our history, just the wrong side of it
Cheesecakecrush
Is Trump bringing back internment camps?
zak55
He plans to expand the size of detention centers for soon to be deported Illegal immigrants. If their countries don't take them back 1/?
zak55
they'll be stuck there for who knows how long and that can build up. I worry how that will develop.
MayorLittlefingerCarcetti
No, that was General Sheridan and is a misquote as he allegedly said "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead" though he denies it
Bibes
*denied
Tanwolf
That wasn't the full quote. Ted says he wouldn't go that far but 9 out of 10 are and he won't ask about the tenth.
Tanwolf
See my reply to erbiumyttriumytterbium for the full quote.
RhealityBytes
Key differene, Indians weren't immagrants
bloatedplutocrat
crazyinternet
Still a horrible thing to say!
Ultemus
Yeah! They're from Indiana!
GilderoyPopDropNLockart
Damn Hooisers
Sugarcrotch
No they where real natives
Bibes
*were
Sugarcrotch
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TwoCheese
Oh gross
erbiumyttriumytterbium
That was Philip Sheridan, US Army General. He was not a nice person.
Tanwolf
Sorta. He used that as part of what he said. “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I
Tanwolf
believe nine out of every 10 are,” Roosevelt said during a January 1886 speech in New York. “And I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely
Tanwolf
into the case of the tenth."
Tanwolf
Trump's remark about Mexican's is similar I think.
touchofmesut
Religion isn't a thing but your President swears on a bible. Hm.
grabthembythepussy
Same with "In God we trust" instead of "E pluribus unum" on the dollar to fight Communism
IWasInThePool
They're not required to.
TigerViking
They can swear on any book they want, most have just used Bibles
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
The bible was added to the ceremony in the '50s to put in contrast to communism. Same thing for "in God We Trust" on the money.
GaySpacePirate
Same with adding "under god" to the pledge.
tomitau
Really? I didn't knew that (non-American here). On the other hand, I remember reading somewhere that only US President who didn't swear 1/2
tomitau
on Bible was some Quaker, who didn't swear on it because it was against his religious beliefs. 2/2
GaySpacePirate
Teddy Roosevelt didn't use a Bible, John Quincy Adams & Franklin Pierce used a book of law. LBJ used a Catholic missal that belonged to JFK.
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
That would be incorrect. For example: Jefferson was a 100% atheist and therefor would have also refused to be sworn in on a bible.
tomitau
Indeed, well put. Thanks for informing me :).
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
Happy to. (PS Is it sad that it's a Canadian teach you this stuff?)