Posted on 04/17/2016 6:40:03 PM PDT by huckfillary
As it is now widely known, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is set to retire Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill, to be replaced by a woman. Lew, a charter member of America's morally challenged Ruling Class, added that the choice would likely be a woman prominent in the nation's struggle for racial equality. Treasury spokepersons, reflecting the glacial-like pace at which the wheels of bureaucracy turn, added that the change would likely not be implemented until circa 2030, and that changes would be coming to other denominations of America's near-worthless fiat currency that would capture a "set of stories." If the government's good at anything, it's feeding us a set of stories. They've been feeding us a set of stories since, well, Andrew Jackson was president. They've turned our entire history into a set of stories, if not outright lies. We already know where this is going. The choice to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill will no doubt be part of the decades-long campaign to foist a pack of politically correct lies masquerading as history on our youth and their politically ignorant parents.
As a political prognosticator with an unblemished track-record of accuracy, I asked myself, "If you were Jack Lew, who would you choose to replace Andrew Jackson as the face of our once-venerable and valuable $20 bill?" I pondered the issue as I watched my beloved Pittsburgh Pirates annihilate the Milwaukee Brewers earlier today.
First off, I thought, Lew will not limit himself to a woman prominent in our nation's struggle for racial equality. At Valerie Jarrett's gentle but firm encouragement, Lew will greatly expand his pool of candidates to include a splendid panoply of statist heroes embracing gay, transgender, and LGBTQ activists. And so, I believe Jack Lew's top three candidates to replace Andrew Jackson are:
1- CAITLYN JENNER. Jenner is at the top of the list because he/she fully represents every value of the liberal Ruling Elite. She's a complete phony, totally narcissistic, and she has a wholly adverserial relationship with reality (i.e. the Artful Dilettante's definition of mental illness). Contrary to transgender philosophy, no matter how many surgeries Jenner has performed on him, or how many female hormones he has pumped into him, he cannot escape the fact that every cell in his body has the dreaded Y-Chromosome. There's simply no getting around it. Transgenderism is simply a highly deviant, psychotic way of dressing up for Halloween. But when you're a liberal, you can be anything you want to be. Rachel Dolezal can pretend to black, George Stephanopolis can pretend to be a journalist, and Bill Clinton can pretend to be a husband. For these reasons, I believe Caitlyn Jenner is at the top of Jack Lew's list.
2- RACHEL DOLEZAL. Dolezal is second on the list because she, like Jenner, fully represents every value of the liberal Ruling Elite. She's a complete phony, totally narcissistic, and she has a wholly adverserial relationship with reality (i.e. the Artful Dilettante's definition of mental illness). Dolezal was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, Washington from 2014 until June 15, 2015, when she resigned following allegations that she had lied about her racial identity and other aspects of her biography. (It was only after she was "dimed out" by her parents who told the world that she was, in fact, as white as a freshly fallen snowflake.) Though she resigned from the NAACP, the organization released a statement supporting Dolezal. She was chair of Spokane's police ombudsman commission from 2014 until she was dismissed by the city council on June 18, 2015 over "a pattern of misconduct". From 2008 to 2010 Dolezal was education director at the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, before resigning due to alleged discrimination. She now works as a hairdresser. Again, part of being a liberal is playing pretend on a grand scale. For this reason, Rachel Dolezal is second on Jack Lew's list to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
3- ROSA PARKS. Rosa Parks is a distant third, a dark-horse candidate, not because she hasn't accomplished anything, but because she has. And as you know, if you're not a complete, unaccomplished phony, you're unlikely to be on Lew's List.
And now, the Artful Dilettante's choice to replace Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill. Drumroll please......
There's really only one choice. And that is MERCY OTIS WARREN, the "Mother of the American Revolution." As every school child in America is no doubt aware, Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a political writer and philosopher during the American Revolution, and friend and confidante to many of the most prominent members of an exclusively male club known as the Founding Fathers. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few men and fewer women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was an exception. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties.
During the debate over the United States Constitution in 1788, she issued a pamphlet, Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventionswritten under the pseudonym "A Columbian Patriot," that opposed ratification of the document and advocated the inclusion of a Bill of Rights. Observations was long thought to be the work of other writers, most notably Elbridge Gerry. It was not until her descendant, Charles Warren, found a reference to it in a 1787 letter to British historian,Catharine Macaulay, that Warren was accredited authorship.[2] In 1790, she published a collection of poems and plays under her own name, a highly unusual occurrence for a woman at the time. In 1805, she published one of the earliest histories of the American Revolution, a three-volume History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, the first history of the American Revolution authored by a woman.
Warren formed a strong circle of friends with whom she regularly corresponded, including Abigail Adams, John Adams, Martha Washington and Hannah Winthrop, wife to John Winthrop. In a letter to Catharine Macaulay she wrote: "America stands armed with resolution and virtue; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whom she derived her origin. Yet Britain, like an unnatural parent, is ready to plunge her dagger into the bosom of her affectionate offspring."[9] Through their correspondence they increased the awareness of women's issues, were supportive, and influenced the course of events to further America's cause.[8]
She became a correspondent and adviser to many political leaders, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and especially John Adams, who became her literary mentor in the years leading to the Revolution. In a letter to James Warren, Adams wrote, "Tell your wife that God Almighty has entrusted her with the Powers for the good of the World, which, in the cause of his Providence, he bestows on few of the human race. That instead of being a fault to use them, it would be criminal to neglect them."[10]
Since Warren knew most of the leaders of the Revolution personally, she was continually at or near the center of events from 1765 to 1789. All of Mercy Otis Warren’s work was published anonymously until 1790 when she published Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, the first work bearing her name. The book contains eighteen political poems and two plays. The two dramas, The Sack of Rome and The Ladies of Castille, deal with liberty, social and moral values that were necessary to the success of the new republic.[8] She wrote several plays, including the satiric The Adulateur (1772).
Directed against Governor Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts, The Adulateur foretold the War of Revolution. It was published as a part of a longer play by an unknown author without Warren's consent in 1773. One of the main characters in Warren's part of the play is Rapatio, who represented Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of Massachusetts at the time. Because Warren was a Whig and Hutchinson was a Tory, Warren disagreed with Hutchinson's views. Therefore, Rapatio is the antagonist in The Adulateur. The protagonist is Brutus, a character that Warren created to represent her brother, James Otis. In the play, the characters that are Whigs are brave, independent people. The characters that are Tories are selfish and rude. Needless to say, the play includes a happy ending for the Whigs. After the play was published, Hutchinson actually become known as Rapatio to citizens of Massachusetts who identified with the Whigs. Because her first play was so successful and she thoroughly enjoyed writing about politics, Mercy Otis Warren did not stop there.[11]
In 1773, she wrote The Defeat, also featuring the character based on Hutchinson. Hutchinson had no idea the accuracy of her plot nor completely comprehended the impact she made on his political fate. Warren’s assistance in the movement to remove Governor Hutchinson from his position through The Defeat was one of her greatest accomplishments, and she allowed the piece a rare happy ending[12]. Mercy began to doubt as she wrote the third installment in her trilogy, feeling the power of her satire compromised her divine purpose to be a “member of the gentler sex,” but found encouragement from Abigail Adams, who told her, “God Almighty has entrusted [you] with Powers for the good of the World.”[12] With this affirmation, Warren then provided her sharpest political commentary yet: In 1775 Warren published The Group, a satire conjecturing what would happen if the British king abrogated the Massachusetts charter of rights. The anonymously published The Blockheads (1776) and The Motley Assembly (1779) are also attributed to her. In 1788 she published Observations on the New Constitution, whose ratification she opposed as an Anti-Federalist.
Mercy Otis Warren is regarded as being among the most influential writers of the Revolutionary War. Her work earned the congratulations of numerous prominent men of the age, including George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, who remarked, “In the career of dramatic composition at least, female genius in the United States has outstripped the Male.”
In 1790 she published Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, the first work bearing her name. The book contains eighteen political poems and two plays. The two plays are called, The Sack of Rome and The Ladies of Castille, deal with liberty, social and moral values that were necessary to the success of the new republic.[8]
In 1805, she completed her literary career with a three-volume History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. President Thomas Jefferson ordered subscriptions for himself and his cabinet and noted his "anticipation of her truthful account of the last thirty years that will furnish a more instructive lesson to mankind than any equal period known in history."
Mercy Otis Warren is only woman who should be considered to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill---not Abigail Adams, not Susan B. Anthony, not Eleanor Roosevelt, and not Caitlyn Jenner. Unfortunately, she has a snowball's chance in hell of making Lew's List.
I love Mercy Otis Warren. I am proud to own a first edition copy of her Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous. She may never make the $20 bill, but she occupies a prominent place on my bookshelf.--The Artful Dilettante
Sources: Wikipedia
In 2030 people will be asking, “What is money?”
Marilyn Monroe
All things considered - changing who’s on a $20 just doesn’t mean a flip to me.
They changed the quarters to state quarters - never look, a quarter is a quarter.
No woman deserves to be on the $20 bill.
Tis is all about sexist pandering and sticking it to one of the few “dead white guys” presidents who shut down corrupt central banking.
Mary Ann or Ginger?
Like ISIS and the Muslim hoardes they seek to erase all traces of our heritage.
It’s Tawana Brawley. I’ve been alerted.
Then why are they wasting their time and the country's time with this? Do they think they can make such a decision now that will be binding on all presidents and Treasury Departments between now and 2030?
Andy Capp’s wife.
When you need $100, get two $50 bills. When you have to break a 50, get $10, $5, and $1. We don’t need a $20.
Marsha Phillips
Morticia Addams.
Soon to join those Susan B. Anthony coins nobody wanted.
Madonna?
Barbara Streissand?
Beyonce?
Britney?
Lady Gaga?
Judith Chichi Opara Mazagwu?
Nancy Pelosi?
Hillary!
(the final act of Destruction for American currency)
Nina Hartley.
well well...
does Nina have anything to do with your depression?
Since the ‘RATS are kicking a ‘RAT politician off of the twenty, maybe they should replace him with a picture of your average welfare queen. After all, it’s the freeloading welfare queens that provides power to the ‘RAT politicians and keeps the party alive.
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