Quotes about “thomas jefferson”
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the play is not about how woke hamilton is. part of the play is about him being slightly more woke than thomas jefferson, but like very little is actually about it. i would not describe it as hamilton being woke. no. see, like, thomas jefferson was a garbage person and he and alexander hamilton is to the right of him. so
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do they say that hamilton is an abolitionist? what they do show is him dunking on thomas jefferson for owning slaves, without actually defending his own position. which is actually very true to real life in my experience. many people criticize other people for stuff that they themselves are also guilty of.
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curly ray jefferson? yeah, and she you know curly ray jefferson, thomas jefferson's slave wife. she lives in monticello. oh i was thinking of like the jeffersons and then yeah wow, just cause i said slave wife you think i'm talking about the most influential african american focused tv show of all time? well, i think he was thinking it before he said it. wow, that's how racist he is no, you know beans don't burn in the kitchen or something. that's a nelly song. oh, yeah
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again, i feel the need to defend myself when i watched it. i did not think to myself whoa that thomas jefferson's a really cool guy who's completely devoid of any problematic things in his history, but i said you know what great songs and a very catchy song
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you should watch hamilton, i think you would like it. i... there's a bit of discourse around it. no, honestly that discourse is literally from people who just spend all day reading podcast subreddits. you can enjoy a piece of media without leaving it and being like, thomas jefferson never did anything wrong! like it's... it's idiocy to me.
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wasn't he? i thought george washington was like a... he was like a neither. george washington was like, i want no parties please. i thought he was like one of those. an incel. they mean wig without the h. i see. i understand your point. my grass, dude. washington specifically said no political parties. thomas jefferson eight years later. i'm about to end this man's whole career.
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people are like oh don't you can't talk shit about like ben franklin. you can't talk shit about thomas jefferson these motherfuckers were the smartest people on the planet allegedly and whenever they got mad that somebody insulted them they challenged them to a one on one duel how dumb do you have to be to be like?
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like, were they living in the mountains or something? just dumb rocks. i gotta say though, even if mr. mount rushmore was crazy, he chose four good presidents for the mountain. did he? dude, washington, lincoln, those are like a hundred percent. you're making any mountain with four presidents, they're on it. yeah. and then, so i wanna leave thomas jefferson for last. who's the other one?
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shut him down. open up shop. the rough riders. yes. okay. alright. so, so he like kind of rode out but the mexican american war. sorry, spanish american war. i mean, i'm educating you on your own country's history. so, well, you're talking to a guy that, you know, was flipping through magazines in history. back when it remains a lot and i mean, yes, thomas jefferson did own slaves and then also have
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illegitimate children with him, but in all the rankings dudes he's usually in the top 10. as a person maybe you know not such a great guy especially through the lens of history but as an administrator i mean the economists top 10 rankings speak for themselves. and then you said you were saving jeffy for the yen? that's thomas jefferson yeah that's who i was talking about right there. oh okay i thought you were talking about someone else.
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george washington and thomas jefferson's birthday that can't be true. it's the dumbest thing i've ever heard it's a consolidation of a number of early presidents birthdays that all happen to be in february is honestly one of the it's is i can't the banter doesn't exist is it's the stupidest thing i've ever heard like oh beautiful. this is what we want to see i
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new york, just hold up on the bridges, okay? like could you just relax a little bit on the bridges? rfk bridge? you know what? i've never seen the rfk bridge. let's put it down near the costco. and i guess if there's a park there that would probably... maybe it's thomas jefferson park. and i'm gonna say that this is a professional photograph taken very early in the 80s, maybe like an 82.
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i had it once until i found out they endorsed bigotry and now that's also true. that's a good point, yeah there is that. but then you gotta remember like you live in america and thomas jefferson owns slaves. you gotta remember it's not like the company does, it's just the ceo. yeah. yeah. he's kind of a... yeah fair enough. in any given office, there's gonna be one racist. and the only question is what position the racist occupies. or the bigot occupies i should say.
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how do you know so much about cato the elder? um, hang on, hang on, i gotta get my screen region going here without dropping the ball. um, i listened to that four part behind the bastards series about thomas jefferson while i was on the bike the last like three days. so there's references to cato the elder there. i have to, i stand on the shoulders of giants for that.
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that plus a podcast would go crazy. i mean, listen, i listen to that whole behind the bastards miniseries on thomas jefferson. i'm just going to come out and say it. i don't care if lin manuel miranda gets offended. i do not want to smoke with him. that sounds like a nightmare. this guy sounds like he's got he's got some cognitive dissonance. i knew he was like a i'm trying to figure out how to phrase it. i don't want to say controversial figure. i feel like that does it a disservice.
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no, no, sorry lin manuel miranda didn't say that. as far as i can tell, you know, i mean lin manuel miranda seems a better character than thomas jefferson.
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