Harriet Tubman to replace Jackson on $20

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html

Cool news! Freedom-fighter Harriet Tubman will replace slaver Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill (in 2020).

I wonder what it will look like. Every picture of Tubman I've seen has her looking very stern. Like you'd take the bill out to pay for something and Tubman would scowl at you like "you don't need that shit".

I think this is a good trade off and native Americans will be happy.

Cool, I hadn't realized that the Treasury was actually going to do this. I voted for her, but I thought the Women on the Twenty group still had some lobbying to do.

Phew, I read it as Tubgirl for a moment.

Also...there are Hamilton fans? Hamilton was a piece of shit that deserved to be shot by Aaron Burr.

And a monarchist. Oh and the best thing he gave us was the idea of implied powers and the fucked up banking system we enjoy today, so yeah, fuck Hamilton.

A human trafficker, a dealer in stolen property, and a terrorist associate who directly aided a terrorist. Her picture will likely be taken directly from the "Wanted" posters. She only escaped being hanged with John Brown and her other associates because she was too sick to participate in his raid.

But fortunately she was a strong black Republican who worked as a spy to dismantle the Democrats, so she gets a pass.

Two of his greatest accomplishments, without which the US would likely resemble a cross between Argentina and Canada.

A statist like you would say that.

Ben Carson apparently likes him because he was the last president who balanced the federal budget. Of course, it's slightly easier to do that when you can use slave labour for big projects.

He did, charitably, suggest Tubman could be honored by being on the $2 bill, a bill so rare it makes straight Republicans look commonplace.

I was pulling for Tina Turner.

Pulling what?

Good. Now let's change the fifty dollar bill and get someone better than Grant.

Sure. Let's put Reagan on the $50.

100% agreed. IIRC there have been serious suggestions regarding that in the past. Eisenhower and Kennedy already have honorary dollar and half dollar coins with their likenesses.

President Hamilton balanced the federal budget? Who knew?

I like Jackson for his last name if nothing else.

Grant smashed the original incarnation of the Klan.

Anything that gives the finger to white supremacists is noble.

While he himself was smashed!

So Tubby made the $20! I think I saw her on Heritage Corner in the early 70's. Well done.

The currency isn't going to change until 2020, so unless Hillary wins I doubt they'll stick with the Tubman plan.

If Bernie wins they'll probably go with Che, which will be fitting because the $20 would soon be worth about as much as Venezuelan bolivar.

If Trump wins they'll just add text saying "Accepted at all Trump hotels, casinos, and resorts. Bring lots!"

Trump wins and we should put Obama (the sole reason a Trump could get elected) or Mickey Mouse (self explan.). Same diff.

Saw this on Facebook.

Wow! Andrew Jackson, a racist populist who has for generations been honored as a founding father of the Democratic Party, will be replaced on the Twenty Dollar Bill by Harriet Tubman, a black, gun-toting, evangelical Christian, Republican woman. There is some justice in the world after all!
---Robert P. George

Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, Hamilton planting "Burr is a daughter fucker", rumors to try to ruin him was a heroic and noble act, your red X-es brought me around.
My deepest apologies.

I read the thread too quickly and thought it meant Harriet Tubman replacing Janet Jackson. BTW what ever happened to her? She was big about 20 years ago.

She showed her boob and that's all she wrote.

Yet Justin Timberlake's career is going quite well. SEXISM I say!

So will it be weird now if I toss out $20s at the strips club?

Every time I make it rain on 'em, Tubman will be looking at me disapprovingly.