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1/ THE FIRST ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A PRESIDENT

Let’s have some conspiracy fun, eh?

As usual I’m doing this one on the fly, with just a few loose facts & a spark of inspiration?

Which President “suffered” the first assassination attempt?

I’ll give you this image:

2/ That is Richard Lawrence & his target?

Andrew Jackson

What is AJ most famous for?

Fighting the banks.

Specifically: THE Bank

He had a crazy notion it’d influence our elections & cause the rich to become too powerful

Fun fact about the would-be assassin:

*He was a BRIT*

3/ Now you’ll note I put “suffered” in quotes regarding the assassination attempt, & for an awesome reason:

When the guns misfired, AJ just about beat Ricky to death with a cane

AJ apparently yelled “I know where this came from!” about the assassin

Hmm. But there’s more:

4/ First, one of the people that stopped AJ mid-beatdown was Davy Crockett

That’s right:

AJ went so medieval on this guy’s ass

that Davy-Fucken-Crockett had to go “Jesus Andy, enough!”

Legends

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5/ But back to the would-be-assassin himself

Of course he was crazy. But his crazy was interesting:

He believed he was the King of England & President AJ’s opposition to the Bank meant he was denying the Crown what it was owed by Congress

“I know where this came from”.

Hmmm.

6/ Now, by all accounts, Ricky was crazy

Nonetheless, reading his days before the attempt is interesting

He wanted to leave the US but said “unnamed persons” were preventing him

His reason for the attempt was so The Bank would happen & England (& supposedly he) would be paid

7/ Supposedly, it was later stated that AJ thought Senator Calhoun planned it

Not the massively powerful banking factions whose plans he was interfering with

Call me crazy, but I don’t think AJ thought a rival in the Senate planned an assassination “just because”

Occam’s Razor

8/ (Side note: some of the reports suggest AJ didn’t get to hit him with the cane; others suggest he got quite a few licks in.

I know which story I prefer

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9/ The assassination attempt happened in 1835, at the height of “The Bank War” & when President Jackson had turned the tides

& “The Demise of the Bank of the US” began

Precious metals, eh? Sound familiar?

& for the crazy assassin to SAY it was because of the Bank... c’mon

10/ Now some might say “Wasn’t Calhoun AJ’s VP?”

Not in 1835 he wasn’t. Then it was Van Buren.

“The Second Bank of the US” (& indeed the 1st) are their own threads, but it merits a brief look

After all it was the predecessor to The Fed

11/ The 2nd Bank of the US (2BUS for short) was created/promoted by several figures

-James Madison
-Henry Clay
-Calhoun
-2BUS Presidences

Let’s start with the POTUS who started it

Why did Madison start 2BUS?

To finance war

War with whom?

The Brits of course. In 1812

13/ The War was extremely avoidable & pointless - at least from the British side

They repeatedly kidnapped/Shanhai’d our citizens & attacked us

While at war with Napoleon

Can you *imagine* just kidnapping a country’s citizens & *not* thinking it’d start a war?

Why?

14/ If you think the Royal Navy just REALLY wanted to beef up its personnel, I have a bunch of bridges to sell you

A simple quote sums that up, by GuttIe R0thschiId (*1753-1849*)

As always, playing longball

The US & its liberty has been a thorn in [their] side for centuries

15/ UK provokes war with IS
->
US ends up in massive debt
->
US thinks it needs a centraI bank

Madison was besties with Alexander Hamilton, British-territory-born father of *both* US CentraI Banks

More than that: he’s the father of National Debt

Plenty has been written on him

16/ Fast-Forward: as you may well know

President Jackson - for the first & only time - paid off our National Debt

Disaster for [them] & their efforts to create financial sIavery!

What could be done?

More war, of course. But that’s another story

17/ We need to find evidence that the UK had an interest in the US having a central bank & National Debt

Otherwise you just might buy the 1st attempted assassination was by a random madman against the only president to end our debt & close 2BUS

So we go back to the players:

18/ Henry Clay was Speaker of the House & Sec of State

In Congress, he was a major War Hawk, & led the call for a Declaration of War (which as shown above, the Brits were definitely seeking)

Then he was involved in the treaty process

Odd...

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Wait, rebuild his family fortune

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19/ What destroyed his fortune?

“The Panic of 1819”... caused by reckless inflation of 2BUS

Which he was a huge proponent of

Ok. Hindsight is 20/20, &...

Wait, he fought against AJ to *continue* 2BUS a decade later?

Man, he’s a glutton for punishment

Or...

20/ Frankly, Clay seems like a No Name / John Kerry sort of asshole

A War Hawk, then swooping in and “negotiating” the peace plan

& proclaiming their awesomeness

Andrew Jackson did not agree with his banking solutions

21/ Now I doubt I’ll find a document online saying “Clay was a British agent”. Some say his tariff plans were decidedly anti-British

Maybe he was a useful idiot

Regardless, he

-Had us enter the war
-Was involved in the “peace process” like John Kerry
-Wanted a Ntnl Bank & Debt

22/ On to John Calhoun

Everyone remembers him as the guy who loved sIavery

It’s well-deserved

His argument for why we should annex Texas was based on the fear that the Brits might take it to spread their abolitionist ideas

That’s one example

23/ In fact, he loved it so much

He helped start the Civil War despite dying 10 years before it

His last words were “The South, the poor South!”

What a bitch

All you need to know about Calhoun is summed up in the last 2 pics:

All men are not equal
&
personal liberty=bad

24/ Calhoun also - as Secretary of State - negotiated an agreement for British occupancy of what was the Oregon territory

Back to 2BUS: he not only helped create it, he tried to expand it with a giant “bonus” of pork

Read that Madison quote: “inexorably corrupted”

25/ As we proceed, the thing I consider is that these people likely aren’t [knowing] agents of British banking

but rather Useful Idiots being nudged a certain direction

or people with bad ideas that fit into [their] larger plan

Think AOC. Think she gets Rothschilds briefings?

26/ Because WAIT: what’s this?

The Oregon Treaty, involving British occupation, was with the HUDSON’S BAY CO

Why does that set off alarms?

You’ll have to read this amazing thread on MARITIME LAW by @1FreeInhabitant

Calhoun=Useful Idiot for HBC

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27/ Read that thread. All of it.

The HBC was an ENGLISH ROYAL CHARTER

A corporation; the UK using commerce as a tool of War

& Calhoun as SecState negotiated their occupation of the land

while also working to skyrocket our national debt

28/ Calhoun had to be very stupid to not see what he was doing

So let me revise my above statement: people said AJ thought Calhoun was behind the assassination attempt

Maybe

But as a political rival? Hell no.

But look at it all from THIS angle:

29/ Calhoun

-loved slavery & governance
-helped give a large chunk of land to the British Royal Charter company
-fought vehemently for a National Bank
-Fought to expand the bank & our National Debt
-Pushed us towards civil war

President AJ had a different plan:

30/ So maybe Calhoun did pull some Frank Underwoodian-style machinations

But not to eliminated a political rival

If he did, he’d be serving a higher power

By the way, you know who brokered the Oregon Treaty as a neutral 3rd Party?

Kaiser-Fucken-Wilhelm

31/ Yes the treaty was arbitrated by Kaiser Wilhelm I

Whose son married Queen Victoria’s daughter

A bit of a sidebar, but interesting nonetheless

32/ So let’s look at the President of 2BUS!

There were 3 (& 1 Acting); while I have no doubt they’d all be interesting, we’re looking into the Assassination Attempt on AJ, so we’ll focus on

Nicholas Biddle

2BUS President for all of AJ’s Presidency (which was 1829-1837, FYI)

33/ First thing to get out of the way: he looks like a bitch

Next: we don’t have to look far for British connections:

Biddle was James Monroe’s *Minister to the Royal Court*

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Had direct access to British Royalty

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34/ Even as a lowly state Senator, Biddle’s “cause” was the re-chartering of a National Bank

I have to say, if that we’re my STATE Senator had that as their primary mission,

I’d wonder who the hell he was working for. Because it sure isn’t for the people of PA.

35/ Now pay close attention here: remember the Panic of 1819, which made Henry Clay lose his fortune?

Here’s a concise layout of how it happened

Gold & silver - none of that “fiat paper money” bullshit - was snatched up from small banks to pay Europeans

by the National Bank

36/ Funny side story: Biddle’s brother wrote metaphorical checks with his mouth that his ass couldn’t cash

He got into the equivalent of an Internet comment flame war with a journalist

assaulted the journalist while they were sick

Then got killed in a fair fight by the guy

37/ Now, you want to see the fucked-up precedent being set?

Politics for the next 200 years:

AJ hated the National Bank, saying it corrupts our government

Biddle poured thousands of dollars in THE BANK’S MONEY into a campaign to defeat AJ

Are you fucking kidding me?

38/ Remember where our assassin was before the attack?

Philly, where “unnamed persons” prevented him from traveling to Europe

What state did Biddle represent?

PA, born in, lived in, & died in Philly

Graduate of UPenn

I wonder if Biddle knew powerful &/or sketchy people there

39/ Oh, & he DELIBERATELY caused a recession to fuck with Jackson...

Where have we seen that move before?

His BS caused another Panic in 1837, & then he was arrested for Fraud

40/ So we have Biddle

-deployed to the Royal Court
-lived where the would-be assassin was before the attack
-threw the Bank’s money into defeating AJ
-caused the Panics of 1819 & 1837
-

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-Was arrested for Fraud

Epic quote coming up:

41/ President Jackson had a quote that I think spells out the assassination attempt quite cleanly

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And he fucking did, & killed the National Debt. What a baller.

I think if he were alive today, he’d also say this

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