Historical Cagematch: Who Is The Bigger BAMF Among US Presidents?
Inspired partially by something in a post isis2015 made, and partially a rehash of a conversation Dr. Boyfriend and I had this weekend during my visit. You know how people sometimes have those time machine cagematch discussions - you know, if you had a time machine, and so could pit Historical Figure X and Historical Figure B against each other at their peak, one on one no holds barred beat-down for who is the bigger badass, who do you think would win?
Well, here's a real vicious head-scratcher for you:
.Andrew Jackson.
Seventh President of the United States of America. According to popular legend, one time a guy tried to shoot him, and when both guns misfired Jackson proceeded to hurl himself upon and beat the living shit out of his would-be assassin with his cane until the Secret Service finally decided to step in and had to pull the president off of the assassin.
This is also the man who threw not one but two parties which resulted in the White House becoming completely trashed.
.Theodore Roosevelt.
Twenty-sixth President of the United States of America. At one point, he did this:
Presumably for no other reason than because he fucking could. (Who's going to stop him? The moose? The moose had way more sense than that, clearly.)
This is also the man known for popularizing the phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick", which really says everything you need about him right there.
So there's your set-up, folks: Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson and Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, in a fight to see who is the bigger, boisterous, ballsier badass. Picture whatever arena setting of your choosing. But two men enter, one man leaves -- at the bare minimum, after his opponent has been reduced to an unconscious profusely-bleeding mass on the floor.
Your thoughts?
Well, here's a real vicious head-scratcher for you:
.Andrew Jackson.
Seventh President of the United States of America. According to popular legend, one time a guy tried to shoot him, and when both guns misfired Jackson proceeded to hurl himself upon and beat the living shit out of his would-be assassin with his cane until the Secret Service finally decided to step in and had to pull the president off of the assassin.
This is also the man who threw not one but two parties which resulted in the White House becoming completely trashed.
.Theodore Roosevelt.
Twenty-sixth President of the United States of America. At one point, he did this:
Presumably for no other reason than because he fucking could. (Who's going to stop him? The moose? The moose had way more sense than that, clearly.)
This is also the man known for popularizing the phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick", which really says everything you need about him right there.
So there's your set-up, folks: Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson and Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, in a fight to see who is the bigger, boisterous, ballsier badass. Picture whatever arena setting of your choosing. But two men enter, one man leaves -- at the bare minimum, after his opponent has been reduced to an unconscious profusely-bleeding mass on the floor.
Your thoughts?