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Badass abolitionist Harriet Tubman is set to join<\/a> Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, and everyone is cheering, right? Not so, said Samantha Bee<\/a> on Monday night’s episode of Full Frontal.<\/i><\/p>\n

Instead, Bee said, some Republicans are condemning the decision as disrespectful to the former president \u2014 and those are the tamest opposers. Reminder: Tubman isn’t even replacing Jackson on the bill. She’s just joining<\/i>\u00a0him.<\/p>\n

And Bee is having none of this dissent. “[Andrew Jackson] was not a founding father; he was a genocidal prick who forced the relocation of non-whites and fomented populist rebellion, kind of like a Donald Trump with better hair,” she said, referring to Jackson’s Native American removal policy (a.k.a. the Trail of Tears). Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Badass abolitionist Harriet Tubman is set to join Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, and everyone is cheering, right? Not so, said Samantha Bee on Monday night’s episode of Full Frontal. Instead, Bee said, some Republicans are condemning the decision … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2495,2496,903,735],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-harriet-tubman","tag-samantha-bee","tag-viral-videos","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}