Abraham Lincoln Totally Looks Like Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln Totally Looks Like Jefferson Davis
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wow, he really does o.O
Evil twin?
That would make learning about the Civil War that much more interesting.
Good Twin?
And the good twin has the beard…
And then suddenly, the poster was attacked on one side by a gang of Lincoln cultists led by Henry Jaffa, and on the other by a gang of neoconfederates led by some random hick! They beat the living crap out of him until he Totally Looked Like a badly-prepared pizza. Then, turning upon one another, they proceeded to melee in a fashion which Totally Looked Like a gang of court-following intellectuals getting their asses handed to them by a rabid rabble of rowdy, racist rednecks.
Tragic. And hilarious.
Oh, well said! LOLMAO
who else thinks half the people won’t even know who Jefferson Davis is?
Pretty good example of irony here though.
I think he didn’t really get popular until he became Jefferson Starship.
But then he dropped the “Jefferson” and started to really suck…
I’d say once he and Weezy left Queens and moved on up to Manhattan.
Who is Jeffersen David?
Ironically, Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
That would, in fact, be the whole point of the comparison. :p
You know it’s kinda sad that i live in Texas and didn’t know who he was well that and i had thought that Abraham Lincoln was black until like 3rd grade. That’s american education for you they always rushed through history in school since they only had so much time to teach us. If we were lucky we would get to the Vietnam War then start over again the next year. I think we glossed over the Civil War a lot in school so that might explain it WWII was what we spent the most time on and sometimes WWI.
I live in Kentucky. My city has a lot of streets named after past presidents. This includes Jefferson street, which is quite a busy street going up through the middle of the city. All my life I assumed it was named for Thomas Jefferson, until recently when I noticed a small, very old, stone marker at an intersection reading “Jefferson Davis Highway”. Way to go for neutrality, Kentucky.
i used to live in bowling green kentucky
And Ginger Baker.
They do not look alike. Lincoln has better eyes, more hopefull. Davis just looks stressed.
Wouldn’t you be stressed too if your country was being attacked by another foreign country??
Well that’s what happens when you start firing cannons at that country.
And please tell me who committed to that first shot since history would love to know. It is a fact that it doesn’t quite know that yet.
Wow, way to defend racism and slavery. Really helps your argument.
Who said anything about racism and/or slavery?
How, exactly, does that defend racism and slavery? Slavery had nothing to do with the war. Lincoln was a racist bastard, who said that he would ensure the right of the Confederates to keep their slaves if they would stay in the Union. Furthermore, he didn’t even get around to “abolishing” slavery until three years after the war began. And even then no slaves were freed; he only emancipated slaves which were in Confederate states, where he had no legal authority to do so. He kept slavery around in the union (yes, there was slavery in the North) until after the war had ended.
The war was about the protection of Northern industry by the levying of tariffs on the south, and that was it. Lincoln promised no invasion if the tariffs were paid, regardless of the fate of slavery. And besides, slavery was on its way out. Abolition was a topic in the southern states just as it was in the north, and many abolitionists actually favored the Confederate cause because they knew that the federal Constitution protected slavery.
Also, look at what happened to slavery in the rest of the Western world. In every country but America it was abolished peacefully. In America, it stayed around for so long mainly because the South was prevented from industrializing as the rest of the world had, because of Washington’s tariffs, and also because of federal favor given to northern banking interests who held southern debt.
To ask questions about the causes and motivations behind the civil war in no way endorses slavery or racism. Rather, it opens doors to discussing how those things may have been ended peacefully, and without the unprecedented expansion of executive power that Lincoln created during the war. Which power has led America into immeasurable crises and bloodshed ever since.
While general Beauregard of the Confederate army ordered the literal first shot fired on Fort Sumter, the US had technically committed an act of war by sending warships to provision it (after promising not to do so). They had also marched their troops into Confederate states, razing crops and terrorizing civilians.
So whereas the South did technically fire the first shot, they did so because the North was clearly setting up Fort Sumter as a staging point for an invasion. And if you look further back, you will find that Lincoln had been saying all along that he would invade if the South didn’t pay up on the unconstitutional and economically-crippling tariffs that he had levied on them. Also, the evacuation of the fort was reached as one of the terms of peace settled by Secretary of State Willam Seward – which settlement was ignored entirely by Lincoln.
I suspect that things would have turned out much better for the South if Beauregard had not ordered the fort fired upon; the soldiers inside it were on the brink of leaving anyway because the US was provisioning them with ammunition but little food. And as Lincoln clearly ordered the fortification as bait to excuse his impending invasion (there were already columns moving southward before the battle of Ft. Sumter), the war would have lost support and the Southern states may have been able to depart the union peacefully.
TL;DR
Ah yes, the ringing sound of willful, perpetual ignorance. Although it’s more like plopping than ringing.
Appearances may be relative, but the two men could not have been further from each other in all ways. True history proves this.
True history (including many of Lincoln’s speeches before and early during his presidency) prove that they were both power-hungry bastards and terrible racists. The biggest difference that Lincoln was a shrewd enough politician to cover it up when it mattered.
OFFICIAL history likes to leave out that stuff. As they say, the winners of wars write the histories.
It makes me sad to see how many people from my own country not know who Jefferson Davis is.
For a funny trick question ask someone “Who was president during the civil war?” When they say “Abraham Lincoln” say “No, Abraham Lincoln AND Jefferson Davis”
The results of the war mean that Davis was never really president of anything. Just like if America had lost the “revolution” it would be called “That time we kicked those colonists’ dirty @rses and brought them back in line. Pip pip… Cheerio… Tea and crumpets”
Lincoln was president of what? The “United” States of America. I’m sorry but half of “his” country had left. They were no longer what you would consider “United” at any point during his reign as president.
No wai! Abraham Lincoln looks like Liam Neeson. Check it out.
As amatter of fact, Liam Neeson is supposed to play Lincoln in an upcoming film directed by Steven Spielberg.
All those white dudes look alike.
No, he doesn’t. What it SHOULD say is “This picture of Lincoln TLL this picture of Jefferson.” Seriously, no one looks like Lincoln.
Neither looks like the other! High cheekbones do not a TLL make. And like NP says: “Seriously, no one looks like Lincoln”. BTW, as per Craig Ferguson, Lincoln once said, “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” (And then right after that he said, “Hey! Who wants to go see a play?!”)
Interesting!
Actually, Lincoln was a vicious racist (who loved n***** jokes) while Davis adopted an abused Black child named Jim Limber – who was stolen by Union forces at the end of the war and disappeared forever despite Davis’ later attempts to find him.
Incidentally, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave and slaves in Union slave states (Missouri, Kentucky, and Delaware) were not freed until December, 1865, eight months after the War ended. Delaware voted AGAINST the 13th Amendment ending slavery.
Furthermore, the Emancipation Proclamation was not even issued until it was politically necessary. THREE YEARS AFTER THE WAR BEGAN. Until that point Lincoln was rather open about the fact that the whole reason for the invasion was that Northern business interests (i.e., those who saw to his election) would have suffered immeasurably from the end of Washington’s ability to levy tariffs and taxes against the South.
So slavery really had very little to do with the war. But then in another sense, slavery in some form or other is at the heart of ANY political struggle.
I really wish you would have been my history teacher i am learning more about the Civil war now then i ever did in school awesome i love learning about history!
You think the people at that time realized the similarity of the opposing leaders?
They don’t really look alike, but they were born in the same year just a few miles apart in Kentucky.
Thanks for the history lesson macfall
Oh, and also ty maddog because both you and macfall’s historical commentary has everything to do with Jefferson Davis’ resemblance to Abraham Lincoln….NOT!
Good thing there’s no rule saying we can’t give historical commentary in a ttl thread, then.
So true learning this stuff is awesome!
I’m glad to see there is somebody around that still know about the “original” history. So much history has been dropped over time because of political inconvenience. It’s left the US with such a twisted “understanding” of what the USA is and was.
In recent years kids no longer learn what the USSR was (is?) and the damage of socialism and the masses of citizens that die when is finally fully in the grip of it.
American blacks (along with everyone else here) are taught a fantasy about black history and the ones that travel to Africa and discover the truth of how their ancestors became slaves are blown away at how all they were taught was total crap. Had seen a travel channel show myself on same thing about 1 couple visiting an old city on the coast, don’t recall which one, but the guide there was some great granddaughter (whichever generation) of the village king from the days when their tribe rounded up slaves to sell to the white slavers. The couple cried and outraged at being taught such a huge lie, but it’s typical of politics.
There are so many examples now and in our books of complete rewrites of our history. Decades ago i got tired of so often hearing such things and no specifics, so i went to researching it myself and found nobody had told a scratch of how much has been hidden, lost, rewritten. And in recent years it’s being altered before our eyes.
I would like to know if y’all think that the South went to war because of their slaves… ’cause it was really to defend their rights and way of living which part of that was slavery but heck, Abraham had slaves Job had slaves and they were both said to be upright and blameless in the sight of the Lord. Or as it was put in “The Killer Angels” By Michel Sharra: “We fight for our ‘rats.” “Your whats?” Tom Chamberlain asked, “Our rats!”
They both look very hungry, presidents didn’t get much to eat those days…
We were just talking about how they looked a lot alike in my History class the other day!!!!
Is it just me or does Lincoln TLL Kramer off of Seinfeld in this picture?
Liam Neeson is playing Lincoln in upcoming Speilberg film.
Liam Neeson is also being considered to play Jefferson Davis.