Thomas Jefferson

And I just said to my Swiss colleague and to Maya, I said, just so you know, this is how crazy the United States system was.

Jefferson writes the Constitution Napoleon has the problem with the Brits.

The bankers in the city of London counterfeit money to make Napoleon's life miserable.

Napoleon has to turn around and sell Louisiana Purchase to fight that.

The purchase of the Louisiana property is against the Constitution of the United States.

So what does Thomas Jefferson do? He goes and tells Congress, look, I just wrote this.

It's unconstitutional, but it's such a good deal, we need to do it.

Now, thankfully, in the early United States, it didn't get into a pissing contest.

Yeah, it's one of my freaky fun facts we're getting to.

What's that? The Thomas Jefferson thing.

I thought it was Ben Franklin.

Ben Franklin thing.

Right.

But they have, like, you know, Thomas Jefferson's Bible.

And then they talk about different ways that, you know, the Bible has been influential in, you know, politics and things.

And one of the things they had, which I was really blown away by, they had this interactive exhibit.

But Calvin Coolidge looks like the one who had red hair throughout most of his life.

But George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson all had reddish hair when they were younger.

George

Washington was no redhead.

Otherwise people get triggered.

Point is, is that there are people who have walked this earth, Thomas Jefferson, you know what I mean? People who have had massive influence, over other people and their subsequent behaviors they take as a result.

And so this is the ability to change people's minds.

If you can help people change their beliefs and change their thoughts, you will change the way they behave, which is why when people come to a new faith, all of a sudden you see this massive change in behavior.

He's very funny.

I mean, we can say a lot of things about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Not funny guys.

Not funny, no.

But the idea was that if you got 30% of the vote of your state, you would get 30% of the electors or however close they could come to that.

But what happens is in the election of 1796, Thomas Jefferson, this is actually reason, well, two maybe for why I'm so mean about Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson recognizes that if he had gotten all of the votes of the state of Virginia in the 76th election, rather than having them split proportionately, he would have won.

So he convinces Virginia in 1800 to be a winner-take-all state.

And of course, he becomes president in 1800.

It almost looks like you moved your head away.

It almost looks like Thomas Jefferson.

Like

the silhouette.

Yes, my guess is we're correct.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

Yeah, well, you're the history guy.

So yeah, somebody really said to just go to Mount Rushmore instead.