Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Trainwreck - US History - Part 4 - Extra History

Fun Fact: The reason one eye isn’t colored for Tillman is because he only had one eye. Just thought I should put that out there for anyone who was confused.

When there's something strange, with your corporate goods, Who you gonna call? TRUST BUSTERS!

“They called Roosevelt as a secret socialist.” Ah yes, the attack line that has not gone away...

Theodore Roosevelt: The House Always Wins

"Ben Tillman was a piece of s***. - The EC crew Coulnd't have put it better myself

05:08 "It's hard to understate what an odious figure Tillman was." Me: Okay okay, how bad can he be? *Everything between 05:08 and 06:06* Me: I see your point.

Roosevelt and Tillman working together is the embodiment of "The enemy of my enemy is my ally" so long as they have a common enemy and not a second longer.

Trusts: Exist Roosevelt: HO DARR AWKEN ME FROOM ME SLUMBER

At this rate, this series is going to be 15 parts, and I would be happy with that!

"Ben Tillman was a piece of shit" - The EC Crew Never heard of this man, and now I know why he isn't ever mentioned nowadays

Bruh, BT, looks and sounds like a comic book villain. Like legit, someone Batman or Superman would beat up.

The idea that Roosevelt found a way to work with Tillman despite such severe ideological differences is lowkey one of the most impressive things he did imo

Today, Tillmann is probably best remembered for something totally unrelated to racism or trusts: fed up with the ever-increasing costs of naval arms races, he commissioned a series of designs for battleships so ridiculously large and powerful that, in theory, the navy would just build those and be done once and for all. Nobody at the time took the designs seriously - except maybe for Tillmann himself - but they have remained a favourite of naval history enthousiasts as amusing "what-ifs".

EC: "Till man's response was so racist, that I'm not even going to repeat it here, but I'll put it up here on the screen so you can get what kind of man this guy was." Me: Oh c'mon it can't be that bad. Reads it: 6:00 Me: I retract my statement, hot damn that is bad.

Ah yes, my favorite Anime; Teddy's Bizarre Adventure, Trusts Are Breakable

Yeah, THAT Tillman. The same Tillman that so infamously was so fed up with the navy that he proposed his own set of "Maximum" battleships as every battleship was being built just a bit bigger than what was ordered cause innovation. The kind of battleships that would put the Yamato itself to shame but proposed 2 decades before Yamato itself, featuring designs using 18" guns when the yamato itself only had 18". He was a penny pincher ironically suggesting the navy build maximum overbuilt units. Id look over at Drachinifel's video on the Tillman designs for pure hilarity.

So Ben Tillman was like if the Confederate States of America was a person

Ben Tillman looks straight up like an anime villain

"Progressive Republicans" that's a term you sure don't hear anymore!

And than teddy did a backflip broke the trust’s neck and saved the day