• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    I’ve already seen anti-Pumkinhead things on currency, this bill is going to be the most defaced currency ever.

    Also, Bessent is such a useless suck-up.

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    11 days ago

    Can’t be on currency? Put yourself on a non-circulating “commemorative” bill “for collectors” and sell them. Problem solved. Anyone want to take bets that this is what will happen?

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      11 days ago

      I cannot help but wonder how the target demo for velvet paintings of Jesus and Elvis vs. that for bullshit commemorative coins sold that have “easy” installment payments vs. the demo that would snap up these (whether they are legal tender or what you propose may happen) would all stack up on a Venn diagram…

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    11 days ago

    Firstively no other person in US history got to choose which portrait of theirs went on our money.

    And secondish the jokes on him because I’ll never see it because I never have that much cash anyways.

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        11 days ago

        Honestly if inflation gets that bad then between forcibly stagnant wages and everything else going on there’s a non-zero chance we won’t see that. Because the economy will probably be collapsed or we will be trading around literal food stamps issued by the states and largely given out to CCC like organizations. Y’know assuming we don’t just see everything implode like with the Late Bronze Age collapse, after all trade is a lifeblood to all and a certain orange dipshit is pissing into an open bleeding wound.

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    11 days ago

    Thayer Amendment - 1866:

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Can-a-Living-Person-Appear-on-US-Currency

    “The Thayer Amendment: This 1866 law prohibited the use of the image of any living person on “the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States.” It was an outgrowth of a silly act of vanity committed by Treasury Department official Spencer Clark, who decided to put himself on banknotes intended to honor explorer William Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame. The congressional bill authorizing the creation of the note only specified that it should honor “Clark,” and so Spencer Clark decided to memorialize himself.”

    I didn’t know the history on that, that’s hilarious that it was passed as a “fuck you, in particular!” for one guy!

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      11 days ago

      The thing with laws is that Congress can always change them by passing another law…

      … but from what I’ve read, the current text of Joe Wilson’s bill carves out an exception for “living and former Presidents”. So, if this passes, we may get our Obama $420 bill someday…

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      11 days ago

      It’s so American that there’s precedent for that.

      The worst thing about Trump is that everything he does has already been done before; he just accumulates.

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    10 days ago

    dumpy mcturdstain must be compensating HARD (teehee) if he needs to plaster his orange turdstain face on everything :/