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Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.
Brought to you by dipshit conservatives.
Do you know about Andrew Jackson’s behavior?
For all of his many flaws, I don’t think Jackson was an agent of a foreign power.
Even so, there are places in Oklahoma where a 20 isn’t considered valid currency.
Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.
From my experience travelling the world, that’s not particularly uncommon. The US doesn’t have to feel singled out for having such people on their bank notes.
“President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family,” Gill told Fox News Digital. “Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again, and put America first by ending useless foreign aid.”
I can’t I give up. I’m Canadian and America is fucked. There are no policies, no plans to make projects or fix problems. It’s all a campaign and political points. This is just pure trash satire at this point. URGH
2016 was the year that satire died
It was much earlier.
In 2010, a christian fundamentalist on youtube started to overanalyse Lady Gaga MVs, then moved onto other artists and eventually other media. He was pretty much the forerunner of those wokespotters (except not even SJW was a snarl word at that point), and yes eventually he dabbled into racism too, but he was also openly “not antisemitic” (he loved the sinner and hated the sin). When he first posted his videos, people, including me, thought it was a satire of conspiracy theorists. He was dead serious. I remember him nuking his old videos and making more sane sounding ones once gamergate hit mainstream, even backpedalling on his earlier analysises pointing out Freemasonry symbols and David Stars in media.
I thought he was broke and about to go to jail unless he became president and illegally stopped all investigations against him. So that he could again go to golf orgies where he could be a pedo. But okay…
I’m sorry ma’am, the cash register is broken!
Oh I’m sorry, I don’t have change for a hundred
Oh sir, we only accept 20’s or lower currency. It’s for our safety!
It has been since 2017 when he took office. Satire is dead.
It’s getting harder and harder to distinguish NTO headlines from the rest. That’s how stupid this motherfucker is. Every Trump headline could be posted here unironically.
Shouldn’t Trump be on the ruble?
I’d rather see George Clooney’s asshole on the 100. Put this fuckers ugly face on the ruble.
Make americans vote between the two. I feel like that’s gonna be more decisive than the last election.
This was absolutely on my 2025 bingo card along with plans for a new face on Mount Rushmore and a mountain, river, or national park being named after him.
You forgot Constitutional Amendment to allow a 3rd term.
I’m naming a toilet bowl after him.
I need to take a trump
MASA, Make America Shit Again!
I’m too afraid the orange will wear off on my ass so I’ll be shitting in the woods.
OMG !!! Ass did not change into a** !! THANK YOU lemmy.world
I fear that Trump toilets are too shitty of a product to work…
That’s gonna be tough when he gets rid of all of the park rangers.
He will just make a mcdonalds a national park and name that after himself
I’ve seen 3D printed Mount Rushmore replicas that have trump as a 5th face.
Some bootlicker of a legislator in Tennessee had proposed a bill to change the name of the Nashville airport to Trump International Airport. Fortunately, it didn’t even make it to committee vote.
Shhh he doesn’t need any help with ideas
Let them have their bingo. They almost have a row.
Are there any landfills or garbage islands in the oceans that still need names? Trump’s name would go perfectly on them
Ahh yes, Benjamin Franklin, founding father, inventor of the bifocals, lightning rod, and Franklin stove, first postmaster general, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, signed the constitution and the declaration of independence along with drafting the latter. Definitely not nearly as important to this country as Donald Trump, who is singlehandedly keeping the orange spray tan market alive.
Alternatively it’s just switching adulterers.
I know there’s a lot of pushback of the founding fathers due to the general pushback against American exceptionalism but let’s not lump up folks who were generally positive for society with active leaches.
Also adultery is the least of both their crimes, it just happens that as a politician, legal theorist, and scientist there’s a lot that Benjamin Franklin did that helps give some positives to him. He was a shit person in many ways, but he was still decently intelligent. Trump is just shit with no respectable qualities and nothing to offer mankind except misery.
It’s all just ring-polishing stuff to openly declare fealty to him.
Same as the third term stuff.
They don’t actually care if it works, only that they have proof of it to show him down the road.
The dogs in the back of the pack.
Changing U.S. law would be necessary to allow living people to appear on currency.
Or he could, ya know, die.
Well, congress knows what to do now to get him on the bill. Just need an execution rider.
I thought only deceased people with a positive influence on society could end up on money. The latter requirement will never happen, and the way he acts many will think it’s about time the met the first requirment.
Yeah unfortunately Andrew Jackson’s still on money so…
Guy who dissolved America’s Bank on the 20. Guy who started it on the 10.
Guy who won a lot of duels on the 20. Guy who died in one on the 10.
Guy who started the New York manumission society and went on to trade slaves for his father in law on the ten, guy who did an unconstitutional and judicially rejected genocide on the 20.
Supposedly the smaller notes are the higher honor but the way the US works I’m not sure that’s true.
Sadly that changed with the Presidential Quarters. They minted them as legal tender for all presidents up to the then current president George W. Bush.
A great idea. Then, when you have to spend four donalds for a carton of eggs you’ll remember why voting for con-men is a bad idea.
Shhh… do you even know how easy that will be to forge? ;) ;)
$4? Shit it was $6 at the local Aldi yesterday.
Four donalds, aka four hundred dollars ($400)
How much are goofies worth?
He just told you. $400
Huhyulk! Goarsh!
Oooh my brain just “auto corrected” it to “dollars” when I was reading it.
More likely this is so the money launderers can have icon recognition.
Idiots! Should have made a brand new $500 bill for this! Would work out a lot better with inflation. Great for buying eggs.
Musk can be the $1,000,000 bill in Weimer America, suitable for buying a single omelet.
Silly, he get big balls to conjure up million dollar bitcoins from thin air to replace dollars. Plus they will all be purchased with low and middle income American taxpayers dollars.
The back can be a flaming depiction of the kinsey institute
Yeah when I was 20, $100 was grocery money for the month. Now it’s groceries for 3-4 days. It doesn’t help that I always have a house full of teenagers.
“Gazillion bucks”. On the back put the Monopoly guy with a top hat and monocle.
We really are on the Biff Tannen timeline.
Tanner was based on him, in case you didn’t know.
Edit; I put “Tannen” I swear.
Even worse.
Excellent news since only dead people are permitted on $US. When’s he dying? I have March 5th 2025 in the pool.
Personally, I’m hoping it falls on my birthday
Can your birthday be 10 years ago?
I mean, technically it was, assuming they are at least 10 years old.
I have a birthday every year.
My birthday is March 9
I will be celebrating your birthday mate.
Fingers fucking crossed.
That would be an excellent birthday present.
Just so everyone’s aware, it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.
So like, it would be against the law to use a sharpie to add a Hitler mustache to Trump’s face on said dollar bill; or add an arm extended in a Nazi salute; or add swastikas over ‘god’ where it says “In god we trust”; to then bring it to a bank and report that you received defaced currency and would like to exchange it for new bills, only to do it all again.
So… y’know, probably don’t do those things.
It’s more a legally gray area in the US that as far as I can find from a quick search has never been settled in court. It likely isn’t worth the time for police to go after either even if it was more explicitly illegal.
That might change if there’s a sudden surge in people drawing on $100 bills, but who uses $100s that often anyway? Most ATMs I used only dispense $20s. It often isn’t worth the trip to the bank, and the US is unfortunately mostly cashless now.
But to be clear: fuck this fascist bullshit and resist in whatever ways you can
There’s an argument we shouldn’t even be issuing $100 bills in the first place. Counterfeiters have to spend money to copy money. A $1 or $5 bill isn’t worth the cost. A $50 is getting there, but if you put extra anti-counterfeiting measures around it, then it’s pushed out of reach again.
Once you reach a $100 bill, though, it’s hard to have enough anti-counterfeiting measures while also being cheap enough to produce by the actual US Mint. Drop it entirely, and the problem goes away.
Sorry, I’m gonna be that person… The US Mint makes coins, not the paper money. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is responsible for printing, among other things, the paper money.
Look if you hate hip-hop music videos… 😉
There was a very good reason for it back when physical money was more necessary. Now, there’s essentially no purpose except crime. Almost all purchases are payed cashless. If you really want to use cash, almost no transactions are prohibitive just using $20s or $50s. Maybe buying a car or house would be tough, and I’m sure someone does that with cash, but that’d just be the cost of choosing to use cash.
Considering that DOGE can likely withdraw money from bank accounts at will, relying on cash seems very legitimate. I don’t want my life savings to just vanish because Musk felt like it. Or worse, replaced it with Muskcoin in a offer that no one can refuse.
Yup; and it can make general independence more difficult (like trying to leave an abusive relationship or household).
Ngl I’d withdraw all my money in hundreds. Draw on them. Then return them to the bank.
It’s also illegal for a living person to be featured in our currency.
“ThE rUlEs SaY a DoG cAnT pLaY bAsKeTbAlL!1!!”
18th consecutive golden retriever dunk
It’s not illegal as long as you’re not trying to get it out of circulation, advertise, or pass off one denomination as another. So deface away.
(note: I am not a lawyer, do not believe some random person on the internet)
At this rate he might do it himself.
Sidenote: I spent a couple of years working in Nigeria. Almost all bank notes there had some scribble on it, as it frequently doubled as note paper. When you don’t have Post-its, cash will do, I guess.
This is super duper protected political speech. So, no, it’s not illegal.
I used to get offended by defaced & graffitied currency, but then an older family friend pointed out that these people print it off like crazy. At our expense. And tax-rape the ever-loving fuck out of us, for everything. And proceed to waste OUR money they stole on random bullshit and ruin our lives. So maybe I shouldn’t take currency so seriously.
I still don’t do it, but I thought he made some really good points.
it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.
Um, no. It’s not.
18 U.S. Code § 333 - Mutilation of national bank obligations
I guess there’s some wiggle room with regards to intent and whether it could be argued that adding Nazi iconography (moreso than trump’s face as-is) to bills renders them unfit to be kept in circulation.
If my personal freedom was on the line here, I’m sticking with “idk it was like that when I got it - can I get a new one please?” vs “ooh come on, it’s fiiine, you can still spend this!” but interpreting the law isn’t my specialty, so grain of salt.
We’re a long way from “super duper illegal” now aren’t we? Intent is everything. If you’re not attempting fraud nobody will care.
Then do the thing? Is super duper illegal different from regular illegal? Why are we bashing heads over the use of ‘super duper’ in NotTheOnion in the first place?
You ever see one of those souvenir penny stamp machines? It’s simply not illegal depending on your intent. People often think “intent” is just some weird “technicality” but it’s part of the law.
Why are you wrapping random words with quotation marks? It reads like it’s being spoken aloud by Dr. Evil. Anyway, gonna go with the wording of the law itself over a wiki article about it:
18 U.S. Code § 331 - Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins
This one’s specific to coins. Anecdotally I was always told they were legal because pennies are explicitly an exception to that law. So, it’s either that or it’s in j-walking territory where it may be illegal, but no one gives a shit enough to enforce it.
…also coins aren’t really relevant here anyway - the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.
the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.
Which is not at all illegal by any standard you’ve provided yet.
