Donald Trump to replace Benjamin Franklin on $100 bill under GOP proposal
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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
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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.
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
https://www.stampstampede.org/faq/yes-its-legal/
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.
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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.
Um, no. It's not.
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin
Which is not at all illegal by any standard you've provided yet.
Didn't the bullet go through his ear and kill a firefighter?
Bullet never touched him. The blood was splatter. He wore a bandage for 2 days for show. When it came off there was not a scratch.
I work at a hospital and have worked with hundreds of patients around his age. When you're that old, your skin is like paper thin and tears extremely easy. I've slid patients from one bed to another and tore skin. Donald Trump was tackled by secret service. Maybe it was his blood but I highly doubt he took a bullet or any shrapnel from glass or anything else.
Yeah... I'm willing to buy that he had immediate, top grade treatment, I'm willing to accept that the bullet barely grazed him and it bled a lot
But I'm not willing to believe he healed that fast or that perfectly. There's no notch from any angle, no scab, nothing - just a few days later there was no sign of it. And he was milking it for all he had... And yet, aside from that blood on the scene, all we ever saw was comically oversized bandages, then normal ones during more serious meetings, then nothing
Conspiracy theories don't help. Especially since there was a photo with the bullet mid flight.
I thought it was widely accepted that the bullet itself didn't him hit, it was shrapnel from the poidum
It was questioned in July. Just because it was widely accepted in your furry discord server doesn't mean that it's widely accepted generally
Nothing in my comment necessitated such a shitty reply.
Get a fuckin grip, loser
Can I get an invite tho?
They point a lot too. Fat little fingers
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.
So....America....you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?
Get your shit together. Christ.
There's already proposals to put his face on Mt Rushmore, so yes.
If they do, the mountain would collapse. They should go for it.
Already nose diving face first. Steps are gone.
I don't know what this image is, but I'm pretty sure later in life he's going to assemble the power rangers.
It was Benito Mussolini's headquarters in Rome during WW2
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Man, these bootlickers are so pathetic. The lengths they go to to kiss his ass would be cringe even if it was towards an actual great person. The fact that it's directed at this hateful, disgusting man is the saddest thing...
Whatever. Go for it, cultists.
This type of shit is just noise meant to distract and overwhelm people from paying attention to the stuff that matters.
What this guy said^^ focus on the real issues and watch out for the other sleight of hand cause in the end that's all it is. They want us bickering with each other while closed door deals are being finalized
Yeah, they've been pretty explicit in wanting to "flood the zone" with new shit everyday to annoy and outrage us, and so that the media doesn't have enough time to cover in depth what's really going on.
All of this stuff like "Gulf of America", "Red White and Blueland", adding Trump's face to Mt. Rushmore, putting Trump's face on the $100, etc. It's all a bunch of look-at-the-birdy bullshit.
Basically the raison d'être for MTG or Lauren Boebert - have em stand up and say dumb shit and keep attention focused on them while the GOP continues to fuck the average taxpayer.
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.
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.
Doesn't DJT has to die soon for that?
Just in case people didn't know they were heading into a personality cult dictatorship already.
What a massive waste of taxpayer money.
What a massive defacement of taxpayer money.
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.
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'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...
I've named the contents of a toilet bowl after him.
I've seen 3D printed Mount Rushmore replicas that have trump as a 5th face.
Shhh he doesn't need any help with ideas
Let them have their bingo. They almost have a row.
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.
So a dollar will only be worth one pence?
1 ruble
1 rubio?
I wonder which of those is worth less? 🤔
Well if they do that, I'll draw at least 2 dicks pointed towards his mouth on each one that I handle
I know right, please do, I'll get fucking creative.
lol .... by the time they do pass regulations and laws to do all this .... 1 Trump will be worth nothing
It will be like the German Reichsmark and they'll be printing out so much of it, that these paper bills will be more valuable as a fuel source to cook your food than in actually purchasing anything of value.
“1 Trump will be worth nothing” vs the immense value one Trump has now. lol.
Shouldn't Trump be on the ruble?
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.
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.
Or he could, ya know, die.
Well, congress knows what to do now to get him on the bill. Just need an execution rider.
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.
good way to cause a run on $50 bills when everyone refuses to accept a $100
Don't you have to be dead to be on currency? If so he can be on any bill he wants long as he is dead.
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.
Not putting him on the $100,000 bill is slap in the face.
the way trumpflation is going it'll be worth $100 anyway
In the tradition of USA currency being only for dead presidents - I will gladly allow Trump's face on any bill if he's the one to pull the trigger
That's actually a far point
When he's done, that bill will be as worthless as he is.
Yeah, this seems like bad timing since it looks like the recession formally started today.
Not technically yet, but effectively.
Less than worthless, my boy.
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.
Just build a temple to Trump Baal where they can make sacrifices to him.
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.
That's fair. It will be used a lot, as it is about the price of a box of eggs at the end of this year.
Its fucked up vain bullshit. His maggots might like his shitty face in their purses but the sane folks elsewhere should burn it
Will that lower grocery prices?
I saw the onion logo and thought "heh, that's funny". Then I re-read the name of the community...
God Trump is such a narcissist. I'm sure he wanted every dollar bill but $100 is the highest denomination.
They'll probably settle on creating a higher denomination. I mean, it's not like it would be hard to justify having a higher denomination. The US Treasury used to issue higher denomination bank notes., but the highest has been the $100 note since 1934. We've had quite a lot of cumulative inflation since then. Sure, cash is less important now than it was in the past. But if just by inflation, a $1000 note would be appropriate. So maybe as a compromise you issue $250 and $500 notes.
Or maybe he'll just mint a ten trillion dollar platinum coin with his mug on it. Then have the treasury deposit it in the president's personal bank account as "a tip for good public service."
The ego inflation would go like this:
"Sir, we want to put you on a new $500 bill. The EU has a €500 bill as well, so economic studies show viabil-"
"They already have a 500? No, I want a $1,000 bill, then. Put Elon on the $500."
"Sir, yes sir, thank you sir." boot slurping noises
I can see Trump and Musk ordering new denominations to one-up each other. "Crypto DOGE is worth over $9,001!" waved sharpie "Nuh-uh, Trump Bucks gets you a dozen eggs, cause I say so!"
Elon would insist on a new $420 dollar bill
$250 is a dumb denomination that only US would do.
1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 ,100 is followed by 200, 500, 1000.
JFC every measurement of everything in that country gets decided by someone who flunked in maths.
Sigh. This is just a distraction to get people like you talking about it and keep his name in the news.
These conmen understand that all publicity is good publicity and you play right into their hands every time.
Yes, because the president of the United States has a hard time keeping his name in the news.
Why does coca-cola run ads when everybody already knows about them?
new toilet paper just dropped
Newsweek is a tabloid.
And American politics is a farce, so they're well situated for a surface level inside scoop.
This some alternate timeline bs, but also a great metaphor for what's going on in the US.
That’s scary.
How much will that cost the taxpayers?
Their pride.
Not as much as you might expect, but that's beside the point.
Surely this will be the policy to finally bring egg prices down
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.
As a Brit, for whom the colloquial for pennies is "pence" like "ten pence" is 10p, I feel he's missing a trick not putting his fat leather apron of a face on the nickel or dime. Because then you could have "Trump pence". You could call it a Trumpence
That is pretty clever. Except it would already be dated since Trump attempted to get Pence lynched by an angry mob a few years back
Pence ain't a thing no more mom ami. Trump tried to have him killed on Jan 6th and he's been a nothingburger since then
I thought there already was a law stating living persons cannot be placed on currency. Am I not correct?
a what? that word....llllaaaaawwwww can't say I'm familiar with it,
must be some kind of old term that applied to presidents before the current godking....
Hmmm... Suddenly I'm on board with this idea
Why not have two genocidal maniacs on our currency at this point.
::: spoiler Spoiler Andrew Jackson moment :::
This will bring down the price of eggs. Bigly.
One dozen eggs for just 4.20 donalds
Thank God I only use electronic money
Most of these bills aren't really intended to pass... I hope
"proposal"
Guys like always with GOP proposals, theyre just not realistic in any way.
I could list a hundred reasons from drug cartel soft power to petrodollar to NK USD forging (they're the fucking best at it, better than US mints)
Changing the Gulf of Mexico was also just a proposal before he aped it for an eo.
Having one company change one field of text to add parentheses for some Trump delusional bs is a bit different than changing the US dollars in circulation.
I don't think you understand just how big of a difference it actually is.
Actually what I'm drinking is a nice Tempranillo-Syrah blend, and I really couldn't give a shit about what dollars look like.
Our money is superior.
"Nicer" as in more aesthetic? Perhaps. Which ones?
All about the trumps just doesn't slap like Benjamins. All about the trumps sounds like a nightmare of a reality show
As a Benjamin, I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.
All About The Trumps sounds like our actual reality.
Because America is too weak to put a felon rapist traitor and his Beverly Hillbilly family behind us.
All about the Donnies is not bad.
Не Путин?
Да Путин
Зеленский
I've never wiped my ass with a hundred before but in this case I'm willing to try it.
Didnt another person submit for Trump to be on like a $250 bill?
Fuck it you know what put his face on every bill. Trump clearly saved the USA and should be considered its only founding father from now on. Replace all the symbolism and stuff on the back of bills with pictures of Mar a Lago and Bedminster. Maybe Trump Towers too.
God this is the worst timeline. Someone go back and save Harambe.
What does harambe have to do with this?
It's a joke based on multiverse theory. The joke is that if someone hadn't killed Harambe (RIP in peace), we would be living a timeline of events that is different than this stupid, shitty one.
Yes. It's in the linked article in fact
The next admin is going to have so much shit to clean up that it'll be like seeing your home after you rented it out to a massive drunken party.
What do you mean "next admin"? This is it
Is it still illegal to burn money?
What about wiping your ass with it?
Wait, it is?
Only in the literal sense. Not in the sense that i burn money by spending it fast.
Every emperor mints coins bearing his face when accessing the throne.
Cool, dollars with clowns on them 🤡
https://pixelfed.social/p/StreetArtUtopia/802522675451991690
He's getting rid of the pennies and nickles in favor of this
Time to invest in orange ink
Oh look frivolous spending.
Why stop there? Why not just call the whole country the United States of Trump?
/s
I now KNOW what Conservatives will do when they FINALLY get Epstein's BLACK BOOK!
Put the People on CURRENCY!
"Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone."
I'm not surprised. Honestly I had wondered why he hasn't already tried this.
He also wants to be on mt rushmore. Which from what I hear, the mountain wouldn't be able to support a 5th head, or a makeover of one of the 4.
So if they try, the whole thing will crumble. So go ahead. Just try. I'd love to see that whole monument crumble, and even better if it's just to try to satisfy one persons ego.
Aye let it crumble and give it back to the natives it was stolen from.
Well......I mean they're dead. That happened hundreds of years ago.
They having living descendants though.
pence
Did Franklin own slaves?
I think they have syphilis and being obese in common
I can already hear one of those terrible Trump rappers like Forgiato Blow making a maga themed "it's all about the Donalds baby" parody song. And it would probably gets millions of streams too. Ugh.
Looks like I'll be buying American toilet paper after all! 😒
Related trivia: Modern relatives of Benjamin Franklin include Kristin Wiig, Bill Macy and Amy Poehler.
Good thing they already put the "TP" logo on there so I won't forget to wipe my ass with it.
The only paper I want to see this man's face on is toilet paper.
Well, then you're in luck.
Who tf even takes $100 bills? Almost everywhere has signs saying they wont take them, they're not really usable
Criminals like Trump mostly launder money in $100s
The casino takes them.
Just because many chain retailers don’t accept them does not make them unusable. They still are used for many large cash payments, and they have to be accepted for paying a dept (like at a restaurant).
I'll take some if trump is not on them.