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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Bessent: Nothing 'untoward' about Trump appearing on $250 bill

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Bessent: Nothing 'untoward' about Trump appearing on $250 bill

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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The treasury secretary said his department has been preparing in case Congress approves legislation creating the $250 bills
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  • osanna@lemmy.vg
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    dumpy mcturdstain must be compensating HARD (teehee) if he needs to plaster his orange turdstain face on everything :/

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    It’ll be the pedo bill.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    Who carries $250 in cash?

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    Cool, but no thanks.

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    He looks like Stephen King’s evil brother.

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      he looks like if george w bush was a mormon

      • Etterra@discuss.online
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        For a second I thought you wrote moron, which confused me because I mean it’s George Bush. But then I reread it.

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    My prediction: It’ll become the most used bill for fraud, drugs and money laundering!

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    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!

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      silly act of vanity

      That’s basically everything in PEDOnald’s two failed terms.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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        Unfortunately that’s not all the US admin has done during that time.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          Yeah plenty of acts of petty cruelty as well

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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      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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      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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    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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      He did that years ago

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      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…

      • otacon239@lemmy.world
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        Make easy money for the low price of spending lots of money!

        • fartographer@lemmy.world
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          Gotta spend money to make money.

          I’ve got that first half covered…

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    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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    Bessent looks like Jim Carrey playing a cartoonishly over-the-top villain.

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      Bessent always reminds me of that SNL character that Wil Ferrell played - Harry Caray.

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        Harry Caray was a real person. He was a baseball announcer for the Cubs. I never would have known except that we lived with my uncle for a year, and he watched the Cubs whenever they played.

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    It’s quite untoward to have a pedophile’s visage on any of our currency.

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      I’d love to see some reporter ask Bessent what denomination will have Epstein’s face on it.

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      Prince Andrew is on the back.

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    Why not put him on the $1000 bill… then the $10000… and then the $100000000 bill…heck we could be the next Zimbabwe dollar

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      Give it six months.

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    And certainly you can trust the word of a grossly unqualified sycophant.

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    Isn’t a person supposed to be dead first before we put their face on currency? I think the people advocating for this must be wanting it to be true! And wouldn’t that be considered a threat to our lovely dearest Sir, King Pedo?

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      I may be wrong but I think it’s American law

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    Illegal

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      Boy have I got some bad news for you…

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      *for now

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