• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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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.

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    “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

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      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!

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    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.

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      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/

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      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

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      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)

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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?

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                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.

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                  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.

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    Excellent news since only dead people are permitted on $US. When’s he dying? I have March 5th 2025 in the pool.

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    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.

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    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.

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        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.

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    I’d rather see George Clooney’s asshole on the 100. Put this fuckers ugly face on the ruble.

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    Changing U.S. law would be necessary to allow living people to appear on currency.

    Or he could, ya know, die.

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    So…America…you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?

    Get your shit together. Christ.

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    Idiots! Should have made a brand new $500 bill for this! Would work out a lot better with inflation. Great for buying eggs.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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        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.

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        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.