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[–] 129 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never Harriet Tubman though.

I wonder if there's a reason why? Anyone know???

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    What a fucking joke...

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Will probably be a MAGA coin that isn’t even legal tender so Trump can fleece his followers even more.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It'll cost as much as a gold coin but will be made out of zink.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 107 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Fuck, if we are putting streamers on currency I vote for Pokimane.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I vote (illegally) for MetalJesusRocks.

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  • [+] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Anyone want to do that for me too? I might be disabled but I am very funny, I can do pixel art so I can make stuff for you, I have good style and can help you dress well, I can sew so I can mend your clothes! You can also have all my steam games!

    Please get me out of here :(

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fast forward to 2030...

    " That will be 13 Kirks"

    " Here's a Rogan and a Shapiro, keep the change"

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Misleading title, they’d be coins:

    The bill calls on the U.S. Treasury to print 400,000 silver dollar coins with Kirk's face on them, Republican Representatives August Pfluger of Texas and Abraham Hamadeh of Arizona told Fox News. In addition to Kirk's image, the coins would include the message, "Well done, good and faithful servant." They would be minted with the year 2026 and his full name on them, according to Fox News Digital.

    Also "Well done, good and faithful servant." is absolutely nauseating.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    All things considered, coins make the most sense. Bills would be defaced so quickly. I was already imagining all the grotesque pen drawings over his dumb face.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can technically still deface coins in a variety of ways, such as with a window breaking tool, and red marker. Not saying I would, of course...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I assume it's just a Charlie Kirk commemorative coin?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Pfluger said that "this commemorative coin will make Charlie the youngest American ever immortalized on legal U.S. currency, a fitting honor that cements his extraordinary legacy alongside presidents and founding fathers who shaped our republic."

    It would seem so.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago
    [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Surely toilet paper would be a more appropriate medium to carry his semblance.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Making the currency even more worthless...

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    These coins will never circulate.

    Commemorative coins like this are usually sold at a significant markup (even beyond the fact a "silver dollar" has about $30 worth of silver at today's bullion prices. Some of the markup is often set aside for a fund-raising purpose.

    These will go directly into the albums of coin collectors, who to be blunt, tend to skew old, white, and MAGA. (If you go to a coin show, there will be plenty of right wing and Trump paraphernalia).

    The ironic thing is that "really successful" commemorative coins tend to not appreciate well, because they glut any market. The most valuable modern coins tend to be either stuff that was deliberately underproduced (example: the 1996-W silver eagle that was only available with the purchase of almost two ounces of gold coins) or stuff that was ugly and unexciting and so they produced far less than the original allotment.

    There are plenty of people who drag down their inheritance of 1970s proof sets, mail-order/shop-at-home products that are $10 worth of coin in $100 worth of packaging, high-markup bullion items, and market-glut commemoratives, just to discover that Grandpa should have bought AAPL instead. Often the "investment" didn't even beat inflation, and in the worst cases, they actually lost money in nominal dollar terms. I suspect a bag full of Kirk dollars would be a red flag to any appraiser in 2050.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    AKA the Beanie Baby Effect. Everyone thought beanie babies were going to be collectibles, so everyone hoarded them and tried to keep them in good condition. The result is that they’re all basically worthless, because everyone who would want them already has them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yup. Baseball cards too. When I was young, an uncle would always buy me a complete set of baseball cards for that year. Well, turns out when every baseball card collector is doing the same thing, there really isn't any scarcity. They were 60 bucks a set in the 90s and they're 60 bucks on ebay today.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me of comic books. Comic books had a boom, with some selling multiple versions of the same issue with different covers "for collectors" and enthusiasts snapped them all up, kept them safe, stored them in plastic, went out of their way to make sure their collections were complete, only to fall on hard times and find out their collections were worth a fraction of what they spent on them when they tried to sell. Turns out that the Early Spiderman or Superman comics were worth alot of money because most printed copies ended up in the trash creating scarcity.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago
    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Might grab one. Stick it in my coin collection next to the reichmarks my poppy picked up while killing nazis

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ah lads..... You've gone too far now. C'mon. How in the name of sweet baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all his carpenter friends is this not an onion? C'mon now. Seriously.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The timeline jumped the shark. Reality is too absurd for The Onion to parody.

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  • The more time passes the more convinced I am that we actually do live in a simulation. That our reality is some kind of TV drama that was actually supposed to end years ago but now the writers are running out of ideas.

    We're out here doing worse versions of decades old plotlines, the stuff that is "new" feels phoned in, we've got this huge cliffhanger in the Epstein files that is probably never gonna get resolved. Really feels like the show ships have ended back in 2012.

    I mean I'm shitposting, but still.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Surprised the fat fuck hasn't ordered his own nasty face to be put on all US currency honestly...

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I assume Charlie-Kirk-Lied is going to be the party anthem too?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    I hope this causes Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony to rise from the grave and bitch-slap some motherfuckers.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Ironically, the coin will be roughly the same diameter as the hole in his neck

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    They're going to double, triple, quadruple down. They are prepared to die on this hill although they don't expect to. There is no reasoning with this scum.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    if they do, just draw penises on his face.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    these people have no sense of history.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It would be fun to draw little X's over his eyes on every bill.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Of course they wanna make him into a fucking commemorative coin lmao perfect thing to sell on antenna tv informercials

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago
    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Just collapse already! This is just getting silly at this point.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    A fresh attempt at currency devaluation

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't the word "minted" not more correct as this is about commemorative coins?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    A much more original way to devalue your currency than the Romans.

    May it go to zero.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I will rob a bank just to burn those notes.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't the dollar due to collapse due to foreign sanctions against the Trump regime tariffs?

    Poetic.

    New currency might be plastic.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    ANYTHING BUT TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. FUCKING ANYTHING.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Please let it be a low denomination coin so I can have trains run over his face.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Silver dollar coins? Can't wait to buy as many as I can so I can melt them down and use them as Antifa challenge coins or something along those lines.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, with the coming hyperinflation they're going to need to print a lot of new notes, wouldn't be surprised to see his face on the trillion dollar note, usually used as toilet paper due to being much cheaper and more abundant...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    A podcaster? For fuck sakes guys.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’ve always wanted an excuse to wipe my ass with money

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Make it a bill so we can wipe our ass with it. Burn it. Deface it. All that fun stuff.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Can't wait to use my kirk bucks at the strippers. It's what he would've wanted

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What a beautiful way to honor his life's work of self-promotion and trolling.

    Anyway, healthcare pls?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    BOYCOTT MONEY!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On the new three-dollar bill?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    the strokes didn't work, but seeing Charlie's massive dome on a currency before his own crusty mug will definitely do it.

    say hello to president couchfucker.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Good! BETTER a WHITE MAN than ANY Women or Blacks or Gays! And if this Offends you SUCK IT UP this is what Charlie Kirk preached!

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