Charlie Kirk’s Image Could Be Printed on New U.S. Currency

a year ago by return2ozma to c/nottheonion

A new GOP plan would call on the U.S. Treasury to print silver dollar coins with Kirk's image.

prole 131 points a year ago

Never Harriet Tubman though.

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

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scarabic 76 points a year ago

She rescued what, a few thousand people? Kirk offended millions!

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Zachariah 52 points a year ago

Mysteriously, so did Harriet Tubman.

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LodeMike 23 points a year ago

Racism :(

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verdi 1 point a year ago

Too much money for the extra ink /s

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poccalyps 106 points a year ago

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

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PhobosAnomaly 11 points a year ago

I vote (illegally) for MetalJesusRocks.

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Ganbat 7 points a year ago

I'm down for SimpleFlips. Pass a dude a dollar? Shout out to SimpleFlips.

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businessfish 2 points a year ago

cool idea honestly

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RaoulDuke 3 points a year ago

Melon head Fantano. He’ll complain it doesn’t sound like Death Grips.

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RickyRigatoni 2 points a year ago

I want Yumi with his ugly ass bowl cut.

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Obi -1 points a year ago

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kelpie_returns 68 points a year ago

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Lost_My_Mind 22 points a year ago

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oxysis 18 points a year ago

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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Kepion 8 points a year ago

I'd marry you both but the UK doesn't seem too far behind your shitshow :(

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ThePantser 10 points a year ago

So we made it to the "Russian bride" level already. American Spouses

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skuzz 6 points a year ago

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kelpie_returns 3 points a year ago

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skuzz 2 points a year ago

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Olhonestjim 3 points a year ago

I will suck literally anything.

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f1error 58 points a year ago

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echo 50 points a year ago

What a fucking joke...

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SkunkWorkz 46 points a year ago

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

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hOrni 16 points a year ago

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

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pineapplelover 9 points a year ago

It will be gold plated to be sold as "gold coin"

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Flocklesscrow 5 points a year ago

fake zinc?

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derpgon 2 points a year ago

Fake-zinc plated piece of fake iron

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nagaram 3 points a year ago

Gilded lead would be so funny.

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SaveTheTuaHawk 1 point a year ago

I can't imagine a world without Zinc.

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khannie 37 points a year ago

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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Lost_My_Mind 19 points a year ago

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

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Macchi_the_Slime 3 points a year ago

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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5oap10116 3 points a year ago

I read this in Scotch/Irish

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khannie 1 point a year ago

Then you read correctly!

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SaveTheTuaHawk 33 points a year ago

Fast forward to 2030...

" That will be 13 Kirks"

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

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Evil_Shrubbery 5 points a year ago

"A trump" will be used to refer to both a 100 monies or a rape.

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BenjiRenji 2 points a year ago

"It's all about the Trumps."

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don 27 points a year ago

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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BananaIsABerry 10 points a year ago

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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AmbiguousProps 7 points a year ago

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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xylol 8 points a year ago

Little drill hole somewhere maybe

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Shdwdrgn 4 points a year ago

I was just wondering how much I could sell them for if they had an actual bullet hole through them...

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axexrx 4 points a year ago

Might have to make me a stamp that says

"NAZI GOLD SILVER"

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Sterile_Technique 6 points a year ago

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Flax_vert 6 points a year ago

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

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don 9 points a 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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Aceticon 22 points a year ago

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

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Evil_Shrubbery 18 points a year ago

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Taleya 20 points a year ago

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

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M0oP0o 5 points a year ago

Well you should have to kill a nazi for a trophy. Stolen valour and all that...

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Taleya 3 points a year ago

kill a nazi to get a coin commemorating a nazi's killing. Hmm. Better get another coin just in case.

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Treczoks 20 points a year ago

Making the currency even more worthless...

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HakFoo 19 points a year ago

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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mic_check_one_two 7 points a year ago

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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SkyezOpen 3 points a 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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F_State 4 points a 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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janNatan 3 points a year ago

Have you even considered that the coins are shiny-shiny? Well worth the investment.

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pelespirit 19 points a year ago

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Korhaka 17 points a year ago

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

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selkiesidhe 17 points a year ago

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

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Khanzarate 7 points a year ago

There's a law that you have to be dead first.

Obviously that's not a hard barrier to him, but it means he needs to take more effort. He'll get to it, I'm sure.

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baggachipz 3 points a year ago

There absolutely are commemorative Trump coins made out of gold, sold to rubes at several times the price of the metal.

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Kolanaki 16 points a 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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thelittleerik 16 points a year ago

ANYTHING BUT TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. FUCKING ANYTHING.

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Rune_Walsh 15 points a year ago

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

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T00l_shed 29 points a year ago

They are coins, so drill holes in the neck

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leftzero 15 points a year ago

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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floofloof 2 points a year ago

TP USA.

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KarlHungus42 15 points a year ago

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

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Draegur 14 points a 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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HubertManne 14 points a year ago

these people have no sense of history.

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letsgo2themall 14 points a year ago

if they do, just draw penises on his face.

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BanMe 2 points a year ago

Stamp. Someone will come out with an easy-to-use stamp that defaces these coins in a uniform way that can't be removed.

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BigMacHole 13 points a 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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LoremIpsumGenerator 12 points a year ago

Wtf!

-JFK

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gary 12 points a 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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M0oP0o 12 points a year ago

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

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uriel238 11 points a year ago

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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ivanafterall 1 point a year ago

GOLD plastic tho.

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uriel238 2 points a year ago

If ever you get a chance, check out the Soviet Union military medals (shiny gold plastic) from the last decades. This has precedent.

If they were smart they'd give them RFID chips, but that might cost more than the metal.

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ptolemai 10 points a year ago

A fresh attempt at currency devaluation

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thespcicifcocean 10 points a year ago

I will rob a bank just to burn those notes.

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jaemo 10 points a year ago

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

May it go to zero.

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Flax_vert 10 points a year ago

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

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AnUnusualRelic 3 points a year ago

Not if you just slap a sticker on them. It's also cheaper that way.

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friend_of_satan 8 points a year ago

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

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RizzRustbolt 8 points a year ago

On the new three-dollar bill?

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Treczoks 2 points a year ago

Well, it would be about as legit.

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qevlarr 8 points a year ago

Horst Wessel

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optissima 2 points a year ago

Chrlie Kirk: the Worst Vessel of the american dream

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Bakkoda 2 points a year ago

Someone ask chat gpt what the opposite of a wet dream is

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optissima 2 points a year ago

Dry Reality :(

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RedC 8 points a year ago

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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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a year ago

they'll be silver-ish

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CIA_chatbot 7 points a year ago

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

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TheTurner 4 points a year ago

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CIA_chatbot 7 points a year ago

Hey, don’t kink shame my ass pennies fetish

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deathbird 7 points a year ago

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

Anyway, healthcare pls?

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limer 2 points a year ago

If you work hard and are lucky, then healthcare can be obtained.

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BuckWylde 2 points a year ago

Anyway, Epstein files?

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Geobloke 7 points a year ago

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

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Deflated0ne 7 points a year ago

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

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bstix 3 points a year ago

They'll be going full China and make it a crime to deface the dear leader.

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floofloof 2 points a year ago

Trump will be in deep trouble for all that orange paint he sprays on Dear Leader's face.

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TwinTitans 7 points a year ago

A podcaster? For fuck sakes guys.

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expatriado 6 points a year ago

you have no power over me - cashless people

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LodeMike 7 points a year ago

The federal government has a ton of power over cashless people what are you talking about

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funkajunk 3 points a year ago

Literally all the power

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expatriado 1 point a year ago

can't see his face on cash if never hold cash

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LodeMike -1 points a year ago

That's not what you said. And also that's not true.

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Eh_I 6 points a year ago

BOYCOTT MONEY!

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pyre 6 points a 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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yarr 2 points a year ago

Technically, any image could be printed on new U.S. currency. Slow news day?

GOP plans have the follow-through ratio of a Chris Christie diet plan, so I'll believe it when I see it.

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ScoffingLizard 1 point a year ago

More repulsive white men on currency. Yay!

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GreenKnight23 1 point a year ago

cool, never asked for a specific denomination in dollars before but I guess there's a time for everything.

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Corelli_III 1 point a year ago

oh no, don't put an ugly clown face on the currency i find ethically repulsive

as they tank the dollar and make an enemy out of everyone with any decency, what if they do that while clown money

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LoafedBurrito 1 point a year ago

Nazi's do not belong on currency. Also he was a nobody podcaster. He will be forgotten about and he is just another right wing murder statistic.

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NauticalNoodle 0 points a year ago

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