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

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-image-printed-currency-10483297

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 131 pts · 338d (4 replies)

Never Harriet Tubman though.

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

scarabic@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 338d

Mysteriously, so did Harriet Tubman.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 338d

Racism :(

verdi@feddit.org · 1 pts · 337d

Too much money for the extra ink /s

poccalyps@sh.itjust.works · 106 pts · 338d (6 replies)

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

PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 338d (2 replies)

I vote (illegally) for MetalJesusRocks.

Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 337d

cool idea honestly

RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 338d

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

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 338d

I want Yumi with his ugly ass bowl cut.

Obi@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 338d
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kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 338d (8 replies)
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 338d
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oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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 :(

Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 338d

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

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 338d

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

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 338d (2 replies)
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kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d (1 reply)
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Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d

I will suck literally anything.

f1error@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 338d

echo@lemmings.world · 50 pts · 338d

What a fucking joke...

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 338d (6 replies)

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

hOrni@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 338d (5 replies)

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

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 338d

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

Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 337d (3 replies)

fake zinc?

derpgon@programming.dev · 2 pts · 337d (1 reply)

Fake-zinc plated piece of fake iron

nagaram@startrek.website · 3 pts · 337d

Gilded lead would be so funny.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 337d

I can't imagine a world without Zinc.

khannie@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 338d (4 replies)

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.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 338d

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.

5oap10116@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d (1 reply)

I read this in Scotch/Irish

khannie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 338d

Then you read correctly!

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 338d (2 replies)

Fast forward to 2030...

" That will be 13 Kirks"

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

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

BenjiRenji@feddit.org · 2 pts · 337d

"It's all about the Trumps."

don@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 338d (8 replies)

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.

BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 338d (5 replies)

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.

AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 338d (3 replies)

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...

xylol@leminal.space · 8 pts · 338d (1 reply)

Little drill hole somewhere maybe

Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 338d

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

axexrx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 338d

Might have to make me a stamp that says

"NAZI GOLD SILVER"

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

don@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 338d

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.

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 338d

Taleya@aussie.zone · 20 pts · 337d (2 replies)

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

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 337d (1 reply)

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

Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 337d

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

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 338d

Making the currency even more worthless...

HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org · 19 pts · 338d (4 replies)

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.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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.

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d

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.

F_State@midwest.social · 4 pts · 338d

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.

janNatan@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 338d

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

pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 337d

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 338d

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

selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 338d (2 replies)

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

Khanzarate@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d

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.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 338d

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

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 338d

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

thelittleerik@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 338d

ANYTHING BUT TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. FUCKING ANYTHING.

Rune_Walsh@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 337d (1 reply)

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

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 337d

They are coins, so drill holes in the neck

KarlHungus42@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 337d

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

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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...

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 337d

TP USA.

letsgo2themall@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 338d (1 reply)

if they do, just draw penises on his face.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 338d

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

HubertManne@piefed.social · 14 pts · 337d

these people have no sense of history.

Draegur@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 338d

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.

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 338d

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!

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 337d

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

LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 338d

Wtf!

-JFK

gary@piefed.world · 12 pts · 338d

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

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 337d (2 replies)

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

Poetic.

New currency might be plastic.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d (1 reply)

GOLD plastic tho.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 335d

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.

ptolemai@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 338d

A fresh attempt at currency devaluation

thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 338d

I will rob a bank just to burn those notes.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d

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

jaemo@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 338d

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

May it go to zero.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d (1 reply)

On the new three-dollar bill?

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d

Well, it would be about as legit.

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 338d

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

RedC@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 338d

they'll be silver-ish

qevlarr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 338d (3 replies)

Horst Wessel

optissima@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 338d (2 replies)

Chrlie Kirk: the Worst Vessel of the american dream

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

optissima@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 338d

Dry Reality :(

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d (2 replies)

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

TheTurner@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 338d (1 reply)
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CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d

Hey, don’t kink shame my ass pennies fetish

Deflated0ne@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d (2 replies)

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

bstix@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 337d

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

Geobloke@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 337d

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

TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 338d

A podcaster? For fuck sakes guys.

deathbird@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 337d (2 replies)

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

Anyway, healthcare pls?

BuckWylde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d

Anyway, Epstein files?

limer@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 337d

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

Eh_I@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d

BOYCOTT MONEY!

expatriado@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d (4 replies)

you have no power over me - cashless people

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 338d (3 replies)

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

funkajunk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 338d

Literally all the power

expatriado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 338d (1 reply)

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

LodeMike@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 338d

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

pyre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 338d

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.

yarr@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 337d

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.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 336d

More repulsive white men on currency. Yay!

LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d

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.

Corelli_III@midwest.social · 1 pts · 338d

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

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 338d

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

NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 338d
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