"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!
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....
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?
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....
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.
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?
There's only something wrong with it if you think there's something wrong with it. It's like being gay, but a homophobe. It's wrong to make other people suffer because you can't deal with your own issues, or to make others suffer but you still get to enjoy the lifestyle they want.
I don't know why they keep using the idiotic looking down portrait of him for everything. He looks so insecure, like he's trying to be tough and failing.
$250? Seems a weird denomination. Why not the $47 bill? I'd bet most Americans could scrape together $47 and frame it over their microwave oven. But $250? That's a lot of dough.
Does he know he doesn't get royalties? Or does he? Is there a bill in the works I haven't heard about?
They're just getting ahead of the curve on inflation. Don't worry, they'll have a $500 and $1000 ready soon enough. Those will be your new $5s and $10s by the time Donald is done with the US.
Oh, if you mean PEDOnald, he and his crime family are trying to set up themselves to be bankers to the world via their cryptoschemes and rake in untold sums as a consequence.
Royalties on a denomination no one but his idiotic mouthbreathing cult wants would be chump change in comparison...
Honestly if inflation gets that bad then between forcibly stagnant wages and everything else going on there's a non-zero chance we won't see that. Because the economy will probably be collapsed or we will be trading around literal food stamps issued by the states and largely given out to CCC like organizations. Y'know assuming we don't just see everything implode like with the Late Bronze Age collapse, after all trade is a lifeblood to all and a certain orange dipshit is pissing into an open bleeding wound.
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 101d
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.world · 35 pts · 101d
That's basically everything in PEDOnald's two failed terms.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 101d
Unfortunately that's not all the US admin has done during that time.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
Yeah plenty of acts of petty cruelty as well
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 101d
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.
dhork@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
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....
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 101d
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?
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 101d
He did that years ago
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
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 · 3 pts · 101d
Make easy money for the low price of spending lots of money!
fartographer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d
Gotta spend money to make money.
I've got that first half covered...
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 101d
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.
TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com · 23 pts · 101d
Bessent looks like Jim Carrey playing a cartoonishly over-the-top villain.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d
Bessent always reminds me of that SNL character that Wil Ferrell played - Harry Caray.
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 6 pts · 101d
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.
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 101d
It’s quite untoward to have a pedophile’s visage on any of our currency.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
I'd love to see some reporter ask Bessent what denomination will have Epstein's face on it.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 101d
Prince Andrew is on the back.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 101d
Why not put him on the $1000 bill… then the $10000… and then the $100000000 bill…heck we could be the next Zimbabwe dollar
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 101d
Give it six months.
WatDabney@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 101d
And certainly you can trust the word of a grossly unqualified sycophant.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 100d
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?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
I may be wrong but I think it's American law
altphoto@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 101d
$250 that's a weird denomination. How about the Epstein files?
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 101d
Illegal
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 101d
Boy have I got some bad news for you....
laranis@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 101d
*for now
Floon@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 101d
I look at this guy and clearly see someone with a crazy submissive kink, something really degrading.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 101d
Is there something wrong with that?
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 100d
There's only something wrong with it if you think there's something wrong with it. It's like being gay, but a homophobe. It's wrong to make other people suffer because you can't deal with your own issues, or to make others suffer but you still get to enjoy the lifestyle they want.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 100d
I don't know why they keep using the idiotic looking down portrait of him for everything. He looks so insecure, like he's trying to be tough and failing.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 100d
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's bill.
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 100d
“Strategery.”
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 100d
isn't it his mugshit?
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 100d
I think your right. Even dumber then.
laranis@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 101d
$250? Seems a weird denomination. Why not the $47 bill? I'd bet most Americans could scrape together $47 and frame it over their microwave oven. But $250? That's a lot of dough.
Does he know he doesn't get royalties? Or does he? Is there a bill in the works I haven't heard about?
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 101d
They're just getting ahead of the curve on inflation. Don't worry, they'll have a $500 and $1000 ready soon enough. Those will be your new $5s and $10s by the time Donald is done with the US.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d
Oh, if you mean PEDOnald, he and his crime family are trying to set up themselves to be bankers to the world via their cryptoschemes and rake in untold sums as a consequence.
Royalties on a denomination no one but his idiotic mouthbreathing cult wants would be chump change in comparison...
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 100d
The PEDOllar bill
Snapz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d
Bessent just looks so much like a bad parody of a guy you want to punch in the face.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 100d
He's not a parody, he just should be punched in the face.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 101d
Firstively no other person in US history got to choose which portrait of theirs went on our money.
And secondish the jokes on him because I'll never see it because I never have that much cash anyways.
n01getsout@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 101d
Jokes on us because with his inflation, soon we will all be using those to buy a loaf of bread.
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d
If we aren’t wiping our asses with them. That would be poetic though.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 101d
Honestly if inflation gets that bad then between forcibly stagnant wages and everything else going on there's a non-zero chance we won't see that. Because the economy will probably be collapsed or we will be trading around literal food stamps issued by the states and largely given out to CCC like organizations. Y'know assuming we don't just see everything implode like with the Late Bronze Age collapse, after all trade is a lifeblood to all and a certain orange dipshit is pissing into an open bleeding wound.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 101d
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 101d
He's happily married to another man already.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 101d
Is that brown lipstick Bessent is wearing?
osanna@lemmy.vg · 4 pts · 100d
dumpy mcturdstain must be compensating HARD (teehee) if he needs to plaster his orange turdstain face on everything :/
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 100d
Who carries $250 in cash?
modus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
I've already vowed not to accept any currency with his signature on it. Putting his mug shot on it will only make that easier.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
It’ll be the pedo bill.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 3 pts · 100d
Cool, but no thanks.
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 100d
He looks like Stephen King's evil brother.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 100d
he looks like if george w bush was a mormon
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 99d
For a second I thought you wrote moron, which confused me because I mean it's George Bush. But then I reread it.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
My prediction: It'll become the most used bill for fraud, drugs and money laundering!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 101d
Not a coincidence this is the hourly rate for teen hookers?