This some alternate timeline bs, but also a great metaphor for what's going on in the US.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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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...
- Wasn't he golfing yesterday?
- We all know he hates his family and is happy to avoid them.
- "Took a bullet" is akin to me saying I was stabbed in the face by a deranged idiot when I cut myself shaving.
- Working overtime at what exactly? Are his tiny chode fingers getting tired from signing a few bits of paper?
Didn't the bullet go through his ear and kill a firefighter?
Bullet never touched him. The blood was splatter. He wore a bandage for 2 days for show. When it came off there was not a scratch.
I work at a hospital and have worked with hundreds of patients around his age. When you're that old, your skin is like paper thin and tears extremely easy. I've slid patients from one bed to another and tore skin. Donald Trump was tackled by secret service. Maybe it was his blood but I highly doubt he took a bullet or any shrapnel from glass or anything else.
Yeah... I'm willing to buy that he had immediate, top grade treatment, I'm willing to accept that the bullet barely grazed him and it bled a lot
But I'm not willing to believe he healed that fast or that perfectly. There's no notch from any angle, no scab, nothing - just a few days later there was no sign of it. And he was milking it for all he had... And yet, aside from that blood on the scene, all we ever saw was comically oversized bandages, then normal ones during more serious meetings, then nothing
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A great idea. Then, when you have to spend four donalds for a carton of eggs you'll remember why voting for con-men is a bad idea.
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good way to cause a run on $50 bills when everyone refuses to accept a $100
Don't you have to be dead to be on currency? If so he can be on any bill he wants long as he is dead.
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.
It's also illegal for a living person to be featured in our currency.
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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
There's an argument we shouldn't even be issuing $100 bills in the first place. Counterfeiters have to spend money to copy money. A $1 or $5 bill isn't worth the cost. A $50 is getting there, but if you put extra anti-counterfeiting measures around it, then it's pushed out of reach again.
Once you reach a $100 bill, though, it's hard to have enough anti-counterfeiting measures while also being cheap enough to produce by the actual US Mint. Drop it entirely, and the problem goes away.
There was a very good reason for it back when physical money was more necessary. Now, there's essentially no purpose except crime. Almost all purchases are payed cashless. If you really want to use cash, almost no transactions are prohibitive just using $20s or $50s. Maybe buying a car or house would be tough, and I'm sure someone does that with cash, but that'd just be the cost of choosing to use cash.
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So....America....you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?
Get your shit together. Christ.
There's already proposals to put his face on Mt Rushmore, so yes.
If they do, the mountain would collapse. They should go for it.
I don't know what this image is, but I'm pretty sure later in life he's going to assemble the power rangers.
It was Benito Mussolini's headquarters in Rome during WW2
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Well if they do that, I'll draw at least 2 dicks pointed towards his mouth on each one that I handle
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Man, these bootlickers are so pathetic. The lengths they go to to kiss his ass would be cringe even if it was towards an actual great person. The fact that it's directed at this hateful, disgusting man is the saddest thing...
Not putting him on the $100,000 bill is slap in the face.
the way trumpflation is going it'll be worth $100 anyway
Time to invest in orange ink
Just in case people didn't know they were heading into a personality cult dictatorship already.
I've never wiped my ass with a hundred before but in this case I'm willing to try it.
Doesn't DJT has to die soon for that?
In the tradition of USA currency being only for dead presidents - I will gladly allow Trump's face on any bill if he's the one to pull the trigger
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lol .... by the time they do pass regulations and laws to do all this .... 1 Trump will be worth nothing
It will be like the German Reichsmark and they'll be printing out so much of it, that these paper bills will be more valuable as a fuel source to cook your food than in actually purchasing anything of value.
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As a Brit, for whom the colloquial for pennies is "pence" like "ten pence" is 10p, I feel he's missing a trick not putting his fat leather apron of a face on the nickel or dime. Because then you could have "Trump pence". You could call it a Trumpence
That is pretty clever. Except it would already be dated since Trump attempted to get Pence lynched by an angry mob a few years back
I recall a Brit (I think?) giving a rundown on European slang, and it was something akin to pence meaning "fart", so all the stickers that said "Trump Pence" looked to them like stickers that boldly proclaimed "Fart Trumpet!" ...which is kinda just synonymous anyway, but it lined up nicely!
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