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 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.
Sorry, I’m gonna be that person… The US Mint makes coins, not the paper money. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is responsible for printing, among other things, the paper money.
Look if you hate hip-hop music videos… 😉
Ngl I’d withdraw all my money in hundreds. Draw on them. Then return them to the bank.
It’s also illegal for a living person to be featured in our currency.
“ThE rUlEs SaY a DoG cAnT pLaY bAsKeTbAlL!1!!”
18th consecutive golden retriever dunk
It’s not illegal as long as you’re not trying to get it out of circulation, advertise, or pass off one denomination as another. So deface away.
(note: I am not a lawyer, do not believe some random person on the internet)
At this rate he might do it himself.
Sidenote: I spent a couple of years working in Nigeria. Almost all bank notes there had some scribble on it, as it frequently doubled as note paper. When you don’t have Post-its, cash will do, I guess.
This is super duper protected political speech. So, no, it’s not illegal.
it’s super duper illegal to deface currency.
Um, no. It’s not.
18 U.S. Code § 333 - Mutilation of national bank obligations
I guess there’s some wiggle room with regards to intent and whether it could be argued that adding Nazi iconography (moreso than trump’s face as-is) to bills renders them unfit to be kept in circulation.
If my personal freedom was on the line here, I’m sticking with “idk it was like that when I got it - can I get a new one please?” vs “ooh come on, it’s fiiine, you can still spend this!” but interpreting the law isn’t my specialty, so grain of salt.
We’re a long way from “super duper illegal” now aren’t we? Intent is everything. If you’re not attempting fraud nobody will care.
Then do the thing? Is super duper illegal different from regular illegal? Why are we bashing heads over the use of ‘super duper’ in NotTheOnion in the first place?
You ever see one of those souvenir penny stamp machines? It’s simply not illegal depending on your intent. People often think “intent” is just some weird “technicality” but it’s part of the law.
Why are you wrapping random words with quotation marks? It reads like it’s being spoken aloud by Dr. Evil. Anyway, gonna go with the wording of the law itself over a wiki article about it:
18 U.S. Code § 331 - Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins
This one’s specific to coins. Anecdotally I was always told they were legal because pennies are explicitly an exception to that law. So, it’s either that or it’s in j-walking territory where it may be illegal, but no one gives a shit enough to enforce it.
…also coins aren’t really relevant here anyway - the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.
the conversation is about defacing paper bills if they decide to soil them with Trump’s traitorous image.
Which is not at all illegal by any standard you’ve provided yet.
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?
They point a lot too. Fat little fingers
Excellent news since only dead people are permitted on $US. When’s he dying? I have March 5th 2025 in the pool.
Personally, I’m hoping it falls on my birthday
Can your birthday be 10 years ago?
I mean, technically it was, assuming they are at least 10 years old.
I have a birthday every year.
Fingers fucking crossed.
That would be an excellent birthday present.
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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Whatever. Go for it, cultists.
This type of shit is just noise meant to distract and overwhelm people from paying attention to the stuff that matters.
What this guy said^^ focus on the real issues and watch out for the other sleight of hand cause in the end that’s all it is. They want us bickering with each other while closed door deals are being finalized
Yeah, they’ve been pretty explicit in wanting to “flood the zone” with new shit everyday to annoy and outrage us, and so that the media doesn’t have enough time to cover in depth what’s really going on.
All of this stuff like “Gulf of America”, “Red White and Blueland”, adding Trump’s face to Mt. Rushmore, putting Trump’s face on the $100, etc. It’s all a bunch of look-at-the-birdy bullshit.
Basically the raison d’être for MTG or Lauren Boebert - have em stand up and say dumb shit and keep attention focused on them while the GOP continues to fuck the average taxpayer.
Ahh yes, Benjamin Franklin, founding father, inventor of the bifocals, lightning rod, and Franklin stove, first postmaster general, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, signed the constitution and the declaration of independence along with drafting the latter. Definitely not nearly as important to this country as Donald Trump, who is singlehandedly keeping the orange spray tan market alive.
Alternatively it’s just switching adulterers.
I know there’s a lot of pushback of the founding fathers due to the general pushback against American exceptionalism but let’s not lump up folks who were generally positive for society with active leaches.
Also adultery is the least of both their crimes, it just happens that as a politician, legal theorist, and scientist there’s a lot that Benjamin Franklin did that helps give some positives to him. He was a shit person in many ways, but he was still decently intelligent. Trump is just shit with no respectable qualities and nothing to offer mankind except misery.
Doesn’t DJT has to die soon for that?
So a dollar will only be worth one pence?
1 ruble
1 rubio?
I wonder which of those is worth less? 🤔
Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.
Brought to you by dipshit conservatives.
Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.
From my experience travelling the world, that’s not particularly uncommon. The US doesn’t have to feel singled out for having such people on their bank notes.
Shouldn’t Trump be on the ruble?
“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 to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again, and put America first by ending useless foreign aid.”
I can’t I give up. I’m Canadian and America is fucked. There are no policies, no plans to make projects or fix problems. It’s all a campaign and political points. This is just pure trash satire at this point. URGH
2016 was the year that satire died
It was much earlier.
In 2010, a christian fundamentalist on youtube started to overanalyse Lady Gaga MVs, then moved onto other artists and eventually other media. He was pretty much the forerunner of those wokespotters (except not even SJW was a snarl word at that point), and yes eventually he dabbled into racism too, but he was also openly “not antisemitic” (he loved the sinner and hated the sin). When he first posted his videos, people, including me, thought it was a satire of conspiracy theorists. He was dead serious. I remember him nuking his old videos and making more sane sounding ones once gamergate hit mainstream, even backpedalling on his earlier analysises pointing out Freemasonry symbols and David Stars in media.
I thought he was broke and about to go to jail unless he became president and illegally stopped all investigations against him. So that he could again go to golf orgies where he could be a pedo. But okay…
I’m sorry ma’am, the cash register is broken!
Oh I’m sorry, I don’t have change for a hundred
Oh sir, we only accept 20’s or lower currency. It’s for our safety!
It has been since 2017 when he took office. Satire is dead.
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.
“1 Trump will be worth nothing” vs the immense value one Trump has now. lol.
Well if they do that, I’ll draw at least 2 dicks pointed towards his mouth on each one that I handle
We really are on the Biff Tannen timeline.
Even worse.
Changing U.S. law would be necessary to allow living people to appear on currency.
Or he could, ya know, die.
Well, congress knows what to do now to get him on the bill. Just need an execution rider.
