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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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.
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.
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.
Have you even considered that the coins are shiny-shiny? Well worth the investment.
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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.
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.
If I ever happen upon one of these, it's at the very least getting a swastika stamped into the forehead.
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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I assume it's just a Charlie Kirk commemorative coin?
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.
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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Wtf!
-JFK
Surprised the fat fuck hasn't ordered his own nasty face to be put on all US currency honestly...
There absolutely are commemorative Trump coins made out of gold, sold to rubes at several times the price of the metal.
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.
I will rob a bank just to burn those notes.
ANYTHING BUT TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. FUCKING ANYTHING.
I hope this causes Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony to rise from the grave and bitch-slap some motherfuckers.
Horst Wessel
Chrlie Kirk: the Worst Vessel of the american dream
Someone ask chat gpt what the opposite of a wet dream is
Dry Reality :(
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.
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!
A fresh attempt at currency devaluation
A much more original way to devalue your currency than the Romans.
May it go to zero.
Of course they wanna make him into a fucking commemorative coin lmao perfect thing to sell on antenna tv informercials
Please let it be a low denomination coin so I can have trains run over his face.
A podcaster? For fuck sakes guys.