A new GOP plan would call on the U.S. Treasury to print silver dollar coins with Kirk's image.
  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.worldEnglish
    691·
    9 days ago

    I hate the idiots in charge of this country.

    Does anyone living in a sane country wanna do a greencard marriage thing? I’m a good cook, enjoy keeping my space clean, and am a fairly experienced flatterer, if that sweetens the pot any.

    …pretty please? :(

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    8 days ago

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

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    9 days ago

    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.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        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.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    8 days ago

    Fast forward to 2030…

    " That will be 13 Kirks"

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

  • don@lemmy.caEnglish
    281·
    9 days ago

    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.zipEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      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.

      • don@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        9 days ago

        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.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

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

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

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

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

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

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    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.comEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        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.socialEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      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.mlEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

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