Not having to deal with pennies when purchasing items with cash in Canada was one of my first “wtf is my country” doing moments. penny hoarders are also one of the more interesting subsets of people. They will rule us all soon
DeWine is in a lame duck term, and he refuses to acknowledge MAGA. MAGA is going to tear the state to shreds when DeWine is gone.
There is a maga Missouri farmer on TikTok that was pleading with the public to call their representatives because he is going to lose his family farm over this. He got berated so bad in the comments that I think he is actually questioning his decisions, which is a small victory.
Stuff like this is why it's good to have people pushing back on twitter, instead of just ceding it to reactionaries. As marginal as that impact is
I thought it was pretty obvious the cheering during the shot of Trump during the anthem was fake as hell. Much like ESPN and their "SEC" chants
The R voters in this state will vote for whomever Trump tells them. If that’s Ramaswamy, then he wins the nomination. Current AG Dave Yost will be the established party’s choice, but that is irrelevant without Trump. Right now, there are zero viable Democrat candidates for governor or Senator. In theory, 74 year old Sherrod Brown could run again. He’s not raising any money now. In theory, 53 year old Tim Ryan could run again, but he’s living quite comfortably as a lobbyist for the natural gas and crypto industries. He’s also not raising any money. Eat Arby’s, watch your interstate overpasses.
Here’s an idea I just had for the penny. If the cost to produce the “one cent piece” now is closer to $.02, what if we simply just change the die to read “two cent piece” going forward? I like the idea of having a lower coin than the nickel and always having to round to the nearest $.05. With a “two cent piece” and a “five cent piece” I’m pretty sure you can make every number but those ending in $.01 or $.03. That’s much more consumer friendly. Then we can have the discussion of whether the current pennies in circulation should remain valued at $.01 or be valued at $.02 until they are circulated out, which I’m in favor of doubling them under this newly thought up scenario. There are estimated to be between 250B and 300B pennies in circulation. Doubling their value until they circulate out would inject between $2B-$3B into the economy over night. Thats like $7-$8 per person per average, so it’s not going to be inflationary. And it would be easier to simply say the old “one cent piece” is valued the same as the proposed “two cent piece” since they would look identical until an unnecessary closer examination. Not to mention it would get all “one cent piece” coins “out of circulation” and more than enough “two cent piece” coins “into circulation” immediately to make them useful without the additional cost of minting hundreds of billions of new coins.
some times I can’t tell if you’re being serious about these kinds of thought exercises but then I thought about the content we’d get out of the people of this deeply unserious nation arguing about whether a penny was worth 0, $.01, or $.02 and now I’m all in
Imagine the conspiracy theories if a democrat tried to stop making pennies… “One world currency” “they want to track you with digital money” Now they’re lapping it up like a dog
I’m mostly being unserious. But I am intrigued by a “two cent piece” replacement. The rest of the post was admittedly fluff I added because I googled how many pennies were in circulation.
I'm pretty sure the WH Press Sec said last week that they would be allowed to return, so this will be a fun one to follow the 180 on
Please take all currency discussion to the all time dimes thread TIA also, til some guy's wife ("socialite") was on our dime for like 30 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Willing_Bingham
I’m sure we can convince R voters that Arabic numerals are Muslim, then a ban gets real traction going.
Gee, Bill, I wonder what major political party is most responsible for not holding the sugar / corn syrup industry responsible for getting the entire world addicted to their shitty products.
Story time. had to travel for kids sports this weekend. Old next door neighbor (whom I hated but our kids are same age) asked my wife if she could bring her daughter down to see our daughter for lunch so they could hang out. My wife gave me advanced warning so I could leave bc fuck those people. lady has a government job where she does something with contracts, works remotely, the main office is apparently in DC. The Doge team was in their main office last week. Sending multiple emails daily to them, telling them they all have to come back to the office, telling them they’re logging all their keystrokes and can even look through the camera on their computer. Lady is of course a Trump voter, she is freaking out and she hit my wife with the line “I shouldn’t have voted for him but I never thought it would impact me.” I haven’t cum that hard in years
Yes, but it was heavily isolated there more than most places. It was also valid to demand more from their representatives, but I don't want to go down that argument path. Blaming Muslims for Trump winning Wisconsin, PA, GA, Arizona, Nevada is silly