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Subject: What a terrible era in which idiots govern...
Date: 10/03/25 5:54 PM
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...the blind.

For those not up-to-date on their Shakespeare, that's a quote from his play Julius Caesar, which seems especially apropos given today's political climate and the news that the Department of the Treasury is planning to commemorate the semiquincentennial with a Trumpedo dollar coin.

“Despite the radical left’s forced shutdown of our government, the facts are clear: Under the historic leadership of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is entering its 250th anniversary stronger, more prosperous, and better than ever before,” a Treasury Department spokesperson said in a statement. “While a final $1 dollar coin design has not yet been selected to commemorate the United States’ semiquincentennial, this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles.”

Umm, 31 USC 5114(b) states that “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities” but an administration that's murdering individuals in international waters and using quasi-Gestapo cosplay soldiers in masks to rappel out of choppers onto an apartment building’s rooftop during an overnight raid in Chicago isn't troubled by some pesky statutes, laws, or the Constitution.

Interestingly, Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, just weeks before his death, and is something autocracies do but which republics do not do.



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