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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, May 31, 2026

TrumpBucks

 Donald Trump wants to put his scowling mug on a new $250 bill

Two things:

First, it's illegal to put a living person on the money. That Trump is even trying is a monument to his narcissism and insecurity. He's already fired one person for refusing to break the law, which - again - very in keeping with his second term. Loyalty to Trump's bloated, pustule of an ego is more important than following the law or professional standards.

Second, can you think of anything more tone deaf in an age when voters have complained about inflation than putting your face on a bill that literally represents the decline in value of the dollar? I remember going to Italy before the Euro and it cost 1000 lira to buy a soda, back when a soda was a dollar. We are sort of approaching the psychology of chained inflation and Trump plastering his ugly face on the physical manifestation of that inflation is just...

Thanks, Americans who refused to vote for the qualified woman - twice - and gave us this idiotic monster.

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