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Credit Where Credit is Due: a shout out thread for Things Trump Did Right

Politesse said:
Tigers! said:
Does winning the presidency count as getting something right?
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Not if you're a fascist piece of shit with no respect or understanding of the honor you've just been appointed to.
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Am I going to bother giving a fascist piece of shit credit for anything? He's not going to respect me so why should I give a fuck?
 
Elixir said:
robnisch said:
Elixir said:
Politesse said:
I think it will be a while before the average household runs out of pennies to flatten
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I have big cans full of them, if anyone wants to buy them for a low low nickel apiece!
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Copper is $4.59 per pound.
There are @ 146 pennies per pound.
1943-1982 pennies are 95% copper,5% zinc.
I'm too lazy to do the math.
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Most of the pre ‘82 ones have been cashed in. :(
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I have a '75! It is showing its age, too.

Makes you wonder how some if those Roman ones still look as good as they do. I also have a Marcus Aurelius denarius hanging around, cost me quite a few pennies to acquire.
 
Politesse said:
GenesisNemesis said:
Politesse said:
Tigers! said:
Does winning the presidency count as getting something right?
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Not if you're a fascist piece of shit with no respect or understanding of the honor you've just been appointed to.
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Am I going to bother giving a fascist piece of shit credit for anything? He's not going to respect me so why should I give a fuck?
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Being angry all the time is exhausting?
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Who cares? It's not unreasonable to be angry at fascists.
 
Also, I thought it would be interesting to give our forum conservatives a space to talk about the positives of their guy as they perceive him. I predict they will actually be giving this thread a wide berth. They are not, on a fundamental level, truly proud of what they have done to our country. But who knows? Maybe we can all learn something.
 
Politesse said:
Makes you wonder how some if those Roman ones still look as good as they do.
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Silver is durable even though it’s soft. And (most all) Roman coins never saw the kind of circulation/handling that say, an American quarter can expect to have to endure.
 
Politesse said:
They are not, on a fundamental level, truly proud of what they have done to our country. But who knows? Maybe we can all learn something.
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More likely we would learn about them than learn from them. That’s one reason they give threads like this such a wide berth.
 
I got nothin' for the OP. The alleged human we're talking about is trying this week to gouge $4 billion from the NIH budget, which would hobble cancer research and research into the viruses that cause pandemics. This, so people like him can buy yet another mansion or private jet. And we're supposed to look at incidental good things from his regime? That's like saying, yeah, Assad, he gassed untold thousands of his fellow Syrians with nerve agents, but damn that man could dress, and you should get a whiff of the cologne he uses.
Okay...maybe...just maybe... alleged human's assaults on democratic institutions has made me value them all the more, and forced smarter people than me to devise ways to fight him.
 
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...s-treasury-stop-minting-new-pennies-118639625

It is unclear whether Trump has the power to unilaterally eliminate the lowly one-cent coin. Currency specifications -- including the size and metal content of coins -- are dictated by Congress.

But Robert K. Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, has argued that there might be wiggle room.

“The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies,” he said last month.

Members of Congress have repeatedly introduced legislation taking aim at the zinc coin with copper plating. Proposals over the years have attempted to temporarily suspend the penny’s production, eliminate it from circulation, or require that prices be rounded to the nearest five cents, according to the Congressional Research Service.
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I don't have a problem with stopping the production of pennies, but once again, it appears as if Trump is doing something that he may not have the authority to do, and of course, Muskrat told him to do it.

It wouldn't surprise me if pennies eventually become valuable, even more than a banana nailed to a wall and called art. Well, maybe not that valuable but old coins often are worth a lot more than they were originally.
 
Well, Mr Trump is giving refuge to any Afrikaaner landowners fleeing the expropriation of their land. Good to see someone taking care of the downtrodden white people. Lucky for them, they are not fleeing for their lives or to improve their economic well-being, otherwise there'd be no welcome mat.
 
Elixir said:
Politesse said:
Makes you wonder how some if those Roman ones still look as good as they do.
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Silver is durable even though it’s soft. And (most all) Roman coins never saw the kind of circulation/handling that say, an American quarter can expect to have to endure.
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Most of the surviving Roman coins were found in caches or hoards buried then never retrieved by their owners; They have had very little circulation, even by comparison to other contemporary examples of the same coins.
 
southernhybrid said:
It wouldn't surprise me if pennies eventually become valuable, even more than a banana nailed to a wall and called art. Well, maybe not that valuable but old coins often are worth a lot more than they were originally.
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Well, Australia discontinued the 1¢ (and 2¢) thirty five years ago, and according to Australian numismatist website sterlingcurrency.com.au:

Most Australian one cent coins are still only worth 1 cent, so a complete set of Australian 1 cent coins running from 1966 to 1990 is fairly easy to complete in circulated condition. You won't find too many 1 cent coins on a list of Australian coins worth money - some 1 cent coins can be worth (much) more than their face value if they are a rare date and / or if they are in mint condition.
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Simply being old won't make them valuable, because of the sheer number in circulation. Maybe in a few thousand years they will be worth significantly more than their face value; But probably not.

You can buy a circulated silver denarius from ca. 300-400CE today for about £50, or US$70, which (after allowing for inflation) is around twice it's original value, after 1700 years.

So if you hold on to some pennies now, your descendants might be able get 2¢ each for them, by the year 3700.
 
bilby said:
southernhybrid said:
It wouldn't surprise me if pennies eventually become valuable, even more than a banana nailed to a wall and called art. Well, maybe not that valuable but old coins often are worth a lot more than they were originally.
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Well, Australia discontinued the 1¢ (and 2¢) thirty five years ago, and according to Australian numismatist website sterlingcurrency.com.au:

Most Australian one cent coins are still only worth 1 cent, so a complete set of Australian 1 cent coins running from 1966 to 1990 is fairly easy to complete in circulated condition. You won't find too many 1 cent coins on a list of Australian coins worth money - some 1 cent coins can be worth (much) more than their face value if they are a rare date and / or if they are in mint condition.
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Simply being old won't make them valuable, because of the sheer number in circulation. Maybe in a few thousand years they will be worth significantly more than their face value; But probably not.

You can buy a circulated silver denarius from ca. 300-400CE today for about £50, or US$70, which (after allowing for inflation) is around twice it's original value, after 1700 years.

So if you hold on to some pennies now, your descendants might be able get 2¢ each for them, by the year 3700.
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I'm sure everyone knows about the WWII penny errors that are quite valuable.
 
robnisch said:
I'm sure everyone knows about the WWII penny errors that are quite valuable.
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For sure, rare pennies - with errors, or from specific years when very few were minted, etc., can be surprisingly valuable; But those rarities were valuable even though the penny itself was still in circulation.
 
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Politesse said:
I will not miss pennies!
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This just in from Yahoo!: Less pennies will mean making more nickels to cover small transactions. Nickels cost 13.8 cents a piece to manufacture. So along with surviving Covid and getting shot in the ear, it looks like Trump didn't get this one right either.
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I don't think American pennies were ever called "coppers." (Isn't that a Britishism? In the U.S.A. a "copper" is just another name for fuzz or bull.)

But the U.S. nickel coin has been called a "nickel" since time immemorial. To change its name or composition now would be un-American; I don't think Lord Donald wants to antagonize Nickel Mining Job Creators™ as well as Zinc Mining Job Creators™, at least if they help wallpaper the brothels in Trump-owned Gaza with gold foil.

Anyway, with the nickel nickel and the zinc penny, who's to say the U.S. no longer mints "precious metal coins"? 8-) 8-)

The one-cent piece was debased during the Administration of Ronald Reagan, but before denouncing this RINO note that

  • Reagan was acting in response to the inflation caused by LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Judge Sirica.
  • There was precedent. The "Episcopalian" pro-Stalinist FDR issued fake pennies in 1943.
  • By campaigning against most of the Trump/Musk/2025P agenda, Reagan has retroactively aligned himself with AOC, Soros, Tom Hanks, the Pope and other Jesus-haters.
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bilby said:
southernhybrid said:
It wouldn't surprise me if pennies eventually become valuable, even more than a banana nailed to a wall and called art. Well, maybe not that valuable but old coins often are worth a lot more than they were originally.
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Well, Australia discontinued the 1¢ (and 2¢) thirty five years ago, and according to Australian numismatist website sterlingcurrency.com.au:

Most Australian one cent coins are still only worth 1 cent, so a complete set of Australian 1 cent coins running from 1966 to 1990 is fairly easy to complete in circulated condition. You won't find too many 1 cent coins on a list of Australian coins worth money - some 1 cent coins can be worth (much) more than their face value if they are a rare date and / or if they are in mint condition.
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Simply being old won't make them valuable, because of the sheer number in circulation. Maybe in a few thousand years they will be worth significantly more than their face value; But probably not.

You can buy a circulated silver denarius from ca. 300-400CE today for about £50, or US$70, which (after allowing for inflation) is around twice it's original value, after 1700 years.

So if you hold on to some pennies now, your descendants might be able get 2¢ each for them, by the year 3700.
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I realize that, but we do have a bunch of old coins that we inherited and some of them are now worth about 15K. I wasn't being serious when I mentioned the pennies becoming valuable, and if they ever do become valuable it will be because they are very old and rare. I have saved an old quarter because it was issued the same year that my 54 year old son was born. I doubt it will ever be valuable but it's sentimental for me, so I've kept it for years. One never knows what might be valuable to someone else, but we are way off topic as usual.
 
Well, I don't know if it was solely due to Trump, but the journalist who was held prisoner in Russia for having a small amount of cannabis is supposed to be released today or was already released today. Haven't checked. Trump is taking credit for it. I guess Puttie thought he had to do something to appease Trump. I'm glad the guy is coming home.
 
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