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[jett]

I just don't understand this guy.

 

[braves01]

I'm surprised he didn't say the design of the pyramid under the all-seeing eye should be changed to reflect its purpose of storing grain.

 

[Kusagari]

Ben Carson is the ultimate proof that just because someone is good at their job it doesn't mean they're not a fucking moron.

 

[HvySky]

Why is Ben Carson still saying things.

 

[Lebron]

Him and Clearance Thomas gonna tap dance their way into white heaven

 

[LumpOfCole]

I will admit that part of me was hoping for Martin Luther King Jr to be put on the $20 bill partly so it would eventually become vernacular to say "Pay me in Kings"

My top choice for the $20 bill was Elinor Roosevelt, but Tubman is great too.

 

[Silver Arrows]

Your definition of uncommon and handy are suspect.

It's HUELEN, basically anything he says is suspect.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Admittedly I've only been living in America for a few years and only visited a half-dozen times before that, but I've never seen a two dollar bill. I have seen a few silver dollar coins, but no two dollar bill. I don't think my credit union carries them either.

 

[Gnome Scat]

Go home, Ben.

 

[parrotbeak]

Admittedly I've only been living in America for a few years and only visited a half-dozen times before that, but I've never seen a two dollar bill. I have seen a few silver dollar coins, but no two dollar bill. I don't think my credit union carries them either.

I think it's mainly something you give to little kids as very cheap but novel gifts.

 

[TalonJH]

Admittedly I've only been living in America for a few years and only visited a half-dozen times before that, but I've never seen a two dollar bill. I have seen a few silver dollar coins, but no two dollar bill. I don't think my credit union carries them either.

You literally have to ask for them at the bank. I think I've only had them naturally come into my possession twice otherwise.

 

[HUELEN10]

Admittedly I've only been living in America for a few years and only visited a half-dozen times before that, but I've never seen a two dollar bill. I have seen a few silver dollar coins, but no two dollar bill. I don't think my credit union carries them either.

1. Even though you have only been here a few years, props on going the Credit Union route as opposed to a big bank.

2. Silver dollar coins as in Silver Dollars, or Susan B Anthonies? I've never actually seen a real silver dollar in my life sadly.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

Admittedly I've only been living in America for a few years and only visited a half-dozen times before that, but I've never seen a two dollar bill. I have seen a few silver dollar coins, but no two dollar bill. I don't think my credit union carries them either.

I have some squirreled away, but only because an aunt of mine would send a couple my way for birthdays when I was a kid. Honestly didn't even know they were still being produced and are in circulation.

 

[HiredN00bs]

What a douche.

I know this sounds mocking, but it's sincere: I want a half dollar coin with 50 Cent on it.

This is a bad design, though, IMO.

 

[Silver Arrows]

What a douche.

I know this sounds mocking, but it's sincere: I want a half dollar coin with 50 Cent on it.

This is a bad design, though, IMO.

Can we get the outline writing to be "Jump over that big ass ramp Fiddy!"?

 

[gutter_trash]

I am watching on Youtube: Andrew Jackson - Good Evil & The Presidency - PBS Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGfxyeuy8u8


conclusion: boot Jackson off the 20

 

[Bubba T]

Damn it I came in to post this.

Actually, I don't care, it deserves another.

 

[LQX]

Ugh, if he was alive when either of the two were alive...who would most likely would come to his aid? So lost. How anyone and especially a black man would rather a slave owner as a representative of anything rather than a freedom fighter shows their character and integrity.

 

[Perfect Blue]

lol Carson is such a doofus,

It's actually kind of ironic that Jackson was even on the $20 since the dude despised non-gold backed currency.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Ugh, if he was alive when either of the two were alive...who would most likely would come to his aid? So lost. How anyone and especially a black man would rather a slave owner as a representative of anything rather than a freedom fighter shows their character and integrity.

If the $20 bill didn't exist and we were choosing between Tubman and Jackson, the choice would be easily Tubman. Problem is many Americans are simply resistant to change, and don't want something new. It's the same reason the dollar coin never took off in America. We were used to using bills and didn't want to change our routine.

 

[HUELEN10]

If the $20 bill didn't exist and we were choosing between Tubman and Jackson, the choice would be easily Tubman. Problem is many Americans are simply resistant to change, and don't want something new. It's the same reason the dollar coin never took off in America. We were used to using bills and didn't want to change our routine.

This is most certainly not an inaccurate statement.

 

[akira28]

He must be getting tons of $upport from boosters for saying these things. Setting up those post election speaking engagements, ya'll.

 

[RichiRamjag]

Ben Carson is something else recently...

 

[Aselith]

If the $20 bill didn't exist and we were choosing between Tubman and Jackson, the choice would be easily Tubman. Problem is many Americans are simply resistant to change, and don't want something new. It's the same reason the dollar coin never took off in America. We were used to using bills and didn't want to change our routine.

And also coins are shitter to carry than bills

 

[Merc_]

.

 

[commedieu]

You have to renew your good ones' card monthly?

 

[perfectchaos007]

And also coins are shitter to carry than bills

And they aren't appropriate to throw on strippers. Trips to the strip club must be expensive in countries like Canada where the lowest paper tender is a $5

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I wasn't expecting Ben Carson's thoughts on a Harriet Tubman "controversy" when I woke up this morning, but life is full of surprises.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

And they aren't appropriate to throw on strippers. Trips to the strip club must be expensive in countries like Canada where the lowest paper tender is a $5

Oh, there's no tipping in Canada anyway.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Donald Drumpf

are we still forcing this meme?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

are we still forcing this meme?

Yeah I think it's about over.

 

[Aselith]

And they aren't appropriate to throw on strippers. Trips to the strip club must be expensive in countries like Canada where the lowest paper tender is a $5

You don't know about throwing loonies?

 

[capitalCORN]

Hate his skin shade away!....

 

[reKon]

This nigga

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[bomma_man]

Yup. I try to keep a $2 note around just because I think they're cool. I've had one sitting in a drawer for at least 5 years now.

Sorry Ben, but freeing slaves > balancing the budget. Andrew Jackson is not a president who should be forgotten, only because he was so terrible and should be a reminder of America's not so pretty history. Jackson's picture belongs in history's hall of shame.

Oh and and Ben, should Bill Clinton be on a bill, too? He balanced the budget, too!

Y'all let Huelen troll you too easily.

Edit: we had a budget surplus from 1998 to 2001. We've ran a deficit since the Bush era tax cuts.

Paying off the debt /=/ not adding to the debt/reducing the debt.

Anyway, the fact that this was the last time the debt was paid off, and subsequently the country went into a massive recession, is evidence enough that debt scares are purely political.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Yeah I think it's about over.

 

[Spinluck]

Oh fuck off.

So sick of this guy being the token black Republican...

Also... Why the fuck does the $2 bill even exist? Has it been phased out?

 

[Aeternus Malum]

I read the entire OP and thought it was a satire article...

Jesus Christ...

 

[dallow_bg]

I thought $2 bills were regulated to just strip clubs and banks.

I've handled them maybe ten times or less in my lifetime.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Wait until you see my latest post.

You'll know it when you see it.

 

[Stinkles]

I dunno. I think Carson is the perfect Black Republican. If you're going to have such a thing, then a sleepy oblivious nitwit would-be mother-murderer who doesn't realize he's a prop seems about as rational as any other type.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Wait until you see my latest post.

You'll know it when you see it.

lol..oh no.

 

[perfectchaos007]

You don't know about throwing loonies?

haha wow. interesting read. They say Alberta is Canada's Texas but we have nothing like that in Texas

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

This topic just reminded me that I've been thinking of Jefferson all day instead of fucking Jackson, argh!

 

[Glorified G]

Ben Carson: Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill instead

Video at the link.

“Well I think Andrew Jackson was a tremendous secretary. I mean a tremendous president,” Carson, a former GOP presidential candidate who now backs Donald Drumpf, said of the soon-to-be former face of the twenty.

When I read this in the OP I thought there was no way any publication outside of the Onion would actually use this name in any context. Then I clicked on the link and realized the OP went out of their way to actually changed this.

I'm genuinely curious OP. What was the point of doing that?

 

[Dalek]

are we still forcing this meme?

When I read this in the OP I thought there was no way any publication outside of the Onion would actually use this name in any context. Then I clicked on the link and realized the OP went out of their way to actually changed this.

I'm genuinely curious OP. What was the point of doing that?

I guess I need to explain that the extension was still on in my browser on every page of this thread.

Calm down, guys. Get some thicker skin.

 

[Yaboosh]

When I read this in the OP I thought there was no way any publication outside of the Onion would actually use this name in any context. Then I clicked on the link and realized the OP went out of their way to actually changed this.

I'm genuinely curious OP. What was the point of doing that?

Some people installed some asinine script on their browsers that does it automatically.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

This topic just reminded me that I've been thinking of Jefferson all day instead of fucking Jackson, argh!

I guess I need to explain that the extension was still on in my browser on every page of this thread.

Calm down, guys. Get some thicker skin.

LEAVE TRUMP ALONE!!


lol..Bunch of babies.

 

[Glorified G]

I guess I need to explain that the extension was still on in my browser on every page of this thread.

Calm down, guys. Get some thicker skin.

You actually installed an extension on your browser to slightly alter the name of someone due to a sketch on a comedy and you're telling other people to calm down and get thicker skin?

Some people installed some asinine script on their browsers that does it automatically.

This is seriously the first time I'm hearing about this.

What is the point?

 

[ClayKavalier]

All these youngins want to leave their stamp on the world, so they come in and try and disrupt the natural way of things. I'm sure Harriette Tugboat was a great woman, but do we really need all this hassle on account of a few busybodies stirring a fuss? I don't have any aversion to celebrating her, but why can't we just print up some stickers to hand out at polling stations and call it a day?