Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[Wheezer]

The face of that coin is going to need something big.

I think even Gil will find this perfectly acceptable legal tender.

"In Big Cheyenne we trust"

Per google translate:

In Big Cheyennensi nos confídimus. Videamus quam quomodo hoc ludit ex

Makes about as much sense as the debt cieling vote itself does.

That "-si" seems improbable.

[Edit.--I'm calling erroneously formed locative plural that hinges on the "In."]

[R-V]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

[thehawk]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

They could save on paper and ink costs by simply printing "I'm an asshole".  Of course, anyone who used that and returned would get more than their fair share of the service staff's bodily fluids.

[thehawk]

The face of that coin is going to need something big.

I think even Gil will find this perfectly acceptable legal tender.

"In Big Cheyenne we trust"

Per google translate:

In Big Cheyennensi nos confídimus. Videamus quam quomodo hoc ludit ex

Makes about as much sense as the debt cieling vote itself does.

That "-si" seems improbable.

[Edit.--I'm calling erroneously formed locative plural that hinges on the "In."]

DPD.  I will note that with Mr. Schmidt when he gets back from Pyongyang, but clearly this belongs on the obverse

[Yeti]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

[Gilgamesh]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

"I'm going to use two democratically elected outcomes that I don't agree with as an excuse to save 20 bucks because I'm an asshole."

Better.

[BBM]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

"I'm going to use two democratically elected outcomes that I don't agree with as an excuse to save 20 bucks because I'm an asshole."

Better.

Yes

[Bort]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

This is literally AND figuratively something that gets my goat about people who don't tip for shit.

[Gilgamesh]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

This is literally AND figuratively something that gets my goat about people who don't tip for shit.

S/he's obviously doing well enough where their income is being affected by these tax increases, so why is it such a big deal to throw down an extra $20 or something?

Unless your server is Governor Brown or the President, I don't really understand the point of such a protest.  What's the server going to say?  "You know, these tax increases are a big deal and I should contact my Congressman!"

[R-V]

Suck it, Gil. Suck that trilly hard.

At the White House Briefing, Jay Carney doesn't embrace, but doesn't fully rule out the $1 trillion coin option

Carney will not take the $1 trillion coin off the table

@chucktodd has asked Jay Carney about 6 times about the coin.

[Gilgamesh]

Suck it, Gil. Suck that trilly hard.

At the White House Briefing, Jay Carney doesn't embrace, but doesn't fully rule out the $1 trillion coin option

Carney will not take the $1 trillion coin off the table

@chucktodd has asked Jay Carney about 6 times about the coin.

It's still a dumb, legally tendentious, and potentially inflationary idea that I can't imagine this White House would endorse.

Just raise the fucking debt ceiling.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Some might say this isn't a very generous way to treat a waiter, but I applaud morph for his honesty.

Why did the guy have to go out to eat if he couldn't afford the tip?

This is literally AND figuratively something that gets my goat about people who don't tip for shit.

S/he's obviously doing well enough where their income is being affected by these tax increases, so why is it such a big deal to throw down an extra $20 or something?

Unless your server is Governor Brown or the President, I don't really understand the point of such a protest.  What's the server going to say?  "You know, these tax increases are a big deal and I should contact my Congressman!"

I'm gonna tell you something. Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with with him. Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? Now, I have done nothing to harm these people but they are angered with me, so what do they do, doctor up some income tax, for which they have no case. To speak to me like me, no, to harass a peaceful man. I pray to god if I ever had a grievance I'd have a little more self respect. One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that's how you know who won.

[Gilgamesh]

Well, that was fast.  Now what do they do with the surplus?

[R-V]

Suck it, Gil. Suck that trilly hard.

At the White House Briefing, Jay Carney doesn't embrace, but doesn't fully rule out the $1 trillion coin option

Carney will not take the $1 trillion coin off the table

@chucktodd has asked Jay Carney about 6 times about the coin.

It's still a dumb, legally tendentious, and potentially inflationary idea that I can't imagine this White House would endorse.

Just raise the fucking debt ceiling.

How could you look down on a solution initially proposed by one of your beloved internet commenters?

It was a December 2009 Wall Street Journal article that ultimately inspired the Georgia lawyer known online as "Beowulf" to invent the trillion-dollar coin.

The article, "Miles for Nothing," detailed how clever travelers were buying commemorative coins from the U.S. Mint via credit cards that award frequent flier miles. The Mint would ship the coins for free and the travelers would deposit them at the bank, pay off their cards, and accumulate free miles.

More than six months later, during a wonky online discussion about the debt ceiling, Beowulf thought of the article and, egged on by fellow monetary-system obsessives, came up with his own clever plan to exploit the powers of the U.S. Mint. His idea to issue a single trillion-dollar coin to the U.S. Treasury, thus letting it avoid borrowing and bypass the debt ceiling, is now much discussed among Washington elites, including at the White House, where a spokesman Wednesday wouldn't rule out the scheme.

Also, the co-author of the law says you can take your interpretation of this as "legally tendentious" and shove it up your coin slot.

The coin hack even surprised and impressed former U.S. Mint director Philip Diehl, who co-authored the law that enabled the platinum loophole in the first place.

"When I first heard about the idea to mint a trillion-dollar coin, I was very surprised," says Diehl. "But because I know that law backwards and forwards, I knew immediately that the guy who came up with the idea was right.

"It's an ingenious use of the law to avoid a ridiculous and irresponsible situation, in which the country would be driven to default."

[Wheezer]

Suck it, Gil. Suck that trilly hard.

At the White House Briefing, Jay Carney doesn't embrace, but doesn't fully rule out the $1 trillion coin option

Carney will not take the $1 trillion coin off the table

@chucktodd has asked Jay Carney about 6 times about the coin.

It's still a dumb, legally tendentious, and potentially inflationary idea that I can't imagine this White House would endorse.

Just raise the fucking debt ceiling.

How could you look down on a solution initially proposed by one of your beloved internet commenters?

He's just maneuvering for the creation of coins struck from helium.