New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals, Cockroaches Or Nickelback
Query: can cockroaches constitutionally hold office? Because I’m looking for a write-in vote for next election.
Thankfully, Nickleback is Canadian, so we don’t have to worry about them becoming president.
In 1893, Mark Twain published a story called “The Million Pound Bank Note” about an American sailor stranded in London who was given a note of that value by two rich brothers who were trying to settle a bet. (If the story sounds familiar, that may be because it was made into a film starring Gregory Peck and also because it partly inspired another film called Trading Places.)
Well, since we’re nitpicking (and fact-checking retarded memes, apparently :)), it would probably end up weighing a lot less than that, since buying that much platinum in bulk would rapidly drive its price per weight further up than if you’d loaded it in a Saturn rocket.
A bit off topic, but I understand the largest US Note issued was $100 thousand. It was used between federal reserve banks. I think I was told they were used into the 1960’s, but my memory may be off on that.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency?qsrc=3044#.24100.2C000_bill
No need for that, just put a horse’s head on one side and Donald Trump on the other side.
I wonder why they don’t want the coin made of a more valuable metal, like plutonium?
I mean I know why, but I’d almost be surprised if they did.
Plutonium isn’t a metal like we are used to: solid, durable, etc. But being made of plutonium would that people who played around with it paid a price.
The Bank of England currently issues £1,000,000 and £100,000,000 notes.
Hm.
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Is there that much platinum on Earth? (I mean, of course, has that much been dug out of the crust?)
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How big would the coin be?!
A trillion dollars’ worth would be well over critical-mass for fission, wouldn’t it?
Buck provided the answers in Post 6.
Then bring on the clown makeup!
I’ll do it, by Bog, or my name isn’t Manuel Garcia O’Kelly Davis!
Yay, false equivalency! The gaffe you’re referencing was a stupid remark from a single backbencher Democratic representative. The stupidity in the OP is by the NRCC, supposedly part of the party leadership.
Almost every time you folks manage to nutpick something a Democrat said to supposedly counter something stupid a Republican said, it’s some nobody backbencher, if not a STATE-level backbencher. We don’t even have to nutpick…there are enough prominent, national-leadership Republicans espousing and legitimizing insanity and stupidity right now that we don’t even have to bend over to pick them off the ground. They jump into our baskets eagerly. This is a major reason why the Stupid Republican Idea of the Day thread is umpty-billion pages long and the Stupid Liberal Idea of the Day thread is idling in the slip.
I realize we’re in the wrong forum for serious discussion …
BUT … the U.S. Treasury and Fed Res do own a lot of gold bullion which is “on the books” at a price of $35/ounce or so. The U.S. could set a more realistic price and “deposit”(*) the gold with the Fed for a credit in the ballpark of Trillion plus. Has this been discussed?
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be repeatable. Trillion-dollar fiat coins could be minted repeatedly until control of Congress is wrested from the lunatics, but U.S. only has only a trillion or two dollars worth of gold. What would be the follow-up? Sell the Interstate Highway system to the Fed? :smack:
(* Trivium: According to Wikipedia, although 500 rail cars were needed for the 1937 initial deposit of gold at Fort Knox, technically the gold was sent by “registered mail.” 
Is this just another Wikipedia hoax?)
It doesn’t strike me as particularly hoax-ish out of the box. Back in those days a lot of mail went by train.
Good point. The Idiot/Lunatic coalition constantly cries “Your side has dummies too!” but their attempts to show examples just demonstrate the wrongness of their meme.
In another thread, to counter the fact that GWB invaded Iraq to fight the Gog and Magog of Revelations, a GOP fan countered with Joe Biden forgetting a constituent’s mother’s maiden name, or some such. :smack:
That’s not a coin, that’s a monument!
Wait . . . Washington, D.C. . . . that could work! 
Sure, and this leads to an even better situation. Once you have bought the half million or so ounces of platinum you need to make the coin, you basically have all the platinum in the world. Which means you have a monopoly of the platinum market. With no competition, you can then set the selling price of platinum at $1 trillion per ounce. Of course, no one is going to buy platinum at that price but who cares? Because what you do next is to mint a half million $1 trillion platinum coins. And then sir, you are set for life.
I don’t think the Republicans would much care for the Washington Monument: silly make work program.