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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Shoppers in Kansas City and across Missouri could soon be able to pay for their groceries and pay taxes with gold and silver.

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Were trump bucks not good enough?

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-08 11:19 AM | Reply

Missouri used to be a decent place to live. Now it's just a red state shithole. One didn't even need to look to know that some small town - Dixon, MO - MAGA goober came up with this. Median family income here is 28K per year and almost 25% live below poverty line. The whole town together couldn't scratch up enough gold or silver to buy a lottery ticket or a pack of cigarettes, yet this is what their representative is up to in Jeff City.

#2 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-05-08 04:26 PM | Reply

Considering we're currently using IOUs to make purchases for goods and supplies. I feel like it would be foolish to spend gold or silver for the same transactions.

Especially since the dollar is losing all value thanks to the efforts of Putin, via the Trump administration, to destroy America.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-08 04:39 PM | Reply

#2: Hi Heehaw: Missouri sounds like a veritable paradise. In 2021, 113,351 firearm licenses were on record and 48.8% of adults have guns at home. In an average year, 1,378 people die and 4,257 are wounded by guns in Missouri. The "Show Me State" has the fourth-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Now there is legislation for people to walk around and pay for groceries with gold or silver? What could possibly go wrong? Are ammunition vending machines coming to Missouri too?
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Sources:

cbsnews.com

everystat.org

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-05-08 04:55 PM | Reply

Show-Me The Counterfeit Gold And Silver!

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-08 05:33 PM | Reply

OMG. LMAO! What? They're going to have some machine to shave and measure gold shavings from Krugerrand or something for the miniscule number of people who do so they can pay their $10.83 at Walmart?

As if most people have silver and gold laying around, anyway. An average Missourian isn't going to be spending $2-3000+ for an ounce to keep in their dresser drawer. In this day and age, if the average person wants to invest in gold or silver they'll do it by buying into an ETF.

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-08 05:43 PM | Reply

Yeah as usual a not well thought out MAGA't idea.

Been to St. Louis once, on business. Outside of Busch Stadium which was beautiful. It was a RW shithole.

#7 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-05-08 10:14 PM | Reply

I 100% support people paying cash or with gold/silver etc. What I do not support is people buying their $12 Chipotle using buy now/pay later with 4 installment payments. If you don't have cash, you probably don't really need it. Save your money.

#8 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-09 02:44 AM | Reply

You're a fucking idiot.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-09 05:39 AM | Reply

What's the current rate of exchange for magic beans in MAGAtland?

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-09 05:57 AM | Reply

"Are ammunition vending machines coming to Missouri too?"

Vending machines require legal tender. You can't buy anything with your grandmother's precios silver tea set you just stole from your sister/mom?

#11 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-09 07:41 AM | Reply

Wait, isn't that Crypto's job, to be a currency the very wealthy can use to hide their assets from the tax man?

#12 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-09 07:59 AM | Reply

#4 | Posted by C0Rnh0LiANUS

What US city has the highest homicide rate?
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, stands out with a significantly high rate of 54.4 homicides per 100,000 residents. This is the first time since 2021 that St. Louis has had the highest homicide rate out of the 24 select U.S. cities in the Center for Public Safety Initiatives homicide report.

' Missouri's 9.8 firearm homicide rate per 100,000 people during this five-year span (January 1, 2018 " December 31, 2022) was 1.66 times higher than the national rate, 5.4. ' Among the 50 states, only Mississippi (15.4), Louisiana (14.4) and Alabama (11.2) had a higher rate than Missouri's 9.8.

-The problem isn't Missouri, exactly. It's Saint Louis (and to a lesser extent KCMO)
St Louis makes the whole state look bad.

#13 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-09 08:11 AM | Reply

Every city on the River is she it whole. A Memphis old-timer told me once it was because of contraband dumping. The blacks that remained in the deep south (where I grew up), on the other hand, were fine and good citizens, at least before the gangsta rap crime culture took over.

www.nps.gov
CRGIS Contraband Slave Camp Mapping Project

Shows the camps packed along the River.

#14 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-09 08:34 AM | Reply

"Yeah as usual a not well thought out MAGA't idea."
Are any MAGA ideas well thought out? Is racism a well thought out idea? Is homophobia really aor transphobia really well thought out? Basically, is Nazism really a well thought out idea?

#15 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-09 08:34 AM | Reply

Came here to say- before I was sidetracked to address C0Rnh0LiANUS's disparagement of MO and his unthreadly interjection of guns bad m'kay is this:

The ONLY money authorized by the constitution is now considered somehow not legitimate by TDS morons, and TBH most everybody for that matter, because we have been raised for over a century now, conditioned to accept, the FED model of artificial currency based on debt and designed to divert wealth to the blasphemous drug fiend punkass BANKERS via USURY.

Since the creation of the Fed, the U.S. dollar has lost 97% of its value.

#16 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-09 08:49 AM | Reply

"-The problem isn't Missouri, exactly. It's Saint Louis (and to a lesser extent KCMO)
St Louis makes the whole state look bad.
#13 | Posted by chiligordo"

St. Louis - 61% Kamala, 37% Trump - and this includes the whole county where most of the murders are in the part of the city that likely voted Kamala 90%.

KC - 59% Kamala, 39% Trump - same comment above on the distribution.

As I have said before, we don't have a red state/blue state divide. We have deep blue shithole cities in red states - this includes CA and NY as well as Missouri.

#17 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-09 08:54 AM | Reply

#15 | Posted by granni

Are you ok? Can you tell me what day it is? Who's the president?
Somebody that lives nearby, please go check on her.

#18 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-09 08:54 AM | Reply

"-The problem isn't Missouri, exactly. It's Saint Louis (and to a lesser extent KCMO)
St Louis makes the whole state look bad.
#13 | Posted by chiligordo"

St. Louis - 61% Kamala, 37% Trump - and this includes the whole county where most of the murders are in the part of the city that likely voted Kamala 90%.

KC - 59% Kamala, 39% Trump - same comment above on the distribution.

As I have said before, we don't have a red state/blue state divide. We have deep blue shithole cities in red states - this includes CA and NY as well as Missouri.

#17 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-09 08:54 AM | Reply | Flag: *bump

#19 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-09 08:55 AM | Reply

Blue states should stop subsidizing red state shitholes.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-09 08:56 AM | Reply

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