Ra^ther obvious
Well, I said yesterday that I was done defending Trump. I guess this isn't exactly defending him; it's more like marveling that the Empire's media gets away with such LOW-QUALITY propaganda. The hacked tax return is probably Trump's. I'm sure he pulled all sorts of sneaky tricks to avoid taxes. That's what rich fuckheads do. Tax evasion is the sole purpose of "conservatism".

But a rich fuckhead's accountant wouldn't ADD EXTRA DIGITS to the return with a different typewriter that has a different font and a different line-height. A rich fuckhead's accountant who was trying to pull a sneaky semi-legal trick could afford to pick up a fresh 1040 from his stack of fresh 1040s, and could afford to spend an extra three minutes retyping the entire form. In fact ANY accountant, dishonest or honest, would start fresh when making a correction. Aside from plain professional pride, looking like a bad forgery is an excellent way to catch IRS attention and bring on an audit.



Rational conclusion: ^this is a bad forgery, but we are forced to believe it's good.

WE ARE SO COMPLETELY FUCKED THAT WE CAN'T EVEN HAVE GOOD EVIL. WE CAN ONLY GET THIRD-RATE SHITTY EVIL.



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Odd graphic sidenote: I tried to use Paintshop to add the obvious bad stuff to a 20. PSP refused, popping up an error box "This application does not support the unauthorized processing of banknote images." So I used Irfan instead. When I load the already-modified image in PSP, there's no warning box. A tilted and colorized but unmarked version triggers the warning. PSP is not an especially smart program, but its makers seem to have included a very smart recognition algorithm for this one specific purpose. What would happen if you tried a bill that was designed later than this PSP version? Would a new Harriet Tubman 20 be okay? If so, why bother with the error box at all?
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