Has Barry shown this before?
No.
If not, what took him so long?
Good question. And why spend so much money doing so?
Is this long form thingie equivalent to the BC I have in my safe deposit box, or is this the paperwork you get to replace it?
Nobody gets the ‘original’. We all get copies. The originals are state records.
...how is anyone who’s an agnostic on this subject supposed to be convinced by a piece of paper that the prez coughs up when convenient?
They probably won’t be. If money can be counterfeited, then a BC can certainly be..............
So the BC that came with me is a copy? I'm old enough that the thing wasn't xeroxed :) I mean all the sigs and info are handwritten on a typewritten form. No autopen, and yes indeedy, I'm dating myself. If that's a copy, how is it different from what the bureaucrats have stuffed in a drawer somewhere? :)