return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down11
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·10 days agoThe good news is this is illegal. The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·10 days ago31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoYeah they won’t care, they’ll do it anyway, and then go after critics for being “unamerican” and “anti capitalist” per NSPM-7.
minus-squareXraygoggles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 days agoOh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now. He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
minus-squareMelkath@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 days agoI was about to say, I was pretty sure that was a law, instituted to stop… oh, what was it again? Oh ya. FASCISM.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoLiterally, who’s going to stop them? There’s so much stuff that’s absolutely illegal happening and nobody is stopping them. Being illegal or not is irrelevant if no one enforces it.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoA lot of things are being held up by the courts, many things have been reversed by the courts, but yes they probably feel invincible at the moment.
minus-squareAshMan85@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·10 days agoHeard of congressional approval?
I hate this timeline.
The good news is this is illegal.
The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
Explain more
31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
Yeah they won’t care, they’ll do it anyway, and then go after critics for being “unamerican” and “anti capitalist” per NSPM-7.
Oh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now.
He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
God damn XOR
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I was about to say, I was pretty sure that was a law, instituted to stop… oh, what was it again? Oh ya. FASCISM.
Literally, who’s going to stop them?
There’s so much stuff that’s absolutely illegal happening and nobody is stopping them. Being illegal or not is irrelevant if no one enforces it.
A lot of things are being held up by the courts, many things have been reversed by the courts, but yes they probably feel invincible at the moment.
Amendment incoming!
Thank you!
Heard of congressional approval?