return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down18cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up120·1 day ago31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 hours 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-up1·4 hours 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-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoThen they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·1 day 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-up13·24 hours 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-up23·1 day 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-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoNah man, spoilers!
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoFR after I posted this I saw a headline saying Trump started slurring speech and disappeared for days.
31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
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.
Then they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
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.
Amendment incoming!
Thank you!
Nah man, spoilers!
FR after I posted this I saw a headline saying Trump started slurring speech and disappeared for days.