return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down111
arrow-up1365arrow-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 · 4 days agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up141·4 days agoThe good news is this is illegal. The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
minus-squaretoiletobserver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·4 days agoExplain more
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up135·4 days ago31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSo, Trump just needs to die and it will be legal?
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·4 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-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 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-up3·3 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-squareMelkath@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up27·4 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-squareXraygoggles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 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-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThen they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoNah man, spoilers!
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoFR after I posted this I saw a headline saying Trump started slurring speech and disappeared for days.
minus-squareAshMan85@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·4 days agoHeard of congressional approval?
minus-squareGhyste@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIllegal? They’ve never heard the word.
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,”
So, Trump just needs to die and it will be legal?
Yeah they won’t care, they’ll do it anyway, and then go after critics for being “unamerican” and “anti capitalist” per NSPM-7.
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.
I was about to say, I was pretty sure that was a law, instituted to stop… oh, what was it again? Oh ya. FASCISM.
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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Amendment incoming!
Thank you!
Then they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
Nah man, spoilers!
FR after I posted this I saw a headline saying Trump started slurring speech and disappeared for days.
Heard of congressional approval?
Illegal? They’ve never heard the word.