return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 month agoThe good news is this is illegal. The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 month 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-up9·1 month 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-squareMelkath@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month 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-up8·1 month agoOh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now. He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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-squareAshMan85@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month 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.
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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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.
Thank you!
Amendment incoming!
Heard of congressional approval?