return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1290cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1290external-linkTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square43linkfedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up100·3 months agoThe good news is this is illegal. The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up98·3 months ago31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
minus-squareMelkath@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 months 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-up10·3 months 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 months 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-squareXraygoggles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoOh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now. He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoSo, Trump just needs to die and it will be legal?
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThen they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
minus-squareAshMan85@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoHeard of congressional approval?
minus-squareGhyste@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIllegal? They’ve never heard the word.
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,”
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.
Oh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now.
He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
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Amendment incoming!
So, Trump just needs to die and it will be legal?
Thank you!
Then they’ll have to mint coins of Reagan.
Heard of congressional approval?
Illegal? They’ve never heard the word.