return2ozma@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoTreasury weighs minting $1 coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversarywww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down13
arrow-up1188arrow-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 · 8 hours agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up87·8 hours agoThe good news is this is illegal. The bad news is Republicans probably don’t care.
minus-squaretoiletobserver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·8 hours agoExplain more
minus-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·8 hours ago31 U.S. Code 5112 says “No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,”
minus-squareXraygoggles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 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-squarefinitebanjo@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·58 minutes agoBut the law doesn’t say anything about former, only current, which is currently true.
minus-squarebobs_monkey@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·8 hours 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-up16·7 hours 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-up1·6 hours agoNah man, spoilers!
minus-squareAshMan85@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·8 hours agoHeard of congressional approval?
minus-squareGhyste@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours 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,”
Oh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now.
He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.
But the law doesn’t say anything about former, only current, which is currently true.
God damn XOR
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.
Amendment incoming!
Thank you!
Nah man, spoilers!
Heard of congressional approval?
Illegal? They’ve never heard the word.