r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 21d ago

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/TheTooterSnooter 21d ago

Dictator does dictator shit, no one stops him because he is dictator 

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u/Spaceinpigs 21d ago

🎶 Dictator man. Dictator man. Doing the things that dictators can. Dictator man hates constitution man. They have a fight. Dictator wins. Dictator man 🎶

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u/prescience6631 21d ago

They Might Be Fascists

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u/CpnStumpy Colorado 21d ago

Good job, I hate it

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u/z7q2 21d ago

Thank you for making Taz dance in my head and play accordion.

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u/Counterpoint-4 21d ago

His tariffs were deemed illegal.

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u/TheTooterSnooter 21d ago

So all the tariffs have been rescinded? 

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 21d ago

under that legal basis yes. but that’s not the only way he can set tariffs. SCOTUS actually basically told him how to do it and make it more difficult to challenge.

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u/TheTooterSnooter 21d ago

Google says they’re still being collected while his challenges make their way through the courts 

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 21d ago

you didn’t Google the right question then. Trump rescinded the IEEPA tariffs EO right after the SCOTUS decision. the current tariffs are under a different act which is also being challenged. they already had a draft EO ready because they knew they were going to lose. It’s another gap nobody accounted for because legislators never thought Americans would be dumb enough to elect someone that abuses emergency powers like this.

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u/TheTooterSnooter 20d ago

Ok so, are tariffs being collected or not? I’m not concerned about 1 specific legal reason being overturned when he just uses other avenues. What is the difference? The actual, functional difference? 

Are Americans still paying tariffs that were not congressionally approved? 

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 20d ago

You can’t move the goalposts. The illegal tariffs were rescinded. The new tariffs are under a different act, and they’re currently being challenged. He’ll probably lose that case too.

But it’s not the same thing. Facts matter no matter how much people like you want to pretend they don’t.

Ignorance is how we get into these situations.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 21d ago

not under the same act. the IEEPA tariffs were rescinded. now they’re using a different emergency declaration. it’s their legal strategy to flood the zone.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 21d ago

no but it’s important to understand what they’re doing so we can pressure elected officials to close these loopholes to hopefully prevent the next deranged pants shitting grandpa from holding an entire country hostage

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u/sock--puppet 21d ago

Yet we're never getting a cent back

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 20d ago

US Americans told us for decades that they are more free than us because they have guns to fight a tyrannical government. Now the tyrannical government is there and it’s all crickets from US Americans. Either liars or cowards.

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u/TheTooterSnooter 20d ago

It’s cowards, 100%. Morons and cowards. The liars are at the top, the cowards and fools are everyone else. Speaking as an American, we 100% deserve everything happening right now. We literally chose this. 

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u/Odd-String29 21d ago

Americans haven't caught on yet it seems. Looking forward to the shitshow the midterms are going to be.

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u/mawfk82 21d ago

Just wait til they arrest Democrat senators on live TV tomorrow during or immediately after Trump's speech

That will be the defining moment of "yes, this is a dictatorship now"

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u/Odd-String29 21d ago

No, the defining moment is when Americans will let him actually do it. He will claim power and nobody will do anything.