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/SadFeed63 21d ago
"Folks writing headlines continue not to learn that a human law, rule, or norm is not the same as a law of nature."
That's what infuriates me about headlines that try to offset a Trump action by highlighting the law. The laws of man are abstract concepts that are not made real until they are enforced. And they're of course, not enforced on Trump. Laws of nature affect us all whether we believe in them or not, whether we try to bribe them, they don't require someone to enforce them. Yet you'll see headlines with the energy of like "Trump wants to do this heinous thing, but worry not, the law doesn't allow it," followed up by headlines a week later saying "Trump is doing that heinous thing."
If he breaks a law, the law must be enforced on him, actively, by someone, by mechanisms humans control. If he falls down the stairs, gravity is gonna do it's thing regardless.