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I will take five minutes to mourn this loss then return to the fight. All is not lost. We did win on military spending, if you want a bright side.

To the barricades!!!

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Stay strong, O brothers and sisters. We will prevail as long as we keep heart.

I see elsewhere that a lot of people are freaking and dumping on POTUS Trump for signing this.

I was hoping he would veto it.

My take after watching and listening to him carefully:

All the Dem(on)crats and the bad Rs put him in a box canyon. He needs mil and national security funding NOW because there is bad juju heading our way. Turkey’s Erdog has gone bats*** rabid crazy, Iran is there, and Nork ain’t totally finished. There are jihadis in the US and in S. America. There are plenty of domestic enemies wanting to wreak havoc, and the border is still porous. So that $ is essential.

If he vetoed it and the Dems and bad Rs overturned the veto, he would be in a VERY weakened position. NOT GOOD. With no guarantee that Congress (puke/gag on the scum) would give him a GOOD spending bill any time soon. So the mil and border would languish without sufficient funding for who knows how long.

So, he signed it, and slammed the aholes who sent him a CRAP bill. He was angry. He will go for throats now.

Just found along the way...
H.R.5404 - To define the dollar as a fixed weight of gold.

Coinage Act of April 2, 1792

Dollars or the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver

31 U.S.C. 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins

(b) The half dollar, quarter dollar, and dime coins are clad coins with 3 layers of metal. The 2 identical outer layers are an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel. The inner layer is copper. The outer layers are metallurgically bonded to the inner layer and weigh at least 30 percent of the weight of the coin. The dollar coin shall be golden in color, have a distinctive edge, have tactile and visual features that make the denomination of the coin readily discernible, be minted and fabricated in the United States, and have similar metallic, anti-counterfeiting properties as United States coinage in circulation on the date of enactment of the United States $1 Coin Act of 1997. The 5-cent coin is an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel. In minting 5-cent coins, the Secretary shall use bars that vary not more than 2.5 percent from the percent of nickel required. Except as provided under subsection (c) of this section, the one-cent coin is an alloy of 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc. In minting gold coins, the Secretary shall use alloys that vary not more than 0.1 percent from the percent of gold required. The specifications for alloys are by weight.

And notice that there is no statement of the alloys for the dollar. Golden, not gold. (eg. Sacajawea) A $5.00 gold coin is the lowest gold coin in the law.

(10) A five dollar gold coin that is 16.5 millimeters in diameter, weighs 3.393 grams, and contains one-tenth troy ounce of fine gold.