I can't believe...
Posted Dec 15, 2022, 10:15 PM UTC
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It's refreshing that nobody is trying to justify this obvious grift.
Now if we can just convince them that he has always been this idiotic.
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The justification is that Trump posted policy announcements and that THAT was the huge announcement today and the nft thing was an obvious troll and only idiots took the bait of focusing on that.
Notice how this justification continues to insist on personal intelligence and trump’s intelligence while utterly denying that there is any value in focusing on the nft thing.
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Whoops, looks like we all fell for the old "he did some stupid shit again." Yeah, the joke's clearly on us then I guess, lol.
Because, as any reasonable person will tell you, that's how doing something stupid and humiliating works: someone does or says something humiliating, but somehow it's inexplicably other people who merely witnessed what transpired or what was said who are the ones that are owned and humiliated by what transpired. (I'm pretty sure I know toddlers with more self awareness and even a better grasp of their own bad faith than Trump has.)
I haven't felt this owned since Trump said "Nambia" and it had nothing to do with me.
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What policy announcements?
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NFT was the big announcement
I've successfully tried to not look up trump shit for over a year, but even this got me. These people are stupid AF:
The big reveal is a new NFT collection. "My official Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection is here!" he posted. Trump never used the abbreviation "NFT" in the post, but that's indeed what the "digital trading cards" are: 45,000 NFTs on the Polygon blockchain, priced at $99 each.
More than 29,000 have been sold since Trump made the announcement, according to OpenSea data, generating more than $2.8 million. If the entire collection sells out -- 45,000 is an uncommonly large size for an NFT set, which typically consist of 10,000 pieces -- it would raise $4.45 million. The creators also get a 10% cut of any of the NFTs sold on secondary markets like OpenSea.
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Holy. Fucking. Shit.
They're actually selling? I'm having trouble processing that. I wonder how many of the rubes are going to be mad when they find out there's no physical card involved, just a token representing...what? A screenshot of a card? I don't even know (am a rube).
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Not a clue. I only relay what the lunatics say
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Anything good from the subway or your local crazy street people?
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Here’s you an example of one of these truly enlightened ones saying exactly this, complete with a link to the old orange man yelling into his computer phone screen on Truth Social as usual. I was trying to think earlier, which sub would be the best to find one of these people in the wild, who might actually un-ironically think something this crazy; and I guessed first try with that sub, go figure…
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Now if we can pull them completely out of the crazy right wing cult
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That would be nice but I'm pretty sure they will keep finding grifters who are happy to trade validating their shitty beliefs for money and power
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Bah gawd, that Ron DeSantis' music.
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Now if we can just convince them that he has always been this idiotic.
That's the frustrating thing, you'll never be able to convince them. Every single time a conservative has turned against Trump they've pretended like he was always good up until the point that they decided they didn't like him, and that moment (and that moment only) is when he jumped the shark.
Romney, Liz Cheney, Amash, the Lincoln Project, and countless others: all would have told you that you were being partisan and hateful if you said bad things about Trump before they split with him, but afterward they seem fine saying everything we have always been saying about him.
"It's not a problem until it affects me personally" is a key conservative principle.
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The Lincoln guys were always never trump.
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They were fine with him for the first couple of years of him doing his thing.
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You can’t reason someone out of a position they weren’t reasoned into.
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There is a lot of talk about ‘Trump trolling liberal media’ by making people think the NFT was the big announcement
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Where? r/conservative isn’t even going that route. You know what “a lot of people are saying” sounds like, right?
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That sub has mostly already turned towards Desantis as their new godking
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There's people saying that in there, but they're being downvoted and eating each other in the comments.
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I'm living for this. 😂 For ONCE we are all laughing together. Had a good laugh with a relative over something political for the first time in YEARS.
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He literally started the NFT announcement with "HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT" after teasing a "Huge announcement" for days. Pretty hard to pretend that wasn't it.
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I prefer to egg them on. Keeps the vote divided.
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Nah there’s tons of people trying to lol.
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Oh my sweet child, lots of people are trying to justify this grift. I mean they're wrong, but they are
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Over on the DWAC stock subreddit they absolutely are defending this. It's so pathetic.
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I don't know what that is, but it sounds terrible.
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I promise that it's even dumber than you can imagine.
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oh I'm sure the stable geniuses over at r/Conservative did some world-class mental gymnastics to convince themselves this is somehow not an obvious grift that reeks of desperation
anything to keep the harsh light of reality at bay for another day
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They actually didn't - - it's one of the reasons I posted this.
That's not to say that white nights (literally) didn't ride in later.
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This is fucking incredible. Just...a thing of beauty.
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For real. Frame it. Put it in a museum. Record a two minute audio presentation about it for those headphone things they charge $10 for you to rent and you sorta regret getting it after, like, the sixth exhibit.
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And do it now before Twitter is dead
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Make an NFT out of it!
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This guy museums
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It's glorious!
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Some of these poor rubes will never see the light. This is the product of a rural upbringing. You don't see crazy people on the bus. You don't have homeless people trying to wash your windows. You just don't meet enough people who are trying to scam you and as a result your snake oil salesman detection skills are nonexistent.
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Accurate!
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Especially since anyone not actively deluding themselves could have told him DJT is nothing but a sleazy real estate conman. Now NFT conman.
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This is literally one of the greatest things I've ever seen. I can't stop laughing.
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Can someone ease explain this to me like I wad 5?
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Baked Alaska is a neo-nazi associated with the Jan 6th insurrection (also the neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville) and is going to jail. Trump launched a line of NFTs to grift more money from his fans.
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This entire thing is so staggeringly stupid that I needed that explanation.
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I read the terms. He only licensed his name and image, and you don’t even own anything other than the layered file.
He likely got his money up front and now the nft scammer has to recoup the cost.
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Importantly it specifically says it has nothing to do with his campaign. He’s just shilling his minions so other ass hole can make a quick buck.
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Trump gets 10% of every resell too
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He likely got his money up front and now the nft scammer has to recoup the cost.
I have no doubt that they will. This is why I was so confused as to why Trump didn't capitalize on the whole pandemic. He could've sold branded masks and everything and made a fucking mint.
But he's a terrible businessperson so he probably didn't even see an opportunity there.
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I think this whole thing is more nefarious than that. Since the whole thing is through the Blockchain, it basically allows Russia or any foreign adversary to donate to his campaign without the traditional paper trail and legal ramifications if you were to donate directly or through a company. Donald probably was completely oblivious to it since he's dumb, but his unpaid advisors weren't.
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You're right that is scary. They definitely weren't doing that before.
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I wanted to point out that he doesn't live in Alaska- we don't want to be associated with him!
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He should get extra years tacked on for ruining the name of an absolutely amazing dessert
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Hot ball of wet putrid trash! That man is so greedy and stupid, no wonder he is their favorite president. At least he hopes he is. After all, he is better than Lincoln and Washington.*
*that is from his awesome commercial in case you haven't seen it.
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Baked Alaska was a leader-ish type on January 6th. He got busted and is going to jail.
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are attempts at making a digital image valuable by using a technology called blockchain to verify uniqueness and ownership.
Though the idea of NFTs is kind of interesting, in practice so far they have turned out to be pretty stupid and viewed as a scam. Broadly speaking, those selling them have a used-car-salesman stank to them.
Trump just made a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT that he’s selling a series of NFT “trading cards” of himself. Google it—they’re ridiculous.
So, Baked Alaska is going to jail because he followed someone that he (finally) figured out is a slimy con artist.
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To add a bit to this, most of his supporters suspected this MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT was going to be something political. Maybe he picked a running mate, got some endorsement, was switching from Republican to Independent, hell, even new MAGA swag up for sale somewhere with a new logo or something.
Instead they got this $99 "digital trading card", which from what I understand aren't even actual NFTs attached to a blockchain ecosystem. Unlike other NFTs, I don't know how you are supposed to prove ownership of it nor how that ownership is validated.
NFTs on a blockchain are sketchy (and ridiculous) enough. But in this case, it seems like Trump's "NFT" is even less of a "real" NFT and you're quite literally paying $99 to get a JPG emailed to you. I believe the Trump org is just using the term NFT in an attempt to let his uneducated dipshit supporters think they're getting into "the blockchain" and hoping they look up "what is the value of a NFT " and then see stars in their eyes when they read about a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT fetching thousands of dollars. That seems par for the course for the scammy shit the Trump org does.
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The terms say it is on a blockchain because you have to pay the gas fee on top of the $99
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Doing some additional research, the Indian company that is running the trading store is charging 10% per trade. They could be purposely misleading people who don't know better by using the term "gas" for that 10% instead of "fee" which is what it is.
So they say "blockchain" and "gas" and "NFT" but from what I can tell they're just buzzwords that have nothing to do with actual NFTs from an actual blockchain.
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He's facing federal charges for his involvement on January 6 and Trump is selling NFTs
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Ooh....oooohhhhhhhhh, snealy lil bastard
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Famed white supremacist Baked Alaska (you can Google him with that name) was a participant in the Capitol breach on Jan 6th among other Trump-adjacent crimes. He'll be going to jail in January on some of the other charges
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Proofreading like you're 5 too mfer damn!
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Golly gee, if only millions and millions of his fellow countrymen had warned him about getting mixed up with Trump
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Believe it, fucko! Have fun in prison.
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... you should be more concerned that all your friends are nft buyers.
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Alaskan here.
Baked Alaska is not an Alaskan, even though his name may imply that. He’s a seditionist and a traitor to democracy and, just as importantly, he’s a fucking idiot. He can rot.
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I can’t speak on their behalf since I’ve never tasted it but I’m sure the Bombe Alaska lovers also disavow this man.
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He’s a traitor to his country, Alaska, and baked Alaska
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Wait. Is the world’s most obvious grifter just a grifter? I’m in complete shock. I’m a college educated (Trump University) adult and even I could be taken in by an NFT scam! I need a drink after this. I’ll have a Trump vodka while I sink into a delicious Trump steak. You know…it’s almost like this guy’s just in it for the money…[wipes face with Let’s Go Brandon napkin] /s
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I can't believe I ignored the 10000 other warning signs before getting to this point!
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Seriously. I'm baffled by all the "this is the last straw!" chatter in rightwing circles. Like, this is the thing that finally turned you off this festering asshole?
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Freedom is for winners.
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To quote Nelson Muntz: “Ha-ha!”
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Stupid is as stupid does, like momma always says.
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Is this real?
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It is. I just went to his page to see. Yup. It was. Along with a "I wanted to make America great again but all I got was this shitty NFT".
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Thanks for checking. I deleted my account.
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As everyone who has one should.
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Well. This is just.... delightful. Day made!
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I love that these people are starting to see that they've been led by a used car salesman. Now if they just see Abbot, DeSantis and allll the rich evangelicals for the grifting perverts that they are.
It's just so satisfying to think that these followers of his thought his tweets meant that he was hatching a bomb proof plan to take over the US. Nope, he was working on digital Pokemon cards and not even giving his jailbird worshippers a second thought. Lmao.
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But not for storming the capital?
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What mid 2010s Buzzfeed does to a man.
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I was thinking it's more of a Something Awful > 4chan > 8kun trajectory
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Glad I did some soul-searching before I got to that last part.
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This gives me sooooo much joy I can’t even describe it
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Typical Trump voter…he would never do that to me!
"You're hurting the wrong people!"
"How were we supposed to see this coming?"