# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4944

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4944 "2022-04-07T21:02:52Z")

</div>

Anyone remember the LGB Coin? It seems like that grift happened years ago, but it was only a few months.

Back in January, I was highly amused at what a transparent grift it was……exchange your real money for worthless fake money and PWN THE LIBS!

The thread has long been locked, but here’s my post

> [@Let's go Brandon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/119):
>
> The 15 minutes isn’t up because there is now money to be made. LGB coin. The ultimate grift. You know those collectible coins, those overpriced tacky gold or platinum clad coins adorned with pictures of Elvis or Trump or some other fanboy of the gullible? That was a pretty good grift, but the grifters had to actually expend some effort and a small fraction of their haul to produce and ship cheap POS coin. But the LGB coin has solved that problem for the grifters, because it’s a virtual colle…

Well, apparently a few of the marks are butthurt that they didn’t become fabulously wealthy by pwning the libs, so they’ve filed a class action lawsuit.

> **[‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Meme Token Creators, Promoters Hit with Class Action Over...](https://www.classaction.org/news/lets-go-brandon-meme-token-creators-promoters-hit-with-class-action-over-alleged-pump-and-dump-scheme)**
>
> A class action alleges the creators of the "Let's Go Brandon" token and several other individuals have misleadingly promoted the crypto asset to artificially inflate its value before selling their portions for personal gain.

As far as I’m concerned, those morons got exactly what they paid for.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537)._
