Finchem is a noted election denier and was endorsed by Trump. Note that the suit was dismissed with prejudice. That means he can’t file another lawsuit based on those claims.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said that, in his first phone call with Trump after the 2016 election, Trump spent ten minutes bragging about his big win. Ego overcomes reality with him every freakin’ time.
Trump wanted his team to call on a press pool — reporters who travel with presidents — for an event at Mar-a-Lago. Advisers had to break the news to Trump that this was no longer a possibility.
“We had to explain to him that he didn’t have a group standing around waiting for him anymore,” an unnamed former aide told the Washington Post.
Good grief, that so pathetic. Poor, ignorant, little narcissistic man.
I hope you don’t actually feel sorry for him. If it was to his advantage, and he thought he could get away with it, he would quite literally throw you under a bus without the slightest hesitation.
It’s possible to find that story pathetic without feeling sorry for him.
I also thought Hitler being rejected from art school after his mother died was pathetic. But I also don’t have a ton of sympathy for him.
Are these the same reporters that Trump says always lied about him and treated him worse than any president, ever; that’s who he wanted at his event?
But what if it was for an incredibly major announcement – like, f’rinstance, the introduction to the world, for the first time ever, of Trump-themed virtual baseball cards featuring Trump badly Photoshopped in superhero costumes? Every news network in the world should be covering this!
But at least comedy shows and satire sites covered it.
Thought:
If anyone’s going to go back in time to deal with Hitler, it should be an art teacher.
(random tangent, do not perpetuate)
Donald Trump’s NFT Collection Crashes Over 50% After 12-Hour Selloff Frenzy (msn.com)
Not sure if this is Schadenfreude or not. I thought the build up would go on longer.
“…due to incredible demand.”
Well, they are still trading at $390, which if you are an original holder is still a profit. The last fool in on the pump-and-dump aspect, however, has seen the value drop from $1,182.
I’m certain this just marks a buying opportunity, however.
They are still “worth” considerably more than they were when they were minted 4 days ago.
I’ve been following the secondary market site.
It’s really transparent, you can view all the cards that were minted, see every transaction that has been made with any given card, view the movement for wallet to wallet, and see what other NFT’s the owners of each card own.
Some of the collectors seem to be NFT buffs, holding a few Trump cards among a huge selection of other NFT’s. Others are straight up Trumpists.
The price has been all over the place. Even though it’s currently way lower than the high mark, it’s still about 3X the low mark. But I’m not sure it matters to the collectors, because I suspect most of them are trading rather than buying them up or selling them off. They sell a card and then buy one of equal value and the transactions wash.
Except someone connected to Trump gets 10% of all of it. What a grift.
It’s probably the season but I started thinking of Scut Farkas, especially after Ralphie gets pulled off of him,
Lol.
And which wallet belongs to whom?
Which wallets belong to NFT INT LLC?
Who is NFT INT LLC?
What is Trump’s share in this?
Did he get paid lump sum?
Is there anything even remotely “transparent” In any of this?
(Except that the whole thing is transparent bullshit)
Rudy Giuliani was in a disciplinary hearing to determine whether he was fit to continue to practice law in Washington DC. Just before they break for lunch, he looks at his wrist and exclaims on camera that he just realized he accidentally put two watches on the same wrist.
Not a good look Rudy.
To nobody’s surprise, they recommended he be disbarred.
At least he might have avoided sweating motor oil this time.
I hope both watches are at least synchronized. By which I mean they show both the current century.
I was referring to the secondary site I linked to as well as blockchain technology in general, not to the the entire scheme. I’m sure, based on Trumps history, that every company that’s making as much as a dime off this is owned by a crony and in Trumps pocket. I think it’s a safe assumption that almost every dime eventually makes it way into Trump’s pocket.
It really is quite the racket, and I think the mechanics of this part of the grift are interesting.
Trumpist A buys card for $99.
Trumpist B buys card for $99
Trump makes $198
Trumpist A sells his card to Trumpist B for $1000
Trumpist B sells his card to Trumpist A for $1000
Now, everyone is like…….lookee, the cards have gone up 10x in value! But neither Trumpist A or Trumpist B have laid out any money, the transaction would be a wash no matter how much they traded for.
But, because of the 10% commission, Trump makes another $198 bucks. He essentially gets paid again for the cards the next day.
Rinse and repeat and keep swapping the same cards over and over.
Now, this description is highly simplified, but I’m pretty sure I figured out the scam, or at least one of them.
ETA: You are right that the real identities of the owners are masked by their usernames, and your not going to get to that unless you’re law enforcement or a way bigger geek than me, it’s it why crypto is still a scam. But I’ve been reading up on blockchains lately, and how a lot of people buying sex or drugs with crypto though they were using some super secret payment method, never realizing how easily the transactions can be traced back through them.
A man with a watch always knows what time it is. A man with two is never sure.