The one with the motorcycle is interesting. He’s sitting on a Honda. I would have figured he’d want to be on a Harley.
That’s puzzling. I wonder if Harley-Davidson threatened legal action.
My parents know the Davidson family, and their lawyers are very aggressive. They even sued a Japanese motorcycle company for having an exhaust sound that was close to that of a Harley.
My mistake. It apparently is a mash-up of a few bikes.
The windshield, exhaust, crash bars, radiator, and lights are amazing similar to the Honda Tourer:
But the external push-rods on the engine and the wire-spoked wheels seem to be more Harley features. The front fender reminds me of an old Indian.
Wow, that’s probably the ugliest bike I’ve ever seen.
Which one, the one I posted a picture or the one Trump is sitting on in his NFT?
Not that I disagree with you on either, but I am just curious.
The Honda you posted. I couldn’t bring myself to look at any of the Trump cards, blech.
The digital trading card thing seems to illustrate a kind of theory I’ve developed to try to understand the ongoing, inexplicable attraction trump has for a certain type of person:
The first round of trading cards was roundly mocked by many, and for very, very good reasons. It would even be pretty ridiculous for say, an aging movie or rock star to do, let alone an ex-president. It’s the ultimate in unintentional self-satire. But, as with so many utterly ignorant, jaw-droppingly stupid things trump has done or said, not only has he shown any sign of chagrin whatsoever, he often doubles down on the idiocy. Case in point, round two of the digital trading cards, with even more crazy self-aggrandization.
So, my theory is that his utter lack of ability to feel shame is actually something that a certain type of person envies, on a very primitive, atavistic level.
But there’s more to it than that, I think. trump has often shown himself to be extremely thin-skinned about criticism, which would seem to be at odds with a lack of shame. But he has a pathological inability to believe that he can do any wrong whatsoever, which I think that same subset of people also find to be an attractive quality. So maybe that’s all it is-- no reason to feel shame if you think all of your critics are in the wrong.
Not sure if this has been posted yet. “My Pillow” guy convened a “cyber symposium” in 2021 to promote his election lies, and offered $5 million to anyone who could show that his data allegedly showing election fraud was wrong. An expert conclusively showed that the data was nonsense. Naturally, “My Pillow” guy refused to pay up. An arbitration panel has now ordered him to do so. This adds to Mikey’s woes as he’s already the subject of multiple lawsuits for false election claims and has had to take out loans for his legal defense.
There are tons of ugly motorcycles out there. If we want to stick with the Honda brand, have you ever seen the Valkyrie Rune? 
Yeah, that looks even worse. And what ridiculous name for a bike is “Valkyrie Rune” anyway? Does the exhaust sound like Wagner?
You know, this aside on the motorcycles actually explains a lot about why some people might be dropping actual cash on these NFT monstrosities. They can’t actually see why someone else would think they are ugly trash.
I mean, I look at those two bikes, and I can’t see anything that really stands out as “ugly” to me. Were I to ever actually buy a motorcycle, I wouldn’t see any reason not to buy one of these. Okay, the 70s leather fringe thing on the brake handle is a bit iffy, but I could remove that pretty easily.
Sure, function over form.
But the NFT’s are all form.
Maybe it’s just the angle, but damn that seat looks like it’s so far back that it would be hard to reach the handlebars. Even for a guy like me with, as my wife calls them, “monkey arms”.
It looks like a cat o’ nine tails to me.
The funniest schadenfreude I’ve seen in person was the scrawny-but-trying-SO-hard-to-look-buff kid, all decked out in mirror shades, doo rag, and a heavy denim jacket, but with the sleeves ripped off to show his pasty shoulders full of bad tattoos. He was sweating in a leather vest and pants full of chrome and spikes (and there may have been some bedazzling in there, too). But the funny part was that he was trying to swing his leg over his Harley, but kept missing.
And ended up knocking his bike over.
He just stood there, staring down at it. Make a feeble attempt to right it, but his tugging on a handlebar didn’t move it an inch. The last glimpse I had of him, he was just standing there, alternately staring at the bike and looking around, debating whether to ask for help.
THAT’D be a believable Trump-and-a-bike trading card.
Why would he not? This is about grifting money from the rubes, and if Trump can make several million more dollars, then that’s all just fine by him. The fact that it’s tacky, embarrassing, gross and stupid? So what - he made serious coin.
Great - and funny - news about the MyPillow guy. Heheheh.
And although I’m not into motorcycles generally, I like the look of the Valkyrie Rune myself.
Delightful.
The MAGA brand has always been WE CAN SAY AND DO ANYTHING WE PLEASE, AND NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Of course this position has great appeal to all those who’ve never managed to reach emotional adulthood. (A group which appears to constitute about a third of the US electorate, unfortunately for the rest of us.)
It’s wonderful to see (albeit slowly) some of these claims of immunity from reality being knocked down in so thorough a fashion.
If I could make several million dollars just by releasing NFT’s of myself, I’d seriously consider it too.
Watching a person roll a 20-sided die isn’t as cool as playing a guitar on a motorcycle, though.
From my perspective it is.