Currently (20 Feb 2024, 0735 PST), the top five highest priced offerings on eBay for these things are $45,017.19, $33,799.99, $24,474.50, $24,449, and $19,990.00.
Does eBay have rules against auctioning off something that does not exist yet?
Probably not.
Probably not, but you can’t sell things that don’t exist either.
The word “yet” here suggests an optimism bordering on naivety. The suckers might end up with nothing more than a link to a picture, which the orange conman will claim is digitally signed and hence a valuable NFT. Or he might be in prison by the promised ship date and not claiming anything except persecution.
The problem with the MAGA cohort is that the application of the Greater Fool Theory takes a long time to find its limit.
Yeah it seems very small potatoes for Trump. I’m thinking it might be a pump and dump scheme. He sells maybe a couple of dozen pairs (if that) to the rubes for $400 and keeps the rest to trickle out slowly on Ebay at whatever the current biggest fool will pay.
The thing to remember about Greater fool investing is that at the time you buy you are by definition to current greatest fool.
A good sign.
Sort of a stretch for this thread, but these folks are enablers. Another “Supreme Court won’t review” goodie:
I am of course astonished that MTG was one of three GOP members involved.
I am all amazement, to quote Jane Austen.
Not that eBay is taking a firm stance on that either way, which actually makes it more amusing.
From the “Hill Report”. “…“The House Rules, under this Doctrine, could impose physical punishment, flogging, or even more medieval forms of punishment, upon members and, under the D.C. Circuit’s precedent, no judicial remedy would be available, the Eighth Amendment notwithstanding,” they continued.”
Flogging would be good. $100,000.00 in fines is good too.
What’s more medieval than flogging?
The Breaking Wheel? The Rack? That old classic Iron Maiden? (In which a person is tied to a chair and made to listen to Aces High on endless loop)
Trumps crack legal team “failure to appeal a major decision against him to the United States Supreme Court before the deadline expired.” MeidasTouch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMN0UCTWCds
That’s a youtube video. Can you tell us what decision they failed to appeal?
Here you go
Even for Trump and his enablers, that might be a bit too much schadenfreude.
The Brass Bull ( in which they stick you in a big hollow brass bull statue and then heat it up slowly).
Nitpick: The legendary Brass/Brazen Bull torture device is supposed to have been used by ancient tyrants, not medieval ones. (If, in fact, it ever existed; it appears to have been an urban legend of the early Christian martyrs. Not that there weren’t in fact plenty of real-life tortures inflicted on many early Christians, but they didn’t involve costly special-purpose metal statuary.)