Yeah, I was all primed to send one in using my suckmydickdonnie email address but that stopped me. I was puzzling over why the card with your information had to be made out with a non-black pen, though. I was going to dig up a sparkly gel pen and dot the Is with hearts.
How have we gotten this far without anybody using the word homoerotic?
I feel like there’s something there …
Because the gays have had a hard enough time of it already.
Actually, I want to see what Tucker Carlson has to say.
“Nubbin, the Boy Wonder?”
Tsk, @Ann_Hedonia do you REALLY think ANY amount of money could possibly leave DJT’s orbit and flow to a lesser being? He is the Black Hole of cash.
To (badly) reference The Matrix: “There is no sweepstakes”
Yeah, it’s great art, pasting his fat head on a clip art body. And he says “$99 doesn’t sound like a lot” 
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
hoo! Good one, Buck!
Apparently, they also take a 10% commission on all secondary resales, so it’s a grift that keeps on grifting.
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Totally agree, but rather than the simple, abstract “you’re working way too hard at this” response that might be appropriately offered up in response to their incessant, pervasive, and execrable homophobia, this seems like:
- a concrete example that this is exactly what might be underneath all of this intolerance, and
- to the extent it gets legs, it could hurt TFGs grifting opportunities.
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If he did that, there’s no way he wouldn’t have blabbed about it before now. No freakin’ way.
That makes sense. So no purchase necessary for the chance to win dinner or golfing with Trump, though you get an entry automatically by purchasing an NFT. And I assume there is some method for a non-purchase entry, such as sending a letter to a particular address. (In the past that’s how those things were done.) Legally that is all necessary in order for the sweepstakes to not be considered “gambling” and thus subject to those regulations.
My guess is that all of the “sweepstakes winnings” will go to Ivanka, and she’ll turn her dad down for the umpteenth time because she and Jared are washing their hair or whatever.
Don’t forget about the 10% he skims every time a card is traded. Motivated money launderers can churn the cards indefinitely, so that $4 million might get flipped every few days.
Yeah, this is where he starts drooling. He’s hoping he’s created his own Bored Ape NFT, and if he can create something where individual NFTs are going for 100s of thousands of dollars, he gets a fat 10% commission every time it changes hands.
But the NFT market has collapsed, and the only rubes buying this shit are his own MAGA rubes, and they’re going to demand their money back once they find out they not getting an actual cardboard piece of shit they can frame and hang up next to their Franklin Mint commemorative plates.
He already is. Supposedly there are 45,000 NFT styles, each of which will apparently have up to 20 copies available but some fewer than 20 copies. So we know there are supposed to be somewhere between 45,000 and 900,000 to sell.
I’m going to revisit my fantasy of a Trump/Wakefield theme cruise (that I’m going).
Here’s a thought. Maybe the next announcement will be for his running mate . . . Meghan Markle!
They’ll be paid in LGB coins.
Given his proven track record, what are the odds that Trump hired reliable people to set this whole thing up? None of those idiots knows anything about NFTs other than $$$$, so I’m liking the chances that whoever set this up laid in a few back doors/skimmers/trackers for future exploitation. I’d love to see all of Trump’s grift get siphoned out from under his fat ass.
I kind of got that feeling too, when he talked about people joining an exclusive community. That’s one of the big draws to something like Bored Ape. The NFT itself almost doesn’t matter. What matters in that case is that you are wealthy enough to be able to waste disposable income on a useless piece of junk, and that gives you entry into a community of people who also have enough wealth to waste on one. It’s like an online country club. Imagine the SDMB required thousands of dollars to get access to.
And yes, that makes it sound even more insane, not less, at least to me. But you at least see how some of the “snob appeal” (marketing term) might spur someone into doing this.
I wanted a general definition for cringe humor since it would apply to your question, however, this quote from the wiki page on Cringe Comedy, while meant for TV/movies, seems like it was written specifically about Trump
Typically, the protagonists are egotists who overstep the boundaries of political correctness and break social norms. The comedy will attack the protagonist by not letting them become aware of their self-centered view, or by making them oblivious to the ego-deflation that the comedy deals them. Sometimes an unlikable protagonist may not suffer any consequences, which violates people’s moral expectations, and also makes the audience cringe.[3]
That’d be the best of both worlds - both Trump and his idiots completely broke.