You’ve probably already seen it, but for those who haven’t, here is a quite well sourced piece that explains the scheme. It was originally posted in another thread by @Rick_Kitchen:
It’s a worthwhile read.
You’ve probably already seen it, but for those who haven’t, here is a quite well sourced piece that explains the scheme. It was originally posted in another thread by @Rick_Kitchen:
It’s a worthwhile read.
And yet another MSM outlet pans it:
Fox News is MSM, right?
Okay, Ima be gross here.
Look at that first one, the superhero one. Look at the codpiece, and the seam running down the middle. Is anyone else getting some gender ambiguity here?
I try really hard not to kinkshame, but good God almighty y’all.
Somebody noticed on another forum that Trump’s hands on the cards are HUGE.
And he’s gone from dry humping the American flag to wearing it as a cape.
For $99 does one get the whole set, or just one card?
One.
But with just a single card purchase you’re entered in the prize drawing.
My favorite joke so far, from someone on Mastodon:
Tragic: the gathering
It would be really awesome if this is the scam too far that lets the Feds prosecute him for stuff that has zero to do with politics and everything to do with pure opportunistic criminal gangsterism. At a point in his descent that the frothing MAGAs are a spent force who’ve mostly retreated to their double-wides and reality TV.
Yeah, I hope someone remembers to follow up in a year and find out if Trump really does attend a dinner with the winner.
This is so incredibly funny and pathetic. Wow.
The punchlines write themselves:
It’s beginning to look a lot like Griftmas.
You’ll shoot your campaign out.
Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Trump got wonderful, awful idea.
I went to prison for storming the capital and all I got were these lousy trading cards.
Is that the winner dinner, or the Loser lunch?
First prize is a dinner with Trump. The booby prize? Two dinners w Trump.
As @outlierrn says, the jokes just write themselves.
What are you, Nostradamus? (The post was well before the announcement.)
Jingle Bells, Trumpie smells,
Today he laid an egg,
The Dotard 'nounced his trading card,
And the grift just won’t go 'way.
Whaddaya know? You’re absolutely correct!
Too bad Mr. Innes wasn’t still around.
Crossed my mind, too, considering a large evangelist / X-tian Nationalist contingent (who’d be ready to deface religious statues Exorcist-style if it so pleased Trump) would be like shooting fish in a barrel for him: a treasure trove of rubes, lining up to get the Trump In a Manger Nativity Scene, featuring Trump standing next to the manger and holding both arms up in the air in victory, one of them hoisting baby Jesus; a series of ornamental plates showing, respectively: the Three Wise Men with, of course, you-know-who’s head superimposed over all of them, A Christmas Carol with him in bed as Scrooge, but with that asisine, beaming grin on his face and holding a wad of a cash before a pleading Tiny Tim, and a “Christmas Story” plate with him up on a chair putting the star on the tree, with Melania behind him, looking at us, plugging her nose, waving her hand at his butt.
Embarrassed empathy?
Sniggering shame?
Another too bad - no more Touko Laaksonen kicking around. (“Tom of Finland” dude)
I immediately imagined Maher cursing that he’s on vacation after seeing this gold mine (“So, would you like to see some soon-to-be-released cards?”)
I don’t think that’ll ever be an issue with him - there’ll always be too many plain, darned stupid people out there to pay until they’re practically penniless.
Here’s an article detailing where a couple-few of the images were stolen from:
It would be very cool if some of the companies whose images the Orange Peril stole from their websites sued him for copyright infringement. The company responsible for the image thefts and bad Photoshopping apparently lists their address as a UPS mailbox in a sleazy strip mall in Utah. A class act all the way!
I gotta get me one of them $99 baseball cards featuring an image stolen from an apparel manufacturer with Trump’s mug Photoshopped in. These priceless treasures will undoubtedly be worth a fortune within just a few weeks, and I might even get to have a ketchup-laden dinner with Trumpie. As a solid investment it’s all upside, no downside.
BTW, is there a word that means “incapable of feeling embarrassed”? Because it should be getting a lot of use right now.
More than that-- consider this article compulsory reading for any Doper who had posted in a trump-critical thread. It is much, much worse than you think.
From early in the article:
NFT International is licensing Trump’s name and likeness from a company called CIC Digital LLC, a limited liability corporation formed just nine months ago and registered in Delaware. Many corporate entities and partnerships form in Delaware because the state offers unique legal protections that are not as well established in other states: Primarily, privacy is protected. Any business entity filed in Delaware does not have to disclose its officers and directors to the public or the state, which allows for complete anonymity. Even better for Trump, the state allows for a slimmed down corporate structure, where just one person to hold the role of officer, director, and shareholder. Trump has hundreds of LLC’s that were revealed in his financial disclosure when he ran for president, almost all of them created in Delaware and with him as the sole officer, director, and shareholder.
It goes downhill from there.
Hmmm… “Delaware”?? MAGAts start pointing fingers at Biden – it’s all his fault – in 3…2…1…
It’s all skids.
And skidmarks.