• Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Am I the only one seeing the Schutzstaffel ⚡ in the negative space between the 4 and 7?

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    So, you could say that the geriatric, obese, orange lardbucket isn’t very…
    (Puts on sunglasses)…
    Mobile.
    YEAHHHHHHHhhhhh!

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    This shit pisses me off.

    If Biden/Obama/aoc were pulling this we’d hear about emoluments 24/7

    But Trump does it and dems are like oh maybe we should just see what happens….

    Then we have TrumpRX and Trump making millions off crypto

    GDISM

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      So technically, in this specific instance, Trump Mobile isn’t run by Donald Trump. It’s instead a separate company run by Don Jr and Eric Trump. That company is then licensing the “Trump” name from The Trump Organization.

      Now The Trump Organization is owned by Donald Trump, although officially run by Don Jr, Eric, etc.

      But you’re absolutely right that all of this is bullshit. It’s also why Trump is so pissed at New York AG Letitia James for investigating and uncovering all sorts of shady business practices.

      You’re absolutely right that Congress should be doing something about it.

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        Everything is a test to see if they can push things further. Hocking a vocal ass-sniffing donor’s wares in an absurd and awkward showcase to troll the left while showing he was in on the joke was all part of a grift and a test.

        If you can do something so seemingly incompetent and bizarre, then you’ve cleared an opening to inject something more malignant next time.

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      What’s next?

      • Trumpla, the EV manufacturer?
      • Trumpmart, selling nearly-rotten food at marked-up prices.
      • Trump Burder this one already exists.
      • Trumple Inc, consumer phone dropshipper.
      • Trumpazon, a marketplace where he takes a cut on all sales.
      • Trump Sauna, a PC games storefront.
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        They already did the trump phone and I’d argue trump steaks could qualify as trumpmart

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        At least Intel, and probably more, are already paying protection? I suppose it’s easier to collect protection than to organise a scam operation.

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        trump diapers he hasnt really capitalize on it yet. probably turmp glasses and sunglasses , fake gold edition with his signature.

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    Trump mobile?! wtf is that? This shit is ridiculous. Remember when you guys had Carter and he was in hot shit until he sold his fucking peanut farm or whatever? And now you guys have this. Not a serious country at all.

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      Remember when you guys had Carter and he was in hot shit until he sold his fucking peanut farm or whatever?

      Let’s be clear about this: Carter was never “in hot shit” about his farm. Carter put his farm in a blind trust proactively because he respected the emoluments clause and interpreted it broadly.

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        Yeah I’m not really that well versed in what happened. All I know is “something something Carter something something peanut farm.” Thank you for clarifying.

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    In a way it’s sad that people get scammed, on the other they had it coming. Same way with the poor people still voting for him

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      I think only mentaly poor people vote for him. He promises taking away their health care and does it, yet they still support him.

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    It’s a bit of a wank article to be honest - it doesn’t even go on to say if the SIM was delivered. Why not wait the extra day and publish the article after it was due to be delivered?

    If it didn’t get delivered then it’s easy meat for Trump-kicking, and if it did get delivered then you’d get some sort of review from some other poor fucker daft enough to sign up to it.

    Bit of a waste of time really.

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    I’m not the only one seeing the SS rune in the space between the 4 and 7, am I? That had to be intentional.

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        But literally everything he’s ever done has been a scam. At some point it stopped being journalism and just became enabling our gullibility.

        Like, when 20 out of 20 endeavours the dude has put his name in have been scams… Do you really need an investigation of endeavour #21?

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          literally everything he’s ever done has been a scam.

          And yet people keep buying, so clearly not everyone understands that.

          At some point it stopped being journalism and just became enabling our gullibility.

          $14 won’t enable him to do shit. In fact he’ll be disabled if fewer people buy his scams as a result.

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            A new sucker is born every minute. What does this accomplish?

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      It’s not even him. It’s just another scam company licensing the name to scam a few bucks outta some suckers.

      They’ll be long gone by the time anyone that gives a shit gets back in control of the FCC to hold them accountable

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        Just throwing it out there, and for the record I agree with you, but if you’re going to criticize people’s intelligence, you can’t make an egregious spelling error like that.

        Populace.

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      Remember that those MAGA dumbasses aren’t just wasting money. They’re adding more power to Trump. Fucker went bankrupt six times and finally found the holy grail of scams: be the senile puppet boy of the rich corpos. I always thought W was a puppet, but he seems to have at least drawn a line at full blown tyranny. We need to convince these people to buy stupid shit again… beanie babies 2.0?