I laughed my ass off at that announcement. It's like a fractal pwn. Every level of resolution was some kind of snub or fail. Trump is hawking particularly shitty NFTs. And by "particularly shitty" I mean "Actual modicum of effort went into them". They are not pixel art or atrociously horrible Garbage Pale Kids rejects. They are ripoffs of already tired trump memes which means some effort went into the art assets. Not much judging by the sample pictures I've seen, but more than NFTs usually show.
It is glorious. The NFT grift has finally oozed down through the garbage grifts, hit bottom, soaked the earth, and the putrifaction of naked greed and unrestrained conspicuous consumption has finally congealed somewhere underground, turning into a geode of awfulness that Trump has unearthed and is now cracking open. NFTs were already uncool, and then Trump showed up to the party. It's classic Trump though. The Trump steaks, the trump vodka, all the trump branded stuff in the 90's was shit, inferior quality, and immediately, and *obviously* uncool. This is return to form for him.
And it's like you said a political death knell for some more of the potency of Trump and his political movement. He's down to hawking unfunny copies of memes of himself, all for 99 dollars a piece. By Grabthar's Hammer... what a value.
I may regret it, but I kind of want to see more of the right coalesce around the idea of DeSantis. DeSantis doesn't have to do anything- the longer he doesn't get into the presidential race, the strong his position is when he does. Trump started the party at 3pm on a Thursday and the cool kids, or at least the people who want to be thought of as the cool kids, won't show up until Saturday night.
DeSantis has the personal appeal of a lump of damp flour, and the farther Trump sinks, the more he will be vindictive, and attack the people who refuse to curtail to him. And the longer DeSantis waits to get into the race, the harder it will be for the party to tack away from him when they realize that Biden looks cool next to the twit. It will be a miserable, furious mess.
I'm sure the end result will be things getting worse but for one moment the schadenfreude is strong and I'm going to enjoy it.
I have to admit that Trump NFTs were not on my Bingo card.
Have fun at AmericaFest in Phoenix. I saw a poster of what I assume is the top 40 speakers, and my what a rouges gallery. Looking forward to your Substack and any live Tweeting you decide to do.
Unfortunately, your hypothetical AA meeting would only happen if most of the people there were legally required to attend... which, come to think of it, tends to be how AA meetings work anyway.
The only shame of it is that these stupid little stunts keep us talking about him. In my fantasy reflection of our reality, he would already be the forgotten man he deserves to be. He'd walk into a McDonalds and no one would recognize him. "President? Really? What did you say your name was? That sounds made up!"
Anyway, stay safe at Americafest. Don't leave your drink unattended.
JS nothing about trump should have surprised us 🤷♂️ during Tiananmen Square back in the day Gary Trudeau ran a storyline in ‘Doonesbury’ about trump trying to release one of the characters stuck in China.. then becomes agitated when he finds out she’s homely looking.. literally the same playbook decades later in the WH .. c’est la vie I guess 🤦♂️
I laughed my ass off at that announcement. It's like a fractal pwn. Every level of resolution was some kind of snub or fail. Trump is hawking particularly shitty NFTs. And by "particularly shitty" I mean "Actual modicum of effort went into them". They are not pixel art or atrociously horrible Garbage Pale Kids rejects. They are ripoffs of already tired trump memes which means some effort went into the art assets. Not much judging by the sample pictures I've seen, but more than NFTs usually show.
It is glorious. The NFT grift has finally oozed down through the garbage grifts, hit bottom, soaked the earth, and the putrifaction of naked greed and unrestrained conspicuous consumption has finally congealed somewhere underground, turning into a geode of awfulness that Trump has unearthed and is now cracking open. NFTs were already uncool, and then Trump showed up to the party. It's classic Trump though. The Trump steaks, the trump vodka, all the trump branded stuff in the 90's was shit, inferior quality, and immediately, and *obviously* uncool. This is return to form for him.
And it's like you said a political death knell for some more of the potency of Trump and his political movement. He's down to hawking unfunny copies of memes of himself, all for 99 dollars a piece. By Grabthar's Hammer... what a value.
I may regret it, but I kind of want to see more of the right coalesce around the idea of DeSantis. DeSantis doesn't have to do anything- the longer he doesn't get into the presidential race, the strong his position is when he does. Trump started the party at 3pm on a Thursday and the cool kids, or at least the people who want to be thought of as the cool kids, won't show up until Saturday night.
DeSantis has the personal appeal of a lump of damp flour, and the farther Trump sinks, the more he will be vindictive, and attack the people who refuse to curtail to him. And the longer DeSantis waits to get into the race, the harder it will be for the party to tack away from him when they realize that Biden looks cool next to the twit. It will be a miserable, furious mess.
I'm sure the end result will be things getting worse but for one moment the schadenfreude is strong and I'm going to enjoy it.
*riotous applause*
I have to admit that Trump NFTs were not on my Bingo card.
Have fun at AmericaFest in Phoenix. I saw a poster of what I assume is the top 40 speakers, and my what a rouges gallery. Looking forward to your Substack and any live Tweeting you decide to do.
Workshopped for 17 mins 🧐 are you Q?
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Unfortunately, your hypothetical AA meeting would only happen if most of the people there were legally required to attend... which, come to think of it, tends to be how AA meetings work anyway.
The only shame of it is that these stupid little stunts keep us talking about him. In my fantasy reflection of our reality, he would already be the forgotten man he deserves to be. He'd walk into a McDonalds and no one would recognize him. "President? Really? What did you say your name was? That sounds made up!"
Anyway, stay safe at Americafest. Don't leave your drink unattended.
Like I said elsewhere, this may be the moment where Trump jumped (trumped?) the shark.
The shark is dead
Love your work. Keep it up can't wait for the americafest report.
JS nothing about trump should have surprised us 🤷♂️ during Tiananmen Square back in the day Gary Trudeau ran a storyline in ‘Doonesbury’ about trump trying to release one of the characters stuck in China.. then becomes agitated when he finds out she’s homely looking.. literally the same playbook decades later in the WH .. c’est la vie I guess 🤦♂️