And this isn’t nearly as tacky as Obama’s interview with the lady who bathed in cereal and milk.
https://jezebel.com/watch-the-woman-who-ate-cereal-out-of-a-bathtub-intervi-1681195179

Yes, as usual, there’s a lot of over-the-top stuff about the cards or whatever Trump does. The problem with the cards, though – as I said – is the way Trump hyped the announcement ahead of time as though it was a big deal and something important and even perhaps serious (that’s what people thought, anyway). It’s not; it’s kind of funny and yet kind of tacky.

“Still, when Trump puts his name on something, he’s responsible for it, and this feels a bit much. Serious presidential campaigns that want to help their party don’t introduce grifting NFT scams meant to deprive dementia-ridden old ladies of their cash. I mean, I thought the Save America PAC’s fundraising tactics were bad, but holy cow, this is next level.

What a disgusting slur.

The Trumpcard website clearly states:

Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs) are intended as collectible items for individual enjoyment only, not for investment vehicles.

As I said previously, Trump cards are already selling for nearly $200 on the OpenSea website. Demand v. scarcity.

You remained neutral about the story, to your credit. It’s one thing to be skeptical or puzzled or even dismissive because the President doesn’t act in what is considered traditionally “presidential manner”.

It’s OK for a former president to sell himself for $500,000 per speech. That’s apparently “presidential”.

This is the sort of story, on RedState, that raised my blood pressure. I understand that a battle is going on to tarnish Trump. That’s politics. This wasn’t billed as an opinion piece.

“What on Earth Was Trump Thinking With ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards’?” by Mike Miller
“Look, I don’t know what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his “Trump Digital Trading Cards,” but I do know P.T. Barnum ain’t got nothin’ on The Donald. I mean we’re talking MyPillow dude Mike Lindell-quality stuff, here.”…..”Sorry, Trump loyalists, but this is as pathetic as it is hilarious.

If you don’t know, why don’t you find out?

Yes Donald Trump is a showman. That’s not going to change.
The dismissive attitude of Mike Lindell is disgusting. He created an American product, employing 1,500 people and his entrepreneurship has created a net worth over $300 million. He’s fighting for conservative values. What has Mike Miller done besides snark?

But had Miller bothered to look at the website, he would see it is a sweepstakes, that doesn’t require a purchase to enter. And farther down the list of prizes he would have seen this:
Guaranteed Redemption Item Description: One (1) ticket to a 2,000-person President Trump gala dinner, at a location, date, and time to be determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion
Minimum Purchase Requirements: 45 Trump NFTs

It took less than a day to sell the 44,000 digital “cards”. I suspect most were sold to people that wanted to have dinner with the President.
If you go on a website where NFT’s are sold, some of the cards are already trading for nearly $200.

The digital card website makes it very clear these aren’t being offered as an investment, but what makes anything valuable in life is demand vs. scarcity. Would I buy them? No, but then I didn’t buy Bitcoin when it started either.

The artwork is good and the cards are funny.

The problem with the cards is that Trump hyped the announcement in advance as something huge and important. That’s what made it seem ludicrous to people when he actually announced what he meant. His fans were speculating on things like that he was going to run for Speaker, and it turned out to be the trading cards instead.

– Brian E wrote: “All future elections will hinge on how the Arizona election is decided.” I fear you may be right. Or perhaps the outrageousness of it all will rouse us from our slumber and propel us toward reversing the descent to tyranny. Let us hope. Spread the word. Stand firm.

– John Tyler — thumbs up.

I agree on all points. I try to imagine a conversation with some of my Democrat friends from my time in college (back when they seemed rational and reasonable). How can they support so many things that are morally unsupportable? What Jedi mind machinations can they use to manipulate themselves into supporting these horrors? I don’t think Kahneman’s work on our biases is sufficient to explain it. I fall back to the demonization explanation. If opponents are immoral and unworthy of respect and basic decency ….

I would love to interview (interrogate?) Althouse, Turley, Haidt, Berenson, the Weinstein brothers, Greenwald, Taibbi about the details of all the abuses. I’d be really curious why they can remain lefties while seeing it all. Why don’t they realize that the abuses are inextricably intertwined with Leftism?

The core of Leftism originates in the hubris to believe that they are capable and entitled to play God with the lives of others. Every part of the resulting evil flows from that rejection of humility, wisdom and moral self-awareness.

[I wasn’t convinced when I first read Horowitz’ statement that the only difference between liberals and communists is in the speed with which the end result is reached. I thought that might be unfair to liberals. Years later, I realize he is correct. Liberals just aren’t willing to acknowledge the inevitable result of starting on a path that rejects liberty and embraces the use of force to dictate to people.]

Think the results of the Durham investigation; a total waste of time and $$$ , but plenty lucrative to those on the payroll of the “investigation.”

What I do not understand is if Joke Bidet was taking $$$$ from his son, these funds should either show up on his income tax returns or should be revealed in his investment portfolio (e.g., a big slug of cash deposited from an “unknown” source), or as some very large purchase / donation he made.
Maybe the new congress can subpoena his tax returns ???
I realize that for republicans to do this, it would require they have cohones, which is an impossibility.

Speaking of cohones – biological attributes that dumbpublicans lack – why do we hear nothing about republican support (money, legal, anything at all) for Kari Lake’s efforts to uncover the election machinations that occurred in the recent AZ elections??

Lastly, if Trump is finished, done for, why do the dems keep attacking him? You would think they would not bother with him anymore and instead begin dumpster diving seeking rubbish on DeSantis.

And if DeSantis chooses not to run for prez, and republican voters decide not to support Trump, then who else is there??