Trump sells digital trading cards at only $99 a piece

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woolfe9998

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LOL@ Trump supporters like Bannon being "befuddled" by Trump's trading card scam.


Multiple current and former advisers to Trump said that the seemingly random business venture was a mistake and beneath the 45th president.

"Beneath" him? Apparently his "current and former advisers" know less about Trump than we do...
 

Pohemi

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Hear me out.
it’s tempting buy one because imo it is also possible Russia will buy a bunch to throw an angry chainsaw into US elections again. The value of these cards may spike with a bunch of sales.
Wait til you can grab one for $1 imho lol
 

hal2kilo

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Not sure what's up with the 72 fingers, lol.
Like the sports bra.
 
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gorobei

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some or most of the images may have been used without licensing them from the owners.
they may have been grabbed by an ai image generator or just plain stolen from image search. some of the original images belong to companies as part of product advertising so they can take humptytrumpty to court, the penalties and lawyer fees could easily erase the 5million profit made from the cards.
 
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WelshBloke

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Hear me out.
it’s tempting buy one because imo it is also possible Russia will buy a bunch to throw an angry chainsaw into US elections again. The value of these cards may spike with a bunch of sales.
Eh? I totally don't understand how this shit works but I'll print some out and post them to you if you really want some!
How the hell can an image file on the Internet, a file that's infinitly reproducible, be worth anything?
 
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rommelrommel

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Eh? I totally don't understand how this shit works but I'll print some out and post them to you if you really want some!
How the hell can an image file on the Internet, a file that's infinitly reproducible, be worth anything?

Things are worth what people will pay for them. The NFT market has mostly collapsed, but not quite to zero.

If 10% or some part of it is going to Trump on every sale there are a lot of opportunities to funnel money to him.
 

WelshBloke

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Things are worth what people will pay for them. The NFT market has mostly collapsed, but not quite to zero.

If 10% or some part of it is going to Trump on every sale there are a lot of opportunities to funnel money to him.
I could totally sell those images without paying 10% to Trump. Its just an image.
When did the Internet get so stupid?
 

Pohemi

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Just remembered how conservatives got all hot and bothered over the Clintons making lots of money on speaking fees after 2000. Because it was unseemly how he exploited his political fame for money. Or so they claimed...
They had the same cry-song and dance over Barack and Michelle, because how DARE they! Have they no DECENCY ?!? :p
 

alien42

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I could totally sell those images without paying 10% to Trump. Its just an image.
When did the Internet get so stupid?

you really need to do some research and understand NFTs and authentication. just like you can't just sell fake Picasso's, you can't just sell fake NFTs.
 

IronWing

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Just remembered how conservatives got all hot and bothered over the Clintons making lots of money on speaking fees after 2000. Because it was unseemly how he exploited his political fame for money. Or so they claimed...
To be fair, I thought Bush I was corrupt as hell to pick up a $2 million speaking fee in Japan days after leaving office.
 
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compcons

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some or most of the images may have been used without licensing them from the owners.
they may have been grabbed by an ai image generator or just plain stolen from image search. some of the original images belong to companies as part of product advertising so they can take humptytrumpty to court, the penalties and lawyer fees could easily erase the 5million profit made from the cards.
Psssstttt...Pro Tip: if you stall indefinitely, you never go to court and you never have to pay. He has been doing this since forever.
 
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Fenixgoon

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you really need to do some research and understand NFTs and authentication. just like you can't just sell fake Picasso's, you can't just sell fake NFTs.

Inherent to the concept of an original is that it cannot be duplicated perfectly. But computers can and do perfectly copy things.
 

eelw

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Just remembered how conservatives got all hot and bothered over the Clintons making lots of money on speaking fees after 2000. Because it was unseemly how he exploited his political fame for money. Or so they claimed...
Wonder how much it pisses him off that he’s not getting these keynote speaker gigs? Pence has greatly benefiting from them already. No idea what’s his going rate though.
 

zinfamous

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LOL@ Trump supporters like Bannon being "befuddled" by Trump's trading card scam.




"Beneath" him? Apparently his "current and former advisers" know less about Trump than we do...

From Reagan to Trump, these GQP supporters have been championing the exact same untalented con-artists and still can't understand why their lives are so fucking screwed after their repeated poor choices
 
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ch33zw1z

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From Reagan to Trump, these GQP supporters have been championing the exact same untalented con-artists and still can't understand why their lives are so fucking screwed after their repeated poor choices

sounds like some other cons around here