Committing all the crimes now, one last hurrah
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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Grifters going to grift
It seems they're missing out on a memorable marketing campaign: Deploracoin! 100 Deploracoins = 1 Deplorabill.
only a scammer would do something like thi-
oh right.
There's likely some outright criminals who can't easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps "solve" that.
I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:
- overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
- disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
- failure to stop at various "don't do this or we will get caught" lines
If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.
I can't wait to see the level of grifts that will come when they really start to get desperate.
Not sure it can be called grift if he's literally saying they will be funding him.
There's no deceit involved in this case.
I mean, there's no deceit involved in modern UI\UX in social platforms either, but the paradigms are taken from gambling machines.
With Trump the grift is usually that the people who buy in think they are funding his campagn whereas he uses much of the money for other stuff like his personal lawsuits for business fraud and the like.
Fair.
Up next, an innovative new sales technique. Get this, it is called Multi-level Marketing. Brand new, never been done before!
I bet the same morons that got his NFTs fall for this....the SAME PEOPLE (the ones that still have money left).
Isn't it weird that he waited this long...?
Well he hadn't been convicted on running a dark money campaign.
Right?! The perfect con for people who've been living under a rock for the last 3 years!
So politics aside, would you really put any money into a financial system run by someone with a proven track record of driving businesses into bankruptcy?
But he's chosen by Jebus!
they must really think so little of their supporters
Are they wrong though? These are the geniuses that buy Trump-branded bibles they'll never read.
You spelled followers wrong.
Accurate assessment from what I've seen.
"Be defiant, give me your money".
This feels like a scam just like those Elon Musk crypto scams you see everywhere.
A new day. A new grift.
Maybe trump is beginning to think he might not win the presidency so he's got to grift as much as possible while he can.
Now this is just comedy-level grifting. This can't be real life, this has got to be a simulator to find the stupid ones
After Trump's NFT and silly sneakers, this just seems par for the course.
I wonder how the ethics here work. If I enter the pump phase, leave before the dump, I'm effectively stealing money from the MAGA cult. Is that a good deed?
Looking at Truth Social, there's not even much of a pump phase before the whole thing self dumps.
But if you lose money you've effectively funded the maga cult!
It is a significant departure from Trump’s previous stance on cryptocurrencies during his stint in the White House when he called bitcoin a scam.
Is it a departure? Trump running a scam seems perfectly in line with his previous stance.
He got paid by crypto bros, now he is pro crypto.
He was anti-EV until Elon paid him to care.
If he gets elected Putin will pay him to pull US support from Ukraine.
That’s how he works
People are presuming he used the word "scam" as most people do - with negative connotations - when, Trump being Trump it's likely that the only negative thing he sees in a "scam" is him not making money from it.
ikr as if scamming isn't his favorite pastime
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