The Milwaukee GOP convention is now effectively just a grifting / late night QVC cable channel -- for meme-coins and NFTs. [Candidly, even though I follow crypto-, generally (to laugh at it), I was only aware of his "mugshot" NFT. But he's apparently grifted his followers two other times, by selling them NFTs, in addition to hats and gold shoes?! Wow.]
To be certain, yes, this is trivial -- but I cannot imagine that Eisenhower would have tried to sell bags of little green plastic soldiers (made in China), and branded as "Mini-Ikes®" (of course!) -- and certainly not from the podium at his nominating convention. Just. Wow.
Here is the "decline of GOP civilization" story from a crypto-booster outlet, and a bit:
. . .[Tangerine] has pivoted to embracing the crypto industry, saying "if we don’t do it, China is going to pick it up. . . ."
[Tangerine] said his previous collections were “very successful” and sold out in a day: “The whole thing sold out: 45,000 of the cards. And I did it three times [and] I’m going to do another one, because the people want me to do another one. It’s unbelievable spirit. Beautiful. . . .”
The late Hunter S. Thompson (on acid) could not have dreamed up a stranger, more debauched fiction. . . if he had tried.
But this. . . is fact. Jaw slacking US. . . history, unfolding.
In a perhaps not unrelated footnote, Steve Bannon (now jailed) yesterday saw his Chinese affiliate/associate, one 郭文贵, or "Miles Guo" but also known as Mr. Gao Wengui, convicted on multiple felony crypto-frauds (Bannon is awaiting similar separate fraud charges too). Hey -- maybe they can bunk together, at FCI Danbury. Amazing.
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