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Trump Trading cards – a breakdown
By now, you are likely aware that Donald Trump, in a move that brings a new dignity to the man and will cement his place in history as a serious leader, made a “big announcement” that he sold a series of not-cringy “digital trading cards.”
The official site states there were 45 thousand cards for sale and showcases about a dozen of them. Curious as to what 45K images of Donald Trump would do to my brain, I took a look at the NFT resale marketplace OpenSea.io. The first thing you notice is that while there were 45K cards sold, in order to create scarcity there are definitely not 45K unique cards available (even tho, as we’ll see later, there could be). Secondly, the quality of these really was as bad as was reported – “lazy Photoshop of stock images” and “haphazardly edited” was very aproppo. This whole production essentially breaks down to a modern day version of paper dolls. All Trump had to do was contribute a handful of head shots and photoshop did the rest.
I am sure that the plummeting price of these is clearly a blip and these will assume their place in the pantheon of truly valuable collector’s items and good long term investment. As such, to help you find the Trump card that reflects your favorite incarnation of our former dear leader, I have prepared an overview of what is available. In 4 easy steps, presenting…
Continue readingVicente for Presidente
Most people (Donald Trump excluded), once they reach a certain level of respectability, try to behave, you know, respectably. Thank god Vicente Fox, president of Mexico until 2006, got sick of that and started speaking his true mind.
If you want to see him trying to make a reasoned argument you can, but this sampling of off the rail rants are fantastic…
A MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP:
VICENTE FOR PRESIDENTE:
Jimmy Carter, step down. Vicente Fox, you are now officially my favorite former world leader and you have my vote!
Pop Quiz, they’re all children
Following are 2 conversations I have recently heard (one is loosely paraphrased, click on the quote to see the full context)… one was had between 60 year olds and one was between 6 year olds. Your goal is to determine which is which…
Conversation #1:
“I want to play with blocks”
Donald Trump: I want to build a wall
“No”
Nancy Pelosi: No
“Well, I’m going to take all my money and go home”
Donald Trump: I’m going to shut down the government if you don’t give me what I want
“Fine, go ahead”
Nancy Pelosi: Try me bitch
“I’m all alone, poor me”
Donald Trump:
“Yeah? And you can’t come to my birthday party”
Nancy Pelosi: Well, you can’t come to Congress to give the State of the Union
“Oh yeah?? Well, you can’t play with my airplanes”
Donald Trump: Well you can’t take military airplanes for your trip to Afghanistan
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Conversation #2
“Play ‘life is fun'”
6 year old: Alexa, play Life is Fun
“I’m sorry, i don’t know ‘big white bun'”
Alexa (6 year old AI): “I’m sorry, i don’t know Big White Bun
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Stop the madness!!!
Priebus Zoo
In the new Bob Woodward book, Fear: Trump in the White House, he vividly quotes Reince Priebus on the chaos of the Trump White House’s decision making. “When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That’s what happens.”
Frankly doesn’t look so bad to me.
One of these things is not like other…
My wife and I have frequently stated during the election that Kellyanne should take away Trump’s access to his twitter feed (and when I say Kellyanne, I really mean *anyone* on Trump’s staff) – unfiltered access to every thought that pops into his head makes him seem like a thin skinned capricious petty vindictive child.
It is now clear tho, for his sake at least, that if you can’t take away Trump’s access, you probably should at least take away Kellyanne’s… take a quick look at the last 3 tweets from el hombre del peluquín‘s twitter feed :
Unlike the other 2, the third one sounds like it was written by adult. Moreover it is direct conflict in tone (if not a full contradiction) to the first. As such, (IMHO) is clearly not written by the same person.
There is a solid clarity of message which is lost when you try to correct for Trump’s missteps and while it still seems insane to me, his strategy/style is working for him. At the end of the day, you either need to totally reign him in or just “let Trump be Trump”. There is no middle ground and pretending any different is just SAD.
Believe me.
Unintentionally inappropriate… except with this guy, who the hell really knows if it was unintentional…
Really? Did Trump just say say he’s in “bang-her”?
Some quick thoughts on the first Clinton/Trump debate
[sigh] The debate is over… a ridiculous amount of anticipation has left me feeling underwhelmed and empty. Overall, it was a pretty blah affair. Not a ton of excitement and very little new insight. It was entertaining marginally. It isn’t going to change anyone’s mind tho. The bases for both candidates are still affirmed that they chose the correct person and there wasn’t anything new or unique to sway the undecided voter.
Thoughts on the Hillary: Continue reading
David Duke: Trump Makes Hitler Great Again
Yep, we’ve gone there, Donald Trump the leading candidate for president of the United States in 2016 has just been compared to Hitler… as a compliment.
“David Duke, a prominent white supremacist, says Donald Trump is helping to rehabilitate Hitler’s image.”
Now it is not a surprise that a racist asshole like Duke would believe this, so who cares? Why publicize the rantings of a fringe right wing wacko and further legitimize his cause with additional airtime? Well the problem is a plurality of Republicans in this country (40+%) endorses Donald Trump so this is no longer a fringe issue. Adolf Hitler is the embodiment of evil in the 20th century and I’m not saying that Trump is evil, but for a leading presidential candidate to have even a passing resemblance much less a full-scale equating is a little concerning – fringe perspective or not.
Look you either believe Hitler is evil or not. If yes, then certainly nothing I say is going to change that. If not then you have to take a look at who he is being compared to and decide if that is legitimate.
I think the reason that this news gets me so riled up is that a post that I had kind of written as a lark some months back is coming closer and closer to fruition.
Super Tuesday II – Donald Trump Strikes Back (again)
Ok at this point, it looks like my man Kasich won Ohio like he said he would, but nothing else. While I am happy he remains in as a non-Trump (and hell, non-Cruz) alternative, I just don’t see what he thinks he viability is – outside of his home state, he was in the bottom half of every single contest. Assume his path forward has to do something with a contested convention (whatever that is).
With respect to the Trump juggernaut, I just keep on watching this over and over hoping that people will come to their senses:
Cocktails for Candidates
From some random guy on Facebook:
This made me smile, unlike most of the real news from this campaign.
And while I am quoting random people off the internet, I am reminded of a post from some random guy on Twitter that went something to the effect of: “Illegal immigration will actually increase under a Trump presidency, but then Canada would send all the Americans back.”
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