I can't believe I'm going to jail for an nft salesman.
Tim Gionet (aka, Baked Alaska,) who will be sentenced to jail in January for participating in the Jan. 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection.
Tim, there are probably a number of people in your shoes at this moment. It's one thing to do time for a revolution and its leader, but quite another when the guy you thought of as a hero ends up hawking fantasy themed digital images of himself for $99 a pop.
Well, to borrow a phrase from a song, "It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world..." One day you're the leader of a great and seemingly unstoppable movement and the next you are perpetrating a scam so transparently founded on run amok ego and buyer stupidity not even Charlie Ponzi would stoop to it.
When Donald Trump made his, "MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT," last week there wasn't a talking head on any news network who predicted what happened. Speculation was rampant: Trump was going to announce his VP choice, Trump was going to begin his own political party. Hell, Trump might even declare the 2024 election fraudulent two years before a single vote is cast. But no, even after nearly six years of dealing with his diabolical weirdness nary a soul saw what was coming.
So the Non-Fungible Token treat you are buying from Brother Trump is a single image of him in a heroic pose, not of your choosing. There are about 45,000 photo shopped pictures of him on the site, but you have to take the one the program randomly picks for you. Unless you take a screen shot then print it, you'll never have anything tangible to possess, you know, like a baseball card, or comic book. My favorite part of this grift though is that you don't own the image you purchased. Donald J. Trump does--in perpetuity. In other words the same people who are screaming about inflation during the Biden administration are spending $99 on what amounts to nothing.
This isn't even a campaign fund raiser either. All that money goes directly into Trump's well lined pockets. His fans, are in every sense of the word,, giving, a self proclaimed gazillionaire one hundred bucks of their cash. DJT would disagree with that assessment, of course. According to him, every image, "bought," enters the purchaser in a raffle of sorts. Prizes include things like a round of golf with him, dinner at Mar A Lago, or a zoom call from The Leader himself. The problem being given the track record of previous Trump enterprises such as his so called university and various charitable organizations the possibility of winning anything remotely of value is no doubt about as rare as a Humming Bird at the south pole.
Various reports say the dales of Trump's NFTs are through the roof. One estimated he earned well over $4 million within 24 hours. Another said sales were such the site had to cut them off because it could no longer process them. A third reported the images were sold out. No matter what, all of it confirms there isn't just one sucker born every minute, but thousands of them.
In the past few weeks Donald Trump has dined with a virulent anti Semite and a white supremacist. He has endorsed the termination of at least portions of the constitution. Now he has debased the office he once held and claims to aspire to by personally profiting from a scam so shameless it should be confined to the midway of a cheap traveling carnival.
We don't know how low Donald Trump will sink to. There is a theory, which may have some validity, that there is no bottom for him, that the void inside of him is endless. One thing we know for sure, however, is his ego is beyond understanding. It is like trying to comprehend the distance light can travel in a year. And--the only thing remotely close in size to that monster is his utter disdain for America, its government, and the people who not only hate him, but also love him.
12-18-22
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