Friday, December 16, 2022

Today in major announcements:

Pwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--sharp intake-- ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
-Everyone
No, body shaming is not ok. Although he
is on tape bragging about sexual assault to Billy
Bush, so I'm going to make an exception here.
Laughing at, not with. At. I mean, NFT trading cards of the former host of The Apprentice as a cowboy or a super hero or whatever that cost a hundred dollars apiece has to be a joke, like, he's got to be kind of in on it, but we're still going to laugh at him and not with him. At because of the impossible hubris of a doughy septuagenarian who lost the popular vote twice thinking that anyone but the most ignorant MAGA goon would ever shell out for--oh shit, they are going to buy these, aren't they?

The rabid-foam target audience.
Yup. And not even ironically. There are almost certainly people out there who will pay money, like actual dollars, to a deluded gameshow host turned electoral college winner who incited a mob to try and overthrow two and a half centuries of American democracy. All for imaginary trading cards. NFT's, if you recall, don't exist as physical objects, but rather data. Data that only exists on a server somewhere. A server with a massively outsized carbon footprint. Also, crypto currency is in the mix somehow?

Throw in the former president/wanna be autocrat, and you have everything that's wrong with the twenty-first century: Right-wing extremism, willful ignorance, speculative capitalism, and environmental recklessness, all rolled into one narcissistic fever dream of inflated self-worth.  
Hey, remember that time he mocked a reporter's disability? Yeah, that's
got nothing to do with this other than that's how I picture him: waving his arms and
slurring his speech to make fun of someone's physical impairment. But hey look,
you can give him a hundred dollars for a picture of him cosplaying a sheriff.

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