• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Imagine buying a piece of Biden merch -that says “BIDEN” in big letters on it- for someone that you supposedly love. What the fuck level of cult shit is this? These people are insane.

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    ““I’m very disappointed. I wanted it to be a special thing for her, and we had expected that it would have the integrity of the president of the United States,” Tim, who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, told NBC 6.” I’m not sure why he’s so disappointed, as this is at the level of integrity one apparently can readily expect from #47.

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      Wow the guy who ran a fraudulent university, bankrupted casinos, defrauded a cancer charity, rapes children, and sells signed bibles ripped me off!!!

      Good, you deserve it. Fucking moron.

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      we had expected that it would have the integrity of the president of the United States

      I don’t understand. that’s exactly what they got

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          I would be more than willing to set aside my ethics and morals to cash in on these fools, I just haven’t had a good enough idea yet. Seriously, all the good ones are taken. Trump flip flops, done. Trump guns? Obviously beat to death. Playing cards? Nope. What’s left?

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            Well thats the thing, you don’t need any product. Hell, “Trump Truck” is a natural. (Although Elmo did it first). All you really need to “produce” is an AI inage, ads and a way to collect money. Then declare bankruptcy or buy yourself out with another shell company.

            *Not legal or investment advice*

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      If it was up to the POTUS’s level of integrity, it wouldn’t even tell the time accurately and the gears would fall out the first day you wear it.

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    “i uspected it to have the same integrity like the president?”

    Congratulations buddy… I actually have some AMAZING news for you.

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    Isn’t the original family hame of Trump “Drumpf”? Either way, Rump is better than both of those.

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    The watch blunder comes as the Trump Organization faces criticism over its long-delayed gold Trump Mobile phone, which is priced at $500.

    Patrick Holland, managing editor of tech site CNET, who received the phone and spoke to CNN, said it was not made in America as promised, “looks nothing like the original image,” and also gets the number of stripes on the American flag wrong.

    *snif*. That’s beautiful.

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    A piece of shit sold by a piece of shit to gullible pieces of shit. Ha ha, let’s point and laugh.

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      Damn my sense of morals and ethics. I could be making bank selling cheap Ali Express watches to magats right now.

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        Back when the anti-5G hysteria was at it’s peak, I wanted to sell cheap latex paint mixed with iron filings as a “high tech” coating that would prevent the 5G radiation from entering your home through the windows at the low, low price of $119 a gallon. (It also conveniently marked which houses the folks selling knives, magazines, and vacuums should visit.)

        Sucks having a conscience sometimes.

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          Keep it from entering your home? Or from entering your head… Uncle freedom’s anti-5G head paint

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      Was it an officially endorsed product or just some other grifter cashing in with cheap Aliexpress 3rd party merch because NGL, I thought about doing the latter.

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    The most embarrassing part is actually wanting to wear something with Trump’s name on it. That’s just pathetic.

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      Just because they know it irritates smarter people. They’d proudly eat actual shit if they thought they could get you to smell their breath.

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    I bet this would be one hell of a collectible. Limited run of bullshit paraphernalia with an obvious print error about an extremely controversial, transparently corrupt and serial lying felon with an enormous cult following.

    Just think in 20-50+ years. People still go nuts about their nazi shit. The price of the watch is high enough that there won’t be too many of these in circulation. Unless many of them have this print error, it’s something anyway.

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      Some day, hopefully, a grandkid finds a trunk in his grandparents attic full of MAGA shit and has a crisis realizing that his grandparents are really shitty people.

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      all this trump shit will be worth about the same amount as beanie babies. Probably less since grandma and grandpa will need to keep it hidden away in the attic with the other nazi paraphernalia.

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        Just a matter of time and condition man. People will pay money for pristine old things, especially if they are related to major events. Infamy too, not just good things.

        I could see this on antique road show and the fact that it has a news article associated with it and it kinda portrays him in a negative light would help establish provenance and make it way more memorable than most bullshit. There’s even parallels to the defect of the item and the defect of the administration. Plus the potential wildcard of who knows what will happen in the next few years…

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      The very fact that he’s selling these watches while in officeis, in and of itself, corruption. Why oh why is that not the story, rather than the shit quality of the products?

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      Nazi shit was cool looking. And not made of plastic. If any of this shit survives it actually might be collectable one day though.

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      Good chance you might pick one up at a hock shop for fiddy in a year or so

      Yeah it could be a shrewd investment if you can get it cheaply

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    This whole thing is grotesquely fascinating, but my biggest question is this: did the husband even glance at the watch before giving it to his wife, or did he just hand her the package it was mailed in?

    I know that if I gave someone a $650 gift, I’d look it over carefully to make sure it was in good condition, but that’s just me.

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      You’re asking for reason, forethought and enough self confidence to not want to be the focus of a ridiculous scam… from someone that just enthusiastically spent $700 USD on a “limited edition” made in China, imitation brass trump watch?

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        Or he gave it to her still in the box, since unboxing is part of the experience of getting something new.

        Honestly, if I bought something as a present for someone else, that’s exactly what I’d do, let them open the box.

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          You blindly glance over the relevant larger reality here like an insufferable contrarian who would spend three hours vigorously arguing that hitler’s hat was actually mauve and not brown, while completely ignoring what he did while wearing it.

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              If you say so.

              Look, I realise you want to take the piss out of these people, but giving someone a present still in the box is actually what normal people do.

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                Still in the box, sure. But it doesn’t need to be left in the warehouse-sealed shipping container. It’s 100% okay—even expected—for the gift giver to have opened the box to see that the item is as it should be.

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                  Have you ever bought something online before?

                  There’s typically a box inside the postage packaging, they don’t just biff whatever you’ve bought into a bag.

                  I’m not sure why you’ve assumed he just handed her the Amazon box.

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    “I think that someone needs to be aware of it in their licensing department that someone’s dropped the ball big time,” Tim Petit said.

    These people are so pathetically stupid. This is working just as intended.

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    “Show the world what an ass you are by wearing our plastic RUMP watch.”