• @lurch@sh.itjust.works
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      253 months ago

      personally, i find the one with artwork more subtle, where they have some artist draw some low effort crap, then sell it for millions to cover up what the money was actually for.

    • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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      Is this still an almost exclusively republican graft or are there now also democrats who have started doing the same thing?

      Edit: since this question is apparently gathering downvotes without an answer, an explanation for why I posed this question:

      As far as I know this is not a “both sides” problem, but it’s something that is being systematically done by republican politicians, not by democrat politicians. Framing it as something that is done by “politicians” paints all politicians as equally bad and deplorable, but that is simply not the case for this practice.

      Now I do not consume all possible media all the time, so it’s possible that I am out of the loop in this instance and this practice is now also being done by democrats, which is why I asked the question.

        • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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          133 months ago

          Yeah, it’s a “both sides” argument, while it actually isn’t both sides. The comment is trying to paint politicians from both sides as equally bad, while I have only read articles about republicans doing this. And they’ve been at it for years, it must have been 2019 or 2020 when I first read about the book thing.

          But moral standards for democrats are slipping as well, which is why I wanted to give that poster the benefit of the doubt and I was hoping that someone could provide a source showing that (some) democrats too are now guilty of this.

    • @randomperson@lemmy.today
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      -53 months ago

      I don’t think it’s all money laundering. NFTs sure, but this seems more like the MAGA hats he sold to all of his fans.

      Maybe democrats should take a page out of his book and sell tangible items instead of just asking for donations.

  • @resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    413 months ago

    You can sink quite quickly quite hard. From POTUS to ordinary shoe sales person. Donald “Al Bundy” Trump was not something I had on my bingo card.

  • @58008@lemmy.world
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    353 months ago

    What’s truly sad about this is that the same people who would buy golden sneakers from Trump will have already lost one or both of their feets to the diabeesus.

    • @eltrain123@lemmy.world
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      343 months ago

      These are going to sell out regardless of if anyone buys them. This is just a way rich people launder money.

      Sell something that costs a minimal amount to make for an outrageous price. They don’t have to worry about whether or not a consumer would buy it because the object is trivial. It’s about legally passing money from one place to another in a way that looks like business.

      The same thing happens when you see obvious trash make it onto a ‘best seller’ list.

      • @Ranvier
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        103 months ago

        Like all those terrible political books by candidates which are then bought en mass by super PACs and others to funnel money into the campaign.

  • @quafeinum@lemmy.world
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    313 months ago

    A ‘limited’ 1000x run for a 399$ shoe is a bit short of the 500m that he needs to come up with. It’s like Eric found out that he can get rebranded dropshit on aliexpress

  • @Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone
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    223 months ago

    I’m pretty sure this will be in a movie sometime soon. Some douchebag will be rocking these and be the most unforgivably shitty person in the plot arc.

  • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    73 months ago

    A feature of having no scruples, no shame and no class when in a position of cult power, is that this type of sociopath can keep milking the gullible for a shot of fresh cash, on a regular basis.

    • FenrirIII
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      83 months ago

      The funniest part is that he is the literal golden calf the Bible warned about. Every stupid idea he has had prior has culminated into this ugly, golden shoe.

  • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    53 months ago

    Doesn’t the gold on those shoes look spray painted to you?

    That is going to crack when drying after the first bit of water splashed on them.

  • Echo Dot
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    33 months ago

    Yeah because he is broke in relative terms. Everyone thought it was really rich but it turned out he just lied about it all.