DJT's Truth account has been posting a lot today. Much of it is criticism re: Ron DeSanctimonious, etc, but about 2 hours ago, he truthed and retruthed a small flurry of "Trump for Speaker" truths.
Knowing that DJT is a master of populist 5G warfare, we can understand that he has reasons for doing this, whether or not he considers this as a real possibility, including (potentially) increasing his profile, stirring up the hornets' nest in DC, and moving a variety of narratives.
Dasting.
Trump TRUTH
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111179710276499538
3min Clip of Bannon Asking people to consider Trump for Speaker
Trump TRUTH
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111179709232101277
Content: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/wayne-root-trump-house-speaker-again-whether-he/
WAYNE ROOT: Trump for House Speaker- Again? Whether He Wants It, or Not, Here’s the Idea That Exposes All the RINOS and Changes Congress Forever!
Trump RETRUTH
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMTG/posts/111177115014378628
MTG: I’m supporting President Donald J. Trump to be the next Speaker of the House!
He has a proven four year record of putting America First and implementing the policies the American people want.
CONTENT: America's Real Voice Clip: "Is Speaker Trump a real possibility?"
Trump RETRUTH
https://truthsocial.com/@MTG/posts/111174447970743697
MTG: President Trump is THE LEADER of the Republican Party.
President @realDonaldTrump should be our Speaker!
EDIT: Disclaimer: In recent days, I've generally poopooed the idea of DJT becoming Speaker. I still think that the idea is not very realistic, but it would be foolish to rule out anything, given how many unknowns there really are.
I will say one thing: If DJT WERE to become speaker, it would detonate such a titanic hydro-bomb across the entire world, it would be time to just sit back, and watch the whole thing crumble. I think it could only happen if indeed Patriots are in control of a LOT more than I suspect. The meltdown would be delicious.
That said, either way, I think it's dasting that he has retruthed the idea. Either way, DJT all the way!
Coming from an old crypto guy, NFT‘s are not just jpg‘s. It shows your ignorance saying that. They can also act as tickets fot events, contain crypto inside (a sort of stealth cover), act as digital representations of physical ownership (certificates of authenticity) and on and on.
Some NFT‘s are just art, sure, but more and more are doing what I mentioned. My best play was buying a Bored Ape for 5 ETH and selling is for 71 ETH. (275k). They are still morphing, as is crypto.
Many will have real world apps and you won‘t know you are using them. But, that said I think the digital world can be evil, so be careful.
You’re right, NFTs are not images. They’re secure digital receipts, commonly with images attached to them. The technology might see some more practical use in the future. But when talking about the ones with images, the hype is a scam. Just like with fiat currency, it’s only worth as much as what you can get rid of it for, and, I hate to break it to you, there’s nothing valuable about an ugly cookie-cutter “unique” animal drawing to make your receipt worth anything. Congratulations on getting out with a net gain. Still a scam though.
There is a scam object and most will be worthless (as many of mine now are.) LOL The thing with new technology is that the ones that succeed will often more than make up for the failures. I made a lot of bad calls but I had a blast collecting this new art form. The BAYC made up for all the losses and then some. And I still have a part of history and a story. We don't take none of it with us, I get that, just having fun.
Anything we desire can be given a value. So, I can easily "hate to break it to you" too that I mademoney on a silly .jpg (that I never liked lol, but I know how to read charts and saw unreasonably high volume coming into that project so bought in and sold near the top.) Same as crypto - most are experimental and have no value.
A scam is something with the intention to deceive. There is a lot of that in crypto. But who are you or me or ? to judge what is art and what has value? Remember pet rocks? trading cards that essentially degrade over time? Or how about cabbage patch dolls? List goes on.
Dude it’s not a “new art form”. It’s a new technology if anything, and digital art has been around for a long time. The scam is that NFT creators mass-produce garbage, and hook up each piece to a program that keeps track of ownership, then try to convince people that it’s worth spending thousands of dollars on. The cult is very profitable to the people who started it.
The difference between NFTs and all these other things is that the only reason given to have an NFT is that you might make money off of it. Pet rocks are inexpensive and fun for a joke. Cabbage patch dolls I don’t know about but I assume they at least function as dolls. The only comparable things here are trading cards, but with trading cards you are paying for meaningful ownership of something- with art NFTs there is no functional difference between someone who bought the NFT and someone who saved the image associated with it, except to participate in the market. The only draw is as a financial investment, and for that reason anyone who presents an art NFT as a financial investment is trying to scam you.
I'm not meaning to make this into a semantic argument but having a unique digital piece of art is certainly new. Yeah, digital art has been around for a decent amount of time, but it was never like this, but again, getting semantic.
You use of the word "cult" seems a bit too strong. I mean I hate it when they call Q a cult when he/they teach us to think for ourselves, so to call a form of art that has no leader, "a cult", seems a bit disengenous.
Trading cards are limited and degrade. NFT (trading cards or the usual 10k collections) are limited and don't degrade. And art is in the eye of the beholder. IF you want to win a semantic award you got it, but I think it is way way too early to put into a box something that we don't know what it is.
A BIG draw for traditional art (e.g. Hunter biden "art") is money laundering. Same could easily be true of NFT's.
IF something is limited, there is a functional difference. By definition the copy will not have the function as NFT's are code. By definition. Copies are copies and CAN'T function as the original.
Is that Victor Chaos?
LOL, I don't know what that means (or who he is) but it sounds funny. Has a nice ring to it. I give up???
Its butters in the post covid special, was incarcerated in an insane asylum for selling NFTs
You mean southpark?
NFTs has certain value, sure -- as a technology.
But its application -- including the Trump NFTs -- has been exclusively for art or products related to art (e.g. video games industry trying to adopt them for micro transactions)
The criticism levied at Trump NFTs is well deserved.
I have a TF2 frying pan worth a good stack. Got it for free so I'm good with that
Yeah, NFT's so far are 98% "art" (and some crappy art at that.)
Re video game use, that is a BIG thing I forgot to mention. Imagine OWNING your game skins and such! Instead of it staying in the game, it can just be a specialized NFT (new standard or perhaps existing) that you can take with you. Some game companies are obviously resistant to this as they want to control and keep you in their games.
I see why people can see the Trump NFT's as grifting. But I think the Trump NFT's are a great idea for when this plan all goes down. I have around 30 of them (1st and 2nd gen) just to resell some later. If this plan goes down as planned, those NFT's will go up 100X EASY. The knew Bored Ape Yacht Club they will be. And Trump can give them future use (coupons and such for ???)