Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'
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how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?
Besides the naked corruption?
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this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money
its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it
The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what's left of them. He's literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.
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Let's break down who's actually going to buy this piece of shit.
Anyone with any experience with buying a modern Android phone?... Nope. Metro, Tello, US Cellular, etc are all cheaper than Trump Mobile by almost half the price and the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500, and Apple fans aren't watching anyway.
So that just leaves extremely uninformed people who don't know any better. You'll be able to identify how little they know by the fact that they'll pay double the going-rate of an MVNO for an overpriced, gold slab of feces.
A lot of Apple fans are tied into their ecosystem, either by profession or just history with the brand. Any Android phone means upending their lives if they depend on their phones for business or pleasure, and a lot of them are Apple fans because Tim Cook keeps Trump 39.5ft away, so they're off the books.
TL/DR: Get ready to see a bunch of boomers walk out of church with gold phones.
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how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?
For giggles, I'd like you to explain how the President of the United States launching his old overpriced phone on his own overpriced network with every possible element named, adorned and even priced after himself could be considered anything other than abusing their power?
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But Trump just said he hates talking on phones….wtf?
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Profiteering is the wrong word.
Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate
Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate
So, standard capitalism stuff?
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I think that Trump feels that this will finally impress Ivana enough.
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Ho is his coin doing? Didn't hear much about that...
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Let's break down who's actually going to buy this piece of shit.
Anyone with any experience with buying a modern Android phone?... Nope. Metro, Tello, US Cellular, etc are all cheaper than Trump Mobile by almost half the price and the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500, and Apple fans aren't watching anyway.
So that just leaves extremely uninformed people who don't know any better. You'll be able to identify how little they know by the fact that they'll pay double the going-rate of an MVNO for an overpriced, gold slab of feces.
A lot of Apple fans are tied into their ecosystem, either by profession or just history with the brand. Any Android phone means upending their lives if they depend on their phones for business or pleasure, and a lot of them are Apple fans because Tim Cook keeps Trump 39.5ft away, so they're off the books.
TL/DR: Get ready to see a bunch of boomers walk out of church with gold phones.
the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500
I don't think the phone actually exists, it's just a digital mockup.
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this is just them making money off people who will willingly give them money
its not some blatant overreach of power, at worst their using their fame as advertising for it
They're using the office of President to advertise products for personal gain. Not just any products but overpriced Chinese garbage. They're also lying about them being made in the US, which is illegal.
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Is this a red line
It's the latest in a long red line of red lines.
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Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.
But, but, they're been blasted. Didn't you see in the article? Surely, they'll stop this behaviour this time.
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the phone itself is a REVVL variant selling for $500
I don't think the phone actually exists, it's just a digital mockup.
....that's even worse somehow
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Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate
So, standard capitalism stuff?
Kind of, except the person doing it is the sitting president. Call it an aggravating factor.
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how exactly are they abusing their power with this one?
How is this a real question? We're fucking cooked.
