Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'
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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.
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How is this a real question? We're fucking cooked.
bc of a phone
I'm not even disagreeing with you, but listen to yourself.
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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?
he's just selling something that his followers will buy. no one else really cares to.
your logic could be even more effectively applied to him selling merchandise about him and that isn't an overreach of power in any way
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Besides the naked corruption?
is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn't, then this isn't
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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.
I've got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you'd be fine with that
I'm no fan of trump, but this isn't an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful
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I've got a really good feeling that if sanders were president, and he was selling merchandise, using his position as POTUS to advertise for it, and said it was made in the us while its raw materials were made elsewhere, you'd be fine with that
I'm no fan of trump, but this isn't an overreach of power nearly as bad as you say it is. its not the job of there potus, but its also not harmful
Your "feelings" are deeply flawed. You know nothing about me.
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is a president selling merchandise while in office corruption? because if you think that isn't, then this isn't
Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is
He's already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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But, but, they're been blasted. Didn't you see in the article? Surely, they'll stop this behaviour this time.
Blasted is nothing, wake me up when they get slammed.
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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.
39.5ft
Nice Grinch reference.
