• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    Given the price and description, I was always assuming they were going to import a cheap Chinese android phone from a no-name manufacturer and then do the gold paint here and call it Made in the USA, like how other companies do one final assembly step here in order to make that claim.

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      10 hours ago

      Not really, them setting up World Liberty Financial is more about their ability to control deeper tiers of the financial system so they can run scams nested within scams and push it all through crypto to hide any trails that might lead to corruption charges one he’s “out of office.”

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        7 hours ago

        I mean when I first came across it (which was linked from a mass text advertisement from Truth Social in January), this is the quote that stood out to me:

        Developing American First investment vehicles is another step toward our goal of creating a robust ecosystem through which American patriots can protect themselves from the ever-present threat of cancellation, censorship, debanking, and privacy violations committed by Big Tech and woke corporations.”

        Notably the word “ecosystem”.

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    14 hours ago

    You can’t even make a freaking grill scrubber without importing parts from China, even if you were trying NOT to import from China. Apple couldn’t even make their phone in the US because the most trivial thing was insanely expensive compared to overseas. Yes, the tiny little screws. I’ve got beach front property in Arizona to sell to these jackasses that believe this moron solved US manufacturing problems in just 6 months.

    Reference to Grill Scrubber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    After all immigrants have been forced out, all social safety nets removed, and child labour laws repealed; after the resulting widespread poverty and famine. When Americans have no choice but to work in sweatshops for a dollar a day, then US manufacturing will finally be competitive enough for trump merch to be made in the US.

  • Match!!@pawb.social
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    20 hours ago

    If they ieep grifting their own people this hard, surely there will come a time when their own voters are penniless and thus (in American democracy) powerless, right?

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      21 hours ago

      Oh no! The best antidote is remembering he’s demented and close to death!

      And that he probably cried over the low parade turn out. I had to change my underwear after that joyful thought.

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    An American made smart phone would be garish, run hot and flake out in record time.