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    We’ve had former presidents sell their family peanut farms to avoid conflicts of interest

    The carters felt that relinquishing the business to someone else’s care would separate them from these affairs and avoid the possibility of their financial holdings resembling any conflict of interest while President Carter was in office.

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    It’s literally a political franchise.

    Despite the stupidity of looks, to be honest - this looks from outside very US-American. Not like cowboy movies, not even like 30s, but like something written by Baum.

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    With American-made phones and American call centres, right? Right?

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      “Good morning and thanks for calling MAGA Mobile. Please listen to the options and make your selection for the best possible service. For Spanish, press 423 and wait for a knock on the door. For English, god bless Trump…”

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    At this point anyone who buys Trump-branded shit get what’s coming to them. Dude is the most notorious grifter in history.

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      are you saying all my Trumpcoins, Trump NFTs, degrees from Trump university and deep frozen Trump steaks are worthless

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        Just drink some Popov grade Trump Vodka at one of his many totally not bankrupt casinos to take your mind off of it.

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    It’s going to be a cheap low-priority MVNO with deceptive wording to make it sound like its own independent network. Absolutely zero chance it’ll be competitive in any way.

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        True. Then it’ll get absorbed by one of the bigger MVNOs, or one of the main networks’ prepaid services, and become a cheap subsidiary or just get dissolved completely. But by that point they’ll already be onto the next grift.

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      Came to say this - either its going to use existing infrastructure owned by those companies, or it’s going to completely suck. In neither case that’s competition

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        Oh it’s 100% gonna be an MVNO, it’s expensive as fuck to roll out new infrastructure, and something like that certainly wouldn’t go unnoticed anyway.

        It’s just gonna be the worst shit-tier kind of MVNO. Like Cricket back in the 2000s. Service = maybe.

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    Lol please let every Trump supporter buy his service. Suddenly, Trump ass kissers will have less reliable access to the internet and phone service?! Sounds like a good idea to me.

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    Register his own root Certificate Authority as well and this man is well on his way towards global surveillance.

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    They already tried that with the ‘Freedom phone’ and it was a massive scam, so this is quite on brand for him.