{"id":39566,"date":"2023-12-15T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39566"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T19:47:36","slug":"the-modern-day-religious-relic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/12\/15\/the-modern-day-religious-relic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Day Religious Relic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s nothing like a saint, but he&#8217;s trying to profit on the same, ah, <em>outputs<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">looking for a last minute holiday gift? Trump has you covered <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CQb5CKt7V9\">pic.twitter.com\/CQb5CKt7V9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1734612541249102036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yep, along with worthless <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-fungible_token\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFTs<\/a><\/strong>, which are certifications of ownership, in this case of digital art, which have proven to be worthless, he&#8217;ll sell you &#8211; the real standout attraction of the offer &#8211; a piece of the suit he allegedly wore to his mugshot.<\/p>\n<p>How will he prove its provenance? He doesn&#8217;t appear to say. A <em>fish-in-a-barrel<\/em> prediction is that enough cloth will be issued for this offer to construct 10, or maybe 100, suits.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the number of suckers out there.<\/p>\n<p>But notice how Trump capitalizes on the religious fervor of many of his supporters, and, much like <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/02\/26\/belated-movie-reviews-548\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Brinkley<\/a> of Kansas, he&#8217;s harvesting the wealth of people too given to believing in, well, anything without real evidence. A bunch of <strong>NFTs<\/strong> and a shred of cloth? Together, worth less than a penny to me. Someone else might shell out big bucks.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, to show their loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the social prestige ladder. It doesn&#8217;t matter which &#8211; there are dozens, not all mutually exclusive &#8211; and this is just one way to assert your position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s nothing like a saint, but he&#8217;s trying to profit on the same, ah, outputs: looking for a last minute holiday gift? Trump has you covered pic.twitter.com\/CQb5CKt7V9 &mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 12, 2023 Yep, along with worthless NFTs, which are certifications of ownership, in this case of digital art, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/12\/15\/the-modern-day-religious-relic\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39567,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions\/39567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}