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Trump, NFTs, Prem Shaman, and more.

Monday, December 19th, 2022.

Introduction.

First, the definitions, Trump, well you know that one, NFTs stands for non-fungible tokens,

which is a cryptographic asset embedded in a blockchain, meaning that it has a distinct

digital signature and cannot be duplicated, a collectible made out of ones and zeros.

The hashtag made your announcement that Trump is going to make last week turned out to

be NFT playing cards of Trump himself in the role of superhero, which incidentally

have sold out already.

And Prem Shaman is a German word for the embarrassment you feel for someone else who

really ought to be embarrassed for himself but somehow mysteriously isn't.

I just imagine myself trying to explain this phenomenon, superhero playing cards of

a politician to Thomas Jefferson and my forehead gets hot.

Okay, just plain weird.

But of course, if I needed to explain the sinkhole of anality and corruption that is our

respectable political establishment today, against which Trumpism is the incoate complaint,

I wouldn't need to explain anything.

Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Madison, and all other founders already knew exactly what

that kind of disease thing was as they had seen plenty of examples of it in their day.

They tried to establish a form of government that would hold that kind of thing off, something

that would keep mandatious pirates from entering public service unsuccessfully as it turned

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