There’s been a lot of speculation about the nature of the grift that Trump will embark on when he’s escorted out of the White House. It will likely be multi-faceted, the up-side being that if he runs true to form, part of the grift will be an assault on the people who he claims let him down-the Republicans. He has sent mixed signals about the Georgia Senate race, and once he’s out for good there’s a good chance he’ll see an opportunity in making mischief for the Republicans. If nothing else he’ll likely make noises about running for President, whether he’s serious about it or not, as that will bring in the bucks from the suckers.
And that’s what this post is actually about: the suckers. Because if recent events prove anything, they prove that P.T. Barnum was wrong, if in fact the quote is attributable to him. There’s not a sucker born every minute. They’re born every nanosecond in this country alone. The recent election proved there’s upwards of 75,000,000 of them in this country alone, and there’s plenty of grifters out there planning on taking advantage of them.
A certain slice of Americans has an insatiable hunger for conspiracy theories, and they are thus easy marks. This one really got to me.
If you’re scared of 5G giving you COVID-19 or otherwise polluting your precious bodily fluids, then some companies on Amazon would love to sell you a cage for your router. According to sellers, the metal cages block 5G. According to reviews, they’re destroying people’s Wi-Fi signal, which makes sense. The metal boxes are just Faraday cages marketed to people who believe in baseless conspiracy theories about 5G.
A Faraday cage is simply a metal cage designed to block signals, so these folks are plunking down money so they can interfere with their own Wi-Fi signal. This really makes the anti-vaxxers look almost rational. It’s yet more proof that if Trump avoids jail he’ll have a huge number of suckers to grift, though given his track record, it’s not a sure thing he can avoid yet another bankruptcy, this time, perhaps, of the personal sort.
Notice: Not that many are likely to care, but comments are not working on this blog at the moment. I’ll be putting this notice on posts until I get the problem cleared up. That will involve attempting to contact someone at my web hosting service, which is both time consuming and aggravating in the extreme, so I’ve been putting it off until I have a few hours I can spend on hold waiting for someone to talk to me.
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