UPDATED: The Grift Continues

If one can say anything even remotely positive about Trump and his team, it is that they are very resourceful. Resourceful at separating their true MAGA believers from their money, they have a couple of new schemes (no, not the Trump Bible or Trump coins) that are almost guaranteed to replenish Mr. Trump's coffers. 

I cannot reproduce the entire lurid display in each of the cons, but underneath each I place the web addresses where you can ponder the implications at leisure. P. T. Barnum would be proud.

See the full ad here. And if you read down to the fine print at the end of it, you will find that the enthusiastic takers of this offer will be on the hook for a payment per month on the 'free' material.

And, for older kids, there is this:

You can see the full display here.

Get 'em when they are coming and going. A strategy fit for a dictator.

UPDATE: This seems a fitting complement to the above:

Stupidity: The Antidote

Owing to a rather sensitive gag reflex, I only watched about two minutes of Senator Katie Britt's 'response' to Joe Biden's State of The Union address in which I gather, she blamed the president for all the ills besetting America. (Sound familiar?) The conceit: that it actually was a response, not a carefully scripted effort made before Biden's speech. It has, however, provoked a great deal of ridicule, including a sendup from Scarlett Johansan on Saturday Night Live.

However, the best most measured rebuke to Ms. Britt came from this lady:

It is refreshing to see some facts and logic for a change, although, as suggested in my last two posts, it is unlikely to forge much lightning in certain quarters.