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    It’s gonna be labeled as some private cell service but it actually logs everything you do in their servers and use it for some nefarious purpose.

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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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    The word “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence

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    The picture I saw of it looks 100% like the standard practice of rebranding a terrible iPhone-like android device that could only be manufactured in China. Just take a look at “luxury” phones of the early 2020s. Absolutely 100% a scam by idiots for idiots.

    Mkbhd: Escobar Phone https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA

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    Competitors severely penalized in 3…2…

    The great wireless firewall of America.

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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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    He’s just dangling it out there so one of the competitors buys his “business”. He doesn’t actually want to make anything. It’s another grift in disguise.

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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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    9 hours ago

    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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    10 hours ago

    Compete with but will lease their service because there is no actual competition with a barrier to entry like national cell towers.

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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.