Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for October 12, 2024

Let’s mint a coin with a failed TV host’s picture on it with $10 worth of silver in it and sell it for $100 each as bullion.

You don’t even have to keep it a secret.

oh … you mean the government, right?

the class action class

Otherwise known as the American consumer. Well, most of them anyway.

Let’s go with Bibles, watches and NFTs for starters.

Here’s another place where people are stupid with their money: paying a “documentation fee” when they buy a vehicle. Bogus! Don’t ever pay it, and if the dealer won’t back down, shop elsewhere.

I was working in the industry when the idea took root back in the ’80’s. back then, we started out at $25. People paid it, and now some car lots are charging over $800! For nothing!

There’s a lot of that going around. But the folks actually working on these scams are not particularly inclined to “be honest” about anything.

Wow, hit the head on that nail!

That’s what all them companies is does anyways. Including governments that is.

The jokes on them, my wife’s not here.

Americans?

at Temu Headquarters?

It should be an easy sell, there are many millions of that type of customer out there.

tRump headquarters.

According to my research, the proverb “a fool and his money are soon parted” first appeared in Thomas Tusser’s 1573 book 500 Points of Good Husbandry.

This concept has been around a lot longer than that. I bet someone could find it on a Sumerian cuneiform tablet.

That demographic never seems to go out of style……

Flag pole sales are booming in our neighborhood, along with giant flags of a certain person.

Scammers are now advertising…

Democrat strategy meeting.

That’s also the corporate demographic for many large companies.

Truth in advertising!

Another MAGA product?

More likely the “Stupid With Other People’s (aka Taxpayers’) Money.”

I have been calling them "Trumpsicles’ because they have a “stick up their a$$”…..

So, just another day at the office in the FOMO economy ! ;-)