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1. This is what Cawthorn did with LGBCoin
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:36 AM
Jun 2022

He invested in it, talked it up even on the House floor, and then cashed out leaving the suckers who invested because they believe and admire him holding the bag, and it happens all the time. Some conservative will look further down to the right on the political spectrum, see what people there are afraid of and come up with a scam product to sell to them. Jim Bakker isn't storing up his food buckets in his mansion or taking colloidal silver to cure all his ailments. I honestly cannot think of an equivalent situation on the left. The best I can do is get really stereotypical, and maybe the "trippy-drippy hippies" who sell crystals or maybe the marijuana entrepreneurs who claim their bud is a panacea for everything that ails ya, but they actually believe it and follow their own advice.

Can anyone think of anything like this on our side?

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