There is just so much damned money to be made on the MAGA side of the world that one truly wonders why we’re not sitting around waiting to take advantage of… because we don’t take advantage of people, unlike many on the Right, including the makers of “The Freedom Phone.”

In case you haven’t heard of it, and very few of us have, the phone was supposed to be the “big thing” this week for Trump’s most “MAGA followers. The Trump folks didn’t put out the phone, it was issued by a group of Trump fans and promoted by Trump stars.

The MAGAs who ordered the phone, for $500 a pop, believed they were getting a high-quality phone, “one of the best in the world,” stuffed with “uncensored” apps. According to The Daily Beast:

The pro-Trump internet went wild on Wednesday for the Freedom Phone, a $500 smartphone that comes stocked with conservative apps and promises to liberate anyone else who buys it from Silicon Valley censorship. The American flag-branded phone was immediately promoted by a wide range of right-wing figures, including former Trump adviser Roger Stone, Jan. 6 rally organizer Ali Alexander, and pundit Dinesh D’Souza.

“I’m holding a freaking phone that is not controlled by Apple or Google,” conservative personality Candace Owens told her fans in an Instagram video. “We made the switch immediately.”

https://twitter.com/erikfinman/status/1415328529034715141

Yes, well, that is all well and good, it’s their American right, including the right to cheat the hell out of customers on another quick con. The people that have demonized China more than any other nation just bought a budget Chinese phone:

Despite being lauded by some of the right-wing media’s leading figures, though, the Freedom Phone’s buyers could be getting less than they expect for its $500 price tag. That’s because the Freedom Phone appears to be merely a more expensive rebranding of a budget Chinese phone available elsewhere for a fraction of the Freedom Phone’s price.

Who could have possibly predicted?

 Finman declares in the promotional video that the Freedom Phone is “comparable to the best smartphones on the market” and “truly is the best phone in the world.” In fact, Freedom Phone appears to be a simple rebranding of a budget phone called the “Umidigi A9 Pro,” made by the Chinese tech company Umidigi.

We don’t know much about the MAGAs or phones. We do know that it’s a bad idea to be holding a phone with a “9” in the name. Maybe the MAGAs are just trying to be extra cautious about 5G technology controlling their minds? Or maybe they just got conned.

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