Sharp-eyed shoppers on e-Bay recently have discovered that important American antiquities have been listed on that selling platform—providing an opportunity for Americans to "BY A PIECE OF AMERICA'S GREAT(EST!) HISTORY!--NEVER BEEN BETTER. UNBELIEVABLE WHITE HOUSE ANTIQUES LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SCENE! ZERO TARIFFS! INVEST NOW!!!" The listings went live at 3:04 am today, April 1st.
The e-Bay seller, using the name "Dealer Of Great(est) Envestments," is offering a mix of Federalist furniture, vintage brocade draperies, gilt-bronze lighting fixtures and an assortment of desk accessories: pens, boxes, inkwells and desktop picture frames. There is also a very large assortment of antique, leather-bound books—being sold as box lots—sorted by color. Although several presidential portraits were originally listed for sale, it seems that these lots have been pulled from the sale after the first three hours on-line.
A previously unheard-of trade publication, the Magazine About Great Antiques (Журнал о Великих Антиквариатах), has been promoting the sale vigorously within its Eastern European media market. American antiques journals have been more cautious about jumping-upon the story, perhaps worrying about being implicated (or indicted) for either perceived complicity or disapproval.
Descriptions of each item include the following notice: "All proceeds from this FANTASTIC sale will be directed to PRO-AMERICAN (not "Woke") charities, to be announced soon, the BEST organizations."
On a televised MSNBC segment this morning, Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has demanded that the White House explain who is—and by what authority it is—"selling-off America's heritage." She also demanded to know which charities had been selected as beneficiaries. She received no immediate response, however, one X-Twitter user named "April Foo-Ling" expressed frustration that every attempt to make the White House better was met with "reflexive resistance by the Woke Mob." Said Foo-Ling, "If the president wants to remove the tree which Andrew Jackson planted, or pave-over Jacqueline Kennedy's Rose Garden, he should be free to make such improvements."
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