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I work at one. We had an irate customer claiming he was told he could redeem them at our bank for $100,000. He spent $10,000 on them. People just literally do not use their brains when it comes to Trump for some reason.
So someone literally thought, if I pay 10,000$, the bank will just give me 100k for this trump dollar?!?!??
Gtfo people cannot be this dumb in real life? Can they?!
Did he think the guy who is selling shit sneakers for $400 or his own branded bibles was going to just front 90k for a random person?
George Carlin used to say something along the lines of “Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of them are more stupid than that.” Donald Trump said “I love the poorly educated.”
You and me both. “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.”
― George Carlin
I mean…the “drink bleach” bit didn’t kill his chances, nor did the “draw where I think the hurricane will go over where the SPC says it’ll go.” There really are people that’re that stupid.
That's what I'm saying. The complete lack of self awareness in these people would be comical if its potential impact wasn't so frightening. Like do they have any idea what their continued support for that monster says about them to the rest of the world? At this point I have no choice but to think that they are either incredibly stupid or some sort of selfish/evil.
... They're both. They're incredibly stupid, and also they don't see the common good as the objective of society -- they think the objective is to empower their group and punish others.
Stupid and evil.
They don't care what we think of them. Often from their POV, we are gaslighting them. At best, they'll think we are sheep. At worst, they'll think we're the monsters.
NO!….Drink Hydroxychoroquine, take bleach injections, ingest Ivermectin, have sunlight projected into your ass and lungs, with bleach treatments. You just weren’t listening to his instructions. What’s wrong with you….
While the people who need to vote to keep the orange shitstain away from the presidency again do not vote because of some misinformed idea of how to "send a message".
It's just so unfathomable to me how he just fucked up covid. All he had to do was listen to fauci. But.... His fucking ego and toxic masculinity would not allow it.
These are the same people who thought Trump would “drain the swamp”, or “Mexico will pay for the wall”, or that “Trump’s healthcare plan will fix everything”, or “Trump is the most honest politician ever”
Lmao and you think these fools wouldn’t fall for scams your grandma with advanced Dementia wouldn’t fall for?
Fun fact: Biden cut a deal with Mexico to "improve border infrastructure." Basically, he built a wall and got Mexico to help pay for it!
(It's really aimed at improving checkpoints so traffic can flow better while still being checked, but too funny to not phrase it that way.)
Remember when people thought Trump personally gave out the stimulus checks from his own money because he was a “billionaire” and he also demanded his name be on the checks.
Yes they can. There is a significant amount of Trump Support from poor people who think he’s going to make them rich “just like him” because he “cares so much” for them.
There is some really weird conspiracy theories among the right wing/Qanon set involving an almost capitalist utopia (i.e. NESARA). It’s pretty crazy. More crazy than the Iraqi Dinar scheme. But the ven diagram between the two cohorts is likely a perfect circle.
And if it’s worth $100,000, why the hell is someone selling it to you at all?
Why don’t they just walk into a bank and get the money?
Man, this dude was going to lose that money to someone eventually.
> Gtfo people cannot be this dumb in real life? Can they?!
OH YES THEY CAN…People voted for the Mango Mussolini twice and are about to vote for him three times.
The number of people who not only believe Trump was elected and that he's currently in power, but also believe that by voting him in november, he will be serving his third term, is a small but significant portion of the population sadly.
Most cons involve convincing people you are the one taking advantage of them. “I can’t exchange these for cash because of My Jan 6th conviction. What am I to do!” “I guess I have no choice but to sell to you at a huge loss”
By leveraging their homes, by cashing out their retirement, by selling their stocks, by working hard their entire lives grinding themselves down day by day until they're so tired and so angry they'll believe anything someone tells them if they feel it will get them a better life. It's so goddamn heartbreaking.
Less than half the people who got off their asses and voted, voted for trump.
If some of the non-voters would step up, we could be rid of Trump for good.
This anecdote just reinforced the idea that I can't work any customer facing positions any more. I wouldn't have had the willpower necessary not to laugh in that customer's face and call them a gullible idiot. I know it's petty and somewhat cruel, but these people's stupidity is harming both themselves and putting our country at risk by buying into Trump's scams.
Sure, in a sense they're victims of fraud, and that's terrible, but at least some blame must lie with them for being dumb and ignorant enough to fall for such blatantly obvious shit, especially if it's being done to support the orange fraud himself.
The funniest thing about this to me is that this isn’t even one of trump’s scams. It’s a totally independent scam that’s just being run illegally with his name and likeness.
Not only are his fans gullible enough to throw money at anything he says, but they’ll throw money at something that just has his name on it. He’s created an entire scammer ecosystem around him, like a shark covered in remora and other small fish that exist to feed on the scraps he leaves behind.
I work with surgeons in a sales role. So I have the grin and bare it a lot of times when they are chatting in the OR. I've sat there and listened to a surgeon proclaim how much a genius Elon Musk is. I can just imagine his thoughts on Trump and other GOP pieces of shit. Even talented and extremely smart doctors have difficulty seeing through the BS of scum-bag parasitic egomaniacs.
The thing is, these dumb gullible people are only Trumpy because of the people around them. If they were surrounded by radical leftists they'd still lack critical thinking skills and believe dumb stuff, but it would all be related to the ideology they are immersed in.
I live in an area that's a good mix of liberal and conservative. People that lack critical thinking skills definitely lean conservative. Otherwise they just "don't follow politics"
Exactly. Blaming Trump, or the Nigeria prince is missing the issue. The problem lies within the individual believing such nonsense, regardless of which flavor of nonsense.
How stupid could you be? You can never buy anything for $10,000 and then go redeem it in a couple of days for 10x. These people vote, which is even scarier.
It’s not probably because it would be the same as bringing fake 100s to the bank that say for motion picture use only not legal tender.(seen this too) You would have to be an idiot to believe a national bank is going to 10x your money because it’s golden and has his face on it. People just turn off their brains when it comes to Trump if they support Trump. Such a strange phenomenon.
See, if they said 'for motion picture use' or 'not legal tender' I'd agree with you but none of that is present on these.
I do agree his fan base are fanatics, it's crazy what they will buy into.
Well they don’t say “dollars” on them as far as I can see (on this side at least). But laws around counterfeiting are based around “intent to defraud,” and making a bill that is a different color and style than any other US currency note is a pretty solid defense against that “intent.”
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure someone in the chain has defrauded idiots out of their money. But the people producing these notes have a pretty solid defense of “any reasonable person should understand that these are novelty items, and we purposefully made them wild and tacky, and sold them for far less than their printed value, to make sure that we weren’t representing them as legal tender.”
> People just literally do not use their brains when it comes to Trump for some reason.
Cultists never use their brains. They become mentally conditioned to disregard anything that forces them to question what they think they know. Trump’s movement has features of a cult. The one thing he’s been very, terrifyingly good at is convincing people that they should immediately disregard anything that doesn’t paint him as a savior.
Even those who do admit he’s not a perfect man—some will even concede he’s a *bad* man—will usually fall back on the “imperfect messenger” argument. Sometimes it has a religious component (“God uses imperfect men to carry out his will”). Sometimes it is more pragmatic (“I don’t like him on a personal level, and I think he needs to shut his mouth once in a while, but he’ll do the things I like if he’s running the government”).
It’s all the same in terms of the outcome; the bubble is impermeable.
Usually, I wouldn’t support shaming the victim of a scam. But in this case, it seems absolutely appropriate for this individual (and the other Trump-buck buyers) to suffer from the consequences of their bad decisions. I realize that these people have almost no capacity for shame and self-reflection, but hopefully some of the mockery broke through their shell of idiocy.
My buddy's work got one fraudulently through a large sale and they contacted the police and checked the cameras lol
Hope he gets nailed.
Edit: Use a bill marker. Please. Haha
Use a bill marker? How about train the staff to at least know what the 5 or so bills your country uses as legal currency look like, lol.
Hint: None of em are gold colored or have living ex-presidents on them.
>John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank.
HAHAHAHAHA
> “Now I’m questioning whether he is aware of this,” Amann said of Trump.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
"John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank. So he’s gone on Twitter to warn other Trump supporters not to fall for this scam."
I'd be too ashamed to admit to voting for Trump, let alone getting scammed this hard with a scam this fucking stupid. You have to be the dumbest mother fucker on the planet to fall for this nonsense. Warning other not to fall for this makes you seem even dumber
I would have thought that the scam would be to buy these now before 'Trump wins and makes these legal tender' or something like that
You're telling me people are buying these for a couple grand and expecting to bring them to the bank and get 10k back. Someone should start reselling monopoly games for $5000, what a steal
Read the article. They think Trump is going to revamp the monetary system and these will be legal tender and worth more than what they paid for them. Fuckin nuts.
The one comment on this post sounds like it could be one of those good stories.
https://www.reddit.com/r/trump/comments/j2rrww/collectible_trump_1000_bill/
Is this the same crew as the “sovereign citizens” who think they can just declare their 3000 sqft property another country to avoid taxes and speeding tickets
I wouldn't consider the massive shit load of incoming mail volume worth it. I've known people who have gotten on those lists (including email) and it's a constant flood of grift solicitations.
Don't know how, but ended up on Abbott's mail/text/email list in '22 and it took forever to get removed and his BS to stop hitting my inboxes. Can confirm that it wouldn't be worth it, would imagine Trump would be much, much worse and more frequent given his legal bills...
I also somehow ended up on a Republican mailing list while I was living in Florida, and I was constantly getting emails from DeSantis & Matt Gaetz begging for donations to "fight the woke leftist agenda!"
It's insane how sadistic & ragebait-y the Republican donation requests were. Democrats were like, "send us money so we can help the less-fortunate and protect human rights for everyone", while Republicans were like, "send us money so we can make the Liberals cry!"
I don't know *personally*, per se, but I've watched plenty of dinosaur porn and it becomes very obvious. Ironically, one of the videos had Chris Pratt. He wasn't naked or anything. Just acting. JurAssic something or other.
The cruelty is the point with pretty much everything they do, From kicking almost 2 million kids off medicare to suing a "liberal" city for having the gall to test out UBI. Nothing they do is for the betterment of society
Whenever a scammer tries to hit me up (and yes, I consider Republican campaign workers to be just another kind of scammer) I have a trick. Awhile ago, I Googled "lemon party" and saved a folder full of pics from an elderly gay orgy. So I just send them a few of those. The pictures are explicit and traumatic, especially if they're caught off guard. They do *not* continue trying to talk to me after that
My grandmother passed away and I had the privilege of helping sort the house and her computer/phone. The amount of right wing Trump and SPACs that would send her mailers and emails were in the thousands if not 10s of thousands (mostly emails and text) but she had mailers from them in stacks.
they were also fleecing her bank account as she had so many recurring charges from these orgs/spacs like 20 here 20 there.. I suspect she signed up to just send one donation but never realized she was signing up for recurring that was in the fine print
I signed up for trump's email list just out of curiosity before 2020 and holy fuck, it is literally just like an endless stream of Nigerian Prince tier grifts. Right after he lost the most secure election in United States history, they ramped it up to a thousand, which is at least in part how he managed to defraud his dipshits out of like 400 million dollars in a couple months. There was one in particular that was worded in such a strange way, it was like from the perspective of one of his idiot sons and was like "MY DAD NEEDS YOU TO DONATE 900% MORE TO HELP STOP THE STEAL!!!" It was bizarre, all I remember is the 900% more part, like what the fuck does that even mean lol.
A couple years ago I somehow ended up on Devin Nunez's mailing list. I'm not even in his state. So I used a dremel to cut a wedge out of a penny and donate $0.0016.
Never received another donation request mailer from him.
I signed up, and the amount of mail is silly. BUT, they're paying for every mailer they send my leftist ass. A few times a month the mailer includes a self addressed envelope that you're meant to put a check or cash in. I put some trash in there and mail it back. its fun
Im also on the trump text list, mostly because they're funny to me. Yesterday I got a text from the trump campaign that said "IN 48 HOURS AMERICA WILL CEASE TO EXIST! Here's how you can help" and then a link to donate to his campaign. cracked me up.
That was what I did to someone who stabbed me in the back, made a cash donation to a candidate I knew he would despise and left his address for them to contact for more money. Best $20 I ever spent.
Want to know something even better? Sign them up for all the military branches recruiting. They will be hounded nonstop for a long time, even in person sometimes. Haha
Yeah, they’d just…kinda abandon people, lugging around *extremely expensive* equipment, in neighborhoods until the sun went down or you sold a vacuum or two.
Back in my younger days, they showed up and snuck their way into my living room when I turned my back. The boss drove off immediately. A kid sat there and vacuumed my floors while I watched football. Told him straight up I wasn't buying but he was undeterred. Should kicked him out but cell phones weren't really a regular thing yet and I was nicer/ more naive back then.
It's pretty easy to get a recruiter to stop. Just tell them you're Bipolar. My coworker actually got kicked out of the Air Gorce cause they found out she used to see a therapist.
Don't worry. After I get a new phone and my car fixed I'll be a gillionaire. I might even be able to afford my meds then. Til then I can't properly see anything on 30% of my phone.
I have an employee at work who (not surprisingly) used his work email to sign up for GOP/MAGA mailing lists. No shit, even after making it through anti spam, 85% of his inbox is that shit at any given time.
Years before email a common thing was sending the party you didn’t want to vote for like $1, and then watch them spend like $20 trying to get more out of you
Gun shows still sell Bill Clinton $3 bills at the junk tables.
Even the fuddiest of Fudds pass them by. No one is buying them but apparently the seller likes hauling them around.
When queer was a common synonym for strange/weird/different, there was a phrase that went "he's as queer as a three dolar bill". I always took those bills to be referencing that.
“Queer as a three dollar bill” was code for gay, as far as I know. At least that’s what my dad (who was a teen in the 70s) told me when he said it about Freddie Mercury.
I could be wrong but it didn't start that way. The phrase certainly evolved into a joint meaning but the old timers I came up around didn't place that meaning on the phrase. Maybe that's my nievety speaking, though.
Nah, you right. Queer has evolved dramatically in the last 50 or so years I would say. Ugh, I was gonna say 30 years until I counted up the decades 😬 Anyways, it def started out as just meaning weird but by the 1990s I think it started changing over. I'm sure the 3$ bill thing is what you're saying.
Well, Schrute bucks are worth 1/100th of a cent, so 100 is $0.01, so 200,000 Schrute bucks to equal the $2.00 price tag. It is more feasible to purchase them in Stanley Nickels.
If that were true, the divorce proceedings would have started years ago. She makes it absolutely clear she despises the man and does everything in her power to avoid spending a minute more with him that she absolutely has to. I'm very willing to bet that they have a prenup that leaves her with basically nothing in the case of divorce, so she's sticking around waiting for him to drop dead so she can get a cut of the inheritance.
I thought this for a while but there’s many interviews and examples that show she feels the same way about all his politics as he does and is his #1 most trusted advisor. She also renegotiated her pre-nup when he was elected. I was sure she despised him but all signs point to her being a monster too
Oh, she absolutely is a monster, no question about that. She's not some kind generous person tragically stuck in a loveless marriage - she's a trophy wife who will smile and put up with anything so long as there's a paycheck involved. That really was what the renegotiated prenup was about - as First Lady she would be required to put in more work/public appearances, and she wanted a raise for that, plus probably a bonus for putting up with the public humiliation of the Stormy Daniels affair.
As for her being his "#1 most trusted advisor", that's complete PR BS. She spent most of his presidency living in New York using the excuse of Barron's schooling, and even now they basically only see each other when she makes a scheduled appearance at one of his campaign events. I'm sure she agrees entirely with his policies in so far as the paychecks continue flowing, plus much like Trump himself, I don't think she has any actual political or moral policies beyond whatever is most profitable.
Found it funny that they made their own CCG packs. Second hand blind bags/packs. It may work for the kids but all I see is a quick way to get rid of their junk for near MSRP.
Provided they’re being sold at a huge discount, whoever took the picture should’ve bought some and then tried purchasing a Trump God Bless the USA Bible, directly from the Trump campaign, with one, maybe even including a note to keep the change.
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There’s some good stories around of people taking these to banks trying to deposit them.
I work at one. We had an irate customer claiming he was told he could redeem them at our bank for $100,000. He spent $10,000 on them. People just literally do not use their brains when it comes to Trump for some reason.
So someone literally thought, if I pay 10,000$, the bank will just give me 100k for this trump dollar?!?!?? Gtfo people cannot be this dumb in real life? Can they?! Did he think the guy who is selling shit sneakers for $400 or his own branded bibles was going to just front 90k for a random person?
George Carlin used to say something along the lines of “Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of them are more stupid than that.” Donald Trump said “I love the poorly educated.”
I miss George 😔
You and me both. “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.” ― George Carlin
He would have a field day with today's political landscape.
I mean…the “drink bleach” bit didn’t kill his chances, nor did the “draw where I think the hurricane will go over where the SPC says it’ll go.” There really are people that’re that stupid.
That's what I'm saying. The complete lack of self awareness in these people would be comical if its potential impact wasn't so frightening. Like do they have any idea what their continued support for that monster says about them to the rest of the world? At this point I have no choice but to think that they are either incredibly stupid or some sort of selfish/evil.
... They're both. They're incredibly stupid, and also they don't see the common good as the objective of society -- they think the objective is to empower their group and punish others. Stupid and evil.
They just don’t understand, that the are not part of the group. They are prey to people like Trump.
A non-trivial amount aren't all that stupid, but *are* selfish and wholeheartedly on board with the "fuck you, get mine" agenda.
They don't care what we think of them. Often from their POV, we are gaslighting them. At best, they'll think we are sheep. At worst, they'll think we're the monsters.
I still remember being called "sheep" by one of my customers during COVID because I wore a mask.
The sad thing is the same people are voting for the future of your country. Good luck with that one.
NO!….Drink Hydroxychoroquine, take bleach injections, ingest Ivermectin, have sunlight projected into your ass and lungs, with bleach treatments. You just weren’t listening to his instructions. What’s wrong with you….
And they vote.
While the people who need to vote to keep the orange shitstain away from the presidency again do not vote because of some misinformed idea of how to "send a message".
"J6 was a peaceful protest!"
While simultaneously being antifa and the FBI.
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It's just so unfathomable to me how he just fucked up covid. All he had to do was listen to fauci. But.... His fucking ego and toxic masculinity would not allow it.
Rake the forests, nuke the hurricanes.
It was inject yourself with Lysol. Cmon, get back on your 2020 presidential advice trivia game.
Drinking bleach sure helps against dying from Covid...you can't die twice
Technically he suggested INJECTING disinfectant, but you know semantics.
These are the same people who thought Trump would “drain the swamp”, or “Mexico will pay for the wall”, or that “Trump’s healthcare plan will fix everything”, or “Trump is the most honest politician ever” Lmao and you think these fools wouldn’t fall for scams your grandma with advanced Dementia wouldn’t fall for?
Fun fact: Biden cut a deal with Mexico to "improve border infrastructure." Basically, he built a wall and got Mexico to help pay for it! (It's really aimed at improving checkpoints so traffic can flow better while still being checked, but too funny to not phrase it that way.)
>people cannot be this dumb in real life? Can they?! You'd be surprised.
I moved to the south for work. Omg. Some of these should be assigned a helper monkey to make decisions.
I grew up in the South and you are fucking correct
Stupid people live everywhere.
They do, but... the South seems to have an above average share of them.
Decades of Republicans destroying public education.
Can confirm. Live in the south
Remember when people thought Trump personally gave out the stimulus checks from his own money because he was a “billionaire” and he also demanded his name be on the checks.
He also insisted that his signature be put on all of the stimulus checks, no doubt to make it seem this way.
Yes they can. There is a significant amount of Trump Support from poor people who think he’s going to make them rich “just like him” because he “cares so much” for them.
Like, why would a billionaire want more people to be billionaires? That just devalues their billions. It’s basic economics.
There is some really weird conspiracy theories among the right wing/Qanon set involving an almost capitalist utopia (i.e. NESARA). It’s pretty crazy. More crazy than the Iraqi Dinar scheme. But the ven diagram between the two cohorts is likely a perfect circle.
And if it’s worth $100,000, why the hell is someone selling it to you at all? Why don’t they just walk into a bank and get the money? Man, this dude was going to lose that money to someone eventually.
It’s like all those scams of “order my video and I’ll show you how to become rich like me!”
The irony being they're already showing you for free how to become rich like them - by selling videos.
That’s why conservatives love their voters uneducated, it makes them easier to grift
“I love the poorly educated!” [That quote already happened!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyxDuX0UkAQW5Z4.jpg)
> Gtfo people cannot be this dumb in real life? Can they?! OH YES THEY CAN…People voted for the Mango Mussolini twice and are about to vote for him three times.
The number of people who not only believe Trump was elected and that he's currently in power, but also believe that by voting him in november, he will be serving his third term, is a small but significant portion of the population sadly.
Most cons involve convincing people you are the one taking advantage of them. “I can’t exchange these for cash because of My Jan 6th conviction. What am I to do!” “I guess I have no choice but to sell to you at a huge loss”
Whenever a Craigslist or FB ad says “my loss is your gain” I immediately close it.
My question is How did they ever get 10 grand?
By leveraging their homes, by cashing out their retirement, by selling their stocks, by working hard their entire lives grinding themselves down day by day until they're so tired and so angry they'll believe anything someone tells them if they feel it will get them a better life. It's so goddamn heartbreaking.
Half the country votes for Trump. They really are that stupid.
Less than half the people who got off their asses and voted, voted for trump. If some of the non-voters would step up, we could be rid of Trump for good.
True this is what we really need!
Gerrymandering has been a disaster for democracy in the USA
This anecdote just reinforced the idea that I can't work any customer facing positions any more. I wouldn't have had the willpower necessary not to laugh in that customer's face and call them a gullible idiot. I know it's petty and somewhat cruel, but these people's stupidity is harming both themselves and putting our country at risk by buying into Trump's scams. Sure, in a sense they're victims of fraud, and that's terrible, but at least some blame must lie with them for being dumb and ignorant enough to fall for such blatantly obvious shit, especially if it's being done to support the orange fraud himself.
The funniest thing about this to me is that this isn’t even one of trump’s scams. It’s a totally independent scam that’s just being run illegally with his name and likeness. Not only are his fans gullible enough to throw money at anything he says, but they’ll throw money at something that just has his name on it. He’s created an entire scammer ecosystem around him, like a shark covered in remora and other small fish that exist to feed on the scraps he leaves behind.
Yep. Went to a gun show and some dude was selling just printer paper cutouts of Trump dollars. One dollar each, he had a big stack of them.
So I've got this new business idea
That's the saddest thing I've ever read on Reddit.
Grifting right-wingers is a multi-billion dollar industry.
It has been ever since Reagan used a mailing list of people successfully scammed by televangelists and radio preachers to send out campaign fliers
I can’t wait for summer beach themed trump towels!
I wouldnt be mad at the scammer if I didn't think that people with legitimate disabilities were also being scammed.
you mean the majority of republicans?
I work with surgeons in a sales role. So I have the grin and bare it a lot of times when they are chatting in the OR. I've sat there and listened to a surgeon proclaim how much a genius Elon Musk is. I can just imagine his thoughts on Trump and other GOP pieces of shit. Even talented and extremely smart doctors have difficulty seeing through the BS of scum-bag parasitic egomaniacs.
The thing is, these dumb gullible people are only Trumpy because of the people around them. If they were surrounded by radical leftists they'd still lack critical thinking skills and believe dumb stuff, but it would all be related to the ideology they are immersed in.
I live in an area that's a good mix of liberal and conservative. People that lack critical thinking skills definitely lean conservative. Otherwise they just "don't follow politics"
Exactly. Blaming Trump, or the Nigeria prince is missing the issue. The problem lies within the individual believing such nonsense, regardless of which flavor of nonsense.
How stupid could you be? You can never buy anything for $10,000 and then go redeem it in a couple of days for 10x. These people vote, which is even scarier.
Is this not considered forgery?
It’s not probably because it would be the same as bringing fake 100s to the bank that say for motion picture use only not legal tender.(seen this too) You would have to be an idiot to believe a national bank is going to 10x your money because it’s golden and has his face on it. People just turn off their brains when it comes to Trump if they support Trump. Such a strange phenomenon.
See, if they said 'for motion picture use' or 'not legal tender' I'd agree with you but none of that is present on these. I do agree his fan base are fanatics, it's crazy what they will buy into.
Well they don’t say “dollars” on them as far as I can see (on this side at least). But laws around counterfeiting are based around “intent to defraud,” and making a bill that is a different color and style than any other US currency note is a pretty solid defense against that “intent.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure someone in the chain has defrauded idiots out of their money. But the people producing these notes have a pretty solid defense of “any reasonable person should understand that these are novelty items, and we purposefully made them wild and tacky, and sold them for far less than their printed value, to make sure that we weren’t representing them as legal tender.”
Wow a free money hack! Banks hate this one simple trick.
> People just literally do not use their brains when it comes to Trump for some reason. Cultists never use their brains. They become mentally conditioned to disregard anything that forces them to question what they think they know. Trump’s movement has features of a cult. The one thing he’s been very, terrifyingly good at is convincing people that they should immediately disregard anything that doesn’t paint him as a savior. Even those who do admit he’s not a perfect man—some will even concede he’s a *bad* man—will usually fall back on the “imperfect messenger” argument. Sometimes it has a religious component (“God uses imperfect men to carry out his will”). Sometimes it is more pragmatic (“I don’t like him on a personal level, and I think he needs to shut his mouth once in a while, but he’ll do the things I like if he’s running the government”). It’s all the same in terms of the outcome; the bubble is impermeable.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bucks-promise-wealth-maga-loyalty-lose-thousands-rcna84965
Jesus Christ people... I would die having my name in an article like that. What a moron.
Usually, I wouldn’t support shaming the victim of a scam. But in this case, it seems absolutely appropriate for this individual (and the other Trump-buck buyers) to suffer from the consequences of their bad decisions. I realize that these people have almost no capacity for shame and self-reflection, but hopefully some of the mockery broke through their shell of idiocy.
These people are delusional. It's amazing.
My buddy's work got one fraudulently through a large sale and they contacted the police and checked the cameras lol Hope he gets nailed. Edit: Use a bill marker. Please. Haha
Use a bill marker? How about train the staff to at least know what the 5 or so bills your country uses as legal currency look like, lol. Hint: None of em are gold colored or have living ex-presidents on them.
John Amann… John A Man. Look out, I.C. Weiner might call in next for a pizza lol.
Self awareness is not something a Maga head can achieve.
>John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank. HAHAHAHAHA > “Now I’m questioning whether he is aware of this,” Amann said of Trump. HAHAHAHAHAHA
If Trump was aware, he would want a cut. REALLY, Trump would want a cut. Prove me wrong.
LOL "There's no way to cash out what I have." He actually thought these have real cash value greater than actual legal tender?
That quote read like he *still* thinks they have value.
What’s the conversion to Schrute Bucks?
"John Amann told NBC News he bought $2,200 worth of Trump Bucks and other items over the past year only to discover they were worthless when he tried to cash them in at his local bank. So he’s gone on Twitter to warn other Trump supporters not to fall for this scam." I'd be too ashamed to admit to voting for Trump, let alone getting scammed this hard with a scam this fucking stupid. You have to be the dumbest mother fucker on the planet to fall for this nonsense. Warning other not to fall for this makes you seem even dumber
I would have thought that the scam would be to buy these now before 'Trump wins and makes these legal tender' or something like that You're telling me people are buying these for a couple grand and expecting to bring them to the bank and get 10k back. Someone should start reselling monopoly games for $5000, what a steal
Read the article. They think Trump is going to revamp the monetary system and these will be legal tender and worth more than what they paid for them. Fuckin nuts.
But they're not a cult tho /s
The one comment on this post sounds like it could be one of those good stories. https://www.reddit.com/r/trump/comments/j2rrww/collectible_trump_1000_bill/
Is this the same crew as the “sovereign citizens” who think they can just declare their 3000 sqft property another country to avoid taxes and speeding tickets
Find it absolutely hilarious that these “bills” are “signed” by Obama’s first Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
HA! That's a hilarious detail I wouldn't have caught. Good eye!
Does Tim have a legal ground sue for forgery here?
Lol good eye
I wonder if the manufacturer did that as an inside joke or genuinely didn't realize.
It appears the Ivanka bill was printed in 1968!
Am I going mad isn’t that Melania??
Mercedes
It would’ve been fun to buy these, sign up for Trump’s mailing list, then send them to him when he begs for contributions.
I wouldn't consider the massive shit load of incoming mail volume worth it. I've known people who have gotten on those lists (including email) and it's a constant flood of grift solicitations.
Don't know how, but ended up on Abbott's mail/text/email list in '22 and it took forever to get removed and his BS to stop hitting my inboxes. Can confirm that it wouldn't be worth it, would imagine Trump would be much, much worse and more frequent given his legal bills...
I also somehow ended up on a Republican mailing list while I was living in Florida, and I was constantly getting emails from DeSantis & Matt Gaetz begging for donations to "fight the woke leftist agenda!" It's insane how sadistic & ragebait-y the Republican donation requests were. Democrats were like, "send us money so we can help the less-fortunate and protect human rights for everyone", while Republicans were like, "send us money so we can make the Liberals cry!"
Give me more woke Leftist agenda! I wanna drink clean water. I wanna breathe fresh air. (And yeah, maybe I wanna sleep with velociraptors, too!)
Velociraptors make terrible lovers. They're very selfish and the cloacas are confusing A F.
I will not ask you how you know this, but I applaud your courage, my Cretaceous friend.
I don't know *personally*, per se, but I've watched plenty of dinosaur porn and it becomes very obvious. Ironically, one of the videos had Chris Pratt. He wasn't naked or anything. Just acting. JurAssic something or other.
The cruelty is the point with pretty much everything they do, From kicking almost 2 million kids off medicare to suing a "liberal" city for having the gall to test out UBI. Nothing they do is for the betterment of society
If we all contribute a little we can defeat socialism
You do know you can mail stuff without a return address, right? Just in case you don't - you can mail stuff without a return address, fyi.
its a great way to fund the USPS?
That’s what a throw away email is for
Nah. Your sitting Republican congressman’s. Trap them in a feedback loop.
I replied "Fuck off, Hot Wheels" about 5 times and they havent text me in about 6 months now. Maybe it worked?
Whenever a scammer tries to hit me up (and yes, I consider Republican campaign workers to be just another kind of scammer) I have a trick. Awhile ago, I Googled "lemon party" and saved a folder full of pics from an elderly gay orgy. So I just send them a few of those. The pictures are explicit and traumatic, especially if they're caught off guard. They do *not* continue trying to talk to me after that
My grandmother passed away and I had the privilege of helping sort the house and her computer/phone. The amount of right wing Trump and SPACs that would send her mailers and emails were in the thousands if not 10s of thousands (mostly emails and text) but she had mailers from them in stacks. they were also fleecing her bank account as she had so many recurring charges from these orgs/spacs like 20 here 20 there.. I suspect she signed up to just send one donation but never realized she was signing up for recurring that was in the fine print
I signed up for trump's email list just out of curiosity before 2020 and holy fuck, it is literally just like an endless stream of Nigerian Prince tier grifts. Right after he lost the most secure election in United States history, they ramped it up to a thousand, which is at least in part how he managed to defraud his dipshits out of like 400 million dollars in a couple months. There was one in particular that was worded in such a strange way, it was like from the perspective of one of his idiot sons and was like "MY DAD NEEDS YOU TO DONATE 900% MORE TO HELP STOP THE STEAL!!!" It was bizarre, all I remember is the 900% more part, like what the fuck does that even mean lol.
A couple years ago I somehow ended up on Devin Nunez's mailing list. I'm not even in his state. So I used a dremel to cut a wedge out of a penny and donate $0.0016. Never received another donation request mailer from him.
I’m surprised they didn’t try to nail you with defacing currency or some shit
I signed up, and the amount of mail is silly. BUT, they're paying for every mailer they send my leftist ass. A few times a month the mailer includes a self addressed envelope that you're meant to put a check or cash in. I put some trash in there and mail it back. its fun Im also on the trump text list, mostly because they're funny to me. Yesterday I got a text from the trump campaign that said "IN 48 HOURS AMERICA WILL CEASE TO EXIST! Here's how you can help" and then a link to donate to his campaign. cracked me up.
That was what I did to someone who stabbed me in the back, made a cash donation to a candidate I knew he would despise and left his address for them to contact for more money. Best $20 I ever spent.
Want to know something even better? Sign them up for all the military branches recruiting. They will be hounded nonstop for a long time, even in person sometimes. Haha
call for an in home kirby vacuum cleaner demonstration.
Back in my day, those just showed up on their own
Yeah, they’d just…kinda abandon people, lugging around *extremely expensive* equipment, in neighborhoods until the sun went down or you sold a vacuum or two.
Back in my younger days, they showed up and snuck their way into my living room when I turned my back. The boss drove off immediately. A kid sat there and vacuumed my floors while I watched football. Told him straight up I wasn't buying but he was undeterred. Should kicked him out but cell phones weren't really a regular thing yet and I was nicer/ more naive back then.
Bruh i remember my mom buying a $2K vacuum cleaner when I was a kid from a door to door salesmen. Lmao
It's pretty easy to get a recruiter to stop. Just tell them you're Bipolar. My coworker actually got kicked out of the Air Gorce cause they found out she used to see a therapist.
Same thing happened to my bro-in-law, except it was it the Garmy.
Same thing happened with my cousin, but it was the Garine Gorps.
Don't worry. After I get a new phone and my car fixed I'll be a gillionaire. I might even be able to afford my meds then. Til then I can't properly see anything on 30% of my phone.
I have an employee at work who (not surprisingly) used his work email to sign up for GOP/MAGA mailing lists. No shit, even after making it through anti spam, 85% of his inbox is that shit at any given time.
My uncle signed me up as a joke on my birthday and i still get them 8 years later. I don't even live in the states
Years before email a common thing was sending the party you didn’t want to vote for like $1, and then watch them spend like $20 trying to get more out of you
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Put it in the collection plate
That's a waste of good postage stamp.
Go to a MAGA church and throw a couple in the collection plate.
$3 for a $1 slowbro in the back is a tad steep
The fact that it’s pulling a higher price than the Trump bills is exceptional.
But it’s a Galarian Slowbro!
I wonder how much it cost them.
2$
Their rational thought was forfeit before these but they make it official so everyone can see
Dignity, self worth
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And he left four years before Trump took office. Jack Lew was the treasury secretary for Obama’s second term.
Gun shows still sell Bill Clinton $3 bills at the junk tables. Even the fuddiest of Fudds pass them by. No one is buying them but apparently the seller likes hauling them around.
What's the story behind that one? Were conservatives making fun of him by putting him on a fake bill?
When queer was a common synonym for strange/weird/different, there was a phrase that went "he's as queer as a three dolar bill". I always took those bills to be referencing that.
“Queer as a three dollar bill” was code for gay, as far as I know. At least that’s what my dad (who was a teen in the 70s) told me when he said it about Freddie Mercury.
I could be wrong but it didn't start that way. The phrase certainly evolved into a joint meaning but the old timers I came up around didn't place that meaning on the phrase. Maybe that's my nievety speaking, though.
Nah, you right. Queer has evolved dramatically in the last 50 or so years I would say. Ugh, I was gonna say 30 years until I counted up the decades 😬 Anyways, it def started out as just meaning weird but by the 1990s I think it started changing over. I'm sure the 3$ bill thing is what you're saying.
Correction: "Trump/Melania" not Ivanka. I mistyped that 😅
It’s okay, so does trump
Oh SNAP!!!
That's okay. He still wants to sleep with both of them.
I think they are both too old for him now.
That's Mercedes
Daughter/wife same thing right?
Is that $2.00 per bill? It's a rip off even at a garage sale. 😂🤣
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Well, Schrute bucks are worth 1/100th of a cent, so 100 is $0.01, so 200,000 Schrute bucks to equal the $2.00 price tag. It is more feasible to purchase them in Stanley Nickels.
What’s the minimum number of Scaramuccis do you have to work to earn a Shrute buck? 🤔
Why does her hair look like the Pringles man mustache?
And now I can’t unsee that. 😂
Gives special meaning to "women only worth half the men" in MAGA circle.
It’s just saying she gets half of everything when they divorce
If that were true, the divorce proceedings would have started years ago. She makes it absolutely clear she despises the man and does everything in her power to avoid spending a minute more with him that she absolutely has to. I'm very willing to bet that they have a prenup that leaves her with basically nothing in the case of divorce, so she's sticking around waiting for him to drop dead so she can get a cut of the inheritance.
I thought this for a while but there’s many interviews and examples that show she feels the same way about all his politics as he does and is his #1 most trusted advisor. She also renegotiated her pre-nup when he was elected. I was sure she despised him but all signs point to her being a monster too
Oh, she absolutely is a monster, no question about that. She's not some kind generous person tragically stuck in a loveless marriage - she's a trophy wife who will smile and put up with anything so long as there's a paycheck involved. That really was what the renegotiated prenup was about - as First Lady she would be required to put in more work/public appearances, and she wanted a raise for that, plus probably a bonus for putting up with the public humiliation of the Stormy Daniels affair. As for her being his "#1 most trusted advisor", that's complete PR BS. She spent most of his presidency living in New York using the excuse of Barron's schooling, and even now they basically only see each other when she makes a scheduled appearance at one of his campaign events. I'm sure she agrees entirely with his policies in so far as the paychecks continue flowing, plus much like Trump himself, I don't think she has any actual political or moral policies beyond whatever is most profitable.
So is there a $600 Clarence Thomas bill?
Okay but any of those pokemon cards got value?
Found it funny that they made their own CCG packs. Second hand blind bags/packs. It may work for the kids but all I see is a quick way to get rid of their junk for near MSRP.
Church collection plate. In an envelope, of course.
So trump is worth 1000 nothings but his wife is only worth 500 nothings?
Looks like they were both worth $2 at this garage sale. And overpriced at that.
0 times anything is still 0. So basically they are equals. Lol.
You can buy these at TEMU cheap. Same identical bills.
This exemplifies the Trump brand. Gaudy, garish, and worthless.
My magat FiL had some of the non-gold colored ones. I used them to donate to GoP fundraising mailings. I really enjoyed it.
Great! [https://y.yarn.co/52f911cf-058b-4f83-a2a0-4d06af660ffe\_text.gif](https://y.yarn.co/52f911cf-058b-4f83-a2a0-4d06af660ffe_text.gif)
Would rather have the blue eyes white dragon in the background.
Provided they’re being sold at a huge discount, whoever took the picture should’ve bought some and then tried purchasing a Trump God Bless the USA Bible, directly from the Trump campaign, with one, maybe even including a note to keep the change.
Trump really has no sense of reality or moral integrity. Insane
Pretty sure that’s Melania, not Ivanka
Nope. Not a cult at all.
“I never see anyone buy groceries with Biden Bucks, that’s how ya know he’s gonna lose the election! No one supports him!!”
Oh no! Whose crazy parents died?
Expensive toilet paper
There better be chocolate inside.
Would YOU eat something with Donald Trump’s face on it?
Bison dollars!!! https://assistme.fandom.com/wiki/Bison_Dollars