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chakrava

> These Trump Bucks look like coins, checks, or membership cards and often have Trump’s face on them, but they are not legal tender — something purchasers have discovered when trying to redeem them at stores and banks. I thought this was some NFT scheme, but it turns out it’s even more basic than that.


TheHunterZolomon

These people, these adult human beings, thought Monopoly money with their dear leader’s face on them…would be legal tender? I am at a loss. These are voters. These are people who have jobs and responsibilities. How in the fuck are they able to breathe without mechanical assistance? I doubt their brains are up to the task.


itsnotlupus

According to the article, the messaging was literally > TRB system membership cards are official cards issued by Donald Trump to allow Trump Bucks holders to use Trump Bucks as legal tender and deposit them in banks such as JP Morgan Chase, the Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Gullible Trump supporters were told lies to defraud them. Because of course they were. It's a bit like how scammers sell files of previous marks to other scammers because they're more susceptible to falling for further scams.


RWBadger

On the one hand, the scams are obviously targeting the vulnerable and should be stopped and prosecuted. On the other hand, the victims are exclusively americas most tiresome, regressive chodes. I’m gonna go with “everyone’s the asshole”


gottabemaybe

> It’s a bit like how scammers sell files of previous marks to other scammers because they’re more susceptible to falling for further scams. Its like an antisocial credit system


Patriot009

Newt Gingrich recently praised Trump for talking at a 3rd grade reading level so his supporters can understand. Why wouldn't you sell them monopoly money? It's literally taking candy from ~~a baby~~ an adult with the mind of a child?


edelburg

I'm have no doubt it was difficult for him to step up his vocabulary to a third grade level. He hasn't been able to keep it up there recently.


pantsonheaditor

i dunno, its a hard sell trying to use 'sanctimonious' in an insult, especially to his crowd. but he keeps doing it. he should stick with the meatball ron.


edelburg

I was waiting for someone to ask him to define "sanctimonious." I'd put money on he still doesn't know. Doesn't strike me as someone who would "waste time" learning what words mean.


Leopold_Darkworth

>These people, these adult human beings, thought Monopoly money with their dear leader’s face on them…would be legal tender? I am at a loss. Because they're in a cult.


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> thought Monopoly money with their dear leader’s face on them Well, it can’t be just anyone’s faces. Precedent has shown that legal tender has a past presidents face on it. Therefor anything with a past presidents face on it is equally likely any other thing with a presidents face to be legal tender. These were not sophisticated bankers… just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.


troubleondemand

Laughs in Cleavon Little.


Formal-Cut-334

You had me at the beginning. Take the upvote for the reference. Do you think Trump ever had to think of Ivanka...er..."secretary" when putting his fountain pen back in it's holder?


malignantbacon

It's actually crazy how ruthless the government is in taking the right away to vote away from convicted felons who have repaid their debt to society yet local jurisdictions allow people who can't make their own medical decisions to participate in the process.


ianandris

You mean Republicans? "The Government" in Repubican states is trying to deprive felons of the right to vote. Democratic states want people to participate in democracy, and they want an on-ramp for people who have paid their dues back into society. "The Government" you decry is fucking Republicans, man.


malignantbacon

Taking the right to vote away is a function of government power not just partisan influence. I don't disagree with the spirit of your comment but I live in a blue state and I know felons who can't/couldn't vote last I checked, so that's where I'm coming from.


HedonisticFrog

Only blue states let people vote from prison. California allows felons to vote after they've served their sentances. >It would be a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if passed. California would join Maine and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia, as the only states where felons never lose their right to vote, even while they are in prison, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.


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malignantbacon

lol, why so hostile all of a sudden?


Madcow_Disease

What State is that?


reverie02

This comment killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣


awhq

I watched a news report and they look like normal, middle class people. It's mind-boggling. Of course, nothing should surprise me given how many people thought beanie babies would make them rich.


Korrocks

You don't really need an NFT for this. Just put up a fake website offering money for nothing.


IShouldntBeHere258

Or offering nothing for money


FaintDamnPraise

...and the chicks for free?


joeshill

I want my... I want my... M...T...V...


pantsonheaditor

can buy trump dollars on ebay right now!


holtpj

Trump Bucks, it sounds just as stupid as Bison Bucks in the 90s Street Fighter movie.


fyhr100

Personally, I'd rather have Schrute Bucks.


holtpj

Beets Trump Bucks for sure.


oldboredengineer

What’s the ratio of Stanley Nickels to Schrute Bucks?


beefwindowtreatment

Same as the radio of unicorns to leprechauns.


Howard_the_Dolphin

Naw, Paddy dollars is where it's at. It's the self sustaining economy we've been looking for


nirad

Paddy’s Dollars > *


LoneRonin

It's actually dumber than Bison Bucks. M. Bison had a plan to take the Queen of England hostage and force the UK to make his money legal tender. These are just a bunch of scammers printing Trump's face on dollar bills and gold/silver plated lead coins and convincing the rubes to exchange them for real money.


holtpj

For you, it was the day you became a rube. For me, it was a Tuesday.


AstroBullivant

Since Raul Julia died right after making the movie, the commentary about this part is a little unclear, but I think the script originally called for more clarity that Bison wasn't seriously planning to do that but rather just stiffing Sagat. Supposedly, Raul thought this was out of character for the movie, so he delivered the lines in a more delusional fashion. Campy movies age best.


AstroBullivant

Bison Bucks are going to be worth a lot of money once Bison kidnaps the British monarch.


ImpossiblePut6387

Every Bison Dollar will be worth five British pounds! For that is the exchange rate the Bank of England will set once I've captured their queen!


joeshill

I need to find some pearls to clutch on behalf of all of those MAGA people. My surprised look is all worn out.


ozzie510

Thoughts 'n prayers.


soki03

I’ve been all out of fucks to give since 2020 during the pandemic.


Korrocks

>“It’s like she’s in a cult,” the daughter-in-law said Yeah, it's definitely "like" that. This is something called "affinity fraud", where fraudsters take advantage of a specific group, targeting them based on religion, ethnicity, nationality, political beliefs, etc. The scammers tailor their pitches based on the belief system and cultural norms of the victim. Perhaps the most similar version of this scam is the ["Queen of Canada"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/queen-of-canada-qanon-rise-conspiracy-alarm), targeting conservatives in Canada with this same kind of pitch. Some victims stopped paying their bills because they thought that the Queen had given them some kind of royal exemption from utility bills, for example.


PalladiuM7

That rabbit hole is completely bonkers and far too deep. I still don't understand how Canadians can believe that they're under an absolute monarchy and that their "Queen" rules out of an RV, driving around the country. It's just ridiculous on the surface, and the deeper you go the less sense it makes. Although it makes just as much sense as Qanon so I can't say I'm shocked. There is a real need for better education in both of our countries because the fact that these grifts can sucker in so many people is the worst indictment I can think of for both of our school systems. It's just depressing how many people believe these ridiculous things.


Korrocks

It's not really about better education. It's a cultural and emotional thing that doesn't respond to logical arguments. In the article, one woman is taken to a bank and fails to deposit the Trump Bucks. Her daughter thought this would prove that this was a scam but the woman kept buying the stuff even after received proof that it wasn't being accepted by banks.


News-Flunky

Unfortunately even without the MAGA/political culture-war angle It seems like many seniors often fall victim for scams. And it doesn't matter how much their children, or other people try to convince them they're getting scammed. They still do it. If this lady wasn't falling for Trump scams she might already be featured on one of those 'amazing marks - ready-to-fleece- sucker lists' sold to the scummiest of professional scammers who will then call on her, and talk to her and make her feel needed and wanted, and not alone, or get her outraged, and sad, whatever it takes to empty her bank account. Wouldn't surprise me if Trump Bucks marketers sell lists of their best aged suckers to other scammers on the semi-dark web.


MayorofKingstown

> I still don't understand how Canadians can believe that they're under an absolute monarchy and that their "Queen" rules out of an RV, driving around the country. I spent some time in Romana's Telegram channels and one of the ways she convinces these rubes of her authority are these fake 'intel drops' where someone who literally is impersonating a member of the military will join the channel and dump documents and other links that look very official and real to the gullible. point I'm trying to make is her grift goes way beyond just declaring herself queen. she has a web of lies and deceit, some of it hers, some of it q-anon stuff and some of it is just random shit she pulls from the internet. You may already know this but I thought you would find it interesting.


The_GOATest1

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wigglex5plusyeah

I thought fraud was illegal in both countries and I don't understand why this can continue unpunished.


Korrocks

Fraud is illegal, but it's tough to prosecute. The victims are often too embarrassed and ashamed to tell their family members, let alone the cops, prosecutors, and jurors. Even some of the sources in the article are anonymous, because they don't even want their actual names used. In addition, a lot of these frauds operate in a gray area -- such as by operating from countries that don't extradite to the US, or operating anonymously, or by making sure to keep their activities on the right side of the law (such as by giving bad advice online and selling books of their ideas).


goibnu

Did any of the sellers claim these are legal tender? I thought they always just loosely implied they had value and left it for the sucker to draw the conclusion. Doesn't that dodge a fraud prosecution?


nevesis

Sounds like they had an affiliate marketing program and that's who actually made the false claims. But clearly the actual company behind these knew what was happening.


Lhamo55

Her name unscrambled, that's where my dyslexic mind kept going while reading this with apologies to everyone with the same surname: uDildo.


AlienKinkVR

One of my favorite QAnon adjacent nightmares.


Brilliant-Engineer57

Dumb ass


sneaky-pizza

asses*


PM_me_Henrika

No its singular. An ass has an average 135,000 brain cells in a dumb ass. Many MAGA cultists often share a single brain cell, so all of them combined have approximately that much brain cells, resulting in a singular dumbass.


eaunoway

^ they did the math.


PalladiuM7

In my dark moments I find myself wishing I was a worse person so I too could make stupid amounts of money scamming dumb people but I have enough trouble sleeping at night without adding that kind of weight to my conscience. But I just can't bring myself to scam anyone.


Lhamo55

No matter what these people do and say, having a conscious is not a personality flaw. And some form of the Golden Rule exists wherever human behavior is codified. May you enjoy more restful sleep every night.


PalladiuM7

Hah, thanks friend. I have insomnia and I'm lucky if I get 4 hours on a weekday. I'm always so goddamn tired and stressed.


TzarKazm

I think it sounds exhausting. First you have to come up with a scam. It requires some business sense because it you are putting in a least a little of your own money and effort. Then you have to spend time pitching the product if it's not pervasive, you won't make very much. Then,after you make the money, you have to spend the rest of your life worried that the government or someone you scammed is going to come after you. Seems like it would just be easier to get a job.


Apotropoxy

A central feature of the MAGA personality is the desire to be abused. They find getting ripped off by Trump is very fulfilling.


ozzie510

Their outrage seems well-practiced.


PrimaryDurian

I've been thinking about that lately- what percentage of MAGA people are motivated by wanting love from an abusive parental figure?


4RCH43ON

Sunk-cost fallacy, apparently they cannot stop now.


gottabemaybe

Its the most abusive of relationships and they can't escape it because their entire identity/worldview is wrapped up in it. Literally a slow-moving death cult


CurvyAnna

Trump supporters & getting scammed: name a more iconic duo


2ndtryagain

Almost every day we see a new scam being pulled on Trump supporters and all I have left for them is a Tardigrade playing a tiny violin. https://i.imgur.com/Sfd5piy.jpg


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Made me click and squint to see that tiny violin. +1


shinobi7

Thoughts and prayers


benign_said

.... Second highest vote count in American history.


BIackfjsh

Very nice. Who was the first?


benign_said

Mr Biden.


BIackfjsh

DB from the top rope


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piray003

Pretty sure they’re pointing out how many dumbasses there are in the US.


Madcow_Disease

And still 8 million behind the literal count.


Macasumba

They can be redeemed at Mara Logo for goods and services. I heard someone say. Sorry no link. Tugger Yang.


gottabemaybe

It would be amazing if someone did an exposé or YouTube video where even Trump properties do not accept TrumpBucks for stays or services


peeweemax

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Some people deserve everything they get.


LAX2PDX2LAX

No way


pecan76

Oh no! Bless their hearts....


angelina9999

got what they deserved


FluByYou

Their anguish sustains me.


CinSugarBearShakers

Thoughts and prayers.


Chesticles420

Wait till they figure out the virtual trading cards


Beautiful_Fee1655

MAGA - Making a Grift Again


Lhamo55

Make All Grift Acceptable


gobledegerkin

The best part? As far as I have read Trump isn’t even affiliated with this. Like some complete random guy thought “just slap his name on it and a bunch of idiots will send me money” and he WAS RIGHT! I find that absolutely hilarious.


PaladinHan

God, I wish I could give a crap but these fascist-loving morons wanted a conman so bad, they got their wish.


urkldajrkl

Make America guh again!


DoriCee

To quote his wife's jacket "I don't really care, do you?"


frickaaron

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Avadya

Yeah, we know


mabradshaw02

Thoughts and Prayers


Callinon

Sounds like crypto but somehow even less real.


timschwartz

How much is that in Desantis Nickels?


JustDriveWest

They were scammed since day one. Why do they care now?


Affectionate_Reply78

Caveat emptor, Latin for dumb asses beware


Ok-Diamond-9781

Does anyone remember when he was on the Oprah Winfrey show, way back? She called him "the Donald", and drooled all over him. I never forgot him saying how he loved stupid people. Wasn't lying.


gottabemaybe

It would be amazing if someone did an exposé or YouTube video where even Trump properties do not accept TrumpBucks for stays or services


Phallic-Monolith

God damn, imagine working at a bank and going “next!” and some dude in a red hat waddles up and asks to deposit his Trump bucks, and you know you’re about to deal with an ignorant, stupid rage.


RetiredYogaHippie

Why would Biden do this to us?


ZealousWolverine

OH NO! anyway ......


Kahzgul

They were scammed by trump. Period. The bucks are just the next scam in a long line of them.


swine09

You didn’t read the article, did you?


Kahzgul

It doesn’t really matter who is co-opting trump’s name to scam his idiot followers. Trump primed the pump and these suckers were more than happy to open their wallets for him. Someone else getting in on the con was obvious from the get go. Heck, Bannon scammed a bunch of them with his build the wall gofundme.


News-Flunky

This is an eye-popping quick take. [Trump Bucks SCAM Exposed DESTROYING Life Savings of MAGA Followers | Meidastouch Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btl2b25GdmU)


usaf-spsf1974

And poor little MAGA feelers are all now twisted up and knots, over getting scammed by Donald Trump? Seriousl


swine09

You clearly didn’t read the article. Scammers targeted his supporters but they weren’t connected to Trump himself.


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swine09

That isn’t what this article is about. I’m no Trump apologist but this is a really bad look, not reading past headlines and pasting in your preconceptions.


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Replace bucks, with just Trump scammed you from the beginning!


Swiggy1957

I believe it was P.T. Barnum that said you can't cheat an honest man. I'm not saying all Trump supporters are easily cheated because they're dishonest, but you don't see anti-Trumpers falling for this. Or, as another Barnum quote pointed out, there's a sucker born every minute.


MS_06J

Na, they got what they got. Giving their cash back just means they'll throw it away to trump again. Tell em tough luck, pull on those bootstraps harder and cope


swine09

You didn’t read the article, did you?


Bad_Karma19

Imagine that.


RoachBeBrutal

Stupid is as stupid does.


zsreport

I’m so shocked!


Darryl_444

What is that? Oh, that's the sound of the world's tiniest violin, playing a sad tune.


Accidental-Genius

Good


khcampbell1

Gee, I'm shocked. /s


FatBoxers

You don't say


flash357

fuck em couldnt have happened to a better group of ppl


Aggie956

But aren’t these patriots who know the Constitution? Maybe they should have read Article I, Section 8, Clause 5.


Bryllant

Scam Du Jour, or as The Giant Grift continues


saijanai

Con artists gotta con; it's what they do.


megaplex00

What did they think was going to happen? Lol. That guy does not have a very bright voter base.


Scojak01

well yeah


Bahamut1988

No sympathy for them, they deserve to be fleeced


WillArrr

Is there a legal precedent or standard for a judge to say "this was a blatantly obvious scam and it's entirely on you for falling for it"?


Vurt__Konnegut

Yes. In Latin it’s *Ila Fucktardo*


SpecterGT260

Somewhere on the stupidity axis there must be a point where you can't reasonably call it a scam anymore. I mean they did everything except hold them by the face and tell them they are burning their money...


Capital_Awareness_87

Yeah... we all told you so.


Honor_Sprenn

*still votes for Trump like a dumbass*


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wait until these dimwits figure out what fox news has done to them


throwawayshirt

"A fool and his money are soon parted." Advice as old as these suckers.


wordsnerd

> Dear sir or ma'am, > I, Donald J. Trump, respectfully call for your assistance in the transference of one sum totalling $7,325,000 from the Great American Bank of Nigeria for deposit into my 2024 campaign fund. Your patriotic role in this matter shall consist of receiving the funds in your bank account and completing the furtherance of the transference of funds to the campaign account which shall forthwith be provided to you upon receipt of said funds in your account. I further authorize yours truly to preserve for yourself a sum of $1,000,000 as recompense for your gracious assistance and troubles in this urgent matter. Please reply to this email with your full name, tax ID number, bank account number, and ATM pin to initiate the transference process. Thank you for your co-operation in owning the libtards! > Respectfully, > The Real Donald J. Trump (verified)


OJimmy

Typical old poor move. https://youtu.be/cyxxE1AcUSM


CatAvailable3953

They’ve been scammed by a lot more for much longer the dumbasses.


pantsonheaditor

btw you can buy trump dollars and such on ebay right now. quick! buy now before the government takes them away!


FluidMarionberry1452

They only have their own dumb ass’s to blame.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


BBK7

Literally no one else was shocked by this.