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Inside sources in the GOP are seriously peeved that President Donald Trump and his family can't stop concentrating on enriching themselves long enough to get Republicans through the November midterms.

Trump and Republicans are at risk in the upcoming midterm elections, due in no small part to regret from his own supporters, and even many Republicans who continue supporting him feel as if they are "walking the plank" on his behalf. Yet according to a recent report, Trump continues to focus on money-making projects instead of shoring up support from American voters — a fact that is worrying many of his fellow Republican politicians.

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People who enabled a dementia-ridden racist misogynistic pedophile fascist narcissist embezzler who thinks he's above the law are trying to convince him to stop embezzling?

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Then fucking punish him! It's unconstitutional what he's doing. I bet it'd be a lot easier to get Republicans to win if they had a damn spine against this

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

They're mentally ill. It would be hoarding if it were anything other than money. Instead, we called them "successful" for decades while they exploited workers, and still do.

[–] blastosist@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Pigs don’t leave the trough until it’s empty

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Remember when Hunter Biden, someone who didn't even work for the federal government, was accused of enriching himself? Remember the reaction?

Hypocrite fucks.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Haha. They are still GRRRRR so mad about Hunter.

I think it was Adam Mockler just recently debating some conservative chud and that guy brought up the "Hunter Biden laptop" and how the government put their thumb on the scales when it came to having that just run wild on the platforms of Facebook and Xitter, etc.

They are still SO butthurt that their bullshit story about a hard-drive, excuse me, "laptop" was not the October Surprise that they meant it to be.

You can tell that many of them probably literally cried about it at the time that Biden won despite the "laptop". They seem to have emotional scars about it and they feel personally attacked that their ratfucking with the "laptop" didn't work out. I bet some of these people - this guy was probably in his twenties - will still be talking about that stupid "laptop" 50 years from now.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Well, you wouldn't be walking the plank if you had made that pedophile, adjudicated rapist, 34-time convicted felon, narcissist, and sex pest walk the plank instead (and his family).

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 171 points 2 days ago (5 children)

the extra funny part of this: everyone who can even afford to be in the same room as Trump on any kind of regular basis, enough to tell him "stop grifting so much", is also more rich than they have any right to be, I can guarantee it.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Translation: You can continue the multi-BILLION dollar grift for you and your family AFTER the mid-terms, donnie!

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 21 points 1 day ago

If anything, they are telling them to pause their grifting until the midterms. "Rich enough" is not a concept that can exist in a republican brain.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is OK because it's NOT Hunter Biden!

-LITERALLY Republicans!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, what Hunter is accused of is a rounding error compared to the towering amount of fraud donnie and his family are doing.

But since he has the last name of "Biden" he should be punished just for being an obvious beta-cuck. And of course people like Marge were clearly obsessed with his dong.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, the Bidens are Catholics so their anger is part of their upbringing. In England, they just call them Papists, but here in America, the protestants have gotten so wild, they breath condemnation...which makes me wonder about their ephemeral allegiances.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, that's right, I forgot all about them being Catholic.

I used to know a radical evangelical that would say all kinds of stuff I would just be dumbstruck by - one was that even though he was raised Catholic and most of his family was still Catholic, he not only thought Catholics were not "real" xtians, but that they were "pagans" (his word for pretty much every person not a Southern Baptist, including atheists and other xtians).

Now, I happened to remember all the invective Jack Chick aimed at Catholics with his comics, but I never thought I'd hear an adult repeat this kind of thing.

Also, I had recently read Robert Anton Wilson's rather tongue-in-cheek comparison of Catholics to paganism, due to all the saints and so on...

I did ask this particular individual if he thought he'd even know what xtianity was if it wasn't for Catholicism....I don't remember his answer. IIRC, it was utterly incoherent....

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How come nobody ever tells him hes fucked enough kids?

Because that isn't a blocker for Republican voters evidently. Theyre all for a pedophile. They haven't once proven otherwise.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

sources in the GOP are seriously peeved that President Donald Trump and his family can't stop concentrating on enriching themselves long enough to get Republicans through the November midterms.

The GOP caused this problem in the first place. They could have rejected Trump any time in the last decade, but they chose this path instead.

Reap what you have sewn.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt this.

You don't get that rich by ever feeling like you have enough. They just always want more.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The idea is that Trump's corruption is SO obvious that the GOP is afraid they'll get whipped in the midterms. Trump is certainly attacking the election system hard enough to show he agrees on that part at least, if not the idea of being less greedy.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago

HAHAHAHAH

Tell me you don’t understand the first fucking thing about the demented rapist.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please, stop grifting to help us win. Republicans say to the Family of Grifters.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...can't stop concentrating on enriching themselves long enough to get Republicans through the November midterms.

Yeah, I figured the title was bullshit. "Rich enough already" was never said. This is about Repuglicans losing seats.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

"Stop stealing until we make sure we hold onto power then you can do whatever"

[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

LMAO now go tell the VC companies too and don't forget the CEOs of every other company too.

I'm sure you will make them see the light. A Christmas Carol style.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 47 points 2 days ago

Grifters don't just quit the game.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This might be a good time to remind you all that a significant part of this wealth has been accumulated in the past two years. In fact, when NYS was going after his companies, and those big financial judgements came in, it was assumed he didn't have that much liquid cash on hand, and would have to liquidate some of his properties to pay it off.

But then not only did the judgement get reduced, and he got reelected, but he also found crypto. He stated his Trump coin only a few days before inauguration, and has made bank on it.

All this wealth is due primarily to fleecing his supporters into buying his meme coin.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

Oh don't forget whatever bribes get laundered through it too

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[–] newton@feddit.online 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He didn't lye ,he said he loved STUPID people

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is why he loves himself more than anyone else.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Man with head up ass is self fulfilling prophet.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

He probably has nose blindness at this point.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You’re never rich enough. Impossible.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Normal people can get rich enough. Narcissistic psychopaths, or the kind of people who tend to get rich, on the other hand...

Can't wait for the next democratic president to "look forward not back." Again.

Sweeping the floor while the buildings on fire.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 18 points 2 days ago

He doesn't care what he has. He cares that anyone else has anything else.

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Greed is an illness like any other, and will not be corrected through begging like any other. We built a system that rewards and demands the darkest of the darkest, and are surprised when the worst persists.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Lol, they really think the orange one's greed has bounds? They're stupider than I thought, and it was already pretty far down there.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I love the candour: "just stop grifting until your power is insuperable. Then, by all means, grift, grift, grift!"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Did these dumbfucks think tiny-d donnie ever gave a shit about any of them or this country? He's all about himself.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Cruelty is the point for Trump and many Republicans. And even if many GOP had initially thought they could control Trump, they are sorely mistaken. They played fire and got burned. FAFO. People never learned from history when they thought an imbecilic fascist figure could be "controlled" by conservatives, from Hitler to Mussolini.

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

Somehow this isn't an Onion headline. Somehow

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago
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