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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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Best he can do is start construction on other vanity project in two weeks. He will go on a rant and will brag about the big beautiful arch.

That and threaten the fed to lower rates or he will tank the economy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    lol that ain't how that works

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Republicans upset that man who has only ever had his own enrichment as his primary focus at the expense of everyone around him doesn't care about helping them.

    Color me surprised. Oh no, if they don't win then they can't continue with the heritage foundation and conservative plan, doesn't Trump care?

    ...no? What part of "he literally only cares about himself" do these people not understand?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    To be fair, who could have predicted that voting for a narcissist without a moral bone in his body would turn out to be a problem?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I imagine "enough" feels different bankrupting a casino.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    keep stealing from the PACs. he already said that Superpacs/pacs are his slush funds.

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    [–] 170 points 2 months 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Affordability has nothing to do with ones willingness to be in the same room as trump.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    there are plenty of poor people that love trump but cannot afford to actually be in his social orbit, I'm talking about the people this article is actually talking about, the "panicked GOP insiders" who are likely also obscenely rich and prominent republicans.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Not for those people, but the president won't be in the same room as the poors without a selfish reason, you better believe it. They have nothing but contempt for their supporters that aren't rich.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 months ago

    HAHAHAHAH

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

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  • [–] 59 points 2 months ago* (5 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.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 months ago

    Grifters don't just quit the game.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Also a good time to remember that wealth inequality in the US continues to grow and has grown over the past few decades. Well, closer to a century than not, so y'know, this is a huge issue.

    You want to know one little measure of it? The new Grand Tour released with three new presenters. They did their first episode in the US looking at three US cars. The Mustang and the Corvette - but versions that qualify as supercars. Then one more US-made car that qualifies as a hypercar. Why are these being made? Because increasingly the US has people rich enough to buy them in enough quantity that the car manufacturers want that profit.

    Our country is broken. We need to solve the issue of oligarchs in the US. They are already eating cake while we die in the streets and quietly in our homes.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I don't think "found crypto" describes what you really mean, that he found a way to accept bribes and to use the bribe money to scam poor people.

    All you have to do is release a new crypto coin, and have people bribe you with well-timed bribes to keep the price looking like it's going up. The people giving you bribes know it's just manipulation and that they'll lose everything, but to all of the normal MAGA investors with room temperature IQs, they see a good investment.

    That way, you get to double dip on the bribe money. When the bribes slow down, the price will go down and those people you grifted will lose everything.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You’re never rich enough. Impossible.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    ...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.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I doubt this.

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

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

    Hypocrite fucks.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How come nobody ever tells him hes fucked enough kids?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This is OK because it's NOT Hunter Biden!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months 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....

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months 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?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Somehow this isn't an Onion headline. Somehow

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    He's just in it for the love of the grift.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Hoarding wealth is a mental illness, and republicans don’t believe in mitigating toxic behavior like limiting your wealth acquiring. It’s hilarious to watch them panic and still not realize that their entire belief system is to blame and being exposed for its logical conclusion.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months 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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    If I had a broken and uncontrollable vacuum in my house, I would switch it off and unplug it. Just saying, Republicans...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Nobody who accumulates wealth like that will ever be satisfied. Ever.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    He's a shameless narcissist, and as such, won't be satisfied with being second place at anything. So long as there are people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jensen Huang who are worth more, Trump will never stop grifting.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Like all parasites, they don't care. They'll kill the host alongside them.

    Disgusting.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Not the onion. Who knew

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    The most obvious grifter in the world strikes again.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Idiots should know there's no such thing as "enough" with these brain damaged parasites.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months 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).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    Nope you're all getting dragged down with us you fascist pieces of shit. Our shared ruin is the only justice we have left

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

    Sweeping the floor while the buildings on fire.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    GOP insiders shocked, SHOCKED I say, at all of the hungry, hungry, face-eating leopards.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The only people the GOP has ever thought were rich enough

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    seriously peeved

    HOLY SHIT GUYS, ANY MINUTE NOW, THEY ARE PEEVED!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Obese leopards.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    He's acting like it won't matter, because he's fixed it already.

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    Lol unprecedented, what the fuck is this reality

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You cannot make deals with Smaug. Slaughter only cars about himself

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Whatever, Dems get a majority and can't pass much w/o orange, not enough votes to convict impeachment, will get blamed for spending time on the hearings and not fixing everything, '28 they go back to maga, tiktok and the rest spread the propaganda and they fall for it, it's how they do.


    That one Dem yelled too,

    Enthusiastically,

    And lost election

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Oh no, did the leopard eat their faces too? Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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