To paraphrase Hawkeye Pierce: "The instrument has yet to be invented that could measure

[Atticus]

how little sympathy I have for the people who ignorantly let Trump steal thousands of dollars from each of them."

Most will vote for him again in '24 if he runs.

If they are looking for sympathy, it's in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis ".

[Omnipresent]

1. I'm am surprised that some of those Dumbass's spoke up.

They are usually ready to suck his you-know-what and kiss his ass, without question.

[NCjack]

18. Those rats will pay a terrible price. May have to move to another country.

[catbyte]

2. LOL. That was one of my dad's favorite expressions.

It always brought me back down to earth when I was being a Drama Queen teen.

Here's how sorry I feel for them, even though it was a particularly sleazy move on the part of their Maximum Leader:

[jmowreader]

32. Wrong kind of microscope

You need a good scanning electron microscope to find that violin...

[brewens]

3. BOHICA! And I wish you many more, followers of the former guy! n/t

[nykym]

9. Haven't heard that

one in a while, one of my favs.

[usaf-vet]

4. I couldn't agree more. Sympathy meter sits at ZERO.

[NNadir]

5. I'm going to steal that locution.

"...between shit and syphilis."

Love it!

[ms liberty]

6. Agreed, and bonus points for the Hawkeye Pierce reference! n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Ding, Ding. Nailed it!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Is taking advantage of low IQs a crime? Is there even a word for it?

[KS Toronado]

12. Theft

[OldBaldy1701E]

27. Abuse. Abuse of Power maybe. (n/t)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. +1

[Captain Zero]

35. He probably has ruined their credit rating

For a bunch of them. Maxing out their cards and they couldn't pay up. Maybe couldn't even pay minimums. He's slick and they are dupes.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. Exactly! Not only did he never do anything for these peopl

He screwed them out of cash and credit rating but he taught them that to hate was okay

[hlthe2b]

10. Generally, I feel that way, but the guy in hospice, who had NEVER donated prior but was

compelled to do that out of some demented sense of heroic intervention and then spent half of his monthly meager funds that was repeated multiple times devastating his remaining funds.

I feel about that the same way I feel about those bamboozled by the tv grifter preachers. Yes, they were STUPID to be so manipulated, but it is tragic, nonetheless.

[agingdem]

11. the tragedy was not that they were bamboozled...

the tragedy is their mindset...the guy in hospice saw nothing wrong with the horror that was/is Trump...he knew what he was doing with his supposed one-time only "Trump is my guy" donation ...Trump fleeced him...oh, well

[iluvtennis]

13. + agree. it's the mindset to support the cretin called trump. nt

[hlthe2b]

14. He watched Fox and RW broadcasts. Allowed himself to be indoctrinated.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. that is an enormous part of all this which is under-reported. The mental health implications- huge.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

30. Agree. You are a TRUE bleeding heart liberal. Can't be taught. Its

Totally part of DNA. To first, automatically care about people. Kudos!

[Warpy]

15. I always have sympathy for victims of theft

especially when that theft has been enough that their bills are going unpaid. What those bastards did to people, especially old people, is unconscionable. Yes, they didn't read the fine print, but that fine print shouldn't have been there in the first place. The whole thing was set up as a grifting operation.

A few of them might wake up to what that man is but you're right, most of them won't. However, I would suspect that their days of contributing online are over.

[Treefrog]

22. I'm with you. I feel sorry for those who might be older and retired.

Years and years ago, I did volunteer work with the elderly and one lady in particular was just the best person ever. I would get her mail in for her when I arrived at her house and one day noticed that she was getting a lot of money from the PTL Club (Jim Bakker). God only knows how much money he stole from her. It broke my heart to see how devoted she was to that criminal, and yes, I had sympathy for her.

[Warpy]

23. I knew somebody like that, she was also sucked in by Jim Bakker

back in the old days when he was fleecing the faithful while Tammy Faye wept.

Fortunately, this lady was very old money, rich as Croesus, and relied on religious bullshit to help her cope with an alcoholic husband, so I kept my trap shut as she showed off all her televangelist bling.

It's just very different when they're scamming money from people whose Social Security isn't allowing them enough to eat, and that's what Dumdum's gang of grifters was doing. At least the televangelist scams had an element of choice, Dumdum's grifting was involuntary on the part of the suckers.

[ShazzieB]

24. I'm with all of you.

I do feel sorry for them, the same way I feel sorry for the people on those Dr. Phil episodes about fake online love scams. I mean, I kind of get why some feel that Chump cultists don't deserve our pity, but I pity them anyway.

[littlemissmartypants]

34. I'm confused... was she giving or getting?

"...she was getting a lot of money from the PTL Club..."

I thought they would scam people into making donations.

Never heard of one that gave money to people.

???

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. Coincidentally,

those are two of the main components that make up the block of goo he carries around on his shoulders.

[Pinback]

19. If only there had been some entity, I don't know, a "bureau" or something

that could look out for consumers and provide protection from financial chicanery.

Wait, do I hear the thundering of horse hooves? Could the cavalry actually be coming?

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, muzzled under Trump, prepares to renew tough industry oversight (Washington Post)


• 'A cop on the beat again': Biden looks to reassert consumer watchdog agency sidelined by Trump (NBC News)

Not that any of these MAGAts would submit a complaint to the CFPB, but it's an interesting though experiment, nonetheless.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. They're the fucks who don't want the damn gummint regulating or interfering in anything, so fuck 'em

I say they shouldn't even be allowed to use our socialist court system to get restitution.

They want a libertarian anarchist shithole of a society, let 'em live in it.

[Baked Potato]

21. Trump is the Gallagher of politicians. People *want* him to throw shit at them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. And what's abhorrent is that he bilked people to show he could

match up with Biden in fundraising
He knew it would have to be paid back! So where does he plan to get the money for that? Say election was stolen from him. Raise fraud payback $$ from more low IQs.

Hope you mean Frank

[Captain Zero]

36. He runs short term Ponzi Schemes

He bilked the people in the fall and paid them back with money he raised after the election to pay lawyers and stop the steal. My guess is his lawyers will be left to hold the bag of IOU' S because he will tell them they weren't very good lawyers, didn't win him any cases.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Like Michael Cohen said in his book, their first MO is to make a lawyer

think that it is a privilege to work for Trump. He said at first there was absolutely no mention of compensation. Almost like it was understood that you didn't get paid. Cohen eventually had to ask to be paid.

You are suggesting that out of the $100+m tab to people that need to be paid back for their multiple debit contributions that the lawyers will pay that?

[Baked Potato]

37. I has to look up Frank, forgot about that one.

I meant the guy that smashes watermelons on the audience

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Oh ya !!!! I actually went to his show a million years ago.

I was thinking of Frank Gallagher on Shameless the Showtime show. Is a grifter it was always trying to bilk people.

[lunatica]

25. I checked

I have no more sympathies to give. And I don’t give a shit either!

[Skittles]

26. I normally sympathize with peple who are conned

these THESE idiots sent money TO A KNOWN CON MAN

ZERO sympathy!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

28. There should be a course in every

middle school and High School, titled: "GRIFTERS"

and of course a course titled: Civics...............

There should be a test on both subjects, and the student can't graduate without passing the test.

[Aussie105]

33. A dedicated member of Trumpfuckistan says:

Sure, $50 to help Trump, no worries!

Sleeps well that night.

. . . . meanwhile, the checked checkbox does it thing:

Next day:

Whatyamean? $50 every hour?

[PCIntern]

39. I literally laughed out loud

Thank you for that.