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600,000 people sent in $100 deposits for this thingβ€”!😧 (Dumbass is laughing all the way to the bank. )

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[–] X@piefed.world 24 points 1 week ago

Say the line maga, you know what it is:

β€œIT IS A GODDAMNED PRIVILEGE TO HAVE DONATED MY HARD-EARNED AMERICA DOLLARS TO THE MOST AMERICA PRESIDENT THERE EVER WILL BE! HALLELUJAH AMEN!”

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

It's always a scam. It's always a grift. Always.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are so easily grifted it would be sad if they weren't so malevolent.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sounds like a perfect time to introduce the all new Trump Phone 2.

If only I wasnt so lazy, and had all these pesky morals.

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only people surprised by this are magats, but they'd still vote for the child rapist again.

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Bro are these journalists high? Read the terms and conditions...

If you cancel your deposit before completing a purchase, you may request a full refund. Refund requests must be submitted through Trump Mobile customer support prior to completion of a final sale. If Trump Mobile cancels or discontinues the Device offering prior to sale, Trump Mobile will issue a full refund of the deposit amount paid.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The vehicle that we today call the Volkswagen Beetle was at its inception called the KdF-Wagen. Nazi Germany had this whole scheme where you could save up stamps in a little booklet and when you got enough stamps, you could redeem them for a car.

No one ever got their cars, though many Germans had saved up enough stamps. Sure they built a few, but they went to government officials. It was a scam.

KdF-Phone.

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The Fyre Festival Fone.

[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

You have to be a special kind of dummy to even want that piece of shit in the first place. Idiot tax collected. Carry on, carrion!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 21 points 1 week ago

I mean who could have seen that coming. I am playing the worlds smallest violin for all the people affected.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you carry a scorpion on your back and you’re surprised when you get stung, maybe the problem less with you.

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 19 points 1 week ago
[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Instead this will just encourage the more.

"We wouldn't scam us again! He learned what he did wrong the first time!"

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Double-good. Idiots are parted from their money, and get irate at Trump.

Only drawback is that the money is now in the hands of the Trump clan, but given the mass robbing of the public and budget they are doing, this will amount to small change.

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaahah

Deep breath, no seriously

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

They trusted a businessman who failed so hard he had to fall back on a career of political masturbation. Fuck em.

[–] Luciano@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why do people really fall for this? And even worse: Who buys a Trump phone?

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’ve been scrolling all day, and this is the first good news I’ve seen.

I do wonder, though, how many of those 590,000 still support Trump? It’s like they enjoy getting fucked in the ass by a fat, incontinent, demented, old pedo.

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[–] WandowsVista@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

This was nothing but a 60,000,000 dollars loan at 0% interest rate to probably invest in AI and then only return the 100 dollars to those who requested it. Nicely played 🀣

[–] odama626@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I mean, I have a feeling that a lot of these pre-orders or $100 deposits were probably bulk purchased by CEOs as bribes.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 week ago

That's okay, vote for him again. He's going to give you everything you're owed in his third term.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

It was always going to be some sh** AliExpress Android phone anyway. There was definitely also going to be some kind of spyware/ harvesting happening

Here in Australia, this would likely be fraud by deception

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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

this just in: conman cons again. More at 10.

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Who'd have thought the serial fraudster would defraud them?

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Probably just went and β€œpre-ordered β€œanother one.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Hey, you guys wanna invest in a Ballroom? Only $100 to start.

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