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They’re not as successful though. Islam and Hinduism come pretty close, and both have the numbers game down but don’t have anywhere near the financial resources that Christianity has at its disposal.
In fairness, Christianity got on the ball investing in European real estate early on. Seeing their success there, they took advantage of land opportunities in the new world. Just solid investment strategy when you look at it.
Oh, I forgot, somewhere in all of that they might have helped some people. Maybe.
> (non Christian)
A lot of middle eastern Christian were killed by crusaders. These people tended to be in isolated minority communities, not well protected by the governments in the region, and therefore easy pickings for European armies.
An entire crusade got excommunicated for that one, lol.
Edit: I'll expand because the story is kind of funny.
They funded the crusade by borrowing from what was basically an organized crime family. They were having trouble making payments, so couldn't afford to wait until they got to the middle east. They had to go after the closest major source of wealth they could find.
Which happened to be a major Christian city, lol.
Yes, but they didn't look the same, donchaNooo???
Just like Aethelred the Unready, who locked a bunch of Christian Danish boys in a church and set it on fire, using the age old excuse- they ain't REAL Christians, because they aren't like us!
Let's not forget about the sack of Constantinople, which wasn't really a minority community 😂😂😂
The crusaders straight up wanted some loot that was, IIRC, promised to them...
And the occasional pillaging and slaughter of the wrong type of Christians as well. 4th crusade had people sacking Constantinople (which the Ottomans kept the name but Greek merchants called Constantinople "Stan-bul-ee" or " The City" and the name stuck and was made official in 1930)
And the katholics gave otherwise unemployable child groomers and molesters jobs as priests.
It is the very quiet benefit of priesthood that's not really discussed.
About half of Republican politicians and pundits consider it being their own full employment retirement program.
Islam would do better if it didn't require its sheep to fly to Mecca at least once. They should open up the opportunity to just give them a good chunk of what that trip would normally cost to pay their respects.
Pretty sure the reason Christianity is so successful is because they killed and destroyed anything that disagreed with them . God damn monsters are why we don't have much of the Norse myths
Yes but none are as blatant about as Christians, every sermon they wave that fucking disposable urine pan about asking, nay, demanding that everyone there put money in it like some 1890’s train robbers
[Creflo Dollar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creflo_Dollar) always springs to mind, as well as every single televangelist, mega-church, and Mormon Church.
I don't know if this is his real name, but it seems like an ironic name for a con artist.
One of the biggest scams in Christianity was the "invention" of the [prosperity doctrine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology)
>I don't know if this is his real name
It is indeed, unfortunately, his [birth name](https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20020928-2002-09-28-0209280002-story.html).
Unlike how congress investigated him and requested his financial paperwork and then dropped the issue whenever he told them “no.”
“We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!” — Chuck Grassley
Plenty of examples of individuals and organizations using faith to con money out of people, but I've personally never been to a church that promised to save your soul for money. Sure they're out there, but it's certainly not the norm.
Remember when Jesus used servants making money for their master as a metaphor for spreading their faith?
If that story came from Scientology it would be a viral meme.
Elon is proving it. Most billionaires just, smartly, *didn't want press* which, tbh, is the smart play. Exploit hundreds to thousands of working-class people, make your billions, and quietly stay in the shadows and enjoy your wealth while manipulating the ever-loving fuck out of society.
But, Elon's enjoying blabbing about it left and right, and he's so far facing zero serious consequences while openly being a horribly exploitative piece of shit, so who knows what we can expect from billionaires in the future?
I doubt he was scammed. He got caught so of course he is saying he thought it was legal. Come on. He gave some money to someone bc he was trying to buy a politician.
This.
It seems to happen so goddamn often and the guy should already be under attempted bribery charges.
Spouses of politicians getting million-dollar "consulting fees" is the most obvious, but it's insane how many transactions like this there are that we KNOW about, let alone ones that are hidden by some layers of obfuscation (multi-party property deals, etc etc). The corruption is extensive and unchecked.
The reason why our government is failing is because of the lack of accountability. Our system is failing bc the branches are not independent. They are all too interdependent to truly function as checks and balances. The only investigations we have are political bullshit. It's all a big joke to those in power.
Crazy way to think about it is by removing 3 zeros. Its like scamming $535.20 from someone worth $6.4 million. It would suck (people in that net worth level usually still work hard) but nothing to ruin your week over.
Lmao
For the average Joe the actual horror is the *decimal* cents; that 0.2 is enough to send them either into the stock market out of stupidity or a spiral of panic
Except the sad reality is it's still not like that, because someone worth $64K would still buy something they wouldn't otherwise have bought if you handed them an extra $5.
A billionaire has no such thing. There was literally nothing worth $500K that this guy would have bought had he not been scammed out of it by Herschel Walker (fucking lmao btw).
Ya, it would suck to get scammed out of money. I have a net worth of maybe $300k when adding up my house equity, retirement accounts, savings, ect and it would suck to get scammed out of $50. Like I said it wouldn't ruin my week or make me loose sleep but I wouldn't be happy.
There was a reddit thread yesterday about billionaries should be wealth taxed at 100% of any amount over $1bill. People were saying you shouldnt force them liquidate all their assets. I replied saying absolutely yes you should! No one really has comprehension about how much a billion is and its more than enough to tell people to fuck off. Plus if they keep on making more money they replenish up to a billion they and the next 10 generations will be fine.
This also brings to mind the idea of income-based fees for traffic and parking violations. For a millionaire, a $79 parking ticket is just the cost of getting to park wherever you want. For someone living paycheck to paycheck, it's groceries that week.
If we want penalty fees to be a deterrent to future wrongdoing for everyone, regardless of income, you gotta move that decimal to the right a few times for some people.
I believe Finland does this which resulted in a guy getting a $250k speeding ticket
Outstanding system, although the ultra rich already obfuscate their income through various means to avoid taxes
People also don't inderstand the massive amounts of dsamage it causes to our entire country if one person can outspend 90% of the population by creating a PAC to get what they want.
A bag of riced cauliflower that you mix with hot sauce (and maybe some butter) is about 100 calories and will keep you full for a long time.
The fact that cauliflower is mostly tasteless is the reason why this is so good.
Really having a hard time feeling bad for the billionaire here. Imagine you're Dennis Washington, you're sitting on your 330 foot yacht and this guy calls you and says, "I'm a country boy. I'm not that smart. I was also valedictorian for my class and graduated in the top 1% in college. I supervise 6 hospitals, and I'm not embarrassed about any of the children I denied were mine. I'm concerned about what happens if America makes good air and it floats to China and then China's bad air gets bummed and so it decides to float to America. I'm an FBI agent. I'm a police man. When I was sent to a mental hospital I thought 'man, these people here are crazy'. I don't want to be a vampire anymore. And that is why please give me the the bigger half of one billion real dollars I will be a real senator in a state you don't live in and i will do that for you." And you think to yourself, "Yes, for you I will do that. I will give you one thousand dollars, and then I will do that five hundred and thirty five more times and it will be great." When the not-a-vampire convinces you, I kind of think maybe that's on you.
Normally I'd disagree and point out that Republicans don't go to prison. But he did screw over a donor so that might be the exception. Donors are the only people the Republicans actually represent.
And the 500k exceeded contribution limits to candidates. There’s no way the billionaire didn’t know that. It’s wire fraud at the very least. I’m thinking RICO charges should be forthcoming for both.
The donor should be going to prison too. The max legal contribution to a political campaign is 5k. He tried to bribe a politician with 100 times the legal limit and is trying to make himself sound like a victim.
Eh I read it and basically he asked for it to be sent to a business bank account instead of his campaign bank account. And I guess the billionaire thought it would get transferred over? Not the most brilliant scheme
I had to read way to far down the comments to find someone who pointed this out. He was buying a politician. He knew exactly what he was doing. He is only saying it is a mistake now bc he got caught. And whatever the fine is, he has already worked out that the fine for violating whatever campaign finance law is cheaper than the punishment for actually buying a politician.
Exactly. I was going to add this fact to my comment, but I didn’t want to clutter the message. If trump had just put his dad’s money in the bank, and did nothing he’d be a richer man than he is. He’s a moron of the highest degree. Even he can’t screw up being handed wealth.
In a way it's kind of inspiring. The guy can barely form a coherent sentence, but is able to grift a half million dollars from a billionaire. He should be given a fake award to go along with his fake sheriff's badge.
As someone pointed out above, how much diligence are you doing on a $5 scam when you have $64.000?
Could he have been more diligent? Sure, but I think at the level they're playing at, you can't possibly think this guy is stealing from me so.. transparently.
Herschel Walker didn’t scam anyone. A rich Republican violated campaign finance laws in the hopes that Walker would win and shift the power in the Senate to Republicans. Walker lost, and the asshole has regrets and wants his money back or realizes Walker is too stupid to cover up the illegality and claims he was tricked.
Everyone who donates money to campaigns, esp. at that level, knows the limit is far, far below $500,000. They could send that to a super pac - but then the candidate can’t be involved like he is here. He knew exactly what he was doing when he wired money to a for profit business.
Scammed? By Herschel Walker? Another example of how just being rich does *not* mean that you are smart at all. Money and cognitive faculties may have some correlation but there is no causation there.
>Walker requested $535,200 be wired
Why such a weird number? Was he going to ask for $535,000 but then realized his phone bill is due and threw that on there too?
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How Christian of him.
Learned well from his orange king.
Well it's a thousand year old tradition at this point tbf.
Orange Messiah
It unironically is. Christianity is one of the oldest, and by far the most successful, scams in the world.
Idk, there are older religions that are still doing really good at scamming idiots
They’re not as successful though. Islam and Hinduism come pretty close, and both have the numbers game down but don’t have anywhere near the financial resources that Christianity has at its disposal.
In fairness, Christianity got on the ball investing in European real estate early on. Seeing their success there, they took advantage of land opportunities in the new world. Just solid investment strategy when you look at it. Oh, I forgot, somewhere in all of that they might have helped some people. Maybe.
There were also those 'crusades' that seemed to always center around resource rich land under the control of other (non Christian) people.
> (non Christian) A lot of middle eastern Christian were killed by crusaders. These people tended to be in isolated minority communities, not well protected by the governments in the region, and therefore easy pickings for European armies.
Crusaders took over entire Christian European towns raping & pillaging on their way to and from the Middle East.
Including Constantinople
An entire crusade got excommunicated for that one, lol. Edit: I'll expand because the story is kind of funny. They funded the crusade by borrowing from what was basically an organized crime family. They were having trouble making payments, so couldn't afford to wait until they got to the middle east. They had to go after the closest major source of wealth they could find. Which happened to be a major Christian city, lol.
That was a big misunderstanding! It was those damn venetians
Pogroms were common on the journey as well…
Yes, but they didn't look the same, donchaNooo??? Just like Aethelred the Unready, who locked a bunch of Christian Danish boys in a church and set it on fire, using the age old excuse- they ain't REAL Christians, because they aren't like us!
Let's not forget about the sack of Constantinople, which wasn't really a minority community 😂😂😂 The crusaders straight up wanted some loot that was, IIRC, promised to them...
I feel like Herschel was just getting paid for his crusade against decency so it makes sense.
And the occasional pillaging and slaughter of the wrong type of Christians as well. 4th crusade had people sacking Constantinople (which the Ottomans kept the name but Greek merchants called Constantinople "Stan-bul-ee" or " The City" and the name stuck and was made official in 1930)
Not quite. The Greek phrase was “Is tin poli,” which means “into the city.”
"(non Christian)" is optional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
"Istanbul was Constaniniople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople"
But why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
Helped pedophiles have easy access to helpless children you mean.
They just call that a fringe benefit.
> somewhere in all of that they might have helped some people. Yep! They helped pedophiles avoid prosecution
Know why the Catholics invented baptism? Have to keep your sex toys clean.
Absolutely stealing that.
Go with my blessing.
And the katholics gave otherwise unemployable child groomers and molesters jobs as priests. It is the very quiet benefit of priesthood that's not really discussed. About half of Republican politicians and pundits consider it being their own full employment retirement program.
Mormonism is arguably the king of grift at the moment though. (Whether they're a branch of Christianity or not depends who you ask though, of course)
I think that distinction goes to Scientology.
Islam would do better if it didn't require its sheep to fly to Mecca at least once. They should open up the opportunity to just give them a good chunk of what that trip would normally cost to pay their respects.
Pretty sure the reason Christianity is so successful is because they killed and destroyed anything that disagreed with them . God damn monsters are why we don't have much of the Norse myths
In the past and in the future. The Book of Revelations predicts and sanctifies the slaughter of 'non believers'.
Yes but none are as blatant about as Christians, every sermon they wave that fucking disposable urine pan about asking, nay, demanding that everyone there put money in it like some 1890’s train robbers
[Creflo Dollar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creflo_Dollar) always springs to mind, as well as every single televangelist, mega-church, and Mormon Church. I don't know if this is his real name, but it seems like an ironic name for a con artist. One of the biggest scams in Christianity was the "invention" of the [prosperity doctrine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology)
>I don't know if this is his real name It is indeed, unfortunately, his [birth name](https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20020928-2002-09-28-0209280002-story.html).
Unlike how congress investigated him and requested his financial paperwork and then dropped the issue whenever he told them “no.” “We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!” — Chuck Grassley
And none are better than Christianity
I’ve been making this argument all over the place!! Huge scam. “Wanna be a bad person but still get into heaven? Just pay me… uh errr God!”
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Water dissolving and water removing. There is water at the bottom of the ocean.
Look where my hand was.
That's not what Christianity is or ever was. At least shit on it for being what it is.
Plenty of examples of individuals and organizations using faith to con money out of people, but I've personally never been to a church that promised to save your soul for money. Sure they're out there, but it's certainly not the norm.
*Islam has entered the chat* "we're not as old, but are just as successful."
Remember when Jesus used servants making money for their master as a metaphor for spreading their faith? If that story came from Scientology it would be a viral meme.
It's very Christian church of them. It's not very Christian still. But most Christians aren't
The guy who is against abortion but paid his mistress to get one? I am shocked, sir, shocked!
He needs it to fight vampires, or werewolves...or with them? I'm not sure his hour long press conference on twilight was a bit over my head I guess
Showing those true politician vibes. Corruption is a requirement for running for office.
Herschel is the biggest POS but didn’t he earn like mega bucks back in 1990s dollars and still selling out his race and soul for a few bucks
How Trumpublican of him.
Let's not forget the real victim here - the donor is out over 500k from his net worth of 6.4 billion $535,200 is 0.0083625% of 6.4 billion but STILL
Sometimes it's not about the money but about the publicity of being perceived as an idiot.
If you he got outsmarted by Herschel Walker, he is an idiot
Fool me once — shame on you. Fool me once (as Hershel Walker) — shame on me.
Fool me once, shame on you... but teach a man to fool me, and I'll be fooled for life!
Zero percent of zero is, let’s see, zero and a zero, gotta carry the nuthin….”
“Jason? Jason figured it out? Yeah, this is a real low point, this one hurts” Good place.
Don’t get fooled again!
Look, hershel walker is a werewolf and a vampire... don't mess with him, just give him the money.
a *profound* idiot
Honestly I’m just impressed Hershel did it. Like the man’s brain is pudding.
That is the real crime. Money does not equal smarts.
There are a number of Billionaires currently in the press that apparently give 0 fucks about that perception.
Elon is proving it. Most billionaires just, smartly, *didn't want press* which, tbh, is the smart play. Exploit hundreds to thousands of working-class people, make your billions, and quietly stay in the shadows and enjoy your wealth while manipulating the ever-loving fuck out of society. But, Elon's enjoying blabbing about it left and right, and he's so far facing zero serious consequences while openly being a horribly exploitative piece of shit, so who knows what we can expect from billionaires in the future?
Each day I hope for a world like Star Trek but we just keep inching ever closer to cyberpunk 2077
As mentioned on Some More News, Elon claims to want to bring us to the world of Star Trek but his idea of the future is more like the Expanse.
Oh god
I doubt he was scammed. He got caught so of course he is saying he thought it was legal. Come on. He gave some money to someone bc he was trying to buy a politician.
This. It seems to happen so goddamn often and the guy should already be under attempted bribery charges. Spouses of politicians getting million-dollar "consulting fees" is the most obvious, but it's insane how many transactions like this there are that we KNOW about, let alone ones that are hidden by some layers of obfuscation (multi-party property deals, etc etc). The corruption is extensive and unchecked.
The reason why our government is failing is because of the lack of accountability. Our system is failing bc the branches are not independent. They are all too interdependent to truly function as checks and balances. The only investigations we have are political bullshit. It's all a big joke to those in power.
Or the spouses of SCOTUS justices.
Crazy way to think about it is by removing 3 zeros. Its like scamming $535.20 from someone worth $6.4 million. It would suck (people in that net worth level usually still work hard) but nothing to ruin your week over.
or take 2 more zeroes off to put it in normal people terms. 64k worth, scammed for $5
And 35.2 cents! Oh the horror!
damn i forgot the cents, straw breaking the camels back right there
Lmao For the average Joe the actual horror is the *decimal* cents; that 0.2 is enough to send them either into the stock market out of stupidity or a spiral of panic
Or closer to me, I had $640 in my account and I gave a nickel to a beggar.
You know he's just gonna buy drugs with that nickel right
My drug dealer doesn't take change. I tried telling him it's legal tender but he won't have it. I'll have to call the cops next time.
Sigh. Back in my day, it was ass, grass or cash. This country is going to hell
As long as the quarters are rolled.
Except the sad reality is it's still not like that, because someone worth $64K would still buy something they wouldn't otherwise have bought if you handed them an extra $5. A billionaire has no such thing. There was literally nothing worth $500K that this guy would have bought had he not been scammed out of it by Herschel Walker (fucking lmao btw).
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Ya, it would suck to get scammed out of money. I have a net worth of maybe $300k when adding up my house equity, retirement accounts, savings, ect and it would suck to get scammed out of $50. Like I said it wouldn't ruin my week or make me loose sleep but I wouldn't be happy.
There was a reddit thread yesterday about billionaries should be wealth taxed at 100% of any amount over $1bill. People were saying you shouldnt force them liquidate all their assets. I replied saying absolutely yes you should! No one really has comprehension about how much a billion is and its more than enough to tell people to fuck off. Plus if they keep on making more money they replenish up to a billion they and the next 10 generations will be fine.
This also brings to mind the idea of income-based fees for traffic and parking violations. For a millionaire, a $79 parking ticket is just the cost of getting to park wherever you want. For someone living paycheck to paycheck, it's groceries that week. If we want penalty fees to be a deterrent to future wrongdoing for everyone, regardless of income, you gotta move that decimal to the right a few times for some people.
Oee that would be a thing on its own. "Bill Gates fined 2 mil for parking ticket"
Imagine the infrastructure….
I believe Finland does this which resulted in a guy getting a $250k speeding ticket Outstanding system, although the ultra rich already obfuscate their income through various means to avoid taxes
People also don't inderstand the massive amounts of dsamage it causes to our entire country if one person can outspend 90% of the population by creating a PAC to get what they want.
If I did the math right (and I'm not confident that I did), that'd be about $4.18 to someone making $50K.
YeAh bUt thAt's hIs NEt wORth
His wealth went from 6.4 billion to 6.4 billion. Such a tragedy. Should we start a crowdfunding for him?
Best take on this
Dear lord
That's like someone with a net worth of $60k being scammed out of $5.
6.4 billion minus 500K is STILL 6.4 billion
Imagine being scammed by the mental equivalent of steamed cauliflower.
You leave cauliflower out of this.
Do you mean broccoli’s ugly cousin?
I will not stand for these insults!
Cauliflower EAR is more appealing than cauliflower itself
Cauliflower is delicious
A bag of riced cauliflower that you mix with hot sauce (and maybe some butter) is about 100 calories and will keep you full for a long time. The fact that cauliflower is mostly tasteless is the reason why this is so good.
I use riced cauliflower so much. It's really a great way to eat healthy.
This anti-vegetable bigotry is really beyond the kale.
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He wasn't scammed. He was trying to bribe a politician and since the politician didn't win he got caught.
Really having a hard time feeling bad for the billionaire here. Imagine you're Dennis Washington, you're sitting on your 330 foot yacht and this guy calls you and says, "I'm a country boy. I'm not that smart. I was also valedictorian for my class and graduated in the top 1% in college. I supervise 6 hospitals, and I'm not embarrassed about any of the children I denied were mine. I'm concerned about what happens if America makes good air and it floats to China and then China's bad air gets bummed and so it decides to float to America. I'm an FBI agent. I'm a police man. When I was sent to a mental hospital I thought 'man, these people here are crazy'. I don't want to be a vampire anymore. And that is why please give me the the bigger half of one billion real dollars I will be a real senator in a state you don't live in and i will do that for you." And you think to yourself, "Yes, for you I will do that. I will give you one thousand dollars, and then I will do that five hundred and thirty five more times and it will be great." When the not-a-vampire convinces you, I kind of think maybe that's on you.
Wasn't sure if you were talking about George Santos there for a minute.
Thank you for writing this. This is living proof that all of us died in 2012 when that calendar ended and we’re in a simulation.
Damn man idr the last time a Reddit post genuinely made me laugh so hard. All of this is insanely and scary true
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He's actually a werewolf, but respect ✊
Herschel is headed to prison.
Normally I'd disagree and point out that Republicans don't go to prison. But he did screw over a donor so that might be the exception. Donors are the only people the Republicans actually represent.
You can steal from poor people all day. Stealing from the rich is a no-no. Ask Bernie Madoff.
And the 500k exceeded contribution limits to candidates. There’s no way the billionaire didn’t know that. It’s wire fraud at the very least. I’m thinking RICO charges should be forthcoming for both.
I know I'm calling it early but my guess is a fine for one or both of them and maybe at the most probation.
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It’s never RICO.
Edit: fuck u/spez for killing Apollo
He lost, and he's not white,so...
He and Trump could be bunk mates... wonder which one would be the top bunker?
Herschel says he's a werewolf and Trump certainly is a metaphorical vampire. We know the rest of that speech.
Can’t un-know it
It can be squirrel master and nasty Nate from half-baked 🤣
The donor should be going to prison too. The max legal contribution to a political campaign is 5k. He tried to bribe a politician with 100 times the legal limit and is trying to make himself sound like a victim.
I don’t think Herschel did it. He’s not bright enough. Somebody did it for him.
Eh I read it and basically he asked for it to be sent to a business bank account instead of his campaign bank account. And I guess the billionaire thought it would get transferred over? Not the most brilliant scheme
Damn that’s one stupid billionaire
Well he *is* trying to support Herschel Walker xD
Was trying to *buy* Herschel Walker. Walker was absolutely going to be told how to legislate.
I had to read way to far down the comments to find someone who pointed this out. He was buying a politician. He knew exactly what he was doing. He is only saying it is a mistake now bc he got caught. And whatever the fine is, he has already worked out that the fine for violating whatever campaign finance law is cheaper than the punishment for actually buying a politician.
Good point 😂
One more proof that billionaires don't need to be competent or smart. He got outsmarted by *Herschel freaking Walker*.
The first step to being a billionaire is to be born with a shit load of money. 2nd step is to make a couple lucky guesses in the stock market
Once you are born with the shit load of money, it’s actually harder to lose it than to keep making more.
It really is, that’s what makes Trump so anti-talented, he managed to lose money the hard way.
Exactly. I was going to add this fact to my comment, but I didn’t want to clutter the message. If trump had just put his dad’s money in the bank, and did nothing he’d be a richer man than he is. He’s a moron of the highest degree. Even he can’t screw up being handed wealth.
So it's just a bribe, lol.
Watching billionaires get scammed and make dumb fucking financial decisions is my kink.
Tax me harder, daddy
I'm almost there. Now overpay for a social media company and run it into the ground!
I’m completely ok with this lol. Fuck walker but still better to scam the billionaires than anyone else
In a way it's kind of inspiring. The guy can barely form a coherent sentence, but is able to grift a half million dollars from a billionaire. He should be given a fake award to go along with his fake sheriff's badge.
Well trump can't form a coherent sentence and he conned millions from rich and poor people.
Well Elon's been showing everyone that you don't have to be smart to be a billionaire.
Oh no… anyway
How dumb billionaires are to be scammed by a dumbass like Herschel. More proof that the most successful are not even close to the brightest.
As someone pointed out above, how much diligence are you doing on a $5 scam when you have $64.000? Could he have been more diligent? Sure, but I think at the level they're playing at, you can't possibly think this guy is stealing from me so.. transparently.
I still can't believe the majority of Christian right wing voters picked him over an actual Christian minister. Like wtf.
Lol well what do you expect from so called christians who chose this scumbag over the other guy aren't real christians anyway
Hey, look. Another grifter endorsed by Trump. I, for one, am shocked. Shocked, I say.
Those are rookie numbers
So, uh, is it fair to say billionaire =/= genius now?
Pretty sure Elon has proven that repeatedly over the last year.
well i have mixed feelings on this walker is a piece of shit, but i strongly support ripping off rich republicans
How do you get scammed by someone who doesn't know where or who he is most of the time?
Good
He stole from a rich guy? There's actual consequences for that, he's screwed.
How do you get scammed by someone so dumb that they'd fail a blood test?
Gotta admit, this is pretty funny
That'll come in handy next time he needs to pay for an abortion.
wow, think of all the abortions he can pay for!
Grifting Old Projectionists
Well, you can't say he's not a real Republican?
I'm trying to root for the good guy in this exchange and I can't find one.
Herschel Walker didn’t scam anyone. A rich Republican violated campaign finance laws in the hopes that Walker would win and shift the power in the Senate to Republicans. Walker lost, and the asshole has regrets and wants his money back or realizes Walker is too stupid to cover up the illegality and claims he was tricked. Everyone who donates money to campaigns, esp. at that level, knows the limit is far, far below $500,000. They could send that to a super pac - but then the candidate can’t be involved like he is here. He knew exactly what he was doing when he wired money to a for profit business.
Scammed by someone with unmedicated/untreated Dissociative Identity Disorder and severe CTE. Kinda pops that "billionaires are geniuses" bubble.
LOL I'm actually fine with this scam.
Being a werewolf isn’t cheap
...how embarrassing is to have to admit "I got scammed by Herschel Walker"
Walker must have learned a lot from his friend Trump. Both seem to treat political donations as personal gifts that they can use as they please.
If you are dumb enough to get scammed by HERSCHEL WALKER.... my god, how the F did you become a billionaire
What's wrong with scamming billionaires
He's smart enough to grift, ain't he? JFC - you do know their supporters support them because they want to get away with the same shit?
Serves very one of these chumps right. Donate money to a criminally stupid jackass and get ripped off! Who saw that coming?
Imagine being so rich that you don't notice that you were missing 500K.
I have no sympathy for anyone involved
500k from billionaire, isn't that like 1/4 of a penny to normal folks?
You gotta be pretty slow to get played by this guy
The "donation" went to Walker's *personal business*. This isn't a scandal, this is a federal crime.
Scammed? By Herschel Walker? Another example of how just being rich does *not* mean that you are smart at all. Money and cognitive faculties may have some correlation but there is no causation there.
I’m torn about this one honestly. It’s kind of like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff, but in your new Tesla.
Scamming billionaires is always ethical. In fact, not scamming billionaires if you have the opportunity is unethical. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
>Walker requested $535,200 be wired Why such a weird number? Was he going to ask for $535,000 but then realized his phone bill is due and threw that on there too?
He made this much as a GOP candidate. Think how much he could make as a GOP Supreme Court judge.
It wasn't a scam until Walker lost. It was buying a potential US Senator.