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Texasmoneyman300
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06 Jun 2025, 3:43 am

Hi yall,
I was watching TV at family's house yesterday and a Trump commercial came on advertising his own line of watches. I dont know why the ultrarich and billionaires feel the need to scam everyday poor, working, and middle class people when they already have so much money. He came out with it to scam more money out of Republicans....I heard on a text I got he is selling Trump 2028 hats too which is horrible. I was watching TV yesterday and he also joked about serving a 4th term.



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06 Jun 2025, 4:28 am

Insatiable greed in human form.


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06 Jun 2025, 4:59 am

funeralxempire wrote:
Insatiable greed in human form.

It reminds me of that John D. Rockefeller quote where someone asked him how much money he would need to be satisfied and he said just a dollar more or a little more.



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06 Jun 2025, 5:07 am

It made me think of hungry ghosts in folklore. Some people have a greed that can't be fulfilled, possibly because it isn't actually about the greed, it's about compensating for something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preta


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Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.—George Orwell