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This is straight up hilarious! (Original Post) Soph0571 Apr 2022 OP
I'm in! smirkymonkey Apr 2022 #1
i gave 1$ to a guy holding a sign asking for beer money samnsara Apr 2022 #25
That's called playing to the crowd ornotna Apr 2022 #2
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2022 #3
Time travel and Kahuna Magic really could fix a lot of things bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 #4
I would contribute to that! nt Laffy Kat Apr 2022 #5
Born in 1946 keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #6
I have always thought DENVERPOPS Apr 2022 #28
Yep. Neither Trump nor any of his siblings were born rsdsharp Apr 2022 #32
I was driving my business partner through town, when he asked me Chainfire Apr 2022 #7
I'd give him money Picaro Apr 2022 #8
I'd give him money. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2022 #9
That guy would have my money. I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #10
Does he have a GoFundMe? SergeStorms Apr 2022 #11
A vasectomy would be better ... soldierant Apr 2022 #12
Castration. SergeStorms Apr 2022 #34
Sure it would have prevented wendyb-NC Apr 2022 #13
Wasn't there a "Twilight Zone" that followed this theme ????? DENVERPOPS Apr 2022 #29
Wrong language Captain_New_York Apr 2022 #14
Bwah! Blue Owl Apr 2022 #15
Read the book PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2022 #16
Go back further and give his grandfather a condom AdamGG Apr 2022 #17
I hate to tell you, but the granddaddy was almost as bad FakeNoose Apr 2022 #31
The Prime Minister trolls the president with a photo of his grandfather's Canadian brothel. Marcuse Apr 2022 #33
We had one here in NE Ohio by the Wal Mart JohnnyRingo Apr 2022 #18
It works on more than one level jfz9580m Apr 2022 #19
LOL!! Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2022 #20
Don't I wish... calimary Apr 2022 #21
I like his imagination, I would give him money! Emile Apr 2022 #22
I don't know. XacerbatedDem Apr 2022 #23
Admire your grit grantcart Apr 2022 #24
Integrity. Kid Berwyn Apr 2022 #27
Thanks Kid DENVERPOPS Apr 2022 #30
But but what if he's a false flag panhandler? Shermann Apr 2022 #26
Best post of the day, week, month, year! Paper Roses Apr 2022 #35
I'd donate to that! Great way to panhandle. Martin68 Apr 2022 #36
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. I'm in!
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 05:45 PM
Apr 2022

I always really admire anyone with a sense of humor. Especially when their circumstances are so dire. I would have gone to the bank and taken money out to give this guy!

bucolic_frolic

(42,994 posts)
4. Time travel and Kahuna Magic really could fix a lot of things
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 05:56 PM
Apr 2022

Hope researchers can add karma sauce as well

DENVERPOPS

(8,780 posts)
28. I have always thought
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 02:23 PM
Apr 2022

that Daddy was every bit as big a whore monger as Donnie, and had visited Russia on "business" so many years ago. That would go a long ways in explaining how Putin came into being.........
.
Trump & Putin......brothers, with different mothers!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then your comment kicks in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks keith

Chainfire

(17,436 posts)
7. I was driving my business partner through town, when he asked me
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 06:28 PM
Apr 2022

to wheel into a convenience store. I stopped he was in and out quickly with two six-packs of beer. He asked me to go back the way we came, being quite curious, I complied. What I had missed was a person holding a sign, that said, "I need money for beer." My partner told me that he never trusted giving them money, so he bought the beer.

I will say that the sign holder was quite happy, and retired the corner with his beer.

soldierant

(6,776 posts)
12. A vasectomy would be better ...
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 07:54 PM
Apr 2022

You could give him a condom, but he'd jhave to use it, and frankly, I don't see ol' Fred being either smart enough - or sefless enough - to do that.

SergeStorms

(19,116 posts)
34. Castration.
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 05:00 PM
Apr 2022

I vote for castration. What the hell, cut all his junk off, then maybe he wouldn't have been such a prick to people in his lifetime.

wendyb-NC

(3,295 posts)
13. Sure it would have prevented
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 08:11 PM
Apr 2022

the orange blowhard scumbag from having gotten elected in 2016, it's a stellar investment.

DENVERPOPS

(8,780 posts)
29. Wasn't there a "Twilight Zone" that followed this theme ?????
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 02:26 PM
Apr 2022

person travels back in time, does something, and comes back to real time & finds that an even worse person had come into power????

Maybe that is what happened, and how we got Trump???????????? AND all the Republican Senators?????????????

Captain_New_York

(161 posts)
14. Wrong language
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 08:30 PM
Apr 2022

Since he was really the son of a Nazi, spirited out of the collapsing 3rd Reich. It would be “das Kondom“

Read Holcroft Covenant

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,809 posts)
16. Read the book
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 09:26 PM
Apr 2022
Making History by Stephen Fry, in which a person manages to make sure Hitler was never born. Incredibly good.

FakeNoose

(32,532 posts)
31. I hate to tell you, but the granddaddy was almost as bad
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 02:54 PM
Apr 2022

He came to the US (and Canada) to run a whorehouse for the 49-ers. By that I mean the goldminers who flocked to California and up north in Canada when they discovered gold in 1849. Granddad Chump became rich, and moved back to the New York area to invest in real estate. I read that he died young and his son Fred (Chump's dad) took over the real estate business and became partners with his mother. He basically went around Queens and bought up cheap properties, fixed them up and rented them out.

The original source for the money was pimping for the goldminers. Most of those miners ended up losing their shirts anyway. Only a few ever got rich.

Marcuse

(7,441 posts)
33. The Prime Minister trolls the president with a photo of his grandfather's Canadian brothel.
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 04:49 PM
Apr 2022


Grandpa‘s citizenship was revoked and he was banished by Bavaria for draft dodging. Go figure. [link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree|

JohnnyRingo

(18,614 posts)
18. We had one here in NE Ohio by the Wal Mart
Sat Apr 16, 2022, 11:46 PM
Apr 2022

His sign said he was saving up for a ticket to Florida so he could punch Donald Trump in the nose.
That was worth a buck was imagining it.

jfz9580m

(14,529 posts)
19. It works on more than one level
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 01:37 AM
Apr 2022

That unfortunate man appears to be homeless. I am glad he has a sense of humor about it, but it is actually a somewhat tragic image. When I see the images like these, I do not feel as though society has changed all that much from the one described in George Orwell's less known masterpiece, Down and Out in London and Paris, describing the lives lead by so-called tramps in London/Paris in the early 1900s. A very saddening but powerful read.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London

I wonder what kinds of lives people in such lousy circumstances lead from day to day. No developed country should have people living in such harsh circumstances..

This is from just last week:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216581462
America's homeless ranks graying as more retire on streets

A horribly depressing read..in some ways I find developed world poverty even starker sometimes than that in the under-developed countries. It is different but just as grim if not worse.

And one toxic side effect of these conspiracy theories about "actors" (Alex Jones/Sandy Hook) is that it allows people to feel ok about ignoring the plight of people like these. Nobody likes to feel uncomfortable about brutal realities like these..much more convenient to convince oneself that such people are all lazy, addicted etc. or liars/actors etc. We are an unpleasant sort of species in some ways.

XacerbatedDem

(511 posts)
23. I don't know.
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 08:50 AM
Apr 2022

I remember when I was working at a day labor place out in Vegas, and I had to walk 10-15 blocks to catch the bus to get back home after working an eight hour shift doing construction clean-up.

So, I get to the bus stop and there's a guy practically standing in the street with a sign that read, "Why lie, need money for beer." He finally got tired and walked over to the bus stop and sat down beside me.

Of course, curiosity got the best of me and I asked him how much he made doing that, and he told me what he got for just 2 hours holding that sign. It was more than I had made working my ass off that entire day.

Vegas may be different, but back home in Missouri, I've seen the same thing. I was homeless for 2 years, I never asked anyone for a single penny. But I did take advantage of the once a day free lunch at the Salvation Army. Those people are lifesavers. The rest of the time, I had a canning route up by the college I used to gather and recycle aluminum cans to make money. It was a hard life, but somehow I survived.

Kid Berwyn

(14,770 posts)
27. Integrity.
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 12:58 PM
Apr 2022

More than all the money in the world, understanding, developing and keeping one’s integrity makes all the difference in life.

DENVERPOPS

(8,780 posts)
30. Thanks Kid
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 02:30 PM
Apr 2022

There are many of us here that follow that train of thought. And no matter what happens, we will continue to try and achieve that (and other goals) so that we can sleep at night. Regardless of what surrounds us............

Shermann

(7,398 posts)
26. But but what if he's a false flag panhandler?
Sun Apr 17, 2022, 12:55 PM
Apr 2022

In other words, a hardcore homeless Trumper manipulating the more liberal types?

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