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tblue37

(65,490 posts) Mon Jan 31, 2022, 07:29 AM Jan 2022

Middle Age Riot tweet:

Trump rallies prove that a con man doesn't have to be smart if his victims are stupid enough.

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Middle Age Riot tweet: (Original Post) tblue37 Jan 2022 OP

New meaning for NJCher Jan 2022 #1

Was it Will Rogers or Mark Twain who said, gab13by13 Jan 2022 #2

Twain? Roy Rolling Jan 2022 #3

Thanks gab13by13 Jan 2022 #4

I just stopped a coworker from being conned Skittles Jan 2022 #6

That's the way it's always been and the way it will always be. Unfortunately. Fla Dem Jan 2022 #5

NJCher

(35,749 posts)

1. New meaning for

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:04 AM

Jan 2022

The Theory of Relativity.

gab13by13

(21,409 posts)

2. Was it Will Rogers or Mark Twain who said,

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:31 AM

Jan 2022

"It's easy to con someone, but it's hard to convince someone they've been conned."

Roy Rolling

(6,941 posts)

3. Twain?

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 31, 2022, 08:50 AM

Jan 2022

gab13by13

(21,409 posts)

4. Thanks

Reply to Roy Rolling (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 31, 2022, 09:30 AM

Jan 2022

my memory is still good at 74 but it just doesn't last as long.

Skittles

(153,202 posts)

6. I just stopped a coworker from being conned

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 31, 2022, 10:58 PM

Jan 2022

one of those soldier/romance things on the internet, where he was trying to get her to send him money

it took me quite some time to convince her she was being played whereas to me the con was screamingly obvious

Fla Dem

(23,766 posts)

5. That's the way it's always been and the way it will always be. Unfortunately.