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Almost two weeks ago, the US Department of Justice announced that it had foiled a plot by Proper and a number of co-conspirators to assassinate Donald Trump and other elected officials at the Ultimate Fighting Championship event recently held at the White House. As of Friday, eight people from around the country are in custody. All appear to be men in their 20s or early 30s.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 197 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought it was interesting at the time how it was a conspiracy of like five dudes, but the headline across several news sites was like, "two dudes from California lead conspiracy to assassinate the president."

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They refuse to admit there are more MAGAts here than any other state. They're just a minority of the population here.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Democrat"-ic camera taking photos of the two together?

"Democrat"-ic birthday card Trump wrote and signed for Epstein?

"Democrat"-ic condoms depicting Trump saying I'M HUUUUGE?

"Democrat"-ic Mike Johnson saying just yesterday he is running a protection program for keeping Trump connected Republicans with potential dirty laundry away from investigation or prosecution?

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Lefty rhetoric, like the truth. SMH. If they still believe it then they never will.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

"tHe LeFt Is ThE pArTy Of ViOlEnCe!"

parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

It's not a conspiracy theory if it's a quantifiable fact with substantial evidence to back it up

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's Anti Antifa, the most dangerous of the Antifas! /s

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly if we just started calling them "profa" they would probably take up that mantle without understanding it.

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Profa deez nuts

They put the "profa" in "prophylactic".

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Fa fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 month ago

Imagine sleeping through your own assassination

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the 5th staged assassination attempt.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 53 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Don't you think he looks tired?

[–] numerator3962@fedinsfw.app 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Amazing what just six words could accomplish.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Dr. Who reference

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[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Small pp energy, even

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's okay, he built a hospital below the ballroom (true).

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He should rest tbh.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

Why stop them? That seems a bit unfair to the rest of the world! Selfish bastards.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The plotters bandied biblically-tinged language about “shepherds” and “lions’ dens”, and believed that demons (or at least demon-worshipers) were preying on children, itself a QAnon- and Epstein-era update of a centuries-old Christian antisemitic trope. According to court documents, investigators found a diary in which Proper “wrote that the government sought to control people and to sacrifice children and others to a demonic figure”.

I mean they're on the right track. Epstein was not disconnected from Israel, and a type of Israeli statist extremism... And he was sacrificing people/children to elites, people and children were definitely killed. It wasn't a vacation camp, or even some sort of 'clean' sex trafficking ring with rules against murder, or against letting in elites practice snuff/death/rage.

Trump himself is that kind of rapist, official witness statement say he beat girls/children and degrades them when they try to refuse him.

So this group really isn't far off the mark, despite the articles spin.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

At least they are fighting each other

[–] linuxguy@piefed.ca 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

I know. It sounded like they had their shit together. Leave it to Mom to fuck it up for everyone

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

That it didn't succeed.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump whipped these freaks into a frenzy and now they want to kill him. Nobody could have predicted this.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

that is why GOP events ban firearms, they afraid for the same monsters they created.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Oh, yet another conveniently foiled assassination attempt for the guy claiming he really needs his secure ballroom. Well I say, all these foiled assassination attempts seem to suggest security is just fine.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The left is really falling behind the assassination plot counts. Kind of embarrassing tbh.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Im making as many hamburgers as I can over here okay?

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[–] TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans are such losers

Guns everywhere yet not one of you meek mother fuckers gets the job done on time

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

those of us competent enough to do it are not competent enough to get away with it and are smart enough to know that. so we're like "huh. do i want to road trip across the country and get caught in kentucky? nah. I'll let kentucky do it. It's kind of THEIR whole deal anyways."

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Department of Justice in name only.

Department of Just Us

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

It's the Department of Punishment in actuality.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh yeah that's totally believable. Right.

Please, that ass-faced moron wasn't targeted. This is more fake crap to keep the MAGAt morons worked up and frothing at the mouth that anyone would dare go after their (fat ugly stupid geriatric rapist pedo) golden god.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then why would they choose hard right fuckheads for their patsies?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Easy to find, easy to manipulate, and cheap?

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For those of us who watched Babylon 5, this seems like G'kar trying to assassinate Emperor Turhan. (Except this idiot is incapable of repenting.)

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Always the family are snitching

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

They'd rather have a martyr at this point, as he drags their progress down in the dirt.

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know it's time to step out of the ring when your own side wants you out. He can't read the room at all, but why would I expected a narcissistic narcoleptic dementia patient to do that?

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And yet they will blame the left and label the left as a terror organisation.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Its a shame they didn't succeed.

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