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Afatwa, or religious decree, issued by senior Iranian clerics calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump has attracted online funding worth tens of millions of dollars, reports say.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is it illegal for US citizens to donate?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It will certainly land you on some interesting lists

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

We’re likely on those lists already for using lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

Crowdsourcing your assassination is an interesting plan.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of casserole do you bring to a fatwa fundraiser?

[–] HugeNerd 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] don 2 points 11 hours ago

There might be some if Ham comes back with it. He’s out right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

nah, I don't want him to become a martyr. better if he dies from a heart attack on the toilet. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

When this nearly 80 year old fat guy, who loves burgers and hates exercise, eventually has a stroke, the right will still come up with crazy conspiracy theories about his death.

Idiots will find a way to make him a martyr. Hell, idiots thought he was secretly trying to stop Epstein.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

That's the stretch goal, making it look like an accident is at 80 million.

[–] don 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There’s nothing saying such an appropriate demise can’t be surreptitiously expedited.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I have some McDonald's coupons left over. Can I send them to him?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Anyone got the gofundme link?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did Iran just create KillStarter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why?
This clown destroying the US from within is the best thing that can happen to the world.
Yes it will create some waves but as they say: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That will be bittersweet for any countries he destroys whilst flailing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The clown is in his second term and hasn't even started a war.
Unlike most of the previous ones from either side of the imperialist uniparty.
And even then it will be the last spasms of the dying cancer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

he's at war with the American people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

He hasn't managed to start any global conflicts, despite his best efforts. All the other countries are having to be the adult in the room while he shits the bed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

A day ago it was 40 million. Sooooo, where we at now?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Nike ad campaign I could get behind

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The problem is that Trump isn't actually in charge. He's just the figurehead who holds everyone's attention.

You'd have to remove half the supreme court, Congress, the electoral college, and the entire Heritage Foundation if you wanted a chance at fixing the US.

Trump on his own is a bumbling toddler who couldn't even make his own executive order to sign. I'd rather see him in a nursing home while the people who put him in power get tried for their crimes.

[–] ryper 3 points 11 hours ago

You’d have to remove half the supreme court

Make that two thirds of the Supreme Court. Most of the worst decisions have been 6-3.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

you can't fix it, it needs to go

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I realize theyre now all in office now, so you may be right. But did anyone notice how the bumbling idiot orange puppet was a critical part of gaining that power?

He is certainly a puppet, but maybe without that puppet, it'll be like trying to play He-Man when the kid next door took your He-Man figure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

He was just a useful TV star puppet.

[–] KingPorkChop 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

He is crucial to their movement though. Most MAGA don't give a shit about anyone else. This is a cult and without dear leader it will wither.

If Iran were to turn Trump into a glob of orange meat (I mean, more than he is right now), the cult will freak out. Some will blame it on deep state. Clinton and Biden will be name dropped. But there will be nothing to keep the movement going. I think Project 2025 will start to wither as well because no one involved can capture the mob like Trump can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Only to have Democrats fail to undo a single thing Trump did, just like in 2021. No matter how he dies, Trump and MAGA will haunt the USA for however long it has left before the inevitable collapse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Deliberately fail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

No doubt the cult would fracture

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

It won't end with Trump. His followers are brainwashed and will happily follow the next con man like sheep, just as they follow corrupt religious leaders. Not a critical thought in their heads. And anyone but a Dem.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yes, but since all the bumbling toddlers in the US vote for Trump, he's a powerful figurehead. I mean, I'm all for killing the rest on your list too, but he'd be a fantastic start.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Swap the prisoners in Gitmo for the Heritage Foundation

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

where can we donate to this fund asking for a friend 🙏

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If some Iranians want to hunt down and put an end to some vile child molester’s wretched existence, who am I to stand in their way?

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