Iran fatwa fundraiser to kill Donald Trump raises over $40 million
Iran fatwa fundraiser to kill Donald Trump raises over $40 million
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.
Did you know that it's illegal to say, "I wish someone would kill the president of the united states"?
Im not saying it, im just letting you know that it's illegal. Like a public service announcement.
Will no one rid us of this turbulent president?
But I thought murica was the pinnacle of free speech? 😮
Okay but what about investing in the Fatwa ETF?
You can, however, wish bad fortune and ill luck befall the president. Its the "I want a person to do a thing" problem because it sounds like you could looking for somebody to hire.
"Freedom of speech" mfs when it's not about literal speech.
Did you know that it’s illegal to say, “I wish someone would kill the president of the united states”?
Nope: can't know things that aren't true.
It's not a true threat. When someone said
If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.
that, too, was rejected as a true threat. The Secret Service may pay you a visit, though.
So, when are you not killing the president?
Unless it's part of a piece of art
When I see a cheeto on the floor, there is always a demon voice in my head telling me to stomp it with my foot
In the US.
Most countries wouldn't care at all.
Is it illegal for US citizens to donate?
It will certainly land you on some interesting lists
We’re likely on those lists already for using lemmy.
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.
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.
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.
Swap the prisoners in Gitmo for the Heritage Foundation
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.
So the plot of Eagle Eye and Designated Survivor.
you can't fix it, it needs to go
nah, I don't want him to become a martyr. better if he dies from a heart attack on the toilet. 🤷♂️
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.
That's the stretch goal, making it look like an accident is at 80 million.
There’s nothing saying such an appropriate demise can’t be surreptitiously expedited.
I have some McDonald's coupons left over. Can I send them to him?
Where can I donate?
Bad idea if you live in a country with extradition treaty with the US.
You could end up in gitmo for "providing material support to terrorist activity", because that is technically what you are doing, money is material support.
I can't tell you what to do, but like if Iran actually manage to do it, it would be the best excuse to get Iran obliterated from the map, and most NATO countries will probably help with the invasion of Iran under Article 5, since that's effectively like a 9/11 v2 (not in number of deaths, but in terms of being able to justify a foreign war).
Iran performing the assassination is 100x worse than, say that nutjob in 2024 doing it. If trump die from that kid's gunshot, there wouldn't be much happening, but if Iran did it? In this tense political climate where 1/3 of the US population are in a cult? Can you even imagine all the lynchings against Muslims, Arabs, and anyone who "looks middle eastern"?
Any soldiers or national guard that was bordering on "hmm, is this actually legal", will now not even question their orders. Being anti-trump in the aftermath of this hypothetical assassination would be treated as almost as bad as supporting al-qaeda.
Its not a good idea, IMO.
Why article 5? Is it not only valid if a country suffers an unprovoked attack? It will be hard to argue that bombing a country is not a provocation.
You can get thrown in a concentration camp because your skin's too dark and you weren't carrying your ID, even if you're a US citizen.
That's one of the side effects about tossing out the rule of law. If merely protesting or having a certain meme on your phone is dangerous, then might as well go all in.
If Trump were assassinated, I would celebrate, and donate to the assassin's defense fund. I don't care if MAGA Nazis consider me a terrorist. Fuck them and their treasonous, corrupt ignorance.
As he lived for creating chaos, his own death would make him happy. The man who destroyed civilization has a certain ring, doesn't it?
Perhaps move to Iran first, then you can really appreciate the greatness of that society and their great struggle against evil.
A temporary alliance in a common goal is fine. Whatever Iran is doing it doesn't deserve the Israel/US bombing and war crimes.
clearly you never played modern warfare 2 https://youtu.be/a8ZGee3mzbE
Just do it
The Nike ad campaign I could get behind
Strike
Did Iran just create KillStarter?
GoKillHe
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?
Crowdsourcing your assassination is an interesting plan.
Where do I donate?
GoKillMe fund raiser
Iranian hardline version of Kickstarter shoot be called "HeartStopper". I'm wondering what their stretch goals are.
Alright, i am a very vocal opponent to Cryptocurrency, but i do see that there might be some cases where they are useful.
Kill Hitler fundraisers are unironically one of supposed ancap mechanisms against tyranny.
I just love how reality keeps proving me right.
(Would prefer a heaven where it doesn't, of course)
Oh man, new hope. Thx Iran, I wish you luck.
I don't think making him a martyr would be a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't shed a tear if he passed with the worst agony I can imagine. But making him a martyr would make his agenda immortal.
Martyrs tend to be symbols to a cause. Trump and maga don't have much ideology it's more a cult of personality. Those tend to go away when the central figure dies.
I'm unconvinced they can find a replacement for him that touches the nerve of all those hateful loons at once. Who are they going to have? JD Vance and his eyeliner?
The next election they'd play the "Do it for Him" card, but I can't see them queuing round the block to vote for anyone else. They voted for Donald because even in their politically sheltered lives, they'd heard of him and seen him on TV. As somebody who watched Boris Johnson rise to power, it really is as fucking dumb as that.
Worst take in the thread. Martyr or not his philosophy and his followers is "unbridled self interest" aka "fuck you, I got mine." Martyrdom is antethetical to the cause.
Somebody offing him would set a good example that being a corrupt, fascist leader is not a good way to get riches or a long healthy life.
Am I saying anyone should do something? No.
I disagree. The people who want to make him a Martyr will make him a Martyr no matter what. The people who know what he has done will understand that him being killed doesn't make any of that better.
See the way all the other Fascists in the world before him were handled.
I don't think you are wrong. But I think an assassination would be the icing on the idiot cake.
He needs to take the adolf way out.
Further I think Trump is now the least of our problems with the Trump administration. I fear JD would be even worse.
During the Biden term, the worst people built plans around a trump return to office and the relatively more strong execution this time versus last time is from those around him, not himself so much.
The martyr window would have been more during the campaign leading up to the election. That window is closed now.
Anyone got the gofundme link?
I got $5 on it.
Lets go half on a sack(of bullets)
where can we donate to this fund asking for a friend 🙏
Is it GoFundMe ?
Trump's first thought..."How can I get in on that money?".
Keep goose-stepping along the path?
I dunno, I think the idea of President Vance or President Johnson even don’t really seem like upgrades.
Yeah, I cannot decide who I'd want least out of those two. They are both so goddamned weird. That porn pact thing that little johnson has with his son - really weird. And he always comes off as just so creepy and awful.
And "JD" - that asshole sitting there and asking Zelenskyy if he said thank you? "JD" can go fuck himself.
One thing trump is really good at is playing people off each other. The man has a learning disability and is under-educated, but only a fool denies his savvy. He accepted vance knowing he couldn’t hold a coalition of the stupid and greedy, and if trump falls, they all fall to infighting unless there’s a dark horse I’m not seeing.
Their politics are just as evil, but they're not capable of being cult leaders. That alone is an improvement.
o7.
Godspeed to all who try to collect.
Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more "skilled" might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.
Under other circumstances I'd find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I'll label it balance/Newton's 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.
Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.
How many ways can the secret service split that?
I mean, for legal reasons, I'm not going to tell them to do it. I'm also not going to tell them not to do it though!
A day ago it was 40 million. Sooooo, where we at now?
Trump is the anti human.
How does a fatwa work? I don’t know much about it. Can anyone collect that bounty or do you, like, need to be Islamic/Iranian?
It would be hilarious if a prominent republican tried to collect on that
"Et tu, Vance?"
Ugh, does anyone want to see "JD" "Vance" take that role while the qons make a martyr of this shithead?
Or possibly worse, that little dweeby troll magamike johnson if they were to target "JD", too?
The people behind 2025 will use anyone else as their tool and if Taco were to fatwa'ed, it wouldn't make anything better and would most likely make things much worse.
Hypothetically, if Trump flatlined, Vance would be FAR better. He doesn't command the cult. The cult would finally fracture. Rats would finally speak truth to power.
Not sure about that.
It's how they acquired the office, but depending on how much they dismantle democracy, they don't need the popular cult as much.
JD extending his term under some emergency context after a trump assassination may be the thing that we don't come back from.
Was JFK ever a martyr? They elected Nixon the next election.
I just don't buy this argument, and as far as J Davenport fucker is concerned I don't think he could hold the party together, and they'd eat themselves.
They are extremely cult-like about Taco. I saw one of them put one of those stupid "never give up" shirts [1] on their kids and went out in public with it last summer. I mean, what the actual hell. Who knows if the spell will every break with the true believers. Even if Taco were to stroke out on live tv and shit his diaper, they'd probably blame that on Hillary or Biden or Hunter's hard drive, oops, I mean, "laptop". These people are fucking crazy.
[1] The pose where he was thinking "photo-op" right after the shattered glass hit his ear.
The next election after JFK was Johnson slaughtering Goldwater. I wondered what fucker's middle initial stood for. thx.
unless iran issue a fatwa aginst them both, its not useful.
Is there a donation website or something?
Just curious. I wouldn't send money. Thoughts and prayers maybe. No money.
They should put it on gofundme.com
Humanity gives me hope again 🤘 👍
almost 400 upvotes
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Rare Iran W.
Lol good luck.
The need for GoFundMe in our society has really gotten out of control.
There should be a website dedicated to funding murder
I fatwa $50 billion on Putin if the killer sırvives. If he does then I will kill him myself to not pay the price.
Do you work for the Subnautica 2 publishers?
I feel like him getting more noble peace prize nominations would only make this bounty go up and would become even more comedic. Jehovah forbid they actually give him one. lmao
What a time to be alive!
I don't see one death changing much. His enablers would just enable someone else.
One death can change the world.
I doubt it would change much.
If the Ayatollah can't have it, no one can!
What’s an ear worth, just asking with no intent or plan, just want to know what that guy managed.
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
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/27/gayrights.iran
Why isn't Iran Lemmy's favorite country?
Let's assume that succeeds. A bunch of religious fanatics signing their fellow countrymen's death warrant. How is that different from maga loonies pulling down America? Still love the fact, but... Yeah
It'll never succeed and to be honest, killing the Orange Jackass now world be counter productive. He's the head of a cult and one of the most important lessons of Christianity is to never make martyrsb out of cult leaders.
The best thing that could happen is he dies or is otherwise incapacitated by a stroke or heart attack. Then he MAGA will year itself apart trying to consolidate around over if several new leaders who lack the particular kind of charisma Trump possessed. Vance will be a puppet President that will seesaw between whichever faction is ascendant at any particular point, or else stick to one faction that has the most leverage.
For approximately 9.5 years now the liberal solution to trump- like yours- is to do nothing. Your way is not working.
That’s it. We found the most 21st century thing ever:
A GoFundMe for a political assassination.
Things will get wild once someone invents a decentralized assassination market.
I seem to recall reading one of the divisive things the cipherpunks on their mailing list discussion was about untraceable digital money (before Bitcoin) and the thought experiment about just this very kind of thing (minus the siren server like GoFundMe, because why would you want that in the mix if you were doing this kind of thing).
Not that anyone set it up, and the many proposals around digital cash did not really gain traction until 2009 or so...but this was from the 90s.
link? :p
Plot twist their CIA version is thinking about a coup.. or just as simple a bribe..
Where do I donate?
What are the stretch goals? I mean, we have a whole slew of shitbags the world would be better off without.
"The above sum ($40,286, 867) will be received by the people who have committed themselves to any freedman who will carry out the sentence of justice."
($45,286, 867)
"A photo of the deceased will be published."
($50,286, 867)
"A recording of their last words will be published."
($60,286, 867)
"Ol' Pete will get the Russian resignation treatment."
($65,286, 867)
"Marco will get a special tea to drink."
Has there ever been an assassination that was motivated by a public bounty? And did the assassin successfully collect?
I’m not asking whether there have been any previous similar bounties—I’m asking whether any of them were the primary incentive for a successful assassination.
The attempt against Rushdie failed, and the attacker claims to have had religious rather than financial motivations (and doesn’t seem to have planned to escape to collect payment in any case).
i kinda wanna read his book now
rush die
I upvoted, but only to raise awareness of this important issue. /s
Curb your Enthusiasm did a whole season about this. Should be relatively straightforward for him to get them to call it off as long as he follows their blueprint.
this is how I knew what a fatwa is
I'm picturing Taco dressing up as "Buck Dancer" and arguing over hotel staff about the proper handling of baked goods and whether they are "freshly baked" by the in-house chef, or just Pepperidge Farm products.
🤣
"So how did you solve world hunger?" "First we had a go fund me to assassinate DT. Met our goal. Then we fulfilled our end of the bargain." "Go on..." "The we defunded ICE, and solved world hunger. 120B goes a long way."
I see they got my $7
Lol why so little? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up!
They should throw at least 100 virgins on top of the payout!
I'll volunteer my virginity as well!
Is there a GiveSendGo / GoFundMe type of place we can donate to? ;)
So like is there a kickstarter or gofundme for this or what…? Asking for a friend.
Can I donate
I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year
I was joking but I will probably see a camp in my lifetime regardless of what I post on lemmy
How does one collect?
The real money is the dead Nazi you make along the way.
It would be delightfully ironic if they used the crypto that Trump is deregulating.
interestingly, $35 millions came from a single donation in $MELANIA memecoins
Your comment made me actually open the article. Sadly your comment seems to be fake. I want to believe!!
The comment is real. I see it too.