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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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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 4 hours ago

Crowdsourcing your assassination is an interesting plan.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 15 points 7 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. 🤷‍♂️

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Who fucking cares at this point. Just make him be fucking gone.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] don@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Anyone got the gofundme link?

[–] Bloomcole@crazypeople.online -3 points 4 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

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bloomcole@crazypeople.online -2 points 4 hours ago (1 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

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 28 minutes 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.

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Did Iran just create KillStarter?

[–] S0ck@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago
[–] Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The Nike ad campaign I could get behind

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

Iranian hardline version of Kickstarter shoot be called "HeartStopper". I'm wondering what their stretch goals are.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 35 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@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 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.

[–] Bloomcole@crazypeople.online 0 points 4 hours ago

you can't fix it, it needs to go

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 35 minutes 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.

[–] DiskCrasher@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

He was just a useful TV star puppet.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 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.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] Bloomcole@crazypeople.online 2 points 4 hours ago

Deliberately fail

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

No doubt the cult would fracture

[–] DiskCrasher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 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.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours 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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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Swap the prisoners in Gitmo for the Heritage Foundation

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 22 hours ago

So the plot of Eagle Eye and Designated Survivor.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 5 points 20 hours ago

Trump is the anti human.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 21 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?

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

interestingly, $35 millions came from a single donation in $MELANIA memecoins

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Where do I donate?

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