The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event (www.theguardian.com)
from LuckyDevil@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 22:25
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/2171090/the-ufc-match-plot-how-a-far-right-group-tried-to-assassinate-trump-at-his-own-event

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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linuxguy@piefed.ca on 27 Jun 22:37 next collapse

Such a shame.

LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Jun 23:04 next collapse

That it didn’t succeed.

_fryerDan@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jun 23:04 next collapse

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

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 28 Jun 00:01 collapse

If only these right wing assholes would consult with us, we could offer them good advice

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 22:43 next collapse

At least they are fighting each other

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 22:46 next collapse

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

meco03211@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:09 next collapse

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

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 07:41 next collapse

Profa deez nuts

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 10:57 collapse

They put the “profa” in “prophylactic”.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 28 Jun 11:40 collapse

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

Nouvellalia@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 16:08 collapse

I been singing them sad sad sooooongs, sad songs is all I know

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Jun 22:53 next collapse

Imagine sleeping through your own assassination

palordrolap@fedia.io on 27 Jun 22:57 next collapse

Don't you think he looks tired?

SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 23:06 next collapse

low energy

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 23:24 collapse

Small pp energy, even

numerator3962@fedinsfw.app on 27 Jun 23:36 next collapse

Amazing what just six words could accomplish.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 03:10 next collapse

…?

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Jun 04:19 collapse

Dr. Who reference

thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip on 28 Jun 13:56 collapse

Similar phrase used in “Stand Still Stay Silent” webcomic to great effect.

“Aren’t you tired?”

shittydwarf@piefed.ca on 27 Jun 23:53 next collapse

So tired its weird. Weird guy

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:11 next collapse

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

wabafee@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 07:15 collapse

He should rest tbh.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 27 Jun 22:58 next collapse

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.

lectricleopard@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:06 next collapse

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

subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jun 00:08 next collapse

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.”

Rentlar@lemmy.ca on 28 Jun 01:05 next collapse

“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?

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 07:05 next collapse

“tHe LeFt Is ThE pArTy Of ViOlEnCe!”

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 17:09 collapse

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

Fishnoodle@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:11 next collapse

I don’t know who this proper is, but I think his valid display of political opinion should be heard preferably in a cage match with Trump. Only a week pussy would lose and weak pussies shouldn’t be in charge of America… Right?

Fishnoodle@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:15 next collapse

When I heard about the event this was my first thought. What a great opportunity for some real right wing nationalists, WHO HATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN WITH, would realize that Trump is just a dreidel.

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz on 28 Jun 00:16 next collapse

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

Photonic@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:39 next collapse

Hey now, what would Luigi think about that?

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online on 28 Jun 02:53 collapse

Idk, whats Luigi’s political identity?

He seems pretty “self-correcting free market” kind of dude if he went after a CEO and not a Republican Legislator.

Keep in mind he’s the rich heir to a fortune, with an ivy league education and used to have a six figure tech company desk job.

Photonic@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 05:31 collapse

I was joking, but since you asked: why would a left wing attacker have to go after a ring wing politician? Anti-CEO sentiment is usually a pretty solid left wing view, especially when they’re squeezing people out of their savings by denying healthcare claims.

And he can be an heir, can have money but still be left wing. Those two are not mutually exclusive you know

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online on 28 Jun 05:56 collapse

Brian was immediately replaced, and the interim CEO who replaced him was later replaced by the shareholders in favor of a more profit-oriented CEO.

Photonic@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 07:09 collapse

Yes, and? We were talking about political affiliation of the killer.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online on 28 Jun 16:47 collapse

Nothing notably anti-CEO took place, the CEO is a position, a title, not a man.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml on 28 Jun 12:04 collapse

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

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:28 next collapse

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.

Dadifer@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 00:34 next collapse

Always the family are snitching

Gates9@sh.itjust.works on 28 Jun 00:44 next collapse

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

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 28 Jun 06:50 collapse

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

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca on 28 Jun 01:04 next collapse

Its a shame they didn’t succeed.

thorhop@sopuli.xyz on 28 Jun 01:08 next collapse

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

grte@lemmy.ca on 28 Jun 01:22 next collapse

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.

switcheroo@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 01:35 next collapse

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.

HubertManne@piefed.social on 28 Jun 01:43 next collapse

yeah I feel this way. Its like what actually took place at the event. Are they going after trash talk bs or something.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 03:03 next collapse

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

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 28 Jun 11:45 next collapse

Easy to find, easy to manipulate, and cheap?

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 11:56 collapse

Touché

fonix232@fedia.io on 28 Jun 15:24 collapse

Because they're easy to convince, and any internal issues can be handwaved away with "they were Antifa".

That's all there is to it.

Trump (or his handlers) saw how the first assassination attempt was a yuuuuuge success in getting support going. The second one was a bit lackluster but then they kept going with the correspondents dinner and now this.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 08:32 collapse

not just but it’s possible that it’s also being used to dissuade legitimate threats.

“see, we foiled these guys and we’ll get you too”

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip on 28 Jun 01:51 next collapse

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.)

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online on 28 Jun 02:50 next collapse

Department of Justice in name only.

Etterra@discuss.online on 28 Jun 09:17 next collapse

It’s the Department of Punishment in actuality.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 10:57 collapse

Department of Just Us

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 28 Jun 06:48 next collapse

the 5th staged assassination attempt.

D_C@sh.itjust.works on 28 Jun 07:30 next collapse

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

TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works on 28 Jun 16:13 next collapse

Americans are such losers

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

blueworld@piefed.world on 28 Jun 16:51 next collapse

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?

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 17:03 collapse

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