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.
Kinda figured it would be removed. Which is kind of funny since it's mentioned right there in the article.
I was curious what it would be like. Looks like a pretty normal fundraiser site. Probably wasn't worth getting put on another NSA list tho
Where do I donate?
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.
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.
Unless it's part of a piece of art
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."
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?
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
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.
So the plot of Eagle Eye and Designated Survivor.
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.
I upvoted, but only to raise awareness of this important issue. /s
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.
The martyr window would have been more during the campaign leading up to the election. That window is closed now.
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.
Just do it
The Nike ad campaign I could get behind
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.
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.
🤣
this is how I knew what a fatwa is
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?
Where do I donate?
"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."
Alright, i am a very vocal opponent to Cryptocurrency, but i do see that there might be some cases where they are useful.
I see they got my $7
Oh man, new hope. Thx Iran, I wish you luck.
Did Iran just create KillStarter?
GoKillHe
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?
Lol why so little? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up!
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.
Their politics are just as evil, but they're not capable of being cult leaders. That alone is an improvement.
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.
So like is there a kickstarter or gofundme for this or what…? Asking for a friend.
Is there a GiveSendGo / GoFundMe type of place we can donate to? ;)
o7.
Godspeed to all who try to collect.
Trump's first thought..."How can I get in on that money?".
Keep goose-stepping along the path?
I got $5 on it.
Lets go half on a sack(of bullets)
Is it GoFundMe ?
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
where can we donate to this fund asking for a friend 🙏
They should put it on gofundme.com
Crowdsourcing your assassination is an interesting plan.
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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!
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?"
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.
Humanity gives me hope again 🤘 👍
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.
Is there a donation website or something?
Just curious. I wouldn't send money. Thoughts and prayers maybe. No money.
Anyone got the gofundme link?
Trump is the anti human.
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.
A day ago it was 40 million. Sooooo, where we at now?
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?
Lol good luck.
What a time to be alive!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/27/gayrights.iran
Why isn't Iran Lemmy's favorite country?
The need for GoFundMe in our society has really gotten out of control.
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
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
If the Ayatollah can't have it, no one can!
That’s it. We found the most 21st century thing ever:
A GoFundMe for a political assassination.
I saw a billboard (in California) for a gofundme for Texas disaster relief. That feels peak 2025 to me.
Scams all the way down.
And those people have been trained to hate California(ns).
Things will get wild once someone invents a decentralized assassination market.
Plot twist their CIA version is thinking about a coup.. or just as simple a bribe..
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