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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    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?

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

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    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.

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      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

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      “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?

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      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.”

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    17 hours ago

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

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        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.

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          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

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            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.