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The bombastic former Breitbart News editor was apprehended in Louisiana at an airport, according to TMZ, but the circumstances behind his detention were not immediately clear.

The 41-year-old Brit served as an unpaid summer intern for former US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2022, and worked on West’s stunt 2024 White House bid, serving as his director of political operations.

He famously arranged a sit-down dinner between President Trump and the “Heartless” rapper, which was also attended by white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Hahahahahahaha fuck Milo. Fuck ICE. But Milo helped usher this shit in. Hope he has a bad time.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel bad for the other detainees, being near this guy should qualify them for some sort of torture based asylum

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Hopefully it's the other way round

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 24 points 1 month ago

Seriously. He carries blame for this bullshit. Hope he’s having the day he deserves.

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, hope he suffers from his imprisonment, hopefully he can get gutted by fellow detainees

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

You forget, most of them are decent people unlike him

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

100000000000%

Literal leopard eating of the face

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Looks like it's part of the revenge campaign against MTG's revolt and crusade to release the Epstein files. Milo worked closely with her, and according to this (poorly sourced) article, Laura Loomer recently reported him for being in the country illegally:

Conservative activist Laura Loomer celebrated Yiannopoulos' detention on Friday.

“I was the first person to report on the fact that Milo was in the US illegally, where he incited violence against President Trump and worked for Marjorie Traitor Greene,” she wrote. “Recently, Candace Owens invited this illegal alien into her home. When Milo called for me to be assassinated, I reported him to ICE and the FBI. I told you all that Milo was an illegal alien.”

She added, “Milo is going to be deported back to the UK, where he can live among the Muslims he has recently chosen to embrace. Today is a great day for America.”

It's meant to strike fear into the fracturing GOP influencer base. Candance Owens is next on the list. Anyone else who worked for MTG is likely to become a target as well.

Evil always eats its own.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago

Somehow, my reporting both Musk and Melania never resulted in them getting taken in by ICE - this is discrimination!!!

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there any precedent for fascists continuously narrowing the circle of who is acceptable and who is the precariat? And gradually turning on each other?

Any just barely within living memory?

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She later died of a broken heart.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Or a missing face. There are so many these days it's hard to keep track.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any whose leader created a bunker under a ballroom?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And one day finally became a painter?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's quicker than I thought though. I thought they'd go for the black republicans first, not the gay, white dudes. I thought they were more racist than homophobic, especially with Theil funding their evil.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's mainly because Loomer made him a target, and he has no protection within the administration after MTG's revolt. Plus, it's a shot across the bow to Candance Owens, who isn't playing ball either, but she's got too big an audience to fuck with directly... for now.

I have a feeling that her days are numbered given that she's been attacking Israel and Jews in general for longer than Bibi has been indicted.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They always try to fuck each other over in their crabs-in-bucket way, either trying to con their way to the top or destroy each other on the way down.

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[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

between President Trump and the “Heartless” rapper

You misspelled "Nazi".

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 25 points 1 month ago
[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago
[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait. ICE did something praiseworthy? I'm so confused.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hesitated to post because I'm not trying to justify ICE in the slightest. The leopards-eating-face moment was too tempting to pass up though.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 24 points 1 month ago

This is definitely just a broken clock coinciding with the time

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ICE is just trying to meet their insane daily arrest quota. They don't care whom the machine eats.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Who" is grammatically correct there, as the subject of the phrase. "Whom" is an object.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

No, the subject of the dependent clause is "the machine," which eats. Whom does the machine eat? The immigrants, of course!

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[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The boot you lick will step on your neck too.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Is he not going to have a small army of sycophants carry him to safety on a palanquin?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Controversial"

That piece of shit got canceled for admitting being at a pedo party and covering for the people who were running said party. This was in the mid 2010's when pedophilia seemed way more shocking than it is now.

He looks like shit now, though. Makes me happy to see it.

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mind if I sit here? And would you mind sharing some of that?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks! And here --🥤🥤🥤🥤

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Do Piers Morgan or James Corden next!

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump and the "Famous" rapper

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The rapper in question is Kanye West. It would be pretty hard to argue that he's not famous.

[–] tyranny@crazypeople.online 7 points 1 month ago

he did a song called famous. its on the life of pablo

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Much like famous painter, Adolf Hitler. A household name.

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[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

Now he gets to experience the injustice he helped bring upon others. I hope he gets the full treatment of a long uncomfortable incarceration, in a cold cell, maggoty food, drinking toilet water, getting deathly ill with no medical treatment, living with people who don't speak English, but will quickly discover that he helped build this system that has destroyed their lives and families.

He's going to have a great time. I hope it lasts.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He’s white so he won’t get the same treatment which most ICE victims get. No concentration camp for him.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I wish they would have kept his ass in detention for a couple of months.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago
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