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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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 12 minutes 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.

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Do Piers Morgan or James Corden next!

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

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

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

100000000000%

Literal leopard eating of the face

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 35 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 21 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 hours ago

You forget, most of them are decent people unlike him

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

The boot you lick will step on your neck too.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 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 14 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 13 points 7 hours 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 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

She later died of a broken heart.

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

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

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

Any whose leader created a bunker under a ballroom?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And one day finally became a painter?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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 6 points 6 hours 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.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

between President Trump and the “Heartless” rapper

You misspelled "Nazi".

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 20 points 8 hours ago
[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 hours ago
[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 17 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 hours 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 22 points 8 hours ago

This is definitely just a broken clock coinciding with the time

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours 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 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

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

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

No, "the machine" is the object in that phrase.

[–] driftwood@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Whom is way litter tho

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 9 points 7 hours ago
[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks! And here --🥤🥤🥤🥤

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

Trump and the "Famous" rapper

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours 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 6 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

I’m assuming he did a song called Heartless. Did he do a song called Famous?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 7 hours ago

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

Hog on hog sub/dom mating rituals... 🤣 The gipity ai cyber terrorist network, where everyone is a criminal even the cheeseburger shoe shiners. No honor amoung thieves. All hogs are Beta cucks (AHBC)

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago