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TPM has been reviewing the “OperationFlagDrop” channel since late last month. Several of the accounts that participated in the group appear to have been deleted and conversations there indicate that some individual messages were removed. We endeavored to reproduce all of the posts quoted in this story as close to their original format as possible, which includes some spelling and grammatical errors.

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[–] iBaz@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“Last night we did a flag drop in the middle of riots to support our Blue and our PB’s that were protecting us !!!” Forte wrote on November 15, 2020.

Love how they claim to “back the blue” except, you know, when they were beating the Capitol Police with whatever weapons they could find and spraying them with bear spray.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Related this recently:

Man came over to pick up a thing I put in Nextdoor.com. Said, "Hey I seen you on there, talking about 01/06. My brother's a cop."

He wasn't in my grill by any stretch, but his struck me as a bit adversarial. Impossible to relate in text, and it's been a couple of years.

"And those vile scum beat policemen with an American flag. 2 committed suicide directly after. FUCK those people." (Again, can't get it across in text.)

You could see the gears turning, thinking, "Well... yeah... fuck them!"

Anyway, the guy honestly gave it a thought, and I think he found a new take on the whole thing.

We parted very amiably, shook hands, all that. One of the rare times I think I gave someone a truly new perspective and the internalized it.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure you don't get any more white trash than this, this is one of the people included:

It was pouring rain, and I was riding shotgun in a Rolls-Royce with a 38-year-old MAGA rapper named Forgiato Blow. We were on our way to have dinner at Hooters.

Only half of his face tattoos were visible from where I sat: a diamond balanced on the coiffed hair of a cartoon Richie Rich on his cheek. Two interlocked Rs—to stand for Rolls-Royce—nestled next to his ear. And the Bitcoin symbol peeking out from under his red, white, and blue “American Gangster” cap.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gp4a/maga-rapper-forgiato-blow

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was wondering who gets a bitcoin tattoo and then

The Rolls-Royce is painted cotton-candy pink and neon blue. It’s covered in drawings of dollar bills, Bitcoins, piggy banks—and Richie Rich. On the hood are the words “Trump’s Nephew.”

oh

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The person making fun of that car is my favorite part of that article and I love that article. Also, there's pics of that car further down, it's as bad as it sounds.

While Jantz was parking, a man outside Hooters laughed. “Who the hell drives that? Captain Crunch?”

I repeated the joke over dinner, with his producer Dexter Drayton (aka FangaLee) and another up-and-coming MAGA rapper, Stoney DudeBro.

They laughed. Jantz wasn’t as amused.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Stoney DudeBro

Can’t believe a MAGA is calling himself that. Or anyone for that matter.

They should just go home, no one’s better than Roy Wood Jr

https://youtu.be/JSBGDC0rKWU

They need a followup, so much more material now. Except now it would be a grievance rap.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy shit, how did I miss that video.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I went back and read that article to the end. I can see why you love it, a remarkable amount of ridiculous bs condensed into one space. That’s an article you can’t really give someone the cliff notes on.

Probably one of my favorite parts

“But my fans aren’t teenage boys,” he added. “My fans are 50-to-60-year-old people that probably never listened to rap music in their life. And I make them love rap music. Now they love rap music.”

That is sad. But funny.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I think that wraps up the whole article, sad but funny. I was just laughing at this too:

He said he eats at Hooters almost every day, and always orders wings. He’s hooked on soda, regularly guzzling gallons of Dr Pepper, Fanta, and Coke. He told me he finds it hard to sleep.

The writer knew how to be dry with his humor and let us laugh at the absurdity of it all.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago
[–] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"He says he’s never read a book—not a single one, not even in school. He doesn’t have much of a dating life. He has a few friends, but they tend to “change every two years.'" - well that's surprising /s

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's after his multimillionaire grandfather sent him to a 50k/yr boarding school in between yaughting trips.

This is a broken trust fund bro who spent years trying to get his rap career going because being a rich kid wasent enough. He stumbled on MAGA as his answer and just went 100% fucking stupid about it.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

challenger implies seriousness in candidacy or plausible chances of success.

it's more of a vanity campaign for a fox news gig.

as close to their original format as possible, which includes some spelling and grammatical errors.

also not surprising