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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:12 PM Jan 2020

Comedian George Lopez Under Fire for Instagram Joke About $80-Million Bounty for Trump's Head

Comedian George Lopez has come under fire for an apparent joke about an $80 million bounty for President Donald Trump's head.

The 58-year-old comic wrote, "We'll do it for half," responding to an Instagram post about the purported bounty, which was suggested at a funeral procession for Iranian general Qassem Soleimani on Sunday. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday.

A eulogist at the procession, broadcast live on Iran's state-owned Channel One television network, apparently called for the $80 million bounty while addressing crowds in the city of Mashhad. "We are 80 million Iranians. If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount," the unidentified man said.

There is no indication the bounty is endorsed by the Iranian government or Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/comedian-george-lopez-under-fire-for-instagram-joke-about-dollar80-million-bounty-for-trumps-head/ar-BBYF4De?li=BBnb7Kz

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Comedian George Lopez Under Fire for Instagram Joke About $80-Million Bounty for Trump's Head (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 OP
I saw George doing his act a year ago or so and af part of his act he said dem4decades Jan 2020 #1
I laughed at this joke... I guess I committed a thought crime now ck4829 Jan 2020 #2
A thought Hate crime, I guess. LakeArenal Jan 2020 #3
Kick dalton99a Jan 2020 #4
Thanks for posting. Baitball Blogger Jan 2020 #7
My guess is the people who are most upset about this... LanternWaste Jan 2020 #5
I think it's funny...probably inappropriate, but honestly funny! Karadeniz Jan 2020 #6
I'm sure bdamomma Jan 2020 #8
$80 Million For The Dotard's Empty Head?? smb Jan 2020 #9
Your price is reasonable but only good for the contents of his head lunatica Jan 2020 #12
Facetious/provocative humor. I love it. I would even snicker if it was someone I did like. chowder66 Jan 2020 #10
Congratulations to George Lopez! lunatica Jan 2020 #11
Meanwhile Ted Nugent threatens to murder Obama and Hillary on stage.. Initech Jan 2020 #13

dem4decades

(11,297 posts)
1. I saw George doing his act a year ago or so and af part of his act he said
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:22 PM
Jan 2020

"I don't want to get political but.......

Fuck Trump!

And fuck you if you voted for him!"

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
7. Thanks for posting.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 03:01 PM
Jan 2020

The reality is that Iran is smart enough to know that Trump is not popular in the US. If that saves this country from a direct hit in this conflict, then I'll back out of criticizing Lopez.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
5. My guess is the people who are most upset about this...
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:38 PM
Jan 2020

are the very ones who cheered on phrases from actual politicians such as "second amendment remedies..." or Trump saying “the Second Amendment people might take out a President Hillary Clinton to stop her from appointing liberal Supreme Court justices..."

But, as they're half-wits and idiots, they'll pretend it never happened.

chowder66

(9,073 posts)
10. Facetious/provocative humor. I love it. I would even snicker if it was someone I did like.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jan 2020

It's morbid I know but that's the thing; I know it's wrong. I'm not laughing at it because I find it appropriate, I'm laughing at it because it's inappropriate.
He doesn't truly mean it. It isn't going to happen - at least by George it isn't and that's why I can laugh.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
13. Meanwhile Ted Nugent threatens to murder Obama and Hillary on stage..
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 04:44 PM
Jan 2020

He gets invited to the White House. Fucking hypocritical assholes!

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