Milo Yiannopoulos, the British commentator once aligned with the American far right, has publicly denounced his past support for President Donald Trump after being detained and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week.

Yiannopoulos said during a Tuesday appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored: "To think that the promise and hope and joy and the anticipation of Trump 2016 could, sort of, over the course of 10 years, collapse into this ugly, warmongering, whole mentally ill heap of crazy with some of the most unstable and lunatic people, seemingly directing the president’s actions.

"If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I’m very ashamed that I did.”

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    Who cares we’ve all had a good laugh at this idiot now let’s go back to forgetting he exists

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      This motherfucker is testing the waters to see if he can find a new grift. He’s gonna say he’s ashamed of everything he’s said and done and regrets them deeply, he’s gonna say he’s been reformed, and he’s gonna reimagine himself as a progressive, if people let him.

      And sadly, enough people might.

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    Well add him to the long list of rats who think they feel the MAGA ship sinking the last few months. If I thought Milo capable of anything except acting in his own craven self-interest I might even be a bit proud of him.

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    I hadn’t thought about this piece of shit for a few years, and don’t feel like I need to spare a thought for him now, other than perhaps a, “oh yeah, that piece of shit exists”.

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      And the most selfish. It seems like every week we hear a tale of “I supported Trump’s fucked up ideals until it affected ME!”

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    FAFO. Now he can wear his stupidity and gullibility on his sleeve.

    To think that the promise and hope and joy and the anticipation of Trump 2016…

    Gotta stop you right there, Milo. That wasn’t hope and joy. It was good old fashioned hate put in a nice box to make the Far Right feel like they had a new movement. This outcome was anticipated by anyone with any real knowledge or the most basic critical thinking skills.

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    If he were to turn around and begin the long, hard process of undoing whatever he can of the harm he has done and trying to be a force for good, then he’d have a chance of redeeming himself. Though I suspect he’s too inherently narcissistic for that to be a possibility.

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    “I have a family. I have a home. I have employees. I have two very gorgeous little Bengal cats,” he said. “I’m not going to allow a politically motivated weekend of hell to rip my whole life away from me.”

    But it’s ok when it happens to other people.

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      Yeah, if you read that article it’s basically Patient Zero for the incredible amounts of conservative privilege that is assumed.

      Now, I wonder if this asshole might think about someone who is a leftist or non-white and not from some European country and not some well-connected right winger getting kidnapped and disappeared and what their ordeal may have been like, or is like?

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        This will only matter to him as long as it is something that affect him. I mean, if history of conservative behavior is any indication.

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    LOL i STILL can’t comprehend how anyone could possibly be fucking stupid and gullible enough to believe a single goddamn word out of this notorious con man’s face anus

    less than zero sympathy

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      That’s the wrong contacts. They thought it would only affect the “others.”

      This is effectively a man who just discovered he’s not a part of the “in” group, and generalizes his issues to the general population.

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      Frankly, this whole thing is probably very good for his brand, which is making money by being the center of attention at literally any cost

      The fact that anyone is even talking about this shithead again is probably the best thing that’s happened to him in years. it’s almost certainly instantly revitalized his career of being a tremendous piece of shit.

      It is rumored that Laura Loomer reported him to ICE out of spite in some cunty bitch fight between the two of them, but she may have actually done him the biggest possible favor ever by providing him exactly what he always wants: victimhood and relevance. The fuel on which his shitty fire burns.

      (seriously, no one‘s even heard from this son of a bitch for eight or nine years, and now he’s front and center in the news? Fuck!)

      I doubt it will even be a matter of hours until he’s got an entire new YouTube channel and book deal dedicated to this bullshit, just raking in the money

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        yea, the entire maga brand is all about being vastly superior to every other group in every possible way, while simultaneously being perpetually oppressed and victimized by the very people who are supposedly so inferior to them

        it’s all mind-bogglingly asinine bullshit. let him stir up the whole planet’s gay-but-also-maga acolytes into a frenzy from abroad. go get’em tiger

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        You’re right. Ignore all of this nonsense and let him fade into obscurity. His former followers will trash him, because he dared criticize ICE, and thus, dared to criticize The Leader.

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          We’re in election season for midterms, and the presidential and general elections start the very next day after midterms, so we are effectively in the presidential elections as well - that means we have to stop giving attention to distractions and people who grift from them, like Milo. If they’re not moving the needle on the most important decisions being made in the next two years, it’s a distraction and a grift, just ignore it, put it on hold, or let the experts handle it, especially if there’s literally nothing you can do except amplify a message you have been handed by someone else.

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        He briefly repudiated prez when it looked like he was toast after 2020, then embarked on a crusade to pull catholics to the right wing, (now known as the devil.)

        Edit: I am not sure the repudiation was after 2020 actually, I forget, and don’t care. I already know Milo is a piece of fucking shit.

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      It was all cynical from the start. Milo knew he was jerking off the devil.

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      He gave them permission to be openly racist, sexist, queerphobic, and xenophobic.

      He basically said it’s okay to abuse others based on your own ignorance and economic frustrations. Latent, indirect hatred has persisted in this country for a long time. This country never fully went through restoration after the Civil War. This kind of nonsense should’ve have been totally wiped out. These douchebags capitalized on that cultural legacy.