Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.
The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on his Truth Social site. The post says it was recorded Thursday on Long Island, where Trump traveled this week to attend a wake for a recently killed police officer.
In the video, two trucks decorated with giant Trump flags and altered American flags are driving on a highway. On the tailgate door of one of the trucks is the image of Biden lying horizontally, bound and gagged.
Trump has a history of sharing and promoting violent images featuring his perceived enemies.
Biden has funded a genocide and oversees an government which completely sold out to corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and the prison industrial complex. They watched big pharma kill thousands in the opioid epidemic. They bailed out the banks after the great financial crisis, while the middle class was left to die.
Every congress member relies on corporate funding for campaigns. They can literally hold stock in the companies they regulate. Those corporations' interests are completely opposite of the interests of the working class.
I couldn't care less if some feckless oaf posts a picture of a US figurehead in such a position.
Why do you shitlibs always make vague accusations instead of specifically enumerating the lies you perceive? You're all too cowardly to just say what you actually think because you know what you actually think is wet dogshit.
If you're not even capable of basic reading comprehension what are you even doing here
Genuinely, nobody gives a shit about your personal opinion on voting, not only has nobody asked you about it, it's incredibly rote and predictable. You claimed there were lies and exaggerations - quit dodging and address your accusation with specifics.
Libs never engage with specifics. That's why their favorite dodge is to claim something is "complicated" and "needs nuance"
your exaggerations and lies
Own your dogassery with your whole chest
I’d ecstatically take four more years of this
Watch out, you're forgetting about the "crypto" part of being a cryptofascist
Its literally the same picture except one is tinted blue and the other is tinted red.
i went and looked for the image ... to uh.. confirm if true or not
it's "just" trump showing a truck parade and one of the trucks has it as a large sticker/decal
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normalising this is part of the problem. It isn’t ‘just’ a video of two trucks.
Ummm ackshully it doesn't say that in the parmesantarian's Big Book Of Fucking Over American People so three pinocchios for you!!!one
It is normal. Trump supporters have been like this since 2016. Right wing cranks existed way before that.
Right, this shit has already been normalized. We ought to be concerned with how to deal with it.
It's "just" a video of two trucks, given what the headline claimed.
When I first read the headline, I figured the image would be a kinda jank AI generated picture of Biden bound and gagged. Like... The headline makes it seem like that's the focus of Trumps post.
But it isn't. The focus of the image are the trucks adorned with Trump memorabilia. That's the thing he cares about in this case. The presence of the Chud Tailgate Murder Fantasy is incidental.
And for that matter, what do you mean "normalizing"? This shit is already normal. That's the problem.
The presence of the Chud Tailgate Murder Fantasy is incidental.
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It's literally just a video of two trucks? Do you notice anything out of the ordinary with them? Because most of us aren't experts on trucks, and frankly it's extremely uncivil to gatekeep your knowledge.
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i edited my comment to better fit what you said please lmk if there's any other problems with it so i can edit those too
thank you for the effort you provide to really fight the good fight i couldn't do this without you thank you for helping me i can't belive i normalized it thank you you helped me thank you
I saw one in my hometown last summer. It's not new or exciting. Some people got together and decided Truck nuts weren't trashy enough
That man has the attention span of a goldfish, probably didn't even watch it to that point, just saw the Trump flags and then the ego forced a repost
violent images
I hate to be the one to tell you this, Seattle Times, but this is fetish content.
the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.
Unlike Biden's non-violent rhetoric of "Israel has every right to defend itself" when people confront him with the fact he's actively funding a genocide.
lol anyone who doesn’t think a tailgate piece that makes it look like you got the president tied up in the bed of your truck is funny sucks.
Its weird, right?
Democratic Party People and liberals will constantly SCREAM about how the "right wing", Republicans, and conservatives are an existential threat while pointing to this stuff as proof.
But will instinctively reach for pearls to clutch instead of a gun.
liberal socialist
When you totally know what words mean
Were you born this fucking stupid or is it a conscious daily choice to fail yourself and everyone around you?
That's literally just regular liberalism but 'there should be some co-ops!' I.e., it's just liberalism.
Just complete gibberish, socialism's goal is the abolishment of capitalist property relations and worker ownership of the means of production
Liberalism in 99% of its political and theoretical formulations absolutely does not want those things, you're the definition of an opportunist and utopian idealist, further proved by the fact you're willing to sacrifice this make-believe ideology of yours in the hope of courting fascists
If things don’t turn around for him, he might have to lower himself to try to get votes from non-Republicans.
but I will forgo any of my liberal socialist ideals
In support of him or against him?
if Biden wants to do whatever it takes to get votes from republicans.
Ok, monkey's paw granted... he does a peace negotiation with Russia on Ukraine and then promptly declares a 2nd war, now on Mexico, Fentanyl, China, Venezuela, and Cuba, because why not?
I swear, y'all dems practice democratic centralism, don't ye? Freedom of thought, unity in action....
Doesn’t everyone want to declare war on that?
Nobody with more than a handful of braincells thinks any drug war is a good idea, what the fuck is wrong with you
Perhaps substances would be less tainted if we didn't have the drug war policies?
Depends on your definition of success. If you mean at removing drugs from wide availability, none. If you define success as making the prison industrial complex obscenely rich by locking away a new class of slaves and absolutely fucking ruining their lives, all of them.
Why yes most everyone is. Which is why anyone with a handful of braincells are against war on drugs style policies. Because they do not work and produce far worse outcomes for society than the drugs themselves.
As I said before, fentanyl is a blurry line....
fentanyl actually has broader medical use, specifically as a legal anesthetic and palliative care, so be wary when fishing the waters for fighting the war against the drugs...
if he declared war with them (which a president is technically unable to do)
This would be a worthwhile comment in 1950. Today, it just looks like you are clinging to what your high school civics class taught you like it has any bearing on the world.
I don’t know why you’ve thrown fentanyl in there. Doesn’t everyone want to declare war on that?
Idk, I mean it's something every republican detests.... even if they know how the first war on drugs's consequences.... (yk, fentanyl actually has broader medical use, specifically as a legal anesthetic and palliative care, so be wary when fishing the waters with it)
Otherwise, do republicans want war with these countries so much that they’d vote for Biden if he declared war with them (which a president is technically unable to do)?
Yaasss, btw, I guess you haven't heard of hyperbole....
To add upon this, I've heard congress is the only power that can declare war... and, I mean, considering Republican mindset... you can easily get a bi-partisan approval for declaring war on one of those countries
Note: I guess you see me as a bad-faith arguer?
I will stand beside you in opposition to this war
You're a lib. You believe in nothing but your own comfort
lmao if you can excuse genocide you definitely don't give a shit about "democracy"....which this country doesn't even have in the first place
oh God you are a being of pure racist imperialism
That's a lot of words to say you're a genocide supporter
I'm interested in saving as many innocent live as possible, which doesn't include those of genocide supporting libs like you
This isn't a game for us, this isn't just politics for us, we fucking hate you because you're acting like an inhuman monster devoid of any empathy as you support the ongoing mass starvation of children
you can work to compel Biden to stop supporting this war
That's why groups are saying they won't vote for Biden dumbass - to compel him to stop supporting this genocide
You're the one treating it like a game because you think you can trade off on the lives of Palestinian children while simultaneously washing your hands of them.
You're disgusting you know that, let me say this more simply for you son, any vote for Biden is explicit support for genocide, end of story
There's no set of tortured apologetics that will wash off the blood, you better straighten yourself out motherfucker, cause you're a fascist and you don't even know it
Netanyahu
There it is folks, this clown wants whitewash decades of colonialism and fascism so he can blame one bad guy just like he does with
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Nailed it! Every ill in the world for libs is always pinned on the one bad actor. The US or Isreal stay innocent in their minds, even though both are founded on settler colonialism and genocide
I am a one-issue voter, is the thing: I will not vote for a genocidal CRACKER. If the other genocidal CRACKERS that comprise this nation continue failing to find whatever morals they claimed to espouse all those years they were teaching me about the Holocaust, then they deserve whatever happens to them afterwards. These are not my peers, my countrymen, nor anyone I consider worth saving. You deserve to watch the erosion of all your ancestors' ill-gotten gains.
What liberals fundamentally fail to grasp is that no amount of appeasement of the "center right" will be enough. No amount of Joe Biden murderous reactionary border enforcement or unabashed collaboration in the zionist genocide will be enough for the reactionary forces. The liberals cede ground for nothing, throwing away the lives of those they see as subhuman anyway, and the reactionaries just adjust their positions to be even worse and continue braying for blood as if nothing happened.
the horror
no analysis, only war
