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.
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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
‘Just’
normalising this is part of the problem. It isn’t ‘just’ a video of two trucks.
It is normal. Trump supporters have been like this since 2016. Right wing cranks existed way before that.
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.
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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
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.
