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.

  • ian@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        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.

              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                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.

                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  8 months ago

                  Libs never engage with specifics. That's why their favorite dodge is to claim something is "complicated" and "needs nuance"

                  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                    8 months ago

                    Nothing on this list is specific to Biden's presidency.

                    So, when pressed over and over again to simply identify the "lies", the best you come up with is that it's all true but it's also true about other presidents?

                    Does anyone in your life take you seriously?

                  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                    8 months ago

                    but I personally hold my presidential candidates to a higher moral value than the rest of the public.

                    Just wanted to add, no you fucking don't, because you're willing to forgive Joe Biden for genocide. I wouldn't forgive the average person for that, but since you're fixated on Trump you're willing to vote for genocide.

                              • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                                8 months ago

                                You claimed another user was lying. You dodged and dodged and dodged and finally decided to explain that their "lies" were omitting that other Presidents do the same shit. This is, you'll find, not lying.

                                funny-clown-hammer You're a fucking clown and I am at this point absolutely certain that everyone in your personal life knows that you're a clown.

                                  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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                                    8 months ago

                                    Dude. I don’t know what broke you but, on planet earth, claiming that a person did a thing when it was not only not them but someone else is called lying.

                                    You're really gonna be this stupid? If I say you posted on the internet, I'm a liar because so did millions of other people?

                                    Holy shit man, log off and go look in a fucking mirror you joke.

                                  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                                    8 months ago

                                    'Cultist', nice perjorative you fucking weasel. Like y'all genocidal settlers don't call Trump's crazies the same thing. Nice equivalence.

                      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                        8 months ago

                        I will forgo any of my liberal socialist ideals if Biden wants to do whatever it takes

                        This was you.

                        but I personally hold my presidential candidates to a higher moral value than the rest of the public.

                        This is you lying in light of what you said in that first quote.

                        Own your skullduggerous, chronically-lying settler-assed horseshit with your WHOLE CHEST.

                          • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                            8 months ago

                            Incorrect. Fundamentally incorrect. Fractally incorrect. Trump didn't let 61 Black protestors against the Cop City project that BIDEN drafted, funded, and adamantly stands by, get fucking federally RICO charged. If nothing's done about them, if they're not saved, they will ALL see prison chattel slavery internments of at least 15 years. Not a single Jan. 6th rioter got this treatment. I had more money in my pocket, and a better paying job under Trump. Meanwhile, under Biden, Indeed, Monster, even LinkedIn, all full of scams and fake jobs and if I'm ever unemployed for two years again despite sending out 20 applications a day AND having credentials and degrees out the nose, I'm gonna start chalking outlines of my own.

                            While we're on the subject of Genocide Joe and his manifold fuckups, Biden just sent/promised 18 billion USD worth of jets and ordnance to Israhell again this morning. Biden's not preferable. He was never preferable, in fact; now he's just wearing his armband JUST as flagrantly as Trump did, will, and probably will again because you people have no interest in actually performing the morals you claim, as a result, no interest in making Biden EARN IT.

                            There is no way for us to reconcile; no aisle to meet in the middle of. I will not support a genocidal segregationist; especially not a genocidal segregationist who is making NO tangible improvements to the material conditions that the non-elite of this society live under. Death to the settler. Death to his empire.

                            Show

                              • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                                8 months ago

                                I won’t get into how the economy is actually the best it’s been in 40 years

                                Then where are the jobs, peckerwood? Why did it take me two and a half years to land a job with all my accreditation? Why is my partner STILL unemployed despite THEIR search? Why is a week's worth of groceries 300 dollars? Why am I spending nearly as much on gas? Why are houses so prohibitively expensive that I'll be renting a flat literally all my life? Why are used cars the cost of what new cars were ten years ago? You're so full of shit, when they flush you out for your coffin fitting, you'll fit in a goddamned matchbox.

                                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                                  8 months ago

                                  I won’t get into how the economy is actually the best it’s been in 40 years

                                  Oh wow i knew we were dealing with a turbo LIB smuglord, but damn thats ideology so pure that Zizek would OD zizek-ok

                                  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                                    8 months ago

                                    He's such a fantastic moron. Dollars to donuts this guy's only 'engagement' with this country's financial woes is through Fortune, Forbes, and FT.

                                    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                                      8 months ago

                                      100-com if you want to claim that grocery prices are fine, you are way to comfortable that i cant even imagine it. No one saying the "economy" is fine knows what the fuck they're talking about in terms of the majority of peoples experiences right now

                                  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                                    8 months ago

                                    I know that the vast majority of grocery prices have come back to normal... These prices are likely not going to go down.

                                    Then this is not the 'best economy we've had in forty years' you absolute car exhaust addict. Thanks for proving my point for me. Your only stock in trade is lies, more lies, and pissing on my leg tryna tell me it's raining. Death to the settler; death to his empire. Even balkanization is better than this.

                                      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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                                        8 months ago

                                        Fuck off, genocider. You don't measure for the people; you're measuring for your masters. Your numbers, your 'reality', is not mine or anyone's that I live near. Your words, your measurements, and your claimed morals are just as hollow as the rest of the settler cohort's; you no longer deserve, and are no longer invited to hold dialogue with me.

                                      • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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                                        8 months ago

                                        don’t know how the economy is measured

                                        please get out your calipers and measure the economy for me oh learned master

                                        "the economy" isn't a thing and you don't measure "the economy"
                                        purchasing power is way down and people are falling into poverty

          • NewLeaf
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            8 months ago

            Yes the fuck you did

      • Alsephina@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        I’d ecstatically take four more years of this

        Watch out, you're forgetting about the "crypto" part of being a cryptofascist

      • D61 [any]
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        8 months ago

        Its literally the same picture except one is tinted blue and the other is tinted red.