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.
Even given your exaggerations and lies, I’d ecstatically take four more years of this over four more hours of Trump.
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
If you believe the things mentioned in the original comment have taken place just in the past three years or are the sole responsibility of Joe Biden, I would encourage you to... well, let's be honest, it's probably too late for you. I wish I could help you but I'm not an educator and don't have the time or inclination to re-educate the poorly educated.
But just to reiterate, strongly, I believe four more hours of Trump is literally worse than all the things mentioned that may or may not have to do with Joe Biden. You can disagree with that. I realize it's controversial.
I didn't think a Trump presidency was going to be that big of a deal at first but I was sorely wrong. It's by no means a stretch to imagine another Trump presidency, given the tone of this country and congress and judges, will be the undoing of the United States. Our democracy has failed. The oath our legislators have taken is worthless. They have all (all - dems included) put party over country.
And I will say it's not Trump whom I blame - it's the voters. What I am absolutely unable to comprehend is how anyone could possibly ever consider Trump for President of the United States, let alone vote for him. It's depressing that our culture has gotten to this point. Rather than educate and better ourselves, we choose stupidity. We choose freedom to be idiots ruled by fascism. We're regressing while other countries are evolving.
Biden might not fix what's broken but Trump very well make break everything it means to be American. So, for me, there's no choice.
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"
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.Nothing on this list is specific to Biden's presidency.
Every (modern) US government / congress has funded Israel, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex. These have always been gigantic concerns and now you're looking at this president and blaming him??
Current events aside, Trump was FAR more supportive of Israel than any other president this century, of not ever. I mean, you think shit's bad now? Imagine if Trump were president during this war.
Trump + Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/100-times-president-trump-supported-israel/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50468025Trump + Military Industrial complex
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/donald-trump-goes-all-in-for-the-military-industrial-complex/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewkorda/2020/09/10/trump-is-a-hypocrite-but-hes-right-about-the-military-industrial-complex/?sh=51b11e7d78da https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-military-industrial-complex-eisenhower-pentagon-losers-suckers.htmlBiden + Military Industrial complex
There's two wars going on right now so of course the current president is asking congress to appropriate more money towards those causes.Trump + Prison industrial complex
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-first-year-has-been-private-prison-industrys-bestBiden + Prison industrial complex
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/biden-s-order-terminates-federal-private-prison-contracts-here-s-n1255776"They" is used regarding the opioid criss and the 2008 financial crisis which obviously is not specific to Biden or his presidency.
Both Biden and Trump have taken positive steps towards solving the opioid crisis.
Biden + opioid crisis
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/briefing-room/2021/11/17/fact-sheet-actions-the-biden-harris-administration-has-taken-to-address-addiction-and-the-overdose-epidemic/
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/05/19/biden-administration-announces-15-billion-funding-opportunity-state-opioid-response-grant-program.htmlTrump + opioid crisis
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32113-9/fulltext https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-signs-sweeping-opioid-bill-vow-end-scourge-drug-addiction-n923976It was during the Obama administration that the economy was essentially saved so I'm not sure what this has to do with Biden's presidency. The "middle class" has literally been dying since the early 1970s when productivity and wages started to diverge. The death of the middle class sits firmly on the shoulders of Republicans who oppose federal minimum wages and more regulations on Wall Street, corporations, and consumer protections. So, to blame Biden's presidency on the death of the middle class is just not based in reality at all.
Trump + Middle class
https://apnews.com/article/bbd344ade2b74e17a172ac5a371ba756 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-covid-response-economy-jobs-taxes-inequality-1080345/Biden + Middle Class
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/11/biden-economics-middle-class-workers-heather-cox-richardson https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/The list then goes on to mention congressional election campaigns and buying stocks which quite obviously has nothing to do with Biden or any president ever. FWIW, here's a bipartisan bill banning stock trades
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2023/07/20/1188869588/new-bill-would-fine-congress-members-for-trading-stocks-and-owning-blind-trusts/
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/senators-propose-banning-stock-trades-us-congress-president-2023-07-25/So, yeah for me, I'm more concerned about a candidate running for president posting an image of a current president bound up. That tells me that this person is not fit to be the leader of the country where I reside. I have no problem with Joes and Janes doing it (I'm 100% in support of this) but I personally hold my presidential candidates to a higher moral value than the rest of the public. That also includes holding the current president and congressional leaders to account when they don't voice their condemnation of mass civilian casualties. However, given the two choices we've got, frustratingly, there's not much of a choice.
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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‘Just’
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.
Tagline NOW
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.
okay
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.
I don't like saying this but I will forgo any of my liberal socialist ideals if Biden wants to do whatever it takes to get votes from republicans.
Edit: Man, you people are sad little trolls. Go spend some time out in the IRL world. It's genuinely depressing to see so many keyboard warriors spend their time regurgitating the talking points from the comfort of their echo chamber.
To clarify my meaning, whether you agree with my politics or not, I think Biden has been a far better president than anyone could have hoped for (possibly the best I can recall) but I still have a philosophical disagreement with him when it comes to protections and equity for all. I believe there are some programs that the federal government should run to give all Americans the best opportunities (education, healthcare, housing, UBI, etc) and I believe that taking excessive capitalist gains from the ultra wealthy is a small drop in the bucket to promote some fairness. I will lean back on these philosophical ideas which I've had little hope of a centrist of adopting and encourage him to lean further right if that means he can take some votes away from the inarguably worst president in modern times (yes, worse than Regan).
If you think Trump should be the leader of the US, that he some how represents or understands democracy, that he cares about you or the United States, that he's a good president or person, or is better than Biden in any regard, you and I are not existing in the same solar system so there's no point in arguing. I don't have anything against Republicans but the extreme and religious conservatives and the MAGA cult do not align with the freedoms dreamed by our founders or promised in the Constitution of the US.
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.
That's just polite fascism though? Oh! You are a liberal, got it.
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....
I don’t know why you’ve thrown fentanyl in there. Doesn’t everyone want to declare war on that? 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)?
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
Here I thought anyone with a handful of brain cells was opposed to people dying from using tainted illicit drugs. I apologize for my assumption.
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'm the dumbest person on this website so I'll bite. The only way to gain votes from a group is to align with their ideology. I know you are aware of this and you want him to be more right wing, but that's the issue. Biden shifting right would eliminate any chance whatsoever of the policies you claim to want. It would mean more support to Israel and more support of genocide. It would mean more deportations and stronger anti-immigration stances. It would mean less support of women's rights. It would mean being more hostile to queer people. It would be difficult to distinguish from a Republican presidency, but at least his rhetoric is nicer. Also, if a genocide supporting, union busting president that oversaw the banning of abortion, increased persecution of queer people, devasting proxy wars, a series of infrastructure disasters, a trillion dollar military budget and literal genocide is the best president of your lifetime, perhaps your American "democracy" isn't as noble as you think.
Yes. That's literally the point I've made. These are all better options than Trump. I don't know why this is so difficult for people to grasp.
And come on, "genocide" is a strong specific word and not what's happening in Gaza. There are mass casualties in an unjust attack on civilians. Just because something is indefensible and heinous does not at all mean it's literal genocide. There's an attack on locations where terrorists are presumed to be hiding. I'm not going to defend it but I'm not an Israeli who just suffered the worse attack on my country ever with my family held hostage underneath schools and hospitals.
I'm not supporting genocide nor am I supporting this war. I am suggesting that a slightly more right leaning democratic president is preferable over Donald fucking Trump.
This should not by any means be a controversial opinion outside the most braindead of cultists. How anyone could possibly suggest that Donald Trump is better than literally anyone else is absolutely not within my ability to comprehend. I would prefer someone like Warren or AOC but I would sooner vote for Desantis over Trump.
It's literal genocide. Israel is openly trying to rid Gaza of Palestinians by bombs and starvation. Calling it anything other than genocide is implicit support for the the apartheid state of Israel. October 7th was nothing compared to the suffering of Palestinians. Also why is Trump better than Desantis? Desantis has had some of the most violent policies and actions against trans people in the nation. To me it sounds like your allegiance is based not on ideology but on rhetoric.
Also, from the river to the sea, may Palestine be free.
Israel is currently bombing Gaza to get hostages back.
You’re right and I’m thankful that people are finally seeing how horribly the Palestinians have been treated for generations. The Palestinians and the US should be helping Israel oust Hamas.
I said Destantis was better than Trump. He’s the second worst possible candidate I can imagine.The hostages are dead and Israel killed (many of) them. Even if they weren't, 35,000 and 2 million displaced in exchange for around a few hundred is absurdly disproportionate. Hamas has offered to return the hostages in exchange for a ceasefire but Israel has refused. It's not about the hostages, it's about driving the Palestinians out. The hostages are a cheap propaganda trick for people like you. Secondly, if Israel really wanted to get the hostages back, they wouldn't treat their hostages as casualties, they wouldn't carpet bomb Gaza and they wouldn't kill hostages after they wave white flags. Israel knows the route to get their hostages back, they just don't care. Even if Israel was truly doing this for the hostages, that would not make anything they are doing any better. All Palestinian violence against aggressors is self defense.
Cool.
Still, I’m voting for Biden over the guy who’s explicitly intent on overthrowing the US government. It’s not a choice I like but it’s the only logical one we have. I will stand beside you in opposition to this war but that does not mean I’m going to vote to obliterate democracy.
You're not opposing the war lmao, you're standing by it's biggest proponent and buying Israeli propaganda like it's half off. You're a clown.
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
If I'm to assume you are a grown adult, the way you argue with someone you label as a "genocide lover" is to wish death upon them?
See folks, this is the problem with cultists. They have no sense of reality. They live solely in their bubbles.
I'll have you know that I am not a one-issue voter. While I've always had concerns over Israel's treatment of Palestine and viewed Netanyahu as a hateful warmonger, I understand there are complex issues on the other side of the world which I have limited knowledge of based on reporting I seek out and trust. Which is to say, very few realities are black and white. You can be opposed to genocide and be in favor of retrieving hostages and be opposed to zionism while also supporting a government and military that stands in the way of total disaster and even greater loss of life in the region.
The world is complex. I'm sure your family or your job or your neighborhood is complex. I'm sure people have made assumptions about you and your life without proper context. Maybe someone hates you for a thing you did (granted, not genocide) but they don't know all the good things you've done or how much love is in your heart.
I can choose to re-elect a not-perfect US President that isn't someone who's running on a campaign to do all he can to dismantle the foundation of the country I'm a citizen of. I'm not the biggest fan of this country but we do at least have a president who's open to listening to the people. Do you think DT would listen and change his mind on anything that doesn't empower him?
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
and 
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
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 are absolutely seeing this as a game and not seeing the whole picture. If you weren’t you’d see that you can work to compel Biden to stop supporting this war while also acknowledging that Trump is an even greater supporter of Israel and threat to Palestine.
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
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.
It’s safe to assume then that you’re not voting for Trump. That’s fine by me.
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
