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.
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.
I would also not be opposed to Biden testing his own Presidential Immunity™ on Trump and his cronies, and I hate that I feel that way.
Heck, he could shoot a guy on 5th avenue and get away with it. A specific guy
That’s just polite fascism though? Oh! You are a liberal, got it.
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Kinky
Now we know what Big Don is into.
Let’s be honest, he’s never kept his desires private.
IDK, I thought he was only into 20-30yo women, so the 80yo man was a bit of a surprise.
20? Too old
What are they doin over there 😳
Becoming full-blown fascists
Who’s stopping them? No one, really
So is that not a threat against the president of the united states?
Not when a white male conservative does it. It’s “just kidding” when they do it.
I didn’t know Kathy Griffin was a man. Or did it not count when Trump?
We’re trying to be outraged here and fit this into the narrative. You shall be down voted for any facts that force us to face the fact that the reason for our outrage is not rooted in reality.
At least post the picture
He doesn’t appear to be gagged in this pic. Maybe they’re referring to a different violent image
I like how even in this, they’re shitty at binding someone. They can’t even pretend to do things correctly.
Haha, that’s a good point. This is the January 6th gallows all over again… These people are the edgy punisher logo manifest.
All those stupid thin blue line flags, too… Who the fuck believes that lie after Uvalde?
Well hes not gagged. So maybe theres an even worse one.
Is that actually painted on someone’s truck? I kinda hope so because it’s so shoddy. The perspective doesn’t even line up for the truck bed.
Its a wrap. And they’re real. Shouldnt be allowed but here we are. Had anyone had something like this with bush bound and gagged after 2001 they wouldve been arrested and tried in a heartbeat.
It’s a decal that can be bought for like $50. There are a bunch of different kinds of them, some with women tied up, deer, various politicians, Sasquatch, Lion’s etc. It’s the most mundane shit which is why liberals are clutching their pearls over it.
I’ve seen people get pulled over for a fake hand holding the tailgate edge around Halloween. Tied up people should absolutely get you pulled over and checked on a regular basis just because you don’t want to be the guy that missed a potential kidnapping.
Guess which side the fascist cops are on? The truck owner’s likely a family member of the cop
If they recognize who’s in the picture. My point isn’t that they’ll get in trouble. My point is that you’re going to get pulled over a lot because cops won’t want to miss a potential kidnapping.
I never thought I’d see the claim that pretending to have a woman tied up in the back of your truck is some “mundane shit”.
Same energy as standing at airport security yelling “I have a gun” and pulling out a replica.
All you have to do is Google “Biden Tailgate Wrap”. There are many variations for sale all over the internet. $50 to $70.
Trump deserves some blame for sharing it, but the real blame needs to be on the people producing and using it.
Hmmm, people producing it deserve blame, but it’s not like you or me sharing a pic, this is a candidate for president of the United States posting it about his political rival. I think that’s a worse offense, no matter how common they might be.
His political rival and the current president.
Fortunately in America such images are protected speech even if liberals and fascists, but I repeat myself get upset about them. So any “blame” is literally just the speaker virtue signaling and isn’t something that needs to be considered beyond a simple throw away comment plus a “lol.”
It’s pretty easy to find on any image search.
Interestingly, Donald Trump’s argument about presidential immunity suggests that Biden could do that to him and it legally okay to do so.
How is this orange sack of shit not sitting in a tiny cell yet?!?
Bribes
More likely Epstein level of blackmail
He serves the ruling class faithfully, just as his opponent. You could as well ask if the actors in movies are really getting killed.
Anyone else that did this would get visited by very angry men in dark suits.
I suppose if it’s ok for Trump to do, then I could post an image of Trump bound and gagged?
Kathy Griffin and at least a couple of art galleries have depicted Trump decapitations, during his presidency. They all got some shit publicly because of it (mostly upset right wingers) but no one was arrested or subjected to anything by the government, no matter how much said angry right wingers asked.
This is just the party flipped version of the same sort of thing. Watching just how many people start pearl clutching at only one of these is kinda amusing.
I think it’s one thing for a private citizen to do this, but it would be another thing for a sitting/former president running for election to do the same
Check the original video he posted. He literally filmed some dick-replacement giant pickups covered in pro-police, pro-Trump, anti-Biden shit, and one of them had this commercially available tailgate decal on it of Biden bound and gagged.
It’s in bad taste, sure but it’s not something you can honestly treat the way the media is treating this. It’s click bait.
How would you describe the media is treating it and how should the media be treating presidents who share such imagery regardless of party?
Its not the same sort of thing. Kathy whoever the fuck doesn’t have friends who put people in oil drums, and AFAIK has never attempted a fascist coup.
If you wanted to hang a bloody hyper realistic effigy of Jojo burning in a tree, your statement would be true (except for the tree. be nicer to trees)
The post is actually about in someone else doing it. It even seems like it is not rare
Actually, anyone should be allowed to do so and id like to think that you could. The fact that Trump does though is problematic.
Hexbear users are always willing to defend far-right activists in some twisted logic. You people should merge with the proud boys, they hate libs too.
your brain is fried. maybe go to a local KFC and give it up as an offering?
Okay. What is your perspective on the image/situation?
Fascist threatens liberal president, liberals in power scream “someone has to do something about this!” And then do nothing
Trump could be shot for treason, in an open and shut way(stealing nuclear secrets) but liberals aren’t going to do it, because for structural reasons liberals are incapable of opposing fascism.
(Liberal in this case is used the normal way, and not the “liberal= left wing” way)
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Oh wow, transphobia and a suicide joke from someone who hates hexbear, how surprising.
Also it isnt a superiority complex to have a basic understanding of history.
I would love to be proven wrong, it would be interesting from a historical perspective due to liberals previous inability to fight fascism, and also I wouldn’t end up in a concentration camp for being trans, and communist, and Jewish. But until I’m proven wrong I’ll keep being a communist, because communism has the best antifascist record and I dont want to get gassed.
so far this site seems like an absolute shithole, mostly because the admins and mods seem to be completely disinterested in permanently banning bigoted users. instead they seem to enjoy wasting their time removing comments that are uncivil to these repeatedly bigoted people.
Yeah, I wish the admin policy was different.
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Not sure if horny or coup
Putting the erection in insurrection
all the way in.
If anyone else had done that, the Secret Service would be after them. But since it’s Donald Trump, the Secret Service protects him.
The image he shared was one that had already been circulating for months. Can you find an example of the Secret Service going after anyone else who retweeted it? Did they even go after the person driving the vehicle in the picture, or the company that produces the tailgate wrap?
Pretty sure this is protected free speech. Nobody in their right mind would see this as a credible threat to kidnap Joe Biden; it’s just a humorous way of showing displeasure toward a politician.
If you’re so sure, you should post it on all of your Social Media accounts, and see what happens…
I see multiple of these tailgate wraps in town on the back of trucks in my area. People in this area share and distribute MUCH WORSE SHIT than this mild piece of artistic garbage… I’m not saying it’s right, but it is protected speech.
Though we should hold running presidential candidates to a higher standard, and perceive this threat as it is.
kinky
hawt?
gagged huh? that says something, coming from a man who routinely gets gag orders.
Lol, my comment commenting about Hexbear users got remove by mod. What’s up mod? They get to be removed about everyone they disagree with, but we can’t criticize them?
the comment that got removed was
Hexbear users are always willing to defend far-right activists in some twisted logic. You people should merge with the proud boys, they hate libs too.
for the reason “trolling”.
your comment was directly in response to the OP, so there’s no context to consider.
sounds like another common .ml moderator W to me.
