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Donald Trump shares image of Joe Biden bound and gagged (www.seattletimes.com)

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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.

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[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How is this orange sack of shit not sitting in a tiny cell yet?!?

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if horny or coup

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[–] proletar_ian@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago (61 children)

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.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

pearl-clutch

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If anyone else had done that, the Secret Service would be after them. But since it's Donald Trump, the Secret Service protects him.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

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.

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