Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.
The president was not aware that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was announcing last week that the administration planned to let the public watch the execution, the sources said, and was not sure what to make of it at first. Trump was, however, firmly behind the decision to execute Hasan via firing squad, multiple officials told CNN, and he’s often defended it in public.
Showing the execution of a wheelchair bound person would be DEI and Trump can’t possibly have that.
Kind of a weird place to draw the line when you routinely rape children, but okay
He hasn’t livestreamed that. Yet.
It would definitely sell tickets
lol just imagine firing squad unloading on a guy in a wheelchair tho
The current manual (which would probably be revised since it was last updated in the 1940s) calls for tying them up on a pole so they’d have to crucify him to get him standing upright
The officer charged with execution will… Cause a post with proper rings placed therein for securing the prisoner in an upright position to be erected at the place of execution… After a reasonable time, he will order the sergeant of the execution party to secure the prisoner to the post and to place the hood over his head. Then the medical officer will place the target over the prisoner’s heart
The local Catholic bishop is telling the Catholick troops to not be part of that. Then they figure out the guy can’t walk! I can’t imagine how that must feel. To be the guys that have to go wack a man on a wheelchair cuz some rich asshole wants you to do that for entertainment.
And still, more than zero people show up to his rallies. Wow! Those people must be super nice to know personally.
That’s obviously the problem. They want to normalize the kind of violence that targets vulnerable groups disproportionately, such as disabled people, but they need a “deserving” victim to remain palletable enough to the liberal masses so that they can gradually normalize this kind of violence.
USA! USA! USA!
In reality there is no difference if you’re standing or not.
TACO Tuesday again?
Oh, this is genuinely a problem for them. They want to normalize the kind of violence that targets vulnerable groups disproportionately, such as disabled people, but they need a “deserving” victim to remain palletable enough to the liberal masses so that they can gradually normalize this kind of public violence. But, now if they pull out of this after international pressure, it’ll look weak and make it even harder to try again.
I don’t know if it’ll be harder. Critics tend to get tired over time… Salami tactics work after all.
First the Circus Maximus and then the eventual fall of Rome. It’s just a little bit of history repeating. If trump buys a fiddle (or lute, or lyre) we’re all screwed.
He’s gonna play golf while America burns
He is more the type to play “Ave Maria” on loop while it burns
Hardly. It would be fox news extremely loud while ice doordashes mc Donald’s.
Check it out. He just stood there for forty minutes
I mean that implies he didn’t like it, Nero did shit he loved like dancing and playing music for Trump that’s propaganda and mc Donald’s.
Isn’t this the guy who sent a gallows to Washington on Jan6th to hang Mike Pence?
I woke up and opened this app to look at some news and saw this first thing and…. holy shit.
I feel like… that is the most jarring and darkly absurdly ironic way to wake up I ever have…
What a surreal way to start a day. Fuck.
There are no “people” that hold space in trump’s addled mind, there are only optics for an omnipresent TV audience.
Except for Ivanka…
No, in Trump’s mind, his kids are just extensions of him. Which is why he’s got no problem fucking her. It’s just masturbation to him.
Real well oiled machine, this bunch…
Ummm…
I’m ashamed to admit that I wonder if someone posted this on the Not The Onion topic.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I am the change I want to see in the world.
And I ain’t seeing shit.
Ha ha , what a bitch.
Hegseth, the greasy bitch that runs the department of something that is not war, but is, is on his way out. He will be replaced very soon, bet on it.
He’s such a chump. It’s just insane to think about. A weekend morning show host for a pure propaganda network gets promoted to… United States Secretary of Defense?
Like who is writing this shit, is reality slipping and out of material? It feels like late season decline.
Maybe he can try to be some exercise influencer for his next gig.
They can prop him up with one of those exoskeletons Trump uses
How long until MAGA just starts the actual “Running Man” show?
Cant have people show sympathy for the person your about to shoot
