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riversedge

(75,299 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:04 AM Wednesday

BREAKING: At his Michigan rally, Trump proudly showed this footage of men being shoved into a foreign torture prison;

At the end Trump is grinning while the MAGA fans are cheering.

Brian Krassenstein
@krassenstein
BREAKING: At his Michigan rally, Trump proudly showed this footage of men being shoved into a foreign torture prison; no lawyers, no charges, no due process, while the crowd bellowed “USA! USA!”

This isn’t patriotism. It’s a grotesque spectacle that will stain America’s conscience long after the chants fade.









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BREAKING: At his Michigan rally, Trump proudly showed this footage of men being shoved into a foreign torture prison; (Original Post) riversedge Wednesday OP
Dear God!!!! samplegirl Wednesday #1
He's even doing his Mussolini impression at the end. sop Wednesday #2
The stench in Michigan today is unbearable... MiHale Wednesday #3
That is evidence C_U_L8R Wednesday #4
Good for the goose, good for the gander. Conjuay Wednesday #34
Deported to the Land of the Oompa Loompa. C_U_L8R Wednesday #37
That's exactly what his supporters want to see, they are sick, he is sick, the country is sick. dem4decades Wednesday #5
Just like the Nazis, they have demonized immigrants, all immigrants, and regard them like Liberal In Texas Wednesday #9
Trumpism is a modern-day Nazi movement. hadEnuf Wednesday #18
How far is it between RFK Jr.'s remark that those with autism will never hold jobs and pay taxes and imprisonment? Lonestarblue Wednesday #27
AGREE! bluestarone Wednesday #43
Many MAGAt ancestors enjoyed lynchings malaise Wednesday #6
MAGAs are zombies for him, oblivious that he despises them, too. UTUSN Wednesday #7
About those guys who were walking the prisoners to their cell Haggard Celine Wednesday #8
The kind of people who commit atrocities all through history orangecrush Wednesday #11
Think the people who invented the rack and other obscene torture niyad Wednesday #12
I couldn't even watch it. bamagal62 Wednesday #28
"Nothing will stop me" orangecrush Wednesday #10
Offhand, you arrogant monster, I can think of any number of things, niyad Wednesday #15
What is happening is not politics. It is not policy disagreements bit is an obscenity and a disgrace. Nanjeanne Wednesday #13
Positions of disadvantage k_buddy762 Wednesday #14
The only other place from which I've seen similar photos, 3Hotdogs Wednesday #17
North Korea also k_buddy762 Wednesday #19
Israel. LiberalArkie Wednesday #22
Abu Ghraib niyad Wednesday #25
We used it regularly in Iraq DetroitLegalBeagle Wednesday #45
Because he can't hang Black Men StocktonNative Wednesday #16
As he gains more power he will declare black people who protest him as enemies and go after them kimbutgar Wednesday #47
All Americans bdamomma Wednesday #51
This isn't even remotely "patriotism;" it is pure sadism MLWR Wednesday #20
I think they know damn well what they're doing yorkster Wednesday #21
And it's not just "footage." VTderry Wednesday #23
THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT. raccoon Wednesday #24
People who voted for a convicted felon mountain grammy Wednesday #26
So, when do we get the image Aviation Pro Wednesday #29
On the bright side, the attendance numbers were greatly exaggerated. Crowman2009 Wednesday #30
Snuff film, sick people. We have a lot of sick people in this country. Bluethroughu Wednesday #31
MAGA don't care. Kid Berwyn Wednesday #32
Cruelty is the point IronLionZion Wednesday #33
I can't watch it. This is sick, evil, and very frightening. Diamond_Dog Wednesday #35
He wants to do this to Americans Botany Wednesday #36
Let's use the word, folks Anna Dault Wednesday #38
Makes me feel sick. Bluepinky Wednesday #39
Trump is a sick bastard. Passages Wednesday #40
The felon bdamomma Wednesday #53
Horrific Meowmee Wednesday #41
He's like a mafia don warning us what could happen if we don't do what he says. jalan48 Wednesday #42
+1 dalton99a Wednesday #44
This is like another Nazi prison camp ! kimbutgar Wednesday #46
This message was self-deleted by its author Dem2theMax Wednesday #48
FULL SPEECH: President Trump gives remarks on 100th day in office (See his remarks starting at 24:40 in the video)... xocetaceans Wednesday #49
I would bdamomma Wednesday #50
I doubt that Trump will ever walk down my street. SalamanderSleeps Wednesday #52
It's just a hop, skip, and a jump to putting them in mass graves. LudwigPastorius Wednesday #54

MiHale

(11,606 posts)
3. The stench in Michigan today is unbearable...
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:28 AM
Wednesday

Orange Slime and rotting politicians are a deadly smell.

C_U_L8R

(47,232 posts)
4. That is evidence
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:45 AM
Wednesday

Trump should be shackled and imprisoned in a similar hellhole - but even he should get due process.

Conjuay

(2,397 posts)
34. Good for the goose, good for the gander.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:47 AM
Wednesday

I think we can forgo all those minor, trivial technicalities.

“Due process” is for white folk - not orange ones.

dem4decades

(12,719 posts)
5. That's exactly what his supporters want to see, they are sick, he is sick, the country is sick.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:55 AM
Wednesday

If the world views the United States as a sick broken country, they are seeing correctly.

Liberal In Texas

(15,161 posts)
9. Just like the Nazis, they have demonized immigrants, all immigrants, and regard them like
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:11 AM
Wednesday

inferior dangerous criminals or just animals.

hadEnuf

(3,162 posts)
18. Trumpism is a modern-day Nazi movement.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:42 AM
Wednesday

He has hordes of brainwashed followers that will never, ever stop supporting him no matter what he does to them or anybody else.

Lonestarblue

(12,581 posts)
27. How far is it between RFK Jr.'s remark that those with autism will never hold jobs and pay taxes and imprisonment?
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:09 AM
Wednesday

Or extermination? History books often focus solely on Hitler’s extermination of Jews. The Nazis also killed 5 million others, including those with mental and physical disabilities because they were seen as people who needed to be eliminated from their notion of a pure gene pool.

Haggard Celine

(17,174 posts)
8. About those guys who were walking the prisoners to their cell
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:08 AM
Wednesday

What kind of person does a job like that? Pushing their heads down while they're being crab walked in there. And what kind of monster takes videos of torture and shows them to an audience and grins and points at himself? Proud as hell! We are so fucked!

orangecrush

(24,407 posts)
11. The kind of people who commit atrocities all through history
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:15 AM
Wednesday

When those in authority create the conditions.

And Trump is creating those conditions here and priming his cult to commit thrm.


niyad

(123,529 posts)
12. Think the people who invented the rack and other obscene torture
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:18 AM
Wednesday

devices. Think the BurningTimes (part 2 coming soon???), and the Inquisition. Think the treatment of the Indigenous in the building of the California El Camino Real, the mission system. Think the treatment of the slaves. The death camps. Abu Ghraib. The list of hate-filled, sadistic monsters is endless.

niyad

(123,529 posts)
15. Offhand, you arrogant monster, I can think of any number of things,
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:21 AM
Wednesday

a stroke, heart failure, another case of covid, lightning. . ..

Nanjeanne

(6,060 posts)
13. What is happening is not politics. It is not policy disagreements bit is an obscenity and a disgrace.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:20 AM
Wednesday

k_buddy762

(94 posts)
14. Positions of disadvantage
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:20 AM
Wednesday

Police and military units around the world use these positions to keep prisoners off-base, disadvantaged, unable to plan their own movement, etc. Its a control method, a come-along technique, although it is obviously much more substantial than something like a wrist lock or arm bar. The human spirit is infinitely strong and they are trying to break as many of these men as possible in an effort to exert and maintain control. Some of it is physical, most of it is psychological.

k_buddy762

(94 posts)
19. North Korea also
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:43 AM
Wednesday

and many communist and fascist nations during the various wars of the 20th century.

But similar positions are used for detainees in most western nations today, depending on criminal background.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(2,353 posts)
45. We used it regularly in Iraq
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:48 AM
Wednesday

When moving recently captured insurgents in the field. Hand on back of neck forcing them to bend down, hands ziptied behind their back, and your arm under their arm to force their elbow up. In that position you basically control where they walk as the position limits their view and it doubles as a compliance method as your arm bent in that way isn't comfortable.

StocktonNative

(133 posts)
16. Because he can't hang Black Men
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:38 AM
Wednesday

like his Southern Redneck White Supremacist want to do like their wretched lineage.

Fck Donvict and his MAGAt Terrorists.

kimbutgar

(24,983 posts)
47. As he gains more power he will declare black people who protest him as enemies and go after them
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 07:53 PM
Wednesday

You know it’s coming. And then people who protest him ….writers who write negative articles about him ….TV reporters who ask him difficult question like the guy last night on ABC….Pollsters who report in negative polls numbers…it’s gong to get worst unless he is stopped!

yorkster

(3,012 posts)
21. I think they know damn well what they're doing
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 08:49 AM
Wednesday

and absolutely could not care less. The fact that they are showing this footage is the sickening, chestbeating display of the
boastful thug and his followers. The last thing they would consider is any harm to the now shredded reputation of the U. S.
They are proud as hell, gawd help us.

mountain grammy

(27,757 posts)
26. People who voted for a convicted felon
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:08 AM
Wednesday

Are cruel and stupid.and would throw babies into gas chambers.

Aviation Pro

(14,249 posts)
29. So, when do we get the image
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:19 AM
Wednesday

Of a woman with a smile parked on her vapid mouth while giving a thumbs up to a dead body? You know, like this one.



These fuckers learn nothing.

Crowman2009

(3,070 posts)
30. On the bright side, the attendance numbers were greatly exaggerated.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:19 AM
Wednesday

Looked as if it was less than a few thousand at this rally, the facility was half full, and it was in a community college arena.

Kid Berwyn

(20,206 posts)
32. MAGA don't care.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:25 AM
Wednesday

Which is the point of sharing the cruelty — conditioning the populace for the day Trump and his NAZI chums bring the big round-up to the USA.

Botany

(73,997 posts)
36. He wants to do this to Americans
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 09:56 AM
Wednesday

This is beyond sick. What kind of monster shows that
video and smiles? And who cheers for that?

BTW how many illegal Polish and Costa Ricans did
Trump use @ his golf course in N.J. and @ Trump tower
In Manhattan?

bdamomma

(68,131 posts)
53. The felon
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:08 PM
Wednesday

gets off on this cruelty, it's sickening and he's a very sick unstable cretin. He needs to be stopped. Maybe he will choke on something.

Meowmee

(8,906 posts)
41. Horrific
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:52 AM
Wednesday

Maybe I’m dreaming, but I hope to see that done to him and his band of criminals one day.

jalan48

(14,861 posts)
42. He's like a mafia don warning us what could happen if we don't do what he says.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:54 AM
Wednesday

This is about sending a message to all Americans, not just immigrants.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

xocetaceans

(4,162 posts)
49. FULL SPEECH: President Trump gives remarks on 100th day in office (See his remarks starting at 24:40 in the video)...
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:45 PM
Wednesday

The cameras stay on Trump while the video of CECOT is shown to his MAGA base. The presentation starts at about 20:54 in the video and concludes at about 24:02. The crowd then chants "USA! USA!" until about 24:14 -- so for around 12 seconds.

That twelve-second-long segment of celebratory chanting is a contemptible display of the sadistic depths of false patriotism that Trump evokes and has marshaled to satisfy his need for self-aggrandizement.

He then continues by demonizing his political opponents:



Trump was showing Nayib Bukele's video of CECOT to MAGA as can be seen here: the soundtrack is unmistakable.


SalamanderSleeps

(776 posts)
52. I doubt that Trump will ever walk down my street.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:05 PM
Wednesday

However, if he ever does, I will watch his legs freeze as I kick his neck.

Why won't anyone in the Secret Service protect the office of the President and do the right thing?

LudwigPastorius

(12,332 posts)
54. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump to putting them in mass graves.
Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:36 PM
Wednesday

This makes me want to throw up.

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