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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: 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 isnt patriotism. Its a grotesque spectacle that will stain Americas conscience long after the chants fade.
Link to tweet
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samplegirl
(12,932 posts)sop
(13,961 posts)MiHale
(11,606 posts)Orange Slime and rotting politicians are a deadly smell.
C_U_L8R
(47,232 posts)Trump should be shackled and imprisoned in a similar hellhole - but even he should get due process.
Conjuay
(2,397 posts)I think we can forgo all those minor, trivial technicalities.
Due process is for white folk - not orange ones.
C_U_L8R
(47,232 posts)But I doubt they want him either.
dem4decades
(12,719 posts)If the world views the United States as a sick broken country, they are seeing correctly.
Liberal In Texas
(15,161 posts)inferior dangerous criminals or just animals.
hadEnuf
(3,162 posts)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)Or extermination? History books often focus solely on Hitlers 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.
bluestarone
(19,712 posts)
malaise
(283,612 posts)Hatred of the other is their only creed.
UTUSN
(74,033 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,174 posts)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)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)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.
bamagal62
(3,893 posts)orangecrush
(24,407 posts)niyad
(123,529 posts)a stroke, heart failure, another case of covid, lightning. . ..
Nanjeanne
(6,060 posts)k_buddy762
(94 posts)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.
3Hotdogs
(14,136 posts)is China.
k_buddy762
(94 posts)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.
LiberalArkie
(18,057 posts)niyad
(123,529 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,353 posts)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)like his Southern Redneck White Supremacist want to do like their wretched lineage.
Fck Donvict and his MAGAt Terrorists.
kimbutgar
(24,983 posts)You know its 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 its gong to get worst unless he is stopped!
bdamomma
(68,131 posts)will be targeted. Unless he is stopped.
MLWR
(303 posts)yorkster
(3,012 posts)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.
VTderry
(20 posts)It's a slick, edited movie with a soundtrack. 🤬
raccoon
(31,792 posts)mountain grammy
(27,757 posts)Are cruel and stupid.and would throw babies into gas chambers.
Aviation Pro
(14,249 posts)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)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.
Bluethroughu
(7,202 posts)Kid Berwyn
(20,206 posts)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.
IronLionZion
(48,661 posts)MAGA is to help deplorables feel powerful over someone else.
Diamond_Dog
(36,788 posts)Botany
(73,997 posts)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?
Anna Dault
(4 posts)Atrocities. These people are committing atrocities on a daily basis.
Bluepinky
(2,407 posts)Passages
(2,710 posts)His fan base, too.
bdamomma
(68,131 posts)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)Maybe Im dreaming, but I hope to see that done to him and his band of criminals one day.
jalan48
(14,861 posts)This is about sending a message to all Americans, not just immigrants.
kimbutgar
(24,983 posts)How awful and despicable!
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xocetaceans
(4,162 posts)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.
bdamomma
(68,131 posts)proudly like to see this happen to the SF.
SalamanderSleeps
(776 posts)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)This makes me want to throw up.