In 2016 Trump said “2nd Amendment people” might need to do something about Hillary Clinton. In 2019 a video was shown at an event on one of his properties depicting Trump shooting, stabbing, and violently assaulting his enemies in the media and politics. Now this. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/u...
This is the image. I dunno, it strikes me that Presidents who deploy the visual stylings of snuff films for their campaign events are perhaps dangerous to democracy. But have you heard that Joe Biden is old?
Here’s a description of that 2019 video that was shown at a conservative political event at Trump’s property and featured the logo of Trump’s 2020 campaign.
I understand that in every society there are murderous freaks who engage in violent ideation. It strikes me that most healthy societies don’t elevate such people to positions of great authority and power.
For clarification, this is a shot of the video Trump showed at his event. To double down, he then posted it on his own private social media site that has a very non-Orwellian name.
Ugh Long Island that explains a lot. A bunch of isolated, deliberately ignorant self important cowardly losers live there. So happy I moved from there.
This kind of crap is very common on Long Island, it’s a sickness.People with really expensive trucks and SUVs covered with Let’s Go Brandon stickers, flags, and in one case, a person who actually had vinyl decals of Trump’s head on the windows so it looked like Trump was in the car with them.
We should be shocked (a) that this exists, (b) that the former president is amplifying it, and (c) that the former president's amplification isn't even a big news story. Last year an armed, dangerous man showed up at Obama's house after Trump posted the address www.axios.com/2023/07/05/t...
I saw this on a truck in a liberal college town in central Connecticut. It’s a wrap that was about $100 when last I checked. That people are feeling more emboldened to do this, even in a area like mine, is the scary part.
I mean, yes, their neighbors, but also their friends, their family, their coworkers or clients if they have a business. To feel this emboldened in an area like this tells me, they have gone so far down the hole.
I remember seeing tons of the them rolling coal in suburban north jersey in late summer / fall 2020. Not exactly trump's heartland, but there's obnoxious jerks everywhere.
is Middletown very liberal on the whole?
it's the only central CT place with a college I can think of that I'd call a "town"...
Yes. We’re about 60/40 D vs R. And generally very LGBTQIA+ friendly. And while there is a contingent of MAGA types in some of the surrounding rural towns, they are much smaller than the R leaning towns that are more country club R than MAGA types. That’s why it was so surprising to see.
FYI the license number is TRUMP 4US, the vehicle is a 2019 GMC Sierra HD, and the photo was taken in front of 381 New York Ave., Huntington NY (middle of Long Island, north side)
funny how these guys never worry about their rolling public displays of antisocial idiocy being vandalized
it's almost as if political violence is highly asymmetric and predominantly a right-wing phenomenon, even if the NYT assures readers otherwise
are you sure? I'm fairly certain there's a glob of duct tape or something, would have to see the image elsewhere
I wanted to run the license plate on howsmydriving.ny lol
yeah - I googled and found the same image and a few stills from another video of it - which had license plate. But vid is from 4 years ago.
Anyway surprisingly, no parking or school speeding tickets on the plate.
If we thought the swift boats was a low blow… Trump benefits from the fact that people refuse to take him seriously and think this is just Trump being Trump. I mean, it is. But not in the blowhard harmless way they seem to think.
I know this is tangential your main point, but why is it so rarely that we hear about Trump being old, as well? Is it that we’ve collectively decided the yardarm for “old” in our Presidents is now a hard 80? Under 80 = OK, over 80 = no way? Trump’s obviously in significant decline.
