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

[riversedge]

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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[samplegirl]

1. Dear God!!!!

[sop]

2. He's even doing his Mussolini impression at the end.

[MiHale]

3. The stench in Michigan today is unbearable...

Orange Slime and rotting politicians are a deadly smell.

[C_U_L8R]

4. That is evidence

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

[Conjuay]

34. Good for the goose, good for the gander.

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

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

[C_U_L8R]

37. Deported to the Land of the Oompa Loompa.

But I doubt they want him either.

[dem4decades]

5. That's exactly what his supporters want to see, they are sick, he is sick, the country is sick.

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

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Just like the Nazis, they have demonized immigrants, all immigrants, and regard them like

inferior dangerous criminals or just animals.

[hadEnuf]

18. Trumpism is a modern-day Nazi movement.

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

[Lonestarblue]

27. How far is it between RFK Jr.'s remark that those with autism will never hold jobs and pay taxes and imprisonment?

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.

[bluestarone]

43. AGREE!

[malaise]

6. Many MAGAt ancestors enjoyed lynchings

Hatred of the other is their only creed.

[UTUSN]

7. MAGAs are zombies for him, oblivious that he despises them, too.

[Haggard Celine]

8. About those guys who were walking the prisoners to their cell

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]

11. The kind of people who commit atrocities all through history

When those in authority create the conditions.

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

[niyad]

12. Think the people who invented the rack and other obscene torture

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]

28. I couldn't even watch it.

[orangecrush]

10. "Nothing will stop me"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-100-days-rally-interview-amazon-tariffs-live-updates-b2742089.html

[niyad]

15. Offhand, you arrogant monster, I can think of any number of things,

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

[Nanjeanne]

13. What is happening is not politics. It is not policy disagreements bit is an obscenity and a disgrace.

[k_buddy762]

14. Positions of disadvantage

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]

17. The only other place from which I've seen similar photos,

is China.

[k_buddy762]

19. North Korea also

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]

22. Israel.

[niyad]

25. Abu Ghraib

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

45. We used it regularly in Iraq

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]

16. Because he can't hang Black Men

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

Fck Donvict and his MAGAt Terrorists.

[kimbutgar]

47. As he gains more power he will declare black people who protest him as enemies and go after them

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!

[bdamomma]

51. All Americans

will be targeted. Unless he is stopped.

[MLWR]

20. This isn't even remotely "patriotism;" it is pure sadism

[yorkster]

21. I think they know damn well what they're doing

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]

23. And it's not just "footage."

It's a slick, edited movie with a soundtrack. 🤬

[raccoon]

24. THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

[mountain grammy]

26. People who voted for a convicted felon

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

[Aviation Pro]

29. So, when do we get the image

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]

30. On the bright side, the attendance numbers were greatly exaggerated.

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]

31. Snuff film, sick people. We have a lot of sick people in this country.

[Kid Berwyn]

32. MAGA don't care.

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]

33. Cruelty is the point

MAGA is to help deplorables feel powerful over someone else.

[Diamond_Dog]

35. I can't watch it. This is sick, evil, and very frightening.

[Botany]

36. He wants to do this to Americans

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]

38. Let's use the word, folks

Atrocities. These people are committing atrocities on a daily basis.

[Bluepinky]

39. Makes me feel sick.

[Passages]

40. Trump is a sick bastard.

His fan base, too.

[bdamomma]

53. The felon

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]

41. Horrific

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

[jalan48]

42. He's like a mafia don warning us what could happen if we don't do what he says.

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

[dalton99a]

44. +1

[kimbutgar]

46. This is like another Nazi prison camp !

How awful and despicable!

[xocetaceans]

49. FULL SPEECH: President Trump gives remarks on 100th day in office (See his remarks starting at 24:40 in the video)...

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]

50. I would

proudly like to see this happen to the SF.

[SalamanderSleeps]

52. I doubt that Trump will ever walk down my street.

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]

54. It's just a hop, skip, and a jump to putting them in mass graves.

This makes me want to throw up.