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canetoad

(20,769 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 06:20 PM Nov 2025

Why is trump obsessed with hangings?

And not lethally injecting his detractors, electrocuting them or, god forbit, gassing them? Is he living out the fantasy of being John C Woods who executed (and managed to botch) the first Nuremberg criminals?

Maybe he watched 'Braveheart' too many times, or is stuck on the fate of the Rosenbergs. Clearly, his preference for an outdated method of execution is both blood-thirsty and bizarre.

Then there was the ricketty little mock-gallows at the Jan 6 riot. It seems to be a theme with magats. So glad that Mark Kelly has called him out but I doubt if it will make him stop.

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Why is trump obsessed with hangings? (Original Post) canetoad Nov 2025 OP
auto erotic asphy...auto phyxia...eroto leftstreet Nov 2025 #1
I was just going to post the same thing. Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #7
Because they once heard treason is the only crime still punished by hanging Samael13 Nov 2025 #2
He is still wearing his hood. sheshe2 Nov 2025 #3
Because he's so poorly "hung"? Dread Pirate Roberts Nov 2025 #4
It all started with Donald Trump's father, who was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) riot. Emile Nov 2025 #5
he knows the noose waits for him oldinmtdem92 Nov 2025 #6
Public executions Mz Pip Nov 2025 #8
I think so too canetoad Nov 2025 #9
It is not hanging he wants. It is lynchings. yellowcanine Nov 2025 #10

Irish_Dem

(81,266 posts)
7. I was just going to post the same thing. Auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 07:22 PM
Nov 2025

Using strangulation during sex play to create hypoxia which is supposed
to heighten the sexual experience.

Sadists like to do it to their rape victims.

I wonder if Trump did this on Epstein Island.

It is obvious the rich and powerful could get whatever kinky sex they wanted.

Samael13

(134 posts)
2. Because they once heard treason is the only crime still punished by hanging
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 06:27 PM
Nov 2025

I kid you not Ive had multiple maga fucks say it. Cause they view all of us as traitors

Emile

(42,289 posts)
5. It all started with Donald Trump's father, who was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) riot.
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 06:50 PM
Nov 2025

Mz Pip

(28,454 posts)
8. Public executions
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 07:23 PM
Nov 2025

I think Trump would love to bring back public executions. That’s how they did it in the good old days.

canetoad

(20,769 posts)
9. I think so too
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 07:44 PM
Nov 2025

And much has been written about the spectacle of public executions as displays of power.

yellowcanine

(36,792 posts)
10. It is not hanging he wants. It is lynchings.
Mon Nov 24, 2025, 07:50 PM
Nov 2025

Trump and his followers want to be judge, jury, and executioners.

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