Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not initially know that Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.
The president was not aware that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was announcing last week that the administration planned to let the public watch the execution, the sources said, and was not sure what to make of it at first. Trump was, however, firmly behind the decision to execute Hasan via firing squad, multiple officials told CNN, and heās often defended it in public.
Showing the execution of a wheelchair bound person would be DEI and Trump canāt possibly have that.
Iāve been telling people, this is to normalize public execution for ātreasonā the main demographic trump cared about was a soldier firing on other soldiers.
A big strong man standing there is a propaganda message.
But trumps never consider injured soldiers as soldiers, he āonly likes winnersā.
So dude being in a wheelchair wouldnt send the message the fascists want to send; that it doesnāt matter how tough you are theyāll get you.
Itās always just been about the optics of it, and using it to normalize political violence. Thatās why he never faced a terrorism charge, they want the label to be ātraitorā because thatās anyone not for the current administration.
Terrorists need to take action or at least plan actual attacks. They want to be able to go after anyone who doesnāt say theyāre stunning and brave.
I think itās because he canāt stir up Islamaphobia without a scary disheveled terrorist to execute and realized no one would ever consider a disabled prisoner a threat anymore but sure.
Didnāt they just use terrorism to sentence book sellers to 30 years though?
Iām honestly not sure what youāre trying to sayā¦
The only logical assumption I can make is you somehow took my comment to mean theyāre not going to charge anyone with terrorism charges ā¦
But that would be ridiculous, so surely thereās something Iām missing.
Is that really what you thought I said, or is there sometime not thinking of?
They use the world terrorist just as freely as traitor. As long as it isnāt to describe any of their own terroristic or traitorous actions.
Terrorists need to take action or at least plan actual attacks.
This clearly isnāt a requirement for using terrorism as a fear mongering label. They will call any ideology they donāt like terrorism.
Kind of a weird place to draw the line when you routinely rape children, but okay
He hasnāt livestreamed that. Yet.
It would definitely sell tickets
lol just imagine firing squad unloading on a guy in a wheelchair tho
The current manual (which would probably be revised since it was last updated in the 1940s) calls for tying them up on a pole so theyād have to crucify him to get him standing upright
The officer charged with execution willā¦ Cause a post with proper rings placed therein for securing the prisoner in an upright position to be erected at the place of executionā¦ After a reasonable time, he will order the sergeant of the execution party to secure the prisoner to the post and to place the hood over his head. Then the medical officer will place the target over the prisonerās heart
The local Catholic bishop is telling the Catholick troops to not be part of that. Then they figure out the guy canāt walk! I canāt imagine how that must feel. To be the guys that have to go wack a man on a wheelchair cuz some rich asshole wants you to do that for entertainment.
And still, more than zero people show up to his rallies. Wow! Those people must be super nice to know personally.
History of USA in a nutshell.
Thatās obviously the problem. They want to normalize the kind of violence that targets vulnerable groups disproportionately, such as disabled people, but they need a ādeservingā victim to remain palletable enough to the liberal masses so that they can gradually normalize this kind of violence.
USA! USA! USA!
In reality there is no difference if youāre standing or not.
One thing trump is great at, seeing how this is going to be a bad look.
And even after Hegseth posted on X on Thursday confirming that the Pentagon planned to livestream the execution, Trump polled several of his advisers and allies about how to proceed.
It was during the those conversations that Trump learned Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down ā he was shot in the back by law enforcement during the 2009 shooting at Ford Hood ā and that he now uses a wheelchair, the sources said, which made showing the execution publicly less palatable to the president.
I find it ludicrous that he even thinks thereās anything existing in the universe that could make him look worse than he already does. Alas, narcissists will always find a way.
The magic of the Trump machine is that he always finds a way to say the quiet part a little louder.
Executing a wheelchair bound man as a media spectacle would be one more exclamation point on how American criminal justice functions.
Every time I think Trump canāt come off as more pathetic he still manages to surprise.
TACO Tuesday again?
And then it was Tuesday
Oh, this is genuinely a problem for them. They want to normalize the kind of violence that targets vulnerable groups disproportionately, such as disabled people, but they need a ādeservingā victim to remain palletable enough to the liberal masses so that they can gradually normalize this kind of public violence. But, now if they pull out of this after international pressure, itāll look weak and make it even harder to try again.
I donāt know if itāll be harder. Critics tend to get tired over timeā¦ Salami tactics work after all.
First the Circus Maximus and then the eventual fall of Rome. Itās just a little bit of history repeating. If trump buys a fiddle (or lute, or lyre) weāre all screwed.
Heās gonna play golf while America burns
He is more the type to play āAve Mariaā on loop while it burns
Hardly. It would be fox news extremely loud while ice doordashes mc Donaldās.
Check it out. He just stood there for forty minutes
I mean that implies he didnāt like it, Nero did shit he loved like dancing and playing music for Trump thatās propaganda and mc Donaldās.
Isnāt this the guy who sent a gallows to Washington on Jan6th to hang Mike Pence?
I woke up and opened this app to look at some news and saw this first thing andā¦. holy shit.
I feel likeā¦ that is the most jarring and darkly absurdly ironic way to wake up I ever haveā¦
What a surreal way to start a day. Fuck.
There are no āpeopleā that hold space in trumpās addled mind, there are only optics for an omnipresent TV audience.
Except for Ivankaā¦
No, in Trumpās mind, his kids are just extensions of him. Which is why heās got no problem fucking her. Itās just masturbation to him.
Real well oiled machine, this bunchā¦
Ummmā¦
Iām ashamed to admit that I wonder if someone posted this on the Not The Onion topic.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I am the change I want to see in the world.
And I aināt seeing shit.
