Showing the execution of a wheelchair bound person would be DEI and Trump can't possibly have that.

Kind of a weird place to draw the line when you routinely rape children, but okay

I've been telling people, this is to normalize public execution for "treason" 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 "only likes winners".

So dude being in a wheelchair wouldnt send the message the fascists want to send; that it doesn't matter how tough you are they'll get you.

It's always just been about the optics of it, and using it to normalize political violence. That's why he never faced a terrorism charge, they want the label to be "traitor" because that's 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 doesn't say they're stunning and brave.

lol just imagine firing squad unloading on a guy in a wheelchair tho

Every time I think Trump can't come off as more pathetic he still manages to surprise.

TACO Tuesday again?

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 "deserving" 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, it'll look weak and make it even harder to try again.

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 — he was shot in the back by law enforcement during the 2009 shooting at Ford Hood — and that he now uses a wheelchair, the sources said, which made showing the execution publicly less palatable to the president.

First the Circus Maximus and then the eventual fall of Rome. It's just a little bit of history repeating. If trump buys a fiddle (or lute, or lyre) we're all screwed.

And then it was Tuesday

I woke up and opened this app to look at some news and saw this first thing and…. holy shit.

I feel like… that is the most jarring and darkly absurdly ironic way to wake up I ever have…

What a surreal way to start a day. Fuck.

There are no "people" that hold space in trump's addled mind, there are only optics for an omnipresent TV audience.

Real well oiled machine, this bunch...

Ummm...

I'm ashamed to admit that I wonder if someone posted this on the Not The Onion topic.

Ha ha , what a bitch.

Hegseth, the greasy bitch that runs the department of something that is not war, but is, is on his way out. He will be replaced very soon, bet on it.

Isn't this the guy who sent a gallows to Washington on Jan6th to hang Mike Pence?

How long until MAGA just starts the actual "Running Man" show?

They can prop him up with one of those exoskeletons Trump uses

Cant have people show sympathy for the person your about to shoot

Pfft what a goddamned clown show. The only constant is the bar keeps sinking lower underneath the floor.