r/news • u/Soft_Act_3252 • 1d ago
Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad
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u/GrowlyBear2 1d ago
Hesgeth has to go. Should be fired or arrested himself. Dude's a maniac that is destroying the military.
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u/Maleficent_Ant_8895 1d ago
He’s done after the midterms. He will be the sacrifice and blamed for the war. Watch all the “leaks” in December and January. I bet he’s gone before March and a new dipshit replaces him akin to the new DHS guy that took over for the puppy killer Barbie faced freak show
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u/sargonas 1d ago
I expect he’ll be gone before January because Trump isn’t going to want to risk a Democrat majority Congress trying to vet his next pick
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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago
This exactly.
He's also going to get saddled with the blame for Iran, even though just about everybody who knows anything at all about the region was screaming 'don't do it!' before he made the super-duper-powerful-bigboy decision to ignore everyone and do it anyway.
Israel must have him figured out pretty well to get him to do what every other administration for decades refused to do - get directly, kinetically, involved in their blood-beef with Iran.
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u/subnautus 1d ago
Israel must have him figured out pretty well to get him to do what every other administration for decades refused to do - get directly, kinetically, involved in their blood-beef with Iran.
Simply knowing Trump is an idiot who thinks Iran is a tiny backwater country is probably all it takes, though.
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u/JarvisProudfeather 1d ago
Hegseth is a militant Christian nationalist. The church he goes to is one of those insane evangelical ones that are rabid Zionists because they believe an unstable Middle East and helping Israel is the key to bringing on the rapture. He didn’t need any convincing to go to war with Iran.
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u/alex61821 1d ago
He will just be sent to work on operation american shield or whatever noem was sent to after she spent 200 million on ads for ice. Funny how we never got that money back after she was fired. Maybe funny isn't the right word.
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u/Death_Sheep1980 1d ago
There was a commentator on YouTube who asserted that if the Democrats take back the Senate, Hegseth will be fired immediately so that Trump can get his replacement confirmed before January.
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u/Dt2_0 1d ago
Dems have a very close minority in the senate, and it only takes a few ousted Republicans abandoning the party line (which is extremely common during their lame duck period after losing election and before the new congress is sworn in). Trump needs to fire Hegseth now if he wants to get his hand picked candidate through the Senate. I doubt there will be the political capital in late November or December to push one through.
It will be very interesting to see how Trump handles becoming a lame duck should Democrats perform as well as projections show. It might be comedy gold.
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u/Gastroid 1d ago
Yeah, there's no way he won't be given the Donald Rumsfeld treatment.
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u/NamasteMotherfucker 1d ago
You mean allowed to resign, live out the remainder of his days in peace, working on boards, establishing a foundation named after himself, and publishing his memoirs? Sounds like retirement, not consequences.
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u/LostMyKarmaElSegundo 1d ago
He was wildly unqualified for the job to begin with. He was a Captain on the army's PR unit! That would be like putting an admin assistant in as CEO.
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u/Corporatecut 1d ago
Republican senators seemed to think he was qualified? It’s like they aren’t serious people regarding our military…
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u/rabidstoat 1d ago
Can they livestream him being frogmarched out of the Pentagon?
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u/Gbrown546 1d ago
As an outsider looking in, just what in gods name is he doing? You have by far the greatest military on the planet, and despite what Hesgeth is doing, you still do. But he’s absolutely destroying it and the damage he has done is going to take so so long to rectify
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u/GrowlyBear2 1d ago
If I didn't think it was all about ego I'd say it was intentional treason. I absolutely believe he legitimately thinks the military needs to be remade into his small minded, insecure, macho man fantasy.
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u/SallyAmazeballs 1d ago
He's a Christian nationalist, so he's basically trying to kick all the women and people of color out of leadership positions to make the military look male, white, and Christian, and then doing a crusade in the Middle East. It's a really weird power fantasy that's not based on reality, so it's backfiring big time.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 1d ago
Wanting praise for reversing your own insane decision is typical Trump behavior. You get no points, this shouldn’t have ever been an idea in the first fucking place.
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u/Dense-Competition-51 1d ago
It’s pretty classic Trump (and GOP, honestly) playbook: create a problem, then wanting credit for fixing it. I can’t believe they trotted it out in the first place. It shows how much of an echo chamber they live in.
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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago
I haven't run into anyone that's 'pro execution on live TV as entertainment' yet.
Not to say they aren't out there, but yeah. He was trying to sell an idea that very few actually wanted - which is absolutely on-brand for him.
It also goes to show how few (if any by now) voices of restraint remain in his 'team', such as it is. It's wall-to-wall 'yes men/women', otherwise this would have died on the table as soon as it was proposed.
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u/StabbyMcSwordfish 1d ago edited 1d ago
I heard a poll showed that 2/3 people believe he should be executed, but only 13% supported a public livestream. So even among the people who want the death penalty, livestreaming it is an extremely unpopular idea.
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u/Donthatemeyo 1d ago
Yeah I think execution by firing squad is acceptable, it has historically been the punishment for the crime he committed, but his motivation was to become a martyr and inspire others public execution plays into that and is a stupid idea.
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u/hesh582 1d ago
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with using guns in an execution relative to other options. We've got a real tendency to prefer appearances over substance in matters like these, which makes a bullet to the temple inhumane because it's ugly and messy but an injection which is actually inhumane more acceptable.
But I really don't understand the whole "firing squad" thing. We really can't figure out a better way to put a bullet into a condemned person than lining up a bunch of soldiers quite a ways away and hoping they don't miss?
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u/Donthatemeyo 1d ago
It's for the people pulling the trigger generally one of the rifles have a blank in it so the people in the firing squad can belive theirs was the blank, and these are soldiers who had to pass a marksmanship test at a much farther distance than the execution. I personally am against the death penalty for multiple reasons.
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u/paper_liger 1d ago edited 1d ago
as a former soldier, I assure you I did not sign up to shoot a guy chained up like a fucking rabid animal, and anyone who volunteers to do so should be drummed out of the military.
if he had caught a bullet when he was doing the deed, good.
but once he's a prisoner I'd rather let him rot in jail and die with a whimper instead of a bang. that's all he deserves. no pageantry. no last words. no martyrdom.
a firing squad is not justice. it's a moronic revenge fantasy.
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u/najinanidad 1d ago
A lady in Tennessee survived a lethal injection just a couple weeks ago and experienced excruciating pain. She’s still alive in the prison hospital. Just shoot me if that’s the alternative.
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u/peon2 1d ago
The only people that I could imagine wanting to see that are maybe people related to the victims that want some sort confirmation of retribution. Other than that I don't know...wanting to watch someone die is wild.
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u/Worthyness 1d ago
I believe a good number of them also didnt want the execution televised. Its just an absurd move to even try to do. If nothing else, it makes the guy a martyr and you show the US public that youre a bunch of violent assholes who enjoy killing people on screen like a dystopia future state (not that they arent basically doing that already)
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u/coffeesippingbastard 1d ago
wanting to watch someone die is wild
There are a LOT of young men who want this. They're basically Pete Hegseth's target audence.
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u/wrendamine 1d ago
I think the problem in this whole travesty of a timeline and country is that the United States Secretary of Defense has a target audience.
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u/LordRobin------RM 1d ago
Yeah, Hegseth strikes me as the typical "alpha male" influencer type. He probably appeals to the Tate-er-tots.
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u/rooftops 1d ago
wanting to watch someone die is wild
I've worked with some shitty blue-collar people and even THEY would likely be against a livestream of it.
However, I had one coworker who would probably be foaming at the mouth furiously masturbating to the idea. Dude was a racist dumbfuck 3%er who got giddy talking about his "home defense" CQB drills (or whatever they called them) and making people just generally uncomfortable. Guy walked up to me one day mid-shift and was like "hey wanna see this video" then shoved his phone in my face, playing some sort of LiveLeak cartel execution watching a guy get shot repeatedly by several people until his head was no longer head-shaped.
THAT is the demographic I assume supports it.
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u/Catanians 1d ago
Create problem, dems win next cycle, dems throw bandaid on problem, republicans win next cycle, republicans want credit for the bandaid, start breaking more things.
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u/zerosystem03 1d ago
Astonishing how many of his followers dont catch on..his first admin was similar. e.g Create a problem for farmers, give them a bailout (around $28 billion from a quick search), save the day. wow what a hero
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u/The_DanceCommander 1d ago
Honestly with this one, it felt like Hegseth just threw it out there without thinking (idk what’s worse) and the the admin went into its typical never back down, never apologize mode.
They tried to find rationalizations for a stupid off the cuff idea with zero public support until they finally couldn’t.
Pretty typical Trumpian policy making now that you think about it.
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u/MegaMaster1021 1d ago
They expecting people to be OK with this because he shot up a military place like yeah he should be punished for doing that but making a spectacle out of this makes you the very barbaric animals you labeled the Iran government as. Also they never got mad when it happens at elementary schools.
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u/ContactRepulsive 1d ago
They reversed the decision when Trump finds out that he's in a wheelchair, because the optics from that couldn't possibly get worse.
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u/DennisBallShow 1d ago
The whole time that was going on, I was like where’s the army? Where are the cops? Why is no one doing anything to prevent this violence?
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u/gatsby5555 1d ago
Honestly, I wouldn't be all that surprised if Hegseth was shooting from the hip on this one. Hopefully they can get this idiot removed soon.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 1d ago
He should’ve never been confirmed. Then, he should’ve been removed after signal gate. Now I have zero hopes.
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u/gatsby5555 1d ago
I have some hopes. The guy isn't popular, even amongst most of the maga crowd. Even if they just throw him under the bus for Iran I'll take it. He has more of a negative impact on my day to day life than anybody else in the administration.
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u/Okonos 1d ago
He has more of a negative impact on my day to day life than anybody else in the administration.
Him and RFK Jr.
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u/takeda64 1d ago
- It is against US law (not that he cares)
- It is something that you only see in Afghanistan and Iran (not that he cares)
- Apparently the guy is currently disabled, so they would have to bring him in his wheelchair then have soldiers fire at him (not that he cares, but I don't think it would send the message he wants)
I think it was to distract.
BTW: where are the Epstein files that should be available a year ago? Why more than half couldn't be released? What's going on with war in Iran, why are we aiding our enemy who is actively helping Iran target our bases and soldiers? I mean even if we are whoring ourselves, this is an insignificant amount of oil to change anything. It feels like excuse to just remove sanctions. It doesn't even make sense as currently we are exporters and Russia right now is forced to import.
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 1d ago
Todd Blanche is currently in court fighting to keep the Epstein files and the abusers redacted and secret. Like, not even exaggerating a little bit.
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u/eeyore134 1d ago
Days after a failed execution was making headlines and making people cancel and question continuing them period. Trump always does the worst thing possible. Like posting memes of himself playing with tigers after someone was mauled and killed by a tiger.
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u/The_Bird_Wizard 1d ago
All the Trumpers that were circlejerking over this are now gonna have to 180 and pretend they were against it the whole time hahaha
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u/PenitentAnomaly 1d ago
They will say that Trump was forced to pull it because it would have owned the sensitive, squeamish libs too hard.
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 1d ago
I like that they assume it's because liberals can't handle it but that isn't true, liberals are against it because the terrorists in the Middle East do that shit and it would make us no better than them.
But MAGA doesn't think lol they just jump right to "pussies".
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u/Thepumpkindidit 1d ago
"Trump is too classy for this sort of thing, but Biden would have done it" Probably what /r conservative will be saying
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u/DDRDiesel 1d ago
Because it was a distraction. Just more games of "Look over here!" while they were stuffing their pockets at the expense of the American taxpayer
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u/deevee12 1d ago
I call it the ragebait presidency. Everything is performative nonsense to get people riled up. It doesn’t matter that they never planned to actually do it because the media attention was the actual goal.
I’m tired boss
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u/iusedtohavepowers 1d ago
The thing is though. Even though it’s performative it is to the Nth degree. Like the Kennedy Center being renamed and the reflecting pool and shit. He will mindlessly dump resources and people’s time into set up or even just execution. “No pun intended I fucking hate trump” but he will waste whatever he needs to for the show which is a huge part of the problem. Because it’s not just money or effort or planning. It’s people’s lives all over the world and their food and water and resources.
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u/Hot-Exam3187 1d ago
Bombing Iran during the height of the Epstein Files news coverage is the most shameless, selfish, transparently evil instance of this I'd say.
And it worked, for that specific purpose. It created a thousand new problems, but there's no foresight involved in any of these decisions anyway. Like you said, mindlessly making a show.
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u/rockhopper92 1d ago
I don't think so. I get the feeling in this case that it was actual incompetence and no one stopped to considered the ramifications of Hegseth's idiotic military-bro-politics. They have enough distractions with all of the low effort litmus tests and AI tiger videos. Just be glad public disgust won out over their moronic savegery this time.
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u/DaveShadow 1d ago
As an outsider, I’m sick of hearing “it’s all a distraction”, cause it feels even his detractors want to think there’s some 4D chess game being played.
It’s not all distractions. It’s what happens when you give evil groups unbridled power. It’s just a shitshow from top to bottom, and it’s not nessecarily by design. It’s just how this looks when you give fascists power.
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u/snowshoeBBQ 1d ago
This is 100% correct. Distract us from what exactly? It's all out there. They're being blatantly awful on every fucking level.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 1d ago
Besides, with everything they've been doing in plain sight, why would they need distractions?
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u/DaveShadow 1d ago
Yeap. I mean, we know so much evil shit about them. And barely anything is done in response. What do they need “distractions” from? He’s already a war mongering rapist, who is very likely in the Epstein files, and still America chugs along. Hoping the guy who openly admits to rigging previous votes won’t just do it again…
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u/Pauly_Amorous 1d ago edited 16h ago
use it feels even his detractors want to think there’s some 4D chess game being played.
People give these guys way too much credit; they're not that clever.
Besides that, nobody watching a public execution is going to be distracted from the fact that they can't afford rent or gas.
Edit: Saw on the news this morning that they canceled the public execution, because Trump apparently didn't know the dude was in a wheelchair. That sounds about right for this administration.
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u/CondescendingShitbag 1d ago
Bread and circuses for the rubes. It's the only way they know how to play.
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u/successfullynumb 1d ago
I don't know why, not like anyone is going to stop them. Nobody has done anything other than "you can't do that," and at this point it's doubtful anyone will.
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u/DDRDiesel 1d ago
The "flood the zone" strategy has been working for them thus whole time, so there's no reason not to keep doing it
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u/vashthestampede121 1d ago
Btw just in case anyone thinks this was a last minute crisis of conscience, I’m sure the real reason is either because no one wanted to have their brand associated with this for sponsors and/or they actually thought about it for more than 3 seconds and realized that it’d be giving the guy exactly what he wants by making him a martyr.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 1d ago
He started rethinking it when he found out the guy is paralyzed.
Him and the drunk one were looking to turn this into a TV spectacle but that would be extremely difficult when you have to roll the guy in a wheelchair before shooting him. It would just look pathetic.
That is the only reason they decided not to proceed. It doesn't make for good TV.
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u/_Miss_Eclipse 1d ago
There is no conscious here. He just posted an AI slop video of him cuddling the tiger that killed a guy in the UK
The man is mentally ill
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u/lab-gone-wrong 1d ago
Or it did its job of burning another media cycle on stupid shit that doesn't end up mattering
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u/IndigoRanger 1d ago
There are no more cycles, it’s just one long continuous flood of shit
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u/PoliticsLeftist 1d ago
Also, the optics of shooting a guy in a wheelchair is not good, especially when we've been intentionally desensitized to violence and the deaths of soldiers.
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u/luminousrobot 1d ago
Or cause they realized the guy is paralyzed and in a wheelchair and that’s horrible optics
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u/Medford_Lanes 1d ago
Yeah my guess is they shopped around the broadcast rights and found out nobody would touch it. And places like youtube have policies against streams of that nature. Just another batshit business decision gone awry.
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u/LordOssus 1d ago
Another plausibility is no one realized the inmate is paralyzed from the waste down and as soon as they found out thought the optics of, y'know, shooting a guy in a wheelchair, wouldn't look as cool to them, so they scrapped it.
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u/barbarians20 1d ago
It’s like they want to be cartoonishly evil, but can’t take the heat when it comes to implementing the public, more blatantly evil stuff. Anytime they try to step out of the shadows and do anything that doesn’t come out of the news cycle in a week they completely back down.
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u/JerseyDonut 1d ago
Its their strategy. They will encroach, break boundaries, then pull back when meeting too much resistance. But every time they blow past a boundary and get rebuked they never fully retreat back to the former boundaries. They end up gaining ground if only in desensitizing the collective consciousness to their bullshit.
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u/Acceptable_Bat379 1d ago
I think they've really convinced themselves they have public support and are constantly surprised everyone hates it and the masculine posturing isnt working
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u/lookyloolookingatyou 1d ago
That's the vibe I got while watching Hegseth slowly lose confidence in himself while giving his "FAFO" speech to all those generals.
It makes sense because apparently they rely on AI for a lot of this stuff, it's like that episode of Black Mirror where the girl comes up with a dance routine under the encouragement of a Miley Cyrus AI and then starts stumbling when faced with the blank-faced stares of a human audience.
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u/Redrumicus 1d ago
Not really worth celebrating.
He's not calling it off because that's the right thing to do.
He's calling it off because not doing so would undeniably hurt him at midterms.
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u/SharMarali 1d ago
Midterms are only a couple of weeks away, the execution is set for a month later. Plenty of time for him to change his mind back again.
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u/Redrumicus 1d ago
Absolutely.
But if he didn't call it off, knowing it's wildly unpopular, would hurt the midterms.
I expect that if he wins them, he will go back to trampling all over everyone and everything 10-fold.
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u/brokencreedman 1d ago
Apparently live streaming dudes shooting a paralyzed man to death is bad PR.
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u/TinyFugue 1d ago
I guess the polling numbers stayed consistent.
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u/eggmaker 1d ago
the polling numbers stayed consistent
They actually got worse. His approval rating is -27, down 0.2 points since last week.
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u/TheObsidianHawk 1d ago
Taco Thursday. Taco Thursday.
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u/Zorothegallade 1d ago
My favourite day of the week after Taco Monday, Taco Tuesday, Taco Wednesday, Taco Friday, Taco Saturday and Taco Sunday
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u/TowersOG 1d ago
Kinda crazy that these wild animals (MAGA) were frothing at the mouth wanting to watch this shit.
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u/wretchedhal0 1d ago
only because the dude is in a wheelchair and he thought it would make him look bad.
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u/caiaphas8 1d ago
Britain executing a guy in a wheelchair is basically the reason Ireland is independent
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u/soundengineerguy 1d ago
James Connoly. He was injured and the executed him tied to a chair in Kilmainham Gaol. He was dying anyway, but it enraged the country. Turned most of us against the British.
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u/sephjnr 1d ago
Since when has that bothered him
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u/Mamamama29010 1d ago
Because executing a guy in a wheelchair looks “weak”.
Because members of his own party, who do still have some sway due to enabling his behavior in the first place, mentioned that it’s not a winning look around the midterms.
Because the remaining national security experts have expressed that a public video of the execution could be used as a recruitment tool for other Islamist extremist.
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u/MNBug 1d ago
Hey, now I agree with Trump on at least one thing. I'm going to go buy a lottery ticket.
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u/57696c6c 1d ago
The level of indecency and machismo within the Trump administration will be a stain on U.S. history for decades to come. I'm not saying that guy is innocent; he chose his path, but to parade his execution like it's some reality TV show to satisfy the administration's thirst for blood is astoundingly inhumane and embarrassing for this whole country. Those who voted for this are terrible people.
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u/Remarkable_Virus844 1d ago
You know Hegseth fucked up when PRESIDENT TRUMP says it’s too Draconian to livestream a firing squad execution.
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u/faesser 1d ago
He doesn't give a shit. It's only because people were going "wtf!" and it may effect midterms elections.
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u/temujin94 1d ago edited 1d ago
He was never allowed to in the first place, he just thought it'd get some of his rabid supporters a bit more excited for the elections.
In fact the choice to execute him (publicly or otherwise) within Trump's term isn't Trump's decision, it's Nidal Hassan's if he wishes to use his right to appeal it would put this past 2029.
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u/Alwayssunnyinarizona 1d ago
And maybe the next time he wants a public execution, it won't be so shocking.
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u/Burgoonius 1d ago
They probably realized this was costing them votes. They are very desperate right now.
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u/RomanBlue_ 1d ago
Make no mistake they will test the waters again, and eventually they will succeed and they will keep testing. American voters please for the love of god, shut this shit down, NOW.
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u/cpas2b 1d ago
Good. But he entertained the idea to begin with, and that’s the real problem here.
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u/Primary-Bookkeeper10 1d ago
He turned it down because even republican politicians have gone on tv to call it a disastrous decision and calling for Pete Hegseth’s removal
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u/ThatOneComrade 1d ago
Even among conservative voters it wasn't popular, the only people who supported it were the Russian bots and the fragile alpha male dude bros.
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u/ByRWBadger 1d ago
Like trying to appoint Matt Gaetz as attorney general, NEVER let them forget that they tried.
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u/PoweR_TRiPn 1d ago
I assume the execution will be moved to PPV so they can charge the people they know want to watch
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u/ToyDingo 1d ago
"I used my great power to stop the heinous public display of an execution. This is why Norway is a horrible country filled with terrible people for not giving me, your favorite President, the Nobel Peace Prize!"
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u/2hype2wype 1d ago edited 1d ago
The fact that this headline is a thing is disappointing.
Imagine showing this to someone 15 years ago.
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u/SquonkMan61 1d ago
Good. The idea of live-streaming this was absolutely barbaric. After all these years of Trump this was so predictable. Another TACO moment.
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u/Skwuat 1d ago
Yeah, no shit. Everyone knew that was going to happen.
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u/xCyn1cal0wlx 1d ago
Not me, I have seen so many fucked up things that I didn't think were possible in this country five years ago, that I figured they were going to go through with it for sure.
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u/Enough_Photograph503 1d ago
I figured they would go through with it until Vance was so hesitant to endorse it the other day
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u/Largofarburn 1d ago
Ehhh. Given that like half the government is basically 4chan edgelords these days I was beginning to wonder.
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u/Mean-Kaleidoscope873 1d ago
Hopefully they'll be able to find someone to kill in public who has better optics that a guy in a wheelchair so they can satisfy their sadistic bloodlust. What's the fun of being in charge if you can't demonstrate your power to end people's lives? Kim Jong Un is the leader of a much smaller country, yet he gets to conduct public firing-squad executions, with crowds, often including schoolchildren, compelled to watch. It's not fair to Trump.
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u/VirginiaLuthier 1d ago
Poor Pete. What a blow to his masculinity. Nothing a few shots won't fix
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u/iiPhoenixAshes 1d ago
80 percent of people in the United States strongly opposed the execution. Leave it to the dumbest fucking administration of all time to get 80 percent of Americans to agree on something.
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u/FCSTFrany 1d ago
Why did it take so long to make the correct choice.
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u/jonsnowflaker 1d ago
They were certainly testing the popularity of the idea. But a poll came out saying it was heavily opposed outside of MAGA Males.
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u/liveforeachmoon 1d ago
They found out Hasan is paralyzed in a wheelchair and figured it would be bad optics.
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u/Jokong 1d ago
It sounds like a Larry David skit or something. They're all hyped to bring back brute force and they go into the super max expecting to meet an inhuman monster, then the sound of a squeaky wheel gets closer and Hasan gets pushed into view from around the corner.
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u/viky109 1d ago
I’m honestly surprised Trump is even capable of making correct choices
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u/RooneytheWaster 1d ago
After the Christa Pike debacle he's just worried they'll livestream every one of the soldiers missing. Repeatedly.
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u/Buckeye_Monkey 1d ago
Let me guess, he's going to claim to be the hero for overturning that decision, isn't he?
"See? I saved your children from seeing this terrible thing the Democrats wanted to show you!".....and there are people that will believe it.
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u/MattyGWS 1d ago
Only because it was making him look bad for midterms… the fact that he was going to do it was the intent that matters. It’s like when someone is only sorry when they get caught. They’re not sorry they did the thing, they’re sorry they got caught doing the thing.
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u/slimstarman 1d ago
Snip snap snip snap! You have no idea the toll that promises of blood on television has on a person!
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u/chinaski73 1d ago
So any chance after the midterms when democrats win the house and senate (although not possible to get 67 senate seats) that there will be some R senator defectors that will vote to impeach/convict some of the worst ones like Hegseth? Trump has burned the GOP down, it'll take a long time to rebuild the brand, some R senators doing the right thing for once would go a long way to start to repair that. Let's see how it unfolds.
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u/GoarSpewerofSecrets 1d ago
"When"
Please don't count your chickens before they hatch. Make sure people vote.
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u/Khaldara 1d ago
Conservatives: “We need to rile up our low education base against drag shows or book readings. What if a CHILD sees?”
Also Conservatives: “Let’s publicly display someone getting shot to death. You know, for kids!”
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u/ThoriatedFlash 1d ago
There will never be enough defectors to impeach and remove trump. If being the first president to fight the peaceful transition of power by denying the results without evidence, asking state governors to "find" more votes, implementing fake elector schemes, and siccing a mob of your supporters to the capitol isn't enough to convince them to do so, then nothing will. They will still support him and will claim BS like how they think he learned his lesson. You can't rely on a corrupt government to solve the problem of a corrupt government.
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u/Greifvogel1993 1d ago
Trump will be firing Hegseth before the midterms to avoid getting stuck in an impeachment debacle.
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u/momochicken55 1d ago
Really? Hegseth is one of the worst guys given power and I would really like to see him kicked out.
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u/Greifvogel1993 1d ago
I would much rather see him impeached. Being fired by Trump is essentially a free pass.
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u/xtremeradness 1d ago
Ah yes, impeachment, the punishment that always carries consequences
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u/PTBooks 1d ago
Mike Johnson sent Congress home back in September to avoid taking a vote on articles of impeachment against Hegseth. The votes are there.
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u/bigredthesnorer 1d ago edited 1d ago
He's lining up Hegseth in November as one of the reasons for November election losses. Hegseth will be the one executed in November by Trump's own firing squad of character assasination and job dismissal.
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u/No_Ant_5064 1d ago
To be honest, I will be very surprised if this execution actually goes through on 12/3. The way these things are, I bet there's gonna be years of appeals, counter appeals, all that.
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u/MustWarn0thers 1d ago
Now fire the unqualified insecure asshole that tried to do this Taliban bullshit.
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u/thecheesypoofs 1d ago
1/3 of USA is sad about this news.
1/3 of USA doesn’t really care.
1/3 of USA is relieved.
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u/No_Guitar7903 1d ago
Shame. I was really looking forward to the US embarrassing itself some more.
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u/EffingNewDay 1d ago
They’ll do it on a Friday when they do all the fucked up stuff without telling anyone.
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u/jhill515 1d ago
Probably hoped to squeeze some kind of revenue out of streaming it, only to find out no one wants to watch a terrorist in a wheelchair get shot.
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u/hhhisthegame 1d ago
Thank god but it's insane this was ever an option. I don't know how I keep getting surprised by new things that make me wonder how we are seriously living in this reality, and that some people accept it
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u/huxtiblejones 1d ago
This is like reading "man calls off decision to eat poop." I mean, that's good I guess? But the fact that you even thought about it and said it out loud tells me you're a lunatic.
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u/Stuf404 1d ago
Livestream didnt make sense... when trump can convert it to a gameshow for maximum profit, Hunger Game style
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u/Leather-Entry93 1d ago
He probably realized Truth Social doesn’t have streaming capabilities and he can’t make money off of this
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u/MorboKat 1d ago
Honestly, I'll believe it after the guy is dead and it wasn't livestreamed. Even then, they may release footage in some form or another.
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u/GoblinPapa800 1d ago
Kegsbreath ought to double check his bus schedule; shortly he may find himself under one of the more convenient ones.
The Acropolis express has been put to use recently.
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u/Call_Me_Squishmale 1d ago
Oh good, he decided not to activate the machine he commissioned at this time. What a hero.
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u/AaronfromKY 1d ago
Did he realize how absolutely awful the optics of televising a man in a wheelchair being shot to death would be? Did that overcome his inherent racism?
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u/HailToTheKingslayer 1d ago
Reportedly, a journalist interviewd him about Venezuela. Afterwards, he said "why didn't you ask me about Venezuela.
His brain is rotting.
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u/Synergiex 1d ago
This shows how out of touch and ruthless this admin is. They really thought live killing and video taping someone like isis used to do was a good idea…
If people, especially their base didnt say “wtf” they would have still go with it…
This is not the first time trump taco’ed but each taco is an admission of failure and how they make their decisions without thinking it through
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u/opodopo69 1d ago
Calls off the livestream the livestream not the making it public part, the livestream theyre totally still gonna record it and release the footage
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u/Southwestern 1d ago
If his brain wasn't addled by the syphilis and Adderall, he'd realize he has a large enough base of support that by simply holding Hegseth out as a sacrificial lamb and maybe kicking Stephen Miller to the curb, he could ease the tensions enough to survive the next few years. As it stands, I think a Romanov's situation is as likely as a peaceful transfer of power.
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u/R5Jockey 1d ago
"I authorized the livestream."
"I didn't know anything about the livestream."
"We're not going to livestream it."