Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/24/donald-trump-posts-trump-or-death-flag-and-his-real-threat-is-just-business-as-usual.html
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In this context it’s hard to read that “1776–2024” part as anything other than the dates engraved in the United States’ tombstone.
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Perhaps someone else has noticed this.
Were he to punch someone with the way he holds his wrist
when he makes a fist, he would be the one to sustain
an injury.
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He didn’t say whose death.
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This is a threat, nothing more or less. We need to recognize it as such, and prepare accordingly.
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I don’t like the prospects for survival under Trump so I guess if I’m gonna die anyway then I’ll take the death that pisses Trump off more? Basically I read this flag as “Death or Death” which is pretty much what I think about the MAGA movement and the “conservative” position on the future in general.
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I drove past a “side of the road” commercial stand yesterday, that was three tents with tables; from a distance, it resembled a Fourth of July fireworks stand. Nope, all Trump merchandise, mostly flags. There was the usual crap I’ve seen (“Make Liberals Cry Again”, for example), but one had a new tagline, “The Rules Have Changed”. I just… no notes. I don’t know what to do with this information. But there it is.
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He wooks wike a pouty widdle baby in his big ol’ fwag. Izzy a widdle baby? Did widdle baby make in his didy-widy?
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Love him or double-plus-unlove him, Hunter S. Thompson once said “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
Nowadays, too many addtiional angles to that dang quote than any time period I can (with cognitive bias) recall. Ugh.
As the MAGA folks get more desperate and unhinged, the more volatile the situation becomes. I freakin’ hate all this dogwhistlin’ and playin’ chicken whilst retaining the thinnest veneer of Plausible Deniability®. Here’s hoping some reality-compromised people don’t take his message to heart as a call to action for bad behavior, violence, etc. even if Dear Leader is counting on them, leveraging them, to do “something.”
It’s easy to spot all the False Prophet bs from the outside. It’s the people who identify [themselves] as the in-group that worry me. And of them, the ones with firearms and perceived unaddressed grievance who worry me the most. TFG is stoking them and it’s despicable:
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“what if Jim Jones had run for president and won” was not the question I’d hoped the future would answer.
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There’s a good book about Syria by Sam Dagher called “Assad, or we burn the country.” It takes its title from graffiti painted on walls by supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Spoiler: They did burn the country.
Nothing says ‘strong democratic values’ quite like a slogan that says “our candidate, or we’ll exterminate you”.
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The irony is they’re both the same, just not in his supporters’ mind.
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Sometimes, I figure the GOP’s increasingly loud and violent lunacy will scare off the Normal Americans, and the Republicans will lose in a landslide.
But lately I remember that a lot of Normal Germans shrugged off the atrocities because they weren’t the ones getting murdered in death camps, so let’s just ignore everything…
And worse, a lot of Normal Americans get all their news from Fox News or Joe Rogan.
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I think this flag better captures the essence of the next Trump presidency:
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