President Joe Biden’s campaign on Saturday excoriated former President Donald Trump for sharing a video on social media depicting what appears to be an image of Biden tied up and kidnapped in the back of a pickup truck.

“This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by,’” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement to ABC News.

Earlier this month, while discussing the American auto industry, Trump said there would be a “bloodbath” if he did not win the presidential election in November, a comment that garnered swift backlash from Biden himself.

Trump and his campaign said that he meant a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry, and Trump quickly fundraised off claims his political opponents are spreading misinformation about his remarks.

“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” Tyler added in his statement.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    81
    ·
    7 months ago

    we need better candidates running but the democrats and republicans have the country locked in and has everybody fooled

    this election has turned into a sham involving two candidates bashing each other back and forth

    pure election theater designed to stir up the rank and file voters

    • fluxion@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      48
      ·
      7 months ago

      We certainly have a better candidate than Trump. We can work on finding a better one after we deal with Putin Jr.

      • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        44
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        that is what everybody said the last time and the time before that and the time before that

        it has been afterwards for a hot minute and the corpse is in the process of putrefaction

          • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            24
            ·
            7 months ago

            the workers of the US who the elites depend on would have to call out at least for day

            if enough citizens revolted by not working just one day that would certainly start an upset

            imagine if Biden or Trump’s leash holders started hemorrhaging resources and their stocks plunged

            • flamingarms@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              19
              ·
              edit-2
              7 months ago

              Collective action can certainly be powerful. But your plan seems to have some pretty glaring holes. Strikes aren’t protected in the US for non-work-related issues, are they? And you’d have to decide when the strike ends, i.e. when a “good” candidate is proposed, which everyone will have different opinions on. Seems to me the better move would be to be pushing for a rework of the voting system into one that allows voting for other parties without throwing away a vote.

            • TommySalami@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              8
              ·
              edit-2
              7 months ago

              There are over a hundred million working adults in the US, and all of them with their own opinions and needs. Many of them completely out of touch with the world outside of their bubble, and some who even approve of the current trajectory. The idea of organizing a generalized strike is a complete pipe dream. I’d love to see it, but we are nowhere even close to that. We must work with reasonable, attainable solutions.

            • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.social
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              3
              ·
              7 months ago

              To confirm and expand on what others are saying: a general strike is not protected, and any union that endorses one will lose their recognition. How can you get that many people to risk their jobs, with no organizing union that can even legally participate?

              If you can get that many people that dedicated to your cause, it would be a whole lot easier to just get them to vote in a primary.

    • IMongoose@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      Trump: I wish to see the current president and his supporters dead and replaced by a dictator, me.

      Biden: Are you guys listening to this?

      Yes, these are the same.

      • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        35
        ·
        7 months ago

        yes agree these are different makes and models of vehicles

        but the destinations of the vehicles are the same

        until the citizens are able to come out with a vehicle of their own the destination now is corporate US led by elite puppet masters commanding their marionettes that wear red or blue shirts from on high and two different camps of citizens blindly throwing praise to their camp’s leaders who are the marionettes of the corporations all the while in the fringes between the camps lives the disenfranchised citizens shunned by both camps hungry and tired and just wanting things other than empty promises and gestures to sustain them and a place to call home that they feel they could contribute to and thrive

        • GladiusB@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          14
          ·
          7 months ago

          The destinations are not the same. You can’t make such broad statements and then completely ignore evidence that contradicts your statements. Biden is proposing a higher elite tax. That takes out your corporations. Disenfranchised citizens? He’s forgiving student debt. plus helping with healthcare and not spewing nonsense about how he was cheated out of a win and is a con man with so many court cases against him that it could be a book on its own.

          These could not be more opposite of each other. The only way it’s the same is the citizens. We are all heading there together.