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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2023 17:52:43 GMT
(The Guardian) Bugsy Siegel peering malevolently from beneath his fedora in a 1928 booking photo summed up the perverse romance of gangsters in the prohibition age. Nearly half a century later, mugshots of David Bowie, elegantly dressed but dead-eyed after his arrest for drug possession, and a dishevelled Janis Joplin, detained for “vulgar and indecent language”, spoke to the shock waves created by 1960s counterculture. Now comes what Donald Trump Jr described as “the most iconic photo in the history of US politics” before the booking picture of his father glaring into the camera was even taken. But whether deeply divided Americans view the first ever mugshot of a former president as that of a gangster or a rock star is very much in the politics of the beholder. Trump’s hostility shines through as he turns his eyes up toward the camera above him and in his taut, downturned mouth as he is booked into the Fulton county jail on charges of trying to steal the 2020 presidential election. Dressed in a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, he makes no attempt to put on a smile like some of his co-defendants in their mugshots. The picture does not flatter but it does convey the message many of Trump’s supporters want to hear – belligerence. -Read more: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/24/belligerence-and-hostility-trumps-mugshot-defines-modern-us-politics
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Post by Hunny on Aug 26, 2023 12:27:58 GMT
He shouldn't be allowed to pose and use his mugshot as propaganda, to further commit the very crimes we arrested him for!Why did we allow that? And why didn't we BEAT HIM, mace him, and lock him in a cage with a toilet as we do to all criminals ? We treated him like a celebrity! Yet he is responsible for a lot of deaths and harming millions of people and our the country itself! I WANT HIM HANGED FOR WHAT HE PUT US THROUGH!!
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Post by mrright on Feb 2, 2024 21:25:30 GMT
soooooo against free speech now?
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