When the regime says(falsely) that the ICE ghoul/murderer relied on his training, I can't help but think how completely that falsehood would be exposed under a good cross-examination. What training?
I am so sad. So very sad. And so very tired. We knew this was coming. Hoped we'd get to the midterms before it did. My heart is with every one of you enduring this, and fighting this. Because this is not my country, it's yours, and my heart bleeds for you all. Hold fast. Maintain the line. Maintain discipline. And then destroy these fuckers at the mid-terms! The rest of the world is cheering you on.
Fuck von trump! There will be no elections anymore for a very looong time. A nazi state, a dictatorship, History repeats itself thanks to a crazy bunch of greedy corrupt deranged billionaires. Blood on the streets within 6 months looks more than possible, even inevitable. Poor America. What an ironic twist. The (previously known as) land of freedom getting screwed by morons. Ouch!
Jim, thank you for this piece. Your ability to see, without veils, what we're up against with this regime, is sobering but reassuring. My heart is breaking for Renée, her 6 yr. old daughter, her mother, her neighbors, and all of us who are traumatized and grieving. One can quickly feel crazy in an environment where the other narrative invalidates our own, insisting that reality is the opposite of how we perceive it. It is hard to grasp that Trump chronically conceals his ruthless, self-centered malevolence, so that the world will part, like the Sea of Reeds, letting him accomplish his triumphalist fantasies with total impunity. He keeps showing us who he is, and even though we don't want to believe it, it keeps being true. :(
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by a member of Trump and Noem's ICE squad.
Trump is running a murderous campaign against the American people and those who stand in the way of his corrupt and illegal actions.
This must end now. Every human rights, national, and international peace and justice organization should join forces and call for a massive national march on D.C., Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and in every state capital. Trump's war on the American people, South America, and our European allies must be stopped!
Congress, join us, lead us. We are the people who put you in office. Now, it's time for you to step up and lead in this fight for our freedoms and lives.
Hell, yeah. We can march, we can strike, we can contact our reps, but I’m afraid that won’t be enough. The ICE assassin should be arrested, charged with murder and convicted. But, he didn’t kill alone. His conspirators, including Noem and Trump (the Bad Seed, the Liar in Chief) should also be held accountable. What’s the penalty for murder in Minnesota?
Well said, Willa. I've been calling my Congress Rep. daily with the message that it's his responsibility to call for impeachment, whether they "have the votes" or not. We need the energy to be going in that direction and it's the House where that energy begins. Our role is to get them there. Any other ideas?
Plenty, but I am not in a position of power or influence to make it happen. Somehow, the voice, the cry of the people who care about our freedoms in an American Democracy must rise into the power seats of government, and perhaps the military, for them to come to our aid and protection. Whom among us can do this?
We have reached the inflection point. You need to make your decision. Are you content being subjugated and abused? Will you cower in fear and hope you go unnoticed, as the bulldozer of oppression reduces cities, citizens and the constitution to rubble?
Or will you make a stand to preserve liberty for your families and future generations? There is no more time to sit and hope the calvary is coming to your rescue. The calvary has been corrupted. The only hero that can save America is YOU.
As tempting as it is to take up arms and bravely battle this criminal regime in retaliation, that premature reaction is exactly what Trump and his cult are hoping for. At this point, reacting violently will provide the oppressors to declare martial law and suspend future elections.
We may very well get to the point where armed resistance is our last possible defence, but first, before a civil war becomes unavoidable, citizens must unite in protest and hold a nationwide prolonged strike. There needs to be one unified non-negotiable demand. The current criminal regime must be removed from power. If successful, there will be numerous changes to the corrupt system that need to be implemented, but for starters, Trump and his cronies need to stopped cold.
Anyone paying attention to the daily mayhem and chaotic destruction of lives and liberties in America needs to stop fantasizing about a midterm election correction.
I agree, John. Gene Sharp and other experts on authoritarians tell us that non-violent attempts to overturn tyrannies are effective more often than violent attempts. We have some recent role models in South Korea, Bulgaria, and others.
I also agree with John. General strikes are effective in authoritarian countries. People in Europe have been suggesting a general strike to Americans for months since Donald Trump showed his “hand”.
** The information in the Epstein files would also be devastating to the Trump Regime, it’s MAGA Executive Branch and the Republican Party leaders in the House and Senate. It’s likely why the Republicans voted for the Transparency Act.
This is why the Epstein information is being withheld from the American people despite the almost unanimous support in both houses of Congress for the Epstein Transparency Act.
Instead - Trump is invading Venezuela, threatening Greenland and attempting to start “trouble” by surging ICE into Minnesota while illegally cutting off funding to certain Democratic States.
SO - find the files internationally and make them public. The Law was passed. Those models were “too young”.
It will be very difficult to explain the information in those files to the religious people - the ones who are starting to question the what this Administration is doing.
The Catholic Church had to deal with it’s priests - finally.
Let the American people know what their President really is.
FOX News is calling what happened in Minneapolis today the result of a vehicular ramming implying that it was purposeful rather than the unconscious reaction of a woman who had just been unnecessarily shot in the face by an ICE coward/thug. They did not show the video of course. Sheep cannot be allowed to make up their own minds based on cell-phone evidence. We are at that point where the McCarthy hearings were in the 1950s: either the military stands up to this nonsense and stops being cowed and complicit or the people must take matters into their own hands.
Too many selfish, racist, sexist, sociopathic men (and the women who follow them) do not want to play by the rules or obey laws. They knew they couldn't achieve their rotten agendas politically so now they are forcing them upon the people with lies and violence.
Rosa Parks was a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement. I hope the senseless death of Renee Good may enrage and encourage more people to take part in acts of civil disobedience.
I also called US House of Representative and two offices of US Senators today with a request to "impeach, convict and remove now". I said I would be calling every week now with the same message. (How I wish the people leading rallies and chanting those phrases and slogans they want the crowd to repeat that do nothing would just ask everyone to repeat this phase over and over again until it becomes so loud and so strong throughout the cities of America that it must be obeyed rather than ignored.)
I appreciate what you're doing Nancy. This is what our role is, it seems to me...to push the House to impeach and back them up. I hope there are some Republicans who can see clearly now what they've unleashed, and who will re-dedicate themselves to upholding the rule of law over and against the rule of the lawless.
In a Playboy magazine interview from 1990 he was discussing the Tiananmen Square protests, when he said; “ The Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country right now is perceived as weak.” That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me! This is a sick mother fucker and if we don’t stand up a protest we are doomed.
I’m sickened by what this ICE thug did. This was cold-blooded murder and clearly there’s no justification. I’m enraged and heartbroken at the same time. She seemed like a kind, compassionate person whose life was needlessly taken.
They want us to riot. That will give them an excuse, a poor excuse, to escalate. Remember the George Floyd riots when the police were told to stand down, but nobody said who gave the order? And none of our elected officials, or the so-called liberal media, even bothered to ask? We cannot let them play dumb again. Push the police to do their jobs and investigate the murder of one of their people.
The Mayor was very forceful in his condemnation of the murder, to the point of telling ICE to get the F out of Minneapolis. I'm sure he'll be making the Resistance proud over the coming weeks.
Yes I saw and heard the mayor on TV. Chuck Schumer has also been forceful, writing letters of outrage and giving fearful speeches.
Not impressed, words are cheap. Action is what counts. He should have given the police orders to arrest anyone violating the law, and that includs dudes in uniform with the words ICE or DEA or HSI or FBI on them, and wearing masks.
Just because you wear a uniform doesn't give you llicense to break the law, ask any memeber, past and present of the armed forces, like myself.
When the regime says(falsely) that the ICE ghoul/murderer relied on his training, I can't help but think how completely that falsehood would be exposed under a good cross-examination. What training?
I am so sad. So very sad. And so very tired. We knew this was coming. Hoped we'd get to the midterms before it did. My heart is with every one of you enduring this, and fighting this. Because this is not my country, it's yours, and my heart bleeds for you all. Hold fast. Maintain the line. Maintain discipline. And then destroy these fuckers at the mid-terms! The rest of the world is cheering you on.
Wild prediction - the GOP ticket in 2028 will be Ross/Rittenhouse.
And they would likely win, because the electorate have Stockholm syndrome.
This last few lines are so powerful, Jim. My God.
Fuck von trump! There will be no elections anymore for a very looong time. A nazi state, a dictatorship, History repeats itself thanks to a crazy bunch of greedy corrupt deranged billionaires. Blood on the streets within 6 months looks more than possible, even inevitable. Poor America. What an ironic twist. The (previously known as) land of freedom getting screwed by morons. Ouch!
Jim, thank you for this piece. Your ability to see, without veils, what we're up against with this regime, is sobering but reassuring. My heart is breaking for Renée, her 6 yr. old daughter, her mother, her neighbors, and all of us who are traumatized and grieving. One can quickly feel crazy in an environment where the other narrative invalidates our own, insisting that reality is the opposite of how we perceive it. It is hard to grasp that Trump chronically conceals his ruthless, self-centered malevolence, so that the world will part, like the Sea of Reeds, letting him accomplish his triumphalist fantasies with total impunity. He keeps showing us who he is, and even though we don't want to believe it, it keeps being true. :(
Renee Nicole Good was murdered by a member of Trump and Noem's ICE squad.
Trump is running a murderous campaign against the American people and those who stand in the way of his corrupt and illegal actions.
This must end now. Every human rights, national, and international peace and justice organization should join forces and call for a massive national march on D.C., Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and in every state capital. Trump's war on the American people, South America, and our European allies must be stopped!
Congress, join us, lead us. We are the people who put you in office. Now, it's time for you to step up and lead in this fight for our freedoms and lives.
Hell, yeah. We can march, we can strike, we can contact our reps, but I’m afraid that won’t be enough. The ICE assassin should be arrested, charged with murder and convicted. But, he didn’t kill alone. His conspirators, including Noem and Trump (the Bad Seed, the Liar in Chief) should also be held accountable. What’s the penalty for murder in Minnesota?
Well said, Willa. I've been calling my Congress Rep. daily with the message that it's his responsibility to call for impeachment, whether they "have the votes" or not. We need the energy to be going in that direction and it's the House where that energy begins. Our role is to get them there. Any other ideas?
Plenty, but I am not in a position of power or influence to make it happen. Somehow, the voice, the cry of the people who care about our freedoms in an American Democracy must rise into the power seats of government, and perhaps the military, for them to come to our aid and protection. Whom among us can do this?
We have reached the inflection point. You need to make your decision. Are you content being subjugated and abused? Will you cower in fear and hope you go unnoticed, as the bulldozer of oppression reduces cities, citizens and the constitution to rubble?
Or will you make a stand to preserve liberty for your families and future generations? There is no more time to sit and hope the calvary is coming to your rescue. The calvary has been corrupted. The only hero that can save America is YOU.
As tempting as it is to take up arms and bravely battle this criminal regime in retaliation, that premature reaction is exactly what Trump and his cult are hoping for. At this point, reacting violently will provide the oppressors to declare martial law and suspend future elections.
We may very well get to the point where armed resistance is our last possible defence, but first, before a civil war becomes unavoidable, citizens must unite in protest and hold a nationwide prolonged strike. There needs to be one unified non-negotiable demand. The current criminal regime must be removed from power. If successful, there will be numerous changes to the corrupt system that need to be implemented, but for starters, Trump and his cronies need to stopped cold.
Anyone paying attention to the daily mayhem and chaotic destruction of lives and liberties in America needs to stop fantasizing about a midterm election correction.
I agree, John. Gene Sharp and other experts on authoritarians tell us that non-violent attempts to overturn tyrannies are effective more often than violent attempts. We have some recent role models in South Korea, Bulgaria, and others.
I also agree with John. General strikes are effective in authoritarian countries. People in Europe have been suggesting a general strike to Americans for months since Donald Trump showed his “hand”.
** The information in the Epstein files would also be devastating to the Trump Regime, it’s MAGA Executive Branch and the Republican Party leaders in the House and Senate. It’s likely why the Republicans voted for the Transparency Act.
This is why the Epstein information is being withheld from the American people despite the almost unanimous support in both houses of Congress for the Epstein Transparency Act.
Instead - Trump is invading Venezuela, threatening Greenland and attempting to start “trouble” by surging ICE into Minnesota while illegally cutting off funding to certain Democratic States.
SO - find the files internationally and make them public. The Law was passed. Those models were “too young”.
It will be very difficult to explain the information in those files to the religious people - the ones who are starting to question the what this Administration is doing.
The Catholic Church had to deal with it’s priests - finally.
Let the American people know what their President really is.
RIP Renee Good.
FOX News is calling what happened in Minneapolis today the result of a vehicular ramming implying that it was purposeful rather than the unconscious reaction of a woman who had just been unnecessarily shot in the face by an ICE coward/thug. They did not show the video of course. Sheep cannot be allowed to make up their own minds based on cell-phone evidence. We are at that point where the McCarthy hearings were in the 1950s: either the military stands up to this nonsense and stops being cowed and complicit or the people must take matters into their own hands.
Too many selfish, racist, sexist, sociopathic men (and the women who follow them) do not want to play by the rules or obey laws. They knew they couldn't achieve their rotten agendas politically so now they are forcing them upon the people with lies and violence.
Rosa Parks was a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement. I hope the senseless death of Renee Good may enrage and encourage more people to take part in acts of civil disobedience.
I also called US House of Representative and two offices of US Senators today with a request to "impeach, convict and remove now". I said I would be calling every week now with the same message. (How I wish the people leading rallies and chanting those phrases and slogans they want the crowd to repeat that do nothing would just ask everyone to repeat this phase over and over again until it becomes so loud and so strong throughout the cities of America that it must be obeyed rather than ignored.)
I appreciate what you're doing Nancy. This is what our role is, it seems to me...to push the House to impeach and back them up. I hope there are some Republicans who can see clearly now what they've unleashed, and who will re-dedicate themselves to upholding the rule of law over and against the rule of the lawless.
Trump has been itching for this for 35 years.
In a Playboy magazine interview from 1990 he was discussing the Tiananmen Square protests, when he said; “ The Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country right now is perceived as weak.” That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me! This is a sick mother fucker and if we don’t stand up a protest we are doomed.
Wow, Harold...thanks for that quote. Trump grew up idolizing his cold, ruthless father and now he idolizes the coldest, cruelest men on the planet. :(
Absolutely outrageous ‼️
I’m sickened by what this ICE thug did. This was cold-blooded murder and clearly there’s no justification. I’m enraged and heartbroken at the same time. She seemed like a kind, compassionate person whose life was needlessly taken.
They want us to riot. That will give them an excuse, a poor excuse, to escalate. Remember the George Floyd riots when the police were told to stand down, but nobody said who gave the order? And none of our elected officials, or the so-called liberal media, even bothered to ask? We cannot let them play dumb again. Push the police to do their jobs and investigate the murder of one of their people.
Where is Tim Walz, where is the mayor Minneapolis? Why aren't they arresting people who break the law,by kidnapping and murdering their citizens?
The question was rhetorical in this quasi dictatorship, it is perfectly legal to harass, harm and kill people if you have a a uniform.
ICE agents do not have license to kill people, regardless of the b.s. spouted by Noem.
They should have been arrested for murder.
But, unfortunately we have spineless public officials, .
I totally agree, William...
The Mayor was very forceful in his condemnation of the murder, to the point of telling ICE to get the F out of Minneapolis. I'm sure he'll be making the Resistance proud over the coming weeks.
Yes I saw and heard the mayor on TV. Chuck Schumer has also been forceful, writing letters of outrage and giving fearful speeches.
Not impressed, words are cheap. Action is what counts. He should have given the police orders to arrest anyone violating the law, and that includs dudes in uniform with the words ICE or DEA or HSI or FBI on them, and wearing masks.
Just because you wear a uniform doesn't give you llicense to break the law, ask any memeber, past and present of the armed forces, like myself.