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maxrandb

(17,230 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:13 AM 13 hrs ago

It's Disgusting! It's Deplorable! It's Evil! It's Horrific! But, it MUST BE DONE!

Of all the soul-crushing things I have witnessed and experienced since Donnie Dipshit transitioned from diddling little girls, to diddling American Democracy, this took me to a dark place.

This morning, I felt the icy hand of the devil punch into my chest and try to drag my soul out of the bloody hole. This occurred as I watched Donnie Dipshit rambling in Iowa about how Renee Good's parents were; "big fans of Trump"!

Yes America! We have gone from; "I could shoot someone in the face on 5TH Avenue and I wouldn't lose a single vote", to "I could shoot your daughter in the face on Portland Avenue and I wouldn't lose a single vote".

Who amongst us wouldn't respond to a cold-blooded murder like that? But, it gets worse...oh. yes! It gets worse.

He also "opined" that maybe these "Trump fan" parent's daughter had been "radicalized".

Normally, I would say; "leave these people in peace!" "Haven't they suffered enough"? "Let them mourn". But THESE ARE NOT NORMAL TIMES, and we must NEVER allow them to be "normal times".

The MAGAts are counting on that human, moral, empathetic standard to "leave this grieving family alone". That way, the "murdered woman's parents are big Trump fans" meme can just fester out there in the hell of Facebook, Tic-Toc, Amazon Prime, Twitter, Instagram, Faux News and Hate-Radio propaganda-sphere unchallenged.

Leave it out there unchallenged, and the rotting corpse of zombie Rush Limbaugh will be on your radio telling his braindead audience that; "see, even the parents who lost their daughter still support the president".

I hate it, but this family MUST be asked if they are still "Big Fans of Trump"?

I didn't drag us to this point. Hell, Jesus himself didn't drag us to this point, where a grieving family must be asked for comment, but we are here!

My only reluctance is that I am not sure what the answer would be.

Every fiber of my soul tells me that if you asked a MAGAt parent if they were "big fans of Trump?" after his goons had murdered their child, the answer is going to be; "yes".

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It's Disgusting! It's Deplorable! It's Evil! It's Horrific! But, it MUST BE DONE! (Original Post) maxrandb 13 hrs ago OP
I live among Magats, gab13by13 13 hrs ago #1
That reminds me of... 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #4
My stupid MAGAt neighbor says UpInArms 10 hrs ago #27
Rotten teeth is a classic sign of meth usage. I wonder what percentage of meth users support Orange Julius Caesar generalbetrayus 9 hrs ago #29
Meth causes paranoia. Haggard Celine 9 hrs ago #30
I remember EuterpeThelo 12 hrs ago #2
From ABC News PatSeg 11 hrs ago #10
Sorry, but that is not what my post is about maxrandb 11 hrs ago #13
Yes, Trump injects himself into every story, every time PatSeg 11 hrs ago #14
A true "tell" popsdenver 10 hrs ago #22
Pretty much everything with him is a "tell" PatSeg 7 hrs ago #33
Some popsdenver 44 min ago #43
I agree. Brenda 4 hrs ago #37
From that same ABC article: Brenda 4 hrs ago #35
Whoa, I missed that part PatSeg 4 hrs ago #36
It's the little fucking things like that Brenda 4 hrs ago #38
Yeah, it is like they think this is all PatSeg 3 hrs ago #40
The inconsistency from MSM is what bothers me. Brenda 3 hrs ago #41
Sure isn't Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley style news PatSeg 1 hr ago #42
I'd say it's 50/50 LuvLoogie 12 hrs ago #3
I'm so sick of hearing people bitch about taxes. Haggard Celine 9 hrs ago #32
I remember when he said that in 2016, sestina 12 hrs ago #5
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." intrepidity 9 hrs ago #28
In 2016 I told a friend, a young man I watched grow up, mountain grammy 12 hrs ago #6
That is really sad PatSeg 11 hrs ago #15
What's sad is how he treated his mother mountain grammy 10 hrs ago #18
That's truly heartbreaking PatSeg 10 hrs ago #19
It sure is.. mountain grammy 10 hrs ago #26
Same here PatSeg 7 hrs ago #34
If I remember correctly, according to a DU'er's post recently, the "fans" niyad 12 hrs ago #7
I saw something about the father-in-law, PatSeg 11 hrs ago #17
He's asserting MAGAts as normal and us... pandr32 12 hrs ago #8
Once again: fat orange imbecile nt wolfie001 11 hrs ago #9
Maybe Renee's parents were "radicalized". Mblaze 11 hrs ago #11
We are here Roy Rolling 11 hrs ago #12
Mafia rules. He's not called "Don" for nothing. usonian 11 hrs ago #16
When he said that in Iowa, I hope they laughed in his face FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #20
Just wait popsdenver 10 hrs ago #24
Wasn't it the ex-father-in-law who was the "fan", not her own parents? JHB 10 hrs ago #21
I said yesterday that he exhibits an undefined, uncharted territory level of narcissism. Initech 10 hrs ago #23
It's not clear that the parents were Trump voters; many reports have mixed up father and ex-father-in-law muriel_volestrangler 10 hrs ago #25
Does it matter? Even if she was the biggest Trump fan they shot her in the face, for nothing!!! Srkdqltr 9 hrs ago #31
The narcissistic sociopathic pathological liar MorbidButterflyTat 4 hrs ago #39

gab13by13

(31,490 posts)
1. I live among Magats,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:29 AM
13 hrs ago

and sadly, I think you may be right.

There isn't much on TV these days so I started watching some of these live cop shows. They show poor people across America being arrested, and one thing I noticed is that a heck of a lot of those people don't take care of their teeth, pretty certain they have no dental insurance. Rotten teeth will cause you a lot more health issues than just rotten teeth. I have Medicare and a secondary insurance that doesn't cover dental and I must say that I have probably spent 7 thousand dollars out of pocket for dental care. I get my teeth cleaned at a periodontist, 80 dollars a pop.

What's my point? Bernie Sanders has been pushing for single payer health care all of his life but billionaires have convinced poor people it's too expensive, or too communist, or too Democratic, and they go through life accepting what they have been told, that's why the richest country on the planet's life expectancy 'is pathetic, and now it is even dropping, so yeah, people accept early deaths for Krasnov.

2naSalit

(100,594 posts)
4. That reminds me of...
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:58 AM
12 hrs ago

A mother of a young girl who had been kidnapped, brutally raped and defiled for days after her death. who a few weeks later was kind of aloof about it, said she had seven other kids to care for and shrugged it off.

Seriously.

generalbetrayus

(1,569 posts)
29. Rotten teeth is a classic sign of meth usage. I wonder what percentage of meth users support Orange Julius Caesar
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:34 PM
9 hrs ago

if they even follow politics or vote.

Haggard Celine

(17,728 posts)
30. Meth causes paranoia.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:49 PM
9 hrs ago

If meth users follow politics at all, they're usually believe in conspiracy theories. The tweakers I've known who believe this shit usually believe in RW ideas. They tend to lean libertarian.

EuterpeThelo

(233 posts)
2. I remember
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:31 AM
12 hrs ago

the feeling of abject horror when I saw a man wearing a t-shirt proclaiming that his son had died of COVID and he still supported Trump. This was in the earliest days of my own suffering at having just weeks earlier lost my life partner, best friend and soulmate because of the apricot hellbeast's weaponized incompetence.

Alex Pretti's family's statements leave no doubt about their viewpoint. Has anyone seen any statement from Renee Good's family other than her wife? (And, if Ms. Good's family ARE of the red hat, how do they sleep at night having voted for a ticket who would just as soon have obliterated her for being gay as for her politics?)

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
10. From ABC News
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:39 AM
11 hrs ago

'A beautiful light': Renee Good's family mourns her death amid push for 'transparency' after ICE shooting

Good’s parents, Tim Ganger and Donna Ganger, along with her four siblings, told ABC News in a statement on Wednesday that they “miss her more than words could ever express” and thanked those in the community who have reached out to show their support for the family after Good’s death.

"We want to thank everyone who has reached out in support of Renee and our family. The kind of unending care we’ve been given during this time is exactly the kind that she gave to everyone,” the family said in the statement.

Remembering Good as a “beautiful light” who brought “joy” to everyone she encountered, Good’s family said that the kindness they have experienced since her death is “the kind of unending care” that Good, whom they nicknamed “Nae Nae,” gave to everyone during her life.


https://abcnews.go.com/US/beautiful-light-renee-goods-family-mourns-death-amid/story?id=129218073#:~:text=Good's%20parents%2C%20Tim%20Ganger%20and,the%20family%20after%20Good's%20death.

I remember hearing this right after she died.

maxrandb

(17,230 posts)
13. Sorry, but that is not what my post is about
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:07 AM
11 hrs ago

Donnie Dipshit said; "it's a tragedy, I heard her parents were big fans of Trump...I don't know if they still are, but they were big fans of Trump". He later added; "maybe she was radicalized".

He injected himself into this, as he ALWAYS DOES. He injected Renee Good's parents into this.

I want to know

- Are they still "Big fans of Trump"?

- Was she radicalized?

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
14. Yes, Trump injects himself into every story, every time
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:18 AM
11 hrs ago

Meanwhile, I don't see why WE need to pull her parents into this story. Surely they've suffered enough. It is quite likely they have regrets and if not, they have paid a huge price.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
33. Pretty much everything with him is a "tell"
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 02:59 PM
7 hrs ago

I've been around my share of narcissists in my life, but never anything like him.

Brenda

(1,965 posts)
37. I agree.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:23 PM
4 hrs ago

It's not a horrible question for a reporter to ask them. I mean the President of the United States of America has never once apologized for Renee Good's death or offered comforting words to her parents or Minneapolis or the nation about her death.

Instead he is attacking the dead woman's reputation and life. He is sadistically causing her parents more pain even if they did vote for him.

And why is he not excoriated in the press for his "big fans of Trump" third person crap he uses all the time?

Brenda

(1,965 posts)
35. From that same ABC article:
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:08 PM
4 hrs ago
Ross, who fatally shot Good in the alleged car-ramming incident, suffered internal bleeding, multiple U.S. officials familiar with his medical condition told ABC News, but the extent of his injuries is unclear.


I wonder if ABC News ever had any editorial discussion about whether or not to repeat such a BALD FACE LIE?

Or at the very least they should have used the word "allegedly" before "suffered internal bleeding"?

Instead they repeat verbatim Noem, Miller, etc.

And no journalistic questions like "Where is the killer" "Why is he not appearing in a court of law?" etc.

(My response is not at all antagonistic towards you PatSeg. Just responding to the article.)

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
36. Whoa, I missed that part
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:20 PM
4 hrs ago

Shame on ABC. That was so irresponsible. I would expect that from Fox or maybe the new CBS. This is so infuriating. Like you said, they could at least have said "allegedly".

Brenda

(1,965 posts)
38. It's the little fucking things like that
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:27 PM
4 hrs ago

that make mainstream news COMPLICIT with the fuckin Chump Nazi regime.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
40. Yeah, it is like they think this is all
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:32 PM
3 hrs ago

"business as usual". The lack of awareness is stunning.

Brenda

(1,965 posts)
41. The inconsistency from MSM is what bothers me.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:50 PM
3 hrs ago

It's easy to say well the billionaire class owns the media and therefore won't report fairly about the Chump and billionaires illegal corrupt activities and what exactly is happening. Especially when they buy the media like Bezos WP and Musk Twitter.

Yet we do read WP articles outlining the corruption. We do see CNN or ABC show videos of authoritarian brutality. Twitter/X I can't say because I never signed up.

I guess I'm just a dummy when it comes to business. Maybe the MSM acts exactly how they should as any other corporation in America. They are beholden to the investors. And we all know the investors are NOT the millions of working Americans who were forced into 401Ks but the billionaires who own 90% of stocks through their options.

So if the story they push is too outlandishly a lie to the majority of Americans polled, they'll back off or allow a Democrat or person on the street to tell their story.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
42. Sure isn't Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley style news
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 08:45 PM
1 hr ago

Now it is often about entertainment and ratings. And well of course, money.

LuvLoogie

(8,606 posts)
3. I'd say it's 50/50
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 09:32 AM
12 hrs ago

It's the common GOP condition that nothing matters unless it affects them versus the core depravity of supporting trump in the first place.

What gets me about the "center" that flips back and forth is that I doubt they have any moral core that is guiding them beyond their taxes and how it effects their families' finances.

Haggard Celine

(17,728 posts)
32. I'm so sick of hearing people bitch about taxes.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:59 PM
9 hrs ago

It's usually the wealthiest people who bitch the most. No one enjoys paying taxes, but the wealthy keep giving money to politicians who will lower their taxes, like they need the money. If they keep doing that, they'll eventually pay little or no taxes. We have to help out the job creators, you know.

sestina

(511 posts)
5. I remember when he said that in 2016,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:10 AM
12 hrs ago

and I thought that eventually this pompous narcissistic con artist will make his dream come true.
This is it. If people don't wake up now, they never will.

&si=ZpFRTgegApNBDyz6

intrepidity

(8,573 posts)
28. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters."
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:30 PM
9 hrs ago

That should be on his tombstone, just to immortalize who he (andd they) were.

mountain grammy

(28,767 posts)
6. In 2016 I told a friend, a young man I watched grow up,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:10 AM
12 hrs ago

that the orange blob could rape his wife and kill his kid and he'd still support him.. he called me a retard and I unfriended him. He was a such a good kid and I'm still good friends with his mom, who is sane.

mountain grammy

(28,767 posts)
18. What's sad is how he treated his mother
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:39 AM
10 hrs ago

and told her she could say nothing if she wants to see her grandchild.. she toes the line and gets to visit the kids (he now has 2) a couple times a year. I have another friend is not allowed to see her granddaughter at all. These poople are sick.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
19. That's truly heartbreaking
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:50 AM
10 hrs ago

It is bad enough seeing one's children turn out like that, but using the grandchildren to get some sort of compliance is disgusting. As a grandparent, I'm sure they must be really concerned about their grandchildren.

mountain grammy

(28,767 posts)
26. It sure is..
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:22 PM
10 hrs ago

I've known these women for 30 years.. they are wonderful, kind and loving women, but where we lived is maga country.. some of the dumbest people you've ever met and their children soaked it in. Luckily my daughter didn't. She has plenty of problems but being a republiican isn't one of them. so many of the kids became maga, but a lot of them did not.

I'm so grateful for my children and grandchildren. Not a single republican in the bunch.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
34. Same here
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 03:03 PM
7 hrs ago

My children and I are on the same page about most things and my 11 year old grandsons are very cool. My daughter-in-law even took them to a "No Kings" rally back in October. They made their own signs. I was so impressed.

niyad

(130,214 posts)
7. If I remember correctly, according to a DU'er's post recently, the "fans"
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:22 AM
12 hrs ago

are actually, not her parents, but her former father-in-law. I will have to see if I can find it.

PatSeg

(52,429 posts)
17. I saw something about the father-in-law,
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:25 AM
11 hrs ago

but it was on Reddit and I couldn't find any links. Meanwhile, most of what I've found were quotes from Trump about Renee's parents.

pandr32

(13,860 posts)
8. He's asserting MAGAts as normal and us...
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:26 AM
12 hrs ago

well, we're radical extremists. It is such an inside out flip where the malignant tumor that was inside is now the outside norm.

Roy Rolling

(7,464 posts)
12. We are here
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:04 AM
11 hrs ago

Tread carefully and cohesively. I’m gonna print my own Antifa membership card and carry it in my wallet with my union card and badge.

Sure, I got my papers. That should be our collective response.

Fuck them. I’ve had it.

On edit: I wish I could recommend this 1000 times.

usonian

(23,911 posts)
16. Mafia rules. He's not called "Don" for nothing.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:23 AM
11 hrs ago
They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.

Al Capone died from the effects of syphilis.
What do we see these days?

FakeNoose

(40,508 posts)
20. When he said that in Iowa, I hope they laughed in his face
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 11:53 AM
10 hrs ago

Iowans are pretty down-to-earth people and a lot of them are completely disgusted with Chump. Yes maybe they're still R-voters, I don't know. But a lot of Rs have had it with him.

I believe the Minnesota crap is a turning point for the midwestern Americans. Also they're getting hit very hard with the double whammy of high prices and lower incomes. Let's hope they tell him where to get off the bus.

popsdenver

(1,781 posts)
24. Just wait
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:17 PM
10 hrs ago

The People of Iowa, regretfully, as well as all of us.......We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet........
This Republican CABAL is on a roll, and we are all gonna get Steam Rolled.......

JHB

(38,036 posts)
21. Wasn't it the ex-father-in-law who was the "fan", not her own parents?
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:07 PM
10 hrs ago

It seems like the sort of thing That F***ing Howler Monkey would pick up on and then exaggerate in his "all things must puff me up" mindset.

Initech

(107,810 posts)
23. I said yesterday that he exhibits an undefined, uncharted territory level of narcissism.
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:13 PM
10 hrs ago

And his constant need to be the main character of everything is something that is so deranged that it needs to be case studied in psychiatry textbooks for years to come. WTF.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,733 posts)
25. It's not clear that the parents were Trump voters; many reports have mixed up father and ex-father-in-law
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:18 PM
10 hrs ago

For the Good family, rather than ex-in-laws, we have:

Amid reports that Good’s father Tim Ganger is a supporter of Trump, attorney Atonio Romanucci told ABC News that some in Good’s family voted for the Trump administration during the 2024 elections, but said that after her death her family is “united as to what happened against Renee.”

"In the last election, some of her family voted in for this administration, but despite that, they are united now that this killing was wrong and they all want redress and accountability,” he said.

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/live-updates/minneapolis-ice-shooting-live-updates-129124338/trump-comments-on-renee-goods-father-129201625?offset=16

The family issued a statement about the 37-year-old mother of three the same day they announced they would be pursuing a civil investigation aiming to hold ICE accountable.

In statements where they called Good "the beautiful light of our family," the woman’s four siblings, parents and their attorneys described the shooting as a result of a chance encounter after dropping her 6-year-old child off at school.

"We want to thank everyone who has reached out in support of Renee and our family. The kind of unending care we’ve been given during this time is exactly the kind that she gave to everyone," Good’s family said in a letter shared with USA TODAY. "Nae was the beautiful light of our family and brought joy to anyone she met. She was relentlessly hopeful and optimistic which was contagious. We all already miss her more than words could ever express."
...
"She was our best friend with a seemingly infinite capacity for love. Nae-Nae gave everything she had to take care of her friends and family, and indeed people she never met," Good’s family said. "She was our protector, our shoulder to cry on, and our scintillating source of joy."

The new details come as the family announced a Chicago-based law firm is launching an investigation into Good’s death. The investigation comes as Justice Department officials say there is "no basis" for an investigation in the case. The firm, Romanucci & Blandin, is the same group that represented the family of George Floyd after he was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/renee-good-family-reveals-new-details-about-the-morning-she-was-killed-by-ice/88183565007/

It seems that Trump picked up this "father was a big Trump fan" from a question to him by a reporter, so the chain of possible mistakes, exaggerations or lies there is long. I don't think they need further pressuring on it.

Srkdqltr

(9,470 posts)
31. Does it matter? Even if she was the biggest Trump fan they shot her in the face, for nothing!!!
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 12:56 PM
9 hrs ago

I would stand up for her no matter. They were wrong wrong.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,264 posts)
39. The narcissistic sociopathic pathological liar
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 06:28 PM
4 hrs ago

claims Renee Good's parents were "big fans of Piggy."

And you believe him.

And demand "...this family MUST be asked if they are still 'Big Fans of Piggy'?

And you assume they're MAGAt parents who would say yes.

NO.

Despite your melodramatic headline, NO.

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