January 27, 2026

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely welcome the epiphanies

...from white republicans who seem to have just now caught onto the fact that their government is terrorizing and killing people in this country, including citizens, in the wake of two people who aren't immigrants of brown-skinned slaughtered by federal agents.

I understand that these are people who have made a generational stand against immigrants and others who don't look like them have long felt comfortable in their apparent belief that their anti-immigration politics; as well as their anti-American ignorance about decades and decades of deadly assaults by police forces against communities and individuals of color; or their party's demonizing of LGBTQ communities and individuals, even as those innocent victims became targets of the guns their party refuses to regulate.

I also get that most of them actually just want to go back to the day when they operated their racism and bigotry with more of a wink and a nod, than with the fire hoses and attack dogs their ilk used in their youth against people seeking civil rights in this country.

But you know, it's something, more than nothing. I mean, here I am looking back with some favor on the days when we were fighting and gaining ground in an era of decimation and denial. That's how far we've sunk.

I welcome their words, and suggest we now endeavor to hold them to them. That's how I remember we did it in the past, moving cautiously out of centuries of repression and building coalitions of support to keep us moving forward.

I welcome their epiphanies.

I welcome their awokenness.

January 26, 2026

Have conservatives actually been arming themselves to align with the govt. against the people?

...was their political cottage industry claiming to be arming themselves against an oppressive government just a ruse for arming themselves against people in this country they don't like?

That's the question for conservatives as the Trump administration doubles down on excusing the execution-style killing of Alex Pretti by blaming the victim for legally carrying a concealed gun.

Minneapolis police say Mr. Pretti was legally entitled to carry a gun which several sworn depositions already filed in court say he never pulled out or brandished.

Bovino and others in the administration have conjured up a threat narrative without presenting any proof that the man his agents shot, the ICU nurse, wasn't there to help people as he is seen helping a woman they pushed to the ground before they pepper sprayed them both in the face. They claim that the mere presence of his weapon on his person was proof of intent for whatever chickenshit threat to his armored and armed agents they can think up real quick.

That was what Bovino was claiming on the teevee news yesterday - that his unfounded and outrageous suggestions that Alex Pretti may have been planning to shoot law enforcement officers was evident to him because this private citizen was there with a gun.

Kyle Rittenhouse, anyone....?

Trump supporting, second amendment-touting conservatives found refuge and opportunism in yet another republican administration; right wing dupes of decades of appeals from their political leaders to hate and denigrate their brown-skinned neighbors; mostly poor whites who've been told by their leaders and their niche media that brown-skinned people are the reason they can't find work or can't get ahead; even as their own elected leaders openly rob them blind of the meager benefit they get from government as they fill their own pockets from the U.S. Treasury or use the influence of their offices to enrich themselves instead of their constituents.

Now their own elected officials have shown their true face and have leapt past their promises to unleash government power against mostly brown-skinned immigrants, and have turned those very same repressive resources against EVERYONE, not just the immigrants they acquiesced to the Trump regime's campaign of ethnic cleansing WITH THEIR VOTES.

Will they now just align their armed militancy with the government that's now indiscriminately arrayed it's repressive power against the people? Isn't that what the Trump regime's defenses about some threat from "leftist ideology" is all about, designating their made-up nemesis, "antifa" as a terrorist organization?

Will conservatives simply align themselves with this oppressive regime, convinced that they are in some protected group, and that the 'enemies of the state' as Trump has specifically labeled his Democratic opposition, along with any other opposition be fair game to them for this open warfare against Democratic-led and dominated cities and states?

Or will they recognize that Trump's violent and murderous repression is actually a blunt instrument designed to tear down all of America like he's tearing down the White House, claiming it's too late for "obstructionists" to do anything about it?

Will they realize that the Trump regime justifying the murder of Alex Pretti on the pretext that his holstered, legal gun (removed by an agent seconds before he was shot and killed) was a threat that deserved the punishment of a street-execution by federal agents - now claiming the mere presence of the holstered weapon was proof some kind of mind crime plot to kill them - is a clear and present danger to any one of them the government arbitrarily decides is a threat to the state?

Right wing Trump supporters have lowered their own guard so far that they're caught in-between holding onto their antipathies against brown-skinned people, and maintaining their support for a government they elected into power which is now openly antagonistic to their very political ideology and being.

First the convicted felon they elected said this militarization in our communities was about some threat to the nation from undocumented immigrants; now they're asserting that they're striking out at a "leftist ideology" that threatens THEM and their own politicized interests; insisting that just carrying a gun is a threat to them and the wanton warfare they've been practicing in our neighborhoods.

Which side, whose side are these second amendment-touting conservatives on?

January 26, 2026

Trump says if he simply plows ahead with an illegal project, it's a done deal

...and if we complain we're "obstructionists."

...that's not the legal expectation of Americans who go ahead and tear down or build something in violation of laws or regulations, neglecting to consult authorities who are in charge of regulating those projects.

The remedy is almost always that the offenders are ordered to take the structures down or remove the renovations which don't comply with existing codes.

The hook his lawyers are using here is that there was a perfectly good bomb shelter under the East Wing that was destroyed, and now we're supposedly obligated to build him a new one.

In court filings by the Trump administration in response to the lawsuit, Matthew Quinn, the deputy director of United States Secret Service, said that unless the remaining work is completed, the Secret Service’s ability to protect the president, first family and the White House complex would be "hampered."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/22/white-house-ballroom-construction-judge-decide/88302863007/

I mean, he tore out the defenses that were good enough for every other president; he did that to himself, to the office of the presidency, and the reckoning for that offense is to be borne by the American people, instead.

I had a similar thought when I heard his plane broke down on the way to Davos, wondering if this was going to be a ruse to claim he needed the Qatar bribe jet now.

Or, he'll break the country and claim he gets to build a new one in its place, which is what we're essentially experiencing.

In this case, the remedy that the rest of us would be subjected to is a reversal of course, to remove the illegal project and, only resume building again (if allowed to) ,thereafter, under the laws and regulations that exist.

Back Trump the hell up.

None of his supposed purchases of trinkets for his dream palace have anything to do with the direction or intention of Americans; they've been bulled through to thwart the will of the people, and to thwart the laws that are intended to regulate changes to the people's house; laws and regulations that are intended to keep megalomaniacs like him in check.

January 26, 2026

Presidential Permission Structure, License to Kill With Impunity

Vance asserting federal agents have 'absolute immunity from prosecution,' has greenlighted their murderous behavior.

Vice President Vance asserting immediately after ICE agent Jonathan Ross executed Renee Good, that federal agents are are protected by "absolute immunity" from state prosecution, while, at the same time, his administration was signaling they weren't even going to investigate the killing of an American citizen by her government, created a permission structure which not only neglected to make any effort to ensure that it didn't happen again, but exacerbated the conditions which led to the shootings by declaring peaceful protestors 'terrorists' whose constitutionally-protected conduct observing and recording their government's public actions allegedly presented a threat to the armored and armed agents themselves.

Individuals in working in immigration control have been armed and directed by the chief law enforcement officer in the nation to conduct warfare in communities with complete disregard for the safety and lives of the people who live, work, and reside there, up to outright murder of citizens with effective impunity.

And those Trump officials and others responsible in the administration are making similar claims that assume the victims of their violence have no recourse, and are themselves responsible for their demise at the hands of an inviolable government.

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large, outright blamed the victim in the execution-style killing involving Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, stating, "The victims are the Border Patrol agents,"and that Mr. Pretti had "put himself in that situation"by just being there.

He went even further to speculate, all the while refusing to answer questions about the videos we all are viewing, claiming agents had actually prevented Mr. Pretti from 'shooting law enforcement' by taking away his legally-possessed gun before shooting him seconds later, firing at least 11 shots.

Notwithstanding that the police say Mr. Pretti was legally entitled to carry a gun, which several sworn depositions just filed in court say he never pulled out or brandished, Bovino has conjured up a narrative without presenting any proof that the man his agents shot, the ICU nurse, wasn't there to help people as he is seen helping a woman they pushed to the ground before they pepper sprayed them both in the face, but claims the mere presence of his weapon on his person was proof of intent for whatever chickenshit threat to his armored and armed agents he can think up right quick.


That was what Bovino was claiming on the teevee news today, that his unfounded and outrageous suggestions that Alex Pretti may have been planning to shoot law enforcement officers was evident to him because this private citizen was there with a gun.

Kyle Rittenhouse, anyone....?

180 Capitol riot perps who Trump ultimately pardoned were charged with entering a restricted area with weapons raging from firearms, tasers and knives, according to the U.S. Attorney.

But this administration is insisting that merely showing up to protest THEM with a legally concealed gun, just possessing it should be met with deadly force.

Never mind the principles their ilk has claimed to hold for decades and endless political cycles about their right and responsibility to be armed at all times against perceived threats, not the least of those expressed being their fear of an oppressive government and their ability to defend against it with their guns.

It's a deliberate permission structure established and promulgated by very same president who unleashed mobs of rabid supporters on the U.S. Capitol to maim and murder police and elected officials in an attempt to stop the certification of votes in our election in a scheme, as Jack Smith testified, that was tied to Trump's efforts to get other public officials to replace electors and change votes to keep himself in office after he lost.

None of this happens without the presidency acquiescing to it, and all of the officials and agents involved are culpable in the crimes committed because of their participation in this coverup as each and every top official involved has lied about their agency's and agent's actions; explaining violence against Americans away by declaring anyone in their way a 'terrorist' or some conjured threat to them; often citing the slightest interference they claim with their politicized, mass deportation actions as essentially a capital offense.

Alex Pretti, and really Renee Good before him, were not only victims of federal government execution-style killings, they were the victims of rhetoric from the president and his agents who has been proclaiming in statements and actual official documents that Americans protesting and resisting their nazi-style deportations are subjects of terrorist organizations that they've invented out of thin air, like their opportunistic claims that demonstrators are 'antifa' and assertions that they are under the influence or control of 'leftist ideologies' which they fantastically liken to terrorists.

Trump said that he was "designating" the movement as a terrorist organization. "I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

And here's the thing for republicans and others who think they're safe because they're not 'antifa' or 'leftist' and won't be bothered by this administration. Trump's goons aren't parsing social media posts before attacking people in this country, they're inventing these labels to define ANYONE standing against them, in the streets or anywhere else we seek to resist their threatening, terrorizing rule.

Every acquiescence is deliberate permission for their agents to operate with prejudice against the people they encounter as they conduct their deportations; with disregard for their safety and lives, up to outright killing them and literally driving away and leaving them there.

The permission structure being openly established by the presidency, and dictated down to his agents by his and his agency heads' public responses to these deadly immigration control related killings and other abuses, is clear evidence of the commission of crimes up to murder by their agents, and a product of a deliberate coverup of criminality by their superiors.

This isn't just about the terror and horror of our own government's agents assaulting us on the streets; in our homes, in churches; in stores; in courthouses; it's the license to kill that this administration has conferred upon their agents of terror through their acquiescence to outright murder; state executions of essentially dissidents which we've all witnessed with our own eyes.

It's the impunity in which these masked, armoured and armed federal agents are waging war against our communities which has alarmed Americans against these violent and now deadly political exercises.

It's clear this isn't just about their ethnic-cleansing anymore, as their mass deportation push has proven to be just a stalking horse for this opportunistic fascism perpetrated against all Americans.

January 23, 2026

Vance say they're "taking accusations of racial profiling seriously," profiling THEY asked the Supreme Court to allow

from KARE-TV Minneapolis St. Paul:

How the hell is the Trump administration 'taking accusations of racial profiling seriously?' It's the fucking Trump DOJ who asked the Supreme Court to allow it to continue to racially profile people in the country and got the stay THEY asked for.

The SC didn't just come forward with it on their own volition.

...from the temporary order in the 'emergency' filing by the Trump DOJ:



Vance not only lied about the administration's insistence to the courts that their agents be allowed to racially profile, but promised to take that duplicity back to Washington....to do what, promote that lie to the American people?

Or, more likely, Vance will try to shrink back under his rock and hope no one actually thinks twice about what he told reporters (and residents) at his Minnesota presser; hope no one notices how he blamed the people there for his own administration's agent's brutality; hope there are still some there who don't yet realize that every bad thing they're experiencing at the hands of ICE and border patrol flows from WH directives against their state.

It's not just the brutality directed against people in this country by the Trump government, it's the utter contempt and disregard expressed for the lives and safety for the people in that state and elsewhere from the president and people in this administration who are sworn to protect and defend them.

I'm going to remind again that I haven't left my home to go anywhere in months. It's mainly about the profiling. I resemble someone who hails from my birthplace of Brooklyn. Could be Latin American, could be Somalian... that's how ICE has been rolling, so there it is.

I won't deliberately subject myself to the brutal lottery practiced by roving agents in my state. I won't comply and I'll very likely get hurt. My family, btw, agrees with me. Besides, the anxiety is almost crippling.

These aren't just lies Vance, Trump, and their co-conspirators are perpetrating; they're overt threats to millions of Americans and naturalized citizens who they couldn't care less about treating like second-class citizens to effect their Nazi purge of people who don't look like them.

They call everyone they target and abuse a 'criminal,' with the arrogance of a domestic abuser justifying their bullying and beatings to their victim. They are predators emboldened by the impunity they've enjoyed for their own wanton criminality behind their republican Congress .

And here's Vance acting out like a little boy whose mommy won't allow to keep hitting her with his toy. A total worm.

January 21, 2026

Trump's black hole of impunity is collapsing

...Jack Smith is due to publicly testify January 22, 2025, before the House Judiciary Committee.

I think this will be impactful on Americans for a number of reasons, but I've been listening to some skepticism and cynicism about whether Trump's degeneracy and corruption - all of which they assume must have been well-known to voters when they voted in the last presidential election - will be any more important to them now.

I think it will, and I'll illuminate why.

I was watching my favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson answer a viewer question this week about whether someone sucked into a black hole would be affected or distorted by it (my own dumbed down take).

His answer was that a black hole would be so vast that, on the fantastical assumption that you could arrive there, you'd be largely unaffected by it UNTIL you approached the center of it all where everything was flattening out and condensing. At that point everything would be impactful on your state of existence by mere virtue of your proximity to everything.

It's that flattening of the black hole of Trump's latest ascension to the White House in which we find ourselves; many of us for the first time in our lives, directly impacted by the politics that has gravitated around us all; now closing in on so many lives in this country with little to no room left anymore to find their own freedom or liberty.

Trump is sucking all of the space out of our universe. and everything is becoming closer and more relevant to us as it all threatens to flatten out and, frankly, explode and scatter again.

Jack Smith's narrative concerning Donald Trump's attacks on our democracy will find more receptive ears among people who are now directly impacted by his thuggery and criminal autocracy, and his past actions will be testimony to the gangsterism and lawlessness that we're all witnessing from the Trump cabal today.

You have to wonder if the Supreme Court's maga majority who refused to even look at the evidence against the person they granted a conjured amulet of invented immunity, and enabled an already convicted felon's return to the presidency, will take notice of the depravity and contempt for the law, for their very Court, in what's going to be revealed to the public tomorrow by his prosecutor?

How, btw, will they hide their own complicity?


the science:

January 21, 2026

I was wondering where the maga majority would recognize their rulings might advantage a future Democratic president

...Kavanaugh just gave it away in response to Trump attorney John Sauer's defense of his boss' attempt to remove a sitting Federal Reserve Governor based just on allegations presented without any evidence, as Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in Trump et al. v. (Lisa) Cook

Even Alito got animated, asking the Trump attorney what the hurry was, and 'where's the evidence' in the filings, in the first case of the maga justice every feeling the need for any factual basis for defending the man they deliberately enabled into office with their own invention of 'immunity' from the their own judgment for a vague characterization of 'official acts' in office.

The bent of the conservatives' questioning seemed to be an intention to send the case back to the lower courts, with no sense of any self-awareness of their own disinterest in any of the evidence in Jack Smith's case against private citizen Trump other than what they arbitrarily disqualified.

Maybe hinting at the outcome, Robert's raised the possibility of an 'inadvertent mistake' on the part of Lisa Cook which would obviate the need for any disciplinary action at all, or the need for them to rule.

The most revealing moment, though, came when Kavanaugh let out a sly whine about a future Democratic president with the same ability to wipe out a supposedly independent board on a mere allegation.

I was waiting for that, because all of this resistance to Trump from his defense counsel on the SC was just glaring.

I mean, this pushback might not be revealing of anything more than their fear about their own stock portfolios... but hell, that was always a potential risk in elevating a megalomaniac practiced and intent on bolstering his personal wealth behind the resources and offices of our government.

I'd guess they're just now panicking about giving an idiot the keys to their investment accounts. But, whatever their self-interest is, you have to wonder what other American instigation of life, liberty, and fortune they're now willing to stand up for against the will and whim of one man?


Katie Phang breaks down the hearing today:

Join Katie Phang from the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., as the justices hear oral arguments in Trump et al. v. Cook, a case with major implications for the independence of the Federal Reserve. At issue is whether Donald Trump has the power to fire Lisa Cook, a sitting member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, raising fundamental questions about executive authority, separation of powers, and the future of the Fed as an independent institution. Katie breaks down what’s happening inside the courtroom, what the justices are signaling, and why this case could reshape the balance of power between the presidency and the nation’s central bank.

January 17, 2026

Capitol riot insurrectionist Trump pardoned FA and FO in Minneapolis

A chaotic scene interrupts between right-wing influencer Jake Lang and counterprotesters as he tries to leave a rally in Minneapolis Saturday, Jan. 17. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune 1h
Right-wing influencer Jake Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall.

He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him. http://bit.ly/4baGhJn





BevMarie 🪷@evenbev
Jake Lang beating police officers with stolen shield (and bat) on Jan 6 at US Capitol. He was pardoned.



As captured best on Exhibit W, around 4:55 p.m., another rioter handed LANG the bat that had been used by other rioters at least twice before to attack the officers. Over the next five minutes, from 4:55 p.m. to 5 p.m., LANG repeatedly, and strategically, attacked the officers guarding the Capitol with that bat. Specifically, he can be seen striking the officers with the bat at the following times: 4:54.58 p.m.; 4:56.30 p.m.; 4:56.44 p.m.; 4:57.13 p.m.; 4:57.15 p.m.; 4:57.21 p.m.; 4:57.26 p.m.; 4:57.32 p.m.; 4:58.06 p.m.; 4:58.29 p.m.; 4:59.10 p.m.; 4:59.32 p.m.; 4:59.49 p.m.; 4:59.51 p.m.; 4:59.54 p.m.; and 4:59.58 p.m. These are captured on Exhibit V and Exhibit Y (BWC footage from one of the officers repeatedly hit with the bat). LANG only stopped after he was shot with a rubber bullet that hit him in the foot...

United States v. Edward Jacob Lang: https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Edward%20Jacob%20Lang%20Government%20Opposition%20to%20Defense%20Motion%20for%20Release.pdf

January 15, 2026

Battalion of ICE thugs Trump sent to Minneapolis are facing off against and assaulting a shitload of white people

...right in front of us, dominating the images on the news right now, ICE thugs are validating the fears that these militarized forces, clearly accountable only to Trump and his DHS gangsters are actually meant to intimidate ALL Americans away from taking to the streets to oppose his increasingly dictatorial rule.

We said the billions of dollars pumped into this unaccountable federal immigration agency would result in those same resources being used primarily against Americans opposed to and standing against tyranny.

Now Minnesota, and of course the rest of the nation, is being warred against by mercenary Americans willing to subjugate their fellow citizens to Trump's tyrannical rule.

You know, the thing I keep going back to is how Americans in both parties enabled this with xenophobic responses to immigration which don't seem to have the courage to declare that immigrants enhance our economy and our society - even the undocumented folks - and their continued support for the regressive immigration laws that restrict due process and criminalize administrative violations to the point where the federal government can now act against individuals in this country with such disdain for their rights and humanity.

It's actually a dumbfounding reluctance by so many in this country to reject these xenophobic complaints about immigrants 'flooding into the country,' and allowing themselves to be gaslighted about fractions of fraction of immigrants who are involved in violent crimes or other dangerous activity in this country.

Not a second of self-awareness or any compunction to actually look to find the fact that immigrants are very much less likely to commit any crime in the U.S. than their Americanized counterparts. They're our neighbors, co-workers, friends who contribute much more to the nation than they take from it; both economically and in their contributions to the enhancement of our society through their work and the skills and possible innovations they provide us.

We didn't save ourselves any money or provide any more jobs for Americans with Trump's mass deportation scam; nor did we make ourselves any more safe.

At least 51% of Americans polled just said they don't believe ICE activity has made them any safer:


NEW POLL: Half of Americans say ICE is making cities LESS safe after Minneapolis shooting

A stunning new CNN poll released today, January 14, 2026, reveals a massive shift in how the public views federal immigration enforcement. For the first time, more than half of Americans believe that ICE’s presence is actually decreasing safety in U.S. cities.

The Poll Results:

• SAFETY CRISIS: 51% of Americans say ICE enforcement actions are making cities less safe, while only 31% believe they improve security.

• THE RENEE GOOD TRAGEDY: The fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good last week has sparked national outrage. 56% of respondents called the shooting an inappropriate use of force, with only 26% viewing it as justified.

• SYSTEMIC ISSUES: Half of the country believes this shooting isn’t an isolated incident but reflects "bigger problems" with how ICE is operating under the current administration.

• DEPORTATION PUSHBACK: Resistance to President Trump’s immigration policies is growing. 52% of Americans now say his deportation efforts have "gone too far," a significant jump from 45% just last February.

Brookings:

It's a goddamn shame, but this is a classic case of unintended consequences, made all the more tragic by the warnings that came from so many quarters, like the simple biblical admonition to, 'Do unto others, as you would have done to yourself;' or, 'What goes around comes around.'

One of the most poignant warnings was spoken by Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858, in Edwardsville, Illinois:



America became too accustomed to the inhumanity of our immigration enforcement regime, acquiescing to politicians providing the federal government with the tools and means to deny due process and basic human rights to migrants and refugees; protections that American citizens benefit from.

We also lost our manners, treating visitors and others migrating to America worse than we welcome stray animals. Americans not only allowed this to happen because they were indifferent, but because brown skin has always provided an advantage for some to exploit for their own divisive aims.

And now the game is revealed; the way politicians have exploited Americans' fears for generations to not only achieve power over everyone, but to perpetuate themselves in power through the inflaming of those fears and antipathies.

You can see that clearly displayed on the teevee news tonight in the remarkable images of mercenaries from down south, Trump's private white supremacist army, trying to clamp down on a majority of white folks in the streets standing up against their racist regime's biological warfare and outright physical brutality.

January 14, 2026

Americans are under siege by our own military forces

...in October of last year, NPT asked the qestion, 'Could President Trump really use the U.S. military against Americans?'

Today, the nation is under siege by the militarized federal agents who are no longer pretending they're operating out of concern for public safety, but are basically terrorizing communities in an effort to bend Americans to their open-ended, prevaricating mission that perversely is claiming to be 'defending our culture' as it eviscerates expectations of freedom and liberty in America with their state-sponsored, presidential-directed repression and tyranny.

Just months ago the fear was that Trump would invoke 'martial law' to strip Americans of their right of free movement and other legal expectations and rights of citizenship. Now we have seen that the devastating budget republicans just passed on their own votes which inflated our immigration control agency budget beyond any other law enforcement division in the country wasn't actually meant to effect the removal of the 'worst of the worst' of undocumented immigrants from the country.

What this republican administration plotted and engineered was the creation of a mostly secret militarized force basically answerable only to the president which Trump immediately directed into American communities to raid homes, churches, workplaces, schools, hospitals, even courts of law to arbitrarily snatch and grab people into unmarked vehicles and abduct them away to place where it's almost impossible to find them, much less contact them; either making up justifications afterward, or just releasing people after days, even months in captivity with no explanation for their detention.

ACLU:

One of the most chilling developments after the killing of Renee Good by that ICE agent has been the administration's refusal to even investigate the killing, summarily deciding the summary execution in our streets was justified, while simultaneously declaring their victim a 'domestic terrorist;' Good armed with words, and her killer armed with a federal government-sponsored gun.

Trump killed Renee Good; his agent dutifully carrying out the very mandate Trump gave him to 'defend the culture;' a directive to his militarized forces which have been cast in the mold of this anti-American regime which regards everyone except their cabal and those who give fealty to it as an enemy to their state of power and authority over us all.

That power and authority Trump's militarized forces are wielding against us isn't some defense against actual threats to the nation; to federal agents; or even to their perverse and arbitrary exercise of state power against people in this country. It's all about Trump's desire to control Americans and intimidate us into submission to whatever he chooses to do with our taxpayer-funded government and resources.

Trump believes Americans aren't anymore entitled to their freedom than the Venezuelans he's just declared himself ruler over; all through his autocratic exercise of our military forces as he bombs and kills scores of people we don't even know, and threatens to kill even more if their government doesn't bow down in submission to him and surrenders their country's resources to him.

Yesterday Trump gave an even more chilling assessment than the blame cast on Renee Good for having the temerity to try to move out of the way of the tyranny of Trump's mercenary thugs, declaring that the woman who told her killer with open arms just seconds before he shot her point blank in the face that, "she wasn't mad at him," claimed that she was "disrespectful to law enforcement."



We can either pretend that his remarks were just more of the ranting he does to hear himself talk, or we can recognize that the president of the United States excusing a federal agent accountable primarily to the chief executive for the killing of a U.S. citizen by declaring the victim 'disrespected law enforcement,' is a deliberate intimidation to all Americans who would dare to question his or his agent's authority.

Of course, the most chilling development in the wake of Good's execution is the federal government's refusal to either investigate the killing, or even cooperate with state authorities in their efforts to investigate the fatal incident. That's is a direct signal to law enforcement EVERYWHERE in the country that the federal government under Donald Trump will excuse and justify any and all extrajudicial killings of American citizens by agents or officers, even in the most egregious of circumstances where reasonable doubt exists.

It's worse than that, but just on the face of this autocratic regime, and looking at the violent and increasingly deadly operation and actions of the president's personal militarized forces who are assaulting, shooting, and killing people in the country with the relative impunity he's affording them ("absolute immunity" as the vice-president characterized it), no American can regard themselves as safe or immune from some immediate and arbitrary militarized force being used against them.

You can get yourself, abducted, roughed up, interrogated, shot, or indefinitely jailed out here just going to work, school, shopping, to church, to court, to the doctor's; anywhere Americans long had the expectation of free movement before Trump's regime outlawed that right to travel freely without fear of harassment from police or federal agents.

You may believe you're in some protected group, but the self-interest of the Trump regime now outweighs any expectation of free will in America without first considering the fraught consequences of exercising that liberty in a nation under military occupation and siege by the federal government.

What did America do wrong to deserve this tyranny? For one thing, they voted for a convicted felon for president who had already demonstrated disregard for the nation's laws, and even an utter contempt for the laws and regulations that the rest of us are subject to.

It will be just a short minute before one of these enablers is caught up in their own noose. I'll be here for the Trump regime's lecture to that complicit victim about their own 'disrespect' that led a federal agent to violate their rights as Americans, and the 'absolute immunity' Trump's goons had in blowing them all away, because their silence and even cheering for Good's execution makes all of their 'Don't Tread In Me" bleating for decades and decades just a prelude to their present cowardice and supplication to the very same jackbooted thugs they supposed were just denizens of the pols they politically opposed.

Wait until they realize that the dandy from Mar-a-lago they thought was some kind of patriot, is just a self-absorbed traitor who regards them as collateral to his consolidation of power.