Shocking But Inevitable 😱🤡 ✡️🌻😱🤡

 My Good Rant:  Yesterday’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was both shocking and inevitable. Shocking because she’s dead and there was no reason for any ICE agent to repeatedly shoot her.  She may or may not have been interfering with ICE activities, but even if her car was blocking traffic the bystander provided video of her shooting appears to show that she wasn’t a threat to anyone, especially the ICE agent who repeatedly shot her. Moreover, Axios reports that another video provided by a different bystander shows that Good received conflicting orders from ICE with one agent telling her to move her car out of the way and another telling her to remain where she was. She moved her car, was shot and the ICE agent who later, probably on the advice of his superiors and their lawyers, claimed to be “injured,” walked away without any apparent injuries leaving her bleeding out. Even worse the ICE agents on the scene, wouldn’t let a neighborhood doctor who tried to help approach her vehicle, leaving their own medics to disrespectfully carry her body away by her limbs without a stretcher. Good wasn’t a member of antifa, she wasn’t a Soros funded political agitator, she wasn’t even one of those undocumented Somali immigrants that Trump has targeted and that ICE was out to get, not that shooting an immigrant of any color or nationality would have been okay.  She was any one of us, a white, Colorado born 36-year- old, a mother of three trying to alert residents of what looked like an ordinary peaceful American community that there were ICE agents out to get some of them.  She was doing what we all should do but what most of us don’t, either because we’re afraid or just don’t want to get involved.  As to the inevitability of her killing, though no one anticipated that Good would be the one to take a bullet in the head it was inevitable that someone would and would die because ICE, absurdly overfunded and now bloated with undertrained, frequently incompetent even blood lusting, agents is run by the deceitful, soulless, cosplaying, dog slayer Kristi Noem who takes her marching orders from the despicable duo of Stephen Miller and Trump and they see no problem shooting and killing anyone who gets in their way.  That both Trump and Noem are now defending her murder as justified is hardly surprising, that’s how they roll.  Trump is probably the only politician who thinks having his own Kent State moment is a badge of honor, something to display on his golden mantle next to his faux FIFA peace prize.  It’s hard not to share the sentiment of the outraged and visibly shaken Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who during yesterday’s post shooting press conference shouted that ICE should get the fxck out of Minneapolis. Why stop there, they should get the f-ck out the country.  There was a time when I thought that believing that was too extreme, not anymore.  Sadly, following the direction of their emperor, the right is defending the ICE shooter while Good’s children are now motherless.

 

More 💩:  Yesterday Trump called for the $1 trillion defense budget to be increased by 50% to $1.5 trillion. It looks like all those wars and new Trump class battleships won’t pay for themselves and won’t be covered by his tariffs, the source that he keeps on insisting is paying for everything.  He also said that we will be “managing” Venezuela and its oil for years to come and that we’ve struck a deal with Venezuela’s new president Delcy Rodriguez, or president until he says she isn’t, to “share the revenue from Venezuela’s sale of 30 to 50 million barrels of oil.  By share, he probably means that the revenues will mostly go to his coffers because sharing has never been one of Trump’s strong points. The corrupt and evil Maduro is gone but despite the celebrations by the expatriate Venezuelan community the lives of Venezuelans are unlikely to improve anytime soon.  In other international news, keep an eye on Iran where protests have spread to 111 cities.  The “scale, spread, and ferocity” of the protests, particularly in cities like Mashhad and Bandar Abbas where there have been reports of police joining protestors in some instances.    

And:  Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer, the third longest serving member of Congress, is expected to announce his retirement today. The 86-year-old Congressman was a member of Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team.  His retirement is not surprising but with Pelosi exiting too at the end of this term, his departure represents a changing of the Democratic guard. His district is reliably Democratic so while there will be a competitive primary for his replacement, his departure won’t impact the size of the Democratic caucus.

RIP Renee Nicole Good.