JD said mistakes will be made---and Trump backed him up.
Bull--Professionals don't make mistakes. By saying that they do --opens the door for weaker minded ICE agents to just say screw it -laws don't apply to me, and then the next tragedy is at hand. The entire premise of ICE today is sick and wrong. They are an out of control mob of Gestapo types who enjoy heavy handed techniques applied to the civilization population. ICE has the same mindset as the morons who attacked our capitol on 1/6. Mercenaries, paid thugs who could care less about the well being of the general public. Trumpers, through and through. JD--your appearance in Minneapolis today was unwanted.
Similar to the KKK, they don't want anyone to know who they are. Cowards fear retribution for their unlawful actions. Agree that the entire cesspool needs to be flushed out.
Nothing changes. I remember as a kid seeing the klan in their robes and hoods burn crosses at rallies at an old dirt track near Florence, South Carolina in the 1950/1960s. My great aunts knew soldiers that fought in the Civil War. This all certainly proves Faulkner was right when he wrote “The past is never dead. It's not even past."
47 is a convicted felon found guilty of dozens of counts of fraud and liable for SA and defamation. I don’t believe anything he says. Likewise with JDV, given his confession to Dana Bash (CNN, 9/18/24) that he creates stories. “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, that’s what I’m going to do, Dana.” He wasn’t VP yet. Not sure how he wasn’t disbarred for that, other than purview confusion. He resides in OH but is licensed to practice law in KY. Which raises other questions… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrants
ISOequanimity, I would not trust Vance as far as I could throw him and that wouldn't be too far. I suspect a significant portion of his supposed memoir was made up. People like Vance, opportunists find that when something they have done in a particular situation works, they will keep doing it. Making up stories to pretend something is what it isn't is Vance's forte. I read his "Hillbilly Ellogy" but thought it was crap, particularly his attitude toward the people of Appalachia, people he seems to have known little about despite claims of being from them. He was picked by Theil (a nasty immigrant) because Vance can be easily manipulated and will make up explanations for the illegal behavior. How did he manage to get a law degree from Yale? I am guessing that having a moral compass in practicing the law is not a requirement for a law degree there, possibly other "elite" schools too. What hypocrisy that it is those schools that Trump, Vance, and the rest of the toddler pool are going after.
What is worrisome is that, if they don't prosecute the shooter of Ms Good, the rest of the ICE-hearted crew will take as a pass to do anything they like.
By now you undoubtedly know that your claim is already coming true because on Saturday, Jan 24, they killed Veteran Administration Intensive Care Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis for no justifiable reason.
Donald, ICE most likely has a bunch of January 6thers in its ranks because that is the kind of thugs DHS is looking for to do harm to immigrants here, and it is working. In reality, we don't need JD anywhere. He is an opportunist who will take advantage of any situation to try to make points. The problem for him is people do not like him. He has no charisma, no decency, no kindness, nothing that would endear himself to anyone, well, except maybe his family and we really don't know much about them and his relationship with them. He just trots them out when he wants to look decent or something.
Perhaps we can thank the detestable Vance persona for one thing: he will never get nominated or win the presidency! ( Much faith and hope rides on this statement, plus belief in love of country!)
Everyone can make mistakes. The issue isn’t mistakes. Vance is as much a two-faced liar as Twimp, but worse. He’s smarter & should know better, but he’s a political weasel. As a Yale law graduate, his partisan erroneous comments about legal issues are utterly despicable, worse than Ted Cruz.
Mike, I suspect that if those ICE agents wore no masks and were only lightly armed with non-lethal weapons, they would be less likely to commit so many crimes they would have to be prosecuted for. That might not be true, though because it does depend on the quality of the people hired and it is clear the current quality is quite low!
Not only that but they probably subconsciously (or maybe consciously) feel they can throw their weight around because they roam the streets and countryside in unnecessarily large numbers. (Wondering if anyone has ever suggested to one of them that they look like pansies because it takes typically 4-6 of them to throw a woman to the ground.... and in many cases - whether "needed" or not - there will be MORE than that "in action" re just one poor citizen.. AND 10 more surrounding them.... all heavily armed, of course. Wow. Such "real men" ........... NOT!!
Even if a law were enacted eliminating the masks (and/or requiring body cams) they will thumb their noses at it. Silly waste of time. BETTER TO TAKE ALL THEIR $$$$$ AWAY.
I wrote to my MAGA representative about the murder of Renee Good. Here is part of his response:
“On January 8, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were carrying out their lawful duties when they encountered an activist who purposely positioned her vehicle in the street to impede their advancement. When ICE officers approached the individual and instructed her to exit the vehicle, she ignored the order and proceeded to drive away toward an ICE officer. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the officer fired his weapon at the driver of the vehicle in self-defense. While she attempted to evade the immigrations officers, her vehicle struck the officer who fired his service weapon.”
I’m working on a response. He is the chair of the Freedom Caucus so I know I won’t change his mind, but calling him out will definitely make me feel better.
Here's an suggestion: "I know what I saw. We all do. We expect a high level of integrity in our elected officials - people we've have put into office (and PAY FOR) in order to support the Constitution AND protect those constituents in their districts and beyond. We will not return to office any official who deviates from the truth and/or ignores our laws.... and/or enables others who lack integrity."
Thanks for the suggestion, MM, I’m sure I will be able to use it in the future. I did call his office and left this message (modifying the 5 Calls talking points):
It is unconscionable that you, as an elected official, are perpetuating a false narrative concerning Renee Good (who was murdered on January 7th not 8th as your response letter stated). Both Ms. Good and now Alex Pretti were murdered by apparently lawless federal agents. Both sworn witness statements and on the scene videos show that the DHS narratives are false.
I am urging you to oppose ICE’s ongoing attacks on both immigrants and citizens and hold this administration accountable fro their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. I ask that you:
Demand full investigations into ICE’s use of deadly force against protestors and their murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti;
Demand ICE and CBP stop wearing masks;
Conduct public investigations into the DOJ’s coordinated protections of ICE agents from criminal liability; and
REALLY GOOD!! I wasn't sure how far you were comfortable in getting totally specific and you let him have it! His spineless little self should be grateful........
That's not what the video shows. The officer positioned in front of the car as it started moving, and he began pulling his gun out immediately. This is why there is a bullet hole in the windshield; the other two shots were fired into the driver's window. There was no valid reason even for a single shot. This was murder, and a hate crime. Your representative is parroting the official line, only to be expected. This case is far from over..
Paula, yep, I got something almost identical from my Repub senator, McCormack. I think they all must have gotten the memo of what to put in their lie about the murder, which was clearly nothing like the description by the Repubs, Trump's minions.
If they voted for military action in Venezuela, perhaps ICC will issue arrest warrants for the lot of them. After we take the house and Senate in November, we can arrange for extradition.
I think that is the reason real law enforcement officials are told not to shoot at vehicles. A car whose driver is disabled or dead cannot control what the car does. It may speed up. It may hit something. One more example of the lack of competence of ICE.
The incident was videotaped and has been thoroughly analyzed by law enforcement from all angles. While MAGA supporters contend that Ms. Good, an unarmed American citizen, struck the agent with her vehicle, video footage from bystanders shows that Ms. Good's vehicle was angled away from the agent as she began to drive away. If Ross wished to detain her, he had other methods at his disposal. Ross's actions appeared to be deliberate and intentional. He pulled the trigger three times, striking Ms. Good in the forearm, the breast, and lastly, the fatal headshot. Clearly, Ms. Good didn't do anything to deserve the death sentence she received from Agent Ross, who apparently appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner.
Any elected representative who knowingly repeats an untrue version of what happened is engaging in fraud and should be subject to criminal charges, imho. One more thing on the to-do list once we win the house and senate in November.
Perhaps fear is driving the response of your representative: fear of being primaried, fear of losing his elected position, fear he may need another job?
That is a huge pile of BS and your MAGA rep, if they had any integrity or character, would have been totally embarrassed to send you such total dreck. So sorry our tax dollars are paying the salary and health care benefits of such a despicable creature.
What is lost in the Renee Good shooting is the heroism of the Capitol Police on Jan 6,2021, who could have shot at the crowd in self defense but didn't.
If we recover sane government again these guys should be awarded Presidential medals of Honor.
Can you believe that they threatened to prosecute this black woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. The legislation makes illegal any conspiracy to "injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate," people from exercising "any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States."
Russell, you have listed here some of the major reasons this KKK inspired ICE crew needs to be entirely disbanded, all their funding revoked, and their concentration camp prisons closed and the immigrants in them released and reviewed for a path to citizenship for the horrors perpetrated on them for no reason other than that they are immigrants of color. We do not need ICE in any form ever!
That's what so disapointing. If you impeach Trump you get Vance. He's even more dangerous because he's very articulate and appears rational (unlike his boss) but is a big liar and bender of the truth. And then, there's the whole cabinet, full of psychophants and incompetents. Being from Miami I am specially disappointed in Marco Rubio.
And Congress, asleep at the wheel. We're in a very deep mess and it's going to take a very long time to "right the ship" assuming the 40% that are still with Trump are not able to block it.
Step #1 is to retake Congress.
Unfortunately the Demicrstic party is totally incompetent, so I'm not too hooeful.
I love our country dearly. I am so disraught to see it dragged through this mess.
"And Congress, asleep at the wheel. We're in a very deep mess and it's going to take a very long time to "right the ship" assuming the 40% that are still with Trump are not able to block it."
Did you hear Eric Swalwell tear into the Republicans for saying one thing in private and then bowing down again to trump? He was brilliant.
I have one quibble, Donald: even professionals make mistakes. When they do, the good ones own up to their mistakes. I agree with the tenor of your comment, though.
Phil, actually, this was not a mistake. Since at least 2 of us got nearly the same report from our reps, it means it was not a mistake, but a directive from above. They all think we are stupid and can be talked out of knowing what really happened with a set of carefully orchestrated lies; we can't. I am blind, so did not see the videos (several) but I heard what happened and all of them were basically the same in the sound part. The ICE agent Ross had his cell phone with him to record the murder which he moved from his right to left hand so he could take out his gun and shoot Ms. Good. He was not hit by the car, walked away quickly with no limp whatsoever (reported to me by people I trust), and called Ms. Good an f-en B*tch. A definite lie that was shared and spoken by even a president of the US and his Sec. of Homeland Security is not a mistake it is a deliberate gaslighting, a crime against the American people to cover a murder by a federal official who had no business having a gun or a cell phone on the job, but this time, it was good he did have a cell phone so we all got to know what kind of person he is and what our fascist president and his minions will do to cover up a murder.
Ruth, thank you for your comment. As I said, mine was a quibble about professionals making mistakes. I have watched the videos, too. I feel certain Ms. Good was intentionally murdered. She certainly did not hit the “agent” with her car. The “agent” was certainly ignoring standard procedures before, during, and after discharging his pistol at Ms. Good. These stormtroopers for Trump need to stop hiding behind masks and taking responsibility for their actions.
Phil, I heard Trump and his toddler pool claim that nurses and teachers are not professionals while they, a bunch of whiny white toddler-men and a few women act as unprofessionally as possible. The "professional" comment is only because the majority of teachers and nurses happen to be women, far better trained than any of Trump's toddler pool no matter what degrees the pool's members claim to have. They don't make mistakes; they deliberately lie and do harm to the American people because they have impunity and will ignore any judgments by the courts they don't like because, who is going to stop them.
The focus needs to be on the Epstein files and Pam Bondi. It needs to be from all sides, multiple fronts. There are Justices on the Supreme Court who must be in those files as well as a couple big yacht billionaires that give Clarence rides on the private jet. Keep talking about the Epstein files.
But do the Epstein files still exist in a reliable form? They've had their paws on them long enough for deletions and modifications mammy!
At this point, I'd really like the focus to be on Miller/Noem's Constitution-busting paramilitary groups, especially considering how many of them are probably abusing steroids.
Axiom 5: Anybody he praises or admires is an autocrat and/or totally corrupt. Anybody who praises him is either a swindler, a dictator or an ambitious sycophant.
He'll never poll below 35-40% because his cultist sycophants total that number. He's about as low as he can get because normal people have turned against him.
Forgive my sarcasm, Pat... I'm tired and cranky. I'm not without hope for the US but it is diminishing. I wonder how we as "a people" can start to talk, disagree, but keep talking. My husband and I live in a tiny rural community in Nova Scotia. It is filled with families that go way back, are poor and poorly educated IF AT ALL. My Jewish husband and I were at a card game with a local couple when the husband made a Jewish slur. I said "Mort, I know you didn't mean Stan, but he is Jewish." Nothing more was said and the game continued. The next day Mort showed up with something unexpected to help us with our garden. It was an apology. I realized almost immediately when the slur was made, that Mort had no real concept of what a Jew is. Ignorance isn't always chosen and somehow Americans need to get beyond their groups and engage with people who aren't like them. Get out, talk to strangers, find out why they think the way they do... maybe there's something to learn. Cheers, Dorothy
Mmmm, I hear you, most certainly. Yes, so many people are not aware of small bits of our cultures that are slurs, whether meant that way, understood to be that way, or not. My own consciousness was so much raised about all this by my mother-in-law, whose Orthodox family emigrated to New York City from Warsaw after WWI, to avoid pogroms. {She eventually converted to Baha’i} My husband always gently but firmly let people know he was Jewish in cases like the one you describe, as well. The need continues …
My point, Pat, is that when people say that Trump's poling is low at ,say 22.5% , it still represents roughly 75 mil people still favor him and to me, that is still a lot of people who think he hung the moon. Capice?
Yeah, I’m Italian. I capice. But MY point is, the concept of “a lot” is relative to the whole, and on the whole, this country does not support him. On the whole planet, we have a number of countries that are autocratic, and even fascist. i hate that. I do not discuss that reality as though those people were overrunning the rest of us, who oppose those views. But, it’s important to try to reach people and present a better view of human society, to carry our species into the future. Capice?
75 million is roughly the number of votes Trump got in the last election. Unfortunately, the Harris/Walz ticket did not inspire enough opposing voters to bother to vote.
Tom, true there were not “enough” opposing voters to beat Trump in the electoral college, but more people voted for Kamala and other Left candidates {like Stein} than voted for Trump. And 75 million is less than 25% of 350 million people {of course, that larger number also includes non-voters). I object to painting our country as supporting Trump, when it is a fraction of people who do, and a larger fraction (by, as he likes to say, “a lot”) who do NOT support him.
2016 was about emails. 2024 was about eggs. You’ve got a guy like Bernie Sanders busting his ass for decades speaking as a true “populist” for the people’s interest, on a plethora of issues, and what does he get for it? Bupkis. Nada. Zilch. This country spent decades on electing people on the basis of who was gonna stand up to the commies more. We blew our national treasure and killed 50,000 young men because of the idiocy of the domino theory. My point is that the electorate as a whole is so uninformed or apathetic as to be easily manipulated by slogans and bullshit churned out by corporate capitalists and their media. Americans do a reasonably good job electing the right people after their house has burned down. Think Carter, Obama, Biden. But otherwise, you gotta appeal to the lowest common denominator, the selfish self interest of people, and recognize how infantilized the American culture has become.
Education; Education; Education. That is what Americans lack. And Fox "news"; Fox "news"; Fox "news". A terrible combination that has inflicted lies and distortions to millions of Americans. We must fix this!!!!!!
I saw Bernie on Colbert talking about swearing in Mayor Mamdani. He said that Mamdani started at 1% in the polls but had 90,000 volunteers. Perhaps protesters can also do the same kind of volunteer work talking to other members in their communities about what is in their best interest.
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
Trump tells his followers the lies they want to hear. They don't want to live in reality because, like Trump, they hate reality. Many of them will never be able to be deprogrammed.
look at what he does, ignore what he says. His idea of an “emergency” is, again, something he dislikes, no more.
Jon Stewart interviewed Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, who said if Trump were a movie producer he’d only make trailers, no movies.
Yes, those oft-used phrases are just used to pander to his base, who swallow the lies hook, line and sinker, there is no other logic. Courts are telling the regime that the term "emergency" does not apply to the immigrant "situation"
Axiom #6: Every single one of his tales of greatness, or of being praised, or thanked(by big, tough guys with tears in their eyes) is pure fiction/fantasy. Every achievement he brags about - ditto. He is a worthless failure, and he knows it. Nobody has ever loved him on a personal basis, or even liked him! And he knows that too. The more he brags, the more he exposes his insecurity. People who have real talent and achievements rarely brag about them, and praise embarrasses them. Unless they are narcissists, like trump.
It was reported that the Corporate heads at Davos were thrilled with him and the policies he put forth. And you gotta wonder why the powers behind him let him step forward to represent this country -- the chaos he produces gives them so much leeway, so much room to continue to destroy the rest of this country's laws. And where are the Democrats? Why are they not beating the drums about his dementia and the complicity of his cabinet? etc.
Axiom #5 "the fix is in"~ whenever he says an election or poll is being 'fixed' it mens he's been doing the 'fixing', if his voter suppression hadn't been so successful last time, he wouldn't be president now.
He's been doing #2 for a very, very, very long time. He does something that's illegal and he places the blame elsewhere every single time. And if he doesn't blame Biden her blames Hillary every single time. Not that all the rest of the Axiom's aren't important like all of his exaggerations both on statistics and polls. But boy you have it down to a science Robert thank you!
JD said mistakes will be made---and Trump backed him up.
Bull--Professionals don't make mistakes. By saying that they do --opens the door for weaker minded ICE agents to just say screw it -laws don't apply to me, and then the next tragedy is at hand. The entire premise of ICE today is sick and wrong. They are an out of control mob of Gestapo types who enjoy heavy handed techniques applied to the civilization population. ICE has the same mindset as the morons who attacked our capitol on 1/6. Mercenaries, paid thugs who could care less about the well being of the general public. Trumpers, through and through. JD--your appearance in Minneapolis today was unwanted.
I want ICE unmasked. How many of ICE are January 6th Insurrectionists (s/b a small "i").
J6 thugs are his personal army. Get rid of them and Trump/Vance/Johnson/Lindsey Graham, Noem, Patel, et al.
Similar to the KKK, they don't want anyone to know who they are. Cowards fear retribution for their unlawful actions. Agree that the entire cesspool needs to be flushed out.
Nothing changes. I remember as a kid seeing the klan in their robes and hoods burn crosses at rallies at an old dirt track near Florence, South Carolina in the 1950/1960s. My great aunts knew soldiers that fought in the Civil War. This all certainly proves Faulkner was right when he wrote “The past is never dead. It's not even past."
It did change. This is the backlash. The backlash is waking people up.
You forgot Miller, Vought, and Jim Jordan.
💯% correct. It’s why all the ICE ‘officers’ wear masks and such. Sickening.
Lana, I'm with you. They are all traitors to this nation, from within, doing things one would only expect a traitorous foreign nation to do to us.
not even naze brownshirts of gestapo wore masks. This is thugs at large.
47 is a convicted felon found guilty of dozens of counts of fraud and liable for SA and defamation. I don’t believe anything he says. Likewise with JDV, given his confession to Dana Bash (CNN, 9/18/24) that he creates stories. “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, that’s what I’m going to do, Dana.” He wasn’t VP yet. Not sure how he wasn’t disbarred for that, other than purview confusion. He resides in OH but is licensed to practice law in KY. Which raises other questions… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrants
ISOequanimity, I would not trust Vance as far as I could throw him and that wouldn't be too far. I suspect a significant portion of his supposed memoir was made up. People like Vance, opportunists find that when something they have done in a particular situation works, they will keep doing it. Making up stories to pretend something is what it isn't is Vance's forte. I read his "Hillbilly Ellogy" but thought it was crap, particularly his attitude toward the people of Appalachia, people he seems to have known little about despite claims of being from them. He was picked by Theil (a nasty immigrant) because Vance can be easily manipulated and will make up explanations for the illegal behavior. How did he manage to get a law degree from Yale? I am guessing that having a moral compass in practicing the law is not a requirement for a law degree there, possibly other "elite" schools too. What hypocrisy that it is those schools that Trump, Vance, and the rest of the toddler pool are going after.
"Hillbilly Elegy" which JDV wrote is full of stories which I believed true as I read them! Were they "created"? Curious!
Penelope, did you go over to Wikipedia and look him up? Or ask google?
Damn right. We are disgusted that he set foot in our state.
What is worrisome is that, if they don't prosecute the shooter of Ms Good, the rest of the ICE-hearted crew will take as a pass to do anything they like.
By now you undoubtedly know that your claim is already coming true because on Saturday, Jan 24, they killed Veteran Administration Intensive Care Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis for no justifiable reason.
ICE is Trump's private army, and he can turn it away from immigrants to you and to me.
Very important point, Alan.
Donald, ICE most likely has a bunch of January 6thers in its ranks because that is the kind of thugs DHS is looking for to do harm to immigrants here, and it is working. In reality, we don't need JD anywhere. He is an opportunist who will take advantage of any situation to try to make points. The problem for him is people do not like him. He has no charisma, no decency, no kindness, nothing that would endear himself to anyone, well, except maybe his family and we really don't know much about them and his relationship with them. He just trots them out when he wants to look decent or something.
Perhaps we can thank the detestable Vance persona for one thing: he will never get nominated or win the presidency! ( Much faith and hope rides on this statement, plus belief in love of country!)
Everyone can make mistakes. The issue isn’t mistakes. Vance is as much a two-faced liar as Twimp, but worse. He’s smarter & should know better, but he’s a political weasel. As a Yale law graduate, his partisan erroneous comments about legal issues are utterly despicable, worse than Ted Cruz.
Vance is an opportunist who will do whatever he thinks he needs to do to get power. He's another moral abyss.
Yep, but he's not very good at it! (btw, love your handle; makes me chuckle every time I see it..)
ICE agents need to be identifiable so they can be prosecuted for committing their horrible crimes.
Mike, I suspect that if those ICE agents wore no masks and were only lightly armed with non-lethal weapons, they would be less likely to commit so many crimes they would have to be prosecuted for. That might not be true, though because it does depend on the quality of the people hired and it is clear the current quality is quite low!
Not only that but they probably subconsciously (or maybe consciously) feel they can throw their weight around because they roam the streets and countryside in unnecessarily large numbers. (Wondering if anyone has ever suggested to one of them that they look like pansies because it takes typically 4-6 of them to throw a woman to the ground.... and in many cases - whether "needed" or not - there will be MORE than that "in action" re just one poor citizen.. AND 10 more surrounding them.... all heavily armed, of course. Wow. Such "real men" ........... NOT!!
Even if a law were enacted eliminating the masks (and/or requiring body cams) they will thumb their noses at it. Silly waste of time. BETTER TO TAKE ALL THEIR $$$$$ AWAY.
I wrote to my MAGA representative about the murder of Renee Good. Here is part of his response:
“On January 8, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were carrying out their lawful duties when they encountered an activist who purposely positioned her vehicle in the street to impede their advancement. When ICE officers approached the individual and instructed her to exit the vehicle, she ignored the order and proceeded to drive away toward an ICE officer. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the officer fired his weapon at the driver of the vehicle in self-defense. While she attempted to evade the immigrations officers, her vehicle struck the officer who fired his service weapon.”
Disgraceful.
And not true.
Exactly. First and most obviously, Good’s murder was on Jan. 7, not Jan 8. What an ignorant MAGA “rep”.
Paula, did you write back to your MAGA Rep and tell him he was a liar and you will never vote for him because of his lies?
I’m working on a response. He is the chair of the Freedom Caucus so I know I won’t change his mind, but calling him out will definitely make me feel better.
Here's an suggestion: "I know what I saw. We all do. We expect a high level of integrity in our elected officials - people we've have put into office (and PAY FOR) in order to support the Constitution AND protect those constituents in their districts and beyond. We will not return to office any official who deviates from the truth and/or ignores our laws.... and/or enables others who lack integrity."
Thanks for the suggestion, MM, I’m sure I will be able to use it in the future. I did call his office and left this message (modifying the 5 Calls talking points):
It is unconscionable that you, as an elected official, are perpetuating a false narrative concerning Renee Good (who was murdered on January 7th not 8th as your response letter stated). Both Ms. Good and now Alex Pretti were murdered by apparently lawless federal agents. Both sworn witness statements and on the scene videos show that the DHS narratives are false.
I am urging you to oppose ICE’s ongoing attacks on both immigrants and citizens and hold this administration accountable fro their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. I ask that you:
Demand full investigations into ICE’s use of deadly force against protestors and their murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti;
Demand ICE and CBP stop wearing masks;
Conduct public investigations into the DOJ’s coordinated protections of ICE agents from criminal liability; and
Call for the impeachment of Kristi Noem.
REALLY GOOD!! I wasn't sure how far you were comfortable in getting totally specific and you let him have it! His spineless little self should be grateful........
That's not what the video shows. The officer positioned in front of the car as it started moving, and he began pulling his gun out immediately. This is why there is a bullet hole in the windshield; the other two shots were fired into the driver's window. There was no valid reason even for a single shot. This was murder, and a hate crime. Your representative is parroting the official line, only to be expected. This case is far from over..
Paula, yep, I got something almost identical from my Repub senator, McCormack. I think they all must have gotten the memo of what to put in their lie about the murder, which was clearly nothing like the description by the Repubs, Trump's minions.
The MAGA/GOP all get their marching orders from Trump, as they demonstrated during Jack Smith's testimony today.
If they voted for military action in Venezuela, perhaps ICC will issue arrest warrants for the lot of them. After we take the house and Senate in November, we can arrange for extradition.
Send your legislator the NYT reconstruction of the timeline of Renee Good’s killing. I’d say he was ignorant but if he actually said she ran over the ICE agent, he doesn’t mind repeating lies. Here’s the link to the NYT article, for free. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A.GLsh.4rpix-sxBjvR&smid=nytcore-ios-share
But organize support for a Democratic candidate to challenge that legislator.
How is that not perpetuating fraud?
Aiding and abetting?
Wow! Thank you for the link.
Share the information with other voters, ignore the corrupt lacquey representing them.
It appeared that the car sped up AFTER the shots were fired. If anyone put the officer in danger, it was he himself.
I think that is the reason real law enforcement officials are told not to shoot at vehicles. A car whose driver is disabled or dead cannot control what the car does. It may speed up. It may hit something. One more example of the lack of competence of ICE.
The incident was videotaped and has been thoroughly analyzed by law enforcement from all angles. While MAGA supporters contend that Ms. Good, an unarmed American citizen, struck the agent with her vehicle, video footage from bystanders shows that Ms. Good's vehicle was angled away from the agent as she began to drive away. If Ross wished to detain her, he had other methods at his disposal. Ross's actions appeared to be deliberate and intentional. He pulled the trigger three times, striking Ms. Good in the forearm, the breast, and lastly, the fatal headshot. Clearly, Ms. Good didn't do anything to deserve the death sentence she received from Agent Ross, who apparently appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner.
Any elected representative who knowingly repeats an untrue version of what happened is engaging in fraud and should be subject to criminal charges, imho. One more thing on the to-do list once we win the house and senate in November.
I think you need a new representative.
They have publicly confirmed themselves as murderers, again lying with their feeble rationalizations.
He drank the Kool Aid. He got this information from media that never challenges lies.
Perhaps fear is driving the response of your representative: fear of being primaried, fear of losing his elected position, fear he may need another job?
He does need another job. I have no idea what he is qualified to do. If he lies, no one should trust him with anything.
Gerald, that is probably true which means he/she has no business in Congress at all. A rep/Senator with no courage is a danger to everyone.
Fear that the mob boss in chief will go after his family?
Lazy, & spineless. This person thinks none of this (or future) bad stuff will ever happen to them.
That is a huge pile of BS and your MAGA rep, if they had any integrity or character, would have been totally embarrassed to send you such total dreck. So sorry our tax dollars are paying the salary and health care benefits of such a despicable creature.
What is lost in the Renee Good shooting is the heroism of the Capitol Police on Jan 6,2021, who could have shot at the crowd in self defense but didn't.
If we recover sane government again these guys should be awarded Presidential medals of Honor.
This administration continues to go from strength to strength, kidnapping five-year-olds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/ice-five-year-old-boy-detained-reaction-democrats
entering people's houses without judicial warrants
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-allowed-to-enter-homes-without-warrant-read-full-memo-11398706
making false accusations that suggest that members of ICE are under physical threat
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/trump-administration-chicago-bovino-murder-for-hire
suspending payments for medical treatment of detainees
https://popular.info/p/ice-has-stopped-paying-for-detainee?hide_intro_popup=true
deporting people needing urgent medical attention
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/pregnant-woman-ice-deportation-atlanta
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/ice-deportation-costa-rica-man
and clumsily trying to distort the grim reality behind what they're doing
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image
Can you believe that they threatened to prosecute this black woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. The legislation makes illegal any conspiracy to "injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate," people from exercising "any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States."
It's beyond crazy.
Thanks for compiling all that material from trusted sources. You put the pieces of the ugly puzzle together. Well done.
Russell, you have listed here some of the major reasons this KKK inspired ICE crew needs to be entirely disbanded, all their funding revoked, and their concentration camp prisons closed and the immigrants in them released and reviewed for a path to citizenship for the horrors perpetrated on them for no reason other than that they are immigrants of color. We do not need ICE in any form ever!
The counter has collapsed.
Trump is easy to read--He's a one page book that only has one thing printed in it's --a big question mark.
mistakes are to be learned from, not leaned into... for mot of us.
That's what so disapointing. If you impeach Trump you get Vance. He's even more dangerous because he's very articulate and appears rational (unlike his boss) but is a big liar and bender of the truth. And then, there's the whole cabinet, full of psychophants and incompetents. Being from Miami I am specially disappointed in Marco Rubio.
And Congress, asleep at the wheel. We're in a very deep mess and it's going to take a very long time to "right the ship" assuming the 40% that are still with Trump are not able to block it.
Step #1 is to retake Congress.
Unfortunately the Demicrstic party is totally incompetent, so I'm not too hooeful.
I love our country dearly. I am so disraught to see it dragged through this mess.
"And Congress, asleep at the wheel. We're in a very deep mess and it's going to take a very long time to "right the ship" assuming the 40% that are still with Trump are not able to block it."
Did you hear Eric Swalwell tear into the Republicans for saying one thing in private and then bowing down again to trump? He was brilliant.
I have one quibble, Donald: even professionals make mistakes. When they do, the good ones own up to their mistakes. I agree with the tenor of your comment, though.
Phil, actually, this was not a mistake. Since at least 2 of us got nearly the same report from our reps, it means it was not a mistake, but a directive from above. They all think we are stupid and can be talked out of knowing what really happened with a set of carefully orchestrated lies; we can't. I am blind, so did not see the videos (several) but I heard what happened and all of them were basically the same in the sound part. The ICE agent Ross had his cell phone with him to record the murder which he moved from his right to left hand so he could take out his gun and shoot Ms. Good. He was not hit by the car, walked away quickly with no limp whatsoever (reported to me by people I trust), and called Ms. Good an f-en B*tch. A definite lie that was shared and spoken by even a president of the US and his Sec. of Homeland Security is not a mistake it is a deliberate gaslighting, a crime against the American people to cover a murder by a federal official who had no business having a gun or a cell phone on the job, but this time, it was good he did have a cell phone so we all got to know what kind of person he is and what our fascist president and his minions will do to cover up a murder.
Ruth, thank you for your comment. As I said, mine was a quibble about professionals making mistakes. I have watched the videos, too. I feel certain Ms. Good was intentionally murdered. She certainly did not hit the “agent” with her car. The “agent” was certainly ignoring standard procedures before, during, and after discharging his pistol at Ms. Good. These stormtroopers for Trump need to stop hiding behind masks and taking responsibility for their actions.
Phil, I heard Trump and his toddler pool claim that nurses and teachers are not professionals while they, a bunch of whiny white toddler-men and a few women act as unprofessionally as possible. The "professional" comment is only because the majority of teachers and nurses happen to be women, far better trained than any of Trump's toddler pool no matter what degrees the pool's members claim to have. They don't make mistakes; they deliberately lie and do harm to the American people because they have impunity and will ignore any judgments by the courts they don't like because, who is going to stop them.
Precisely!
When he claims someone has done something wrong, it is usually something he has already done himself.
Every accusation is a confession. Everything he says is a lie.
Like when he says that "elections shouldn't be rigged" means that 2024 was rigged.
This is what I have been wondering about lately
I am just reading a book of Craig Unger. ALL Americans should read this! It’s a jaw dropping reading!
Hope you can recover from this nightmare.
The focus needs to be on the Epstein files and Pam Bondi. It needs to be from all sides, multiple fronts. There are Justices on the Supreme Court who must be in those files as well as a couple big yacht billionaires that give Clarence rides on the private jet. Keep talking about the Epstein files.
Exactly!
But do the Epstein files still exist in a reliable form? They've had their paws on them long enough for deletions and modifications mammy!
At this point, I'd really like the focus to be on Miller/Noem's Constitution-busting paramilitary groups, especially considering how many of them are probably abusing steroids.
Axiom 5: Anybody he praises or admires is an autocrat and/or totally corrupt. Anybody who praises him is either a swindler, a dictator or an ambitious sycophant.
He'll never poll below 35-40% because his cultist sycophants total that number. He's about as low as he can get because normal people have turned against him.
"He'll never poll below 35-40% because his cultist sycophants total that number."
I doubt that. I think true MAGAts constitute only about 20-25% of his support. The others are just reflex, lifelong Republicans.
And they WILL leave him, it will just take longer for them than the rest of us.
Yeah, and then what?
Whaddaya think?
Forgive my sarcasm, Pat... I'm tired and cranky. I'm not without hope for the US but it is diminishing. I wonder how we as "a people" can start to talk, disagree, but keep talking. My husband and I live in a tiny rural community in Nova Scotia. It is filled with families that go way back, are poor and poorly educated IF AT ALL. My Jewish husband and I were at a card game with a local couple when the husband made a Jewish slur. I said "Mort, I know you didn't mean Stan, but he is Jewish." Nothing more was said and the game continued. The next day Mort showed up with something unexpected to help us with our garden. It was an apology. I realized almost immediately when the slur was made, that Mort had no real concept of what a Jew is. Ignorance isn't always chosen and somehow Americans need to get beyond their groups and engage with people who aren't like them. Get out, talk to strangers, find out why they think the way they do... maybe there's something to learn. Cheers, Dorothy
Mmmm, I hear you, most certainly. Yes, so many people are not aware of small bits of our cultures that are slurs, whether meant that way, understood to be that way, or not. My own consciousness was so much raised about all this by my mother-in-law, whose Orthodox family emigrated to New York City from Warsaw after WWI, to avoid pogroms. {She eventually converted to Baha’i} My husband always gently but firmly let people know he was Jewish in cases like the one you describe, as well. The need continues …
Be well.
Still, 22.5% of the population of the USA is a whole lot of people, say, 75 mil thereabouts?
Whut’s your point?
My point, Pat, is that when people say that Trump's poling is low at ,say 22.5% , it still represents roughly 75 mil people still favor him and to me, that is still a lot of people who think he hung the moon. Capice?
Yeah, I’m Italian. I capice. But MY point is, the concept of “a lot” is relative to the whole, and on the whole, this country does not support him. On the whole planet, we have a number of countries that are autocratic, and even fascist. i hate that. I do not discuss that reality as though those people were overrunning the rest of us, who oppose those views. But, it’s important to try to reach people and present a better view of human society, to carry our species into the future. Capice?
75 million is roughly the number of votes Trump got in the last election. Unfortunately, the Harris/Walz ticket did not inspire enough opposing voters to bother to vote.
Tom, true there were not “enough” opposing voters to beat Trump in the electoral college, but more people voted for Kamala and other Left candidates {like Stein} than voted for Trump. And 75 million is less than 25% of 350 million people {of course, that larger number also includes non-voters). I object to painting our country as supporting Trump, when it is a fraction of people who do, and a larger fraction (by, as he likes to say, “a lot”) who do NOT support him.
I think his cult is smaller than that, but there is a floor they keep under him. A dirty, lousy floor that he sh*ts on.
I suspect it's bimodal: Old bigots and resentful young male incels.
Exactly!
2016 was about emails. 2024 was about eggs. You’ve got a guy like Bernie Sanders busting his ass for decades speaking as a true “populist” for the people’s interest, on a plethora of issues, and what does he get for it? Bupkis. Nada. Zilch. This country spent decades on electing people on the basis of who was gonna stand up to the commies more. We blew our national treasure and killed 50,000 young men because of the idiocy of the domino theory. My point is that the electorate as a whole is so uninformed or apathetic as to be easily manipulated by slogans and bullshit churned out by corporate capitalists and their media. Americans do a reasonably good job electing the right people after their house has burned down. Think Carter, Obama, Biden. But otherwise, you gotta appeal to the lowest common denominator, the selfish self interest of people, and recognize how infantilized the American culture has become.
Education; Education; Education. That is what Americans lack. And Fox "news"; Fox "news"; Fox "news". A terrible combination that has inflicted lies and distortions to millions of Americans. We must fix this!!!!!!
faux newz
I saw Bernie on Colbert talking about swearing in Mayor Mamdani. He said that Mamdani started at 1% in the polls but had 90,000 volunteers. Perhaps protesters can also do the same kind of volunteer work talking to other members in their communities about what is in their best interest.
Project 2026 If Brazil can do it, so can we!
Win the Senate and House, Impeach and Prosecute.
ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE!!!!!
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Official Audio) Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
It still astounds me that 40% of voters approve his performance. I picture pepole who do nothing but watch Fox News.
People who watch Fox Fake News don't watch any other channels. They live in an echo chamber of lies.
When are all the fools going to start ignoring this idiot?
GREAT QUESTION, BETTY!
It seems if Americans started ignoring this idiot; they would HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO GOSSIP ABOUT.
That would be wonderful! I am so sick and tired of him as I’m sure most of you are as well.
All normal people are sick and tired of Trump.
Trump tells his followers the lies they want to hear. They don't want to live in reality because, like Trump, they hate reality. Many of them will never be able to be deprogrammed.
Spot on. If Trump uses the words "emergency" or "national security" always disregard
- Karen Cooper
Or hold your horses. It may be a signal that he's about to further assault our citizens.
Well, I agree. I just mean that when he attaches those terms to anything they are totally false. Watch what he does, donʻt fall for those bogus terms
- Karen Cooper
look at what he does, ignore what he says. His idea of an “emergency” is, again, something he dislikes, no more.
Jon Stewart interviewed Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, who said if Trump were a movie producer he’d only make trailers, no movies.
Yes, those oft-used phrases are just used to pander to his base, who swallow the lies hook, line and sinker, there is no other logic. Courts are telling the regime that the term "emergency" does not apply to the immigrant "situation"
- Karen Cooper
Axiom #5 TACO-- Trump Always Chickens Out.
Axiom #6: Every single one of his tales of greatness, or of being praised, or thanked(by big, tough guys with tears in their eyes) is pure fiction/fantasy. Every achievement he brags about - ditto. He is a worthless failure, and he knows it. Nobody has ever loved him on a personal basis, or even liked him! And he knows that too. The more he brags, the more he exposes his insecurity. People who have real talent and achievements rarely brag about them, and praise embarrasses them. Unless they are narcissists, like trump.
It was reported that the Corporate heads at Davos were thrilled with him and the policies he put forth. And you gotta wonder why the powers behind him let him step forward to represent this country -- the chaos he produces gives them so much leeway, so much room to continue to destroy the rest of this country's laws. And where are the Democrats? Why are they not beating the drums about his dementia and the complicity of his cabinet? etc.
Whenever he refers to himself in the 3rd person ("nothing will stop Trump"), he is distancing himself from his own actions
I have usually felt his use of third person is sort of like the “royal ‘we’.” It is how he mentally elevates himself and it’s pretty disgusting.
Axiom #5 "the fix is in"~ whenever he says an election or poll is being 'fixed' it mens he's been doing the 'fixing', if his voter suppression hadn't been so successful last time, he wouldn't be president now.
This is an older axiom, often applied to others: "If his lips are moving, he is lying."
Not funny, but I laughed.
He's been doing #2 for a very, very, very long time. He does something that's illegal and he places the blame elsewhere every single time. And if he doesn't blame Biden her blames Hillary every single time. Not that all the rest of the Axiom's aren't important like all of his exaggerations both on statistics and polls. But boy you have it down to a science Robert thank you!
Axiom #6: Whenever he indulges in self-pity (daily, if not hourly), he's preparing a merciless attack on an innocent person or group.