The Renee Good shooting and the absurd Trumpist reaction

 The Renee Good/ICE shooting initial voter reaction is heavily divided along partisan linesmper a snap poll same day as the incident. There is a parallel of what happened 8 blocks from there in Trump's first term...the shooting of George Floyd, and both were caught on video for the public consumption, domestic and abroad. .Like the George Floyd shooting, there are plenty of videos of it. The major difference is that the victim here was a middle-aged white woman, who caused the agent to feel he was attacked. As reported in Newsweek, the snap poll did not break down approval or disapproval by those who had seen the videos before, during and after the ICE agent shot Good in the head through the front windshield after a verbal exchange. The agent shot through the passenger side door two 2 more times as the car continued in the direction Good had turned the wheels away from the agent just before the shooting/, It crashed down the street. Just before the first shot, the reverse lights had lit up. How in the name of whatever could the agent claim he was threatened is hard to see. But in a matter of minutes after the incident, Trump officials claimed the agent's shot was self-defense. That the agent was injured (a blatant lie as he walked away on his cell phone, obviously in no sign of pain after it) is the proof. "Don't believe your eye"s Trump's agents, Noom, the VP, want their followers to believe. In time, those with any vestige of objective thought will understand what happened. What I am sure of is a)the Trump regime will never find the agent guilty of anything, or if by chance the agent is found culpable, Trump will just pardon him. To make sure justice will never be done or foundguilt of manslaughter by a jury, the Trump-controlled FBI is playing keepaway of evidence from either local or state prosecutors, indicating they fear what it would reveal

The Trump regime's response immediately after the shooting, and before they even knew any facts, was to cover their rear end with not only the lie about the agent being run over, but to call this middle-aged woman a domestic terrorist. JD Vance's absurd remarks along that line will be hung around his neck if he ever runs for president.. If the latter is true, likewise, anyone who mouths off and refuses to respond to a burly battle garbed trigger happy Ice agent with a gun in his hand is a domestic terrorist and deserves to be shot through the head, it appears.

The only way to counter this is through congressional hearings.(Fat chance...while the GOP controls that). We could also hope for some civil lawsuit based upon wrongful death or civil rights abuse, where the discovery of evidence is required.

Until then, MAGA will view the videos through their loyal, rosy-colored glasses, and everyone else in the world will come to a different conclusion. The court of public opinion will be closely watched as more people view the videos. If this follows the George Floyd history, the impact on public opinion will be a slow burn as the videos are viewed, and the anger of demonstrators will dramatize their outrage (God hope, peacefully), but it will be the only impact felt before the November midterms.

ICE approval rating after Renee Nicole Good shooting revealed in new poll

I have been puzzled that some on the left turned the Renee Good shooting into a feminist issue until I read reports of the incident in two foreign publications, Der Spiegel and Le Monde. Both are reporting that holder of one of the videos, an ICE agent, heard Good referred to just before shots were fired as a "f*******ing bitch". Sometimes nuances like this escape our own journalists. In any case, these two influential publications are informing Europe as much as our domestic press is covering it. Also reported on derspiegel@substack.com (German publication but in English)

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Anger over Minneapolis shooting probe fuels protests

Renee Good was one of four people who have been killed by ICE since Trump launched his immigration crackdown. The Trump administration has sought to paint the victim as a 'domestic terrorist,' insisting that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot her was acting in self-...

So now it is Pentagon policy to punish military for refusing to commit war crimes?

 Pentagon to demote Sen. Kelly from retired Navy rank as captain, but stops short of threatened trial | Reuters

More public revenge tour...only this is especially disgusting.The implications: Hegseth et all want to force military service people to act illegally and carry out illegal orders and punish any former military who would object or refuse to act for that reason? The Trump machine punishes a US Senator and ranking war hero/astronaut for only publicizing what are legal rights of US troops not to commit war crimes, explicit rights spelled out in military justice manuals. , among them killing innocent civilians. These rights were written as the result of the Nuremburg post WWII war crimes trials, when the Nazi defendants claimed they were innocent "because they were only following orders". Originally, Hegseth threatened to recall Kelly to active duty so he could court-martial him for daring to remind service members of their rights as a disloyal act of some sort.. I guess he figured even after he had fired all of the JAG brass, he still would have lost that one in military courts...so he opted to try to punish him financially be demoting him from captain. OMG.

Venezuela? Now what.

 OK. Venezuela. Mission accomplished, 1/3/2026.by our military Now what? Are we going to invade and run the country until we can set up a puppet government and take their oil? So, like imperial Rome,, who is going to serve as proconsul of Venezuela...? little Marco? Unlike Rome, Trump right now has a hard time running his own country, and the US has failed every time it has tried nation-building abroad. So peaceful? Our troops on the ground with guns pointed at the people? Where is the Maduro loyal military? Will they fade into thejungle or in Colombia? What about the Russian, Chinese already with their operatives there? Did anyone ask or care about what the Venezuelan people want? Imperial America? Get your popcorn ready...and hope and pray body bags of our troops will be few.

Courts rule consumer finance protection bureau must be funded

iMusk and theTrump regime tried to pull a fast one and destroy the consumer financial watchdog which was formed after the 2008 crash and provided a place for consumers to get relief from financial fraudsters.  Musk tried to kneecap it and  so did the Trump regime, but the courts said no, keep on finding it and the workers in the bureau.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-suffers-legal-blow-over-cfpb-funding/ar-AA1TixrX?ocid=socialshare