I think we also need to drop the narrative language that she was 'protesting' or 'observing'. You can protest anywhere, and you can observe without being so close that an officer can touch your car. She was deliberately obstructing their actions.
What's also being forgotten in all this is that none of this would be necessary if the borders had been properly controlled in the first place. People don't want ICE in their neighborhoods? That's fine. There would be no need for these types of actions if 10 million+ illegal immigrants hadn't entered the country over the past four years.
Biden brought them in for political power. Illegals count for congressional apportionment and redistricting, and Biden brought them in to keep up and increase the population of blue states and blue areas in red states. Trump is throwing them out for the same reason. Illegal migration is a way of gerrymandering the country.
Exactly. The endgame for Demoncats is power and control. If they can't win at the ballot box or in the courts, they will do whatever it takes to return to power. That can't be allowed to happen.
Also lost in all of this is the Democrats led cities that won’t allow ICE into the jails and prisons to arrest the illegal alien criminals once they serve their sentences on whatever crimes they committed once they snuck into the US. By not allowing ICE access to the jails, ICE is forced to go out into the neighborhoods to locate the illegal alien criminals once the leftist governments release them from custody.
….we are facing these same issues here in Australia…🇦🇺. Successive govts allowing mass migration of Muslims to prop up their electoral vote. Our country is ruined….young couples priced out of the market, crime out of control, our medical system on life support and our cities infrastructure unable to cope…..not to mention Islamic terrorist’s taking lives. And these immigrants are welcomed by our communist Albanese Labor govt. Sad times for Australia 😓
And her wife was outside the car with camera rolling to proudly mark the insurrection. It just didn’t turn out the way she expected. Democrats like the MN Governor & mayor do not care a wit about lives lost for their cause. They incite & stir up the crazies hoping for another G Floyd moment. Pretty convenient timing as well to change the narrative away from the massive fraud these cretins oversaw.
Epistemically captured individuals are those whose ability to identify truth, differentiate between fact and fiction, and rely on trustworthy sources of knowledge is impaired, often due to deliberate manipulation or systemic influences. This condition arises not merely from exposure to lies, but from a breakdown in the cognitive mechanisms used to discern reality, which can be intentionally targeted through strategies like "firehosing" — flooding the public sphere with constant, shifting falsehoods to overwhelm accurate information. In such cases, loyalty to a group or ideology often supersedes honesty, and reality becomes a matter of opinion shaped by propaganda, outrage, and fear.
In sum, epistemically captured people are not simply misled; their capacity to engage with truth is systematically compromised by structural, political, and institutional forces that prioritize loyalty, power, and control over accuracy and justice.
In other words, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is compromised by lies.
Thank you for this Carl. I do indeed enjoy learning something new every day.
As this is most obviously the playbook by which those in power are playing, the larger and more looming question at hand is, how do you return to actual facts and truth when minds are being gobbled up at this rate?
In MHO, Texyz's comment (above) illuminates the pathway of "the more looming question at hand".
In Romans 1:28, the Apostle Paul states that "God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper". This phrase, "gave them over," signifies a Divine Judgment where YHVH/God eternally abandons individuals to the consequences of their own sinful choices - after they have persistently rejected His truth and refused to acknowledge Him and His Risen Son.
Whew good one Carl....all of Romans 1. I have previously doted on II Corin 4:3-4, and other places in the Bible, which explains that they have been 'blinded to the truth', because of unrepentant sin and the worship of false gods. And really, it is a supernatural kind of thing, a God thing that separates the wheat from the chaff. They are SO 'stiff-necked' and unable to 'hear', seems all we can do is pray for them, pray for our country. God help us all.
Middle of a work week. The father of her children is dead. She is the only parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is being a Mom, getting home to her kids.
And what is she doing instead? She's out of state, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Not alone! Her partner is right there filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment.
Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos, manufactured chaos, so agents can't do their lawful duty. Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders.Still doesn't
comply. Then she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent. That's not
"confusion." That's not
"panic." That's decision after decision after decision. Now put yourself in the agent's shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act! refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you. You get a split second.
You don't get the luxury of
"Maybe she's just stressed." You have to assume the worst, you have to think of protecting other people like the partner at the window, because if you assume the best and you're wrong, you don't go home or someone else. So the agent fires after she makes an
intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated she's willing to escalate. Now... imagine her three kids. At school.
Sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals in the middle of a work week, with the two adults responsible for them! She didn't think about them. She didn'tthink, "If I get arrested, who picks my babies up?" She didn't think, "If I get hurt, who raises them?" She didn't think, "If I die, they have nobody." She thought about protecting criminals. She thought about interfering with federal agents. She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd. She thought about the moment. There is no amount of evidence,money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense. As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense. At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. At minimum. And she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness. Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accident... but by a series of deliberate choices. While left woke libtard controlled zombie-bots don't live in reality, that doesn't exempt them from real consequences.
I always assumed that this was why liberals didn't want to be mothers, that they understood that their lives were no longer their own (until kids reached adulthood). But I guess they're just stupid.
Yes! It occurred to me....why didn't the "wife" drive that car? She doesn't have children! What kind of mate thinks for a single second that this is a good idea?!
The recent adage comes to mind - "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes". Just so sad that this mother and poet was brainwashed to believe that obstructing ICE officers with a large vehicle is "protesting". 3 orphaned kids - for WHAT, exactly?
The "wife" was who called her out to protest that day. She regretted her decision even there at the scene. Such stupidity and naivete' as if violence wasn't the end game of this over-the-top protesting. Peaceful protest and intimidation with a deadly weapon are two completely different things
Actually, it seems to me that they are sociopathic narcissists who have lost touch with reality. The video they play to themselves in their heads is beyond egotistical. This is what passes for “valor?” Pleeze!
No one is performing protests by driving a car in a residential neighborhood where there’s a known LE operation going on. Her own “wife” is recorded blaming herself for this tragedy as she got her involved in the ICE tracking scene in Minneapolis and expressed the need for active resistance to federal LE actions. Walz and that fucked up punk mayor are also to blame for the constant stream of aggressive, incendiary rhetoric against ICE, Trump and any federal LE in Minneapolis. The DOJ should empanel a grand jury and start assembling written and video statements of Walz and Frey to show the jury for purposes of future violence against ICE. I think the Democrat Party is reverting to historical norm. It is the Neo-Confederacy.
Worse, I'd say. Confederates weren't bat-sh!t crazy. People saw and understood the Confederacy. Even if it was wrong there was a certain logic to it. The US has never had this brand of bat-sh!t crazy....people brainwashed to vote and act against their own self-interests.
I long ago figured out that Dems, liberals, leftists were children that never got disciplined, never had consequences, never spanked. They learned to lie and fast-talk their way past any trouble, and NOW, as adults, they squeal like stuck pigs if ANY one tries to extract justice on them. I truly don't think they get it, don't think they know there are certain things off-limits or illegal to them.
This is one fallout of now, several generations of 'Dr Spock's '. no spanking policy....and the US is about to come unglued for it.
Worse. Modern Democrat leaders (Confederates were also largely Democrats) also have no problem trading votes and campaign funding for sanctuary or payola kickbacks from Federal fraud. Walz, Ellison and Frey are nothing more than white collar criminals
My cousin and her husband attended U of MN and continued living in the heart of Minneapolis for another 30 years.....until the George Floyd riots. WHEN are more Minnesotans going to act, one way or another? MN used to be such a beautiful state, but just like CA and IL (Chicago) it's caved.
I lived in Minnesota with my spouse and children for 32 years, from 1982 and at one time wanted to retire in the "Warehouse District" north of downtown Minneapolis (glad we did not pull that trigger!!). I am originally from Oregon, twice bit. Now I live in Arizona, which is hanging on to its conservative history against an onslaught of liberalism coming out of California to infect our society. It is hard to escape this socialist chaos
Mesa is historically Mormon and Mormons (LDS) are historically conservative. So, yes, the east side of the valley is conservative. It is Andy Biggs' district.
Vance’s comments have no effect one way or the other as to “cooler heads.” The organized Left is committed to taking the American constitutional republic down, with violence included. What Vance or any other Republican says or how they say it doesn’t affect the Left’s subversive goal, at all.
I have watched those cop shows on TV in the past. It seems like half the programming is about cops who do a pullover and then have the driver either pull away from them or even pull a gun and shoot at them. Sometimes you see the officer dragged or even run-over as a criminal tries to get away. That is why cops receive training on how to defend themselves in such situations, including shooting at the driver. I have been pulled over for speeding. I would never dream of doing anything erratic. I respect the officer. This woman Good obviously did not, to her own demise
And, of course, these LEOs knew they were being filmed and also knew they were being intentionally hindered and also knew they were being provoked…Good was not getting “pretextully” stopped on a deserted highway at night
Renee Nicole Good belonged to a Minneapolis-based “ICE Watch” group that actively tracked immigration enforcement operations and trained its activists to interfere with agents, including by blocking in law enforcement vehicles. This is simply a "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” to stop federal law. Nothing sounds very innocent about it.
And really, what this is all about is that the Democrats lost the election. That's all.
The "No Kings!" protests, this idiocy about ICE watches, and rushing ICE agents, the antics of big-city petty politicians, the obstruction everywhere -- my goodness, people, Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral count.
LEOs have a badge and a gun - what’s so hard for people to understand about that?! These “protesters” are playing with fire… and in Good’s case, she got burned. Senseless.
The video taken by the ICE agent show that Good and her partner both knew very well who the ICE agents were, and that they intended to keep returning and interfering.
She was heading for the officer in front of the car, not the one who asked her to get out of the vehicle. I can see a case for her simply not seeing the officer in front of her, as she may have been looking at the one on the side who she was trying to flee from. But even if she didn't see him and simply headed towards him unintentionally, it was still a deadly weapon aimed at a police officer. Her intention doesn't matter in this case, her action does. She made a deadly mistake, and don't forget, if she had obeyed instructions and got out of the car, she wouldn't have put herself in that situation. She was also illegally obstructing a law enforcement operation, which is why the officer on the side was attempting to arrest her in the first place. So she was entirely in the wrong however you want to spin it.
There are. And she pulled toward an officer in a manner easily construed as a threat.
This is particularly true since they were already trying to arrest her for obstructing operations / interfering with law enforcement, and she knew that.
And especially in light of her having traveled from Colorado with the express intent to interfere.
I live in Colorado where there are way too many wacko lefties... it's a training ground for them. My brother lives in St. Paul... and we are daily amazed by these people.
But she did not drive toward the gun man and he was not "run over" as Trump said and is not fighting for his life in the hospital. He was clearly standing holding his gun in the video. DHS Policy: "Firearms shall not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles, vessels, aircraft or other conveyances, except when deadly force is authorized or under the limited circumstances in the policy.” That language mirrors guidance used by the Department of Justice and the FBI, which also say officers should not discharge firearms solely to disable moving vehicles and may do so only when occupants present an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm and no reasonable alternative exists.
Law enforcement experts say shooting at moving vehicles raises high risks of ricochet and collateral harm and is widely discouraged except in narrow, life‑threatening circumstances."
Have you looked at the windshield? Shot went through the front. She was there to purposely disrupt ICE from enforcing the law that democrats are largely responsible for. Do you pick and choose which laws should be enforced? YOU are responsible.
The standard by law is objective reasonableness from the standpoint of the officer. Not the standpoint of your hindsight 20/20 as you sit in your living room with your cup of coffee watching various videos.
Didn’t Trump say what you’re seeing may not be happening. The reality is what most benefits him. It nay take a few tries to get there, but the troops are rallied and parrot the party line. You see it time and again here, a place run by a forrmer shit disturbing far lefyter. This is a woman who lives for attention. What better way to get it by shocking.
70M other people & I would say the exact same thing about you. And Trump is constantly calling left wingers a variety of names like in his Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. Somehow, no right winger can ever acknowledge that.
I think they’re entertained by the direct insult that shocks the uppity libs. He says it like it is, no filter present, no apology. He looks both awkward as hell and confident at the same time. An odd guy.
Are you happy now? A Tren de Aragua member was just shot after trying to ram an officer during an arrest. No more reasonable discussion. You seem to have gotten what your side wants. Just like Islamic jihadists, you want martyrs to your cause. Despicable.
This reminds me of trump’s there eating the cats , they’re eating dogs! I saw it on TV. in this case, there is a video of the shooting, but it is what you want it to be, particularly those still supporting Trump despite affordability. Look how he revised J6 which Sasha naturally has paraded here, a place where the election was indeed stolen by Biden.
Affordability is not a good argument for you. Bidenomics created staggering inflation, and ridiculous prices. In general, prices ratchet upward, and don’t easily go down, so quick fixes don’t really exist.
However, under Trump, we are now down to 2.9% inflation, and for the past year wages have outpaced inflation for the first time since 2019 (during Trump’s first term).
It’s surprising how more accessible energy plus reduced regulations and not printing extra trillions of dollars will lower inflation. (It really isn’t…. but sarcasm tends to get lost on you lot.)
A retrospective look at the past four years of inflation, 2021-24:
In March 2021, the inflation rate was measured at 2.6%, and by April it was 4.1%. The inflation rate continued to climb over the next year, reaching its high point of 9.0% in June 2022. From June 2022 onward, the inflation rate began a long slow decline, and by June 2023 the inflation rate was 3.1%, although that was followed by two months at a 3.7% rate. From June 2023 to June 2024, the inflation rate ranged from a high of 3.7% to a low of 3%. In September 2024, inflation was measured at 2.6%, That brings us to January 2025, the final month of the Biden Administration and the beginning of the Trump Administration, with inflation at 3.0%.
Most of the rise in inflation in 2021 and 2022 was driven by developments that directly raised prices rather than wages, including sharp increases in global commodity prices and sectoral price spikes driven by a combination of pandemic-induced kinks in supply chains and a huge shift in demand during the pandemic to goods from services.
I’d agree whole heartily with you if it were not a pesky little thing I observed called reality aka several recent state elections. You don’t recall any of them?
I love that you know me so well that you are able to comment on my sarcasm level when I have never even heard of you. You’re not that J6 shaman by any chance?
✔ Impeachment rhetoric fueling political polarization
All of these factors combine to create a more challenging electoral landscape for Trump and his allies than what the GOP faced in past midterms. The GOP’s narrow control of the House and ongoing social and economic anxiety make the midterm outcomes unpredictable and potentially unfavorable to his agenda.
Calling this a murder is a disgraceful insult. Democrats are truly despicable. They are also, and I’ve been saying this for a long time, violent, full of hate, and the party of criminals.
I think it was Michael Walsh (not Matt Walsh) who said the Democrats are "a criminal gang masquerading as a political party." (Matt Walsh would likely agree!)
I have lost respect for all Democrat politicians, and even my friends who continue to defend the Democrat party. There is nothing good about it. It is anti-American. The political Left instigates this chaos and unrest believing it is good for their political outlook. They learned all the wrong lessons with their shenanigans to beat Trump in 2020
Yes! And a feature of Trump is he is going after all their sources of money, and not just USAID. The Biden gang must have been protecting the cartels and gangsters and got well paid for it. Maduro must have been paying the Democrats indirectly, which is why Trump took him off the playing field. The Somali grifters are protected by the Democrats. The Democrats' stock in trade is ethnic political machines. That is their bread and butter.
Stone: "The lies, the hyperbole, the rising hysteria, the media spin, and doing what the Left has been doing for a decade. "
Really? What about Trump?
Trump: “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” he wrote on Truth Social not long after the news broke.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital,”
Is that not "hyperbole, hysteria," and Trump is just doing what he has been doing for a decade?
From the video, it appears that Good was pulling out and cleared the officer by a couple feet while Trump lies that he was run over and "it's hard to believe he is alive". Trump's goal is always to rile up his followers with his lies.
If you do a bit a research, you will see that the woman driving the car had been harassing the ICE officers all day... she was a trained agitator who had come from Colorado to interfere in a legal operation.
Harassing all day long? What’s your source and don’t bother quoting anything from the Trump admin since they’re world class liars.
What federal officials claim:
Homeland Security and ICE officials have said the shooting occurred during an enforcement operation. A DHS spokesperson claimed Good had been “stalking agents all day long” and “impeding” them, and that she tried to use her vehicle to run over officers. Federal officials have framed the agent’s actions as self-defense.
What witnesses and local officials say:
Local leaders, witnesses, and family members dispute the federal characterization. They say video does not show her chasing agents all day, and her family says she wasn’t a protester or actively following ICE throughout the day. Bystander video shows her vehicle in a residential street and an ICE agent firing shots as she attempted to drive away from agents. Minneapolis officials and others have criticized the federal narrative and called for a thorough investigation.
Naturally we won’t know since the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.
"What’s your source and don’t bother quoting anything from the Trump admin since they’re world class liars."
Unless the motive is confirmation bias, all sources must be reviewed and all assertions verified.
Various sources and interviewees have asserted that the deceased was just driving home, was leading the ICE watch caravan, was not an activist, was a "legal observer," was protecting innocent people, was a warrior who died doing the right thing, was ordered to leave the area by one officer who was contradicted by another, etc.
One video does not show the officer being struck, another shows him to have been directly in front of the left front bumper as the vehicle accelerated. There is one slow-motion angle circulating, that shows the officer drawing his sidearm as the vehicle begins moving directly toward him; it appears to strike him as he attempts to pivot away while he is shooting, delivering a glancing blow to his side.
It isn't obvious when to believe any one source, given the propensity to distribute counterfactuals, which propensity has been objectively verified over and over again. No source can be trusted without verification, and neither can any source be dismissed without verification.
It is up to the reader, to determine where the ideologically-diverse accounts are congruent or divergent, and review all evidence. Each reader or viewer, must decide whether to base any belief on the basis of evidence or as a matter of faith (belief without proof.)
If a source is to be dismissed without verifying or disproving its assertions, what is occurring is not an investigation or an inquiry, it is... something else.
Perhaps counterintuitively for many; a healthy skepticism requires an open mind.
Ohhh, so you're trying to get a paycheck from soros. I mean, are you that stupid or absolutely no moral conscious, it's obvious she was attempting to accelerate after being told to stop, FAFO for her or it or whatever her pronouns where, no more and that's where they all should go. Maybe if a 2 ton car was coming at you, you might get it.
Did you do this kind of detailed frame by frame “analysis” to condemn Michael Byrd, who shot & killed Ashli Babbit? Bet you didn’t. Bet you argued she deserved it. Hypocrite.
This is a lie NWCitizen. I watched the video many times before it was taken off the web. The officers standing right behind her never told her to stop. In fact, in the video, they looked nonplused and indifferent. AND there were also a couple of officers at the very end of the hallway she was entering, and they were just standing around. BTW, she was entering through a broken window/fire door that someone else broke, not her. When Byrd stuck his hand out from behind the office door to the left, with his gun in his hand, he never yelled "STOP OR I'LL SHOOT" and he never showed himself. He was a coward and he either freaked out over the whole thing, or he did it on purpose so there would be a killing that day, and one done by a gun, which was even better for the leftist's narrative of an "insurrection" (when I first heard a Dem leftist call it that, I laughed out loud......little did I know that they all would push that lunacy, that lie, that slander).
Thanks for your comment. Megyn Kelly has excellent coverage with frame-by-frame analysis from several angles. Good appears to hit the officer in a front view. He limps as he follows the car after the shooting. The rear view is partially obstructed. However, I agree that Trump’s term, “run over, “ is not literally correct.
Ah, the straw man, over-the-top asinine comment. No, thankfully, he's not fighting for his life, nor should he be, just for doing his job... in your opinion, he's only justified in defending himself once he's injured badly enough to be fighting for his life?
One guy by driver door handle. One guy up by left front wheel/bumper. Third guy (shooter, targeted cop) where hood ornament would be. Hard to see in video #1, but if you look closely. Second video you can make him out.
Nope, super slow motion shows the wheel (on the left, as you can't see the wheel on the right) is pointing straight ahead (it was pointing to the left, originally, when she was in reverse) as she accelerated and that's when he drew his gun.
The best estimate is that Good did not “clear” Ross at all. Megyn Kelly goes over this in detail. Fortunately Ross is an agile, athletic male. Officer Caprio was not so lucky in a virtually identical incident. BTW, why is the “wife’s” video being kept secret.?
Trump is one man. Most don't follow his every word, everyday. The MSM never do, unless they can spin it to try and damage him. Rioting and/or protesting Leftist Democrat Socialists are in thousands and they all have the backing of the lying MSM. The video shows the woman's wheel pointed straight, directly at the officer when she started to accelerate.
Trump says outrageous lies EVERYDAY and then is up for hours posting them on Truth Social. He provides endless unhinged material for the MSM and late night talk show hosts. The vast majority of protests by leftists are peaceful.
My poor Minneapolis. I moved to AZ several years ago, but it is still home. Illegals are being removed by ICE, "Not because they’re “racists” but to protect the American worker." It goes well beyond that single motive. Illegals also are given the American social safety net, even though they have paid nothing into it. That means less resources (welfare, SNAP, housing, healthcare) for citizens who have paid in, or at least family and friends have done so. It also increases demand for products and services in an economy designed for 20M less people. The supply of those resources like schools, hospitals, police, buses, housing and food can not be conjured up overnight. It takes several years and the capital required to expand national production to accommodate that many new people. When demand exceeds supply you get inflation. So much of the Biden inflation, the affordability kids complain about today, that impacts all of us can be attributed directly to open borders. The borders were closed. Now to return to equilibrium we expect DHS and ICE to remove the worst of the illegals to get back to a level that can be sustained. All of the unhappiness in the country today relates directly to open borders and aggressive undocumented immigration
I have been taxraped my entire life and never recieved a fucking a dime from the government let alone any safety net. this is bullshit that people come here and the naturalborn are taxraped to pay for them. what could possibly be more unfair and unjust.
Tim Pool does a fine job of taking apart the Leftist lies around the 7 min mark.
The tires were clearly pointed at the officer, and she was accelerating towards him. He had a split second to make a decision that the left has been second guessing in the luxury of hindsight for hours now.
But she had a lethal weapon pointed at him and he had a right to defend himself.
I disagree. To me the video shows that she was trying to turn the car and flee. Why would she do something as stupid as assault a law enforcement officer when she has young children? My sense is that the officers pointed guns at her and she panicked and tried to escape, and unfortunately the officer was in the way and may or may not have gotten clipped. To me he had time to jump out of the way of the vehicle, not resort to shooting her point blank. Obviously she made a terrible judgment of not obeying orders, but in no way did she deserve to get shot. The punishment (death) did not match the crime (evading law enforcement).
True, I’m inferring a bit. But the same can be said of those saying she was intentionally trying to kill him. None of us know, and the evidence is not clear.
I’ve watched several videos, including the one you mentioned, and I still think she was trying to drive away, not hit him. She was in the process of turning her wheels, and was obviously reckless. So maybe for a brief moment the wheels were pointed at him and he thought she was coming for him and he overreacted. I think he could have jumped out of the way, and he shouldn’t have drawn his gun on a US citizen who was not a wanted criminal in the first place. I’m not condoning her actions, and it’s a tragedy all around, but the people saying she got what she deserved are full of shit.
I’ve reached my peak with all of this nonsense. It’s so tragic to see what this country has turned into compared to my youth in the 70s and 80s. It was never perfect. Yes the 60s had a lot of upheaval and tragedy. Yes historically we’ve had civil war and civil unrest. But this feels different. It feels never ending. It feels like there is no healing. I want to be wrong. I pray I am. I think the reason is because in the past it was all pretty straight forward. Everyone stated directly what they stand for and what they want. But list of demands? What do democrats want? Great questions. Unfortunately I don’t believe you will ever get a direct, coherent or straightforward answer. If you did, expect to be behind by tomorrow because that was yesterday, today it’s new demands. If this was my family, a friendship, a marriage, relationship, my job - I’d fucking quit. There’s just no way to reach a win win with crazy, corrupted, power hungry and pathological. Is the right perfect and all saints? No. I see and read some crazy stuff going on in the party. I’m not always a fan of things Trump spouts off about or the way JD Vance delivers sharp at times stupidly harsh comments about things. But I know what they stand for. It’s clear, concise, direct and easily understood whether I agree with it or not. Much of it I do. But the left? The current Democratic Party? Where are the moderates? If they’re too afraid to speak out then what does that say? Silence is violence last I heard!!!!! This year is our 250th Birthday. You’d never guess that. In my dream we’d be dripping red, white and blue everywhere. Americana, patriotism, UNITY. Differences, checks and balances continued, but with respect, honesty, integrity and calm. Our leaders national, state, local serving us their citizens instead of only caring about themselves. BOTH sided encouraging everyone to celebrate the birth of our great nation! Instead we get chaos, corruption, lies, violence, lawlessness and encouraging rage against our great nation. At least from one side we do.
I think you’re right. It’s amazing they got so drunk with power and belief they could do anything they wanted. It’s amazing they seem to still believe it. God help us all if they achieve it.
What do the Democrats want? Political power - in perpetuity. Trump actually fights for political power as viciously as the Democrats, and they can't take it, especially when they feel their power is slipping. So they are desperate, and their most devoted followers (the feminists) are also just as desperate. With Roe overturned and Trump's hard core Nationalist agenda being implemented, they feel that everything they fought for from the 1960s onward is about to be swept away, and they wouldn't be wrong to think that if Vance succeeds Trump in 2028.
I’m incredibly lacking in deep legal and political knowledge however, it seems to me what gains they made were built on sand. Instead of due diligence they went for expedience. Also after winning so much for women’s rights and gay rights, and all equal rights -enough wasn’t enough. They sure got creative I’ll give them that! They went too far. What’s the law of physics? For every action? That’s how you end up with Trump and Vance.
Thanks for mansplaining Andrew. Seriously though, very interesting and a lot to process. I have a 23 year old daughter who has become seriously involved with a nice young man. They talk about their future. She told me they want to be sure they can afford to have children before they start a family. I told her if they do that they’ll never start one. I’m of the belief that, once you’re of legal age and depending on emotional maturity it’s best to just do it and believe it will work out. There’s been no greater experience in my life than when I had my baby. Nothing changed me or impacted me more than that and nothing ever will or could. It made me a better person.
My daughter and SIL just had their first baby. They are carefully working through the financial part, and are over the moon in this, their first taste of parenthood.
I don’t think there’s anything more life-changing than having children. I hope your daughter and her guy listen to you. If you wait until the “right time” it will never come. You just have to take a chance and jump in. I’ll bet you are going to be a superb grandmother!
At its core, Feminism is about enabling women to have the good life, with high paying jobs, without husbands or children. Countries need population growth to have economic growth. If women won't make enough babies, that necessary population growth must be imported. It really is that simple. Classic blood and soil nationalism is about expanding empire with native growth, and Trumpism is a variant. For the US to take Greenland, expand to the Moon and Mars, and eventually to Galactic Empire, with native population growth, women will need to have lots of babies, and the incentive structures (like tax systems) will have to eventually be adjusted to force this outcome. Western feminism is more compatible with Globalism, where all population growth is imported, imported men do all the low-paying dirty work, and the world moves slowly toward becoming a single UN country, at least for the Elite billionaire "Citizens of the World".
Good comment. We’re probably of similar age (70’s/80’s kids). I agree this feels different and probably no turning back to “normal”, unfortunately. I grew up in a liberal/left paradigm, but I don’t want any part of it anymore. I’m kind of in political no man’s land, because while I agree with Trump about some things, I don’t like his demeanor or style and he seems to lack compassion. Not my cup of tea.
It might sound odd but I’d prefer a person who openly lacks compassion vs one who is able to fake it so damn well they could get away with nearly anything. But yes, I feel politically homeless. I’m registered R only because my parents told me to. I didn’t even care when I was 18. I started to REALLY care after my daughter started school. I have voted for both Dems and Republicans. I thought that’s how it always was for many people? The silent majority? Why is the majority so quiet? It’s unsettling. My husband says “If it got REALLY bad you’d hear more” I don’t think I want to see REALLY bad then. I’m just too much of a worrier I suppose.
I get what you mean about openly lacking compassion, vs. faking it (which is actually more dangerous to the Republic). That’s one thing I appreciate about Trump, that what you see is what you get, for the most part. I’m just not sure I’m liking what we’re getting, though it still beats what the Democrats are currently offering…
Renee Good was armed with a deadly, 4,000 pound SUV. If swinging the Star-Spangled Banner at a cop is classified as "assault with a deadly weapon", then using an SUV as a battering ram certainly is.
Sasha they are not protesting they are obstructionist- really insurrectionists. Really communist agitators or at least paid by and guided by them. They believe they are the law and demand compliance to their opinions. At the end of the day they are street thugs. Like, who do they think they are? Our boss?
They were encouraged by, and got away with it during the OBiden admin. Throwing their tantrums and destroying property was so much fun. They want to do it again! But the adults have taken over from the insane Democrats, and that fun time is over.
The lunatic left would like to see us crushed with as many dead as possible. That’s the communist way, and they will be happy to rule over the ashes. That’s the demand.
I don't know what I would have done in that ICE officer's place. Nobody who wasn't in that situation does. But I do know that it is certainly possible that he did feel his life was threatened. A tragic event like this was inevitable given the left's tactic of obstruction and confrontation. Sooner or later there will be a case where violence will be a justifiable response but the case will me murky enough that the left can call it murder.
This really is the whole strategy of physical obstruction -- keep pushing the envelope further and further until you provoke a response and then use that response for further escalation. The elected leaders like Frey and Walz are the real villains here. They encourage gullible fools into physical confrontation and then cry to the media when a tragedy happens and blame it on Trump.
I don't know what to do about this. The threats Walz and Frey make are vague enough that they can't successfully be charged with incitement but that is clearly what they are doing. It's just a variation of what Mark Kelly and his gang of idiots did with their "you must disobey illegal orders" nonsense. They really are pushing for a violent confrontation, knowing that they will not be on front lines.
And they accuse Trump of inciting an insurrection yet comparing his words with theirs it’s a night a day difference. The truth is the violent tendencies was ALWAYS on the side of the left and they used those tendencies to stage the Jan 6 insurrection. Republicans have no track record that supports its was them, and if they were ANYTHING like the left accuses cities would have burned over Charlie Kirk AND Trumps attempted assassination. Heck cities would burn at the hands of Republicans finding out about the Somali fraud if anything the Dems say about us is true. But who really has the violent tendency track record? It’s always the left. This woman who was shot is blood on THEIR hands. It does not matter if she intended to kill the officer. She had no qualms about potentially harming him. Never in any situation with my car would I have tore forward of human bodies are nearby because the automobile is deadly. She knew what she was doing and did not care if he was injured in doing it. She was a creation of the violent left.
Also, while I will admit that few "deserve to die," I cannot say in good conscience that that belief universally applies. Was Renee Good in that smaller subset? No. However, it is by her own actions that she found herself as a participant in the middle of the Minneapolis melee. FAFO.
We all know the problem. As a psychologist who reads the literature, I can tell you that words are not going to fix this. The leftists have been indoctrinated and propagandized, and they are not going to read or listen to anything rational. And the legacy media, just a propaganda arm of the Deep State, is only going to make matters worse.
We all knew that this day was coming, that some authority would be forced to take action to protect their life and the lives of their fellow authorities. And that the action would be blown up and used as an excuse for rioting.
I shudder to think what will happen if/when the lunatic left regains power. For example, Mamdani refers to many of us as "whites". Not white people ... "whites".
Reading about the lunatic left doesn't help me to sleep better. Sasha, I would appreciate shifting part of your effort into helping us learn what ACTIONS we can take in view of the midterm elections. More specifically, who is organizing efforts to prevent election fraud in the midterms and beyond in the key battleground states. I'm not learned enough to vet different people and organizations.
Maybe the same as 2020 and 2024: 1) Send a little campaign contribution to a candidate or cause which aligns with your beliefs; 2) Hook up as a volunteer with a local political party or national campaign. Both will focus on action and get you a bit out of your head worrying. These can be as involved as weekend door knocking and phone calls, or writing postcards to get out the vote in a faraway state; 3) Drop a note to the President or JD, letting you know that you support them -- something handwritten is especially welcome; 4) Be a poll watcher. More partisan and less intense than an election judge, it gets you out there with other American citizens; 5) Help man a political candidate's booth for an afternoon at your local county or state fair. It is great fun and you get a chance to meet like-minded people and spar with the opposition a bit. FWIW.
I don't believe it's Sasha's job (nor her expertise) to help you learn what actions you can take. There are numerous others on social media, via podcasts, in the written word, who are helping us. Find them and allow Sasha to keep watering the seeds. I want her efforts to remain where they are.
I really feel that this is a turning point of sorts. I have always listened to both sides and formed my own opinions on matters, but the way democrats are behaving now just makes me feel that I can't even live in the same country any more. They are so unhinged, so amoral, so disgusting, that I don't want anything to do with them. They have turned people like me away from even wanting to hear what they have to say, and that is not good. The democrats in Congress at the hearing yesterday about the fraud in Minnesota were absolutely batshit crazy, just ranting and raving about stupid things that had nothing to do with the hearing. Who elects these people? It is very isolating as I have to live around them, in the Portland metro area. I live alone. Who can I even talk to in person any more?
You may have to drive out of Portland proper just a bit, but there are a lot of like minded (to you) people who work for campaigns, issues and general sanity. See if you can hook up with one of those groups. I've found that very helpful, as well as doing volunteer work, political or otherwise.
Gracias. I have used many of them myself and they have been, by turns, both fun and socially important. If you are interested in self-defense of all sorts, there are likely some groups nearby which would provide additional skills and some usually cool people to talk with. You'll laugh, but one of the things I did in 2024 was look up with the Joe Kent for Congress campaign from out of state. I got to hand write bunches of postcards, trying to get out the vote. Joe did not win (bummer) but he did call and thank me for helping out. A day brightener, to be sure.
P.S. Try the local political party of your choice, too. Elections officials are (at least where I live) officially impartial but liklely left-leaning.
I feel exactly the same way Margaret but I’m lucky. I live in a blue city that’s “sane” in a red state that controls the blue city’s occasionally poor choices. I think white liberals are looking for the destruction of everything that they don’t believe in——killing accepted. I would move if I had to live with the crazy people. I don’t know what’s next but perhaps Walz is jailed if he tries to pit the MN natl guard against govt troops? I feel like we’re all watching the death of Alien, twisting and clawing and screaming and wailing and clutching anything before they’re ejected from the spaceship into outer space, never to be heard from again. That’s the Left & all of the zombies who vote for them are to me. Absolute degenerates.
I can relate, as I live in Oregon too and am politically homeless in this state. I can't stand Portland or Eugene...or even Salem. I live in a small town outside Salem that is more conservative. Even though I hold independent/centrist/socially liberal/fiscally conservative political views, I have had many Democrat friends end their relationship with me because I refused to parrot their groupthink. I even had to sever my long-standing ties with a brain injury support organization back in 2024 (I am a TBI survivor) because the leftist politics had infected the organization and were being shoved in my face at support group meetings. If you really are wanting someone to talk to, I too am socially isolated and welcome the opportunity to build new friendships. Just left me know and we can figure out how to connect outside of this commenting system.
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I would in a heartbeat, but my two adult kids are over here on the west coast. My son and only grandson just moved to Sacramento! Arguably may be better than Portland in some respects.
Also , if you own a home, it’s a good idea to have home owner’s insurance, which in Florida is difficult and expensive to get thanks to to hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain, and flooding.
I know how you feel. I live on the north Oregon coast. I've been lonely for 5 years. I try when there is an opportunity to be a moderate voice of reason. For the most part I would say no one is listening, they are locked in group think.
Yet another insightful offering, Sasha. You nailed it. Nobody - well, nobody except those who can capitalize on it - wants anyone to be shot. But it came at the perfect time to deflect attention from the massive Somali fraud scandal, so Dem politicians and their media handmaids will keep harping on it.
The Trump admin will not allow another summer (or winter) of mostly peaceful protests. Trump has already set the stage with an EO back in April of 2025, to use the Insurrection Act to bring both idiot state/local Pols like Walz and beta Frey to bay, but to curtail the craziness that happened in 2020. The Dems I think, will be FO fairly soon.
Correct, Trump has been setting the stage understanding that the need to unleash the insurrection act would inevitably come. Legally getting all ducks in a row. Sanctuary states & cities are clearly out of control. The only way to remove illegals, especially violent ones is by finding them & sending them back. The Biden administration created a country in chaos by orchestrating & allowing the invasion of illegals- knowingly bringing in violent offenders to boot. Trump is stopping the NGO grift needed to bring in this dem voting bloc, they won’t go down easy seeing the money & power slipping away.
Good was not unarmed.
Vehicles are very deadly weapons, if used as weapons. Driving at an officer is such use.
I think we also need to drop the narrative language that she was 'protesting' or 'observing'. You can protest anywhere, and you can observe without being so close that an officer can touch your car. She was deliberately obstructing their actions.
What's also being forgotten in all this is that none of this would be necessary if the borders had been properly controlled in the first place. People don't want ICE in their neighborhoods? That's fine. There would be no need for these types of actions if 10 million+ illegal immigrants hadn't entered the country over the past four years.
Biden brought them in for political power. Illegals count for congressional apportionment and redistricting, and Biden brought them in to keep up and increase the population of blue states and blue areas in red states. Trump is throwing them out for the same reason. Illegal migration is a way of gerrymandering the country.
Exactly. The endgame for Demoncats is power and control. If they can't win at the ballot box or in the courts, they will do whatever it takes to return to power. That can't be allowed to happen.
Brought them with contempt for the working man & woman, too.
Also lost in all of this is the Democrats led cities that won’t allow ICE into the jails and prisons to arrest the illegal alien criminals once they serve their sentences on whatever crimes they committed once they snuck into the US. By not allowing ICE access to the jails, ICE is forced to go out into the neighborhoods to locate the illegal alien criminals once the leftist governments release them from custody.
All of this is avoidable.
….we are facing these same issues here in Australia…🇦🇺. Successive govts allowing mass migration of Muslims to prop up their electoral vote. Our country is ruined….young couples priced out of the market, crime out of control, our medical system on life support and our cities infrastructure unable to cope…..not to mention Islamic terrorist’s taking lives. And these immigrants are welcomed by our communist Albanese Labor govt. Sad times for Australia 😓
It’s very sad & pathetic to see a civilization knowingly & intentionally commit suicide.
Part of the "civilization", the other part isn't giving up without a fight
And her wife was outside the car with camera rolling to proudly mark the insurrection. It just didn’t turn out the way she expected. Democrats like the MN Governor & mayor do not care a wit about lives lost for their cause. They incite & stir up the crazies hoping for another G Floyd moment. Pretty convenient timing as well to change the narrative away from the massive fraud these cretins oversaw.
Epistemically Captured People:
Epistemically captured individuals are those whose ability to identify truth, differentiate between fact and fiction, and rely on trustworthy sources of knowledge is impaired, often due to deliberate manipulation or systemic influences. This condition arises not merely from exposure to lies, but from a breakdown in the cognitive mechanisms used to discern reality, which can be intentionally targeted through strategies like "firehosing" — flooding the public sphere with constant, shifting falsehoods to overwhelm accurate information. In such cases, loyalty to a group or ideology often supersedes honesty, and reality becomes a matter of opinion shaped by propaganda, outrage, and fear.
In sum, epistemically captured people are not simply misled; their capacity to engage with truth is systematically compromised by structural, political, and institutional forces that prioritize loyalty, power, and control over accuracy and justice.
In other words, Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is compromised by lies.
Or Biblically....'blinded to the truth' by virtue of their worship of false gods and unrepentant sin. Cannot discern the truth from a lie.
Thank you for this Carl. I do indeed enjoy learning something new every day.
As this is most obviously the playbook by which those in power are playing, the larger and more looming question at hand is, how do you return to actual facts and truth when minds are being gobbled up at this rate?
In MHO, Texyz's comment (above) illuminates the pathway of "the more looming question at hand".
In Romans 1:28, the Apostle Paul states that "God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper". This phrase, "gave them over," signifies a Divine Judgment where YHVH/God eternally abandons individuals to the consequences of their own sinful choices - after they have persistently rejected His truth and refused to acknowledge Him and His Risen Son.
Whew good one Carl....all of Romans 1. I have previously doted on II Corin 4:3-4, and other places in the Bible, which explains that they have been 'blinded to the truth', because of unrepentant sin and the worship of false gods. And really, it is a supernatural kind of thing, a God thing that separates the wheat from the chaff. They are SO 'stiff-necked' and unable to 'hear', seems all we can do is pray for them, pray for our country. God help us all.
Explains a lot. Thanks.
The best take of this event I’ve read so far:
A 37-year-old Mother.
Middle of a work week. The father of her children is dead. She is the only parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is being a Mom, getting home to her kids.
And what is she doing instead? She's out of state, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Not alone! Her partner is right there filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment.
Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos, manufactured chaos, so agents can't do their lawful duty. Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders.Still doesn't
comply. Then she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent. That's not
"confusion." That's not
"panic." That's decision after decision after decision. Now put yourself in the agent's shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act! refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you. You get a split second.
You don't get the luxury of
"Maybe she's just stressed." You have to assume the worst, you have to think of protecting other people like the partner at the window, because if you assume the best and you're wrong, you don't go home or someone else. So the agent fires after she makes an
intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated she's willing to escalate. Now... imagine her three kids. At school.
Sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals in the middle of a work week, with the two adults responsible for them! She didn't think about them. She didn'tthink, "If I get arrested, who picks my babies up?" She didn't think, "If I get hurt, who raises them?" She didn't think, "If I die, they have nobody." She thought about protecting criminals. She thought about interfering with federal agents. She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd. She thought about the moment. There is no amount of evidence,money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense. As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense. At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. At minimum. And she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness. Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accident... but by a series of deliberate choices. While left woke libtard controlled zombie-bots don't live in reality, that doesn't exempt them from real consequences.
-Anonymous
Agreed. As a mother myself, this pretty much summarizes my thoughts about this tragedy. What was she thinking?!
She was thinking, "I Hate Trump"
I always assumed that this was why liberals didn't want to be mothers, that they understood that their lives were no longer their own (until kids reached adulthood). But I guess they're just stupid.
Her wife ...
I know🤪
Yes! It occurred to me....why didn't the "wife" drive that car? She doesn't have children! What kind of mate thinks for a single second that this is a good idea?!
The recent adage comes to mind - "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes". Just so sad that this mother and poet was brainwashed to believe that obstructing ICE officers with a large vehicle is "protesting". 3 orphaned kids - for WHAT, exactly?
Or, more bluntly, FAFO
The "wife" was who called her out to protest that day. She regretted her decision even there at the scene. Such stupidity and naivete' as if violence wasn't the end game of this over-the-top protesting. Peaceful protest and intimidation with a deadly weapon are two completely different things
And told her to "drive baby drive, drive, drive". 100% complicit.
Question to liberals: if she was fleeing the scene when she got shot, why did Becca get out of the car?
Was Renee just going to strand Becca on the sidewalk in the snow?
Actually, it seems to me that they are sociopathic narcissists who have lost touch with reality. The video they play to themselves in their heads is beyond egotistical. This is what passes for “valor?” Pleeze!
Robbie Starbucks says it well: https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2010765061409628509?s=46
No one is performing protests by driving a car in a residential neighborhood where there’s a known LE operation going on. Her own “wife” is recorded blaming herself for this tragedy as she got her involved in the ICE tracking scene in Minneapolis and expressed the need for active resistance to federal LE actions. Walz and that fucked up punk mayor are also to blame for the constant stream of aggressive, incendiary rhetoric against ICE, Trump and any federal LE in Minneapolis. The DOJ should empanel a grand jury and start assembling written and video statements of Walz and Frey to show the jury for purposes of future violence against ICE. I think the Democrat Party is reverting to historical norm. It is the Neo-Confederacy.
Neo-Confederacy is precisely what the Democratic Party has become.
Worse, I'd say. Confederates weren't bat-sh!t crazy. People saw and understood the Confederacy. Even if it was wrong there was a certain logic to it. The US has never had this brand of bat-sh!t crazy....people brainwashed to vote and act against their own self-interests.
The street level operatives may be bat-shit crazy, but the political cause they are serving is not.
You’re right. This may well be worse because they’re completely unhinged from reality. And it’s largely because they’re too privileged.
I long ago figured out that Dems, liberals, leftists were children that never got disciplined, never had consequences, never spanked. They learned to lie and fast-talk their way past any trouble, and NOW, as adults, they squeal like stuck pigs if ANY one tries to extract justice on them. I truly don't think they get it, don't think they know there are certain things off-limits or illegal to them.
This is one fallout of now, several generations of 'Dr Spock's '. no spanking policy....and the US is about to come unglued for it.
Worse. Modern Democrat leaders (Confederates were also largely Democrats) also have no problem trading votes and campaign funding for sanctuary or payola kickbacks from Federal fraud. Walz, Ellison and Frey are nothing more than white collar criminals
My cousin and her husband attended U of MN and continued living in the heart of Minneapolis for another 30 years.....until the George Floyd riots. WHEN are more Minnesotans going to act, one way or another? MN used to be such a beautiful state, but just like CA and IL (Chicago) it's caved.
I lived in Minnesota with my spouse and children for 32 years, from 1982 and at one time wanted to retire in the "Warehouse District" north of downtown Minneapolis (glad we did not pull that trigger!!). I am originally from Oregon, twice bit. Now I live in Arizona, which is hanging on to its conservative history against an onslaught of liberalism coming out of California to infect our society. It is hard to escape this socialist chaos
I understand that Mesa is one of the last few conservative cities left.
Mesa is historically Mormon and Mormons (LDS) are historically conservative. So, yes, the east side of the valley is conservative. It is Andy Biggs' district.
Sure is!
While the left continues to incited the minions and oppose and not propose JD Vance’s comments did nothing to encourage cooler heads either.
Vance’s comments have no effect one way or the other as to “cooler heads.” The organized Left is committed to taking the American constitutional republic down, with violence included. What Vance or any other Republican says or how they say it doesn’t affect the Left’s subversive goal, at all.
Who protests in an SUV?
The excessively privileged and the narcissistic chosen ones.
I have watched those cop shows on TV in the past. It seems like half the programming is about cops who do a pullover and then have the driver either pull away from them or even pull a gun and shoot at them. Sometimes you see the officer dragged or even run-over as a criminal tries to get away. That is why cops receive training on how to defend themselves in such situations, including shooting at the driver. I have been pulled over for speeding. I would never dream of doing anything erratic. I respect the officer. This woman Good obviously did not, to her own demise
The particular officer in question had been struck and dragged by a vehicle, in an incident that happened six months ago.
If that's true then he didn't shoot this one enough times
This officer required 33 stitches from being dragged over 100 yards by the illegal, along with other injuries.
A Glock holds 14 rounds.
True, but no need to waste a good bullet when 3 will do.
Okay, he did, cause she ain't gonna try that again. But if it happened to him before it's a wonder he didn't just mag-dump on her dumb ass
I don’t necessarily respect every police officer. There are some doozies, unfortunately. That said, I’d never dream of doing what Ms. Good did.
And, of course, these LEOs knew they were being filmed and also knew they were being intentionally hindered and also knew they were being provoked…Good was not getting “pretextully” stopped on a deserted highway at night
Still, I bet you do not defy them or try and run them down. Even if you get a d*ck, you act with respect and follow orders. That is the law
Exactly.
Replace the SUV with a Gun and you'll see the severity of the situation.
Check out all the “automobiles of peace” forcing European Christmas markets to close or be ringed by concrete barriers and armed guards.
Note too that Paris cancelled new years celebrations for the same reason.
Just last year the officer was dragged 100 yards under a car in another day on the job.... 30 stitches....
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/ice-agent-who-opened-fire-on-renee-good-was-dragged-hospitalized-by-illegal-migrant-driver-last-year/
Same officer in this case, apparently.
Renee Nicole Good belonged to a Minneapolis-based “ICE Watch” group that actively tracked immigration enforcement operations and trained its activists to interfere with agents, including by blocking in law enforcement vehicles. This is simply a "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” to stop federal law. Nothing sounds very innocent about it.
And really, what this is all about is that the Democrats lost the election. That's all.
The "No Kings!" protests, this idiocy about ICE watches, and rushing ICE agents, the antics of big-city petty politicians, the obstruction everywhere -- my goodness, people, Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral count.
Better luck next time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/overtonnews/p/white-house-reckoning-vance-destroys?r=1gnoo1&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Karoline Leavitt and JD Vance respond
There aren't very many people around who can match JD in a debate. He nailed it, and good for him.
LEOs have a badge and a gun - what’s so hard for people to understand about that?! These “protesters” are playing with fire… and in Good’s case, she got burned. Senseless.
The video taken by the ICE agent show that Good and her partner both knew very well who the ICE agents were, and that they intended to keep returning and interfering.
This was not accidental.
This was not a case of mistaken identity.
The left and their media simply lie.
If there is a cave where you are told there are a lot of rattlesnake and you insist on going in there, you can't blame the rattlesnake if it bites you
https://substack.com/profile/305405432-a-pilgrims-response/note/c-196786670?r=1gnoo1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
slo mo video clearly showing that she hit the second ICE agent with her SUV
Except the video shows she was pulling out and was NOT driving toward an officer
Except that she was told multiple times to exit the vehicle. In that situation, she needed to comply with the instruction.
She may have disagreed. And she would have her day in court to register her disapproval.
Really, it’s time you lefties learned the rules. You are not exempt despite your belief in your superior virtue.
She was heading for the officer in front of the car, not the one who asked her to get out of the vehicle. I can see a case for her simply not seeing the officer in front of her, as she may have been looking at the one on the side who she was trying to flee from. But even if she didn't see him and simply headed towards him unintentionally, it was still a deadly weapon aimed at a police officer. Her intention doesn't matter in this case, her action does. She made a deadly mistake, and don't forget, if she had obeyed instructions and got out of the car, she wouldn't have put herself in that situation. She was also illegally obstructing a law enforcement operation, which is why the officer on the side was attempting to arrest her in the first place. So she was entirely in the wrong however you want to spin it.
All she had to do was turn the vehicle off & get out. But, she was in a state of mind that "prevented" her from doing so. So, she paid the price.
Too bad, but she's the only one responsible for the outcome.
Tough lesson to learn for those filled with unreasonable hate.
And, in MN, there would have been no consequences for her.
There are two officers by her SUV. The officer at the driver’s window makes it hard to see the second officer, in front of the SUV, but he is there.
The video from the other side of the street clearly shows that she impacted the ICE agent with her left fender as he drew his sidearm.
The first shot was through the windshield, which means the officer was right in front of her vehicle as she was accelerating.
There are many videos from different angles.
There are. And she pulled toward an officer in a manner easily construed as a threat.
This is particularly true since they were already trying to arrest her for obstructing operations / interfering with law enforcement, and she knew that.
And especially in light of her having traveled from Colorado with the express intent to interfere.
I live in Colorado where there are way too many wacko lefties... it's a training ground for them. My brother lives in St. Paul... and we are daily amazed by these people.
The media and Democrats have been encouraging this kind of behavior since 2015, and arguably since 2012.
But she did not drive toward the gun man and he was not "run over" as Trump said and is not fighting for his life in the hospital. He was clearly standing holding his gun in the video. DHS Policy: "Firearms shall not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles, vessels, aircraft or other conveyances, except when deadly force is authorized or under the limited circumstances in the policy.” That language mirrors guidance used by the Department of Justice and the FBI, which also say officers should not discharge firearms solely to disable moving vehicles and may do so only when occupants present an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm and no reasonable alternative exists.
Law enforcement experts say shooting at moving vehicles raises high risks of ricochet and collateral harm and is widely discouraged except in narrow, life‑threatening circumstances."
You are not supposed to shoot at them in a pursuit. You are perfectly justified to shoot at vehicles in self defense.
Heard that from a federal LEO, in person, this afternoon.
You are selectively quoting a policy without seeming to understand it.
She absolutely drove right at the Ice Agent. She clipped, trying to evade arrest. The first shot went through the windshield.
Have you looked at the windshield? Shot went through the front. She was there to purposely disrupt ICE from enforcing the law that democrats are largely responsible for. Do you pick and choose which laws should be enforced? YOU are responsible.
The standard by law is objective reasonableness from the standpoint of the officer. Not the standpoint of your hindsight 20/20 as you sit in your living room with your cup of coffee watching various videos.
Didn’t Trump say what you’re seeing may not be happening. The reality is what most benefits him. It nay take a few tries to get there, but the troops are rallied and parrot the party line. You see it time and again here, a place run by a forrmer shit disturbing far lefyter. This is a woman who lives for attention. What better way to get it by shocking.
Somehow, not sure how, you are always wrong.
Of course it’s because of ideology
You can only see what you want to see
Just as you can only read what you want to read.
If I write “the brown cat killed the mouse” you read “Hitler”.
You know it
We know it
70M other people & I would say the exact same thing about you. And Trump is constantly calling left wingers a variety of names like in his Veteran’s Day speech, 2023 saying, “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like VERMIN within the confines of our country.” He's always calling them "radical leftwing lunatics", "sick", "deranged" , the "enemy within", etc. Somehow, no right winger can ever acknowledge that.
I'll acknowledge it. You are accurately described.
Believing there shouldn’t be a border is retarded.
Among many such ideas.
Now, it doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong. There's plenty of evidence to create reasonable doubt....and she's dead.
Maybe you dopes are now starting to learn it doesn't matter if you're right and you're dead. Dead is dead, like the Dem party.
I think they’re entertained by the direct insult that shocks the uppity libs. He says it like it is, no filter present, no apology. He looks both awkward as hell and confident at the same time. An odd guy.
Are you happy now? A Tren de Aragua member was just shot after trying to ram an officer during an arrest. No more reasonable discussion. You seem to have gotten what your side wants. Just like Islamic jihadists, you want martyrs to your cause. Despicable.
Who is in Tren de Agua? Renee Good? That's a wild conspiracy theory.
Try to keep up. There was another shooting in Portland a short while ago. Maybe check before you accuse others of wild conspiracy theories?
You could say specifically what you mean.
A Tren de Aragua member was just shot is not clear enough for you? “Just shot” is not a synonym for “yesterday”.
Oh no, it’s NWcitizen again
He’s here so that you know for absolute certainty the wrong answer.
She clipped the officer while resisting arrest. Plain as day on the video
NW tells you all you need to know about this…?? man/woman? Civil war on his mind.
I guess you did not watch the embedded video by Tim Poole in Sasha’s story. I suggest you go back and watch that detailed analysis of the video.
Not really. She looked at the agent as she pulled forward. Plus she wasn’t free to go, was she?
This reminds me of trump’s there eating the cats , they’re eating dogs! I saw it on TV. in this case, there is a video of the shooting, but it is what you want it to be, particularly those still supporting Trump despite affordability. Look how he revised J6 which Sasha naturally has paraded here, a place where the election was indeed stolen by Biden.
Affordability is not a good argument for you. Bidenomics created staggering inflation, and ridiculous prices. In general, prices ratchet upward, and don’t easily go down, so quick fixes don’t really exist.
However, under Trump, we are now down to 2.9% inflation, and for the past year wages have outpaced inflation for the first time since 2019 (during Trump’s first term).
It’s surprising how more accessible energy plus reduced regulations and not printing extra trillions of dollars will lower inflation. (It really isn’t…. but sarcasm tends to get lost on you lot.)
Inflation went up i 2022 because of Covid, then was down to 3% when Trump took office.
You are so full of shit I am surprised mushrooms don’t sprout from you.
You are uninformed.
https://perc.tamu.edu/blog/2025/02/biden-admin-inflation.html
A retrospective look at the past four years of inflation, 2021-24:
In March 2021, the inflation rate was measured at 2.6%, and by April it was 4.1%. The inflation rate continued to climb over the next year, reaching its high point of 9.0% in June 2022. From June 2022 onward, the inflation rate began a long slow decline, and by June 2023 the inflation rate was 3.1%, although that was followed by two months at a 3.7% rate. From June 2023 to June 2024, the inflation rate ranged from a high of 3.7% to a low of 3%. In September 2024, inflation was measured at 2.6%, That brings us to January 2025, the final month of the Biden Administration and the beginning of the Trump Administration, with inflation at 3.0%.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation/
What caused the rise in inflation?
Most of the rise in inflation in 2021 and 2022 was driven by developments that directly raised prices rather than wages, including sharp increases in global commodity prices and sectoral price spikes driven by a combination of pandemic-induced kinks in supply chains and a huge shift in demand during the pandemic to goods from services.
I’d agree whole heartily with you if it were not a pesky little thing I observed called reality aka several recent state elections. You don’t recall any of them?
I love that you know me so well that you are able to comment on my sarcasm level when I have never even heard of you. You’re not that J6 shaman by any chance?
Your sheep is lonely; you should probably go tend to it.
What do the state elections have to do with Morgan Leake's point?
Given that he is referring to elections that were held in historically blue strongholds, he is wishcasting.
You don’t feel feel they are a current bellwether vis a vis the early Nov midterms that could truncate Trump’s power?
Trump’s key challenges heading into the 2026 midterms include:
✔ Economic unease, affordability complicated by tariffs and voter dissatisfaction
✔ GOP internal divisions and congressional control battles
✔ Health care and cost-of-living issues dominating local races
✔ Controversial federal actions prompting backlash
✔ Slipping approval ratings
✔ Complex redistricting strategies drawing scrutiny
✔ Impeachment rhetoric fueling political polarization
All of these factors combine to create a more challenging electoral landscape for Trump and his allies than what the GOP faced in past midterms. The GOP’s narrow control of the House and ongoing social and economic anxiety make the midterm outcomes unpredictable and potentially unfavorable to his agenda.
Ever see a photo of a dead person after being run over by a car,,????
I would have shot to live,,period.,,,road was very snowy also, she acccelarated ande if hit brakes would have ran him over anyway
Under the you can't make this up category :
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2009472976463495257?s=20
Calling this a murder is a disgraceful insult. Democrats are truly despicable. They are also, and I’ve been saying this for a long time, violent, full of hate, and the party of criminals.
I think it was Michael Walsh (not Matt Walsh) who said the Democrats are "a criminal gang masquerading as a political party." (Matt Walsh would likely agree!)
I have lost respect for all Democrat politicians, and even my friends who continue to defend the Democrat party. There is nothing good about it. It is anti-American. The political Left instigates this chaos and unrest believing it is good for their political outlook. They learned all the wrong lessons with their shenanigans to beat Trump in 2020
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Yes! And a feature of Trump is he is going after all their sources of money, and not just USAID. The Biden gang must have been protecting the cartels and gangsters and got well paid for it. Maduro must have been paying the Democrats indirectly, which is why Trump took him off the playing field. The Somali grifters are protected by the Democrats. The Democrats' stock in trade is ethnic political machines. That is their bread and butter.
They are trying to inflame a very tragic situation... so that more will occur and they can George Floyd all over again.
Yes they are. They are scum.
Sad but true, but there's a new sheriff in town, & things are gonna get rougher this time around.....
Stone: "The lies, the hyperbole, the rising hysteria, the media spin, and doing what the Left has been doing for a decade. "
Really? What about Trump?
Trump: “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” he wrote on Truth Social not long after the news broke.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital,”
Is that not "hyperbole, hysteria," and Trump is just doing what he has been doing for a decade?
From the video, it appears that Good was pulling out and cleared the officer by a couple feet while Trump lies that he was run over and "it's hard to believe he is alive". Trump's goal is always to rile up his followers with his lies.
If you do a bit a research, you will see that the woman driving the car had been harassing the ICE officers all day... she was a trained agitator who had come from Colorado to interfere in a legal operation.
ICE has a very narrow job. They are supposed to enforce immigration laws only, not grab random people off the street because they're brown.
Harassing all day long? What’s your source and don’t bother quoting anything from the Trump admin since they’re world class liars.
What federal officials claim:
Homeland Security and ICE officials have said the shooting occurred during an enforcement operation. A DHS spokesperson claimed Good had been “stalking agents all day long” and “impeding” them, and that she tried to use her vehicle to run over officers. Federal officials have framed the agent’s actions as self-defense.
What witnesses and local officials say:
Local leaders, witnesses, and family members dispute the federal characterization. They say video does not show her chasing agents all day, and her family says she wasn’t a protester or actively following ICE throughout the day. Bystander video shows her vehicle in a residential street and an ICE agent firing shots as she attempted to drive away from agents. Minneapolis officials and others have criticized the federal narrative and called for a thorough investigation.
Naturally we won’t know since the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.
"What’s your source and don’t bother quoting anything from the Trump admin since they’re world class liars."
Unless the motive is confirmation bias, all sources must be reviewed and all assertions verified.
Various sources and interviewees have asserted that the deceased was just driving home, was leading the ICE watch caravan, was not an activist, was a "legal observer," was protecting innocent people, was a warrior who died doing the right thing, was ordered to leave the area by one officer who was contradicted by another, etc.
One video does not show the officer being struck, another shows him to have been directly in front of the left front bumper as the vehicle accelerated. There is one slow-motion angle circulating, that shows the officer drawing his sidearm as the vehicle begins moving directly toward him; it appears to strike him as he attempts to pivot away while he is shooting, delivering a glancing blow to his side.
It isn't obvious when to believe any one source, given the propensity to distribute counterfactuals, which propensity has been objectively verified over and over again. No source can be trusted without verification, and neither can any source be dismissed without verification.
Here is MPR:
https ://www.mprnews. org/story/2026/01/08/questions-follow-after-ice-agent-kills-renee-good-in-minneapolis
And here is NYP:
https: //nypost. com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/
It is up to the reader, to determine where the ideologically-diverse accounts are congruent or divergent, and review all evidence. Each reader or viewer, must decide whether to base any belief on the basis of evidence or as a matter of faith (belief without proof.)
If a source is to be dismissed without verifying or disproving its assertions, what is occurring is not an investigation or an inquiry, it is... something else.
Perhaps counterintuitively for many; a healthy skepticism requires an open mind.
That doesn't give them the right to shoot her.
No. Trying to run them over does.
Does she have the right to try to run over a Federal Agent with her 5-6 thousand-pound vehicle?
Ohhh, so you're trying to get a paycheck from soros. I mean, are you that stupid or absolutely no moral conscious, it's obvious she was attempting to accelerate after being told to stop, FAFO for her or it or whatever her pronouns where, no more and that's where they all should go. Maybe if a 2 ton car was coming at you, you might get it.
I can clearly see the officer shooting her and this video and the car continue turning past him because she was turning when he shot her.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrCOXDNI9/
Did you do this kind of detailed frame by frame “analysis” to condemn Michael Byrd, who shot & killed Ashli Babbit? Bet you didn’t. Bet you argued she deserved it. Hypocrite.
I never said Ashli Babbitt deserved to be shot. But like Renee Good, she did not obey the officers orders and would be alive if she had.
This is a lie NWCitizen. I watched the video many times before it was taken off the web. The officers standing right behind her never told her to stop. In fact, in the video, they looked nonplused and indifferent. AND there were also a couple of officers at the very end of the hallway she was entering, and they were just standing around. BTW, she was entering through a broken window/fire door that someone else broke, not her. When Byrd stuck his hand out from behind the office door to the left, with his gun in his hand, he never yelled "STOP OR I'LL SHOOT" and he never showed himself. He was a coward and he either freaked out over the whole thing, or he did it on purpose so there would be a killing that day, and one done by a gun, which was even better for the leftist's narrative of an "insurrection" (when I first heard a Dem leftist call it that, I laughed out loud......little did I know that they all would push that lunacy, that lie, that slander).
Nope. A close up with slow motion shows that the wheels were straight ahead, facing the officer, when she started to accelerate.
And she was turning right so she was not trying to hit him; in fact, she did NOT hit him.
No. The wheels were straight ahead when they spun. He drew his gun and she took off, turning.
She was trained to interfere with Federal Agents doing their job. She is a professional anarchist interfering with Federal Law Enforcement officers
Thanks for your comment. Megyn Kelly has excellent coverage with frame-by-frame analysis from several angles. Good appears to hit the officer in a front view. He limps as he follows the car after the shooting. The rear view is partially obstructed. However, I agree that Trump’s term, “run over, “ is not literally correct.
Close enough, just like with hand grenades !
LOL, point taken. Come to think of it, maybe Good ran over officer Ross’s foot, in which case Trump would turn out to have been literally correct. ;<)
Sure and he's fighting for his life in the hospital.
Ah, the straw man, over-the-top asinine comment. No, thankfully, he's not fighting for his life, nor should he be, just for doing his job... in your opinion, he's only justified in defending himself once he's injured badly enough to be fighting for his life?
"Just shoot him in the leg!" ~ President Dementia
I've watched every video I can find. I've seen zero limping
You’re looking at the wrong officer.
I can clearly see the officer shooting her and this video and the car continue turning past him because she was turning
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrCOXDNI9/
One guy by driver door handle. One guy up by left front wheel/bumper. Third guy (shooter, targeted cop) where hood ornament would be. Hard to see in video #1, but if you look closely. Second video you can make him out.
Don't you have anything else to do.....like get a life?
Nope, super slow motion shows the wheel (on the left, as you can't see the wheel on the right) is pointing straight ahead (it was pointing to the left, originally, when she was in reverse) as she accelerated and that's when he drew his gun.
The best estimate is that Good did not “clear” Ross at all. Megyn Kelly goes over this in detail. Fortunately Ross is an agile, athletic male. Officer Caprio was not so lucky in a virtually identical incident. BTW, why is the “wife’s” video being kept secret.?
Trump is one man. Most don't follow his every word, everyday. The MSM never do, unless they can spin it to try and damage him. Rioting and/or protesting Leftist Democrat Socialists are in thousands and they all have the backing of the lying MSM. The video shows the woman's wheel pointed straight, directly at the officer when she started to accelerate.
Trump says outrageous lies EVERYDAY and then is up for hours posting them on Truth Social. He provides endless unhinged material for the MSM and late night talk show hosts. The vast majority of protests by leftists are peaceful.
So peaceful they did about 1,000 times as much damage as the much -ballyhooed Jan06 riot.
My poor Minneapolis. I moved to AZ several years ago, but it is still home. Illegals are being removed by ICE, "Not because they’re “racists” but to protect the American worker." It goes well beyond that single motive. Illegals also are given the American social safety net, even though they have paid nothing into it. That means less resources (welfare, SNAP, housing, healthcare) for citizens who have paid in, or at least family and friends have done so. It also increases demand for products and services in an economy designed for 20M less people. The supply of those resources like schools, hospitals, police, buses, housing and food can not be conjured up overnight. It takes several years and the capital required to expand national production to accommodate that many new people. When demand exceeds supply you get inflation. So much of the Biden inflation, the affordability kids complain about today, that impacts all of us can be attributed directly to open borders. The borders were closed. Now to return to equilibrium we expect DHS and ICE to remove the worst of the illegals to get back to a level that can be sustained. All of the unhappiness in the country today relates directly to open borders and aggressive undocumented immigration
There ARE NO sustainable levels. If they are here illegally, they are criminals, & that's a fact Jack. Deport the entire lot of 'em.
I have been taxraped my entire life and never recieved a fucking a dime from the government let alone any safety net. this is bullshit that people come here and the naturalborn are taxraped to pay for them. what could possibly be more unfair and unjust.
Don't forget the identity theft and sex trafficking.
Brian you are so correct! Could you please Tweet this to Mayor Mandamni it might help him learn something.
Tim Pool does a fine job of taking apart the Leftist lies around the 7 min mark.
The tires were clearly pointed at the officer, and she was accelerating towards him. He had a split second to make a decision that the left has been second guessing in the luxury of hindsight for hours now.
But she had a lethal weapon pointed at him and he had a right to defend himself.
They say she turned away. But it appears that only happened after he shot at her. Probably her instinct to get away, even after she was shot
I disagree. To me the video shows that she was trying to turn the car and flee. Why would she do something as stupid as assault a law enforcement officer when she has young children? My sense is that the officers pointed guns at her and she panicked and tried to escape, and unfortunately the officer was in the way and may or may not have gotten clipped. To me he had time to jump out of the way of the vehicle, not resort to shooting her point blank. Obviously she made a terrible judgment of not obeying orders, but in no way did she deserve to get shot. The punishment (death) did not match the crime (evading law enforcement).
Her ideology took precedence over her children.
Definitely. TDS is an overpowering drug.
Please explain how you can read her mind at that moment.
True, I’m inferring a bit. But the same can be said of those saying she was intentionally trying to kill him. None of us know, and the evidence is not clear.
No, she was pointing deadly weapon at the officer and gunning the engine.
The new video shows that she made eye contact with him and he couldn't see the direction of the wheels.
He acted in self defense.
I’ve watched several videos, including the one you mentioned, and I still think she was trying to drive away, not hit him. She was in the process of turning her wheels, and was obviously reckless. So maybe for a brief moment the wheels were pointed at him and he thought she was coming for him and he overreacted. I think he could have jumped out of the way, and he shouldn’t have drawn his gun on a US citizen who was not a wanted criminal in the first place. I’m not condoning her actions, and it’s a tragedy all around, but the people saying she got what she deserved are full of shit.
Why did her wife yell drive?
How did he know which way the wheels were pointed?
How did he know her intentions during that split second?
He couldn't of have.
She was pointing deadly weapon at the officer and gunning the engine.
It would be the same if she had pointed a gun at him.
Why are you defending a criminal?
FAFO. Maybes don’t cut the mustard.
Tim Poole is an Israeli tool.
Found one!
An angry woke, white woman with end stage TDS went to MN looking for a fight. She started one. She lost.
An angry woke, white woman WITH A WIFE. The dementia runs through several layers.
Ya win a few, ya lose one. FAFO.
I’ve reached my peak with all of this nonsense. It’s so tragic to see what this country has turned into compared to my youth in the 70s and 80s. It was never perfect. Yes the 60s had a lot of upheaval and tragedy. Yes historically we’ve had civil war and civil unrest. But this feels different. It feels never ending. It feels like there is no healing. I want to be wrong. I pray I am. I think the reason is because in the past it was all pretty straight forward. Everyone stated directly what they stand for and what they want. But list of demands? What do democrats want? Great questions. Unfortunately I don’t believe you will ever get a direct, coherent or straightforward answer. If you did, expect to be behind by tomorrow because that was yesterday, today it’s new demands. If this was my family, a friendship, a marriage, relationship, my job - I’d fucking quit. There’s just no way to reach a win win with crazy, corrupted, power hungry and pathological. Is the right perfect and all saints? No. I see and read some crazy stuff going on in the party. I’m not always a fan of things Trump spouts off about or the way JD Vance delivers sharp at times stupidly harsh comments about things. But I know what they stand for. It’s clear, concise, direct and easily understood whether I agree with it or not. Much of it I do. But the left? The current Democratic Party? Where are the moderates? If they’re too afraid to speak out then what does that say? Silence is violence last I heard!!!!! This year is our 250th Birthday. You’d never guess that. In my dream we’d be dripping red, white and blue everywhere. Americana, patriotism, UNITY. Differences, checks and balances continued, but with respect, honesty, integrity and calm. Our leaders national, state, local serving us their citizens instead of only caring about themselves. BOTH sided encouraging everyone to celebrate the birth of our great nation! Instead we get chaos, corruption, lies, violence, lawlessness and encouraging rage against our great nation. At least from one side we do.
America peaked around 2000. It has slowly been going down hill but slowly. Once Obama came into office it’s been on a steep dive since.
That’s what my husband said to me. Nearly word for word.
Because it’s 100% the truth
Sometimes I think the attacks on September 11, 2001 shattered our belief in ourselves more than we realized at the time.
Yes I agree. The ripple effects of that day are likely beyond what we could imagine.
Sometimes I consider how September 11th may have been the wound to the head of Revelation 13.
The One promised us fundamental transformation, remember?
I sure do
I think it peaked before that, probably 80’s or possibly 90’s. By 2000 things were already starting to go downhill…
I think the Dems want one party rule in perpetuity.
I think you’re right. It’s amazing they got so drunk with power and belief they could do anything they wanted. It’s amazing they seem to still believe it. God help us all if they achieve it.
As long as it's them who's doing the ruling. Anything less, and they're willing to destroy the whole country.
What do the Democrats want? Political power - in perpetuity. Trump actually fights for political power as viciously as the Democrats, and they can't take it, especially when they feel their power is slipping. So they are desperate, and their most devoted followers (the feminists) are also just as desperate. With Roe overturned and Trump's hard core Nationalist agenda being implemented, they feel that everything they fought for from the 1960s onward is about to be swept away, and they wouldn't be wrong to think that if Vance succeeds Trump in 2028.
I’m incredibly lacking in deep legal and political knowledge however, it seems to me what gains they made were built on sand. Instead of due diligence they went for expedience. Also after winning so much for women’s rights and gay rights, and all equal rights -enough wasn’t enough. They sure got creative I’ll give them that! They went too far. What’s the law of physics? For every action? That’s how you end up with Trump and Vance.
Thanks for mansplaining Andrew. Seriously though, very interesting and a lot to process. I have a 23 year old daughter who has become seriously involved with a nice young man. They talk about their future. She told me they want to be sure they can afford to have children before they start a family. I told her if they do that they’ll never start one. I’m of the belief that, once you’re of legal age and depending on emotional maturity it’s best to just do it and believe it will work out. There’s been no greater experience in my life than when I had my baby. Nothing changed me or impacted me more than that and nothing ever will or could. It made me a better person.
My daughter and SIL just had their first baby. They are carefully working through the financial part, and are over the moon in this, their first taste of parenthood.
I don’t think there’s anything more life-changing than having children. I hope your daughter and her guy listen to you. If you wait until the “right time” it will never come. You just have to take a chance and jump in. I’ll bet you are going to be a superb grandmother!
At its core, Feminism is about enabling women to have the good life, with high paying jobs, without husbands or children. Countries need population growth to have economic growth. If women won't make enough babies, that necessary population growth must be imported. It really is that simple. Classic blood and soil nationalism is about expanding empire with native growth, and Trumpism is a variant. For the US to take Greenland, expand to the Moon and Mars, and eventually to Galactic Empire, with native population growth, women will need to have lots of babies, and the incentive structures (like tax systems) will have to eventually be adjusted to force this outcome. Western feminism is more compatible with Globalism, where all population growth is imported, imported men do all the low-paying dirty work, and the world moves slowly toward becoming a single UN country, at least for the Elite billionaire "Citizens of the World".
Good comment. We’re probably of similar age (70’s/80’s kids). I agree this feels different and probably no turning back to “normal”, unfortunately. I grew up in a liberal/left paradigm, but I don’t want any part of it anymore. I’m kind of in political no man’s land, because while I agree with Trump about some things, I don’t like his demeanor or style and he seems to lack compassion. Not my cup of tea.
It might sound odd but I’d prefer a person who openly lacks compassion vs one who is able to fake it so damn well they could get away with nearly anything. But yes, I feel politically homeless. I’m registered R only because my parents told me to. I didn’t even care when I was 18. I started to REALLY care after my daughter started school. I have voted for both Dems and Republicans. I thought that’s how it always was for many people? The silent majority? Why is the majority so quiet? It’s unsettling. My husband says “If it got REALLY bad you’d hear more” I don’t think I want to see REALLY bad then. I’m just too much of a worrier I suppose.
I get what you mean about openly lacking compassion, vs. faking it (which is actually more dangerous to the Republic). That’s one thing I appreciate about Trump, that what you see is what you get, for the most part. I’m just not sure I’m liking what we’re getting, though it still beats what the Democrats are currently offering…
Renee Good was armed with a deadly, 4,000 pound SUV. If swinging the Star-Spangled Banner at a cop is classified as "assault with a deadly weapon", then using an SUV as a battering ram certainly is.
Good point!!!
Sasha they are not protesting they are obstructionist- really insurrectionists. Really communist agitators or at least paid by and guided by them. They believe they are the law and demand compliance to their opinions. At the end of the day they are street thugs. Like, who do they think they are? Our boss?
They were encouraged by, and got away with it during the OBiden admin. Throwing their tantrums and destroying property was so much fun. They want to do it again! But the adults have taken over from the insane Democrats, and that fun time is over.
The lunatic left would like to see us crushed with as many dead as possible. That’s the communist way, and they will be happy to rule over the ashes. That’s the demand.
I don't know what I would have done in that ICE officer's place. Nobody who wasn't in that situation does. But I do know that it is certainly possible that he did feel his life was threatened. A tragic event like this was inevitable given the left's tactic of obstruction and confrontation. Sooner or later there will be a case where violence will be a justifiable response but the case will me murky enough that the left can call it murder.
This really is the whole strategy of physical obstruction -- keep pushing the envelope further and further until you provoke a response and then use that response for further escalation. The elected leaders like Frey and Walz are the real villains here. They encourage gullible fools into physical confrontation and then cry to the media when a tragedy happens and blame it on Trump.
I don't know what to do about this. The threats Walz and Frey make are vague enough that they can't successfully be charged with incitement but that is clearly what they are doing. It's just a variation of what Mark Kelly and his gang of idiots did with their "you must disobey illegal orders" nonsense. They really are pushing for a violent confrontation, knowing that they will not be on front lines.
And they accuse Trump of inciting an insurrection yet comparing his words with theirs it’s a night a day difference. The truth is the violent tendencies was ALWAYS on the side of the left and they used those tendencies to stage the Jan 6 insurrection. Republicans have no track record that supports its was them, and if they were ANYTHING like the left accuses cities would have burned over Charlie Kirk AND Trumps attempted assassination. Heck cities would burn at the hands of Republicans finding out about the Somali fraud if anything the Dems say about us is true. But who really has the violent tendency track record? It’s always the left. This woman who was shot is blood on THEIR hands. It does not matter if she intended to kill the officer. She had no qualms about potentially harming him. Never in any situation with my car would I have tore forward of human bodies are nearby because the automobile is deadly. She knew what she was doing and did not care if he was injured in doing it. She was a creation of the violent left.
If you don't agree with their beliefs, the Left wants you silent, or dead. Either will do.
Yup. As long as they get all of your money and property, first.
In three words: power, money, destruction.
Also, while I will admit that few "deserve to die," I cannot say in good conscience that that belief universally applies. Was Renee Good in that smaller subset? No. However, it is by her own actions that she found herself as a participant in the middle of the Minneapolis melee. FAFO.
Sasha,
We all know the problem. As a psychologist who reads the literature, I can tell you that words are not going to fix this. The leftists have been indoctrinated and propagandized, and they are not going to read or listen to anything rational. And the legacy media, just a propaganda arm of the Deep State, is only going to make matters worse.
We all knew that this day was coming, that some authority would be forced to take action to protect their life and the lives of their fellow authorities. And that the action would be blown up and used as an excuse for rioting.
I shudder to think what will happen if/when the lunatic left regains power. For example, Mamdani refers to many of us as "whites". Not white people ... "whites".
Reading about the lunatic left doesn't help me to sleep better. Sasha, I would appreciate shifting part of your effort into helping us learn what ACTIONS we can take in view of the midterm elections. More specifically, who is organizing efforts to prevent election fraud in the midterms and beyond in the key battleground states. I'm not learned enough to vet different people and organizations.
Thanks.
Maybe the same as 2020 and 2024: 1) Send a little campaign contribution to a candidate or cause which aligns with your beliefs; 2) Hook up as a volunteer with a local political party or national campaign. Both will focus on action and get you a bit out of your head worrying. These can be as involved as weekend door knocking and phone calls, or writing postcards to get out the vote in a faraway state; 3) Drop a note to the President or JD, letting you know that you support them -- something handwritten is especially welcome; 4) Be a poll watcher. More partisan and less intense than an election judge, it gets you out there with other American citizens; 5) Help man a political candidate's booth for an afternoon at your local county or state fair. It is great fun and you get a chance to meet like-minded people and spar with the opposition a bit. FWIW.
https://truethevote.org/ was very helpful in watching out for voter fraud in 2024.
I don't believe it's Sasha's job (nor her expertise) to help you learn what actions you can take. There are numerous others on social media, via podcasts, in the written word, who are helping us. Find them and allow Sasha to keep watering the seeds. I want her efforts to remain where they are.
Are any of your patients part of the lunatic left? Do you attempt to convert them?
And every media outlet, entertainment outlet have the same script — ‘THEY’ know best
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I really feel that this is a turning point of sorts. I have always listened to both sides and formed my own opinions on matters, but the way democrats are behaving now just makes me feel that I can't even live in the same country any more. They are so unhinged, so amoral, so disgusting, that I don't want anything to do with them. They have turned people like me away from even wanting to hear what they have to say, and that is not good. The democrats in Congress at the hearing yesterday about the fraud in Minnesota were absolutely batshit crazy, just ranting and raving about stupid things that had nothing to do with the hearing. Who elects these people? It is very isolating as I have to live around them, in the Portland metro area. I live alone. Who can I even talk to in person any more?
You may have to drive out of Portland proper just a bit, but there are a lot of like minded (to you) people who work for campaigns, issues and general sanity. See if you can hook up with one of those groups. I've found that very helpful, as well as doing volunteer work, political or otherwise.
Thanks. I am in a suburb south of Portland, and should probably hook up with the elections office in my county. Good suggestions.
Gracias. I have used many of them myself and they have been, by turns, both fun and socially important. If you are interested in self-defense of all sorts, there are likely some groups nearby which would provide additional skills and some usually cool people to talk with. You'll laugh, but one of the things I did in 2024 was look up with the Joe Kent for Congress campaign from out of state. I got to hand write bunches of postcards, trying to get out the vote. Joe did not win (bummer) but he did call and thank me for helping out. A day brightener, to be sure.
P.S. Try the local political party of your choice, too. Elections officials are (at least where I live) officially impartial but liklely left-leaning.
I feel exactly the same way Margaret but I’m lucky. I live in a blue city that’s “sane” in a red state that controls the blue city’s occasionally poor choices. I think white liberals are looking for the destruction of everything that they don’t believe in——killing accepted. I would move if I had to live with the crazy people. I don’t know what’s next but perhaps Walz is jailed if he tries to pit the MN natl guard against govt troops? I feel like we’re all watching the death of Alien, twisting and clawing and screaming and wailing and clutching anything before they’re ejected from the spaceship into outer space, never to be heard from again. That’s the Left & all of the zombies who vote for them are to me. Absolute degenerates.
Just wondering--are you in Oklahoma?
Memphis
I can relate, as I live in Oregon too and am politically homeless in this state. I can't stand Portland or Eugene...or even Salem. I live in a small town outside Salem that is more conservative. Even though I hold independent/centrist/socially liberal/fiscally conservative political views, I have had many Democrat friends end their relationship with me because I refused to parrot their groupthink. I even had to sever my long-standing ties with a brain injury support organization back in 2024 (I am a TBI survivor) because the leftist politics had infected the organization and were being shoved in my face at support group meetings. If you really are wanting someone to talk to, I too am socially isolated and welcome the opportunity to build new friendships. Just left me know and we can figure out how to connect outside of this commenting system.
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Move to Florida.
I would in a heartbeat, but my two adult kids are over here on the west coast. My son and only grandson just moved to Sacramento! Arguably may be better than Portland in some respects.
Also , if you own a home, it’s a good idea to have home owner’s insurance, which in Florida is difficult and expensive to get thanks to to hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain, and flooding.
No, Sacramento is a hellhole. Not sure why anyone would move there.
So unhinged, so amoral, so disgusting… Ironically, an apt description of Trump.
It occurs to me that it’s also an apt description of Joe Biden.
I know how you feel. I live on the north Oregon coast. I've been lonely for 5 years. I try when there is an opportunity to be a moderate voice of reason. For the most part I would say no one is listening, they are locked in group think.
Yet another insightful offering, Sasha. You nailed it. Nobody - well, nobody except those who can capitalize on it - wants anyone to be shot. But it came at the perfect time to deflect attention from the massive Somali fraud scandal, so Dem politicians and their media handmaids will keep harping on it.
The Trump admin will not allow another summer (or winter) of mostly peaceful protests. Trump has already set the stage with an EO back in April of 2025, to use the Insurrection Act to bring both idiot state/local Pols like Walz and beta Frey to bay, but to curtail the craziness that happened in 2020. The Dems I think, will be FO fairly soon.
Correct, Trump has been setting the stage understanding that the need to unleash the insurrection act would inevitably come. Legally getting all ducks in a row. Sanctuary states & cities are clearly out of control. The only way to remove illegals, especially violent ones is by finding them & sending them back. The Biden administration created a country in chaos by orchestrating & allowing the invasion of illegals- knowingly bringing in violent offenders to boot. Trump is stopping the NGO grift needed to bring in this dem voting bloc, they won’t go down easy seeing the money & power slipping away.