Per the new normal, I'd tend to self-cancel and not harsh anyone's mellow but I'm too fucking upset over this murder, somewhat more so by the (expectedly) dishonest Big Media reporting.
But I'll compromise on the negativity and leave it for now: I'll believe the murder changes anything when I see that it changes anything to any significant degree. Which is to say a blue tsunami in November.
But!
As per one of newer rants, it's going to be far closer than it should as the national Democrats compete with Deranged Donny on maximizing their ability to alienate voters as much as possible.
The poster girl of the national party's efforts to minimize a blue tsunami is Angie Craig: Very upset now over the murder, signed off on a congressional love letter to ICE a couple of months ago. That's the face (or position) of a candidate who will serve with the D caucus in the House in the usual way eg disappointing voters so much a red tsunami will be guaranteed in 28.
Meanwhile, queries since Big Media are failing me:
Was the popo who approached Good identified as a popo? I saw at least one on the scene with a generic POLICE on his gear, but what about the one who approached?
Did he identify himself orally as a popo?
Great to see that we're so civilized that panicking when scary looking armed guys approach a car for no good let alone justifiable reason is now a capital crime.
TIA.
Anyway, my money's on this changing nothing, but time will tell.
I watched Dokoupil last night and it was clear that Tom Homan was expecting a softball interview and didn't get one, much to Dokoupil's credit. Dokoupil went so far as to say he didn't believe what Homan was telling him. I'd say Dokoupil did a much better job of covering his own ass than Homan did covering his.
Yesterday I learned the oil-industry term for Venezuelan crude is "unctuous" which the dictionary defines as "Having a pleasantly rich taste." Dokoupil reports on Venezuela: Fatuous meets Unctuous
On the CBC, the big question was whether this would hurt the price of oil derived from the Tar Sands, which (I gather by governmental decree) they must call 'Oil Sands'.
I appreciate your optimism, but more and more I suspect it's more of a Blue Rose scenario.
BTW, I don't watch tv news or read too deeply into newspaper daily reports, but I don't recall seeing a single quote from Democratic Party "leadership," or AOC or any other elected Democrat on any of the recent outrages. Am I just missing it? I think the first order of business would be ousting the Surrendercrats.
"What we saw today was a criminal... a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life," [AOC] said. "What we saw today was a manifestation of every American's worst nightmare."
Nah. Schumer urged people to reject violence in all its forms. That's pretty much it. Leadership's first concern was getting police to protect Democrats, not doing anything about the problems.
As both NYT and WAPO are paywalled and I ain't paying for their drivel. I can't check those articles. Are Schumer and Jeffries saying anything beyond their official press releases? Otherwise, who cares what NYT and WAPO print? Ya know, Schumer and Jeffries have real power and could do something substantive in the real world rather than yet another milquetoast plea for us all to just get along. But as far as I can tell, and I think they've actually expressed this, is that their plan is to just keep surrendering until things magically change.
b) those Democrats had the spines of 1960's pre-Goldwater Republicans.
Without those two things nobody would know about Central High but the alumni.
We have neither. Although their "if we control the mass media, we can control information" may have been foiled by those meddlin' kinds and their cameras and Internet and stuff.
If enough people see the raw footage not the State media version, it may get enough traction.
I've been around long enough -- through the Reagan and two Bush presidencies --to mistrust any "AHA! Surely THIS egregious atrocity will bring him down!" thinking. But murdering white ladies with small children who are fleeing does tend to break through into the zeitgeist. So I doubt it's THE thing, but it's certainly likely to be A thing.
Here's a pipe dream I haven't quite let go of yet: Democrats, promise to abolish ICE and promise there will be charges, trials, and convictions when you return to office. Drive a stake through Merrick Garland's heart.
Yes. I remember that in the same city a few years ago a Mpls cop was convicted of the homicide (I don’t remember the exact charge) of a white woman. The cop was Somali, so that might have affected the jury verdict. So there’s at least some support for this.
I was, uhmm...amused by the initial reaction of the ICEd non-shooters, who were almost falling over themselves to get outta the line of fire. I would bet real money (Trump Crypto!) none of them will ever work with that dude again.
"Say
Her
Name"
might be on my sign today at the Thursday Afternoon Tea Tipper, Sign Wavin' and Occasional Drum Corps Face Off. Also on offer:
" White Skin
No Longer
Protects You"
"Trump, Noem
Endorsed
Renee’s Murder"
I will consider additional efforts, but assume nothing.
Just two days ago, the Right was celebrating Ashli Babbit as a martyr because Babbit was shot while trying to spear a police officer with a flag pole while breaking down doors in the Capitol building as part of a riot bent on killing the vice-president and as many members of Congress as they could lay hands on. Babbit was a saint.
And this woman was trying to drive away from ICE on an otherwise empty street, so she was therefore a domestic terrorist and had to be summarily executed.
Well, no, she was shot trying to climb through a broken window into the goddamn Senate (?) chamber to accomplish who the fuck knows what but probably not calm reasoned discourse, but point taken.
"with every Prestige Press ponce sucking his ass," isn't it crazy weird that I find this somehow inspirational? I aspire to talk shit at such a high level. I really think all this crazy shit is just their acknowledgment that the pooch is unscrewable and they might as well go for the gusto while they can.
"local officials, like Mayor Frey and Congresswoman Omar, have been extremely forthright about what a con this is."
Yeah, I think this is a big step forward. None of that "This is under investigation and I will withhold comments until the investigation is completed" shit that we get from elected officials after EVERY murder-by-cop. The Minneapolis Mayor actually called their claims "bullshit." Now THAT, Democrats, is how you talk like a normal human.
Kinda bothers me that a man I've known as a con man (second rater) for 40 years still gets these people shocked! shocked! by the concept that he lied. Damn rubes.
The asshole on the right is Derrick VanOrden, the Nazi who represents western Wisconsin in the House. He’s the embodiment of every racist, xenophobic misogynist who ever chomped a cheese curd and thought, “Yeah, this is food.”
Also endorsed by the oh-so-estimable Dr. Oz during his remarks about Brainworm Bob's new food pyramid and alcohol intake non-guidelines, so what could possibly go wrong?
I think Roy's right about this getting through to more people. Minnesotans knowing they're a target, elected Dems are not being mealy-mouthed about this atrocity.
I read a number of observations about Minneapolis, and how George Floyd's execution led to an enduring level of activism that's responding to the immigration gestapo's current invasion. Locals know their history, as fascist know their mythology ("Minneapolis burning to the ground"). Among the invaders' motivations are payback for BLM, and Tubby's resentment over not getting martial law in 2020.
Following Renee Good's execution, Reichsprotektor of Blue Territories Bovino led his goons in breaching the grounds of a high school, assaulting people, handcuffing staff members, and using chemical weapons against witnesses. With pint-sized Heydrich and camera crew at large in the city, the school district canceled classes and activities for the rest of the week. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol-clash-at-roosevelt-minneapolis-schools-cancel-classes
See, this is why I fucking hate it when guys talk about "the government fearing the people", because this is what fucking happens when the State maintains a monopoly on violence. Change THAT and it might apply. Might.
It goes w/out saying that if the political polarity on this were reversed, MAGA would have fifty shrines erected to the memory of this martyr by lunchtime today. Look at what they've done with Erika Kirk. I'm not saying Dems should be as flagrantly dishonest as that, but Jesus Christ, it's all on video. They should use this event, not only to show ICE for what it is, but to openly and relentlessly indict everyone trying to smooth it over, from the prestige press to Trump to the Todd Starneses of the world.
NPR went WAAAAY out on a limb in challenging Krispy Kreme's lies: "The video appears to show..." Whoah, such daring language! It APPEARS to show, does it? A new weaselword phrase from The Department of Redundancy Department.
Guess it's gloves-off now that Tubby cut off all their federal funding.
I wish I could be this optimistic, Roy, but I fear that, as we've seen over and over again, the usual distancing will happen: She was a lezzie, she shouldn't be raising kids in a lezzie marriage, calling yourself a poet In an online bio indicates her head wasn't screwed on straight, etc. They'll have to take down Karoline Leavitt herself to really change minds.
Guess I'm just an optimist by nature, but this is 2026 and claiming a women deserved death for being a lesbian doesn't go over well even with our non-lesbian demographic.
These days, I don't think anything they say is intended for non-MAGA Americans, aka normal people. I think they've either given up on speaking to the normies, or they've gotten so far up their own asses that they've forgotten we even exist.
Somebody on Xitter said she was obviously a radical because of the stickers on her car. Turned out one was from a school sports team and the others were from national parks.
I'm with you, they're already out there touting her "weirdo" bona fides. She was apparently widowed in recent years, and they've taken to shitting on her late partner's online obit. Because Culture of Life and all that.
Per the new normal, I'd tend to self-cancel and not harsh anyone's mellow but I'm too fucking upset over this murder, somewhat more so by the (expectedly) dishonest Big Media reporting.
But I'll compromise on the negativity and leave it for now: I'll believe the murder changes anything when I see that it changes anything to any significant degree. Which is to say a blue tsunami in November.
But!
As per one of newer rants, it's going to be far closer than it should as the national Democrats compete with Deranged Donny on maximizing their ability to alienate voters as much as possible.
The poster girl of the national party's efforts to minimize a blue tsunami is Angie Craig: Very upset now over the murder, signed off on a congressional love letter to ICE a couple of months ago. That's the face (or position) of a candidate who will serve with the D caucus in the House in the usual way eg disappointing voters so much a red tsunami will be guaranteed in 28.
Meanwhile, queries since Big Media are failing me:
Was the popo who approached Good identified as a popo? I saw at least one on the scene with a generic POLICE on his gear, but what about the one who approached?
Did he identify himself orally as a popo?
Great to see that we're so civilized that panicking when scary looking armed guys approach a car for no good let alone justifiable reason is now a capital crime.
TIA.
Anyway, my money's on this changing nothing, but time will tell.
And of course YMMV.
Meanwhile, this: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son?attribution_id=sl:877c2fab-65b6-4a00-af92-54fd9b2b2a59&lang=en_US&ts=1767833630&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp17_ta&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
"You know Bari Weiss isn’t interested in the truth — but she is interested in covering her ass. "
This is why we love you Roy...
I watched Dokoupil last night and it was clear that Tom Homan was expecting a softball interview and didn't get one, much to Dokoupil's credit. Dokoupil went so far as to say he didn't believe what Homan was telling him. I'd say Dokoupil did a much better job of covering his own ass than Homan did covering his.
Thanks, I'll ask my Doctor if Dokoupil is right for me.
Side effects may include fatuous smiling, heart hardening and the complete loss of self-esteem.
"If you like what MAGA do, Dokoupil is the dope for you!"
NOTE: Has no effect on current MAGA sufferers.
Yesterday I learned the oil-industry term for Venezuelan crude is "unctuous" which the dictionary defines as "Having a pleasantly rich taste." Dokoupil reports on Venezuela: Fatuous meets Unctuous
So, "unctuous" means instead of light sweet crude, heavy sour extra crude.
Thanks for the update!
"extra crude"
Trump and Venezuelan oil were MADE for each other.
On the CBC, the big question was whether this would hurt the price of oil derived from the Tar Sands, which (I gather by governmental decree) they must call 'Oil Sands'.
'Trump Oil Sands', if you please.
What's in it for MEEEEE, eh
Not to whinge, but it's the _simultaneous_ impacted constipation and explosive diarrhœa that annoyed _me_.
Right for you or far right for you, that is the question.
…or your {'alternative' 'medicine'}-provider if it's alt-right for you.
"Eh, look it up on YouTube, who fuckin' cares any more, LOL"
!
Saw it posted somewhere and read the transcript. Bog standard doubletalking bs.
I appreciate your optimism, but more and more I suspect it's more of a Blue Rose scenario.
BTW, I don't watch tv news or read too deeply into newspaper daily reports, but I don't recall seeing a single quote from Democratic Party "leadership," or AOC or any other elected Democrat on any of the recent outrages. Am I just missing it? I think the first order of business would be ousting the Surrendercrats.
"What we saw today was a criminal... a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head while she was trying to escape and flee for her life," [AOC] said. "What we saw today was a manifestation of every American's worst nightmare."
https://abc7ny.com/amp/post/minneapolis-ice-shooting-protest-manhattans-foley-square-response-officers-killing-motorist/18369125/
Local news.
Fox News is bruiting it about, because they think it makes her look bad (to their audience it possibly does) https://www.foxnews.com/us/photos-released-renee-nicole-good-us-citizen-killed-ice-minnesota.amp
"Am I just missing it?"
Yes.
Nah. Schumer urged people to reject violence in all its forms. That's pretty much it. Leadership's first concern was getting police to protect Democrats, not doing anything about the problems.
Yes, anyone who looks to Chuck Schumer for a response is bound to be disappointed. That's why I stopped looking.
If you look really hard, you'll see a slight raising of the left eyebrow, accompanied by the dispatch of a sternly worded letter.
Hey, it's a big step from "Raising concerns" to "Raising GRAVE concerns"
Even the fucking NYT is actually pretty forthright (unless they suddenly edit this headline before you see it):
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
WAPO is pretty clear too, judging by the headline—I can’t get past the paywall to actually read the article.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis/
Clear and factual! OK it doesn't say "Video shows Krispy Kreme is a motherfucking liar" but I'll take it anyway, I'm easy like that.
I'm looking for ICE = Brown Shirts, but I always want too much.
How Drumph and Cowboy Barbie missed that detail, I do not know. Oh, who am I kiddin', these morons wouldn't get the connection
As both NYT and WAPO are paywalled and I ain't paying for their drivel. I can't check those articles. Are Schumer and Jeffries saying anything beyond their official press releases? Otherwise, who cares what NYT and WAPO print? Ya know, Schumer and Jeffries have real power and could do something substantive in the real world rather than yet another milquetoast plea for us all to just get along. But as far as I can tell, and I think they've actually expressed this, is that their plan is to just keep surrendering until things magically change.
You might have had if
a) we still had a mass media
b) those Democrats had the spines of 1960's pre-Goldwater Republicans.
Without those two things nobody would know about Central High but the alumni.
We have neither. Although their "if we control the mass media, we can control information" may have been foiled by those meddlin' kinds and their cameras and Internet and stuff.
If enough people see the raw footage not the State media version, it may get enough traction.
So who controls the present controls the truth?
Hm, someone should write a book on that theme.
"What is truth?"
- Pompous Pilot Drumph, just before he washed his hands.
I'm fucking speechless, and that doesn't happen often. I mean, even Ted Bundy got due process.
Stick a fork in America, we're done.
sorry, all I got left is this organically raised bamboo spoon.
Wasn't ICE created to protect White Wimminz?
Oof, and yeah.
Well, every racist enterprise needs race traitors
Don't forget the pronouns! She was a traitor to her gender too!
We're all Trad Wives now...
Damn that's good. Brava!
I've been around long enough -- through the Reagan and two Bush presidencies --to mistrust any "AHA! Surely THIS egregious atrocity will bring him down!" thinking. But murdering white ladies with small children who are fleeing does tend to break through into the zeitgeist. So I doubt it's THE thing, but it's certainly likely to be A thing.
Here's a pipe dream I haven't quite let go of yet: Democrats, promise to abolish ICE and promise there will be charges, trials, and convictions when you return to office. Drive a stake through Merrick Garland's heart.
Yes. I remember that in the same city a few years ago a Mpls cop was convicted of the homicide (I don’t remember the exact charge) of a white woman. The cop was Somali, so that might have affected the jury verdict. So there’s at least some support for this.
I was, uhmm...amused by the initial reaction of the ICEd non-shooters, who were almost falling over themselves to get outta the line of fire. I would bet real money (Trump Crypto!) none of them will ever work with that dude again.
"Say
Her
Name"
might be on my sign today at the Thursday Afternoon Tea Tipper, Sign Wavin' and Occasional Drum Corps Face Off. Also on offer:
" White Skin
No Longer
Protects You"
"Trump, Noem
Endorsed
Renee’s Murder"
I will consider additional efforts, but assume nothing.
Just so I'm sure I'm getting things correct here:
Just two days ago, the Right was celebrating Ashli Babbit as a martyr because Babbit was shot while trying to spear a police officer with a flag pole while breaking down doors in the Capitol building as part of a riot bent on killing the vice-president and as many members of Congress as they could lay hands on. Babbit was a saint.
And this woman was trying to drive away from ICE on an otherwise empty street, so she was therefore a domestic terrorist and had to be summarily executed.
Yep.
There you go again, providing rationalizations...
Well, no, she was shot trying to climb through a broken window into the goddamn Senate (?) chamber to accomplish who the fuck knows what but probably not calm reasoned discourse, but point taken.
you didn't exactly calm down. me neither.
"with every Prestige Press ponce sucking his ass," isn't it crazy weird that I find this somehow inspirational? I aspire to talk shit at such a high level. I really think all this crazy shit is just their acknowledgment that the pooch is unscrewable and they might as well go for the gusto while they can.
"local officials, like Mayor Frey and Congresswoman Omar, have been extremely forthright about what a con this is."
Yeah, I think this is a big step forward. None of that "This is under investigation and I will withhold comments until the investigation is completed" shit that we get from elected officials after EVERY murder-by-cop. The Minneapolis Mayor actually called their claims "bullshit." Now THAT, Democrats, is how you talk like a normal human.
Bingo.
Kinda bothers me that a man I've known as a con man (second rater) for 40 years still gets these people shocked! shocked! by the concept that he lied. Damn rubes.
I'm especially a fan of Frey describing GOP criticism of his remarks as his having offended their "Disney Princess feelings."
This is the way.
"ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis."
I'm transferring my Zohran Mamdani crush to this guy.
https://www.facebook.com/MayorFrey/videos/ice-get-the-fuck-out-of-minneapolis/2338499639955134/
The asshole on the right is Derrick VanOrden, the Nazi who represents western Wisconsin in the House. He’s the embodiment of every racist, xenophobic misogynist who ever chomped a cheese curd and thought, “Yeah, this is food.”
Holy fuck, that IS Derrick, The Man Named After Heavy Machinery. We're just lucky we didn't get his brother Dozer.
Also noted for repeated public inappropriate behavior after alcohol consumption.
Alcohol? You mean Entitlement Juice? Seems to be the effect on powerful White men: "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM OSSIFER?"
Also endorsed by the oh-so-estimable Dr. Oz during his remarks about Brainworm Bob's new food pyramid and alcohol intake non-guidelines, so what could possibly go wrong?
Well, given that soon they're gonna roll out a "health care plan" that gives each American a pint of whiskey and a bullet to bite on...
I think Roy's right about this getting through to more people. Minnesotans knowing they're a target, elected Dems are not being mealy-mouthed about this atrocity.
I read a number of observations about Minneapolis, and how George Floyd's execution led to an enduring level of activism that's responding to the immigration gestapo's current invasion. Locals know their history, as fascist know their mythology ("Minneapolis burning to the ground"). Among the invaders' motivations are payback for BLM, and Tubby's resentment over not getting martial law in 2020.
Following Renee Good's execution, Reichsprotektor of Blue Territories Bovino led his goons in breaching the grounds of a high school, assaulting people, handcuffing staff members, and using chemical weapons against witnesses. With pint-sized Heydrich and camera crew at large in the city, the school district canceled classes and activities for the rest of the week. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol-clash-at-roosevelt-minneapolis-schools-cancel-classes
To paraphrase George W. Bush: "Is our children learning to fear the government?"
See, this is why I fucking hate it when guys talk about "the government fearing the people", because this is what fucking happens when the State maintains a monopoly on violence. Change THAT and it might apply. Might.
I always took that personally, as "YOU will fear ME"
Tubby likes 'em ignorant and traumatized.
Ghislaine will be by to pick out a few choice specimens
It goes w/out saying that if the political polarity on this were reversed, MAGA would have fifty shrines erected to the memory of this martyr by lunchtime today. Look at what they've done with Erika Kirk. I'm not saying Dems should be as flagrantly dishonest as that, but Jesus Christ, it's all on video. They should use this event, not only to show ICE for what it is, but to openly and relentlessly indict everyone trying to smooth it over, from the prestige press to Trump to the Todd Starneses of the world.
NPR went WAAAAY out on a limb in challenging Krispy Kreme's lies: "The video appears to show..." Whoah, such daring language! It APPEARS to show, does it? A new weaselword phrase from The Department of Redundancy Department.
Guess it's gloves-off now that Tubby cut off all their federal funding.
Well, one glove off.
Their reporting would APPEAR to show that.
One glove off, pinky raised.
"appears to show"
Fuck you, NPR, just look at the goddamn video and report what you see. Fuck this "objectivity" bullshit already.
Krispy Kreme just one "K" short of a Klavern
I wish I could be this optimistic, Roy, but I fear that, as we've seen over and over again, the usual distancing will happen: She was a lezzie, she shouldn't be raising kids in a lezzie marriage, calling yourself a poet In an online bio indicates her head wasn't screwed on straight, etc. They'll have to take down Karoline Leavitt herself to really change minds.
Guess I'm just an optimist by nature, but this is 2026 and claiming a women deserved death for being a lesbian doesn't go over well even with our non-lesbian demographic.
These days, I don't think anything they say is intended for non-MAGA Americans, aka normal people. I think they've either given up on speaking to the normies, or they've gotten so far up their own asses that they've forgotten we even exist.
Well, yeah. And they won’t say these things outright. It will be nudge, wink, air quotes around “wife.”
I guess that's the one thin thread that still connects them back to reality, knowing that this shit doesn't fly in polite company.
And that really pisses them off. You can't "tell it like it is" anymore.
They're reduced to telling it like it isn't, but samesame.
Everybody's afraid to talk about the radio transmitters the CIA implanted in my teeth! Goddamn political correctness!
Let the teeth speak for themselves, is all I'm sayin'...
Somebody on Xitter said she was obviously a radical because of the stickers on her car. Turned out one was from a school sports team and the others were from national parks.
NATIONAL PARKS!? You mean SOCIALIST ECO-PROPAGANDA CAMPS
I'm with you, they're already out there touting her "weirdo" bona fides. She was apparently widowed in recent years, and they've taken to shitting on her late partner's online obit. Because Culture of Life and all that.
"Guys, c'mon, surely there are depths even WE haven't yet plumbed? TRY HARDER'
An icy-hot one.