In the immediate aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis last week, the Trump administration smeared her as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming that she had weaponized her vehicle. They labeled Good a “violent rioter” and insisted every new video angle proved their version of the truth: Good was a menace and the ICE agent a potential victim. That’s despite video evidence to the contrary, showing Good, by all appearances, trying to leave the scene of the altercation, while ICE agents acted aggressively. Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, spent Sunday doubling down, insisting that Good had supposedly been “breaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.”
So, on Sunday, I joined the throng in Manhattan for one of many dozens of protests held around the country this past weekend. In the middle of Fifth Avenue, surrounded by raucous, defiant New Yorkers, I asked protesters the simple question: What did you see?
“I mean, it seems like the bottomless, self-radicalizing thing that the government is going through,” said Anne Perryman, 85, a former journalist. “Is there any point when they’re actually at the bottom, and they’re not going to get any worse? I don’t think so.”
“I think there’s a small minority of Americans who are buying that,” said Kobe Amos, a 29-year-old lawyer, describing reactions to the government’s gaslighting. “It’s obviously enough to do a lot of damage. But if you look around, people are angry.”
“I saw an agent that overreacted,” he added, “and did something that was what—I think it’s murder.”
The past as well as the present, are certainly not a good time to side with the tRump terror regime.
The police are not excused for their contribution to bigotry and hate either.
The “leadership” of whatever this nation has become, need more accountability - including the senators enabling the recent tRump coup
When will there be justice? Certainly not as long as any tRrump terrorist regime spporting conspirator holds ANY office in this nation - as we have seen proof of for the last 13 years
Call the regime what it is. They’re fucking Nazis. End of story.
At least Nazis in WW2 believed in something. This administration is cruel just to be cruel.
They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and “Marxists”, and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don’t think you’ll find they’re not huge or terribly ideological.
We need to use a new word, because they’re proud of being compared to Nazis, and it’s lost its effect.
Call them commies. They hate anything related to socialism, but they’re creaming their pants at the idea of the government giving handouts to the people who “deserve” it (a.k.a. themselves) while everyone else lives like peasants during China under Mao.
I mean the thing all of those have in common is garden variety authoritarianism. Whatever the base system technically is doesn’t matter, if they’re just going to have complete control over everything. It’s all authoritarianism.