I Blame Democrats Entirely For This
This is what they wanted, worked for, funded, convinced someone to do
I choose the evidence my eyeballs deliver. The bullet hole is in the front, perpendicular to the windshield, because the shooter was in front of the vehicle when he fired this shot. Bullets do not turn 90 degrees in flight. My conclusion, based on physics, is consistent with video of the shooting in which the officer is clearly standing in front of the vehicle as the driver attempts to defy lawful orders from a second officer who is standing at the driver’s window. That video clearly shows the vehicle striking the shooter.
The driver was reportedly being stopped for a justified search because she had repeatedly used her vehicle to block ICE agents, and in fact her SUV was positioned to block them again when she was instructed to stop. Rerun this scenario again and again under normal conditions, with a variety of armed American law enforcement agencies, and the driver will be shot close to 95 percent of the time. Drivers who attempt to use their vehicles against federal officers this way can, and regularly do, receive up to 20 years in prison for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. This form of obstruction has been particularly common against ICE, with scores of such incidents, including one that involved the same officer.
These are facts, though. Other people, primarily Democrats, have reacted to the event with their feelings. It is clear that they have watched the video with their feelings, for they make pronouncements about clear images that are objectively false, presenting interpretations of objects in motion with assumptions about human reaction-time that are at odds with reality, and false ideas of what law enforcement training entails. They are projecting their own fantasy of power on the man pulling the trigger. They are doing it because they are amazed that they do not actually have the ‘right’ to do what Good was doing.
This is not a new form of cognitive dissonance, either. The same people who see a “murder” on video today also saw a perfectly fair sports competition when Lia Thomas was swimming with the girls. They saw him on the trophy stand, and saw it as good, because they felt good about it.
These very arbiters of media morality watched American cities burn on TV and declared it peaceful because they felt morally righteous about making racism great again. It felt good to denounce racism and be anti-racist and do racism all at once. George Floyd was moral permission to be horrible and ICE Floyd is the same. The demonstrators are not the good guys in this scenario.
Note that progressive liberal souls are studiously not watching the regime in Iran teeter, right now, because the evil orange man might get credit for that downfall, if it happens, and ‘evil orange man bad’ sums up their entire moral calculus, at the end of the day. Feelings determine what our progressive cultural elites call factual, right now. Feelings, not any facts, are what drive the mad mob behavior in Minnesota today. I for one have had enough. If the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis is excused for foul language, then I will accept the same excuse for myself.
Dear Democrats: Fuck your feelings. You will not get away with making another Daniel Penny out of this man. I will go with the facts that my eyeballs detect, just like I did with Lia Thomas and Wuhan flu and Hunter’s laptop and thousands of excess Black-on-Black murders and everything else I was supposed to ignore in order to have utter hypocrites consider me a “good person”.
On Tuesday, Democratic electeds were waving the J6 bloody shirt around, once again praising Officer Michael Byrd for shooting Ashli Babbitt, who should not have been there and deserved what she got, according to these selfsame Democrats now losing their minds about Renee Nicole Good, martyr of democracy.
Ms. Good came to Minnesota from out of state to mess around in exactly the way that Kyle Rittenhouse was falsely accused of doing. Democrats lied in unison yesterday to claim that Good was a “legal observer” when she was not observing, as if being an “observer” was some sort of special category of exempt person. The outraged universally pretend that Good was not blocking ICE or creating a dangerous situation. Media outlets are participating in this fraud, though notably CBS is doing stellar work.
They are all utter moral frauds, every last one of these politicians and activist-media types. The reason you can be 100 percent sure they are frauds is the demand for instant justice. They want the shooting officer arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned right away, so they can railroad him like Derek Chauvin. Justice be damned, because “justice” is a feeling, for them. “Justice” is hurting their enemies.
What we see in the streets of Minnesota right now is a lynch mob operating on pure hate, the very thing they accuse their enemies of being. It is a collectivist tantrum. A highly-coordinated mob feels that ICE is guilty of murder. They have already decided the true motive of the officer is pure, unadulterated evil. Because the driver was white, they cannot impugn racism, so they default to the next available oppression narrative: Nazis!
Democrats have spent a year whipping feelings into a frenzy against ICE, denouncing them as literal goose-stepping fascists, and this is just more of the same Radio Rwanda routine. Provocations are taking place all over Minneapolis today as the mob responds to these signals from their partisan leadership. Democrats want this. They want blood. They want chaos.
Lies now feel true to the conditioned progressive leftist, whereas the physical, material truth of a gunshot through the windshield is meaningless to such people, for they cannot feel the evidence before their eyes. Ms. Good could not feel how wrong she was until she felt the bullet. Democrats would apparently like more people to be as dumb as they pretend to be.
The mob sees a spinning tire and concludes the officer should have been psychic, so that he could know what Renee Good had in mind with her 3,000-lb vehicle as it began to move. He should have felt her intentions. He was not empathic, though, because he is a literal evil Nazi. See how that works?
Spare me your feelings about the second and third shots. Officers are trained to shoot until the target stops moving. Dishonest hacks pretend this is not true, but it is true, even if you don’t feel like it should be true.
Minnesota Democrats felt good about all the mass immigration and flattered themselves as good, welcoming people, “Minnesota nice”. Fraud? Why that’s just white supremacy talking. Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, surely felt good about all the campaign cash he received from the Somali fraudsters. They even told Minnesota AG Keith Ellison they considered Frey to be their bitch.
Now Frey wants to whip up the feelings of the mob against ICE agents so there will be more violence and more crisis to cover up his basic bitch behavior. Frey is fomenting insurrection, as he has been for months, as he did with George Floyd, because he feels that his job is protecting his political patrons rather than protecting the public from criminals, or criminal aliens, or their massive fraud schemes.
Democrats are traipsing down a bloody path because they feel both threatened and righteous. There is no more dangerous feeling on earth than self-righteousness in response to threat. It makes people do stupid things that get them killed, that get other people killed. The death of Renee Good is entirely on Democrats, today. They bear 100 percent of the responsibility. The officer was doing his job and reacted according to his training, in the moment.
People who see things that don’t exist, and deny the evidence of their own eyes, because they feel the truth, are called fanatics. People who intentionally mislead and manipulate those people in large groups are called demagogues, and they are the most dangerous people on earth.
Misled by her political leadership, Renee Nicole Good was suicidally stupid and fanatically committed to the point of ‘suicide by cop’. She was using her vehicle to confront armed ICE agents. Everyone who thinks this was a perfectly normal, legal, and morally righteous act is upset today that the truth turns out to be opposite, that the judgment is final, and there will be no appeal. Thus the appeal to the mob, and the politics of fanatical feelings.
I for one reject this attempted repeat of recent history. This time, I am not going to be fooled by frauds and misled by media. This time, the truth is available, and there is no social media silencing. This time, feelings will not steamroller objective facts and there will be no show-trial. There will instead be resistance to the #resistance, this time. Minnesota Democrats want to become a rogue state, but this is the United States, where laws apply even to the most self-righteous among us.
Good uprooted her family to Canada after Trump was re-elected, then moved her family back, evidence she was Trump-deranged. It is tragic that her children lost their mother. Despite what Democrats would have you believe today, though, our poetry and the contents of our glove compartments do not confer special victim status on us if we choose to play stupid games with armed federal agents and win stupid prizes.
A few more key facts:
Antifa tactics include false claims (“I’m a doctor/journalist”) to confuse and distract law enforcement. Anyone who declares that they want to check the pulse of someone with gunshot wounds is already telling you they don’t know how to deal with gunshot wounds. Video of someone doing this very thing at the scene is not proof of foul play or evidence of malicious intent on the part of law enforcement. It is instead potential evidence of an attempt to tamper with evidence.
No one delayed any ambulance except Good, who caused the entire traffic snarl on her own. Hard as this pill may be to swallow, people are in the end responsible for the consequences of their own actions.
Minneapolis police have no jurisdiction over a federal investigation, nor power to prosecute a federal official, thanks to a Supreme Court precedent that has stood since 1890, so this talking point is pure propaganda. When it comes from the local police department, it is evidence that the rot runs deep in Minneapolis. Tim Walz also lacks the power to pit the National Guard against a federal agency. If they will lie about things that are this basic, is there anything they will not lie to you about?
“A senior DHS official tells CBS News that the ICE immigration agent who opened fire yesterday is based in Minneapolis and has over 10 years experience. He is a member of the ICE ERO Special Response Team (SRT) — a specially trained tactical unit within ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations.” He was not the untrained thug being portrayed by Democrats.
Good’s mother was not at the scene. Her living ex-husband was not at the scene. The opinions of people who were not actually at the scene regarding Good’s intentions in that moment are not worth consideration, because they would have no way of knowing. Good’s wife was at the scene, having exited the vehicle to record the event, and she exclaimed in the immediate aftermath that Good had intentionally interfered with ICE (look up “excited utterance” in your legal dictionary). This is as close as we will ever get to knowing what was in Good’s mind.
The woke elementary school where Good took her children sounds like the People’s Temple. Good was a social justice “warrior” and a trained activist in a movement that encouraged the current 3,200 percent spike in vehicular violence against federal officials. “ICE Watch” is a crime ring that needs to be rolled up and prosecuted before more idiots hurt themselves.
Speaking of crime rings: the “Quality Learing Center” actually closed on Tuesday. A state official had embarrassed herself by claiming the business was already closed, only to have the owners attempt to fake their business being open an hour later. Now the owner is “unable to reopen without reapplying for a license”. This was ground zero for the massive fraud scandal that has overtaken Minnesota Democrats and brought the DHS crackdown on the Twin Cities in the first place.
They were caught red-handed. They screamed racism and it didn’t work. Minnesota DFL are happy to have blood on their hands, now, so they can point the finger and scream bloody murder. I refuse to reward them by becoming distracted.
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