I wish to thank Ten Bears for the link to this article.   We are in a really bad time in this country driven my a dementia addled president that is driven by greed and an unhinged Nazi wannabe man who felt powerless over anyone most of his life Stephen Miller.  He has felt less than the women and men around him.   Miller has hated brown people since he was a teen and his goal is a white ethnostate.   Hugs

We’re finally on our own

By Paul Campos    On January 8, 2026 At 8:47 am In General 

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We’re finally on our own

By Paul Campos On January 8, 2026 At 8:47 am In General

The murder of Renee Good was an intentional act in several senses.

First, it was a murder in the classic legal sense, in that the ICE agent who shot and killed her was in no danger — the video clearly shows Good trying to drive away as masked armed men shout contradictory orders at her — so the use of deadly force had no justification. Of course the entire right wing is lying about this, recalling a famous quote from 1984:

The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Closely related to this is the fascist fellow traveler move of invoking some utterly phony Rashomon metaphor about “multiple perspectives” or some such dime store postmodernist bullshit. There are multiple perspectives here, but only because half the country is fascist or enablers and tolerators of the fascist movement that is Trumpism. The perspectives are the truth — Renee Good was murdered by ICE — and a lie: The fascist scum who murdered her was acting in self-defense.

But this was an intentional act in a more abstract and attenuated sense, in that Stephen Miller has created a set of circumstances in which it was inevitable that this sort of murder would happen in this way, so he could pursue his sadistic fantasies of a violent crackdown on protest against the regime (note here that Good wasn’t even protesting; she may have been observing ICE’s activities for evidentiary purposes, but even that is unclear). The local Democratic authorities are asking for calm, so that a proper investigation of the murder can take place, but of course there can be no proper investigation when any such investigation needs to take place in the shadow of a fascist federal government, that quite consciously put into place the policies and practices that would make such a murder, as well as future such murders, inevitable.

Meanwhile Donald Trump, whose brain is turning to mush in real time, is apparently serious about invading Greenland, while Denmark is promising to resist such an invasion with whatever military resources it can muster. All of this is total madness. all of this presages the descent of the nation into pure authoritarianism, and all of this is something that the leadership of the Democratic party is utterly unable to even begin to deal with, as illustrated by these remarks from senior Democratic senators about Marco Rubio and his role in the quarter-baked let’s not even bother to pretend there’s any legal defense for this coup in Venezuela:

“Although I may disagree with him on a day-to-day or hour-to-hour basis … he has shown extraordinary competence,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said in an interview. “I voted for him in this position; I still have confidence in his abilities.”

Others said they respected his particular expertise on issues in Latin America while also raising doubts about the strategy for Venezuela he is laying out in public and in private briefings — which for now involves propping up interim president Delcy Rodriguez as a de facto U.S. puppet.

“You can talk to Marco about — ‘Tell us about Delcy.’ … He knows all of that, and he can give you a sense of who they are and what they’re up to,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a former colleague on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Kaine complimented Rubio for putting a renewed focus on the Americas, while quickly adding that Trump’s self-proclaimed “Donroe doctrine” is the “wrong kind of attention.”

Compare this attitude toward the Trump administration to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s straightforward response to the federal government’s murder of Renee Good:

Ultimately, there are “multiple perspectives” on things like the murder of Renee Good and the invasion of Venezuela because half the country is fascist, or fascist-enabling. The essence of Trumpism — in all but textbook fascist movement at this point — is to both deny Renee Good was murdered and at the same time enthusiastically approve of her murder (see Holocaust denial for the classic template).

Half the country are enemies of liberal democracy, and they have to be crushed by its defenders. That the political opposition is not currently capable of this even if it should manage to win actual future elections is too obvious for words.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

Jean-Paul Sartre, “Anti-Semite and Jew”