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Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:11 PM Thursday

'One People, Realm, Leader: But Don't Call Them Nazis'

The atrocities and the fury mount. Astoundingly, after a murderous thug shot a mother of three in the face in broad daylight - “He didn’t kill her because he was scared, he killed her because she wasn’t” - state terror has ramped up with more lies, goons, attacks on “gangs of wine moms,” brutish agitprop literally echoing the Nazis’. So when mini-Bovino went to take a leak at a store, the people’s wrath, a bittersweet splendor, erupted. Their/our edict: “Get the fuck out.”

For now, Trump’s America keeps getting scarier and uglier. He’s threatened to (illegally) withdraw the US from the world’s most vital climate treaty and 65 other agencies doing useful work. He’s trashing a once-thriving economy because he doesn’t know how it works, scapegoating longtime Fed chair Jerome Powell, who’s (startlingly) fighting back, flipping off autoworkers, admiring non-existent ballrooms. After (illegally) killing over 100 Venezuelans and abducting their president - Chris Hedges: “Empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war” - he called oil executives to a dementia-ridden meeting where in a reality check one brave skeptic argued Venezuela is historically “uninvestable.” He ordered invasion plans for Greenland - wait what - that joint chiefs are resisting as “crazy and illegal”: “It’s like dealing with a five-year-old.” And in a supreme irony overload, he’s menacing U.S. protesters while warning Iran’s killers of protesters they’ll “pay a big price” and urging Iran’s people to “take over your institutions.” We can’t even.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, he’s sending yet more thugs, persisting in calling Renée Good “a professional agitator” - Professional Agitators ‘R Us! - and warning a besieged, traumatized community, “THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!” Up is down and MAGA minions dutifully follow suit. Tom Homan: “We’ve got to stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It’s ridiculous. It’s just gonna infuriate people more.” Newsmax and GOP Rep. Pete Sessions agree: Dems have to quiet their “rhetoric,” cease “honking of horns,” and stop “putting an iPhone on your face.” “STOP THE MADNESS,” shrieks David Marcus on Fox, blasting “organized gangs of wine moms” across the country - Wine Moms ‘R Us! - using Antifa tactics to “harass and impede” ICE: “It’s not civil disobedience. It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.” Here, Renée Good was “a trained member” of groups “executing missions that put law enforcement and the public in harm’s way,” probably all part of “criminal conspiracies.”

To support the insane narrative that the brazen murder of a mother of three in her car in public constitutes “an attack on our brave law enforcement,” DHS released crude, “pathological,” Goebbels-worthy propaganda that repeats the first day’s lies and includes footage of when Good “weaponized her vehicle” by “speeding across the road” while failing to mention it was when “she had just been shot in the fucking face and her dead foot hit the pedal.” No wonder the mindless carnage goes on. A thug leers to a cuffed protester she should’ve “learned her lesson,” she asks what lesson, he snarls, “Why we killed that fucking bitch.” And gangs of goons rampage door-to-door, barging into households of kids with guns and tasers ready. One brave, calm woman records it all, demands a warrant, barks get your hands off me, mocks how big and bad they are flashing a light in her face and sneers that, on the street, “You’re all some pussies without that shit on your chest...Your mamas raised a bitch if you can wear that outfit proudly.”

Continued at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/further/one-people-realm-leader-but-don-t-call-them-nazis

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