Some trippy shit right here.
Just a week after we all hoped for better days in the new year, an ICE officer murdered a young woman in Minneapolis and, despite widely-disseminated video showing the murder, the rightwing hate machine flooded the zone with mendacious misinterpretations of what everyone with eyes could clearly see. Erick Erickson, for example, lied his fat ass off about that video and, when a fresh one taken from the murderer’s perspective surfaced, lied about that (‘the car lurches forward, hitting the officer” -- that is not on the video). Erickson also left off that the killer called Good a “fuckin’ bitch” after he shot her. What a way to make a living.
A bunch of other rightwingers like Rod Dreher are also lying about it ("this clip shows Renee Good was coming straight for the ICE agent" no it doesn't you twat). Who'd have guessed that worshippers of Donald Trump would have no respect for the truth?
Maybe even worse, in my view, are the sneakier conservatives who pretend to see the murder from BOTHSIDES. Bari Weiss’ CBS News installee Tony Dokoupil professed sympathy for the victim but also for alleged authors of “passionate notes in my inbox from people who want to see our immigration laws enforced.” By “passionate” I assume he meant filled with racial slurs.
Weiss’ own Free Press tsk-tskd over “two sharply different narratives” that “were actively pushed by politicians on both sides of the aisle,” that is, murder is bad vs. “Fuckin’ Bitch.”
Also, The Free Press says, “the videos leave room for reasonable debate about the nature of the incident and who was at fault,” which, no. These people are professional propagandists whose whole career is about telling you it’s raining when their funders piss down your leg. There is no percentage in being drawn into a bullshit Charlie Kirk “debate” in which they counter your plain facts with handwaving nonsense. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had it right when some Fox News chucklefuck told her to come on Jesse Watters’ show and she told him Watters had made gross sexist remarks about her so why should she.
Anyway I said my say about this in the first of this week’s Roy Edroso Breaks It Down editions released to the general public. If you want something a little less grim, here’s one from earlier in the week about the Fracas in Caracas -- Tubby’s way of showing everybody what a big tuff guy he is. The best you can say for the Maduro escapade is, it shows that whether the rightwing foreign adventure is headed by an allegedly intellectual think tank or a self-evidently brain-damaged old clown, the result is pretty much the same: a brief boo-yah and then years of disaster and waste.
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