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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Well put, Michael, as you always do.

I am getting tired of writing this today...but here goes: The reasons underlying the French Revolution are becoming increasingly clear and increasingly attractive.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

We must move to disarm ICE. There is no logical reason for them to be armed. They are not ever shot at and if they were they should stop what they are doing and call the FBI, DEA, ATF or state and local police to take care of it. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/disarm-ice?r=3m1bs

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Cheryl Salvati's avatar

Carl, that is logic speaking. This regime is not logical. Trump is building his personal Gestapo. They terrorize the citizenry, make us fearful, get us to back off, and then Trump will employ them to intimidate at the voting booth in November, use them when he claims martial law in some trumped-up excuse. This is a dictatorship build-up. Step by Step, inch by inch... I can hear Abbott and Costello in my head.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Think midterms

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Cyn B's avatar

WE are paying their salaries. WE are paying them to stalk us...kill us. WE MUST push our useless Congress to defund these thugs NOW. Because Americans will start fighting back and not just with signs while congress sits on their hill and clutches their pearls.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You Democrat supporters said little to nothing about ICE prior to Trump. You're ignorant and propagandized hypocrites who happily support imperialism and fascism when a Democrat is the one selling it to you.

Well disciplined leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's, the TQIA+, etc.

The fact of the matter is that getting rid of Trump and voting in democrats won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before Trump, nor was the United States a democracy before him, either. This is the harsh reality of it all, which is that the United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic. Moreover, in a 2014 Princeton Study, it showed that public opinion has a “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. Furthermore, it's important to note that the constitution isn't designed to serve the people as a whole. 📕 Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz. The thing is, liberalism, which you support goes hand in hand with Fascism which you claim to oppose, but you don't. You Democrat supporters are poorly informed and propagandized on many a topic. Unlike you liberals, I have factual and educational material. Moreover, because you haven't developed the skill of critical media literacy, you always seem to assume that those who are reporting factual and educational material are they themselves lying because you simply don't know any better. Only focusing on the terrible things the Republican Party is doing and ignoring what the Democrats do makes you not all that different than the Trump cult. Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. While you're there, educate yourself on other topics as well. Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

■ Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

■ Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

■ Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

■ A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

■ No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

■ A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

■ Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter

https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

■ Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

■ The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

■ Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

■ Marxism and the Bourgeois Left

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

In terms of the United States. We must never salute and show respect towards the American flag. The United States was founded on genocide and built with slavery, with the United States empire responsible for countless deaths. The American flag is soaked in blood. The only time to smile when in the presence of the flag is when it's on fire or being torn to shreds. When it comes to holidays like Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, that they are not worth celebrating as they are about brainwashing people that the United States is a great country and reinforcing that lie for those who already believe it. These holidays, I would argue, are primarily about selling and reinforcing the lie that service to the United States military industrial complex somehow made the country and that of the world a better place. After you take the time to learn about the history of the United States and its actions, you'll hopefully come to the same conclusion that I have, which is that there is NOTHING honorable about choosing to be a pawn for the military industrial complex in service to the bourgeoisie, or capitalists if you prefer. The fact of the matter is that the United States bullies and terrorizes the rest of the world as it refuses to take care of its own citizens, because of this I can't help but look at the United States' flag in disgust. The ONLY time when it was acceptable to support the troops and that of the military was during WW2. That's it. But even then, the United States didn't win the war. The Soviet Union did. The United States just swooped in at the last minute to do some minor cleanup and took all the credit. Almost immediately after the dust settled, the bourgeoisie wasted no time in stabbing the Soviet Union in the back by spreading anti-communist propaganda to get the public to fear and hate everything that gave power and any resemblance of freedom and prosperity to the proletariat. Now, if you know someone who has "served" and was injured or killed. Don't get mad at me for speaking truth to power. Direct your anger towards the United States government for sending them off to die in a pointless war, conflict, or military operation that the United States instigated. Let me be absolutely clear. Although I disagree with Veterans and military personnel, in general, for their choice to be a willing pawn for the military industrial complex who I feel are undeserving of an honor, that does not mean I hate them. Unless they were participants in war crimes and are proud of slaughtering people, whether directly or indirectly, that's a different story. People who are proud of killing others who wish they could do it over and over again, those are sick and twisted individuals. That caveat aside, I believe everyone deserves to have their needs met with a government that actually cares about the well-being of people both here and abroad. In conclusion, the underlying reason for all these wars and conflicts is that the United States needs oil to back up the petro dollar. Without the dollars influence and buying power, the United States loses most, if not all, of its hegemony and economic stranglehold over others. So, basically, the problem is that of capitalism. With that said, though, by no means does that mean other countries are innocent in their foreign affairs, but the United States is by far the worst. It's not even a contest.

■ Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases

https://worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires/

■ Companies associated with the military industrial complex

https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

■ The Myth of Western Civilization Exposed

https://youtu.be/OtJcXrpVZsA

■ Mapping US Imperialism https://www.globalresearch.ca/mapping-us-imperialism/5782752

■ US Spreads Misery across the globe

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/02/u-s-spreads-misery-across-the-globe-by-imposing-sanctions-on-a-third-of-humanity/

■ US sanctions kill 500k+ a year

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900189-5/fulltext

■ An estimation on the Death Toll of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/rIB4e8AfPcM

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Dawn Cali's avatar

Angry Prole, so you are still generalizing and stereotyping again!

Notice that you get very few reactions from others. I would suspect that most people ignore you now?

Maybe the writing is a therapy of sorts for you?

Might want to make some changes in your presentation?

Americans deserve better.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Yes, he definitely is. Gets so defensive and hurt when anyone criticizes his one and only god.

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Dawn Cali's avatar

Jean, I do believe that change is always possible.

Doesn't always happen. But hopeful. Always hopeful.

We are in a sound bite world and often people don't realize that.

People will just scroll past.

Have a nice nite!

Americans deserve better.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Thanks for your reply and optimism! And yes, America (all of us) do deserve better--a LOT better.........

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ramona j's avatar

Also claims

it is childish to blame Shitzenpantz for everything. AS IT blames the Dems i. The same fashion. Idiot

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Jean Conley's avatar

Oh angry pole. No wonder you have angry in your name. Just like all the other republiCRAPS--especially the Dictator in the Oval Office--always angry. Poor baby.

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Irene Finn's avatar

You want to guzzle that Kool aid- go right ahead. The Democrats may not be perfect, but they are eons above this administration. It's a joke to call liberalism "fascism". One need only to take a look at the current gop. The gop is off the rails and bringing the USA down in all aspects and is doing what your post claims to be against. It isn't just the "radical left" that opposes what Trump is doing. Any decent person with an ounce of wisdom, kindness and humanity would. Our country has come a long way in 250 years, and made many mistakes along the way. The USA is still one of the best to live in in this world. You can move if you think there's something better.

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Janice's avatar

Leave ur hate at home! We are all Americans who have been pitted against each other on purpose!

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1Minute4Earth's avatar

Ms Good’s face with words describing her as an American Hero should be PLASTERED all over the country! She stood up to the goons - unarmed except for the love in her heart and the decency in her soul - and paid the ultimate price. Let HER be thanked and shown “a debt of gratitude” by all Americans who still have love and decency as their guiding light.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

And let's figure out ways to support all those American who will have love and decency as their guiding light. Somehow we need to let them know they are not the fools that the GOP tells them they are because of their kindness and compassion. I'd love ideas on how we can do that.

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ramona j's avatar

Even if we hand delivered solutions to them , they would still prefer the orange Kool aid. If they are serious they just need to say so themselves. There are some people ready to accept them back. Trust is a hard thing to recover. I haven't gotten there yet

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Nancy Booth's avatar

Apparently I’ve lost the context of your comment. Who are the “them” that some people are ready to accept back? And if they’re serious, serious about what?

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ramona j's avatar

They (them) are trump supporters.

Some on the side of resisting him, are willing to forgive those who sided with him and now want no part of it.

I don't trust them.

If they want us to believe them and admit they were duped. Its not gonna be easy to convince everyone.

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Nancy Booth's avatar

Thanks, I understand now and I totally agree with you!

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ramona j's avatar

No problem Nancy. 😊

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Candy cole's avatar

That won't do much for her 6 year old son.

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GhostoftheWhiteRose's avatar

Do you think it's better that he remember the LIES of this administration about his mother? Sadly, she is dead and nothing is going to change that.

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Candy cole's avatar

No, sorry my comment didnt mean that. I meant his mom being there with him, help with his schooling and future, Money she could have provided for college. Etc. I should have been more clear.

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Linda Myers's avatar

There should have been immediate action against ICE.

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Cheryl Salvati's avatar

What part of a Dick tator ship do you not understand.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

“Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!”

“Waiting for Godot” (1952) by Samuel Beckett https://tinyurl.com/57ekxdm4

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Mike Hammer's avatar

This feels different. We are now considered terrorists. Let’s not be subjugated.

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Betsy Shepardson's avatar

don't forget we're PAID protestors these days according to the Dictator in Chief. that's the piece I am stuck on today. Ms. Good's death and mourning was yesterday, but I can't forget that Trump called her a "paid agitator". Wholly untrue. He uses this phraseology frequently while trying to pigeonhole anyone who stands against the Regime.

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Kelvin Hobbs's avatar

Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.” ~ Moderata Fonte

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Jill Fuentes's avatar

Is this the moment that America finally says that enough is enough? With love from a Brit in Spain.

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Lynne D. Feldman's avatar

I keep waiting for the Tiger to wake up but I don't see it yet with the legacy media dead, gone, metastasized, infected by a terminal virus of MAGA propaganda.

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The Sweet Stack's avatar

Until the next damn news cycle. Seems like our nation is getting desensitized to it. The night before I was arguing against the dehumanization of it all. This happens and crickets.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

No. I don't know what it will take. Trump was right when he said he could shoot an innocent person in broad daylight on 5th Avenue and his supporters would still support him. This murder proves it.

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ramona j's avatar

Sad but true. I don't have any answers anymore. How inhumane actions became cool is just not something I can comprehend.

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Cheryl Salvati's avatar

Unsure. too many brainwashed citizens are praising this insanity.

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Leslie R.'s avatar

I refuse to believe that it is “too late“. I may not live to see democracy reinstated, but I will die having done what I can do to make that happen. That is my pledge. OK.

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Candy cole's avatar

Good luck to you, Leslie. I hope you aren't wasting your time. Keep the faith as a lot of us are losing it.

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Leslie R.'s avatar

Candy, please join me in whatever small way works for you. A prayer. Send a like sometimes. Send a message to me and I will do something in your name like… put together 10 packets of whistles to help people protect themselves from ICE. It’s not hard and it would be a pleasure to do it for You 🙏🤗🙏 Most importantly, take care of yourself ❣️

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Cortster's avatar

Wow. You’ve captured the pain of sane Americans in this profound, poetic piece. Thank you. 🙏

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Gail Coleman's avatar

This really IS a poetic piece of writing. It touched my heart, for sure.

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Suzy Fraser's avatar

Mine, too.

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Jeanne's avatar

Spot on post Michael. Brought tears to my eyes thinking about how reckless and out of control this regime is and how far we have sunk into this black hole that used to be our country. ICE and dress up Barbie need to be held accountable for murdering an innocent person. Keep up the great work, Michael, we depend on you. 💙

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Dot Dot Dot •••'s avatar

Her six-year-old son is an orphan now. I'm only a few hours away. It's really scary, but I've been trying to warn people. Treating humans inhumanly will reflect poorly on all of us.

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SophieM's avatar

I've read she was the mother of three children.

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Dot Dot Dot •••'s avatar

I read from the Minnesota Star Tribune that (from the deceased husband's father) she had been married to a man who passed away. One of her children has no parents now. The other children are with extended family.

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SophieM's avatar

So incredibly sad.

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Candy cole's avatar

Two are with their father and they're older children.

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SophieM's avatar

Thanks, I didn't know that.

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Karen Marks's avatar

Ms. Good leaves THREE MOTHERLESS BEHIND NOW!!! 😡😭

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Tony B's avatar

A King only stays in power as long as his subjects are afraid of conflict. Now is the time to rise up. Confront the goons, the murderers, the Nazi's, people like Trump and Vance, and Noem. Call them what they are. Accomplices to murderer. Full Stop.

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SGJones's avatar

I think the only thing that can save America now is a Military Coup…so from within the Pentagon disappear Hegseth…Mr. Fucking Lethality FIRST…then coordinate the Invasion of the White House and then Round up NOEM (NO-EMpathy) BONDI, PATEL, MILLER, VOUGHT and IntolerVANCE…escort them to Alligator Alcatraz and chum the base of every Cypress Tree leading to the entrance…all this while the Drumpf is handcuffed to the Resolute Desk to welcome the MOB…ie all those he screwed financially through his corrupt life…END OF AMERICA’s WORST CHAPTER…NASTROVIA…PLANET SAVED!!!

Canada provides much gratitude…as we become friends AGAIN !!

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Heather Hay Charron 🇨🇦's avatar

Did I miss something? Has this shooter not been arrested since, according to eyewitnesses and recordings, he took deliberate aim and fired? What am I missing? A person wearing a mask and body armour killed a woman and hasn’t been taken into custody?

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Edith Brideau's avatar

You missed the part where everyone in the government lies about what happened and blames the victim. You know, the regular "don't believe what your eyes see and what your ear hear. Believe only the state."

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Susan Raquel's avatar

There was mention in one report that there were people, I don't know how many, who took videos from different angles. Those need to be looked at also.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

"One video taken by a man at the scene and provided to CBS Minnesota shows the woman in a maroon Honda Pilot SUV blocking the street with her car. An ICE agent walks behind the car and circles around to the passenger side of the vehicle.

In another angle, she can be seen apparently attempting to wave someone to go around her before two agents then park their silver pickup truck and get out, walking towards the Honda's driver-side door.

In that video, one of the officers from the pickup truck can be heard telling the woman to "get out of the f****** car" as he approaches. He reaches for the Honda's door handle and the car starts moving in reverse. As the Honda is reversing, another agent moves in front of the vehicle from the opposite side. The Honda then starts to move forward, and the agent in front of the vehicle draws his weapon and fires into the Honda.

That agent then moves to the side of the car, although it's unclear if he was hit or not, and fires two more shots as the car continues moving forward.

The videos show the SUV driving off a bit further before crashing into another car down the street.

Multiple witnesses reaffirmed what was seen in the videos and told CBS Minnesota that whistles had sounded to alert neighbors of ICE's presence at about 9:30 a.m."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-we-know-about-fatal-ice-shooting-minneapolis/

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Candy cole's avatar

That video shows the first shot went through the extreme left of the driver's windshield, and the second and third shots were shot into her driver's window area where the window was down. In this part of the video you can see jonathan ross's feet on the left side of the car. The video also shows her car picking up speed and not stopping until it hit another car and a pole further down the street. It also shows Jonathan Ross walking down the street toward her car showing no injury at all.

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Dilys Burke's avatar

They are blocking characterizing her as a left wing mobster and sticking to their guns about this being an act of defense. Oh, and blocking an investigation. He's ICE...they'll never arrest him.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

and how stupid and untrained would someone be to stand in front of a vehicle in the first place. If she intended him harm he never would have had the time to get his weapon unholstered and shoot her. Further, how come if he was in front of the car did he shoot 3x and miss the windshield twice? We will have to see what the forensic autopsy shows re the trajectory of the bullet.

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Candy cole's avatar

2 shots were through her side window which was down. Yes, that means he was on the side of the car for the last 2 shots. The pathologist should give trump, Vance, noem and maga that great news which will prove he is a cold blooded murderer.

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Heather Hay Charron 🇨🇦's avatar

He can be arrested by Minneapolis police no matter who he is. Doesn’t look to me like the mayor would have a problem with that and yet… nothing.

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ramona j's avatar

I think the FBI took over the whole damn investigation.? That means Patel.

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ramona j's avatar

Thank you for this Susan. It is the only way to see this. They are murdering our own. The regime is out of control. This is disgusting. It needs to stop.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

So far, from the sounds of it, the only way that officer will be held to account is if the State does their own investigation, etc.

All across the USA and the free world people are angry and upset; but, I don't think we can match the hurt and anguish of the people in MN.

I sometimes wonder if the purpose of all of this is to make us more and more distrustful of our government. Another way to try to break our spirit.

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ramona j's avatar

He is looking for a reason to declare martial law. If anybody gives a crap they will get ahead of that. I have no clue who that is. Or if it will EVER happen.

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Michael Nix's avatar

The escalation of violence is exactly what Trump and company are counting on to justify their plan to invoke martial law and further reduce the power of opposition.

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Robin Barfoot's avatar

I fear you are right. Any excuse to stop the mid terms from happening....

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Michael Nix's avatar

I share that exact fear.

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Rickey L Young's avatar

A beacon of hope emerges as we call for the Minnesota tragedy to be thoroughly examined by an impartial law enforcement agency, ensuring transparency and quelling doubts of concealment.

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Kelly Bloomingdale's avatar

This one snuck up on me in the middle of the night. I’ve had MANY in this past almost year, but this one hit me the hardest. Was up for hours. 😢

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Joanne Gatsis's avatar

Me too! I tossed and turned all night last night. I can't shake this! 😢

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ramona j's avatar

She is my daughters age. So yeah. Didn't sleep . A big FUXK YOU to all the haters declaring their support for ICE.

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Joanne Gatsis's avatar

I'm still upset over this. I fear they will continue killing us as the regime has basically given them the greenlight to shoot us. You can say it, I don't mind, FUCK YOU to the regime and to ALL the haters who support this regime and the gestapo! We have to call them as they are, they are not ICE! They are GESTAPO!

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Nancy Berger's avatar

Thank you for expressing the horror and grief that so many of us share. I wonder how many hearts have to break yet one more time before we rid ourselves of all of the cruel and despicable people taking down our country

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Ralph Calabretta's avatar

As a Canadian that came to your country for years to visit relatives and for the last 7 winters being snowbirds in Florida, we have decided that we will not be crossing the border until this administration is PURGED. I feel so bad and sorry for the nice people of the USA. Never in my wildest dreams, I would have expected this from one of the so called leaders of the free world.

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Robin Barfoot's avatar

Thank you for supporting those of us who would like to see the trump regime fail. You support us by boycotting the US. I'm a Michigander and love Canada and Canadians. I'm so jealous you have sane leadership.

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