"...within minutes comment sections were filled with the sort of armchair gibberish I’ve come to expect from guys I went to high school with who still live with their Moms..."

I’m tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I’m tired of never having a buddy to be with, to tell me where we’s going to, coming from or why. Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other.

- John Coffey, The Green Mile

Murdering someone “in self defense” by shooting them in the head as they are moving away from you is an interesting take on “law and order”. Doing so while dozens of cell phone videos have you in their crosshairs is hard on that narrative….a bit like tectonic plates gnashing themselves together. But such is America, circa 2026.

The fact that half the people in my life are suggesting that what they are seeing in the various videos is not what is really in the videos is the sort of Orwellian hellscape that this administration has created. Even the most hardened MAGAs will admit that shooting somebody in the head all by itself is bad. So they must build an alternative reality around the event. So now this heroic freedom fighter about to be run over by a fully-trained Mom-terrorist (who just happens to take her dog with her on missions) reacts instinctively due to his precision training, and saves his own life and those of his men. You can almost hear the strains of Lee Greenwood in the background.

The fact that this happened one day after The White House revamped their own website to frame the January 6 insurrection as the fault of the police who were being attacked by the mob is the sort of strange symmetry that is everywhere these days if you want to look for it. I’m not suggesting that the timing of such things is intentional, merely that the relentless lawlessness of this administration is bound to draw such parallels. In short, law enforcement can shoot you in your left-wing head for driving away from them, but if somebody wearing a MAGA hat is driving a stun gun into a cop’s neck, he shall be pardoned.

The law is no longer carved in granite. It is whatever the fuck Stephen Miller says it is. It is whatever Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh cook up over beers at Scalia’s grave. It dances past the Marty Feldman eyes of Kash Patel as he’s snuggling with his girlfriend on an FBI jet.

That is not hyperbole. It is now verifiably true. As Casey Stengel said, you can look it up.

None of what happened truly surprises me. Arming overweight and undertrained frothing-at-the-mouth MAGA bros and sending them careening into blue neighborhoods wearing masks is a clear recipe for disaster….akin to arming everybody you had to forcibly remove from your bar at last call. That it took ICE this long to murder somebody on camera shocks me. That being said, there’s no telling what these goons are doing to people behind closed doors. We now have the very real possibility that the Minnesota National Guard will be called out to protect the citizens of Minneapolis from federal law enforcement agents. Trump could then check-mate and simply federalize the National Guard, in the hope that they too might start shooting woke Moms in SUVS. And all of this in an election year! My my, we may have to cancel those pesky things in the midst of such civil unrest, no?

She was a 37 year old Mother of a 6 year old. She was originally from Colorado. She lived in the neighborhood where she was murdered. She played guitar and wrote poetry. Her husband died in 2023. She was living with her new partner. Her criminal history consisted of a single traffic ticket. She was described as “extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being….”

She had dropped her son off at school that morning. He would be expecting her to pick him up.

So yea, not exactly Osama Bin Laden, eh?

Her life will surely be picked apart by Trump-driven media ghouls. In a few days the man-children at Fox will pretzel twist innuendos and have her sounding like Hayat Boumeddienne. Their playbook is as inevitable as it is predictable. It’s also stunningly effective in a nation where 7% of adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Obviously this is the sort of event that drives social media into a frenzy, and within minutes comment sections were filled with the sort of armchair gibberish I’ve come to expect from guys I went to high school with who still live with their Moms. It wasn’t just MAGAs furiously spinning, but GLEEFUL MAGAs celebrating the fact that this woman was dead. They were HAPPY about it. It made their day. They were openly hoping for MORE dead. It was the type of casual cruelty that I thought I’d gotten used to. Nearly all of them self-professed “Christians”….with bald eagle and/or Trump pics as their profile. Perhaps a bible quote or two on page one. The type of people who pray and sing loudly at church and then tell you to go fuck yourself in the parking lot.

“Why was she even THERE?”

“Well…..it’s her HOME?”

“Yea, well JOE BIDEN brah….”

It’s one thing to argue with dumb people. It’s quite another to argue with dumb people who consider cruelty a virtue. Or believe Donald Trump to be “tough”.

Whatever. I’m tired of all this. I’m tired of what this nation has become. I’m tired of this cartel of fucking gangsters. I’m tired of thugs. I’m tired of bullies. I’m tired of social media warriors with no skin in the game popping off, secure in their anonymity. I’m tired of him and all his enablers.

I feel like John Coffey in “The Green Mile”

I feel helpless. I feel hopeless. They would gladly shoot me too. And you.

And they are still hiding the Epstein files.

In a bit…

—tf