Trump's Principle, Their Village

 

There is a wonderful scene in "Dr. Zhivago" when Zhivago, captured by a partisan group led by a particularly blood thirsty partisan is brought before this fearsome man and, unexpectedly, the partisan engages him in a discussion of principles, why the partisan is fighting for the Reds against the Whites. It's all a matter of principle he tells Zhivago. 

"Oh?" Zhivago says. "I saw an example of your principle on the train ride out here: A village was burned."

"They had been selling horses to the Whites," the partisan says. "It was a matter of principle."

"Yes," Zhivago rejoins, "Your principle, their village."

Mad Dog was reminded of this at a meeting of the Select Board where the 5 member Select Board voted down a Warrant Article which would have instructed the Hampton Chief of Police to not sign a contract with ICE.

As is typical of Select Board meetings, the members of the Board listened silently as citizens speak in the "Public Comment" part of the meeting, but none of the Board ever replies to any of the concerned citizens and usually, none of them engage in any discussion with the other select Board members, lest the public, which is watching on Channel 22, should be informed of the thinking of these gods rendering decisions from Mt. Olympus. 

One of the Select Board members, Amy Hansen, who had been elected with the endorsement of the town Democratic Party, broke with this code of silence, and said she did not want to make this Select Board action "partisan," before voting against the other Democrats against supporting the warrant articles. 

"Well," replied Carleigh Beriont, a Democrat, "Due process is hardly a partisan issue." In the end only 2 of the 3 Democrats on the Board voted for the article and the 2 Republicans against, along with Amy Hansen who is now referred to in Democratic circles as a "DINO."

Less than a week later, Renee Good was shot in the face by an ICE agents in Minneapolis, a cold blooded murder, recorded from multiple angles. It was, one might say, a murder by a partisan on principle.

Mother murdered on Principle

Chris Muns had introduced the warrant articles for the Board's consideration. Chris speaks Dutch and lived with his family in the Netherlands, and he is very aware of Anne Frank, who was arrested for being an illegal immigrant, deported and killed in a concentration camp. He says he does not want to remain silent in America under current circumstances. He happens to represent Hampton in the state house of representative in Concord. 

On the ballot, below the text of the warrant article will be a line in bold letters: NOT RECOMMENDED BY THE SELECT BOARD. That's another Hampton tradition. There are 30 pages of warrant articles, and most voters know little about any of them, so they simply read the recommendations of the Select Board, or the School Board or the relevant board and vote that way. It's supposed to be Norman Rockwell civic participation in town government but, in practice, it looks more like Soviet Russian elections: Recommended by the authorities, or not.

During the Vietnam war, an American general famously replied to a reporter's question about a Hamlet which had been napalmed by his forces. The village had been giving aid to the Viet Cong, he said  and he added, "We had to destroy that village to save it."

Napalmed on Principle

That's what Trump and his toadies Hegseth, Leavitt, Noem and Miller are saying now.

The Good, The Bad, And The Truly Hideous

 

So now we have the wagons circled, and Trump and his hideous henchmen are claiming this is all about rescuing White Minnesota, where so many Scandinavian immigrants settled a century ago, being defiled by Black Somali immigrants, who are eating their neighbors' pets and maybe even thinking about inter breeding with their White neighbors.  

And we have Trump claiming he won Minnesota in both elections, which means, of course, he is invading that state because he sees Minnesota as a festering wound, knowing the election results there showed he could not win an election for dog catcher there, even among those descendants of Scandinavians. 

The blond folks have rejected him and he's going to make them pay.

When soldiers, still in uniform, returned home from Vietnam, Americans in airports shouted at them, "Kill any babies today?"

Now it's ICE hearing the chants: "Hey, Hey, ICE go away. How many mothers did you kill today?"

American soldiers were called "baby killers." Now American ICE agents are already being called, "Mommy murderers."

Now ICE men are facing the "How many mothers did you kill today?" taunts.

Even if ICE ever did anything positive or constructive, how many Americans will see them as anything other than state sanctioned mother killers?

NY TIMES VIDEO SHOWS AGENT MURDERING RENEE GOOD

 

The wonder of the 21st century and ubiquitous cell phone photography has coalesced into irrefutable evidence of ICE Agent Jonathan Ross murdering Renee Good. The online New York Times January 16, 2026 video (which Mad Dog does not have the technical expertise to import into this blog) published by the NY Times shows the agent, from various angles as he approaches Ms. Good and reaches out with his arm to fire directly at her, first through the windshield and then through the open window. 

You can scroll through, frame by frame, from different angles and see the Trump/Noem/ICE lie exposed and debunked.

Police Law & Order

It also captures the murderer's "Fucking Bitch" comment.

While we can never know for sure a person's motives, we can understand the thinking of an angry man,  the dictator of the streets, whose every command must be obeyed. We can see that once his authority is ignored, he will do anything to restore it. And we might consider his belief that Ms. Good's failure to obey his command is tantamount to insubordination, but, of course, she is not a soldier under fire who is fleeing the fight; she is a frightened woman fleeing an assault. 

Irrefutable video evidence convicted Derek Chauvin, whose own certainty that he was a street dictator whose orders must be obeyed on pain of death. The same would clearly have to happen here, if Jonathan Ross ever had to face a jury of his peers in Minneapolis. 

That is unlikely, as Trump and his cabal will do everything to whisk him away to some hidden location, and hide him as deep as the Epstein files.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Trump fears nothing more.

Phony Tough

Never did the ICE agent's torso or legs get run into by Ms. Good's SUV. He was firing his weapon,  and as he fired his legs slipped on the icy street, and his body slammed into the car which had already mostly passed by. He was not hit by the vehicle; he hit the vehicle.

It's all there for anyone with an internet connection to the NYT front page today.

The evidence is dispositive. It comes as close to showing the workings of a man's febrile mind as anything can: He was furious this impudent woman did not stop, and he was determined to exert his dominance in a homicidal way. 

A man like that should never be armed by the government. In that sense only, one might say he was innocent. You do not blame an attack dog for lunging at a citizen and attacking that innocent passerby--you blame the man who put that dog and his handler on the street where it was apparent only this result could come, given enough time.

ICE Would Not Mess with Her

Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Vance, Stephen Miller the whole hideous mob orchestrated a brew of nitroglycerin which they placed on that Minneapolis street, and then they took up the howl and blamed the victim when it exploded.

The MAGA Howl

 

Some say what we have in Trump is chaos, but Mad Dog does not see chaos. There is discernable order. Trump orders in the psychopaths he's recruited (at the cost of millions) into ICE and Border Patrol, violence ensues, because blood is their argument, and then Trump goes on Truth Social to claim it is all the fault of someone, anyone not him and his.

Trump's TRUTHS:

1/ "All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove criminals from your neighborhood." 

Oh, criminals? Like Renee Good?

2/ Joe Biden is responsible for admitting scores of "Dangerous people and criminals into Minneapolis and all ICE is doing is cleaning up his mess and because they are doing this, crime is way down in Minneapolis." 

Well, crime by the citizens of Minneapolis may be down, but crime is way up because ICE is now committing all the crimes.

3/ Crime has been suppressed in Minneapolis by ICE just the same way it was suppressed by ICE in Chicago. 

Of course, crime statistics are where you find them, but crime fell in Chicago long before ICE arrived and the new crime wave was an ICE crime wave.

4/ "FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING."

Well, that's a lot to unpack. We got a day of something big coming. Rapture is just around the corner, in a van driven by ICE. 

All this is stuff we've seen before. And, if the pattern (which is a pattern, not chaos, a modus operandi, not chaos) holds the next thing is FOXNEWS, and the rest of MAGALAND will take up the howl. And here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_EPeGz9IQ&t=130s

It's just like Zootopia, where the wolves take up the howl. They can't examine it. They can't think about it. They can't ask if it's true. The can only howl. And that's the Trump pattern. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw0c9z8EllE

The real wonder is that even a blog with as tiny a presence as Mad Dog has attracted it's very own AI wolf to take up the howl. But like the moneys of St. Louis, it's not 100% clear whether this is a human being or this is  simply AI. 

ICE Murders "F*king Bitch" Mother

 

Walking downtown today, at the corner of Lafayette and Exeter roads I spotted a group of 20 mostly elderly men and women holding up posters. Cars were honking and flashing thumbs up, and there was the occasional bearded man leaning out of the window of his pickup truck flashing the middle finger at them. They responded, "We love you, too."

They could have said, "I'm not mad at you," as Renee Good told her executioner in Minneapolis.

They held up signs saying, "Enforcement Is Now Execution," and "ICE=GESTAPO."

I stood there for about 15 minutes watching and listening, and I had never seen so many thumbs up, or heard so many supportive honks from folks in passing traffic. And I've seen dozens of such sign holdings at that intersection, which is where citizens go in Hampton to register their opinions for public consumption. It's the Hampton version of Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. That corner has hosted the local mad woman with her bullhorn, who rails about the Obama's birth certificate and Biden's laptop. There has been a guy waving a Palestinian flag, and during elections there are MAGA mob people and Democrats on alternating days.

But today, it was just citizens reacting to the murder of a mother in Minneapolis. One man in a pickup truck started shouting about Bill Clinton and spouting the cut and paste QANON stuff about leftist, elitist, DEI, replacements. 

But, then again, even a tiny blog like this attracts the cut and paste of the MAGAmob, like the AI/BOT troll, which cuts and pastes the Stormfront/WarRoom/Infowars stuff, triggered, presumably by keywords, to which the algorithm responds, but which sometimes the Mad Dog troll just spins off into totally unrelated things about Hamas butchers in Gaza, when the blog was about Marjorie Taylor Greene or  separation of church and state. The Mad Dog troll spun out the "radical leftists have seized control of the streets of Minneapolis," and of course, the ICE agents are the heroes for shooting  Renee Good, the sweet faced mother saying, "I'm not mad at you."

Those are just the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," zombies who inhabit the internet, and our town.

What I saw on Chris Hayes this morning was different, however. The tape from the ICE agent who fired his gun into the head of Renee Good, and as she turned away from him. She had just told him, smiling, "I'm not mad at you," and then the blurred jumble as he switches from camera work to shooting, and then a voice, likely the shooter: "Fucking bitch!"

Some newscasts have bleeped that out, because, you know, it's okay to show an ICE murderer shooting--that's not offensive--but those words! Collapse of all decency if the public witnesses those words. Shooting is fine. Words intolerable.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0gyLICnWQE&t=261s

It doesn't really matter who shouted that-- whether it's the murderous ICE agent who fired the shot, or one of his accomplices--it was certainly not from some innocent bystander. "Fucking bitch" is how these masked vigilantes, these agents of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem saw her. 

Jeff Bennet ("The News Hour") was right to observe: "We used to say, 'seeing is believing,' but now we have to say, 'believing is seeing.'" 

For MAGAworld, for the Trumpist trolls, what they see is only what their beliefs allow them to receive.

Brave men with guns. Unarmed woman without a gun. Well, that cannot be. We believe she is not the sweet faced woman we see, but a brainwashed terrorist suicide terrorist. The woman in the cowboy hat (one of many costumes she favors) derides her as a terrorist. Must be! 

Later, this characterization of the dead woman got cleaned up and spun on FOXNEWS as they sensed public sentiment slipping away from them-- spinning that she was a "sad lost soul," with "a life in tatters," who had been groomed and sent out as a suicide terrorist, likely by Biden and all the leftist Democrats.

Well, we have to agree: her life is in tatters now. Shredded by ICE bullets. 

And the next wave of ICE agents sent to Minneapolis is carrying assault rifles, as if they had run into stiff resistance, from the mothers of Minneapolis. 

Look at these heroes, so brave they do not want to risk their faces being seen, carrying assault weapons as if they are on patrol in Falluja. 

Then there was the youtube of the sheriff of the county which includes Philadelphia. She is decked out in her full chief's regalia, five stars  on her collar. But she is what Vance would call a "DEI hire:" she is Black and she can barely parse a grammatical sentence. She clearly never went to Yale Law School, and could never get into Yale Law. 

And yet, AND YET, she clearly knows more law, what one might call "street law," than Vance will ever know. She begins by saying real police do not wear masks. She says no real police would ever fire into a moving car. She does not quote Tennessee v Garner (the Supreme Court ruling forbidding police firing at fleeing suspects) but she does not have to cite that decision, because she knows what real police do and she knows what murder is. She IS real police. Natural born POlice, as they would say in Baltimore. The real article, not a fake policeman, which is how she describes ICE agents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR750pj6AoM

The MAGA troll will tell you she is corrupt right down to her dirty underpants. But we know what we can see. Whatever she is, she is dead on correct about ICE agents and murder. 

You may wish for the perfect victim and the perfect spokesman for the purpose of waving the bloody shirt, but that never seems to happen. 

F*king Bitch and Her Executioner

What we have though, is enough: A woman who clearly meant no harm, murdered before our eyes and then, in Philadelphia,  a police who knows the difference between community police and Gestapo. 

Strikes Fear into the heart of ICE agents! Fearsome!

Murder in Minnesota

 

Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois exhorted citizens to video ICE agents, and that has born fruit, as just a mile and a half from where Derek Chauvin was shown murdering George Floyd, an unnamed ICE agent is captured drawing his gun and shooting a woman trying to drive away from ICE agents, and not driving in a way which could have endangered any of them. 

In fact, of online chatter is accurate, one of the ICE agents shouted to her, "Get out of here!" in which case she was actually trying to comply with ICE orders, not evade them. This will have to await more review.

But as it stands currently, the videos show what can only be seen as cold blooded murder.

Oh, MAGAmob nerds will bleat about "context," and they will say the truth can only out in a court of law (which would be  rich, coming from them), and they will admonish us not to rush to judgment, but sometimes the video is irrefutable, as when January 6th thugs are captured on video bludgeoning Capitol Police. No, Donnie dear, those were not normal tourists simply looking for a bathroom.

Inevitably, the MAGAmob will whine about "she did not obey the command of the police officer!" which is, of course, irrelevant in a nation of laws as opposed to in a police state. The law says a policeman may not shoot at a fleeing suspect. That has not always been true, but it's been true since that question was decided in the Supreme Court in Tennessee v Garner. Never mind, every police department trains real police to never shoot at a moving car. 

And, of course the FOXNESS howlers blamed the victim in the most unctuous way possible--"Oh, she was a lost soul." A "Lost soul"--see we are all sympathy! "She was under thrall to the elite left who snatched up her mind and soul!" 

That was the product of the Trumpist negative research machine which quickly discovered she was a woman who had two children she did not live with, and another by another husband who she did live with and now lived in a lesbian relationship. So, oh, the FOXY folks will cry, she is just another leftist, gender changing nut job who predictably is a threat to all decent folk society and should be shot as she drives past you!

No, this time, you can believe your own eyes. They do not lie. Doesn't matter if she raised snakes and danced naked in the moonlight singing witch songs--all that matters is what she did or did not do at that incident and she drove away from police, turned her car to the right to steer away from the ICE agent on her left, who had drawn his gun as soon as she shifted from reverse to drive before she even moved forward even an inch. He was primed to shoot, programed to murder. 

From the video, it looks like cold blooded murder. In context, it looks like cold blooded murder.  

No protests about how she refused to obey a police officer's order changes any of what we can see. 

Let her drive away. You've got her license. You know who she is and where she lives. 

You cannot shoot a burglar in the back fleeing from your house, if you have chased them out. Not even in a stand your ground state. You cannot murder a person for not obeying an order. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3caI3di8c

If seeing is believing, then we can believe no ICE agent was being threatened, or in danger,  as Renee Nicole Good  tried to pull away from her captors. ICE agents may have been enraged that she did not follow their orders, but she had not just robbed a bank, and nobody was in hot pursuit. 

But for the MAGA nuts, seeing is not believing; believing is seeing. You do not see a murder; you see a righteous execution of a disobedient, brainwashed zombie lesbian mother. Your intolerance and hate marinates your brain and its visual pathways.

And the ICE agent firing at her was firing from the side of the car, into her window as she drove by him.

As the Minneapolis police chief remarked, "No matter what transpired, you do not fire into a moving vehicle."

But then ICE agents are not trained police. They are thugs with badges, recruited by a million dollar advertising campaign. They are not police--they just play police in their own minds.

There will be many replays, and technical analyses of this video, and Trump has already branded her a terrorist trying to run down ICE agents but we can see that's a lie.

The fact is, when Trump put into play twenty something males all gussied up in bullet proof vests and playing out their fantasies of being Seal Team Six hot shots, something like this was nearly inevitable.

They were sent into a Blue city to stir things up, to provoke mayhem and murder, and they did it.

The Second Amendment was a response to colonists not wanting the government to have a monopoly on violence. Now those same 2nd amendment freaks are justifying shooting this mother for the crime of panicking and fleeing. 

Of course, if she did have a gun, then the same people would be justifying her execution because she had a gun.

Is this making America Great Again?

Evelyn Mulray lies dead at the wheel, and all you can say, "This America, man."

The Things They Believe

 

One of Mad Dog's Favorite movies is "Men In Black," where Tommy Lee Jones buys up tabloids with pictures of space aliens on the front page because those are the only newspapers which have real news, as opposed to fake news, and the whole premise is that the government maintains a secret service to keep a lid on all the space aliens from Area 51 and beyond because "a person is smart, but people are stupid," and could not handle the truth. All the outlandish stuff we have always laughed off turns out to be true, and the reasonable sounding stuff is just fake news.

I laughed myself breathless during that film, but it turns out a lot of Americans are not laughing at this stuff--they take it both seriously and literally.

In 1945, at the end of World War Two, Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, opened up the liberated concentration camps and directed photographers to document everything, "So nobody can ever say this did not happen."

It was a good thought, but it did not have the desired effect.

 But now we have a whole part of the electorate which believes in nothing and suspects everything. Standard methods of proof and validation have been abandoned and the only truth is that whatever the authorities say is wrong and likely malacious.

This might explain the election of Barack Obama with the votes of people who voted for Trump the next time: All that mattered to this mob is disruption.

So here are a few highlights from true believer MAGA mob acolytes, in no particular order, other than wow factor:

1. The Holocaust never happened

2. Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon: the moon landing was staged

3. The 9/11 attack was an inside job by the American government

4. The Sandy Hook massacre of children was faked; if you weren't at the morgue, you cannot know any child actually ever died

5. Childhood vaccines cause autism

6. Vaccines have been used to inject chips into unsuspecting Americans

7. Trump won his re-election bid in 2020 but Biden stole the election

8. Climate change is a Chinese hoax

9. A world wide cabal of pedophiles controls the Democratic Party and is directed by a guy named Soros, who also has a side gig starting wildfires in California with space lasers.

10. The Clintons murdered Vince Foster and Jeffrey Epstein

11. Justin Trudeau is the secret son of Fidel Castro

12. COVID 19 was a lab leak designed by Tony Fauci and executed by China

13. Haitian immigrants ate the pet dogs and cats of Ohio townsfolk and Democrats have imported immigrants to replace white voters and these voters are under the command of Democrats 

14. The FBI planted 274 agents to provoke the January 6th attacks

15. School shootings are planned and organized by ISIS to prompt gun control and disarm America.

16. Russia invaded Ukraine because the U.S. and Ukraine were secretly developing biological weapons

17. The murder rate in Washington, D.C. was cut massively by Trump's National Guard troops.

18. Polio vaccine caused more polio than polio epidemics

19. The January 6th attack was just a normal bunch of tourists trying to see the building: It was a day of love.

20. The President of Honduras, who had been sent to jail for drug trafficking, was just another innocent victim of Joe Biden.

This is the base belief package of American swing voters.

As usual, the ghost of Christopher Hitchens has the best summary. The irony is not lost on Mag Dog that the most illuminated truth comes from someone who actually no longer exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSHGvi7bEc