Alex Pretti Kicking Video: The Sign in the Window?

 

On the one hand, you see the video and you say, "Believe your Eyes."

On the other hand, you have seen AI generated videos going back to the video Obama made to warn of the dangers of being deceived by AI.

Putting ICE Agents At Risk

You know, if it's just one video it well could be fake. When you see six different videos from 6 different sources, you believe your eyes and your brain saying, it would be nigh on impossible to fake all that, especially after the sources have been interrogated.

And, of course, there's the So What? factor.

Even if Alex Pretti was shown to have been angry at ICE 11 days before he was shot in the back, that only provides a motive for his being on the scene when he was murdered. The day he was murdered, he was trying to cover a woman attacked by ICE and he was shot in the back, surrounded by 6 ICE agents. For that you've got plenty of confirmation, both video and eyewitness.

Now, of course, the Trump hyenas are trying to build the "He Deserved It," story, with everyone from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) to a Republican US Senator from Ohio taking up the howl that Pretti (and other demonstrators) interfere with agents in the "performance of their duty" never mind we can see ICE seeing their duty as throwing a woman to the ground--the Bovino defense that it was the agents who were the real victims of Pretti's murder.

There are ways of detecting AI tampering, but they take time and real expertise, and Mad Dog would like to see this analysis, not because it would change his mind about Pretti's murder and its significance, but because it would confirm what we know about this event--Noem and Miller and Bovino were doing more than taking up the howl, they were ordered to howl by the man who released this fake AI video, if it is.

It has been widely reported that Mr. Pretti's family confirmed he had been in a confrontation with ICE some time before he was murdered by ICE, so the video, conceivably, may be authentic and not fabricated. And Mr. Pretti's family would have confirmed that if they thought it true, knowing the video of that confrontation would be immaterial. We all knew Pretti was on the scene because he opposed ICE. We all know now, he was murdered for that opinion.

Like Havel's greengrocer, those who claimed Pretti posed a threat to ICE the day he was murdered knew it was a lie, but they put that sign in the window because tyrannies depend on everyone embracing the lie.

And, of course, we should not forget, we do not have any videos of Epstein hanging himself.

Oh, All Better Now

 

Like all politicians caught in a public relations nightmare, Trump looks for a fall guy to blame  and so today it's Greg Bovino, the brickheaded yahoo from western North Carolina, who dresses up like a Seal Team Six macho man and thinks beating up women and children makes him a hero.

He's out of there. So Trump can say that wasn't me--that was Bovino set loose those hyenas.

Two Cheeks combined to make One Ass

All dolled up in his best Sam Brown belt, with stars on his collar and a really nifty olive uniform, Bovino told an incredulous press  that the real victims of the shooting of Alex Pretti by six Border Patrol federal agents were the agents.

The sounds of jaws dropping around the room were deafening, and even FOXNEWS struggled to explain how someone with 10 bullets in his back could have been victimizing Border Patrol agents.

Fortunately, they are getting pretty good in Minneapolis at camera capture, and from every angle, and there were many angles, Pretti is seen to be first trying to cover up a woman who had been slammed to the ground by Border Patrol, then brought to the ground by a tangle of hyena agents and then summarily executed, just the way these brainless losers all decked out in their warrior stuff wanted it to play out. They got their kill and they probably thought themselves heroes. Just like Call to Duty.

That Nurse Was A Domestic Terrorist and Deserved to Die!

Stephen Miller, of course, called Pretti a domestic terrorist, not wanting to await tedious examination of the videos--he just knew that nobody but a leftist, elitist, terrorist would be out there on the street. It was enough that Pretti was out on the street, which, by definition makes him a terrorist, but he was filming with his camera, which definitely defines him as someone trying to bring down the state by violence, and, get this, he was ARMED! Now why would you be carrying a gun, unless you were determined to shoot federal agents with it? Case closed!

I just Play One on TV
Am I HOT, or what?

Kristi Noem, of course, was dependably defending the murders because, you know: the GUN! Which is really rich, given her love affair with guns. But she really only uses guns to shoot puppies, which is what she encourages her DHS agents to get into. 

Czar Thomas the Terrible Trying to Think

But even Karoline Leavitt seemed to get that continuing to gaslight the White House Press Corps, even a corps which as been hand selected as MAGA approved press, is a tough  act, and so Trump decided he had to show he isn't always in favor of shooting innocent citizens, so he sends in another minimal neuron mope, Tom Homan, who carries the mystifying title of "Border Czar," which makes one wonder what Kristi Noem and Bordino are, but at least he's not either one of them.

Inspiring Confidence

And after years of saying he's going to rough up people who like immigrants and after recruiting a corps of young men with slogans like "Destroy the Flood" and "America for Americans" and "We'll Have Our Home Again!" Mr. Trump is just flabbergasted that his boys would shoot a nurse in the  back or a woman in an SUV.  Not the sort of chaos he had in mind, although he'll tell you there was chaos before he unleashed chaos and so there's that. 

Actual Domestic Terrorist: On His Orders

Meanwhile, rumor has it Minnesota National Guard have been deployed to protect citizens who might desire to protest. At first, we were told the Guard would just be guarding buildings, but now we see on TV a Guard soldier, not wearing a mask, but wearing a yellow visibility vest, drinking hot coco with random civilians. 

Serve and protect, indeed.

Dare Mad Dog ask, what happens when those Border Patrol, ICE federales show up toting their assault rifles, all decked out in armored vests and paratrooper boots, and they go for the next domestic terrorist nurse, or when they throw to the frozen ground another Minnesota mother?

Sieg Heil, Minneapolis!

Will the Minnesota National Guard guard the  good people of Minnesota against the Washington, DC shock troopers?

And what will that look like?

Murder Most Foul in the Winter of Our Discontent

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover...

I am determined to prove a villain...

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams...

As I am subtle, false and treacherous

--Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

This America, man.

--Unidentified witness, "The Wire"

 

"Pretti was a domestic terrorist." --Steven Miller

The murder of Alex Pretti is so clearly murder most foul, and if the Bard provides lines for us then we have to see ourselves in our winter of discontent, to put it mildly.

Bovino All Dressed Up 

Mad Dog continues to find his eyes are drawn not to the scene of ten shots fired into the back of a subdued victim, but beyond to his murderers and beyond that to those who defend the murder, nay, even exalt in the murder.

Oh, there are the efforts to distract, to claim the victim was to blame, to defend the ICE or Border Patrol or whatever sort of federal agents were in fear for their lives because, well look at this horrific weapon! But then, the photo of the weapon was fake and we know that because we can see the actual pistol in the hand of one of the agents, removed from the reach of Pretti, who just seconds later is shot 10 times.

Ten times. Think about that. What does that tell us about the murderers?

Gotta Love the Hat

And we try to learn more about who these hit men are, but Trump conceals them. 

Trump Will Pardon

But we do know something about this Foreign Legion organized for local duty. One was heard saying, "Cool! This is just like 'Call of Duty,'" as his unit, decked out and dolled up just like Seal Team Six, stalked down a city street with their body armor, helmets and combat boots, attack rifles and face masks, ready to do battle with Minneapolis housewives and off duty nurses. 

Some percentage, maybe 35%, are recent immigrants who love the machismo, which is part of their culture, and they have such minimal education the best job by far they can get is with ICE, where they fall upon less fortunate immigrants, like those Kapos from the World War II concentration camps, who were allowed to live as long as they helped exterminate the new arrivals off the Eichmann trains at Auschwitz and other camps. 

For the Anglo ICE/Border Patrol mob, these are the losers, the high school drop outs, who spent too much time in their mothers' basements playing "Call To Duty," knowing the closest they'd ever come to living out those games was buying another game, until...ICE called!

Phony Photo: Lying All The Time

They are the INCELS--the Involuntary Celibates who know they cannot attract women and resent women and their mothers and the whole world because of that and "since I cannot prove a lover...I am determined to prove a villain."

I'm Not an INCEL!

Not to go all Freudian, but apparently this psychology goes all the way back to the 1600's and Elizabethan times, to Shakespeare.

Ideal ICE agent Candidate

These guys, like their idol, Trump, on some level, know they are profoundly unattractive--repellant really--and they make war on the world, especially on people who look more successful to them, like housewives and mothers driving SUV's, or men with full time professional jobs, like the nurse Pretti, or just about anyone who is not a fellow INCEL.

I am King of this Realm

There is an old story about racial hatred which actually probably applies to what is going on inside the heads of these ICE agents. It has been told in different forms, most famously in "Mississippi Burning," where a sheriff tries to explain racial hatred with the story about his father killing a mule for no apparent reason. In the case of ICE agents the motivating complaint is not race, but the motivation of felt inferiority and one's place in the pecking order is identical.

Allow Mad Dog to update that story to today's ICE agents.

Miller: He Who Pulls The Strings

A reporter is sitting at bar with an agent for the Federal Agency of Urban Khaos-Unlimited (FAUK-U) and they are drinking amiably. The FAUK-U agent does not know his drinking companion is a reporter.

REPORTER:  So, I hear you guys got another illegal today.

AGENT: Sure did. In fear for our lives,  you know. (He winks and grins.)

REPORTER: Fucking bitch?

AGENT: Not this time. Faggot. Worked as a nurse, if you can believe that. Didn't know that at the time, but he had the look, you know?

REPORTER: I heard he pulled a gun.

AGENT: Well, that's the story.

REPORTER: Not realy?

AGENT: Naw, that freak was down. 

REPORTER: So why the lead poisoning?

AGENT: You know, if I'm not better than some faggot, what am I?

Trump's Bitches

And remember: You cannot spell INCEL without I-C-E