Radio-Canada journalist Azeb Wolde-Giorghis reports from Minneapolis, where tensions are high — but sombre at the site of a vigil for the 37-year-old woman who was killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Joe, a resident who lives walking distance from the scene of the shooting, told CBC he came by because he "just felt the need to come out and pay homage to this mother."
"It's very tough for our community; we've had this happen before and I love this community," he said, referencing the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of police — an incident that took place less than 2 kilometres from this scene.
He continued: "I'm sad, and I've got a little bit of rage in me that I need to pacify, because I'm just pissed right now. And I think a lot of people who care about our community are pissed. We don't want an invading force — that's so un-American. Like, all of this is so un-American to us."
Joe then gestured to the two people standing next to him who had also come to pay respects to Good, saying they were from China and Switzerland.
"To try and explain this to them, it's just mind-boggling."
The key concept here is fear. The specifics don't really matter right now. What does matter is understanding that their fear led to desperation and that made Trump look like a viable option.
If Republicans were not afraid of god damn everything they would not have been desperate enough to vote for Trump. Multiple times in multiple elections.
Why they are afraid isn't the problem. People not understanding that fear is the root cause is the problem. Republicans are followers, not leaders. Since Democrats and not-Republicans don't have any good leaders that leaves Republicans with a very easy decision. Vote Republican because that is what they are told to do. Don't vote for Democrats because they are The Enemy, which is also what they are told.
Last November when it was crunch time 77 million Republicans out voted a whole bunch of apathetic not-Republicnas. Fear won over apathy.
People spend too much time trying to understand the Republican mind. Don't. They won't believe you anyway.
They are afraid. The reason they voted Trump in the first time was because Republican voters are afraid of the out group having nice things.
It's not hate. It's fear. Republicans are afraid of society passing them by. They choose hate because they cannot handle being afraid.
That's it. Trump promised Republican voters he would hurt the right people and that's all the warm safety blanket they needed.
This is why you can't talk to most Republicans. Reality scares them and they know reason will rip off their safety blanket.
Pretty much yeah. Born rich. Never got in serious trouble. President, twice. Plays golf all the time. Eats fast food all the time. Gets to boss people around.
Trump won The American Dream Lottery. 77 million Republicans helped make that happen.
If this doesn't make sense then now would be a great time to start questioning what USA has been up to for the past 50 odd years. Because Trump and 77 million Republicans never did.
The international laws and norms Trump has barged through had already been loosened by previous US administrations. The operation most closely resembles the 1990 invasion of Panama and forced surrender of its strongman, by the first Bush administration.
That was followed by the younger George Bush with the invasion of Iraq on false grounds, and his administration’s broad use of rendition of torture. Barack Obama failed to hold his predecessor’s administration to account and pursued his own legally questionable drone assassination campaign against suspected terrorists.
These are arguably discrete acts of hypocrisy by earlier presidents, who claimed exceptions from international laws in the pursuit of US interests, but mostly embraced global norms in the knowledge that the “rules-based system” overwhelmingly favoured America.
What unfolded overnight in Venezuela will cause immediate anxiety to governments like Iran and Denmark, against whom Trump has expressed enthusiasm for taking radical action.
In recent days, Trump has said the US would come to the defence of Iranian anti-government protesters, and his officials have kept up a drumbeat of threats to take control of Greenland by any necessary means. Last month, the Danish Defence Intelligence Service labelled the US as a security risk, a declaration that would have been unthinkable just a short time ago for a Nato ally.
It accelerates the slide from a mostly rules-based world to one of competing spheres of influence, to be determined by armed might and the readiness to use it. One American commentator, David Rothkopf, called it the “Putinization of US foreign policy”.
Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe.
So are Republicans pulling/stealing funds for building the wall on the southern border or is it from military housing with black mold? Hard to keep track for some reason.
How much is Texas spending/stealing on Operation Lonestar this year?
As Mother Jones’ Julianne McShane reported, the congresswoman has still made attempts to reconcile with Trump. And as the Times pointed out, Greene admitted that she only spoke out against Trump when his attacks targeted her.
Republicans are.
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