ICE Shooting in Minneapolis, Part II

 

     There doesn't appear to be any justification for the ICE cops to push the woman down (legally considered assault), then when Alex Pretti comes to her aid, the cops start attacking him. He is almost immediately pepper-sprayed and then wrestled down to the ground by what I count as seven ICE-holes. It's also impossible to discern what purpose these under-trained federal cops are even doing in the city besides tear-gassing peaceful protesters.

     My question is how is a suspect suppose to calmly follow police instructions when he's just been pepper-sprayed in the face. I'd love to see a cop show me he can raise his hands up after this, or calmly lay on the ground, not that the cops had any reason to detain him. 

     Once again, the president immediately began a campaign of misinformation and lies, as did the DHS  secretary Kristi Noem:

In the aftermath of the killing, which was recorded by multiple witnesses, the Department of Homeland Security released an image of a handgun, which Donald Trump referred to as “the gunman’s gun” in a social media post. Kristi Noem, the DHS secretary, said at a briefing that Pretti had “approached US border patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun”, though she later declined to say whether or not Pretti pulled the gun out.

Once again, The New York Times has the definitive analysis of the murder of Alex Pretti. It also proves that the response by Mar a Lardo and DHS were simply outrageous and slanderous lies.

 https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010668660/new-video-analysis-reveals-flawed-and-fatal-decisions-in-shooting-of-pretti.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/minneapolis-shooting-ice

I was wondering how the 2nd Amendment crowd would view this murder. Seems like the NRA isn't going to suck up to Mar a Lardo on this lie. 

NRA and other US gun activists push back at Trump officials over Minneapolis shooting

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/trump-administration-minneapolis-shooting-response.html 

ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

 This post needs to be prefaced by stating the purpose of ICE in the Mar a Lardo administration: to antagonize Blue states who voted against him.

 

In the above video,You can clearly hear an ICE officer screaming at the woman, "Get the fuck out of the car." She seems to have done nothing except parked illegally, maybe. Traffic was not blocked as cars pass in front of her as she can be seen waving them past.

There is no context to this video and no reason has been offered as to why the ICE officers wanted so desperately for her to "get the fuck out of the car." Masked goons screaming obscenities seems like a very threatening situation to me for a young woman. It seems a major purpose of ICE is to appear threatening.

I haven't read anything that explains what this woman did to qualify as a "domestic terrorist" other than having the folly to think she could protest peacefully in the United States of America.

A slow-motion close-up of what happened just before and after the shooting by ICE officer Jonathan Ross. It's pretty clear to anyone with the gift of sight to see that no officer was "run down" as the president stated after the killing.

Above is Mar a Lardo's statement posted on Truth Social directly after the killing. He jumps immediately into bullshit mode without any regard for the truth, not that he would recognize that idea as it's a total stranger to him.

 

 The New York Times posted these video to examine the killing using all available video evidence. Their analysis is the best on this story I have seen. Make your own conclusions. 

                         Or, you can just lie your ass off like Kristi Noem:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem doubles-down on Mar a Lardo's filthy lie about the killing, calling the victim a "domestic terrorist" which is the same as a peaceful protester, we can only assume. The officer who shot the woman repeatedly in the face over what looked like a parking violation was shown walking to his vehicle and driving away from the scene of the murder, so another lie was committed in saying he was treated at the hospital.

More evidence of the dichotomy between Democrats and the party of Mar a Lardo after viewing the same video.

After a year of dealing with one disgraceful act after another committed by Mar a Lardo and his yes-men (and women) storm troopers, this has been the most horrific so far. First of all, it's just such a blatant lie, and then to have the entire fascist regime backing up the lie is truly disturbing and makes me doubt the integrity or out institutions built over the course of our nation. It's like we all have a front-row seat while an institutional lie is being created. This time it wasn't hatched behind closed doors and in secret, but unashamedly in full view of the public.

Mar  Lardo did say, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible" And this is exactly what he's done. He's telling his goons they can kill people and he'll back them up 100%.

Cold November

 

A cold Novemeber, colder than I can remember here.

Title Sequences: The Shorter the Better

   I just watched the intro to a new series on HBO. At the end of the credits, I had to rewind to be sure of what I had just seen. They list a co-producer, then another, then “produced by” some other asshole, then a consulting producer, then a co-executive producer, then three executive producers were listed together, and finally seven other executive producers each had their own screen for their personal glory. That’s 15 of these jerk-offs if you’re counting. My question is this: why do I as a viewer give a shit who the producers are? Answer: I don’t. So why would any sane person want to watch the intro to a series? At least with Gilligan’s Island they gave you a catchy tune.

   In Spanish there is a lovely expression for when someone toots their own horn. They say that the person “no tiene abuela,” he doesn’t have a grandmother, because grannies are supposed to toot your horn for you. Obviously, Hollywood producers don’t have grandmothers.

   I wish a series could just run all of this info at the end so you could just turn it off, but the producers, all twenty of them, want us to know how essential they are for the content. Nope, can’t do a damn thing without these twenty suits who probably couldn’t write a three-sentence email that makes sense, but the show can’t go on without them.

   Note to producers: just cash your huge paychecks and STFU. If you want to be famous, become an actor.

   The new series I’m watching, Murderbot, has a 1 minute 18 seconds sequence, way too long, especially considering the runtime for an episode is only 22m.

  Twin Peaks – ~2 minutes 36 seconds has the longest I could find. Glad I never watched a single episode of that turd.

 Game of Thrones goes for 1 minute 45 seconds. I hated the show but got roped into it because someone I like liked it. The music in the intro was moronic, to say the least.

 The Sopranos had that awful song. I fast-forwarded it through it, but still heard bits of it which probably damaged my brain.

 Breaking Bad – ~18 seconds. Another thing I loved about the series.

Greek Memories

Έζησα στην Ελλάδα για τρία χρόνια, πριν από πολλά χρόνια. Ήταν η καλύτερη περίοδος της ζωής μου. Έχω ζήσει μια υπέροχη ζωή μέχρι τώρα, και ελπίζω για ακόμα καλύτερα!

 

Θες - Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος

 

Θες να 'μαι καλά να μην πονάω, θες
Να 'σαι μακριά και να μοιράζεις στιγμές
Που 'χα κρατήσει για να σ' έχω, θες
Να μη σου λέω πως σ' αγαπάω
Να ζω και να ξεχνάω τ' άρωμά σου, θες
Να μην υπάρχω στα όνειρά σου ποτέ
Να μην ακούω της καρδιάς μου τη φωνή
Να της κρατήσω μια γωνίτσα να κρυφτεί


Να μη λυπάμαι που σε χάνω ξαφνικά
Να μη φοβάμαι που η ανάγκη μας νικά
Να μην αγγίξω την αλήθεια σου ξανά
Να μην πονέσω με το τέλος, με το τέλος που πονά


Θες να γίνω άλλος, να μην είμαι πια εγώ
Μέσα στον κόσμο αυτόν που έφτιαξες να ζω
Να 'μαι καθρέφτης της δικής σου λογικής
Που θα σε βλέπει και θα λέει «ό,τι πεις»
Να ψάξω αλλού το άλλο μου μισό
Αυτό που πάντα μ' άφηνε μισό

 I lived in Greece for three years, many years ago. It was the best time of my life. I have lived a wonderful life so far, and I hope for even better! You want - Dimitris Mitropanos You want me to be well and not hurt, you want To be far away and share moments That I had held on to have you, you want Not to tell you that I love you To live and forget your scent, you want To never exist in your dreams To not hear the voice of my heart To keep a little corner for it to hide Not to be sad that I suddenly lose you To not be afraid that our need wins To not touch your truth again To not hurt with the end, with the end that hurts You want me to become someone else, to no longer be me In this world that you made for me to live To be a mirror of your own logic That will see you and say "whatever you say" To search my other half is somewhere else The one that always left me half To be a mirror to everything you want But if I can, you never asked