Friday, January 09, 2026

There Are Angels Hovering ‘Round

DOOCY: Vance yesterday suggested Renee Good was part of a broad left-wing network. What has your team told you about this? Who is in charge of it?

TRUMP: I haven't seen the vice president's statement but he's generally very accurate. She was an agitator. Probably a paid agitator. She was not normal
First, hearing Trump describe anyone as “not normal” is rich beyond words. Second: Vance is a punk, unworthy of his office and even his law degree.
Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do.

We saw a tragic end of life in Minnesota, where children were left without a mom and a spouse was left without her partner.

What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting vice president, but a thorough investigation…

Vance should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. And I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.
He’s also proof that an Ivy League degree does not mean you’re smart.  I know 10 year olds who are more intelligent.

It’s clear Trump and Vance (I won’t post Vance’s tweet with the video he claims proves Good was guilty of “domestic terrorism.” I won’t wrestle with a pig, either.) want to try this case outside the courtroom. Trump has certainly never had much success in the courtroom. The fact the FBI has asserted dominance over the Minneapolis case all but assures there will never be evidence and testimony presented in a court.* So it’s going to be a matter of public discourse. Okay, let’s do it. “No Kings” is already organizing their third day of marches. That will dovetail nicely with rejecting an American Gestapo.
I think people arguing the other side of that proposition have an uphill battle. I remember the Rodney King case, where we all saw the video, and we all knew what had happened. Then a very good defense lawyer (credit where it is due) used that video to convince a jury the law required an acquittal. Which convinced no one but that jury. I also remember the civil rights marches, and how public sentiment turned when they saw film of people being savagely beaten; rolled down the streets by water cannons; and attacked by “police dogs.”

There are reasons police don’t do that anymore….

Perhaps the silver lining in this cloud is that an investigation that dismisses a prosecution will be worse than a trial that dismisses the charges. I don’t believe for a minute this is going to go the way Trump and Vance and the bobble throated slapdick from Arkansas:
... think it’s going to go. They’re just going to convince more people in November that it’s time to get rid of Republicans. Sure she was:
Tim Miller: “I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric. Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said dude I’m not mad. This is fucking insane. This is not a tough call. He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. Do not let Donald Trump, and JD Vance, and Kristi Noem, and these thugs try to convince you this is anything other than murder”
From his lips to God’s ear. I just feel like we’re on the side of the angels.


*Barring action by Minnesota to seek access to the evidence. There would also be a fight to overcome the immunity federal officers enjoy against state prosecutions (don’t disparage that until you consider how it allowed federal officers to work in Jim Crow states in the ‘60’s. Every coin has two faces.). But the facts already known would probably do it. OTOH, obliteration of the crime scene is a not insignificant obstacle to prosecution.
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