Recently, in response to the Renee Good murder, I’ve seen posts from MAGA in social media showing the faces of young women ostensibly murdered by undocumented immigrants set next to a photo of Good. The meme claims Good was trying to protect killers and the left mourns her loss, but ignores the murders of other young women. Have you seen this?

In MAGA land, it’s big drama, a devastating burn. Typically, it’s MAGA stupid. It’s just false that Good wanted to “stop ICE from deporting illegals who kill American citizens.” If your position relies on a lie for support, your position doesn’t deserve to be supported. That’s a scare tactic. NOBODY is standing for murderers.

No, that’s wrong. NOBODY but MAGA is standing for murderers. Good was monitoring ICE harassment of people who are living and working here and contributing to society. Undocumented? Maybe. Maybe not. ICEholes regularly take American citizens into custody and rough them up. They’ve killed and maimed several American citizens.

I don’t know that all of the other women you’re showing were actually killed by immigrants, documented or otherwise, but for the sake of argument, let’s just agree they were. Also, it would be nice to have a time-frame on those deaths. Are we talking about last year or over the course of the last twenty-five years?

But all of that is nit-picking. Here’s your real answer: we all know that bad people do bad things and place of birth isn’t relevant. I would bet that on each day one of those women was murdered, so were a LOT of other people in this country – killed by Americans, probably a LOT of them white. MAGA ignores those people so they can focus on brown people only and pretend that if there were no “illegals,” there would be no crime. How stupid is that?

Also, we could only know that those women were, in fact, murdered by illegals if we know who the killers are, right? They’ve been, likely, arrested or identified but not around to be arrested, right? So, those killers are currently in the system and facing consequences of their actions. Bad people do bad things and face the consequences. What’s to protest?

On the other hand, and this is where it gets challenging for MAGA, Renee Good was murdered by a Federal agent practicing piss-poor police procedure. He was on Federal business, wearing a Federally-issued uniform, shooting Federally-issued bullets, from a Federally-issued firearm – then hiding behind his Federally-issued badge and driving his Federally-issued vehicle to make his cowardly escape.

See the difference, MAGA? If the government arrests murderers, there’s nothing to protest. When the government protects murderers? Yeah, count on some protest. It’s the proper response. If you loved your country the way you pretend you do, you’d be out there, too…

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This is tangentially related. MAGA is also posting memes that point out that Obama deported more people than 47 and that, for many, their only crime was to cross the border. So, Barack did a better job and he did it without all of this disruption and violence to the day to day lives of people? AND while Barack’s ICE agents wore windbreakers and not combat fatigues and how anyone could see their faces while they worked rather than coward masks?

“Barack did it better and we’re too stupid to understand.” Quality burn, there, MAGA…

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Have you noticed? Nobody wants to be associated with Donny. He doesn’t earn accolades – he steals them. And he’s SO reviled, he needs the power of the Presidency even to do that. We may not be able to stop him, right now, but it sure will be fun tearing his vile name off of every building and sign that ever bore it. Hell, his name is SO reviled, I expect the card game of Bridge to change their top category. How about ‘Biden?’ as in “Three no Biden?”

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Well, that was ugly. I wish I could say I was surprised. The team just reached the end of their run. They kept digging down, deeper and deeper. Finally, they reached, but there was nothing left. Yesterday, I predicted a Niner victory, 24-17. I DID qualify the prediction by saying, “but mostly that’s because I want them to win.” They never even sniffed the End Zone. As it happens, it was a perfect prediction. It’s just that I was predicting the Seahawks final total, 41, not the final score of the game. Genius, eh?

Our Niners gave us a better show than we had a right to expect. As usual, injuries hobbled the team nearly from the start. Injuries, alone, are bad enough, but in this case, WHO got injured was relevant, too. Worse, the injuries kept piling up during the game. It turns out, one cannot sit most of their first string and hope to be competitive. But the Niners were competitive through most of the season, anyway, and that says a lot.

If I’m being honest, I’m not sure the Niners could have beaten this Seahawks team even at full strength. They’re very good and they’re playing like it’s a sacred obligation. It’s a very well-coached team and they’re very disciplined. Having seen the remaining field of teams, I strongly suspect the Seahawks will win the Stupor Bowl. I thought that would be against the Denver Broncos, but their Quarterback, Bo Nix, broke his ankle in their playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills and he’s out for whatever is left.

The worse the beating became, the more befuddled Shanahan appeared to be. When he needed to have more answers, he had fewer. I’m confused by this guy. On the one hand, all praise to Shanahan for staying competitive during the season. That took some pretty solid coaching. On the other hand, injuries keep this team from ever taking the big prize and injuries have been a feature of his teams for years.

The Niners lead the league in injuries. Kyle overuses certain key players and just runs them until they break. Also, I find his play-calling frustrating when the team is losing. He gets locked into certain things and tries to force them. It has cost him games in the past. I suspect Kyle simply can’t get the Niners to the big game and win. But next season is coming, and I expect to be there…