Well, this ought to settle an argument. It won’t, of course, but it ought to. The ‘ICE Firearms and Use of Force Directive’ is a handbook guiding interactions between ICE agents and their victi–, um, civilians. It outlines requirements for certain engagements including what actions agents should take before resorting to deadly force.

“Deadly force is not authorized solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect,” the handbook states, so we know Ross messed up right there. “Deadly force against a fleeing subject is only authorized if there is probable cause to believe that the escape of the suspect would pose an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another person.”

Good didn’t pose a danger, imminent or otherwise, to anybody. ICE had already recorded the license plate of the vehicle. If they needed to – and they didn’t – they could have gone to her house later. To me, everything I saw in the video said, “bad police work,” and now ICE’s own handbook says “bad police work” too.

As Good was turning her vehicle to ensure that she did NOT hit her killer, the laws of physics dictated that for a very brief, momentary instant, the car pointed directly at Ross, who was standing where he should NOT have been standing, according to the ICE handbook. Had he been a better agent, he would not have been standing where he was and would never have even appeared to have been in danger.

Maybe this is confusing so I’ll sum it up for you: according to ICE directives, Jonathan Ross was the problem in that encounter, not Renee Good. Ross’s poor procedure put his safety at risk, not Good…

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So, since 47 posts to social media all night and he sleeps all day – save it, we all watch him snoozing – when the hell does this guy do any Presidentin’? The malingerer-in-chief must have delegated all of his responsibilities because he sure doesn’t seem to be doing anything except bitching about how hard life has been for him and how mean everybody is to him. He really is a whiny little bitch. Just a little something to remember the next time you hear him whining about Biden’s autopen…

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Well, this is weird. I’m starting to think maybe these ICE raids aren’t so bad, after all. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re terrible. But since this policy has been put in place – by Stephen Miller, by the way, because Donny’s too busy posting to social media or sleeping – the Dems keep winning special elections. I haven’t checked too closely but I think the GOP has won exactly ONE election since Donny infested the White House a second time.

I don’t believe red voters are voting blue. Instead, I think red voters are staying home, unable to support what they’re seeing on their televisions and, sometimes, right down the street. It leads one to a conclusion that if ICE just keeps up their ICEhole ways, the left should be able to manage a sweep of Congress, followed by an impeachment that won’t be corrupted by compliant toadies. Like it or not, this November is the very last chance the US electorate has to put the country back to right – and we may not even get that chance.

It’s a real moral quandary. It looks like one might simply begrudgingly tolerate the ICE harassment for a greater good down the road, the ability to restore sanity to a once-great nation. On the other hand, the future is never guaranteed. Tolerating one outrage in the hopes that it might lead to something better down the road STILL leaves one tolerating outrage.

But if we’ve learned anything at all about Americans over these last years, it’s that Americans are an amazingly stupid bunch of people. As a group, I mean. If ICE stops attacking people in the streets today, most Americans will have forgotten all about it by November. It will lose it’s impact.

I guess it’s less of a quandary than I thought. We don’t have any control over it and I do believe the raids will continue so, really, the idea that these ongoing raids are contributing mightily to the outcome of the upcoming elections is less of a quandary for me more of a possible bright side to the ongoing abuse…

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The previous section, of course, depends on Americans get to vote and getting a fair and honest election. At this point? Odds are long. Look, this is simple. Our Fearful Misleader knows as well as everybody else that if he leaves office, he has to stop shoving all of that beautiful lucre into his pockets and, more importantly, he goes to jail. EVERYBODY knows it. The Left knows it, the Right knows it. Everybody knows it. So it’s cute as hell, when people talk about the upcoming elections and this possibility or that possibility. I do it, myself. (See the previous segment, where I talk about how ICE raids might help decent people in elections.)

I already don’t believe any of the claims the regime is going to make about all the “problems” they found when they raided a Georgia election office. No, they didn’t find 11,780 more votes hidden under a table. But Donny is clearly setting the stage to corrupt the midterms – assuming he can’t find a way to cancel them completely. I suspect he’s using his Father-of-Lies complaints about the lost 2020 election as cover to get into voting centers and corrupt 2026.

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Word is, Donny isn’t going to attend the Stupid Bowel because California is too far away from Washington, DC. Or maybe because he doesn’t care for the musical choices the NFL made, Green Day in the pregame show, Bad Bunny during halftime. I don’t care why he doesn’t contaminate the state, just so long as he doesn’t.

But it turns out, he’s not coming because he doesn’t want to hear an entire state “Boo” him at the same time. His advisors made clear that getting booed in a long, sustained chorus of the hatred the world feels for him might be poor optics. I wasn’t sure if that was the real reason or not until I read that the Delusional Dotard himself said he would be welcomed by the crowd if he went. “They like me,” he lied.

If Donny is claiming we like him, it’s because he knows how much we effing hate him to the core…