RENEE NICOLE GOOD

From Title 1, U.S. DOJ Policy on Use of Force: “Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury … and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle.” Also, placing oneself in the path of a moving vehicle constitutes officer-created jeopardy and undermines any claim that deadly force was necessary.From Title 1, U.S. DOJ Policy on Use of Force: “Firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. Specifically, firearms may not be discharged at a moving vehicle unless: (1) a person in the vehicle is threatening the officer or another person with deadly force by means other than the vehicle; or (2) the vehicle is operated in a manner that threatens to cause death or serious physical injury … and no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist, which includes moving out of the path of the vehicle.” Also, placing oneself in the path of a moving vehicle constitutes officer-created jeopardy and undermines any claim that deadly force was necessary.

All Americans should be sickened by what happened to Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis. ICE agents escalated a situation, and an American woman was shot dead on an American street.

From the information I've read, the ICE shooter left the scene of the killing, which, I believe, is also a crime.

I will not publish any comments that blame Ms. Good for her murder. 

I've watched the videos of the killing. Noem's and Trump's statements are inexcusable lies about what happened.

From "The Other 98%":

"Protests are erupting across America because Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mom, a poet and writer — was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, and the administration is blatantly lying about what happened. People have seen the video. They know the truth. And they’re refusing to let it be buried. 

 On Wednesday, during a sweeping ICE operation forced into a residential neighborhood, an officer fired into Good’s car and killed her.  

 Within hours, the Trump administration locked into a familiar script. They claimed “self-defense.” They said she tried to run officers over. They blamed “agitators.” They demanded the public stand down and trust them. 

But the video tells a different story. Everyone has seen it. 

The footage shows ICE agents swarming a stopped SUV, grabbing the door handle, shouting conflicting commands, escalating a situation that didn’t need escalation. As the car begins to move away, an officer fires multiple shots. There’s no mob. No charging vehicle. No imminent threat that justifies a bullet to the head. 

 And that’s why the lies are collapsing in real time."

 

BREAKING

BREAKING: The Netherlands just CANCELLED cooperation with the US, and BLASTED Trump for his crimes. Enjoy every word:

The Netherlands announced it is halting cooperation with U.S. counter-drug missions after American forces killed more than 100 people in attacks on boats accused of smuggling drugs.

This was not a quiet policy tweak. It was an unprecedented public rebuke of Trump and his administration's crimes.

Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans made it clear that Dutch forces will only operate inside their own territorial waters and will no longer join U.S. high-seas missions tied to Operation Southern Spear.

His words were BRUTAL.

“We have worked together with the Americans on counter-narcotics for many years, but in a different way,” Brekelmans said. “When we see drug smuggling, we try to arrest and prosecute those responsible. Not by shooting ships.”

Brekelmans went further, saying the Netherlands will not provide ships, helicopters, facilities, or support if Washington asks for help with Southern Spear. “The method and the operation the United States is carrying out now, they are really doing that themselves,” he said. “We are not participating in that.”

Dutch officials confirmed their naval station ship is now being used only for monitoring regional security, not for U.S.-led drug missions. Any counter-drug support will be limited strictly to Dutch territorial waters.

This public break comes as outrage grows over Trump’s decision to use military force to seize Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, an escalation condemned internationally as a violation of sovereignty and international law. Brekelmans warned that rising tensions threaten regional stability, airspace, and security even if there is no immediate military threat to the Dutch Caribbean.

Every Western nation is finding a way to abandon Trump. Even the UK reportedly suspended intelligence sharing after the U.S. began launching lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

This is what Trump’s authoritarian foreign policy looks like in practice: allies refusing to participate, democratic governments drawing lines in public, and the United States isolated because its president prefers violence over law.

he Netherlands didn’t whisper this. They said it out loud. And Trump has never looked weaker.

THANK YOU to The Netherlands, for standing up to our pathetic thug president.

WILL TRUMP DRAG THE US INTO A WAR WITH EUROPE?

From MeidasTouch: 

Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

 

Ex-NATO General stuns MAGA world by calling on Europe to wage war against the United States if Trump seizes Greenland.

 

Did anyone think that in their lifetime they'd read these words: "Europe to wage war against the United States?"

Trump/Project 2025 did this.

BREAKING: Ex-NATO General stuns MAGA world by calling on Europe to wage war against the United States if Trump seizes Greenland.

The formerly unthinkable is now being said out loud by European allies in reaction to Donald Trump’s illegal kidnapping of a sovereign nation’s president and his obvious designs on taking Greenland from Denmark.

A former top NATO commander, Lt. Gen. Michel Yakovleff of France, has delivered a stunning warning to the world: If Donald Trump moves to seize Greenland, Europe must be ready to fight back—even against the United States.

Yakovleff, who spent decades at NATO’s highest military levels, didn’t mince words. If Trump threatens European sovereignty, he says, Europe must be prepared to defend itself—even if that means a historic rupture with Washington. “If Trump moves on Greenland, Europeans must be ready to fight the U.S.,” he said flatly. This isn’t posture nor bluster. Those are fighting words.

This is what Trump’s America has become: so reckless, so imperial, so hostile to allies that a retired NATO general is openly discussing a “divorce” from the United States and the end of NATO itself.

Yakovleff warned that Trump’s bullying rhetoric and open threats against Greenland— a territory that's part of Denmark, a NATO ally — are incompatible with any alliance based on mutual defense and respect. If Trump treats allies like conquered territory, Yakovleff argues, Europe must respond by protecting its own sovereignty, even if it means expelling U.S. forces from key bases like Ramstein and Naples.

Let’s examine what this really means: Trump’s behavior is now so destabilizing that serious European leaders are contemplating kicking the U.S. military out of Europe.

This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Yakovleff previously went viral for saying what many world leaders quietly believe: that Trump “works for Putin,” or at minimum advances Vladimir Putin’s interests by undermining NATO, weakening Ukraine, and sowing chaos among democratic allies. Whether through incompetence, ego, or something darker, Trump is doing exactly what the Kremlin wants: breaking the Western alliance from the inside. And now, the consequences are coming into focus.

Yakovleff is clear-eyed about the imbalance of power — Europe doesn’t want war with the U.S. But he’s even clearer about the stakes. If America abandons the rules-based order and starts threatening allies with military force, then NATO, by definition, is already dead.

This is the cost of Trump’s authoritarian fantasy politics: allies preparing for confrontation, alliances collapsing, and America transformed from the leader of the free world into a global threat that even its closest partners must plan to resist.

Trump promised “America First.” What he’s delivering is America Alone—and feared.

HE'S JUST GETTING STARTED

 

From Conservative publication, "The New Republic:"

Trump Goes on Wild Spree of Threats Against Rest of the World 

 Donald Trump warned that Venezuela is just the start. 

"It seems that attacking Venezuela was just the beginning for President Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Sunday, Trump couldn’t stop musing about ordering more large-scale military strikes on various countries—including some U.S. allies—following America’s military operation to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro."

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Trump made threats against Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, a second attack against Venezuela unless it bowed to his commands, and Greenland, again!

Trump Could Destroy NATO With This One Move 

Danish P.M. Warns Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is on track to wreck the world order.

"President Donald Trump’s imperialist warpath may be about to destroy NATO. 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned Monday that Trump was on course to uproot the 77-year-old defense alliance between the United States and its allies in Europe. 'I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland,' Frederiksen said in an interview. 'But I will also make it clear that if the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO and thus the security that has been established since the end of the Second World War.' 

Frederiksen’s attempt to raise the stakes of a potential invasion comes as the imperialist fanatics in the Trump administration—emboldened by its large-scale military operation over the weekend to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—have turned their attention back to Trump’s holy grail: Greenland. 

When asked by a reporter Sunday whether he had plans to take action on Greenland, Trump laughed. 'We’ll worry about Greenland in two months,' he said."

Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland 

In a CNN interview, the Trump aide also echoed the president’s intent to run Venezuela as he laid out a case for the United States to control weaker states by flexing its military might.

What do P.E. readers think about America under Trump stating that we can control or take over any country we choose for our "security?"  

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January 6, 2021:  NEVER FORGET WHAT THE CONVICTED FELON DID TO AMERICA THAT DAY.

TRUMP JUST REPOSTED THIS ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL ACCOUNT:

 

Trump degrades and debases America every day:

"Is this real?"

 

Trump made a comment over the weekend that stunned political observers and experts alike, and had some asking, "Is this real?" Trump's comment shouldn't have stunned anyone, let alone someone who claims to be a political observer or an expert. 

The president on Saturday was discussing his administration's successful mission to capture the leader of Venezuela, as well as his wife, when Trump made the remark. "All the way back it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot," Trump said. "They now call it the Donroe Document. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it."

(In a non-parody timeline, this would be a typo, but no, this is exactly what he said--he can't even keep "doctrine" and "document" straight for three sentences in a row, because big words are hard.)

Fiona Hill testified SIX YEARS AGO that Trump and Putin were cooking up a scheme along the lines of the Monroe Doctrine, that Donald was obsessed with it, and that they planned to do a swap of Venezuela for Ukraine, with Putin withdrawing support from Venezuela, so Trump could take it, in return for Trump withdrawing US support from Ukraine, so Russia could have it. 

So, those "political observers" and "experts" either totally disregarded her words or wrote them off as unimportant and forgot them. Some experts. 

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

My wish for the New Year:

May the broken be healed

May the sick be restored

May happiness return to those in despair

May the lonely be loved

May the hungry be fed

And may our world find its way to peace.