In a comment following the post titled: “A kind reminder of something you may have forgotten or never knew,” reader Judy Thompson told how she dealt with her own father’s bigotry.

The following is my response.

Thank you, Judy,

The single strongest emotion humans have is fear. It is the ultimate survival emotion because of its power to remove us from danger.

Hatred survives in human evolution because it devolves from fear. You cannot hate without fear. If your father hated blacks (or Jews, Catholics, etc., etc.), it’s because he feared them.

I hate Trump’s bigot party, the MAGAs, because I fear them. I fear what they did on 1/6; I fear what they are doing to us now, and what they could do in the future.

But, Judy, they hate you and me because they fear us. They fear that we expose their cowardice, their dishonesty, their meaningless lives. They fear being discovered as weaklings and frauds who hide their impotency behind Trump’s bluster.

Trump, too, fears us, which is why he wishes to eliminate us. He, too, fears being revealed as a simpering, whimpering cartoon character, whose own father belittled him as a fool and a weakling.

Trump boasts so much to avoid being shown as small. He lies incessantly because the truth diminishes him.

He insults anyone who does not praise him because, deep down, he fears that the only way he can succeed is by stepping on the bodies of those who have not had the advantages he has had in life.

Trump’s repeated attacks on women reveal a coward in need of victims to prove his false claims of strength.

He reportedly has said, while in a military cemetery, the words of a coward, “Why do you people all say that these guys (soldiers) who get wounded or killed are heroes? They’re suckers for going in the first place, and they’re losers.” and “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

As for immigrants, remember this: Picking on helpless people who only are trying to improve their lives is not a sign of strength. It’s a sign of weakness and cowardice.

His massive cruelty toward immigrants is a classic symptom of his weakness. The abject fealty of his MAGA followers is the classic symptom of their inferior ability, morality, honesty, and courage — their need to have a protector who will excuse their personal failures.

Behind Trump’s bluster lies a cringing coward with fake heel spurs. His bluster attracts the cowardly, like-minded Republican Party and the pitiful MAGAs.

He surrounds himself with ignorant people, who lack relevant experience, and whose sole attribute is to fawn and grovel, boosting Trump’s fragile ego: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(controversial views are far outside mainstream public health); Pete Hegseth (no traditional defense management experience); Tulsi Gabbard (history of praising our enemies, controversial figures and unorthodox foreign policy views); Matt Gaetz (proven liar on many counts); Kash Patel (lack of traditional law enforcement experience prior} Linda McMahon (no professional background in education policy)

Opinion commentators have even labeled Trump’s overall cabinet, including Kennedy, among the worst in U.S. history.

Longtime Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has openly said that the opinion side of Fox’s programming is “strictly to be entertaining” and doesn’t follow journalistic rules like straight news reporting. In other words, they can lie like dogs, and if people are foolish enough to believe their lies, it’s what Trump wants.

If you wonder why Trump pardoned every 1/6 traitor who tried to overthrow the U.S. government, wonder no more. Birds of a feather flock together.

Bigots flock with bigots. Criminals flock with criminals. Cowards flock with cowards. Traitors flock with traitors. And bigot Trump and his MAGAs flock with other bigoted liars.

We only can pray that before the next elections, the cowards in America have the minority voices.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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Because you didn’t sign up to be in law enforcement across America, but rather to protect us at the border, you probably haven’t been trained in standard police work.

Here are three valuable pieces of advice about what to do if you believe a car is going to hit you: Use whatever time you have to step out of the way.

1. 1. Don’t waste time shooting the driver. You probably won’t hit the driver, but whether you hit the driver or not, the car will keep going and run you over.

Even if the driver is already dead, that won’t keep the car from hitting you. Every trained police officer knows it.

But if you’re really pissed off, just keep on pumping shot after shot, which will do nothing to save you, and could kill an innocent young person. (or has your training taught you that the penalty for not obeying your commands is death?)

By the way, in most jurisdictions, it’s illegal to fire a gun into a moving car, but if the President has told you he’ll pardon you no matter what you do, like he did with the 1/6 rioters, why care about little things like lives and legality?

2. It’s OK to destroy the lives of immigrant families, but don’t do it to Americans. Some bleeding hearts might object.

3. Don’t tell a person to leave while you stand in front of their car.

Rodger Mitchell

P.S. If you do something outrageous on behalf of Donald Trump, ask to have your case heard by Judge Aileen Cannon.

 

 

Initially, Trump told us we were going to fight Venezuela as part of our “war on drugs.” That was why we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife.

But Venezuela is not a major origin of most U.S. drug supply, and that justification was always a concocted lie.

What Trump never admitted: Oil was always a key strategic interest for the U.S. — historically through trade, sanctions, and company involvement — and because Trump has blocked renewable energy, oil has become much more explicit as an objective of U.S. policy and military action.

The conflict has therefore evolved from drug rhetoric to overt oil control and regime pressure. 

In short, the United States kidnapped the president of a foreign nation in order to steal that nation’s oil. It used drugs as a cover story.

Notably, though the president of Venezuela and his wife are in custody, all the other “bad actors” still are in place, and no change in drug manufacture or shipment is involved. 

Here are excerpts from an article in today’s Florida Sun Sentinel:

Trump huddles with oil executives
President seeking $100B for Venezuela; US seizes 5th tanker
By Josh Boak Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump met with oil executives at the White House on
Friday in hopes of securing $100 billion in investments to revive Venezuela’s ability to fully
tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum — a plan that rides on their comfort in making
commitments in a country plagued by instability, inflation, uncertainty and a dilapidated
energy infrastructure.

Since the U.S. military raid to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3,
Trump has quickly pivoted to portraying the move as a newfound economic opportunity
for the U.S., seized tankers carrying Venezuelan oil, saying the U.S. is taking over the sales
of 30 million to 50 million barrels of previously sanctioned Venezuelan oil and will control
sales worldwide indefinitely.y

On Friday, U.S. forces seized their fifth tanker over the past month that has been linked to
Venezuelan oil.

It’s all part of a broader push by Trump to keep gasoline prices low. At a time when many
Americans are concerned about affordability, the incursion in Venezuela melds Trump’s
assertive use of presidential powers with an optical spectacle meant to convince Americans
that he can bring down energy prices.

In short, Trump now has given tacit approval to China to invade Taiwan, and has revealed why he has been so reluctant to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion.

Trump has turned America back into the bad old days of gunboat diplomacy, where the powerful nations bully the weaker nations by threat of force (or actual force).

In this case, Trump hopes to save his criminal presidency by taking your mind off crises like inflation, Epstein, low polling numbers, and ICE craziness and brutality, by creating another crisis — Venezuelan drugs — and then yet another crisis — oil (all while he hamstrings renewable energy production) .

When people object to Trump spending billions to bribe oil companies to refine Venezuela’s crap oil (while the government “can’t afford” to fund health care), or people begin to remember Epstein, inflation, Trump’s many other lies, and most recently ICE’s public murder of Renee Good, Trump will invent yet another crisis to occupy weak MAGA minds.

There always is some new Trump outrage to blur memories of the previous Trump outrages. And the beat goes on.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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Renee Nicole Good–37

Mother of three children, a 6‑year‑old, a 12‑year‑old, and a 15‑year‑old.

Murdered by ICE in January. 2026

Personal Life & Character

Loved and remembered by her family:

• • Her mother, Donna Ganger, said “she was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” compassionate, caring, and devoted to others.
  • Family described her as loving, forgiving, and affectionate.
  • Her spouse and children survive her; her youngest child was dropped off at school shortly before the encounter with ICE.
  • Family’s reaction: Her family said she was “probably terrified.”
  • City leaders: Minneapolis officials have condemned the shooting and challenged the federal narrative.

Public reaction: Vigils and public outcry have centered on remembering Good as a caring mother and community member.

Not known as a protester: Local family and neighbors said she was not involved in activism or demonstrations against ICE; she was not a target of immigration enforcement.

Community Response

Donald Trump: “The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.”

J.D. Vance: It was “a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.” She “was radicalized.”

Kristi Noem: “She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over.” It was “an act of domestic terrorism.”

Paul Krugman: “And now the story of the moment is the atrocity in Minneapolis, where, on Wednesday, an ICE agent killedRenee Nicole Good by shooting her in the head.

“Trump and his minions responded by flatly lying about what happened. But their accounts have been refuted by video evidence which show an out-of-control ICE agent gunning down a woman who was simply trying to get away from a frightening situation.

“Yes, MAGA loyalists will fall into line, preferring to believe Trump rather than their own lying eyes. But public revulsion over Good’s murder and Trump’s mendacity are high and growing.

“A president who actually cared about the welfare of those he governs would have taken Good’s killing as an indication that his deportation tactics have veered wildly and tragically off course. He would have called for a halt of ICE actions and made sure there would be an objective and timely federal investigation into this national tragedy.

“But for Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, and out-of-control armed thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions. In effect, Trump would rather savage his own people than be held accountable for his actions.

“So in Trump’s mind, Renee Nicole Good’s murder is at most collateral damage, in service to his insatiable need to dominate and feel powerful — so insatiable that he is attempting to create an alternate reality, claiming that Good ran over an agent although there is irrefutable video evidence that she didn’t.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday demanded that the state be allowed to take part, as it would be the only way the public could be confident in its findings, noting it would be “very, very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.

“And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem, have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate.”

There is only one obvious reason for the investigation to exclude the state: To clear Trump and his ICE Gestapo by blocking the release of damaging information.

And finally, we remind you of an earlier Republican scandal (No, not Nixon, a different Republican scandal): Army–McCarthy hearings on June 9, 1954: Joseph N. Welch to Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

That is my question to Trump, Noem, the rest of Trump’s advisors, the right-wing media who promulgate the lies, the right-wing religious leaders who cheerlead the lies, and to the people who still would vote Republican: At long last . . .  at long last.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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