Dementia Don

Rick McKee

Me again. Putting on my Speech-Language Pathology hat.

I have been a licensed speech-language pathologist since 1989. Most of those years I have worked with people with neurological disorders. I have helped hundreds, if not thousands, of people with strokes, dementia, ALS, and a host of other neurological problems. 

I've been writing on this blog for a long time about the obvious neurological difficulties that this man has had. If you've been with me the whole time, you know I've published extensively about his speech, language and cognition problems. I first talked about his dementia symptoms in April, 2017: A Case for Dementia 

I've tagged the relevant posts with Impairments, Speech Disorders, as well as Language, though this last one tags not only disorders of language, but also his rhetoric.

Speech pathology covers, as I like to say, everything that happens from the neck up. Voice, articulation, language (receptive and expressive, written and spoken), hearing and auditory processing, memory and cognition, and one area that I have not talked about up til now with regard to Hamberder Head: swallowing. 

Dementia can affect most of those areas. So let's get to it, with new examples of his accelerating difficulties with cognition, communication, and swallowing.

Now we are nine years along, and his dementia is progressing. He's had a few whackadoo speeches lately, chock-full of evidence of dementia. You ready for some lessons in speech-language pathology?

We will examine two of his recent speeches, the one commemorating his one-year anniversary since inauguration v.2, and his hour long speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Disclaimer: I didn't watch the entirety of the speeches (🤮)  but I skipped along, listening to random bits.

I'll be referring to points in these two speeches, but instead of my embedding them, please open the videos in new windows and zip to the time markers I mention.

The speech commemorating his one-year anniversary of the start of SCROTUS 2.0 on January 20, 2026. (From Forbes)

And his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 21, 2026. (From The Wall Street Journal)

Speech

He continues to exhibit increasing numbers of instances of distorted speech sounds. The /s/ sound is most noticeable, but you can hear imprecise or distorted phonemes throughout his speech. I showed many instances of his disordered speech in this post, and I won't revisit it in depth again. 

I am, however, going to talk about a couple different aspects of his disorder: his voice and his swallowing.

Listen to the end of the Davos speech vs. the beginning. Listen to his voice. By the end, it's a little hoarser, a little more nasal, and a little wetter. 

Let me explain. 

 

Swallowing

The term for disordered swallowing is dysphagia. SLPs are experts in swallowing and swallowing disorders. Let's talk about dysphagia!

If you compare the beginning of his Davos speech to the end, you can hear his voice sounding more hoarse and at times, "wet." He also slurps his saliva quite a bit.

David Packman has complied a lot of the instances of his slurping a recent interview with Sean Hannity. Watch:

During the speech on January 20, he also has evidence of a build up of saliva, like at the moment at 4:37, where he suddenly has to swallow the large amount of saliva in his mouth. It's subtle, I know, but it's what my professional eye sees.

Also at 1:16:11, listen to how wet the mouth is on "Christopher Columbus." In my opinion, the distortion is not articulation, but extra saliva in his mouth. (And just after, not a swallowing disorder, but distorted speech: the very imprecise /k/ sound in "social security." The back of the tongue doesn't quite reach the velum there!) 

Both of these disordered behaviors – the wet voice and the saliva build up – go toward dementia, but it's the sensorimotor sequelae rather than strictly motor, as in his disordered articulation (though, yes there is a sensory aspect to articulation).

We all swallow hundreds of times a day, without thinking about it. We swallow all day, and we swallow all night. We have a wonderful system of mouth-cleansing where, even when we are not eating, our mouth constantly produces saliva. When the saliva reaches a certain volume in our mouths, it triggers an automatic swallow.

When the brain becomes disordered or damaged, this automatic swallow can be disordered as well. The body might not feel the saliva build up, and the swallow doesn't trigger. The saliva builds until it becomes too much. At that point, the person may slurp it in to control it, or the person may drool. 

I can't tell you how many people on my caseload have complained to me, "I produce too much saliva these days!" It's not more saliva; it's fewer instances of swallowing. 

That's the sensory part of the disordered swallow. It may or may not have a corollary in swallowing while eating. We do not have many instances of DonOld swallowing functionally with food or liquid. He rarely even drinks water during his speeches anymore. His handlers probably don't allow him to, as it will provide more evidence of his disorder. Remember the awkward two-handed glass hold?

BUT! we can still see what is happening when he does swallow his saliva. 

Listen at the end of his Davos speech, above. Play a little of the beginning of his hour-plus-long diatribe, and then scoot the player toward the end. Do you hear differences?

I do!

I can hear a slightly hoarse voice at the end. Understandable, since he has been talking for more than an hour nonstop and without water. But also, I hear a slight "wet" sound to his voice. Listen carefully and you can hear it. 

This is his disordered swallow again. Some of the saliva that he is naturally and (mostly) automatically swallowing is hanging around the "wrong place." It is lying on top of his vocal folds, making his voice sound "wet."

Now, this is not a great place for liquids or food to be. Due to a design flaw, our airway and our food-way have a shared tube for part of the way, and a lot has to happen strongly, coordinately, and timely for our food and liquids to go down the right "pipe" and not down into the airway.

When the muscles are weakened or the coordination is off, foodstuffs can head down the "wrong way." When it goes all the way into the airway, this is called aspiration. Usually people will cough with this happens, and clear the material. We've all had that happen. My most embarrassing episode of aspiration was at a dysphagia conference when I aspirated the watermelon served to us at the break. Oh how I coughed!

In dementia patients, or patients with weakness or other neurological or structural disorders, a cough may not be strong enough, or may not occur. If the person's body doesn't sense the material, a cough might not be triggered at all. 

In this man's voice, I can hear that a little of his saliva has fallen toward his airway, making his voice sound slightly wet. 

I betcha that if we saw him eating or drinking, we would see him coughing, throat-clearing, or having a much more wet voice. All danger signs!

If food or liquid goes all the way past the vocal folds and into the lungs, it can lead to aspiration pneumonia, which is serious and often deadly. This is often the final cause of death among dementia patients.

Tangential to the disordered swallowing, I am also hearing increased instances of a mild nasal emission during his speech. You can especially hear it after a word ending in a nasal sound, of which there are three in English: /n/, /m/, and /ŋ/ (pronounced "ing"). 

To produce a nasal sound, the velum, or soft palate, must be very quick to relax so that a bit of air can go into the nasal cavity for the sound. Then, the velum returns to its active closed position, keeping the airflow of most speech sounds through the mouth.

You've had the experience when you have a cold and your throat and nasal passages are swollen and you can't get air at all into your nose. This makes your speech sound "de-nasal," where the /n/ sounds like /d/ and the /m/ sounds like /b/. 

Or, you are familiar with the opposite. A few dialects in English are extra nasally, think Bobbi Fleckman in "Spinal Tap." It's part of her dialect to let her velum relax a little extra, letting more air go through the nose, making her voice sound nasal. 

In the swallowing mechanism, it is important for the velum to move strongly up for two functions: to close off the nasal passage to incoming foodstuffs, and to help create intra-oral pressure for an effective swallow. So the fact that he is hypernasal means that his velum is weak, and this is not a great sign for his swallowing as well.

So. Back to this man's disorders? Listen to a couple spots in the Davos speech. See if you can hear just a little nasal air coming out when it really should have stopped when the previous nasal sound was finished. 

Listen at about 1:05:54, after he says, "Come on in." Three nasal sounds in succession, and his velum doesn't tighten in time, letting a little nasal air escape, which is what we call nasal emission.

And at 1:06:09, after "where we've done it is amazing." 

and at 1:07:06, after "not pirating."

Even very early in the speech, at 1:05, he has what I think is a little nasal outflow after "investment is soaring" and "incomes are rising." 

All these instances are after phrases heavily loaded with nasal sounds. 

Here's a speech thing and a slurp. At 57:27, he said, "one sat on the other" and then a slurp.

It is also very wet in his mouth when he slurs through, "it's such a problem. It's just so it will be so sad" during the January 20 speech at 1:08:58.

And again in the same speech at 1:18:22, "It was just an excuse I guess." So wet! Ick!

There may be more, but like I mentioned, I'm not keen on listening to the entirety of the speeches. These are just the ones I picked out by skimming through.

Disordered Language and Cogntion

Language and cognition go together and can influence behavior. Let's take a look at recent examples of these. 

His tangents, or his "weave" as he calls it, are evidence of dementia. He strays off topic, he talks a lot, he never circles back to the point of his story. We can characterize all of this as logorrhea (yes, it's a real term), which is, like you've guessed, basically verbal diarrhea. That tracks. It's who he is. 

He continues to have paraphasias, which is substituting a word with a similar meaning or a similar sound for the target word. Word-retrieval difficulties are also prevalent. Recent examples are:

• He substituted "Iceland" several times when he clearly meant "Greenland" in the Davos speech, at 39:38

• Similarly, conflating Denmark and Norway when whining about losing out on the Nobel Peace Prize. Remember the letter that he sent to the prime minister of Norway?

• “We appreciate all of the cooperation we’ve been giving,” instead of  “given" at 12:46 in the Davos speech
• Saying "international murder" instead of "intentional murder" when talking about the mugshots he was presenting. 1:55 in the January 20 speech.

• Not being able to come up with the word "Alzheimers"  during an interview with New York Magazine. 

The Independent described it this way:

During a lengthy interview about his health with New York Magazine, Trump, 79, struggled to remember the term while speaking about his father, Fred Trump, who died in 1999 at 93. Trump told the outlet his father had a “heart that couldn’t be stopped” and almost no health problems — except for one.

 

“At a certain age, about 86, 87, he started getting, what do they call it?” Trump asked, pointing to his forehead and looking toward White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

 “Alzheimer’s,” Leavitt replied.

“Like an Alzheimer’s thing. Well, I don’t have it,” Trump added.

How meta!

His perseveration continues. He returns to the same ideas over and over (his cognitive tests, the 2020 election, Biden and Obama, sometimes mixing them up, the crap about water pressure), as well as the same phrasing, such as "like the world has never seen," "tremendous," "beautiful," "hottest country." 

Disordered Cognition 

You've been seeing an increase in the number of instances of really wacky, nonsensical stuff that this man has been coming up with. Here are just a few of the newest ones.

We see confabulation, we see "empty" speech – frequently using indeterminate words like "thing" or "whachimacalit" – or word-finding difficulties or paraphasias (substituting a related word or a similar-sounding word).

We also see nonsense. At 1:05:25 in the Davos speech, talking about California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He seems to have forgotten that he is supposed to hate Gavin, and also seems to have forgotten that he is currently president. 

He says, "I know Gavin was here. I used to get along so great with Gavin when I was president. Gavin's a good guy."

Remember, all of this is superimposed over a lifelong personality disorder, malignant narcissism. Sometimes it's hard to tease out the cognitive difficulties from the apathy, logorrhea, hostility, and lack of empathy that come with narcissism. If you ever go back and listen to speeches from 20 years ago, and compare, though, you can see his language and speech are much worse now.

Disordered Behavior

There are a lot of recent instances of disinhibition, a hallmark of dementia. He impulsively acts, often inappropriately. 

Not sure if this episode was planned. He had a stack of photos of criminal immigrants during his inauguration anniversary speech. I don't know what his handlers intended he do with them, or if he had printed them off himself. In any case, it was weird when he flipped through the photos, holding some of them up to the audience briefly, muttering as he went. It went on for about 10 minutes, but here is one minute of it.

Trump is just standing before reporters in the White House briefing room leafing through mugshots and riffing pic.twitter.com/Duv5oTGudC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 20, 2026

During a meeting with top oil company executives, he suddenly got up to look at the hole in the ground that is to be his ballroom. Awkward chuckles from some of them at the meeting. So bizarre.

At the same meeting, Little Marco slipped him a private note. He took it and read it out loud, which he was not meant to do. Check out Marco's face. Some of the executives jumped in to cover, as Dear Leader was completely clueless.

Here was apparently a fart. Listen close at the very beginning of the clip. I am not sure if this is real, but if someone mocked this up, they could've done a louder shart.

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Disinhibition exemplified, at the end of this clip from the January 20 speech. And what the hell was all that about the binder clip? Did it really warrant 30 seconds of chatter? Also notice the paranoia as he tries to blame someone in the room for his flubbing a binder clip and almost catching his own finger. I haven't talked about it, but paranoia is another hallmark of dementia (as well as a hallmark of malignant narcissism, of course).

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This weird disinhibited imitation of Joe Biden (and a little projection/every accusation is an admission at the end).

This horrible imitation of a transgender weightlifter. What a terrible person.

*****None of this is normal, folks!*****

Then there is this weird policy thing about whole milk. It's not 47's disordered brain that came up with the milk thing, it's the worm-eaten brain of RFK. They have been talking about it as if whole milk is this newly discovered substance. That's beside the cognitive point, but there was this weird brain glitch:

And as he slurred his way through prepared comments, of course he had to riff, and his addled mind came up with this about whole milk. It's at timestamp 0:35.

Here's The Late Show's take on the whole milk thing.

Another moment of disinhibition. He was heckled during a visit to the Ford Plant in Michigan. Someone yelled out, "Pedophile protector!"  

Who reacted? Why, the only pedophile protector in the room, of course. 

He got mighty upset, and as befitting not a president of the United States but a disinhibited, demented pedophile protector, he said (or mouthed) "Fuck you," and he flipped the bird. See video here from TMZ. I am unable to embed it. 

This photo. This is every dementia patient I've known, wandering the halls at the skilled nursing facility.

Other Stuff

He has been exhibiting difficulties walking, which I won't address here, but we know that this is also a sign of diminishing brain function.

His hand bruising continues, and it has appeared on the left hand.  It's not from a misplaced high-five, nor from hitting a table, nor from shaking hands. He is getting IV medications of some sort. If you look closely, you can see the vein track.

I betcha it's diuretics to take off extra fluid, given his congestive-heart-failure-looking cankles.

This smacks of playground conversation. We've all done it. "When I'm president, I'm gonna make a special day for Army-Navy football!" Weird.

A few funnies for you. 

or Iceland? One of those lands!

Lalo Alcaraz

An oldie but a goodie from Ted Rall.

Bill Bramhall

Lastly, your moments of beauty. Finally, a strong protest song!

...and this lovely from Lady Gaga.

Second Amendment says What?

Adam Zyglis

We are now ensconced in a 2nd Amendment debate. It’s not one that anyone expected, but then again, it's one that is not at all surprising.

If you know even a little about LSR, you know what my biases are.

I do have a little cognitive dissonance these days. I am fervently and unabashedly anti-gun. I have been all my life. Yet you read on these pages how “my heart sang” when I saw Black Panthers openly holding rifles as they have a right to do in Philadelphia under the Second Amendment and Pennsylvania law. If there’s anything that scares fascists, it is a strong black person. If there’s anything that scares the piss out of fascists, it is a strong black person with a gun. 

When Traitor Tot was elected, I asked a Sister Resister, “Should I buy a gun?” It was a serious question for a very serious set of circumstances, that would eventually come to what we have today in Minneapolis. At the time, the answer from my Sister Resister, and the answer I knew in my heart, was "No!" Yet, it is still a question that lingers. Does what we are heading for demand that we all embrace our Second Amendment rights?

Let's talk about that, as well as the rest of the Constitution. 

First the facts.

This regime has been setting the stage for bigly lies literally since Day One. Sean Spicer had the audacity to lie about the tepid numbers of attendees at the Inauguration Ceremony, which we saw with our own eyes. Two days later, on January 22, 2017, Kellyanne Conway got in front of news cameras and confidently and forcefully proclaimed that we should not believe what we all saw with our own eyes because there exist “alternative facts.” 

It’s been one lie after another in this Upside Down we are living in. There were lie trackers throughout T-v.1, but I'm not sure they have been able to keep up, when there are lies upon lies before he can even take a breath, and when he is too sleepy to lie anymore, his minions have taken up the mantle. 

Time and time again, we've been told, nay demanded, that what we see and hear and know is not the truth. Many millions have fallen in line; it's a cult that keeps on culting. The rest of us, not so much. 

Now they are telling us alternative facts about a cold-blooded execution on the streets of Minneapolis. They are telling us that we should not believe our very ears and eyes. 

I call bullshit on that. Turns out, the revolution is being televised after all. 

The deadly truth of the events in Minneapolis were laid bare for all of us to see, in video after video after video, taken by brave and poised citizen witnesses with their cell phones held steady, despite the horrors that were in front of them.

The DHS posted this to try to change the reality about Alex Pretti’s murder:

We can break this down.

"An individual approached US Border Patrol." No. The "individual," whose name is Alex Jeffery Pretti, did not approach. The ICE thugs were the ones to approach Pretti. They approached, they escalated, they pushed, they pepper sprayed, they dogpiled, they beat, and they shot. 

"...with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun." No. His 9mm weapon was holstered at his back. He never unholstered the weapon. They would not have been able to know that he had a weapon on him. 

"The officers attempted to disarm the suspect." No. The Nazi thugs did not try to disarm him until he was on his belly and after they had beaten him. It was happenstance that his jacket was raised in the melee, exposing the weapon.

"The armed suspect violently resisted." Do you mean that he stumbled around, attempting to help the person that they had previously pushed to the ground, while he had tear gas in his face and ice under his feet, trying desperately to right himself? Is that what you mean by violently resisted?

"An agent fired defensive shots." This is 100% horse shit, with cow dung on top. Pretti was incapacitated and disarmed by one of the gestapo while he was on his belly, hands above his head. At no time was there a threat from Pretti that needed defending against. Correct this sentence to "An agent fired shots."

"Medics on scene immediately delivered aid." Wrong again. The officers scattered away after the 10 close-range shots, and it took 24 seconds for someone to approach Pretti's body and render aid. 

"The individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement." Fuck that shit. Pretti was on the street simply to exercise his and his fellow citizens' First, Second, Fourth, and Tenth Constitutional Amendment rights. Those were his motivations, the same as every other of the thousands of Minneapolitans bravely out in the streets that day, and every day since ICE has surged in that city.

"Law enforcement." These morons are by no stretch "law enforcement." They have not been trained in law enforcement. They couldn't recite a law if it was put in front of their rotting, tumorous grey matter. 

Ice Barbie also tried spin the irrefutable facts into alternative facts.

Reject all that shit! You all saw the videos. There are several, all from different angles. They tell the truth; how could they not? 

In case it was hard for you to discern the actions of the murderous mob that descended upon Alex Pretti in order to murder him, we have media outlets who have slowed down and analyzed the videos. 

There are no clearer facts. This young man was murdered in cold blood, and the attempts to cover it up began immediately, even before he drew his last breath. 

Consider these analyses (I'm not able to embed the excellent video analyses; please follow the links.

CNN slowed down the videos and show them side by side. Watch this analysis from CNN. 

The New York Times also analyzed the videos. Here is the distilled video version of the analysis.

The facts are clear, and we are witness to all of it. 

• Alex Pretti’s motivations in the moment was to film the events, as he has a right to do under the First Amendment, and also to protect and assist another protestor, which was his life calling as an ICU nurse.
• Alex Pretti held a permit for concealed carry in the state of Minnesota as afforded by the Second Amendment and Minnesota law.
• He was lawfully carrying a concealed handgun that day.
• He had the firearm holstered at his back.
• He was not holding it, and he was not brandishing it. It was concealed under his clothing until he was on his belly on the street, surrounded and beaten by several agents.
• He was disarmed as he was face down on the street and incapacitated by tear gas and beating.
• The gun was removed from the holster by a federal agent. 
• Alex Pretti was executed. He was murdered in cold blood, shot at close range. Nine more shots followed from one, and maybe two, shooters.

It is clear that Pretti was not brandishing the weapon, despite the lies that the tyrannical government would want you to believe. There is clear video evidence that he was disarmed during the melee, the gun being clearly removed from his back holster before he was murdered at point-blank range. 

He was not out for a confrontation; he was out to help and to document. He did not approach the agents. They were the ones who escalated the situation. They approached him, pushing him backwards and spraying tear gas at close range. They instigated the tussle on the ground.

As if shredding the rest of the U.S. Constitution wasn't enough, now these fascists are trying to rewrite Pretti's Second Amendment rights.

Little Greg the Nazi blathered lies and denied. I despise his face and so will only provide the transcript of his interview with CNN's Dana Bash.  

He said: What I'm saying is, we respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don't -- those rights don't count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers, and most especially when you mean to do that beforehand.

BASH: How do you know that?

BOVINO: When you mean to do that -- when you mean to do that beforehand, when you show up to an active crime scene, don't leave the crime scene and you're armed, then you have got -- the decision-making process for that individual doesn't seem to be very good.

BASH: So...

BOVINO: Now, back to the Second Amendment, what you're saying about the Second Amendment is peacefully protesting with firearms, absolutely. I have done that myself and fully support that, but not when you perpetrate violence, obstruct, delay, or obfuscate Border Patrol in the performance of their duties in an active crime scene.

BASH: There's no evidence that he was perpetrating violence.

And there's no evidence, unless you have it -- and we'd love to see it if there is -- that he was intending to massacre law enforcement, other than the fact that he was there and he had a gun lawfully.

BOVINO: No, he meant to be there beforehand. Again, again, Dana, he meant -- he came there beforehand for a reason.

BASH: How do you know that? How do you know that?

BOVINO: For -- because he was there, because he was there. It's very evident.

BASH: But all he was doing was filming and documenting it, which is legal. He was carrying a gun, which in Minneapolis is legal.

BOVINO: I didn't say it wasn't. And I didn't say it wasn't legal.

BASH: So then what did he do that was illegal?

BOVINO: But he cannot assault federal law enforcement when he does that. That's an active law enforcement crime scene that he decided to enter into.

BASH: Where do you see in the video that he was assault -- where do you see in the video that he was assaulting law enforcement?

Because, from everything we have seen, law enforcement was assaulting him when he was there trying to help another individual.

BOVINO: Dana, law enforcement doesn't assault anyone. Follow directions of law enforcement. Follow directions of law enforcement in an active crime scene.

ICE Barbie said, "I don't know of any peaceful protesters that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign."

FBI Director Krazy Eyes Patel said, "you cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have that right to break the law."

Press Secretary Barbie doubled down, neatly victim-blaming Alex Pretti while denying his Second Amendment rights in one succinct statement. 

The Conversation

All of these federal officials, sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States, are wrong. 

You know that Little Sister Resister is anti-gun. She is one that reads the Second Amendment by focusing on the word “militia,” which summarily negates the right of every ordinary Tom, Dick, and Nazi to carry a gun. 

It would be great if SCOTUS would read the Second Amendment that way, but it hasn’t. It would be great if Congress could pass laws that reflect that reading, but the extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, extremely generous-to-Members-of-Congress National Rifle Association has prevented that.

So, we have the Second Amendment, an Amendment that has been interpreted quite liberally. And we have many state laws that reflect the free and open – and free and concealed – carrying of firearms. We are a nation of laws, and those laws are the ones on the books. The law must abide.

Pretti was lawfully carrying that day. As we are a nation of laws, he had a right to have it, from the Constitution on down to Minnesota state law. 

The 2nd Amendment people – mostly, but by no means all, on the Right side of the political spectrum – have been telling us, “We need to be armed with guns in order to rise up against an tyrannical government!”

Now we have a tyrannical government, perpetrated by the Right.

Well now. 

The Gun Owners Caucus of Minnesota said about Patel's statement, he was "completely incorrect on Minnesota law. There is no prohibition on permit holder carrying a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to a protest or rally in Minnesota." They also wrote, “Every peaceable Minnesotan has the right to keep and bear arms – including while attending protests, acting as observers, or exercising their First Amendment rights.These rights do not disappear when someone is lawfully armed.”

The NRA made a statement saying, "Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens."

So wait. LSR agrees with the NRA and the Gun Owners' Caucus?! 

Yup. We are a nation of laws. Period. Til the end of time.

I wonder what cognitive dance the cultists are performing to reconcile their belief in the Second Amendment with their belief in their Lying Leaders. I bet it goes something like this:

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Clay Bennett

In the Meantime...

Minnesotans continue to protest. They brave the cold and they brave the out-of-control brownshirts to show up and stand strong. You inspire us, Minneapolis! We thank you.

Joe Heller

The National Guard arrived in Minneapolis. They donned yellow reflective vests so as not to be confused for ICE agents. They delivered hot cocoa and donuts to protestors. That's what I'm talking about. 

Little Nazi Boy has been sent away. At first the news was that Greggy was leaving Minnesota. Now, they've removed him from his position altogether. Rumors are that he will retire soon. Buh-bye, loser. Don't let the screendoor hit you on the way out. 

There's more chatter on both sides of the aisle about getting ICE Barbie out. Fingers crossed.

Republicans are calling for a full investigation into the Pretti's murder. Democrats are threatening to shut down the government in their quest to defund ICE. 

ICE agents are becoming disillusioned about their mission and their leadership. Morale is low. I say: good. 

It appears we are at the tipping point. We are united in our outcry over the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We the People will not stand for this brutality any more. Surely, we can only go up.

Lastly, your moments of joy. 

Amanda Gorman and Melissa McCarthy.

The Terrorism Continues

First Thoughts on the Murder of Alex Pretti.

We have witnessed nother state-sponsored murder in Minneapolis. We are, once again, heartbroken, even as we are still reeling from the murder of Renee Good.

There was no justification for the murder of Alex Pretti, a 37-year/old registered nurse, working in the ICU of the local Veteran’s Administration hospital. Pretti was very definition of a man serving the people, protecting and helping them in their darkest days. He has been described by those who knew him as “sweet,” “kind,” “gentle,” and “always stood for human rights.” 

Alex was the best of us.

The very opposite of the Nazi forces who have been roaming freely in the streets, terrorizing everyone they meet. 

I'm aware of four videos have materialized. They are not for the feint of heart; take care in watching them). This is the first one that came out. In it you can see a woman in a pink coat. She is also filming, and this is her video. This video shows a different angle. There is a fourth video that shows the moments before the confrontation. It is brief and doesn't capture the murder, but shows important details. It's here.

It was clear that Pretti was only protecting another protestor and was filming the officers. Once he put himself between the gestapo and the other protester, he started using his phone to video them. He had his phone in one hand and nothing in the other hand. The federal officers converged on him, sprayed him point-blank with pepper spray, which sent him down to the ground. 

They had him down with pepper spray, and then began beating him, seriously beating him. There were no serious attempts to restrain him. He had already been incapacitated. Once he was down, at least five officers surrounded him and stated beating him. They were cruel in their beatings, but that wasn’t enough. 

They hand him prone - on his belly. 

Then they shot him. Point blank.

There were 10 shots fired by perhaps two federal officers. The first officer pulled his weapon and shot point blank. Another officer was a little further away and in all you can hear a rapid succession of shots.

Immediately, the government started telling lies about the incident. 

Pretti did have a gun and a lawful concealed carry permit. The lies started about the gun, which they would likely not have seen until they had him down and beating him. At some point the gun was knocked away, before the shooting.

Then they tampered with the crime scene.

Very quickly, the government collected the gun and photographed it, seemingly on the seat of a car, releasing the photos well before any investigation. 

What law enforcement agency does this, removes evidence from the crime scene? Answer: none. Only the criminals themselves would do that to cover up their crimes.

That fucking Nazi Greg Bovino had the audacity to hold a press conference shortly after the murder. He took two questions before he turned tail and ran. It was all of six minutes. 

He started with lies and then when called out, he ran.

These thugs are just KKK in hoodies and Amazon Sam Browne belts. Give them a gun and they think they’re invincible.

Or maybe they really do believe they’re invincible because they’ve been told. These thugs do not exist in a vacuum. They have superior officers, and those superiors have superiors, all the way up to Little Greg Bovino and ICE Barbie, and onward to The Apricot Pol Pot or whoever is really running things now. 

I’m betting dollars to donuts that the gestapo has been overtly told that there will be no consequences and they are free to shoot to kill.

Because it’s true. The government takes ahold of the narrative, tampers with evidence, and directs whatever play-acting “investigation” they perform. They can tell their terrorists that they are free to do whatever, because they are. 

Our Constitution is being shredded. Our very essence of humanity is being shredded. This cannot stand. 

We The People will not let it stand.