Eric the Blue

I’m on a blood thinner, because I have a tendency to form blood clots–DVTs (for deep vein thrombosis) in the professional jargon of the white coats, which can be dangerous when hiking around in your circulatory system. The only danger of the blood thinner that scientists have warned me about concerns the increased possibility of a brain bleed if I should fall and strike my head. It’s lucky, then, that I have a dim view of ICE and so did not faint when I heard the news that the officers who shot the Venezuelan migrant in north Minneapolis during “Operation Metro Surge” were lying about the circumstances.

This was the incident where the ICE guys reported being assaulted by some mean brown-skinned people wielding a snow shovel and a broom. They either had to shoot or get beat senseless with these fearsome weapons, according to them. It sounded more like a mad caper in a Coen Bros movie than a plausible account of something that happened in north Minneapolis. I’m suggesting that the officers shouldn’t have been believed, even if they didn’t work for Kristi Noem, who should never be believed herself on the ground that people who have “had some work done” are inherently untrustworthy. Also, it’s just a fact that she lies like fish swim. If I were one of the lying ICE guys who was about to get prosecuted for lying, I’d wonder why MAGA Barbie is still jetting around the country, lying in geographically diverse venues, and firing her military pilot for losing track of her snuggle blanket. (According to the Wall Street Journal, she had to rescind the firing, as there was no one else immediately available to fly her to her next destination.)

I just wheeled my cart past all the Valentines bullshit in the grocery store this evening. My sympathies to the marrieds. At least you’re not apt to get shot in the leg without so much as raising a broomstick in a threatening manner.