The tide is changing, at least a little. I am darkly amused how quickly the members of this administration are throwing each other under the bus. Noem is now saying the talking points she vomited out after Pretti was killed (that the victim (paraphrased) was locked and loaded, and that he was looking to commit an act of domestic terrorism. She said this within minutes of the killing. She said sometihing similar soon after Good was killed three weeks ago. In fact, domestic terrorism seems to be her signature calling card these days. That includes going out in public in your own city, apparently. Several officers in the federal administration repeated these lies. And, yes, they were lies.
By the way, another thing that darkly amuses me is how quickly theMAGAtts have turned on the second amendment. They went from pushing guns 24/7 for all occasions, and now, they’re saying that Pretti deserved to be killed for legally conceal carying.
Side note to the by the way: I am deeply conflicted. I am anti-gun, and I hate that we have this on our legal books. However. It is the law here, and Alex Pretti was legally carrying his weapon when he was murdered. He had it holstered, and the only weapon he had in hand when he was gunned down–was his phone.
A note to the side note to the by the way: I still can’t get over the rightwing asshole pundit who tried to make it seem like a phone could be taken for a gun (if pulled out from the pocket quickly and jerked in front of you, pointed sideways like a gun, and you don’t look very closely at it). It made me wince at how desparate he was to paint Pretti as a threat*.
That’s not the point, though. The point is that now that this administration is rrealizing that they got this so very deeply wrong. As I wrote about in my last post, they deeply miscalculated what they would find when they came to Minnesota (either in expecting Minnesotans to roll over and/or riot).
Now, they are doing what they do best–pointing fingers at each other. Noem, the head of DHS who is perpetually cosplaying as a cowgal and puts camo on her podium (*eye roll*) is now saying it’s the White House who fed her the lines about ‘domestic terrorism’ and others of that ilk. Stephen Miller is saying that he got his info from Noem. As for Trum himself, well, who knows what exactly he’s saying or thinking? But he, too, seems to incidacte that Noem was the one who misspoke.