The Pro-ICE Primal Scream Chorus Fragments and the Underbussing Begins
Everywhere we see signs that ICE, the White House, and its virtual army of influencers, agitators, and general degenerates are losing control of the public narrative surrounding the murder of VA ICU nurse and activist Alex Pretti. These things don’t come in a coherent movement. Rather, we see it in a kind of fragmentation, a general loss of a coherent and aggressive message. Individual players and factions begin groping for their own descent, then often, at a sudden moment, quickly run for the hills. Over the past 48 hours, the White House and ICE have simultaneously claimed that Pretti was there for a mass shooting of ICE agents, so thank God they killed him, and, also, that Pretti’s death is a terrible tragedy and that it’s all Governor Tim Walz’s fault because Minneapolis is a sanctuary city. These two messages don’t really fit together.
From there, things accelerated. Just today, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the White House needs to “recalibrate,” which probably means not murdering as many civilians or at least not doing it on camera. Republican candidate for Minnesota governor Chris Madel, who currently represents Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot Renée Good, dropped his candidacy, blaming ICE, and even left the Republican Party. The president himself appears to want to claim full responsibility for Pretti’s murder by sending Tom Homan to Minneapolis as his man who “hasn’t been involved in this area” (i.e. isn’t he the one doing all the murders) to regain control of the situation and “report directly to me.” These moments of collapse of the White House’s wild and, so far, extremely united propaganda campaign were accompanied by dozens of other MAGA influencers and other GOP members who failed to continue shouting that Pretti’s murder was anything other than murder.
