HATE IS EVERYWHERE AND IT’S NOT PARTISAN

I’m still trying to find the right words to describe what happened in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, when Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a confrontation while she was in her car.

There is no way to justify what I’ve seen, and I’m not interested in the “domestic terrorism” spin that’s been pushed online, and that she was using her car as a weapon. Federal officials have used that framing, but family members, local leaders, and use-of-force experts have disputed it, and multiple bystander videos circulating publicly raise serious questions about what actually posed an immediate threat in that moment.

Then I made the mistake of reading the comments, and it dragged me right back to the day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in September 2025 and the disgusting pleasure some people seemed to get from it.

Why are so many people on both sides finding pleasure in death?

Yes, in my opinion, Charlie Kirk was pretty much a trash human being married to someone who showed about the same amount of emotion as a Chuck-E-Cheese robot in his death, but that still isn’t a reason to sit behind a keyboard and celebrate someone being murdered.

And the same goes for the laughing emojis and “FAFO” comments I saw on Facebook from people relishing the death of a mother in Minneapolis.

What the hell has happened to our country?

I’ll tell you what happened: we started treating hate like entertainment, and we’ve had leaders who model it, reward it, and call it strength. When the most powerful people in the country lead with cruelty, a lot of people decide cruelty is permission, and if we can’t agree that death isn’t something to cheer, no matter who it is, then we’re not divided by politics anymore. We’re separated by whether we still remember how to be human.