In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to someone’s head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
The RSO referred to Pretti and Good, two United States citizens who were both killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the past month, as “traitors.”
As of Sunday, the group removed the graphic but kept the larger post, which garnered more than a thousand comments on their Instagram account.
The post continues to state that “it is, has, and always will be the mandate of our brave public servants, domestic and abroad, to fell the enemies of the United States of America.”
In a written response to questions from The Daily Illini, Illini Republicans declined to comment on whether they were saying Good and Pretti deserved to be killed. (By , • Feb 1, 2026)
One of the things, barely concealed for decades, has been the rightwing desire to murder millions of people in America. Internet message boards, Social Media, and news story comment sections have amplified, exacerbated, and accelerated (albeit with the help of bots) the murderous yearning at the heart of the Republican Party.
But, it's been prevalent for far longer and Republicans make little effort to hide their utter disdain and hatred for people and their desire to round-up and liquidate a large portion of people inside and outside the United States.
Look at the fanatical rush to spam every extrajudicial killing by a Police Officer with a massive dense web of lies and misinformation to justify the crime. And their allies in the Corporate Media rush to put out as many They were No Angel character hit pieces.
These blatant bad faith justifications for murder have increasingly come into play to defend rightwing gunmen, who kill people in non-life or death situations or in situations were the rightwing killer has gone looking for a fight or inserted themselves into a situation in order to kill someone and get away with it. The biggest recent examples of this, of course, are George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse.
The Right was so enamored with Rittenhouse they expended years of effort to justify his unlawful use of force, especially standing their ground on his absolute right to bring a firearm wherever he wanted.
So, when every gun nut and every SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED gun rights' group and 2nd Amendment absolutist Republican and Trump himself declared Alex Pretti should not have brought a gun with him many BlueSky and other social media users were shocked and tried to point out the hypocrisy. You must understand that absolute hypocrisy, disingenuous arguments, and bald-faced bad faith are the hallmarks of the Republican Party, which is now a fully-fascist Authoritarian organization dedicated to what every fascist group has done throughout history.
The murder of their "enemies", the Unconstitutional brutalization of people taken into custody, and the desire for ICE/CBP to not tone it down but, amp it up is all they can talk about, precisely what they want and demand from the Fascist Trump Government.
Republicans have declared migrants are breaking the law and rightwingers have thus assured themselves that since "illegal immigrants" have broken the law they are thus subject to whatever level of violence the massive domestic law enforcement apparatus uses against them. And if you read any news story about the unlawful murder of Alex Pretti (or Renee Good) or Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park, Illinois, the response from rightwingers will always be one of two things; Good! He had it coming! or What about Laken Riley and all the millions of women raped and murdered by Illegals?!?!?
I wrote years ago, either the Fascist Fever which has overtaken the Republican Party breaks or the Nation does. Their fevered desire to murder people and remake the Nation into a One-Party rightwing Dictatorship shows no sign of abating. But, there are two ways a Fever can subside; either on its' own (which is what everyone is hoping will happen once Trump dies) or you can take measures to break it.
Trump's death will do nothing to slow Republican Nazis, and the wait and see approach favored by centrists and urged by Corporate Media collaborators is going to fall flat, when Vance, Miller, and whatever other Nazi currently in charge of the Federal Government continues the policies of the Republicans. We are going to have to break it, break them, and retake the United States. If we don't the Republicans will continue their policies of extrajudicial murder both here and abroad and the concentration camps which are already in place and already full of people will become the death camps Republicans yearn to ignite.
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