Republicans, Alex Pretti should be your breaking point | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/01/25/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-ice-minnesota/88351967007/

36 Comments

  1. Writer_In_Residence on

    If they haven’t broken yet, they’re not gonna.

    Sorry but this only ends in a lot of violence.

  2. MalevolentTapir on

    How many people do Trumps brownshirts need to shoot in the face before the media can wrap their heads around the fact that their reasonable republican friends are completely fine with what is happening?

  3. RoughDragonfly4374 on

    They are never going to find shame on their own. Stop asking.

    They need to **BE** shamed.

  4. Sandy Hook should have been a breaking point. J6 should have been a breaking point. This is nothing and they’ve already spun it.

  5. One_Disaster_5995 on

    I already said that there will be deaths, unfortunately. The question is how many it takes before the levy breaks. At some point, the support is going to crack. Can’t wait to see where the real insurrection starts. Will it really take a civil war to stop this madness, or will enough people in power come to their senses in time to cut it short? Will Trump flee to Argentina? Will Melania hand over the Epstein files? Will Stephen Miller fire at Gavin Newsom on the steps of the White House and be attacked by an angry mob? Stay tuned for the next wild episode of… “The Amuricans”.

  6. OrneryDisk6264 on

    Spoiler Alert: They don’t care because they’re sadists. Naive People need to stop thinking this would change their minds.

  7. Trump being convicted of rape should’ve been their breaking point

    They have no limit because they have no shame

  8. RamonaQ-JunieB on

    Republicans have no moral compass whatsoever so why would anyone think this would be a breaking point?

  9. How bout nurses stop assisting based on political ideology?

    Joking.

    But they’d do it to us.

  10. ‘The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection. It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens.’

    Charlie Kirk – 2018

    Oh the fkn irony.

  11. ToraToraTora1942 on

    The very first thing the Democrats should do after winning the House this year, is to conduct impeachment hearings for the head of ICE and Donald Trump. These people are sanctioning outright murder of American citizens. This cannot be allowed in a democracy. Don’t just go after the ICE officers, go after the leaders who encourage, and support, this kind of violence against innocent citizens.

  12. StayCreative8329 on

    There is no breaking point. We have failed as a nation. Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and John Robert’s court let the morons rule.

  13. >“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

    ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

  14. Thinking they have a breaking point, that there is a gotcha moment, some emperor has no clothes or other awakening is hindering people from strategizing to effectively deal with the authoritarian fascist uprising that is MAGA. We make comparisons to Nazis. But history will remember MAGA as its own dirty word. America’s home raised version of fascism. The movement will not correct itself. Only outside forces will stop it.

  15. They IMMEDIATELY defended the shooting. The man had no gun, was face down on the ground being attacked by 8 ice officers and he was executed. They still somehow found a way to call that self defense.

  16. By all accounts, Alex Pretti was such a good and, profoundly, decent man that I do carry some hope his death does mark the departure for many R voters from this, revolting, collection of ghouls occupying this administration.

    The agent that killed him had just assaulted/battered a woman (also a U.S. citizen, also had done nothing to deserve that, and also excessive use of force)…

    Alex Pretti’s last actions on this earth were to try and help her. He was willing to take bear spray to the face on her behalf.

    And his last words he uttered on this earth were “Are you okay?”

    Spoken to a victim of cruel and unnecessary violence who was lying helpless in the gutter. Literally, shoved into the gutter.

    And that victim was a helpless woman.

    What we all saw was a good and decent man. One who provided lifesaving care, and end of life care, for our country’s military veterans… being a good and decent man all the way to the end.

    I HAVE GOT to believe… there are Republican voters… voters who supported John McCain, George Bush 1&2, Mitt Romney, et al… that will be taking the off ramp after this.

    I hope they do, because any R’s that don’t take the exit and remain on that highway are on a highway to hell (if they believe in the afterlife and in Jesus Christ).

    I’ll be praying for them.

  17. Substantial-Ad-128 on

    Republicans are a facist party now, completely.

    Even politicians like Lindsay Graham are trash bc they support the evil (MAGA)

  18. LOL. No. It won’t be.
    Old school Republicans were driven from the GOP. The only ones left are MAGA, and while they operate as the GOP, they’re entirely different. Expecting them to turn their backs on the investment they have made in Trump is misguided.

    The people that need to hear what to do next are those who are the targets of the administration, anything less extends the dark period where MAGA gets to operate without light shining on them.

  19. Literally cares for our soldiers, exercises his 2A rights, and doesn’t hesitate to help when he sees a woman thrown to the ground.

    Republicans would never.

  20. A white man gets killed and that’s the line? Not a women? Not the children being kidnapped. Not the kids screaming so loudly in the detention facilities that it can be heard outside.

    The line was crossed weeks ago

  21. I feel like ICE could line up civilians against a wall and a firing squad could shoot them all and some conservatives would defend it.

  22. Lol. Rape was not a breaking point. Sexual assalt was not a breaking point. Rape of a child was not a breaking point. Protecting pedophiles, invading other countries, the list goes on and on. My point is that there is no breaking point.

  23. Shame on anyone who believed the decades of propaganda that there is such thing as “Republican values”.

    Conservatives have 1 value, and 1 value only:

    ***Authority.***

    And they conned a lot of you into giving them a seat at the table.

    And some of you are still taking the bait.