The Daily Zeitgeist - Ain't No Justice; It's Just Us 1/8: Renee Nicole Good

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

In this edition of the show, Jack and Miles discuss the summary public execution of American citizen Renee Nicole Good and how long we, the American public, are gonna let this cook?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You'll get it. It could be 25. Yeah, whatever. Fucking whatever, man. Yeah, welcome to trending, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What a day. What a day.

What a day. I'm Jack O'Brien. That over there is my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Could you do it a little more energy, please? A little more pizzazz, sir. Let's get a little zip on this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What a time.

I mean, like, obviously, this is all going to just be about the murder of Renee Nicole Good. Yeah. As we, it's funny yesterday, as we were putting together to the dock, the headline was like ICE involved shooting. Minneapolis. And then by the time I got to look at the news once we stopped recording, it was just the video, everything was out. And you're immediately just thrown right back into Jesus.

Like the thing that you all, we've seen happen on accident in L.A. Remember we saw that one time where the fucking ice guy like shot his own hand? Right. Because you, because we have a bunch of fucking losers with guns out here, pretend to be rambo. Just giving guns, given badges. and told to do whatever the fun. And told that the government will back there.

I'm not in there. I'm not in there. So I don't know exactly what they're being told. But it does seem to be just like, go nuts, guys. I see the messaging, which is essentially do look, we'll back you. We'll back you 100%. The comments that will come out of this administration will absolute lies to shield you. But yeah, another person killed by ICE, you've probably seen the video if you haven't. Or maybe you need to see it fully to understand the depths.

were continuing to plunge down into, but it wasn't even like the video itself. It was like everything around it that was just so fucked up, like to her wife who was inconsolable after. Yeah, video of her wife on the scene. To the glove box that had stuffed animals in there because they had just dropped off their six-year-old at school. Not to mention a child who has already lost their father in 2023, now orphaned.

I think just no. I think that most people know who've seen it and even just read it, that Renéna Colgood was in no way trying to run over an ice goon. Like these assholes were not stuck in the snow contrary to what Christy Noem was saying. They pulled up on Good's car without issue

and were able to drive off after the shooting. So the feds account of what happened is. Her version is that they were stuck in? I saw Trump's, so Trump's statement was that she willfully and viciously ran over the ice officer, not tried to. Vicious. He went to the hospital, right? Violely, willfully and viciously ran over the ice officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense.

Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is not recovering in the hospital. The attached clip where the guy walks off after he pulls up his mask when he realized what's happened. I don't know what clip he's referring to, but every fucking video. He has fucking dementia, dude. He cannot fucking acknowledge the reality of any situation. I'm pretty sure we probably read the same articles where like reporters were confronting him. They're like, is this the clip you're talking about? Because here it seems like she drives around him trying to get away from him as he's pulling his gun out. And as somebody is another ice agent with a mask on is yanking at her door violently and saying get the fuck out of the car.

She's trying to drive away from them. Her wheel has turned all the way to the right to try and get away. And he shoots her as she goes by, as she goes by three times. So I don't know. Have you seen that image where like his aid pulls out a laptop to like counter this and like, okay, well look at this clip. And then one of the reporters like, quote, well, we told him that this angle did not appear to show an ICE officer had been run over.

Trump said, well, I, the way I look at it and just kind of trailed off. He was even waffling when they, like, she said, oh, she didn't try to run him over. She ran him over. And then she, he said, again, this is, this person isn't even a reliable narrator for when the last time he took a shit was. Right. So to have him try and parse the new one. The way I see it, which is, again, too obscure and just complete. Uh, anyway.

So this isn't the first time ICE has shot and killed a person. It's not the first time they've shot at people for filming them. It's apparently like the ninth person has been shot since September. Yeah. And this is not going to stop because white supremacy is an all-consuming ideology. And it has been a cornerstone of American culture from the beginning. The victim being white doesn't change that. If anything, it's a stark example of how white supremacy will consume its own in pursuit of a reality that will never come to fruition.

unfortunately it will just leave a trail of bodies. And these goons are in our streets because of this fantasy, right? Like these people were there because of this fantasy of a white America and continued exploitation that this country is addicted to. And good people know that America is at its best when we embrace each other and learn and share. And we're like, yes, bro, we're in this together. So these good people come to defend their neighbors like Renee Nicole Good did just to take a video of the actual. activity of ice goons. And in that moment, standing for good, you become an enemy combatant in the eyes of white supremacy and doesn't matter what your race is. And another life lost. I mean,

state sanctioned violence is nothing new and the lesson here is not new. It's just hard to see the same tragedy play out over and over again. I know black and brown people have definitely been talking about this. And like, this is a white woman? Is this going to change it? Because we've, they've been, it didn't matter when we were getting. killed by police. Will this do something? And it's, I think, I don't know, but what I do know

is that the outrage that is being felt across the country is very, very acute. Yeah. And unfortunately, this is part of, this is part of the plan though, too. Like we've been saying from the beginning of these ice raids, all the, he needs a Reichstag fire.

Yeah. We've talked a lot about like designed incompetence at the high levels where he has like fools in you know positions of power and you know by having them there he can get them to do whatever he wants and um they're going to always be loyal to him but i think there's also the designed incompetence of putting um untrained violent people on the street with guns and just being like go nuts if you see a brown person kidnap them and if anybody gets in your way you know you do whatever you do whatever you do you do whatever you know you do whatever the fuck you want. Do whatever you want. And by doing that, he's going to create, they're going to create more outrage.

Because I think you're right that despite what a few like sort of algorithmically inflated white supremacists on Twitter are saying, I think most people look at this video and are like, what the fuck are you talking about? Yeah. There was a guy in the local news who was an eyewitness who was like, and like politically, I'm, Pretty right leaning. I mean, the guy I think was probably trying, didn't want to say I'm a Trump supporter, but he's like, I'm pretty right leaning. And you could tell he was just shook. Yeah. I mean, he was also, he was not, I saw that clip.

And he said he like came on the scene after the fact. So he didn't even, he hadn't, that guy was even like, damn, sounds bad. But like, yeah, yeah. He didn't see what actually happened. Now we've got the footage from multiple angles of this agent in a situation. where they did not have to in any in any sense just murdering someone in cold blood as they drove by yeah it's it serves multiple purposes you you increase the agitation level in the country you get to make an example of people who stand up to ice right get to

score another point in the brutalization of people in this country like it's serving this administration in every possible way. It's consumed the headlines from every other terrible scandal that we're having to witness from this administration. And yeah, and now they're doing, you see the propagandists on the right go fucking full pedal to the metal being like, well, this person was, this is a, this person is a domestic terrorist or like, you know, this is why you can't be, this is why you can't be interfering as if that's a fucking justification to be.

be had to fall victim to a summary execution. Yeah. Christine, um, suggested that this is part of a court. She was like, this was an attack on ice agents by a left wing terrorist, like using their car as a weapon.

And it, that it's part of a coordinated effort where they're like receiving, like, she was like, they must be like getting some shared training, uh, to, to tell them how to do this.

This was a person who was frightened because, uh, Two agents were attacking her, trying to yank her out of her car, and pulling a gun on her as she was trying to drive away. And that's clear to fucking everyone. Like, nobody is looking at that and being like there. No, except. There goes a trained operator who knows how to fucking attack somebody by using their car as a weapon.

Like the- I mean, the people that you, you know, and again, like you're saying, the algorithmically inflated takes that you've seen be like, justifying it and the thousands of likes from whoever the fuck. I mean, like, I'm sure for the people who probably see it and are trying, like I'm thinking of like, you know,

MAGA people who maybe have like a shred of soul inside, they see it. And then they certainly have to go figure out like, okay, how do I make this okay in my mind? How do I make this okay in my mind? Because certainly it can't be right out what everything I stand for. Give us something, guys.

Come on. Like, is she, what? Did she Antifa? At least. Yeah. And they're going to say, and you know,

I'm sure they'll come out with deeper smears. Because it's the same thing that happens to every person who falls victim to state sanctioned violence. You're going to get, they're going to be like, oh, man, she went to Pakistan once or so. Like,

I don't know, who knows what the fuck they're going to say. She did yoga, man. So she's a fucking, like, it's so predictable. Um,

and it's just so transparent what the president and all of the freaks around him are trying to do to this country and what they're trying to do. I mean, it's make no mistake. They went to the fuck. They were blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. Yeah. You know, like they're going back to the scene. Yeah.

They're like, we, we need to win that one. We need to go back and revisit that one like Rambo and Rambo too. We got to make this happen again so we could fucking win. Yeah, because, I mean, you look at everything that's the declaration of martial law, potentially a suspension of elections, like this. follows a playbook that you know up until this point everything you hear from stephen miller he's basically being like just look to nazism to figure out where i'm at and the playbook i'm i'm operating from i mean he trump himself was saying during the last election that this will be you won't have to

vote again this will be the last election and i think that this is the playbook whether it is successful i think i think there's a problem with designed incompetence which is that all the people trying to execute it are fucking incompetent and it looks like shit and it's not convincing anybody and I think they're gonna have like 12% of the population that thinks they're actually telling the truth

on this one but this is the playbook and it's a matter of like how Americans respond at this point because I do think like this you know we saw this with this

administration going into another country. And without any justification other than we were taking their oil. Yeah. You know, we like it's all a piece of the same thing and people aren't stupid. Like they're going to recognize like this is not like there's a reason

that's what Americans don't want to be the bad guy. Like what I know that. I know that America has been the bad guy in a while, but most Americans didn't realize that. That's what all the lying and propaganda has been about all these years. I don't think they want to openly

understand that they're the bad guy. And I feel like this administration is making that, forcing them to like make that choice. Oh, you're saying for people who haven't had their eyes open at all? Yeah, exactly. Like the vast majority of people aren't in this country aren't like, yeah,

America's fucking the villain of history for the past two seconds. That's definitely a minority take for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But I just think that this administration is just like,

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everybody's just cynically, like, yeah, we're the bad guys and that's fine. But I feel like there's a reason that the government has felt like they needed to lie to people for so long. and now they're no longer doing that.

And it'll be interesting to see if people are just like willing to go along with that. Maybe they will do. I mean, that's the, I hope not. They hope that, I mean, again, all of this helps to get people, you know, to the point where they're so despondent that they'll just roll over. Yeah. And yeah, I think they issue, too. There's like so many things that that set this place apart from other countries, which is, odd too because like you see a lot of people from,

you see it on Reddit all the time where like people in Europe are like, you got to do something. Right. You got to do something. And you're like, well, agreed. Agreed. Right. But here's the thing. The examples you have are you're going to get murdered if you even look at a police officer. Right. So that's changing the stakes. So from, so now we're caught in this period of trying to understand what tactics will work. Who is, who can lead this? Because it's certainly

not the politicians. Right. and you're stuck in this place, which is also funny too, because you think for like American people who are like, oh, I mean, look, what else you can do? Like, what can we do? It's like, oh, so do you understand, like, why people flee other countries, too? Right. Like when you're in a situation where it's like, you know, I haven't really thought about it. I think they just came here for the opportunity. It's, it's all like, my head's fucking spinning right now. Yeah. But maybe let's take a break because there's more to talk about, too, all of us. We'll be right back. And we're back. Yeah. Yeah, I guess the other question, like my first question is like, who the fuck is that person, grab that person, like the person who just murdered somebody in broad daylight in front of, you know, dozens of witnesses. Like, where are they going? Why are they able to just, like, walk away?

Why are the other ice agents around them, like, fist bumping and, like, seem to be, like, laughing in the immediate aftermath of it? So, I mean, yeah, people immediately called for an investigation of what happened and, you know, potentially a prosecution of the person who, again, obviously committed cold-blooded murder in broad daylight in front of a bunch of witnesses and, you know, while people were filming. And the latest we have is that the FBI is not, is officially blocking the investigation into the death. without offering any explanation. Yeah, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, I think, is what the Minnesota's sort of like law enforcement investigation body is. They thought it was going to be like a cooperative thing. And then they've just said, the feds have said, they're not allowing us to access anything.

Anything. No evidence, no nothing. So now Cash Patel's fucking band of fucking weirdos is probably, who knows what they're going to come out with. but I'm sure I doubt that they're going to come to the conclusion that this person actually needs to be held to account. It was interesting because Tom Homan, the Borders are who in real life drunken Barncat, was doing his first reaction was, we're going to have to look at this. Yeah, yeah.

You're going to have to take a second and look at this and really figure out what's happened. Let the investigators do their jobs in a shooting like this. It's not good to jump to conclusion. conclusions, which was kind of wild because every single person of the administration was like, their left-wing domestic terrorists, they deserve them. They were trying to ram the car. And someone must have got to him because then he kind of switched his tune up right after. But it was interesting to see that one.

He was like, all right, I looked at it. Sorry. I just needed literally a second. Looked at it. We're good here. No, but he was even like, he was leaning on his like law enforcement experience. Like, I've been a cop since 1984 and like, this is just how you have to do things. And then.

you have to go out of your way to murder somebody as they drive by you yeah but then you do an investigation and then you'll smear them and then you'll be you know free from any consequence i mean like the one thing is that people are talking about is that this uh ice agent would it be uh immune from state charges potentially but yeah i mean there's no way that there's going to be federal charges there is the question that people are talking about like there's the law has generally been favorable to federal officials who violate state criminal laws. And this dates back to a very strange case involving a U.S.

marshal who shot and killed a lawyer and former chief justice of the state of California who had a beef with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field. And so the U.S. And he was like their bodyguard. Yeah, he was working as the bodyguard and shot this guy on a train who was threatening a member of the Supreme Court. But last year, the court, in a case, Trina Martin, who her house was mistakenly rated by the FBI in 2017, and, like, they burned her carpet, broke her doors, fractured her railings,

and the FBI was like, yeah, that's, hey, that sounds like a YP to me, to you, to me, not our problem. And so that actually got advanced all the way to the Supreme Court who was like, yeah, no, like, you can't just, like, do that. That seems that you can't. If you're clearly in the wrong, then they can sue you. And so people, I mean, it's still very vague, but it does seem like they can maybe. There's some standing here. But even then, that feels so inadequate.

Somehow, because it's such a larger thing. And I think that's why this is such a instructive moment. This is such a big moment for elected Democrats. Right. And I'm not optimistic. No. But they should be shutting the government down. They have to, like something has to happen that can grind this government to a halt

on some level to try and get people to fucking wake up to what exactly is happening. It's just, it's getting, it's getting worse and worse. And I think, you know, this is like the kind of, I've, I've used this example before this, that I remember talking about this in 2020 about people turning a blind eye to, out of control policing and white supremacy is like, it's like mold on a loaf of bread. And just because the mold is at the other end of the loaf and you're on this end of, it doesn't mean that it's not coming for you eventually. Yeah.

And then the process consumes everything around you until it gets to you. And so the idea that people, that you're safe from this or this is that this will somehow just kind of even out, I think is a false sense of comfort. And at a minimum, I think it's very important that at a minimum, right, you know. need to really begin to organize the community that you're in. And not to say that you are in charge of organizing the community that you're in, but you need to really get engaged with your neighbors. You really need to, because that is the one way. That's like the first thing you need to have. Because if you know everybody around you and you know their needs and they know your needs and

they know what you got, what you bring to the table, they know what they can bring to the table, that is a sense of community that is very potent. And it's something. that we've done for millions of years as human beings, the idea of being social and caring for each other. And I think that's an instinct that Donald Trump absolutely wants to like cauterize in the American public. Oh, yeah. So they don't do things like videotape ICE agents to try and hold them to account

and do all these other things. And it's just a very, yeah, I'm not sure what is going to be done at a federal level to change anything. Oh, I don't think anything at a federal level. Yeah, I think you're exactly right. That's why it has to be very, very local. Yeah, it's just like interpersonal because it's, yeah, they're doing everything. And, you know, they're taking us out of the context of that every time you're on, like, social media or the, in the news feed like that.

They're taking it out. They're trying to abstract us from the people. around us and, you know, make it so that we're part of this larger project of white supremacy and violence and just makes it easier for them to kind of manipulate and control. Yeah. And yeah, now I think, and predictably now, like, the line from the administration of Republicans at large is like, you know, the people of Minnesota are being seditioned. now. The mayor of Minneapolis

is seditious because he said told ICE to get the fuck out of Minneapolis. Yeah. And again, the same it's the same rhetoric is also like of trying to explain what happened is, well, this is happening because we have out of control political rhetoric and the left is vilifying and demonizing law enforcement. So you're getting these out of control vigilantes who are vigilantes. What Who the fuck is ice, bro?

What do you think? You are creating these people and giving them uniforms. So try to, you know, really guard your sense of humanity right now because it's like a full core press. Like we're clearly in this new, there's clearly this next phase of escalation that's happening. Because I also think a lot of this is tied to the looming midterms. Yeah. Where the Republicans privately are completely despondent and nihilist. about their chances of holding on.

They can't let that, they can't let those happen, essentially seems to be where they are at in terms of the political reality of the situation. And so I feel like everything that happens going forward should be at least partially understood through that lens that they are going to lose their ability to do this overall project

if they let those elections happen. And so here we go. And, you know, unfortunately, the nature of our politics has allowed for just these like self-centered like neoliberals to enter Congress at a time of like relative quote unquote stability. Okay. Like I use that very like, you know, terms and conditions apply to that terms to be. Right. But now that we are in a moment that requires people of tremendous character in those positions, I like you're seeing what

happen. It's like, well, all the people that you put on to the starting five are actually not built for this fight at all. And that's another thing that I think just, I think the one thing I'm trying to tell myself is like everything, knowing your community and knowing what is immediately around you and being able to shore up that kind of support is step one. And that's not scary at all. It does have to be scary, but trust that that is a source of safety. It's fun and life affirming to get to know people.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing this in my new neighborhood now. Nice. You know, and I'm heartened by the fact that like when I talk to people, they're also like, oh, you should meet so-and-so up the street. Oh, I'll introduce you. Oh, this other thing. And I'm not doing it on some, like, what are we going to do about white supremacy type shit? I'm just like, hey, how you doing? What do you? Oh, what's up?

Cool. I just moved over here. Oh, really nice to meet you. Oh, what do you do? Oh, okay, that's your kid. Great. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, what's your number? okay cool oh you work for the just that just that alone creates the kinds of bonds that help you realize that you are not facing any of this by yourself because right now it's so easy to look at your cell phone and look at just a fucking doom scroll that everyone I'm sure is doing and go holy fuck and feel so isolated and powerless. And it's seen that the people around you are like these assholes that you're seeing on you know

who might be in fucking Russia for you know like as we found when they made people's locations public earlier. So you can rush it. I think it might still seem far-fetched to people that, like, Trump is going to suspend the elections and suspend democracy. But, like, the, everything that has happened so far in this second term has really, like, that, that writer M. Gessen, who lived through the rise of Putin and is like, you know, you will be like, man, this is as bad as it can get. And then a year later, you'll be like, Like, man, when we said it was as bad as it could get, it was so much better than it is now.

I feel like people need to understand. Like, this is, it's going in that direction. Absolutely. I mean, everything has just been a steady march towards America being a fascist dictatorship. And I think the one thing I think about, too, especially as it become a parent, or I've become now that I am a parent, is that my child will not have. have anything close to the childhood I had in this country. Like, and not that it was idealistic or everything,

but like just knowing how different that is, because I wasn't, I was like right before the mass shooting generation. Yeah. So like I never knew lockdown drills, but now that stuff happens for him. And now, and we didn't have ice goons around.

I was just police officers batting up people of color. But like in this, in this way with this kind of, Yeah, I mean, so much is on the line. And I think I'm, I'm, I'm like talking to my friends. I'm like, we need real leaders. Yeah. And not to say that like we can't figure these things out on our own,

but I'm hoping that some movement, like a tangible movement can come out of this that is truly people led. Where people understand what the stakes are for just like normal working Americans and can figure to like find a way to move. Yeah. toward something that feels a little more just. But I think their plan is worse than we are imagining or worse than a lot of people are imagining. Yeah. I think their ability to execute it might be, I don't know, like, tenuous based on the fact that

it, you know, what we've seen from Trump and what we've seen from the people that he's put into power. But we'll see. But I think that like all the more reason that we need to find ways, we need to find leadership. we need to find ways to resist. All right. That's going to do it for us this morning. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourself. Get your back to your neighbors if you haven't already. Yeah. Just a little step. Just say hi. Get to know how. Who are your kids?

What are they up to? Maybe don't lead with who are your kids. Hey, who are your kids, man? Hey, man. Is this kid yours? What? No, no. All right. Anyway, I just moved. I, all right, never mind. You say, never mind and leave. Never mind. Never mind. Never mind. Spreaded away. Get your vaccines. We still can't get your flu shots. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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