It is unknown at this time if the President, Donald J. Trump is walking around with a grin and an erection. However, despite his age, the odds are he is. If he isn't for some reason--perhaps a defective batch of Viagra--we can be assured his aide, the Director of the Department of Xenophobia, Stephen Miller is.
Why shouldn't they? When they sent large numbers of ICE agents dressed in paramilitary gear into the Paramount and garment districts of Los Angeles they were hoping and praying for an angry and massive response from the Hispanic community. Then they got it. Indeed, crowds in the streets, objects hurled at members of law enforcement agencies, cars set on fire. It was exactly the media event they had planned. The perfect sort of photo op that would reinforce to white Americans everywhere that hordes of blood thirsty foreigners are out to get US.
FOX News was quick to pick up on that point last night when one of their street reporters ominously told the audience, "The crowd is carrying many foreign flags, but there aren't any American flags." There were many other hints at a broad conspiracy. Other reports on FOX were that unidentified, paid "organizers," were handing out baseball bats, gas masks, and frozen bottles of water to use as projectiles. Still others claimed the leaders were equipped with hand held radios and were in constant communications with roof top spotters who were advising them where and how many police they were facing and which streets to push the mob onto.
Unfortunately, FOX didn't provide us with any photo evidence of the bats, or the roof top observers with radios, but it was assumed they were there, directing traffic and operations. There was one shot of a single guy waving a Mexican flag, but when to comes to the rest we will just have to take their word on it.
All this, "news," led the perpetually outraged, Sean Hannity and others to declare the protests a well organized and financed plot put together by some secret cabal of--well--someone. In other words, unknown persons paid off the crowd then armed them with the express intent of destroying America as we know it. Hannity and his pals demanded the DOJ track down the sources so they could be identified and prosecuted. That's right, all the anger out there couldn't have been provoked because of a raid on one clothing manufacturer which netted 44, or so arrests of mostly women working at sewing machines. Or when agents started arresting a bunch of guys looking for day labor jobs outside of a Home Depot.
The whole pretense of going after foreign gang members was by then gone, although the rhetoric about murderers, rapists, and drug pushers remained. However, that line becomes a tougher sell when you haul off a bunch of seamstresses. As MSNBC's Lawernce O'Donnell pointed out last night, "Gang members don't sew." (The raid on the garment factory was so egregious one ICE official said his agents were actually there to shut the business down because of a history of tax evasion and the arrests themselves were simply a side effect. He chose not to explain how, or when Immigration and Customs Enforcement became involved with handling matters of tax law.)
It doesn't matter. Trump and Miller got exactly what they wanted, chaos on the streets in a democratic controlled city. The howls of the mayor and governor just bolster their claim liberals are selling real Americans and the country as a whole down the river--that the, "lunatic left," wants us to be overrun by people who speak a different language and are a different color.
One thing can be said of Trump and Miller, they know where to start a new age pogrom. The vast MAGA world ranging from Idaho to the deep south considers California a nightmare of liberalism, filled with Hispanics, Asians, and Hollywood elitists, not to mention scads of run amok drag queens. Most react to the name Gavin Newsom the same way they react to say, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, or Nancy Pelosi. The President is dead on, the only way to reign these crazy fuckers in is to deploy the National Guard and Marines.
Or, as Hannity said last night in a moment of faux compassion, "I pray for the good citizens of Los Angeles who are having to go through this violence." Left unsaid, but understood, was the violence that was tolerated and even encouraged by the city and state's elected leaders.
This morning Donald Trump justified his order federalizing the California National Guard over Newsom's objections, saying, "If we weren't there that city would be in flames." In fact, Newsom has become such a pain in the ass to him, yesterday he suggested the head of ICE should arrest the Governor. Newsom told him in effect, come and get me. As of this writing the Governor remains at large.
In truth last night we probably learned more about the three major cable news networks than we did about what was happening in downtown LA last night. FOX, as we've seen went all dark conspiracies and civil war apocalypse while MSNBC shrugged things off to the point their Monday night hosts, Rachel Maddow and O'Donnell barely mentioned what was going on. Meanwhile CNN mixed street coverage of the events with a panel discussion between liberals and conservatives which more than a few times degenerated into all out screaming matches. Before it was over it became incomprehensible yet exquisite madness.
No wonder Trump and Stephen Miller are walking around today with boners. They've got the military in the streets and the rest of us right where they want us.
6-10-25
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