Uninvited, Trump Escalates Conflict
Trump and Fed’s’ overreach needlessly inflames Angelenos.
A reader, Michael Fox, said it best: “I believe that you go right for the jugular."
What the American people are witnessing is Trump’s replay of a Reichstag fire-type event.
That fire on February 27, 1933, was the spark leading to German martial law. The next day, February 28, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State, aka the Reichstag Fire Decree.
With the decree in place, the German regime was free to:
arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge,
dissolve political organizations, and suppress publications,
overrule state and local laws, and
overthrow state and local government.
President von Hindenburg and the German elite feared communism which had risen markedly in two of the last German elections.
Will that happen here? No. While we are witnesses to a monstrous lie being exploited as a pretext to assert similar power, we do not buy Trump’s BS.
Ours is the home of the brave, and LA is not having any ICE raids. We will lay down our lives for our freedom—in a heartbeat.
We will storm the White House and tar and feather that asshole. Then we will run him out of town on a pole. Mark my words. Mark these words of Edward R. Murrow:
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
George Clooney will do Edward R. Murrow on Broadway. Murrow stood against McCarthyism, the 1950s period of intense anti-Communist suspicion and persecution in the United States. Also known as the “Red Scare”, it was largely fueled by the actions and rhetoric of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
What is Trump the Wimp doing and why? Donald Trump has deployed the US military against the American people in California less than 72 hours after his brawl with Elon Musk. Then came Musk’s incendiary charges about Trump’s pedophilic abuse relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump is out of line involving himself in a local protest with illegal use of the National Guard. He was uninvited, but Trump needs this distraction to cover up his recent failures.
Trump needs media coverup for his demonstrated weakness, and this is that coverup as the current distraction. Further,
no California local or state authorities have requested any federal assistance,
federal troops on the ground will only raise the risk of escalating violence—not decrease it, and
when federal troops on the ground “fails,” the government can use its failure as a basis for a more aggressive domestic deployment of troops, i.e., the Insurrection Act.
ICE looks well prepared in military assault garb. The long billy clubs also show premeditated intent. They fired tear gas canisters without considering the wind direction coming right back on them. Keystone cops come to mind.
Why Trump steps in now! Trump has recently been shown to be entirely ineffective—across the board. Recently, Trump had been totally embarrassed and humiliated. In the last 2 weeks, Trump looks like a wimp. To wit:
Senate Republicans refusing to enact quickly his one Big Beautiful Bill,
Xi Jinping’s refusing to back down on trade (and restricting shipments of China’s rare earths, on which American industry depends),
After Trump bragged of ending the war in Ukraine in 1 day, Putin refusing to end the war in Ukraine,
Federal courts pushing back against Trump’s illegal immigration policies and executive orders,
Having to admit he was lying and actually could bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.,
Trump being labeled the Tariff TACO for chickening out every time on tariffs he illegally imposed, and
Musk, with a much larger social media megaphone, insulting and smearing Trump.
The bromance breakup is crushing Trump who needs a coverup to hide from the exposé. Musk’s X megaphone is much bigger than Trump’s Truth Social. Trump looks to me like a wimpish, demented, dumb weakling; wimp for short.
Backed into a corner, a rat is dangerous. So expect the wimp to escalate the situation. He is condoning federal and state abusive force unnecessary to meet a peaceful protest. Do you come out of a building en masse shooting, as you see in this clip?
What Then Do We Do? We will match his escalations with resistance in much larger numbers. We must match the abuse, but peacefully.
Frankly, if we all lay down in the street, it takes 2 of them to carry 1 of us to the paddy wagon. (Make sure the paddy wagon is held off at a distance from the skirmish line.) And 2 more of us protestors can then reoccupy your vacated spot in the street. Don’t forget to break out of the paddy wagon when they tire and their numbers thin. There will be 12 of us in there and just 3 of them outside. Rush out and scatter quickly. Lol.
Last week 118 people were detained by ICE in Los Angeles, including over the weekend, 40. A very ineffective waste of time and money. This is utterly ridiculous.
It is time to protest in the streets, as Jackson Brown sang, til you go down. Yes, lay down in their streets.
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At this point I think a lot of ICE is made up of January 6th insurrectionists, Proud boy's operatives (same thing) and just plain MAGA people haters (oh yes mainly brown people haters). It's pretty obvious that there's no soul or conscience beneath the mask. Just like there was no conscience among the SS troops led by Hitler. What's next, throwing babies against a wall? I shudder to think.
Spot on. Who are these "troops" and ICE "agents" ? All just following orders to attack unarmed law abiding citizens? Do these "troops" & "agents" understand their roles and what it is they are being ordered to do? Have they grown up in AMERICA? Are they robots? Do they tell themselves the big bowl of bs they are being ordered to eat each day tastes mmmmyummy??