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your support. Well well, well, well, well, well well. Los
Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew. What how why,
making arrests moments after the curfew took effect, while deploying
officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break
up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump's
immigration correct down. This is according to the Associated Press.
Hours later, many of the protesters had dispersed, although sporadic
confrontations continued that were much smaller than in previous nights. Hmm,
you can't see it, but I'm stroking my goatee right now. Hm. Hm.
Are we saying that maybe a large law enforcement presence
and a curfew might actually disperse crowds and lead to
smaller groups that take to the streets. There may be
a lesson here. People. Officials said the curfew was necessary
to stop vandalism and theft by agitators looking to cause trouble. Wait,
you're telling me that looting the Adidas shop is not
helping the immigrants. How's that possible. I'm so confused. The
demonstrations have been mostly concentrated. So again, remember this is
the common theme. This is the narrative you will hear
and have been hearing. And I keep pointing this out
every time I encounter it, which is Los Angeles is
really big, y'all. And you know these protests, these demonstrations,
fiery but mostly peaceful that they are. They're only occurring
in these very very very tiny tenC weency little places,
like most people don't even see this stuff. They keep
hammering this narrative, and the Associated Press does so as well,
with a full paragraph telling us the square mileage of
the downtown area. The demonstrations have been mostly concentrated downtown,
and the curfew covers a one square mile section. That's it.
So outside outside of the one square mile, no curfew,
just right here. They have occurred since the area includes
where the protests have occurred since Friday in the sprawling
city of four million. The city of Los Angeles encompasses
roughly five hundred square miles. Once again, everybody, Los Angeles
is big. It is so big. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom
accused Donald Trump of drawing a military dragnet across the
nation's second largest city. That's absolutely not true, with his
escalating use of the National Guard, which again is there
to protect the federal law enforcement officers. That's why the
National Guard is there because Democrats. This is a question,
why do Democrats in these cities? And I will say,
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, although I
don't think they deserve it, But why do they have
a perception or a belief that these riots should not
be put down immediately? Why do they allow this to occur?
They obviously feel like that there is some incentive, right,
so there is some perception of an incentive. I don't
know if it's a real incentive. I don't know if
it's true, but they definitely have some belief that this
is to their benefit, that the governor of the state,
the mayor of the city, whatever. There is some perceived
benefit for allowing this stuff to occur. And if I'm
going to kind of walk through some of the angles
on it, I'm going to think, Okay, well, maybe they
have the perception that this kind of chaos hurts Donald Trump,
that can somehow use this against Donald Trump. And we're
seeing some of that, So that would be evidence that
that may be the case. That you have the ICE
raids and investigating. By the way, the ICE raid that
started all of this actually wasn't even a it wasn't
a workforce compliance raid or something like that. An it
was a criminal investigation into money laundering tariff evasion. They
picked up a bunch of people with like murder wraps
and stuff and connections with the cartels, and this is
what prompted people to take to the streets and to
try to block ICE agents from removing these criminals. So
that's what prompts it. Then, of course, the reaction you
know in Olenski Rules for radicals saw Alensky's Rules for radicals,
you know, the action is your opponent's reaction. So you
you take to the streets, you get them to attack
you or something, and then you use that to claim victimhood,
and that delegitimizes their actions. So make that the the
inflammatory actions. Right. This is why Trump is inflaming the
situation even further because first it was the Ice raid,
and it was the calling in the National Guard. So
they obviously perceive a benefit to letting their cities burn
and letting their businesses be looted. Right, they perceive a
benefit to themselves politically. And I can't help but notice
the irony. You know, the people who join the National Guard.
I'm just going to go out on a lim and
say most of them are not leftists, right, They're probably
usually on the right, just politically speaking, if they're political
at all. A lot of people in the National Guard
sign up to serve their country, right, They love America,
they're patriots. So you've got Democrat leaders that allow leftists
to burn their cities down and then rely on conservatives
to come in and quell the violence. And at some
point one has to wonder, why are we doing this anymore?
Just let the city burn? No, PDE you can't say that. Well,
I mean, if they don't care enough about their city
to save it, then why should we import people to
help them save it. Governor Newsom asked a court to
put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents,
with some National guardsmen now standing in protection around agents
as they carry out arrests. Newsom said it would only
heighten tensions and promote civil unrest. See enforcing law promotes
civil unrest. That's their argument. That's what I mean. If
you take the personalities out of it and just listen
to the ideas being formulated and promoted. The idea here
is that enforcing law law promotes civil unrest, and that
is a recipe for self immolation, self destruction, then there's
no point in having any law zero. Well okay, yes,
unless right J six unless you need to use them
against use the laws against the J sixers, right, okay.
So they want a separate set of laws for themselves.
They want to be able to break whatever laws they
want without ramification, and then they want to hold you
to laws if you do something they don't like. Trump
has activated more than four thousand National Guard members seven
hundred marines over the objections of city and state leaders.
They were originally deployed to protect federal buildings. I would
also add to that associated press line there that also agents,
you know, the people it's not just the buildings, it's
also the people. Demonstrations have spread to other cities nationwide,
including Dallas and Austin, Texas, Chicago, New York, but the
Los Angeles Mayor Karen dumb Bass declared a local emergency
on the fifth day of protests and said the curfew
is going to run eight pm last night until six
am this morning, and it's going to last for several days.
She said we reached a tipping point after twenty three
businesses were looted. She said that yesterday. The curfew does
not apply to residents who live in the designated area.
People who are homeless, of course, not credential because the
rules don't apply to them either. They can crap on
the sidewalks. Credential, media and public safety and emergency officials,
they're all exempt. Trump left open the possibility of invoking
the Insurrection Act, which authorizes the president to deploy military
forces inside the US to suppress rebellion or domestic violence
or here's the key to enforce the law in certain situation.
It's one of the most extreme emergency powers available to
a president. Yes, and it's meant for circumstances like this,
because what we're seeing is extreme behavior, all right. If
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how much it'll cost to get one of those airplanes
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I would submit. The escalation towards violence in these protests
is actually coming from Democrats and the left. I think
it's pretty clear it's not the ICE operations that do.
That's just simply law enforcement. Now, you can oppose the law,
but when you take to the streets and then start
pelting law enforcement officers, you're the ones in the wrong.
You're not the one influencing. The ICE is not the
one inflaming any situation. They're doing their jobs enforcing the law.
You throwing the bricks and such, you're inflaming the situation
that then prompts a response from law enforcement. The response
is to get you to stop behaving in a violent way.
And Democrats leadership like Gavin Newsom who said Trump's actions
are the start of an assault on democrasee and then
I got this, this is forwarded to me. I can't
tell who forwarded it to me, but this is from
the Democrats dot com. Activist at democrats dot com, Hi friend.
Trump's imposition of fascism on America began on June eighth,
when he ordered California's National Guard to suppress peaceful protests. Again,
that is not true. The National Guard was not brought
in to suppress peaceful protest. The National Guard was brought
in to protect law enforcement officers who had been attacked
and federal facilities, and to guard those facilities that had
been attacked. But they just lie. The Democrat Party is
simply lying to their people, lying to their activists, lying
to their voters. Why in an attempt to gin up anger,
Why they think it's their pathway to power. It's actually,
as I was watching Mark Halperin's podcast, I think it's
called I think it's called two way. It's TDS. Just
like caller Tony exhibited, it's Trump derangement syndrome. This man
ran on a platform of immigration enforcement and he won.
He won bigley, so this should not be a surprise.
And he is within his rights. He is within the
law to do this thing. You are not within your
rights or the law to attack law enforcement officers. That's illegal,
and that means you will be met with overwhelming force
because that's what the government has the monopoly on, right.
So why would you encourage your people, if you're Democrat leaders,
why would you encourage your people to go out and
do this TDS Yeah, or they think that there's some
political benefit that they derive. And when you write this
kind of a fundraising message and a link to join
a protest near you so you can get these huge numbers,
that's what this is about. They're calling the Ice raids cruel. Again.
They targeted a money wandering operation with connections to the
cartels and Mexico. Trump then escalated his fascist assault by
ordering seven hundred marines to help suppress the peaceful protests
without invoking the Insurrection Act, in violation of Posse Coomitatus Act,
which prohibits military deployments against civilians in the US. Again,
they were sent to protect the facilities and the agents.
And now they're talking also will impeach him again, But
we can't until we take back the house. So send
us money and find a protest site near you. That's
the Democrats incentive is to keep their base so angry,
and you know what, if we have to have some violence,
then so be it. Brooke Taylor, who is a let
me see here, she is a Fox News national correspondent
based in Dallas. She reports on Twitter Ice sources confirm
with me that Homeland Security Special response teams will be
deployed to Blue cities ahead of anticipated protests happening this weekend.
These riots are not going to deterrists. One source involved
in planning says, quote, we are here doubling down, and
enforcement operations are going to happen. If anything, we will
be arresting more illegal aliens in these locations. The wall
just got ten feet taller. I mentioned this the other day,
this escalation between the Feds and the States. This is
a nullification fight. The states, run by Democrats are trying
to nullify federal law, in this case, immigration law. This
was predicted in the Fourth Turning. The author, the surviving
author of the two has said, we are in the
fourth turning, the crisis phase, the winter. It's like four seasons.
They last about twenty years and you end up in crisis.
And every time we have hit this fourth turning in
American history, we have war. It's about it every eighty years,
and you have different generational mindsets that grow up in
these different time periods. You're you know, spring, summer, fall, winter.
And I'm not going to go into all of the details,
but one of the things that the author predicted, and
he made a whole bunch of predictions, and like all
of them came true basically except this one last one,
which is that it would be a nullification crisis that occurs,
and he predicted it would be around the issue of immigration.
And he thought years ago that it was going to
be a state like Texas trying to nullify federal authority
over immigration because the Feds are not enforcing the law.
And so Texas tried to enforce immigration law and tried
to secure their border, and Biden ensued them saying, you
can't do it. That's our job, which we are refusing
to do. Also, that did not prompt a nullification crisis.
This this is a nullification crisis. This is blue state
Democrat governors and mayors attempting to nullify federal law and
using their ground troops, their shock troops on the streets
to stop enforcement of federal law to nullify it, not
through the courts. And not through legislative action, but through violence.
And the last time democrats were so keen to maintain
an indentured servant class, we had the Civil War. So
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mentioned some of this yesterday the SEIU California president, David Horta,
that's the guy who got arrested for interfering with the
ICE operations. RedState dot COM's Jennifer Van Laher again, I
went over this in depth yesterday. I'm just mentioning it
because there's been a development. She wrote about the Coalition
for Humane Immigrant Rights or c h I r L
A turla Okay. And so they are one of the
two NGOs along with the Party for Socialism and Liberation,
that have been implicated in the in the ongoing riots.
And so now Senator Josh Hawley, who is the chair
of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and counter Terrorism, has
drafted a letter saying, due to regarding your organization's alleged
role in financing and materially supporting the coordinated protests and
riots that have engulfed Los Angeles in recent weeks, peaceful
protest is fine, blah blah blah, but they have instructed
federal law enforcement and dangered public safety. Disrupted the rule
of law. This lawlessness is unacceptable. It must end. Credible
reporting suggest your organization has provided logistical support and financial
resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive actions, and then
he goes on to give them a cease and desist
and demand for records from November fifth, twenty twenty four,
all the way through the present all internal communications regarding
funding coordination, and it's just a whole list of things
donor lists included, and if they fail to comply, additional
action by the subcommittee, including potential referral for criminal investigation.
So that letter went out, believe today, yes today. Now
I mentioned also Mexico. This is from John Daniel Davidson
at the Federalist dot com. Various leftist groups are that
are in all likelihood funding and organizing these riots, similar
to how BLM organized in the summer of twenty twenty
in the hopes they'll spread to every major city. But
there's another political player in this drama that's gotten much
less attention. That is the Mexican government's ruling Morena Party
under the leadership of President Claudia Schinbaum. The first thing
to understand about Morena, the party and the Mexican political
establishment is that it is essentially a criminal enterprise that has,
over the past decade merged with the country's major cartels.
Mexico essentially lost the drug war that began in two
thousand and six, and since at least twenty thirteen, the
state has been so thoroughly infiltrated by the cartels, particularly
the Sinaloa, that today it's difficult to tell where one
stops and the other begins. The cartels, of course, are
not just drug trafficking organizations any longer. During the Biden administration,
they figured out how to monetize illegal immigration, which became
a major source of income for their organizations and networks.
Those networks now include elements of the Guadia Nacional and
the Instituto Nacional de Mergracion, the country's federal immigration authority,
both of which were key players in the cartel's migrant
trafficking operations. All of that is by way of brief background.
On Sunday afternoon, responding to the riots over the weekend,
Shinbaum and Mexican nationals living in the US or She
said that Mexican nationals living here are heroes and denounced
Trump's attempts to enforce federal immigration law. Quote. We disagree
with this approach to the migration phenomenon, is what she
called it during a press conference. It is not about
raids or violence, but rather working on a comprehensive reform
that takes into account the Mexicans on the other side
of the border. That is our position. Always call for peace,
to not exacerbate any form of violent protest. She said.
Mexican nationals in the US are not criminals, but good,
honest men and women who left to seek a better
life for themselves and to support their families. Yeah, it
doesn't matter. They're your people. They're coming home. The President
of Mexico has basically sided with the rioters waving Mexican
flags over and against federal authorities attempting to enforce US
immigration law on American soil. And the irony here is
that Mexico does not allow foreign nationals to engage in
any political activities in Mexico, including protests. Just last month,
she threatened to mobilize protests in America to push back
against the tariffs or the taxes. Rather on remittances from
the US to Mexico. Why it is a massive amount
of money. It is a huge portion of her country's GDP.
Now lo and behold, we have protests and riots in
Los Angeles over an issue that intersects directly with the
interests of Mexico's ruling politico narco class. The New York
Times reported in February of twenty four on the very
robust connections between Lopez Obrador and that's the former president,
between him and the powerful Cineloa drug cartel. And when
The New York Times did that story, a group of
quote protesters showed up days later outside the offices of
the New York Times. The Texas Public Policy Foundation reported
the Mexican regime has become increasingly hostile to American sovereignty,
repeatedly threatening to interfere in our elections and target American
lawmakers for attempting to secure the border and fight the cartels.
The Morena government in Mexico seized the presence of large
numbers of Mexican nationals living in the U S as
a strategic asset that can be, if needed, mobilized to
advance its own interests. So the cartel state partnership in
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I went over the nonprofits. We got the NGOs, we
got the Mexican government slash cartels, and then we have
the union factor as well. National review piece by Will Swam.
All social movements require a patron Saint. Californians who support
illegal immigration believe they have theirs in David Horta, cident
of these States SEIU Union. They arrested him and he
has now become their martyr. He's charged with conspiracy to
impede an officer, which can carry up to six years
in prison, and the SEIU on Twitter then said that
Ice picked the wrong side, the wrong state, the wrong person,
and the wrong union, and he has declared himself a
victim of police violence. Gavin Newsom immediately reposted the SEIU claim,
saying Huerta is a respected leader, a patriot and an
advocate for working people. He was joined, you know, by
Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, all the usual suspects. The LA
Times joined in saying Ice arrested a California union leader.
Does Trump understand what that means? He got the United
farm Workers, Teachers Union, California Federation of Labor, even college Professors,
Screen Actors Guild even got in on that. But it
was left to The New York Times to note a
deeper truth that California's private and public sector unions are
losing ground and the LA Riots are a marketing opportunity
for them. So once again note the incentives quote. Organized
Labour's embrace of immigrants rights is also a numbers game.
In California and many other parts of the country, Immigrants,
documented and undocumented, dominate the workforce, especially in the service sector,
and that's especially true of the SEIU. Since the Supreme
Court decision in twenty eighteen this is the union membership
decision the Janus case, its revenue has been cut in half.
Always an explicit part of the union's business plan, illegal
immigrants are now more important than ever. This is existential
to the SEIU. They were the first to Crack the
Code by the way back in nineteen eighty eight the
Justice for Janitor's La campaign, and they refused to distinguish
between legal and illegal immigrants. So, as Swain calls it,
they've been operating as kind of a human trafficking organization
that also functions as a labor union. SCIU recruits, even
coerces those illegal immigrants to pay SAIU membership dues in
exchange for the promise of higher wages, of course, but
also legal protection in the face of immigration enforcement. Pay
us will protect you. Does that sound like a model
that some other organizations have used. In twenty fifteen, SEIU
strategy had become standard operating procedure for the state Democrat Party.
The union co hosted townholes with then state Attorney General
Kamala Harris and Spanish language broadcaster Univision. When Harris left
the US Senate to serve as Joe Biden's Vice president
in twenty twenty one, Gavin Newsom appointed Lafonza Butler to
replace Harris. She is the SEIU United Long Term Care President.
In twenty seventeen, the first year of Trump's first term,
SCIU helped write and lobby for passage of the bill
that made California a sanctuary state. The SEIU followed that
with the passage of AB four fifty, the Immigrant Worker
Protection Act, in twenty twenty two. Having failed for decades
to organize workers in the fast food industry, the SCIU
persuaded state lawmakers and the governor to establish the state's
first government run union. They called it the Fast Food Council,
comprising SEIU representatives, politically aligned democrats appointed by the governor,
two SCIU supported state lawmakers, and a minority block of
willing corporate franchisers. The council has absolute power to set
industry wages and work rules, including a rule m HM
that bars fast food employers from asking about your immigration status.
SCIU ran point on organizing the Los Angeles Rapid Response
Network that was a coalition of immigrant rights advocates along
with religious leaders and union activists working to quote counter
the anti immigrant policies of the Trump administration. One member
of that coalition runs the phone tree that activists use
to report the presence of ICE officials on Friday. Other
coalition members set up surveillance teams to monitor federal law enforcement.
This is the SEIU California has opened wide the door
to illegal immigrants, seducing them with the promise of work
for those who wanted, of course, but also public benefits
housing and food, is sistance, education, and medical care. In
twenty sixteen, SEIU, through its support behind a State Health
for All Kids initiative, which extended Medicaid coverage to undocumented children.
They then extended that to young adults four years later
in twenty twenty. That took it all the way up
to twenty six year olds, and then it was further
expanded to adults over the age of fifty in twenty
twenty two, and then in twenty four Newsom included all
illegal aliens and an annual cost of like ten billion dollars.
Union dollars are essential to Democrats control of the state,
and illegal immigration is central to union growth. David Horta
is no saint, but as swam says, he is clearly
a marketing and political genius. Cartels, Mexican government, NGOs, Democrats
and unions those are the ones funding the riots. Don't
take my word for it, look it up yourself, all right.
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