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Tatiana Torres's avatar

This is exactly what they wanted. Ugh

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

Getting ready for Martial law

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Tatiana Torres's avatar

Yep. 😞

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

Heartbreaking and scary as hell, and I have never even lived in America , but to see people disappeared of the streets

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Kara Smith's avatar

I lived in LA/OC during OJ and Rod King.

This is gonna be wayyyyy worse folks.

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Eric Glover's avatar

Ironic it's Compton. Rodney King. Leave it to Nazi Trump, Hegseth, Holman, and Noem to order this in a predominant black and hispanic area.

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Christina Lewis's avatar

You will not see many Black citizens out in the streets. We are minding our business. We already try to help this community in November but their Latino brethren sold them out!

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Lana's avatar
Jun 8Edited

Yeah stay out of it. We don’t need you. When I mentioned to a Black American that I protested when George Floyd was murdered and completely felt a need to stand by them, they came back at me saying they didn’t need us. That we just butt in where we aren’t needed to just insert ourselves for our own benefit. Never did I protest then for my own benefit. What happened made everyone outraged and want to protest in George Flloyd’s honor. However, after getting quite a few people tell me to stay out of it and that Black people don’t need Latinos and we’re just “piggybacking” off them…well, fine. So by the same token, go away then. We don’t need you. Stay away…stop mentioning your unwillingness to help. Stop trying to say how you “helped” this community when November came along and a group of Latinos voted for Trump. I didn’t vote for Trump, many other Latinos didn’t, many couldn’t even vote, many of us are disgusted with Latinos who voted Trump, etc. I don’t mention Blacks who voted for Trump. Because I know many others who didn’t vote for him. So people like you who feel a need to make it known that you won’t help because you tried to say something but our own brethren sold us out, yeah keep quiet and away from us. Like I was told, I now say the same thing YOUR brethren told me…we don’t need you.

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Maria 🫶🏼☮️🇲🇽's avatar

Martial law is not probable. Please look into the logistics of it.

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Dorothy's avatar

Did Governor Newsom request the NG to be deployed? If not, then the Felon In Chief is illegally deploying the Guard. Of course, dictators do this! 🤬😡

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CatChex's avatar

Yes - this.

Newsom needs to speak up - NOW

Where the hell is Newsom?

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Christina Lewis's avatar

Parnas is good, but you are also going to have to go to other news resources to get a full picture of what is going on. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/07/newsom-national-guard-los-angeles-00393526

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CatChex's avatar

Christina, thanks for that link - Politico can be uneven in their reporting, fwiw on a number of topics.

We need a number of news sources, including those beyond LA (example: the LA Times has shredded their own credibility under their current ownership)

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Warrior4Justice's avatar

djt went ahead with this illegally; didnt converse with Newsom about it. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/07/newsom-national-guard-los-angeles-00393526

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Dorothy's avatar

Gov Newsom was doing his jo, UNLIKE what the effin' Felon In Chief claims! The Gov was in touch by phone with the L.A. mayor and other L.A. officials, ordering more CHP units to the scene, AND on the phone with the Felon in the Oval Office (The Felon did not mention that, tho'!).

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Gail Mackenzie-Smith's avatar

google it

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carie's avatar

he is!

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CatChex's avatar

Carie - after I wrote that, I found his statement.

Reporting on this has been poor, as one word. Hoping things have been quiet overnight in LA - just getting to news here again.

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Geri Guerin's avatar

It wouldn't be the first time tRumpy violated the chain of command. Or proper use of the military. Remember 2020 and General Milley?

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carie's avatar

no trump did so Newsom has no power over national guard

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CatChex's avatar

there are various positions on the federalizing of the National Guard - one position is that Newsom may have missed his moment to get ahead of Trump to mobilize the guard before Trump and Homan stepped in - governors do have powers over National Guard units

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Dorothy's avatar

The Felon In Chief unnecessarily federalized the Guard. There was no violence until ICE started it all, but federalizing the Guard was not needed. The M.O. is to make CA's leadership look bad because their grand scheme is to flip CA. CA will flip this regime instead, and not just by giving them the finger! This was the best thing that could happen to expedite CALEXIT.

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

No one would be happier to be wrong than me .

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Weezy's avatar

I don't know why you think that, because Trump is itching for martial law

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Janica  Ribeiro's avatar

Unfortunately , his break up with Musk a distraction for all there is to come .

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Geri Guerin's avatar

Oh boy--just what we need--a demonstration of how stupid our Commander in Chief (or is that Chef?) is and how uninformed our head of the Depart of Defense is. Good gravy--anyone out there have time this weekend to brief Hegseth???

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Geri Guerin's avatar

I'd blame Kristi Noem, but she's probably doing a photo shoot somewhere.

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Eric Glover's avatar

Yea, she's posing in front of the car fire at Dave's Donuts.

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Phyllis Robinson's avatar

Logistics and legality no longer matters Trump administration does what it wants and the supreme courts and Congress are allowing it. It’s looking like martial law law and civil war is in our near future 😡🙁🤦🏾‍♀️🙏🏽

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Meesh P's avatar

They did it in Boston when they were looking for the marathon bombers. Why do you think it would be different? The NG was deployed during the L.A. riots, and the Insurrection Act was enacted.

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Geri Guerin's avatar

National Guard is under the command of the Governor. That's why each State has its own, and the District of Columbia's "Governor" is the President. The same guy who should have called out the troops on Jan. 6th. Probably confused again and doesn't know California isn't Columbia.

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Maria 🫶🏼☮️🇲🇽's avatar

No, it was not officially declared. People were all asked to voluntarily shelter in place. It was not an order backed by martial law.

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Abbie's avatar

On a small scale it's doable. But nationwide, it's impossible to enforce.

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Lauren Primoff's avatar

If the National Guard is under the auspices of the governor, then why doesn’t the governor call them out against ice?

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Abbie's avatar

Yes, let's call the national guard out against a federal agency. While at the same time protesting against the authoritarian government regime.

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Erin's avatar

It doesn't mean they won't try

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Lauren Primoff's avatar

Look at the logistics of anything trump does! There is no legal basis. He does it anyway. Why does anyone do anything he wants? Aren’t members of the military permitted to question whether an action is legal or not, if they have already sworn to uphold and defend the constitution? Why aren’t the National Guard and Marines refusing?

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🩵MZ's avatar

OK Pollyanna

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Carl Young's avatar

welcome to Russia

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Rina Goodman's avatar

Sure looks that way.

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Mark Whitson's avatar

Apply martial law…

Giant tornados in Texas, Oklahoma

Flash flooding

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Weezy's avatar

Just stop!!!!

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Autumn's avatar

Unfortunately because of who is running this place…. I don’t think there was ever a way out of this except with some violence… it’s about to get scary but important that we buckle down and hold them at the line… no revolution has ever been completely peaceful unfortunately

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✨Reli✨'s avatar

People always get upset when I say it.

But the day he won the election we were never getting out of this without suffering and violence.

Once a dictator takes office - with as much of a take over as they have within our government - we were sealed into this fate.

This is all going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

And yes, people are going to suffer and die in the process.

All we can do is keep fighting, find moments of happiness and joy to keep going between it all, build community, and limit as many casualties as you can.

But, I am sorry everyone. None of us wanted this. But we are all going to go through it. Our ancestors went through it. In the cycle of history it is our turn.

Just know in your pain and fear you are not alone. We are in this together. All of us. 💙

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Jill polly's avatar

Yep, buckle up buttercup and pull up you bootstraps.

We have to stay visible and vocal to be successful. This is a blue revolution. It is televised.

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Carl Young's avatar

1968 DNC National Convention.. POLICE RIOTED. It can happen again. Vietnam war protests, KENT STATE 4 dead. We have never been this divided since the Civil War. Still safer than Russia!

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Geri Guerin's avatar

Hmmm--think our wonderful Congress would consider usurpation of State's Rights and military a reason to seek impeachment? Where is Mr. Kinzinger when you need him??

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Phyllis Robinson's avatar

I agree, 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙁🇺🇸

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Tawnya Perez's avatar

I've been saying this exact thing since November. It's going to get better eventually, but it has to get worse first. Our govt isn't going to save us, we need a civil war. 😔

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Denise's avatar

Agree 1000000%

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OddBird79's avatar

I'm not surprised that LA set it off!! They have the turnout 🔥🔥🔥

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Jafort25's avatar

Dictatorship is exactly what he wants. The rest of the world has seen it coming. Why hasn't the US?

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✨Reli✨'s avatar

Decades of propaganda, turning the population against each other, keeping several portions of the population unaware with poor education, indoctrination within communities, etc.

There are lots of ways that millions of people can be brainwashed and fooled.

White supremacists, Christian nationalists, technocrats, and Russia worked together to use them all as a team since the 80’s.

This is a long game - years and years worth of work from corrupt assholes working together behind the scenes.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Americans still think "it can't happen here," even though it's happening right in front of thrum.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

According to the magat/republican cult, all the “migrants are illegal “ and “criminals “ so all is good, and deporting them is what they deserve. Honestly, the cult have no clue what due process is or anything about the immigration legal process. It doesn’t occur to them that their felonTACO47 god-king was treated to due process, found guilty in a court of law and found guilty of 34 felonies. But hey, as Jeff Tiedrich says, “he’s a very special guy “, so he was picked on by the meanie legal system.

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Alexis's avatar

Sonehow I was on the right wing side of Substack and that's exactly how they think. They're also extremely racist and want white supremacy but hey assholes this was not your country ever. Remember your ancestors were colonizers and stole it from the Natives but they also don't know or care about history...

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Mark Whitson's avatar

I have seen it coming…

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✨Reli✨'s avatar

What do we do as the alternative? Let **ICE** raid the city? This is hard.

(Since apparently saying “them” was too vague for people to get I was talking about the bad guys.)

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R. Hagen's avatar

This started as a peaceful protest. Our government is creating the riot. That is the most important point.

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Cleo Maxwell's avatar

EXACTLY!

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Tatiana Torres's avatar

I agree. It was a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation.

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Dorothy's avatar

The protesters are not "raiding" the city!

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✨Reli✨'s avatar

No… ICE is raiding the city. What are you talking about?

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Geri Guerin's avatar

Well, in all fairness, Reli, you mentioned "let them raid the city." It was a tiny bit ambiguous.

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✨Reli✨'s avatar

On a non-maga platform? Okay. Lol

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Danny's avatar

Dosen't mean there aren't any magaa$$ on here.

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Tatiana Torres's avatar

People are just so out of touch and can’t see what’s in front of them. Fox News is rotting their brains

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Phyllis Robinson's avatar

Exactly 😡

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carie's avatar

I know, that's the first thing I thought. They're going overboard of course and will make this out to be, well you know.

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Colleen Barone's avatar

Fuck them! I hope LA riots!

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Barbara Dillard's avatar

No, no you don’t wanna riot. No, this is Trump‘s plan. He’s having ice go there to cause a problem because if people respond back, Trump can claim martial law.

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CatChex's avatar

Which he is likely setting up anyway.

As the National Guard is being deployed (per that slug Homan) and the tanks are rolling into DC ‘for the parade’ - it’s not looking good.

Lots of idiots in this regime have been itching for violence for a long time (see Miller, Hegseth, et al)

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CatChex's avatar

And speaking of the National Guard and California - WHERE is Gavin Newsom on this?

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Cat's avatar

He came out with a comment saying that it is unnecessary and will only escalate tensions.

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CatChex's avatar

well... um... how definitive of him, right?

He couldn't make a stronger statement there?

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Cat's avatar

It was quite…diplomatic. I was hoping for a more fiery response.

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Barbara Dillard's avatar

The National Guard in California is a joke. The protesters aren’t even doing anything and the National Guard is shooting off smoke bombs. They’re trying to cause a problem.

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Dorothy's avatar

Trump and his regime wants everyone to be afraid. Do not allow them to put fear in you!

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Geri Guerin's avatar

I REALLY would like to see if Congress can beat the time it took to start impeachment proceedings in 2020...and finish it properly. Then, get Jack back to finish his Florida stuff. With a caveat to JD that any mention of a pardon for any of this would not be well received.

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Dorothy's avatar

No need to stop with impeaching and removing Trump. The entire regime must go.

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Geri Guerin's avatar

And tell McConnell and Rand Paul Kentucky wants you to do your job, not pretend tRumpy is harmless.

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Colleen Barone's avatar

I disagree. This shit has got to stop! No one is fighting back!!!!

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Patricia Welch's avatar

I want the GOP to rot Not California!

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Light Warder's avatar

What's gonna rot when migrant farm workers are snatched off the farms?

Whose gonna buy the rotted produce?

The farm owners are gonna be pissed, even if they did vote for taco.

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Cat's avatar

But they will still vote republican in the future.

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CatChex's avatar

I believe Colleen’s comment was hoping that LA “riots” - not rots.

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Dorothy's avatar

Yes, I think that was the meaning.

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CatChex's avatar

And that "i" in "riots" v "rots"

But - yes - the GOP can rot, they seem to be well on their way in rotting?

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Dorothy's avatar

Yes, lol! 😄 To the core!

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Dorothy's avatar

The original poster misspelled riot.

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Johnny S Baker's avatar

No, Colleen, that’s exactly what they want to stir up! No, No, NO! Trump is the one that has the thugs working for him (he, and practically his entire administration are of the thuggish, brutal mentality, and they demand subservience to them and their views), and they are the ones who are going to instigate violence…. But, you cannot allow their criminal enticements to make you lose your cool!!! That will be playing right into their hands!! Don’t do that…..

Remember MLK and the marches when he lead the desecration efforts. THEY WERE PEACEFUL, and they DID NOT RESPOND WITH VIOLENCE!!!

Don’t forget that! We can win the victory if we respond appropriately; but we can lose this IF you return violence to their fiery provoking that is their frontal plan all along. That is exactly what they want you to do….. so they can throw the full weight of the wicked and evil government leaders against our protests!!!But march PEACEFULLY, holding hands, singing freedom songs like God Bless America, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, This Land Is My Land, America The Beautiful, The Green, Green Grass of Home, and other patriotic songs that remind us all, from hill to dale, from shore to shore, that this land was carved out NOT as a Dictatorship or Autocratic-style Country, but as a Free Republic with majority rule, not a one-man rule with his goons, No!!

And IF we defend the bastions we have been founded upon, peacefully, them the masses will begin to pull out of their driveways and fall in shoulder to shoulder with us, marching to continued freedom in the “Land of the Free because of the Brave!!”

Remember January 6th, 2021….. that was intended to be a show of force….. it was an insurrection….. AND this action that is being promulgated now PROVES that that was the intent back then….. it has just taken four years longer than what the power that be thought it would take…. But, he sure is trying to wrap those reins of autocratic power around his hands firmly now, isn’t he? And he won’t stop unless WE THE PEOPLE rise up to stop him.

There is a verse of prophecy in the Bible that speaks of the ‘power’ that is going on, underway, now that shows the world who is actually behind these evil and strange shenanigans that’s going on in this land and in the world right now. Look it up in 2 Thessalonians Chapter Two right now. And notice whose ‘activity’ it is that bringing all this lawlessness and purely evil transgressions about! Everyone best be looking to God and repenting for your unfaithfulnesses you have been guilty against Him. Because the Evil One knows his time is running out!

God Bless One and All, I pray!

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Greg's avatar

The end of democracy

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Charles Tefft's avatar

NOT SO, WE MUST RESIST ALL AT THE SAME TIME. MAKE HIM FEEL ALONE. ALL ALONE.

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🩵MZ's avatar

No, just a bump in the road

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Colleen Barone's avatar

It will be if we do nothing

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Jennae Bullet's avatar

No, no never wish for riots! Have you lived through them? Have you seen the fear in parents, the fear in children as their neighborhoods are smashed and burned, as the TV is filled with very real violence against protestors? Have you seen the areas that never bounce back, the economic loss to the working poor who cannot be outside, who lose work hours? Have you experienced the burning, the closed business,the flight of the monied?

Why the hell would anyone wish for riots. Some will get killed, some will have lifetime injuries, and many will be charged and punished in ways that impact them for decades to come. Hell no, not riots. Peaceful resistance, hell yes! Sit down en mass and make them pull you away. Riot and you feed the MAGAt beast and lose the support of your fellow citizens. Never.

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Margie Reinitz's avatar

I am angry too, but I prefer a strike, not a riot. I want to shut the entire country down until we can force trump,Vance and Mike Johnson out of office.

That's going to take massive coordination on the part of 171 million of us. This may well be the summer that the military has to decide between trump or the Constitution.

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Melody Barber's avatar

Wtf is wrong with you, just because you don’t live there, real live human beings with families and lives live there!!! It’s people like you that ruin this world!!!

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Lynda Perkins's avatar

He should be more concerned about Iran

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Chelsea's avatar

This is what trump has been waiting for. An excuse for martial law.

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Carol Stark's avatar

Yes and with dictator day right around the corner and lots of if planned resistance activities.......

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jonquist1's avatar

Declare martial law and then a national emergency. Then cancel the 2026 election!

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Chelsea's avatar

It’s his dream come true. And a nightmare for the rest of us.

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Gwen's avatar

Doesn’t the governor control the national guard, not the fucker Trump

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D.Burns's avatar

Normally yes at the state level but these are abnormal times and we have a lunatic in the Whitehouse with the power to Federalize the CG .

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Charles Tefft's avatar

sad

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Gwen's avatar

Hopefully Newsome will set them straight!! This isnt going to be good,

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🩵MZ's avatar

Newsome hasn’t been on social media for nearly 24 hours and it was all bullshit Crap nothing about this. He’s probably at The Laundry having a deconstructed jelly and peanut butter sandwich

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Dorothy's avatar

The Gov was on the phone with our local officials in L.A., as well as with the Felon in Chief occupying the Oval Office, then ordered more CHP units to the scene. IOW, DOING HIS JOB (unlike what the FOTUS says)! After that, the Gov put out a statement to the public and press.

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Cat's avatar

Yes, where is Newsom? It’s maddening that we haven’t heard from him!

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Cat's avatar

He came out with a statement saying it is unnecessary and would only be inflammatory. Basically said California can handle this without Trump federalizing the National Guard.

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Mark Edwards's avatar

Newsome is a coward and a fuckwit.

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Dorothy's avatar

You are full of horse 💩.

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Mark Edwards's avatar

Great comment Dorothy very insightful 🤡

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Dorothy's avatar

Say stupid stuff, get stupid prizes.

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Laura Moylan's avatar

The Governor is supposed to have the last. They are the only ones who can stop. The only way they have no saw is in war time. Then again look at all the shit he’s been doing!!’ WHO KNOWS ANYMORE!!! TRULY SCARY TIMES ARE COMING!!!!

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Charles Tefft's avatar

It's going to require everyone non maga to contribute in person or literally resisting tRUMPS efforts to quell true Americans. We beat Britain over 200 years ago we can whoop this orange a$$hole now. Let's go America! Shove his rhetoric up his anis!!!!!!!

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Geri Guerin's avatar

anus. I know, Charles--you were trying to be polite.

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Laura Moylan's avatar

Love it!!!!!

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Karen Braun's avatar

Yep

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Geri Guerin's avatar

Yup. I don't care how "abnormal" this is. Gavin will be ready for him.

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MegsyM's avatar

EDIT: KCAL finally cut in about 30 min ago A ~~COMPLETE~~ ALMOST LOCAL MEDIA BLACKOUT AS WELL

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Weezy's avatar

The only reason we know about it is because it's all over social media

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CatChex's avatar

well, that sucks

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The Passionate Activist's avatar

Even if this mf Administration declares martial law, you think that’s going to stop the American people? It’s only going to piss them off more to the point there won’t be anything left of this country. It will make the Rodney King Riots & George Floyd protests look like a damn church service.

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KingRayVet's avatar

You would be right about that.

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Freedom350's avatar

That was their plan all along.

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Barry and Sheila Bloomfield's avatar

This how Hitler started

Everything Trump does is a threat

Now the National Gaurd

On US CITIZENS

THIS IS SCARY AND DUSGUSTING

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Sean's avatar

You forgot the quotation marks around “agents”.

Anyone wearing a face mask to hide their identity is not a federal agent.

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🩵MZ's avatar

No, but the police are out there aren’t they which is fucked

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Lori's avatar

This is wrong they have the right to protest. The administration is just trying to insight a riot so they can justify what they are doing. Trump and ice get out of California your not welcome here

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vcragain's avatar

INCITE !

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Lulu's avatar

Beware the Ides of June

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Michael Jones's avatar

Who remembers the Kent State massacre.

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KingRayVet's avatar

I do. UGH

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David Zrake's avatar

Sadly I do, I was on my way to Vietnam, too young and too stupid at the time, that's twice now my Government is trying to kill me, I survived once, now I'm old and have health issues, so now they're gonna try again by taking my Healthcare away, when was it that we were Great, my memory fails me 🤷

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Geri Guerin's avatar

I think it was under Nixon....

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Dorothy's avatar

I thought of Kent State immediately.

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IamLadyMary's avatar

Countries other than the U.S., take a look at what’s happening.

Do what you need to. Sanction us, ban us. Whatever it takes.

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Geri Guerin's avatar

King Charles, please check those documents from 400 to 500 years ago again. Maybe someone forgot to include a seal?

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Aimee's avatar

and here. We. Go.

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Wendy Dev's avatar

His top Aide is calling it an Insurrection. How ironic.

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Michelle Issa's avatar

I’ve been watching for hours on TT and the only violence I’ve seen is from Ice and LAPD.

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Dorothy's avatar

LAPD is not involved. Those brownshirts that said "Police" are not LAPD.

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