The Babylon Bee is having way too much fun with the situation:
"Trump Nukes Los Angeles - U.S. The Los Angeles immigration riots have come to a swift and sudden end following a decisive nuclear strike ordered by President Donald Trump . . ."
and "Mexican Rioter Adds Lime Wedge to Molotov Cocktail".
The maiming and killing with covid injections was and still is done very peacefully .The in hospital murdered with deadly protocols seem very peaceful now .
Yes, they can't fix the health system, because its not fixable in its current form, so the idea is to kill as many as possible.
Covid for the old folks
"safe supply" to kill as many drug addicts as possible.
MAiD started out as end of life option for terminal people with unbearable pain.
Then they offered to the mentally ill (Someone else did that in europe back in the 30s and 40s), then they got caught offering death to our veterans with PTSD.
Then about 18 months ago they floated the idea of allowing depressed 12 year olds to kill themselves but shelved it when people yelled.
With the gender and climate stuff you create depressed people, then offer them a way out.
Canada has unlimited abortion too -- no abortion law at all since 1988. Can kill the infant until the moment before birth, for any reason or no reason.. It is worse than the ancient Aztecs and their human sacrifice.
When are the sane people going to put an end to this B.S. ? Protest are getting very old & useless!! Ball bats and dull knives would work nicely for awhile!
According to a recent New York Post story, one of the ‘LA protest’s’ leading organizers is an NGO called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). The story reported (while hat-tipping DataRepublican—go, girl!) that —get this— CHIRLA’s annual $34 million budget is nearly completely funded by … the State of California.
Congratulations, Californians! Your tax dollars, hard at work.
And because insanity is a growth industry, California increased CHIRLA’s budget by $12 million this year — a 50% raise for lighting things on fire. Between October 2021 and September 2024, CHIRLA also got about half a million federal tax dollars from DHS grants, which thank DOGE were cut off in March (and about $100K was
Mostly peaceful and highly organized and coordinated by government funded NGO's. The gullible American taxpayer. let's stop this federally funded NGO crap now.
Rioters are torching WAYMO cars. They are all self-driving EVs. They are setting lithium fires. Not only are the fumes highly toxic, but water makes the fire worse!
Reality will have to reset the crazy prices at some point. Houses are only worth what someone is willing to pay. And if masses become unable to pay.....
Correct..Dems create the "fun in the streets"...hoping they can create a totalitarian response.The same game plan they have used for years.Because at the end of the day..modern leftists want language police, destruction of biology..big daddy controlling everything..destruction of the west..so that they can rebuilt it with DEI...
1/The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education
2/Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody
3/Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
4/The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
5/The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
Is this any worse than climate activists that take private jets to fight climate change and have palatial homes? It's the usual "rules are for thee, but not for me". The one piece of good news here is that this type of reporting continues to destroy what little credibility the corporate media have left.
Ok. But is there anything in the Woke-Progressive policy book that is not inane?
With some experience of human nature, one sees that irresponsible children might foolishly think these policies are helpful. Indeed most people would sign up for a free lunch.
But society cannot run on inane ideas.
Suicide is not a good idea, but it seems the left is pursuing it strongly. For civilized society in general.
Perhaps that will fix this crazy nonsense, but I’d rather see a few adults spank the out-of-control children and send them to bed.
Spray your charcoal BBQ with anti-Israeli or anti-ICE graffiti, then drape it in a Palestinian or Mexican flag, light it up, put the weenies on, and call it a protest.
Not true. You can most definitely use charcoal for bbq. And you can go and buy the charcoal at your local supermarket, sometimes even convenience stores. I live here and I grill at least once a week, using charcoal.
Ok, let me clarify: The sale of charcoal in California is regulated by state environmental laws and local air quality management districts. Many beaches won't allow it. Local districts can ban outdoor charcoal use during high pollution days. Before I escaped, high pollution days were becoming the norm due to wildfires. Choke, choke.🤢 So, no charcoal. With the current state of CA, I think charcoal is the least of their problems. 😬😵💫
Scrolling the thread in the evening and seeing this.
I use cones, not coal, when grilling/BBQing, though it's a bit muddled in Swedish: we use one word for all kinds of cooking done over coals/embers/fire:
Grill (verb). Grill (noun) means the thing itself, no matter the type or size.
Me, I use a metal bucket for the pine and spruce cones and just toss a metal grate on top of it (called "halster" in Swedish, same pronounciation as holster but with an 'ah').
Favourite of mine is bitå, a dialectal compund word meaning "bite off". Tunnbröd (a soft stretchy flatbread made from potatoe flour) smeared with butt. Boiled potatoes that have been left to cool mashed on top. Diced onions and chopped chiives and sourcream on top of the tater-mash. And then a foil-baked/grilled salted herring filé or two (water the salted filéts overnight first!).
Roll it up and bite off.
Any kind of dark beer/lager/pilz, or wheat beer, or milk (real milk, at least 4% fat content). And vodka, brännvin, schnapps of course.
Pro-tip: if there's kiddies at the do, include meatballs as swap-option as kids rarely enjoy salted fish.
As a southerner, I take great offense to not being allowed to use charcoal. ESPECIALLY since it's already counted in the carbon cycle (i.e. the emissions happen when it's made, not when it's used to make something delicious)...
The protests were mostly peaceful, for the very short time in between the beginning of the event and the point at which the peacefulness ended and they ceased to be protests, and became riots instead.
The J6 protest was much different. They were legitimately a peaceful protest until false-flag agents provocateur deliberately incited a riot so that the authorities could have an excuse to attack them, even shoot them. And that's exactly what they did. They used this justification to arrest broad numbers of people, some who were not even in Washington DC that day, and hold them for years, in some cases, without charges. When they did charge them, it wasn't disorderly conduct, vandalism, or trespass. It was "seditious conspiracy," as if they had actually conspired to take over the US government. With bare hands and picket signs.
The LA protests were meant to be non-peaceful from the start. You've heard their rhetoric... you know what they believe. Despite this, police stood by and did nothing for days on end. That's why the riots lasted "days" in the first place. If the police had arrested the rioters, it would have been over and done the same day.
There were cars burning, rocks thrown, sidewalks and bollards broken to bits so that the concrete chunks could be thrown at passing vehicles, some of which were ICE vehicles. They were handed riot gear so that they didn't have to follow the police's lawful order to disperse.
Still, none of them were shot or assaulted by the police as they had on J6.
I have no problem with the Capitol Police arresting those actually engaging in rioting. I have no problem with them being charged fairly if they actually did commit crimes. Had they stopped there, I would have no beef with them. Arresting anyone even tangentially related to the protest, and charging them with seditious conspiracy, and abusing them while they were in the gulag, I have a big problem with that.
The only reason the National Guard had to be called in at all was because Mayor Bass told the police not to arrest anyone.
Left wing government unelected employees, quislings, and professional, paid NGO provacateurs and antifa are everywhere both here in the USA and Europe. These are equipped with bricks (brought in by trucks the days before the "protests") and molotovs to ensure that these minor incidents stay largely peaceful. Mostly peaceful they are! Soros paid "journalists" are saying this en masse, so it must be all true.
Yes, only unarmed Air Force veteran Ashley Babbitt was shot in the back and killed by an untrained capitol police force stooge, Lt. Michael Byrd during the capitol "riots" of Jan. 6, 2020. He was never charged and is walking free today. He "allegedly" had once also left his loaded gun in a public restroom, yet was never reprimanded. A real role model.
I don't think we saw the autopsy pictures. If it was said "neck" this has a 360° approach angle, 180° of which is dorsal. Maybe you saw more pictures than I. So if it were indeed ventral (front), he was shooting to kill an unarmed woman. Not accidental. Intent, then, is there. First degree can then be argued, not unintentional manslaughter.
Shot at close range in the front of the neck. There is the evidence live. I was wrong about being shot in the back, she was shot in the front, and Lt. Michael Byrd was able to look Ashley in the eyes, and blast her to death, point blank. My error was that I didn't think a black law officer would be that callous and cold. But maybe they are. Michael Byrd, anyway, is a monster! Charge him, Kash!
Absolutely correct!! Cell phone videos presented by Revolver News showed that the protesters were gathered at the Capitol and WERE peaceful until one of them was shot by a rubber bullet by a Capital Police officer completely unprovoked. The shot was taken from an overhead position and posed absolutely no threat to the officer that fired the shot. The bullet caused a severe laceration of the protester’s face. That’s when the crowd turned. The only ones with guns were Capital Police. I remain convinced to this day that the CP were given orders to instigate this.
"I remain convinced to this day that the CP were given orders to instigate this."
This may or not be true, but I subscribe to someone's razor (Occam's?) in these instances: We should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
I think these guys panicked.
We refer to them as police officers because they fit the legal and professional definition of the term, but in their positions in the US Capitol, they're not facing the dangers present to city cops or to state troopers alone on a stop. Facing a mob, I think they dispensed with the standard protocol of calling on the crowd to disperse and simply opened up the conversation with rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash bangs.
That doesn't explain the FBI agents undercover in the crowd, nor does it explain the live videos of agents unlocking capitol doors. Remember that "conspiracy" is from the Latin meaning "breathing along with". These law enforcement at the time were "Of the same ilk" as the archaic expression says.
No, but the FBI would be in the crowd regardless; it's probably routine as well for big city PDs to have undercover cops in any large gathering.
The cops unlocking the doors could easily be explained by your usual bureaucratic snafu. ("They said to open the doors." Ten minutes later, "Who gave the order to open the doors?" et cetera, et cetera).
I'm not stating any absolutes, and I don't feel strongly enough about my point to argue it, but the sight of Mitt Romney running down the hallway and the sight of the staffers lying down under their desks in one of the chambers convinces me that, rightly or wrongly, at least some of the people there were genuinely afraid for their safety.
I can easily move from that point to an untested police force prematurely hurling flash bangs into a crowd (that included women and children, btw) or a mediocre cop firing at an unarmed woman several feet away from him. (I've made it clear that the man deserves to be charged in her death, but I don't think he was standing on the grassy knoll when he fired.)
That's how they (and in the past Al Capone, Buggsy Moran, and others) dressed up as priests and women to evade police. They always had an alibi so as to never have a clear cut case against them. The Mobsters' version of plausible deniability. "Honest, Ossifer, the gun just jumped into my hand!"
I was much impacted by the original author's comment : "I’ve wanted to write about these riots for days, but in the end it’s all so tiresome, and transparent . . . "
Reading your comment I realised I was kind of traumatised by the gaslighting being delivered by the MSM. The many humorous responses in the comments section at least made me laugh. And realise that the stream of MSM gaslighting is indeed truly both TIRESOME and TRANSPARENT to anyone who is no longer accepting the mind viruses being showered on us. Surely with the Covid booster update being now almost down to the single digit in percentages there must be enough people gonna say "HELL, NO!!" to this attempt to lobotomise and mind-f*ck the whole population?
Maybe because they figure "It is shrinking, but so far only a little bit, for a little while , . . . all we gotta do is throw a spanner in the works, slow it down and make the people desperate for "peace and safety" rather than for liberty and freedom and we got it in the bag! After all the bottom 50 percent of the population are so caught up with cost of living issues, and just surviving from one week to the next, all we gotta do is make them so desperate for peace and safety that they will beg for mercy from their "elite superiors"!!
“The five cars they lit on fire makes the whole thing look a lot worse than it really is” - no, it looks like they lit five effin’ cars on fire! Are the authorities meant to just not react to that because they burned only five and not fifty?!
Only when enough people know that it was only five cars - instead of the 'cognitive dissonance' message of heaps of property damage by "mostly peaceful protestors" - which is how the many struggling and demoralised people just trying to survive from one day to the next are disoriented by the sick psy-op.
There's another weird thing going on with those 5 cars...those were all Waymo self-driving taxis. Why did they burn those? What does that have to do with ICE raids? I actually asked someone online, apparently a person very much pro-riot, and they said it's because Waymos are part of the surveillance tech dystopian nightmare so they must be stopped. I said, ok, I can agree with that, but why not TELL people why you're burning them? It's a good point, why not make it a separate protest? The reply was: "I don't know what's going through the heads of the people who burn the Waymos...." So why answer if you don't know the answer?! Arrrrgh! 🤯
I think the most likely answer is the simplest one: Waymos were the easiest targets because they can just be called by an app, and they won’t dry to run away when they see a violent mob waiting to destroy them. Also, the organizers were probably aware of the bad optics associated with footage of a mob pulling innocent drivers out of their vehicles and destroying them, so they avoided that by burning vehicles that don’t have drivers.
I heard somewhere that some of the rioters had cleverly called for the 5 taxis, and they arrived and somehow remained in a row, blocking the street -- I guess it was to prevent police cars getting past. So that's clever enough, but then why burn them? I suppose it's as you say, they are easy targets with no living people to worry about. Apparently Waymo stopped sending taxis to a large area of LA yesterday in response.
If they’re on fire they can’t be called back, thereby maintaining the traffic blockage. Not to mention the danger imposed by attempting to extinguish the fire.
Not sure, but aren’t Waymo’s battery powered? Lithium batteries make for a VERY hazardous fire.
You don't hate the media enough. If it was a protest against their interests or ideology (see South port, Charlottesville and Jan 6), then it's an insurrection or race riot.
Charlottesville. Those are the only two I can think of.
I happen to know that Charlottesville was an organic protest, because my ex-girlfriend helped organize it. I warned her that it would go the way it went. She was young and stupid and naieve, and didn't believe me.
Now all her friends are in prison. That's what they all get, for not listening to me.
Well spotted. I just checked. All three of the French articles that were linked have been removed. The Germans are however sticking to their stupidity and arrogance (nothing new)
The media could have reported the absolute reality and truth of what is happening in L.A., and I wouldn't believe it. I ignore everything that is reported in MSM and a lot of what is reported by alternative media. I subscribe to a few writers/reporters that I think tell the truth, not just because they tell a truth that I agree with, but because they don't. The media lost my trust decades ago and I see no chance of it being restored.
I would go even further and say not only are "the state and local governments on board with this", but they are planned, coordinated and funded by them. As a Californian, I can tell you this state is run by cultural Marxists. Our federal government needs to follow the money and indict these people. Karen Bass is at the heart of this. See the investigative work of Data Republican for the full scoop on Bass. A hopeful start is the House Oversight Committee issuing "a formal request to Neville Singham regarding his funding of a communist group linked to the LA Riots and the CCP", per Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Let's hope indictments will follow.
On X Newsom Bass et al are trying to spin it as Trump’s chaos. They want more of it because it makes the orange man look bad. The sycophant press is also trying very hard to make it all about Trump’s authoritarian overreach. Problem is the people that agree are vastly outnumbered by the sane.
Glenn Beck just presented receipts to that effect. It was even pointed out that some of the professionally pre-printed signs had sponsors named on them.
Let’s think of the implications if the hearings fall flat. I don’t expect that, but they had better at least get off the ground, and drop some truth bombs!!!💣
At some point someone has to do some forensic accounting shakedown on the Antifa agitators and so on and determine the funding for these events. MSM will ignore it but MSM is largely irrelevant.
Datarepublican has done so on X. Immigrant rights NGO (96% funded by the state of California) and a neo-Marxist group funded by a billionaire. Wait until the weekend. Large US cities expected to mimic LA.
“Western media want you to know that it is peaceful…”. Does anybody bother with what Western media says, with live video footage pasted all over social media, particularly X?
Someone needs to give permission for White people to be "mostly peaceful" in collectively striving for our interests. None of this petty indiscriminate rioting though. We can do better than that.
Someone had to say it eventually. I guess someone will actually do it eventually.
They are waiting for it so they can do the biggest ever legal hit job on him. It will make the treatment dished out to the J6 protesters and police officer Chauvin (George Floyd case) look like a picnic in the park.
You really don't wanna stir desperate people in this direction because that is what THEY wanna make happen.
This, from a usually reliable commenter on the TCW site out of the UK:
"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a soviet trained communist revolutionary. As a member of Fidel Castro's Venceremos Brigade, she was instructed in subversion & guerrilla warfare during multiple trips to Cuba. Her Marxist-Leninist agenda is the destruction of Constitutional America."
I have read that she spent a lot of time in Cuba. There was some research done on her when she was prominent during the LA fires. The other commenters are correct, DataRepublican (small r) on X does amazing research and with the backup papers to prove it.
She apparently has some background with the CIA in whatever part of the agency is responsible for organizing “spontaneous” demonstrations and civil unrest. That much is easily verifiable. Not sure what the soviets have got to do with it though.
"In the mid-1970s she was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade, a pro-Cuban Revolution group that organized trips by Americans to Cuba. She visited Cuba eight times in the 1970s"
"The Venceremos Brigade is an international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society....The yearly brigade trips... continue today and are coordinated with the Pastors For Peace Friendship Caravans to Cuba"
That's about as far as I am willing to fall down the wiki-hole today.
But my personal impression is that your friend is playing the "Marxist-Leninist-Soviet-Communist-Revolutionary-subversion agenda" fiddle a little too hard.
For many commenters any association with The Hammer & Sickle is the mark of the Devil, the point where all evil entered the world, but by at least the 1980s old school revolutionary Marxism, let along Soviet Communism was less popular among the political intelligentsia than Bellbottom trousers.
There is no need to invoke some subversive string puller in Moscow to explain the destruction of Constitutional America. Classic vanilla flavored Liberalism will do that all on its own. Those "Pastors For Peace" were the Presbyterian Church for God's sake ! (almost but not quite literally😪)
Like you, I tread carefully where Wikipedia is concerned.
I am fairly well-versed in the psychology surrounding totalitarianism, of all sorts. Most people consider it a political term, though it applies, actually, to a wider human dynamic.
Communism is certainly one form of totalitarianism. Although modern Western WOKE is another. The WOKE-sters might stay on the sidelines and offer just their copycat virtue-signalling, whereas the self-proclaimed Communists are likely to be a bit more active in the game.
Saw a clip this morning of Nancy Pelosi saying not to worry if you see cars or shops with broken windows, because that might just be "the exuberance of the moment" (👀 !!!) uh, or "maybe anarchists". "...exuberance of the moment" is my top pick of LA riot insanity for the day. But followed by "maybe anarchists" as if oh that's just those well-meaning anarchists, who must be breaking windows and setting fires totally peacefully, out of pure love for our democracy...Sigh.
I loved the quip from the Babylon Bee:
"Trump Responds To Mostly Peaceful Protests With Mostly Peaceful Military"
The Babylon Bee is having way too much fun with the situation:
"Trump Nukes Los Angeles - U.S. The Los Angeles immigration riots have come to a swift and sudden end following a decisive nuclear strike ordered by President Donald Trump . . ."
and "Mexican Rioter Adds Lime Wedge to Molotov Cocktail".
"Mexican Rioter Adds Lime Wedge to Molotov Cocktail"
🤣
I saw a couple good ones:
"No Juan is above the law"
I think it was "Doc Holiday" (excellent commenter on the stacks) call it the " The Summer of Jorge" as a spin on "The Summer of George".
I about soiled myself.
😂
The maiming and killing with covid injections was and still is done very peacefully .The in hospital murdered with deadly protocols seem very peaceful now .
In Canada they do "peaceful" state euthanasia, known as the MAID regime.
Yes, and now that the Liberals are safely re-elected we need to watch for inplimentation of the idea of MAiD for depressed 12 year olds.
Yes that is a thing with progressives, for non-canadian readers.
Eugenics is a thing with Canadian Liberals. The slippery slope is a veritable ice chute by now.
Yes, they can't fix the health system, because its not fixable in its current form, so the idea is to kill as many as possible.
Covid for the old folks
"safe supply" to kill as many drug addicts as possible.
MAiD started out as end of life option for terminal people with unbearable pain.
Then they offered to the mentally ill (Someone else did that in europe back in the 30s and 40s), then they got caught offering death to our veterans with PTSD.
Then about 18 months ago they floated the idea of allowing depressed 12 year olds to kill themselves but shelved it when people yelled.
With the gender and climate stuff you create depressed people, then offer them a way out.
Perfect. If you are a progressive.
The rabid leftwing are anti-humanity, anti-life.
Canada has unlimited abortion too -- no abortion law at all since 1988. Can kill the infant until the moment before birth, for any reason or no reason.. It is worse than the ancient Aztecs and their human sacrifice.
This, in a once-civilized nation.
They murdered my brother ,in a Canadian hospital ,when he entered with a flu ,in nov, 2021 ,in six days .
I am sorry for your loss, Joe. I consider the MAID and abortion regimes to be sinister.
I've got a meme for that:
https://x.com/dpatrikarakos/status/1603018993849274374
When are the sane people going to put an end to this B.S. ? Protest are getting very old & useless!! Ball bats and dull knives would work nicely for awhile!
Canada may split first.
lol!
Can't use charcoal for BBQ in CA.
Strict clean air standards for EVERYTHING.
HOWEVER, burning 🇺🇸 and 🚔🚗🚘?
BURN BABY, BURN. 🔥🧨🔥
Right - In LA, you get arrested for smoking on the beach, but torching a cop car is totally OK.
According to a recent New York Post story, one of the ‘LA protest’s’ leading organizers is an NGO called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). The story reported (while hat-tipping DataRepublican—go, girl!) that —get this— CHIRLA’s annual $34 million budget is nearly completely funded by … the State of California.
Congratulations, Californians! Your tax dollars, hard at work.
And because insanity is a growth industry, California increased CHIRLA’s budget by $12 million this year — a 50% raise for lighting things on fire. Between October 2021 and September 2024, CHIRLA also got about half a million federal tax dollars from DHS grants, which thank DOGE were cut off in March (and about $100K was
Mostly peaceful and highly organized and coordinated by government funded NGO's. The gullible American taxpayer. let's stop this federally funded NGO crap now.
From now on all cars sold in LA must come with an in car sprinkler system .
Ha ha! You miss the irony.
Rioters are torching WAYMO cars. They are all self-driving EVs. They are setting lithium fires. Not only are the fumes highly toxic, but water makes the fire worse!
Whau ,Henry ,I did not know that LA was sooo far advanced .I live in Canada in a hollow tree
House prices are very high here in Ontario. Also, rents have skyrocketed. That is why hollow trees have become so popular.
Reality will have to reset the crazy prices at some point. Houses are only worth what someone is willing to pay. And if masses become unable to pay.....
So do I. But my hollow northern tree has WI-FI 😁.
In the hollow tree I rent ,I have the penthouse location on top .
Joe, I am thinking that digging out some of those mountainsides in the Rockies might work. We could have an era of modern cave-dwellers in Canada.
I swear by boreal forest.
All mountain sites are already being used by hibernating bears .I may move in with one of the bears ,to keep me company and warm .
Thank you for your cookie service!
😂
Not rioters! Just peaceful bystanders watching burning cars.
Create the crisis
So you can implement the totalitarian solution.
Correct..Dems create the "fun in the streets"...hoping they can create a totalitarian response.The same game plan they have used for years.Because at the end of the day..modern leftists want language police, destruction of biology..big daddy controlling everything..destruction of the west..so that they can rebuilt it with DEI...
1/The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education
2/Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody
3/Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
4/The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
5/The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
by Richard Hanania
6/Repressive Tolerance
https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
7/America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything Hardcover
by Christopher F. Rufo
8/Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
John McWhorter
Yup.
In San Diego they outlawed yoga on the beach
In the land of upside-down....
and F*(& Waymo and their self driving cars.
The smoking ban on the beach is needed ,because the water is so polluted it could catch fire
Is this any worse than climate activists that take private jets to fight climate change and have palatial homes? It's the usual "rules are for thee, but not for me". The one piece of good news here is that this type of reporting continues to destroy what little credibility the corporate media have left.
Ok. But is there anything in the Woke-Progressive policy book that is not inane?
With some experience of human nature, one sees that irresponsible children might foolishly think these policies are helpful. Indeed most people would sign up for a free lunch.
But society cannot run on inane ideas.
Suicide is not a good idea, but it seems the left is pursuing it strongly. For civilized society in general.
Perhaps that will fix this crazy nonsense, but I’d rather see a few adults spank the out-of-control children and send them to bed.
Great point. Only in liberal-land.
hurry take your BBQ out there so you can fix it on the open fires !
No BBQ needed in LA .you roast your steak on the burning cars ,it gives the steak that peaceful aroma .
or on the hood of your car.
Man made climate change is real in LA.
-First lose your Colorado River water rights and have to share with other states.
-pump all the water out of the ground. (central valley dropped 50+feet)
-remove all the grass to save water.
-cover and pave everything with asphalt, concrete and steel to act as a heat sink.
-let all the trees die from bark beetles and disease
-then say its has something to do with carbon footprint
So those burgers can explode your taste buds with the essence of peeling-car-paint.....
yeah butttt
do I want to enjoy bbq with a bunch of morons?
nah
Hahaha
The ironies of the left.
Once one understands that everything they say is fake, then the irony disappears.
It is fake, but most of them believe it nonetheless.
It's called brainwashing.
Spray your charcoal BBQ with anti-Israeli or anti-ICE graffiti, then drape it in a Palestinian or Mexican flag, light it up, put the weenies on, and call it a protest.
Good point.
Not true. You can most definitely use charcoal for bbq. And you can go and buy the charcoal at your local supermarket, sometimes even convenience stores. I live here and I grill at least once a week, using charcoal.
Ok, let me clarify: The sale of charcoal in California is regulated by state environmental laws and local air quality management districts. Many beaches won't allow it. Local districts can ban outdoor charcoal use during high pollution days. Before I escaped, high pollution days were becoming the norm due to wildfires. Choke, choke.🤢 So, no charcoal. With the current state of CA, I think charcoal is the least of their problems. 😬😵💫
Happy BBQ 🥳
Homegrown KCMO guy here that sought refuge in Florida during pandemic.
All this talk about BBQ has my mouth watering for Gates....or you pick it.
Haven't had REAL bbq in 5 years!
Scrolling the thread in the evening and seeing this.
I use cones, not coal, when grilling/BBQing, though it's a bit muddled in Swedish: we use one word for all kinds of cooking done over coals/embers/fire:
Grill (verb). Grill (noun) means the thing itself, no matter the type or size.
Me, I use a metal bucket for the pine and spruce cones and just toss a metal grate on top of it (called "halster" in Swedish, same pronounciation as holster but with an 'ah').
Favourite of mine is bitå, a dialectal compund word meaning "bite off". Tunnbröd (a soft stretchy flatbread made from potatoe flour) smeared with butt. Boiled potatoes that have been left to cool mashed on top. Diced onions and chopped chiives and sourcream on top of the tater-mash. And then a foil-baked/grilled salted herring filé or two (water the salted filéts overnight first!).
Roll it up and bite off.
Any kind of dark beer/lager/pilz, or wheat beer, or milk (real milk, at least 4% fat content). And vodka, brännvin, schnapps of course.
Pro-tip: if there's kiddies at the do, include meatballs as swap-option as kids rarely enjoy salted fish.
Gates, Joe's, Jack Stack 😋👍
As a southerner, I take great offense to not being allowed to use charcoal. ESPECIALLY since it's already counted in the carbon cycle (i.e. the emissions happen when it's made, not when it's used to make something delicious)...
Hadn't thought of the carbon cycle that way! 🤔
The protests were mostly peaceful, for the very short time in between the beginning of the event and the point at which the peacefulness ended and they ceased to be protests, and became riots instead.
The J6 protest was much different. They were legitimately a peaceful protest until false-flag agents provocateur deliberately incited a riot so that the authorities could have an excuse to attack them, even shoot them. And that's exactly what they did. They used this justification to arrest broad numbers of people, some who were not even in Washington DC that day, and hold them for years, in some cases, without charges. When they did charge them, it wasn't disorderly conduct, vandalism, or trespass. It was "seditious conspiracy," as if they had actually conspired to take over the US government. With bare hands and picket signs.
The LA protests were meant to be non-peaceful from the start. You've heard their rhetoric... you know what they believe. Despite this, police stood by and did nothing for days on end. That's why the riots lasted "days" in the first place. If the police had arrested the rioters, it would have been over and done the same day.
There were cars burning, rocks thrown, sidewalks and bollards broken to bits so that the concrete chunks could be thrown at passing vehicles, some of which were ICE vehicles. They were handed riot gear so that they didn't have to follow the police's lawful order to disperse.
Still, none of them were shot or assaulted by the police as they had on J6.
I have no problem with the Capitol Police arresting those actually engaging in rioting. I have no problem with them being charged fairly if they actually did commit crimes. Had they stopped there, I would have no beef with them. Arresting anyone even tangentially related to the protest, and charging them with seditious conspiracy, and abusing them while they were in the gulag, I have a big problem with that.
The only reason the National Guard had to be called in at all was because Mayor Bass told the police not to arrest anyone.
There's no real parallel here.
Left wing government unelected employees, quislings, and professional, paid NGO provacateurs and antifa are everywhere both here in the USA and Europe. These are equipped with bricks (brought in by trucks the days before the "protests") and molotovs to ensure that these minor incidents stay largely peaceful. Mostly peaceful they are! Soros paid "journalists" are saying this en masse, so it must be all true.
What ever happened to the Proud Boys? They seemed like a welcome counterweight to the antifa thugs for a while before and during the Floyd riots.
Having their head man exposed as a fed informant severely depressed recruitment.
Classic faux resistance
They got put in prison without charges, and some still remain in violation of established law.
Well said, Silva.
Yes, only unarmed Air Force veteran Ashley Babbitt was shot in the back and killed by an untrained capitol police force stooge, Lt. Michael Byrd during the capitol "riots" of Jan. 6, 2020. He was never charged and is walking free today. He "allegedly" had once also left his loaded gun in a public restroom, yet was never reprimanded. A real role model.
Nor to nitpick, but Babbit wasn't shot in the back.
I don't think we saw the autopsy pictures. If it was said "neck" this has a 360° approach angle, 180° of which is dorsal. Maybe you saw more pictures than I. So if it were indeed ventral (front), he was shooting to kill an unarmed woman. Not accidental. Intent, then, is there. First degree can then be argued, not unintentional manslaughter.
To be clear, the cop needs to be put on trial for her death.
But there is video that was shot from behind her in which the gun is visible to her left, at approximately her 10 o'clock.
Shot at close range in the front of the neck. There is the evidence live. I was wrong about being shot in the back, she was shot in the front, and Lt. Michael Byrd was able to look Ashley in the eyes, and blast her to death, point blank. My error was that I didn't think a black law officer would be that callous and cold. But maybe they are. Michael Byrd, anyway, is a monster! Charge him, Kash!
Years ago ,I read a report of another Babbit ,who cut off the penis of her husband ,while he was sleeping ,for being un faithful
Bobbitt.
That could become a verb, as in "Bobb it!)
Mmm - not sure what THAT has to do with THIS. This is not a time for irrelevant distractions.
Neck iirc
Let’s follow the money!
Who is funding the idiots in the streets?
And why?
Soros?
WEF people? (Bill Gates would be an example.)
The NGOs we learned much about from DOGE looking at USAID?
A few unions? Which ones?
The cartels?
Major Dem donors?
The bricks were not delivered to that good spot for zero delivery charge!
Absolutely correct!! Cell phone videos presented by Revolver News showed that the protesters were gathered at the Capitol and WERE peaceful until one of them was shot by a rubber bullet by a Capital Police officer completely unprovoked. The shot was taken from an overhead position and posed absolutely no threat to the officer that fired the shot. The bullet caused a severe laceration of the protester’s face. That’s when the crowd turned. The only ones with guns were Capital Police. I remain convinced to this day that the CP were given orders to instigate this.
"I remain convinced to this day that the CP were given orders to instigate this."
This may or not be true, but I subscribe to someone's razor (Occam's?) in these instances: We should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
I think these guys panicked.
We refer to them as police officers because they fit the legal and professional definition of the term, but in their positions in the US Capitol, they're not facing the dangers present to city cops or to state troopers alone on a stop. Facing a mob, I think they dispensed with the standard protocol of calling on the crowd to disperse and simply opened up the conversation with rubber bullets, tear gas, and flash bangs.
That doesn't explain the FBI agents undercover in the crowd, nor does it explain the live videos of agents unlocking capitol doors. Remember that "conspiracy" is from the Latin meaning "breathing along with". These law enforcement at the time were "Of the same ilk" as the archaic expression says.
No, but the FBI would be in the crowd regardless; it's probably routine as well for big city PDs to have undercover cops in any large gathering.
The cops unlocking the doors could easily be explained by your usual bureaucratic snafu. ("They said to open the doors." Ten minutes later, "Who gave the order to open the doors?" et cetera, et cetera).
I'm not stating any absolutes, and I don't feel strongly enough about my point to argue it, but the sight of Mitt Romney running down the hallway and the sight of the staffers lying down under their desks in one of the chambers convinces me that, rightly or wrongly, at least some of the people there were genuinely afraid for their safety.
I can easily move from that point to an untested police force prematurely hurling flash bangs into a crowd (that included women and children, btw) or a mediocre cop firing at an unarmed woman several feet away from him. (I've made it clear that the man deserves to be charged in her death, but I don't think he was standing on the grassy knoll when he fired.)
Cheers.
That's how they (and in the past Al Capone, Buggsy Moran, and others) dressed up as priests and women to evade police. They always had an alibi so as to never have a clear cut case against them. The Mobsters' version of plausible deniability. "Honest, Ossifer, the gun just jumped into my hand!"
That's Hanlon's Razor.
Thank you.
Perfectly summarized
Excellent synopsis!
Gavin Newsom thinks he is Jefferson Davis and LA is Fort Sumter.
Thank you Silva for your analysis.
I was much impacted by the original author's comment : "I’ve wanted to write about these riots for days, but in the end it’s all so tiresome, and transparent . . . "
Reading your comment I realised I was kind of traumatised by the gaslighting being delivered by the MSM. The many humorous responses in the comments section at least made me laugh. And realise that the stream of MSM gaslighting is indeed truly both TIRESOME and TRANSPARENT to anyone who is no longer accepting the mind viruses being showered on us. Surely with the Covid booster update being now almost down to the single digit in percentages there must be enough people gonna say "HELL, NO!!" to this attempt to lobotomise and mind-f*ck the whole population?
Eugyppius, although this is tedious to endure, I did rejoice in the quote from ABC News “…. just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”
Its insane. What's even more ironic is watching videotape of high level D's condemning illegal immigration, etc. Just 15-20 years ago.
The leadership doesn't believe a word their saying. Trump broke their brains leaving just a reptilian brainstem.
Irony and projection, are indeed, tightly correlated.
“When I see Mexican flags waved at proimmigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment,”
Barack Obama, merely 13 years ago.
I vehemently disagree!! A reptilian brainstem is all that is ever functional in a Democrat!! I liken a Democrat’s skull to a Jello mold.
Lolol
The left is not mad about the criminal illegals being rounded up and deported. They are mad at their shrinking illegal voter base
Maybe because they figure "It is shrinking, but so far only a little bit, for a little while , . . . all we gotta do is throw a spanner in the works, slow it down and make the people desperate for "peace and safety" rather than for liberty and freedom and we got it in the bag! After all the bottom 50 percent of the population are so caught up with cost of living issues, and just surviving from one week to the next, all we gotta do is make them so desperate for peace and safety that they will beg for mercy from their "elite superiors"!!
I think you're right.
It was a local affiliate, not the national network, but the Bee's comment caused me to laugh out loud.
leave it to the Bee to find a great slogan
I laughed at that too! Our media beclowns themselves at every opportunity these days!!
“The five cars they lit on fire makes the whole thing look a lot worse than it really is” - no, it looks like they lit five effin’ cars on fire! Are the authorities meant to just not react to that because they burned only five and not fifty?!
it's such a weak and transparent script, I am still laughing about it.
Only when enough people know that it was only five cars - instead of the 'cognitive dissonance' message of heaps of property damage by "mostly peaceful protestors" - which is how the many struggling and demoralised people just trying to survive from one day to the next are disoriented by the sick psy-op.
Isn't there some quip about a turd in a punchbowl? It's only a single turd, after all, why let it ruin the whole batch?
🤣
A protest is not a real protest ,without burning cars . When my wife burned my evening dinner ,I protested by burning my car .
💀💀
There's another weird thing going on with those 5 cars...those were all Waymo self-driving taxis. Why did they burn those? What does that have to do with ICE raids? I actually asked someone online, apparently a person very much pro-riot, and they said it's because Waymos are part of the surveillance tech dystopian nightmare so they must be stopped. I said, ok, I can agree with that, but why not TELL people why you're burning them? It's a good point, why not make it a separate protest? The reply was: "I don't know what's going through the heads of the people who burn the Waymos...." So why answer if you don't know the answer?! Arrrrgh! 🤯
I think the most likely answer is the simplest one: Waymos were the easiest targets because they can just be called by an app, and they won’t dry to run away when they see a violent mob waiting to destroy them. Also, the organizers were probably aware of the bad optics associated with footage of a mob pulling innocent drivers out of their vehicles and destroying them, so they avoided that by burning vehicles that don’t have drivers.
I heard somewhere that some of the rioters had cleverly called for the 5 taxis, and they arrived and somehow remained in a row, blocking the street -- I guess it was to prevent police cars getting past. So that's clever enough, but then why burn them? I suppose it's as you say, they are easy targets with no living people to worry about. Apparently Waymo stopped sending taxis to a large area of LA yesterday in response.
If they’re on fire they can’t be called back, thereby maintaining the traffic blockage. Not to mention the danger imposed by attempting to extinguish the fire.
Not sure, but aren’t Waymo’s battery powered? Lithium batteries make for a VERY hazardous fire.
Lithium fires burn hot and toxic, are infectious, and dousing them just makes the fire worse.
You don't hate the media enough. If it was a protest against their interests or ideology (see South port, Charlottesville and Jan 6), then it's an insurrection or race riot.
Virtually every protest is fake. You can tell which ones are the real ones because those are the ones where everyone ends up in prison.
I wanted to travel to LA ,to do some protesting ,but all the tickets for protesting where sold out .
Huh. What are examples (besides Jan 6th)?
Charlottesville. Those are the only two I can think of.
I happen to know that Charlottesville was an organic protest, because my ex-girlfriend helped organize it. I warned her that it would go the way it went. She was young and stupid and naieve, and didn't believe me.
Now all her friends are in prison. That's what they all get, for not listening to me.
MEDIA ALREADY memory-holing evidence of their own treachery:
QUOTE (Eugyppius): La Croix notes that, "… the demonstrations” remain “generally peaceful.” [LINK to La Croix]
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Going to the link gives:
Désolé, la page que vous recherchez n’est pas disponible à cette adresse.
Why, absent high-level coordination, would a French-language publication deep-six their own piece about goings-on in a far-away city?
Well spotted. I just checked. All three of the French articles that were linked have been removed. The Germans are however sticking to their stupidity and arrogance (nothing new)
The media could have reported the absolute reality and truth of what is happening in L.A., and I wouldn't believe it. I ignore everything that is reported in MSM and a lot of what is reported by alternative media. I subscribe to a few writers/reporters that I think tell the truth, not just because they tell a truth that I agree with, but because they don't. The media lost my trust decades ago and I see no chance of it being restored.
"In politics, never believe anything until it is officially denied."
I would go even further and say not only are "the state and local governments on board with this", but they are planned, coordinated and funded by them. As a Californian, I can tell you this state is run by cultural Marxists. Our federal government needs to follow the money and indict these people. Karen Bass is at the heart of this. See the investigative work of Data Republican for the full scoop on Bass. A hopeful start is the House Oversight Committee issuing "a formal request to Neville Singham regarding his funding of a communist group linked to the LA Riots and the CCP", per Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Let's hope indictments will follow.
On X Newsom Bass et al are trying to spin it as Trump’s chaos. They want more of it because it makes the orange man look bad. The sycophant press is also trying very hard to make it all about Trump’s authoritarian overreach. Problem is the people that agree are vastly outnumbered by the sane.
Do you think the riots and Trump's response make Trump look bad? I am a Trump supporter so I can't be impartial.
I do think the riots make the Democrats look really bad, but lots of people are unnerved about getting the military involved
Glenn Beck just presented receipts to that effect. It was even pointed out that some of the professionally pre-printed signs had sponsors named on them.
Might as well say, “Your tax dollars at work!”
No kidding... sadly, it is our tax dollars paying for it. A good portion of our government is one big fat money laundering scam.
Let’s think of the implications if the hearings fall flat. I don’t expect that, but they had better at least get off the ground, and drop some truth bombs!!!💣
At some point someone has to do some forensic accounting shakedown on the Antifa agitators and so on and determine the funding for these events. MSM will ignore it but MSM is largely irrelevant.
Datarepublican has done so on X. Immigrant rights NGO (96% funded by the state of California) and a neo-Marxist group funded by a billionaire. Wait until the weekend. Large US cities expected to mimic LA.
Makes me want to vomit.
Me too. Such hatred.
One of Sam Walton’s heirs has been in on it! Think of that next you shop at Wally Mart.
By ‘someone’, who do you mean, exactly?
It's remarkable to see the extent to which almost every entity--private and public--is owned by dirty money.
Time to binge-watch "The French Connection" series again. There's a hint to what's happening buried somewhere in it...
“Western media want you to know that it is peaceful…”. Does anybody bother with what Western media says, with live video footage pasted all over social media, particularly X?
Someone needs to give permission for White people to be "mostly peaceful" in collectively striving for our interests. None of this petty indiscriminate rioting though. We can do better than that.
Yea. White Christian men are hard to get going, but no one kills and destroys as efficiently.
You don't see us Chimp-out like a spastic retard, you find us cutting throats like a machine.
Someone had to say it eventually. I guess someone will actually do it eventually.
They are waiting for it so they can do the biggest ever legal hit job on him. It will make the treatment dished out to the J6 protesters and police officer Chauvin (George Floyd case) look like a picnic in the park.
You really don't wanna stir desperate people in this direction because that is what THEY wanna make happen.
You should mention this one:
> Just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.” — ABC 7 news
Source https://x.com/Twolfrecovery/status/1932073875833254291
This, from a usually reliable commenter on the TCW site out of the UK:
"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is a soviet trained communist revolutionary. As a member of Fidel Castro's Venceremos Brigade, she was instructed in subversion & guerrilla warfare during multiple trips to Cuba. Her Marxist-Leninist agenda is the destruction of Constitutional America."
Anyone know whether or not this is accurate?
I have read that she spent a lot of time in Cuba. There was some research done on her when she was prominent during the LA fires. The other commenters are correct, DataRepublican (small r) on X does amazing research and with the backup papers to prove it.
Thanks.
She apparently has some background with the CIA in whatever part of the agency is responsible for organizing “spontaneous” demonstrations and civil unrest. That much is easily verifiable. Not sure what the soviets have got to do with it though.
She was vice chair of CIA front the NED before becoming mayor of LA. She is Deep State.
One faction of the deep state.
The common denominator between the CIA and the Soviets would be that they both practice totalitarianism.
Yes, I had heard about her CIA background. Though I am not certain about the Soviet/Cuban Communist connection.
Concerning Mayor Karen Bass,
Wikipedia reports...
"In the mid-1970s she was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade, a pro-Cuban Revolution group that organized trips by Americans to Cuba. She visited Cuba eight times in the 1970s"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
"The Venceremos Brigade is an international organization founded in 1969 by members of the Students for a Democratic Society....The yearly brigade trips... continue today and are coordinated with the Pastors For Peace Friendship Caravans to Cuba"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venceremos_Brigade
That's about as far as I am willing to fall down the wiki-hole today.
But my personal impression is that your friend is playing the "Marxist-Leninist-Soviet-Communist-Revolutionary-subversion agenda" fiddle a little too hard.
For many commenters any association with The Hammer & Sickle is the mark of the Devil, the point where all evil entered the world, but by at least the 1980s old school revolutionary Marxism, let along Soviet Communism was less popular among the political intelligentsia than Bellbottom trousers.
There is no need to invoke some subversive string puller in Moscow to explain the destruction of Constitutional America. Classic vanilla flavored Liberalism will do that all on its own. Those "Pastors For Peace" were the Presbyterian Church for God's sake ! (almost but not quite literally😪)
Thanks for that, Jack.
Like you, I tread carefully where Wikipedia is concerned.
I am fairly well-versed in the psychology surrounding totalitarianism, of all sorts. Most people consider it a political term, though it applies, actually, to a wider human dynamic.
Communism is certainly one form of totalitarianism. Although modern Western WOKE is another. The WOKE-sters might stay on the sidelines and offer just their copycat virtue-signalling, whereas the self-proclaimed Communists are likely to be a bit more active in the game.
Fail
You have a valid point
Former PM of Canada Pierre Troodo was a great admirer of both Cuba and Fidel himself. Ahem....
Led to American Security following his movements as he arranged passage on fishing boats out of Florida, in the 50s and 60s.
His wife was a great admirer of Fidel, too, I’m told.
It is widely believed that she had a sun fathered by Fidel ,who later became prime minister of Canada .
Justin is sometimes known as "Rosemary's Baby", from the 1968 horror film.
They were very close.
Yes, indeed. My money's on the bet that Justin was the end result of a three-way conception. And Margaret Troodo was quite willing.
They intended him to be raised as the new Communist Prince of North America.
It’s accurate, to a “T“…
100% accurate
Saw a clip this morning of Nancy Pelosi saying not to worry if you see cars or shops with broken windows, because that might just be "the exuberance of the moment" (👀 !!!) uh, or "maybe anarchists". "...exuberance of the moment" is my top pick of LA riot insanity for the day. But followed by "maybe anarchists" as if oh that's just those well-meaning anarchists, who must be breaking windows and setting fires totally peacefully, out of pure love for our democracy...Sigh.
Exuberance of the moment- hahaha
She said the J6’ers were overly exuberant as well. Oh, wait…maybe not….
geez
Her dementia is always showing.
Pelosi needs to experience some more David DePape-style exuberance.
The last riot I cared about was the 1967 Detroit riot, which was very close to home. Since then, piss on all of them.