The Battle of Los Angeles

 

Thanks to Jeff Tiedrich and to Alison Parker, who provided this battlefield map.  The protests are taking place in the area circled in red.

Yeah, ICE HQ was "surrounded."  People were burning flags and shit.  It was bad.  People were -- listening to music.

Fortunately, the Cal Guard was seized from the impotent hands of Gavin Newsom by Commodore Bone Spurs Himself and deployed.  All they forgot was food, water and bedding for the troops, who settled down in a warehouse.  The man at the bottom with the dark streak on his face -- is he crying?  There's no crying!  THERE'S NO CRYING IN WARFIGHTING!  I hope the warehouse has toilets.  Is anyone digging latrines?

Here we see the Guard holding the line against a lone woman armed with a bottle.  Could be an IED, could be some sort of beverage.  She is also carrying a purse of some description which might contain a phone, wallet, even reading material.  Don't worry, the troops are locked and loaded.

This morning the Marines landed in LA, but General Eric Smith, who happened to be at a Congressional budget hearing, said they have yet to deploy.  I hope they picked up food on the way from Twentynine Palms.  Maybe tacos.

Trump has two months in which to escalate a protest into an "insurrection."  That's how long Piss-drunk Pete told Congress he plans to keep the troops in LA.  California has filed suit against the regime for violating the states' rights provision of the Tenth Amendment, but the regime has shown little respect for courts or laws before.  "When there's no danger, they'll leave," Trump told reporters.  It all depends who defines "danger," of course.  No responsible adult could discern any on Saturday.

In the meantime it's a warmup for the Draft Dodger Birthday Bash which will assault Washington on June 14, with all manner of big green dildos to excite the stumbling, flaccid, elderly Leader.  Not by coincidence, millions of Americans are expected to attend NO KINGS protests that day.  Everywhere except Washington, it seems.  Of course, you never can tell...

Today's New York Times has a full-page ad for NO KINGS DAY, paid for by Walmart heir Christy Walton.  MAGA is dismayed.

In the circumstances it's hard for even the most ardent MAGA sycophant to stand out from the mob crowd as they demand arrests, deportations, executions (a Newsmax tumor called Chris Plante wants all Democrats designated a "terrorist organization").  Impressively, House Squeaker Johnson declined to give an opinion on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested, "but he ought to be tarred and feathered, I'll say that."  Louisiana must be more backward than I thought.

Let's hear from one of the front-line commanders, Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District.  "Every single graduation site is a protected site," he said of the over one hundred ceremonies scheduled for this week.  The ICEstapo, being lazy as well as sadistic, prefer to show up at offices where immigrants come for scheduled hearings as well as work sites, schools and community centers.  The LAUSD has its own police force (211 sworn officers, 25 non-sworn school safety officers and civilian staff), and they will be covering graduations as well as buses and bus stops, with a remote video option for those who are still wary of attending.  Supt. Carvalho seems to be a lot better organized than the National Guard.  Commencement offers rich pickings for the ICEstapo as about 30,000 of the city's 520,000 students are immigrants, some of them undocumented.  

It's not just the vroom-vrooms and the crash-bangs that will mark the birth of Dear Leader.  Human sacrifices are also needed.  Executions are scheduled this week in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina.  A fourth in Oklahoma has been stayed by a judge, but the state is working feverishly to get it done in time for the birthday party.  Joe Biden commuted 37 death sentences to life imprisonment, but if the regime can convince the courts that he was replaced by a clone/hopelessly senile/using an autopen/all of the above, there's a chance of killing them, too.  Fingers crossed, y'all.

Of course there's a goofy side, too, and Crown Prince Sniffles is involved.  Junior Trump posted a picture from the 1992 riots of a man with a rifle on a rooftop, cleverly captioned "Make Rooftop Koreans Great Again!"  The photographer, Hyungwon Kang, protested, "You're using the photo out of context.  Please take it down."  Kang meant to portray merchants protecting their stores because they felt the police had abandoned them during the Rodney King protests.  Members of the Korean American community were equally angry:  "While the unrest has not yet subsided, Donald Trump, Jr., showed the recklessness of posting a post on X Sunday June 8 mocking the current unrest by mentioning the 'Rooftop Korean' from...33 years ago...his actions could pose a huge risk in these icy times, and we strongly urge the past trauma of the Korean people be never, ever exploited for any purpose."  (Icy times -- I see what you did there.)

In the Guardian Gaby Hinsliff writes, "Trump has got what he wanted, which is for everyone to switch channels:  to stop gawping at his embarrassing fallout with Elon Musk over unfunded tax cuts, and flick over to the rival spectacle he has hastily created."  

And a reminder of what might have been:

The lie, of course, is that he sent the Marines, NOT the army.  Silly Kamala.

Don't forget -- it's TACO Tuesday!