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Trump border czar says National Guard will head to LA to fight anti-ICE protests

www.independent.co.uk

Trump activates National Guard to crush anti-ICE protest in LA

Tense confrontations between police and demonstrators in L.A. continued for a second day on Saturday, in response to operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.

“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,” Homan told Fox News.

His comments come after Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller railed against the protests, calling them an “insurrection” against the United States.

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"rioters and looters"
These are just protests and there have been no reports of looting.
- Just like during George Floyd protests, there will be undercover cops there smashing windows to enable these false narratives.
- The same voices keep saying that Jan 6 was a peaceful protest that was misunderstood.
- I watched most of it on TikTok live since Friday. It began with a hit and run of a protestor by ICE.
  I definitely didn’t see looters, but protestors were throwing rocks, cinder blocks, and M80s, and lighting cars on fire. That prompted ICE to don riot gear and deploy tear gas.
  This is a bad idea. We don’t have the numbers to get baited into escalation. This will only embolden fascism.
  Edit: Please share this.
  
  We don’t have the numbers to get baited into escalation.
  Huh? You absolutely do. And remember that this started because ICE was rounding up people off the street, so "not getting baited into escalation" would require allowing that to happen, which goes against the kind of solidarity necessary to depose Trump's regime.
  
  Fascism will escalate regardless, in the absence of real resistance they will simply lie to justify doing what they were always planning to do anyway, passively accepting their actions will do nothing to help, resistance is the only correct answer and it will absolutely have to be violent
  
  Yeah, we need more peaceful protesters to be attacked by cops and counter-protesters, then get blamed for the violence.
  Or maybe the fascists will eventually just decide to stop, all on their own...
  
  Bro is already licking the fascist boots as it's just getting started.
My feeling is that if the people of CA don’t fight back with equal, brutal force, America is officially done and this will happen everywhere.
I’m not sure what else one can do.
- Fighting back is the only thing that works. Look at 2020. Fighting back effectively kept the number of Trump W's in that time in the single digits.
  The absolute cowardice and cuckoldry the Democrats have shown isn't a path to stopping fascism. Time to dust off your gear from 2019 folks.
  
  Visionary battle plan of “sit back and do nothing, then they’ll find out!” (How controlled we are as opposition.)
  It’s a joke that is infinitely unfunny.
  
  Liberals will always go for fascism over actual change because they make money off capitalism. It’s why the DNC just fucking destroys any chances of actual leftists from getting elected
  
  W's?
  Wins?
- First video we see of a drone strike officially makes it a civil war. Either side.
- I have to think that if anyone is going to fight fight, it’s Los Angeles.
  Get ready for the fight to come to your town.
  
  It feels dirty rooting for LA from the north bay but go LA! Grrrr...
  (We have a great sports rivalry in this state for those who need context) ;)
- Media attention benefits the Trump agenda and the point is to set off the powderkeg. There is no deescalation.
  To cause a riot is the point; that's why punishment for objecting to agents was fortified as soon as the turd defiled the white house.
  Americans will die, but only those who oppose Trump's agenda.
  
  There is no deescalation.
  Nor can there be deescalation with fascists. Trump is looking for a fight, but fundamentally there can be no way to stop him but a fight. Something something they came for the immigrants, and I ____ (fill in the blank).
  
  Americans will die, but only those who oppose Trump's agenda.
  I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
Homan also complained about backlash directed at ICE agents during his interview on Fox News. The border czar, when asked about Democrats who have called for ICE agents to work unmasked, said he was looking into what could be done to stop their criticism.
“We’re asking the DOJ to look at these statements and see if there is something we can do,” Homan said.
We're living in a time where the highest policing authority in the nation is openly trying to subvert first amendment rights by charging elected officials with crimes for speaking out against authoritarianism. Great.
- A masked policing agency isn't anything but a cult motivated mob. They are no better no than the KKK. They are following orders they know the population will not accept. Therefore they have abandoned their oath to protect the populus, and chose to serve only the rich.
  Call me terrible, but the best thing we can do is tell them they will all serve life sentences for their actions when Trump leaves office. 100 year sentence for every ICE member that assists or assaults member of our community. If they are in a state that offers the death penalty, they should be able to choose it if they wish.
  
  The best we can do is prematurely end their life and make anybody who continues this unlawful rampage fear for their life.
  Sorry. I'm generally pacifist, but peaceful discourse and verbal threats will not solve this.
  
  A masked policing agency isn't anything but a cult
  Eh, a lot of Mexican and central American police need to be masked some times or the cartels will murder there families, so there are some valid reasons. There hasn't been any cases of ICE agents being targeted outside some possible "attacks" on social media as far as i know so they've got no excuse.
I recommend getting a firearm and becoming competent with it sooner than later
- Thoughts on this? https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/shotguns/iwi-tavor-ts12-black-12-gauge-3in-semi-automatic-shotgun-185in/p/1647680
  
  As I understand it, that TS12 uses three magazines simultaneously. That is asking for a lot of jamming, simply because there are more moving parts.
  I think the VR80 would be better, it can accommodate 9-rounder magazines, is a semi, ambidextrous, and Cali compliant. The VR80 has a split or lever action, so you can remove magazines fairly quickly while on the range. If law goes out the window, you should be able to uninstall a small pin by the magazine release. This voids the compliance, but in war...well, who on your side is going to care?
  Also, it is AR-15 patterned, so you can modify it a fair bit. About the only downsides is that it takes about 250 rounds to loosen up, and an annoying compliant stock. Initially, it jams a fair bit until you have broken it in.
  
  IWI
"Trumpanmen" square about occur.
- During his first term, Trump asked Mark Esper (then-head of the DoD) to use live ammo on protesters, and he declined to - Source
  That role is now filled by former Fox News host, Pete Hegseth.
Can people tell me why we keep using the stupid fucking "border czar" term? I want to know who the fuck these people are and what their actual titles are. It makes reading headlines such a fucking chore. I end up having to google the context of a headline like every 4th article.
For those curious, Tom Homan's actual title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations
- Because the constitution says we can't call the president king, but if we name everyone in other positions "border king" "energy king" etc. in Russian, we can normalize the king concept. Maybe a shitty nod to Russia as well?
  Confounding that they are so willing to use a Russian term.
  Our government really wants us to be feudal, apparently.
- We know Himmler's name we should also know Homans.
- "czars" are unaccountable and powerful. Thats why these public employees like the term. They should be called administrators or "public servants" because thats what they actually get a paycheck for, not for strutting around playing billy badass against American citizens.
  This particular borderbitch public servant should go sit his TSA self at an airport and shut his overfed piehole. Nobody cares what he thinks.
I love that ICE is such a bunch of shriveled nutsacks that they have to send in Gary from Accounting to come bail their asses out.
Mayor Bass should be thanking us
I see another "did you even say thank you?" moment coming...
They shot and killed college kids at Kent State for less. They maimed people at BLM protests and killed several, too. Those cowardly Conservatives will do anything to shut people up that rock the boat and threaten their power.
Gaining just a teensy tiny bit of faith in Americans, though I'm still flabbergasted that it took this long before non-cybertruck cars started burning.
- Unfortunately, I don't think we can take credit for most of those.
Going to lose, butt czar.

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