22h ago

National Guard troops ordered to Los Angeles by Trump find quiet streets and few protests

Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops

The recent protests have drawn hundreds of participants but remain far smaller than other mass demonstrations, including the 2020 protests against police violence that spurred Newsom to request assistance from the National Guard.

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14h ago

Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops

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Lotta Americans still think they're middle class and therefore "safe"
Almost as if Agent Orange watched Fox news as his only source of info and thought the whole state was rioting.
- The real question is, how is it possible that anyone is still not rioting yet?
  
  Because they don't want to get shot by trigger happy cops?
  Because they don't want to go to jail when a bunch of techbros pore over phone GPS logs and high resolution footage and drag them into court six months down the line?
- Fox News and Trump are an Ouroboros Centipede - their shit flows through each other, perpetually.
National guards should leave California and arrest Donald Trump in another state! Wowee
Maybe he should start paying attention to daily briefings and not to Fox News. Another failure by him and a huge waste of time for the military.
- Honestly, his daily briefings are just telling him what he wants to hear. He might have had some pushback in his first term, but those people have all be purged by now.
  
  Yeah that’s true. I think he’s got Fox News people doing the daily briefings for him now too, so they’re about the same.
Angelenos are not stupid. Let them guard empty streets.
- Exactly. Be peaceful above all but now isn't the time to picket ICE or DHS installations. Make Trump look like the dictator and loser he is by wasting the Guards time. Observation and Reporting should still continue though. Don't let the controlled and subservient media outlets tell the whole story.
  
  Now isn't the time! It's not too late yet!
  
  I mean. That sounds like capitulating.
  Protest and make the national guardsman recognize the protestors as the good guys.
  You know the media will just ignore it if things are quiet and no one is there.
  
  And money, mobilization is not cheap - large part of military spending is UMO or Unit Movement.
  
  Go lick more boot you facsist.
  The government is kidnapping children, and your best recommendation is to watch!? That means you are supportive of what they're doing.
- There are apparently thousands of people protesting at multiple locations now. In addition to the central Hell locations behind Union Station, they're at City Hall and out in Pasadena, protesting at ICE office there. I'm not caught up but following some folks like this guy: https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social
but there was a car on fire! A CAR!
- I just saw that post on Reddit and checked the comments. Boy has that place been astroturfed to hell and back. Soooo many (item)(item)(number) one month old accounts starting arguments and people buying in and engaging. I had to stop pointing out to people they are arguing with paid actors because I didn't want to think there were that many idiots among my cohort.
- Yeah, but like, are we sure it wasn’t just a Tesla?
  
  They do just kinda do that.
He needs his base to believe ~~Italy’s~~ it is a war zone.
The propaganda machine is going to make it look like CA and other places are in open insurrection to justify civil war.
Welcome to Nazi America.
(Edit to correct an auto incorrect.)
- Not protesting isn't going to change the narrative. His base still believes every major city literally burnt down during the 2020 protests.
  
  Absolutely.
  But just get ready for his bullshit.
  It’s fresh and more rancid than ever.
- Propaganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on.
  
  Well, andor kinda got that wrong.
  They just need one or two good clips of people being violent, that they can put on blast.
  Doesn’t need to be a recent clip, or an actual liberal insurrection or even happening in the US.’
- Honestly I thought you just meant they’d take footage from a recent riot somewhere in Italy and claim it was Inglewood, manufacturing evidence is certainly in the playbook as we’ve seen from previous wars.
  
  I mean, they might do that. Floyd rioters apparently spoke a whole lot of french in the coverage my grandma saw (and sent me.)
- mamma mia!
The news is really trying to sensationalize it but yes, it's by and large very peaceful. Also for some reason, line dancing.
- Also for some reason, line dancing.
  That's about as non-threatening an activity as a group can do.
  The world is watching, and everyone knows what opening fire on a line dance party would look like.
- Absolutely, the headlines and reported words don't match the video evidence at all. The best they had was police pushing against a small group of maybe 30-50 protestors.
- Also for some reason, line dancing.
  Boredom, I imagine.
  It’s not a bad strategy for the protest organizers, though. If you see someone sullenly staring down the cops (who tend to be itching for reasons to pick fights), grabbing ‘em up for a nerves break is a good way to defray the situation — and demoralize the cops who are stuck at work while others have fun around them.
- Same as with Portland and Seattle’s autonomous zone, either nothing was happening or the things that were happening was because of the feds
Fucking finally. This is how it mostly was last night too. I watched the videos on live stream and it sure seemed like there were more ICE than protesters. Glad the national guard didn't have to make any evil vs. good choices when they got there.
Here are some links of the live streams you can check out for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MfqiO3QQk
Here's another view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPTnHNEUiE
- Their arrival was an evil choice. All 2000 are terrorists committing illegal acts from an illegal order.
  
  They could have subdued the supposedly federal agents who were abducting people and illegally occupying regions of LA County, so the option of being good while there was on the table.

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