"White House pool reporters are literally pouring gasoline onto a road flare held by an arsonist. They are baiting Trump into making ever more incendiary statements, which the media then repeats with staged alarm and barely concealed glee."

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow #media
/14

"The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not."

~ Robert Reich

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/13

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-dictators-revenge

"Before the election, Donald Trump quoted Hitler (again) and said he would send the National Guard and the military against 'the enemy from within.'

The enemies don’t include violent insurrectionists with MAGA shirts, Trump hats, and Confederate flags who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, attacked cops, and tried to overthrow a free and fair election."

~ Wajahat Ali

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/11

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-los-angeles-and-american

"It is obvious, at least to me, that the men breaking windows and vandalizing the police car in San Francisco are provocateurs."

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/9

"In Los Angeles, several Waymo driverless cars were set on fire by protesters. There is one photo (above) of a masked man standing atop a vandalized Waymo car between two burning cars waving a Mexican flag. More photos showed a vandalized LAPD car with a broken windshield surrounded by paving stones that had been hurled at the police cars."

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/8

"The video images were almost identical to video taken of the Ferguson riots after the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014 showing a man wearing black pants and a black hoodie and a backpack systematically breaking the windows of an auto parts store. He was followed by another man dressed identically who threw Molotov fire bombs into the store, setting it on fire."

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/7

"Last night, protests spread to San Francisco, where 150 were arrested in clashes with police. Videos of the protests showed men in all-black outfits, wearing hoodies, masks, and backpacks, breaking the windows of downtown buildings with a hammer and vandalizing a SFPD patrol car."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/6

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds

"Televised riots are the perfect backdrop to highlight the White House’s messaging on immigration. It is a manufactured show of force that Trump’s base will applaud."

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/5

"Trump got his distraction, and as a bonus he got a public showdown with a political rival (Governor Gavin Newsom) over his core issue (immigration) in the bluest of blue states (California). It is a fight Trump has been girding for since he took office."

~ Dan Rather

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/4

https://steady.substack.com/p/produced-and-directed-by-donald-trump

"This is a pure, unfiltered, weapons-grade reality show distraction. A re-run of the oldest trick in the Trump playbook: create a crisis, redefine reality, and hope the public is too overwhelmed to notice the man behind the curtain is full of shit."

~ Michael Cohen

#LosAngeles #Trump #immigrants #ICE #military #PoliticsofDistraction #RealityShow
/3

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/la-mayhem-trumps-reality-show-distraction