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California Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass and the entire extremist California progressive class have egg on their faces Monday evening as the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests were neutered by the president’s shaming of Golden State officials to take action, his decision to send in the National Guard and the Marines, and his refusal to tolerate violence.

Bass, Sen. Adam Schiff, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former vice president and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and the whole Marxist gang decried Trump’s decisions—yet, as we’ve seen before, they had no interest in stopping the rampage and look pathetic now that the president is showing how things are actually done.

It’s similar to the border crisis: he shut down that garbage almost overnight. The commander-in-chief summed that up when addressing a joint session of Congress in March:

One of Trump’s standout lines during his speech was when he said, “It turned out that all we really needed was a new president” in response to how former President Joe Biden and Democrats complained they needed legislation to tackle soaring illegal immigration.

Last month, the Border Patrol recorded 8,450 migrants who crossed the southern border illegally – the lowest level in at least 25 years. For perspective, most months during the Biden administration had well over 100,000 border encounters.

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It’s riot season again in America. Well, at least in the Democrat run cities, where progressive billionaires fund their progressive activism through progressive NGOs, knowing that a progressive media lacks any self-respect to report honestly. Out in real America (aka the suburbs), we kick back and enjoy the content. Like this Dallas video, where a cop tries to have a conversation with a masked protester. SPOILER: The protester is an imbecile.

Everyone has their favorite genre of content. Some people prefer the outrage over seeing foreign flags flying over a gathering meant to affect American policy. Others go with the looting, where city folks show how much they care about marginalized communities by stealing sneakers made by slave labor from those marginalized communities. We here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website? It’s all about what epic failures at life those cosplaying on the ground are.

Kudos to this police sergeant who attempted to reason with Chester the Protester. Chester’s parents should request a refund for his college tuition.

Chester: As long as you feel ok with capitalism, racist, imperialist state.
Sarge: Do you even know what that means?
Chester: Yes b*tch, I’m in college.

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California sued the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to send in National Guard troops in response to protests over immigration enforcement, calling it an unconstitutional use of executive power that usurped the state’s authority.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco asks the judge to set aside President Trump’s order calling in the National Guard without authorization from the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

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Most Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants and crack down on the violent protests that erupted in Los Angeles over the weekend in response to immigration raids. Doing what comes naturally, elected Democrats rallied in opposition to Trump’s popular agenda as hooligans threw bricks at police officers, ransacked local shops, set fire to cars, and spit on American flags (while waving Mexicans flags).

So much for the Democratic Party’s short-lived efforts to rebrand as a no-nonsense party capable of understanding the concerns of normal Americans.

As the chaos was enfolding on the streets of Los Angeles, Politico reported that the Democratic Party was in the midst of a “Great Un-Awokening.” Ambitious Democrats were “in the middle of a slow-motion Sista Souljah moment” aiming to “ratchet back a leftward lurch on social issues some in the party say cost them the November election.” As an example, Politico praised California governor Gavin Newsom for having “muted his tone on immigration issues,” noting that in addition to proposing “cuts” to a state program that gives free health care to illegal immigrants, Newsom had also stopped using the term “sanctuary” to describe state policies that prohibit local authorities from cooperating with federal immigration officers.

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On Sunday during live coverage of the Los Angeles riots, local ABC affiliate KABC ran footage that did not match what the anchors were describing. Jory Rand went as far as to say the protestors were “having fun watching cars burn,” but would he feel that way if that was his car? Would this have been just another example of the liberal media distracting from the obvious facts?

Los Angeles took a beating earlier this year with the historic wildfires in January but has taken another pounding with the city’s breakout over ICE arrests and deportations. Again, the city and nation turn heads due to the lack of leadership and command to simply protect the people of Los Angeles, ranging from California Governor Gavin Newsom, down to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

In a clip that will live infamy alongside this and this, from the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, Rand described the footage this way:

I don’t know if there’s any police activity pushing these folks this way, or perhaps just the smoke. It’s getting too hard to breathe. More explosions here from those cars. But we do have a decent sized crowd watching these cars continue to burn. Otherwise, as Tim said, things do look relatively peaceful at this hour. We saw the folks at Aliso and Alameda sitting down on the ground. We saw the folks at Temple and Alameda just kind of waiting it out. It’s broken down to just a couple dozen people at that location, and so things seem pretty-It’s hard to say that with three cars burning, but things do seem relatively calm minus these cars that have been set on fire.

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As is the case with most pro-illegal immigration demonstrations, there are a lack of American flags flown. Odd, because you would think someone here illegally wouldn’t fly the flag of the country they are seeking “asylum” from, yet at the anti-ICE riots taking place in Los Angeles, that was the case. At least, until a handful of future Democrat staffers realized the optics problem and handed out American flags because they thought they could con people into thinking they were patriotic.

The goal is to avoid any more in-kind Republican campaign ads like this one.

This may surprise you, but the left aren’t sending their best and brightest. In Los Angeles, the worst and dimmest run rampant.

A handful of organizers, or at least one of the progressive NGOs funded by progressive billionaires, attempted to do something about it, as captured on the ground by Aldo Buttazzoni. They are giving out American flags. I think the goal is that when people see photos of them flying American flags, it will mask how much they hate America IRL.

They would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for one thing that was overlooked…

They never told people that flying the American flag upside down was a bad thing.

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The latest L.A. riots came after ICE began enforcing immigration law and rounding up illegals in downtown Los Angeles, and the New York Times is desperately trying to downplay the radical and violent nature of the so-called protests by calling them “largely peaceful” (i.e., somewhat violent, as a trove of photos from Los Angeles prove).

A representative piece is “What to Know About the Immigration Protests in Los Angeles,” with this subhead attached: “Demonstrations against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration have been largely peaceful, but tensions flared after President Trump ordered National Guard troops to deploy to the city.”

The story is wrong right from the subhead. Riots were already ongoing, with stones hurled at cop cars, while the National Guard troops were sent to protect the Los Angeles Federal Building, which came under siege Friday by protesters.

The byline was shared by breaking news reporters Yan Zhuang, Anushka Patil, and Remy Tumin, who used that ridiculous phrase “largely peaceful” three more times in their actual report (was “mostly peaceful” still taken by CNN, after the last round of national rioting five years ago?).

That defensive description held even as the story documented many violent acts:

The protests have been largely peaceful but have flared up in pockets of downtown Los Angeles and in nearby suburbs, as well as in San Francisco.

Demonstrations on Sunday afternoon near a downtown detention center were largely peaceful, but some protesters fired fireworks at police officers under a bridge on the nearby U.S. 101 freeway. Several driverless Waymo cars were set on fire in downtown Los Angeles.

Mr. Trump described the largely peaceful demonstrators as “insurrectionist mobs” on social media on Sunday, and said Los Angeles had been “invaded and occupied.”

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It was inevitable.  Two giants, two visionaries, two disruptors on a collision course — not because of ego, but because of proximity to power and the cost of truth.

The headlines want to sell it as a “bromance gone bad,” a testosterone-fueled spat between a tech billionaire and a president.  But that’s not what this is. The Trump-Musk fallout isn’t personal.  It’s a fracture in the alliance that helped launch one of the boldest assaults on federal corruption in modern history — and one we need to see healed, not widened.

Let’s talk facts.

After the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Elon Musk didn’t run.  He ran toward the fire.  He stood beside President Trump.  He donated over $300 million.  He helped build the campaign’s infrastructure and vision.  And after the victory, he joined forces with Trump to lead DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency, a radical initiative tasked with exposing the entrenched rot in Washington’s books.

Together, they began pulling levers the bureaucracy never thought could be touched.

DOGE uncovered billions in fraudulent contracts, shell vendors, and “green” slush funds that had nothing to do with the environment.  DIE schemes, inflated payrolls, and cozy sweetheart deals — nothing was off-limits.  It wasn’t just reform.  It was an insurrection against federal waste.

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“At this point, this has been very peaceful. It has been tense at some points, but we haven’t seen any violence happening here,” CNN correspondent Julia Vargas Jones said as the network showed rioters on motorbikes circling a car on fire in the middle of an intersection.

A similar video was shown on CNN as Rep. Nanette Barragán (D., Calif.) accused the Trump administration of “targeting peaceful protests.”

… Former vice president Kamala Harris accused the Trump administration of “stoking fear” and said the “demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful.”

“I continue to support the millions of Americans who are standing up to protect our most fundamental rights and freedoms,” she said in a statement.

Rep. Judy Chu (D., Calif.) also blamed Trump for the destruction, accusing him of creating a “manufactured crisis” by deploying the National Guard. As she argued on MSNBC that the Los Angeles Police Department had the situation under control, the network showed multiple large fires burning in the street. CNN anchor Dana Bash, meanwhile, suggested the disruption wasn’t “a real riot.”

“I just want to state for the record that what did happen in 1992 was so different from what we’re seeing now,” she said. “That was a real riot that went all across the city of Los Angeles after a verdict in the Rodney King case.”

A local ABC affiliate anchor, Marc Brown, described the rioters as “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.” NBC News correspondent Steve Patterson called them “peaceful people that want to get their message across.”

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Constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz predicted on Monday that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump over the Los Angeles riots will go down in flames, just like his city.

Speaking on his program “The Dershow,” Dershowitz expressed doubt that the U.S. Supreme Court would “second guess” Trump’s decision to federalize thousands of California National Guardsmen and deploy them to the epicenters of riots taking place across L.A. Gavin quickly sued Trump, accusing the president of “unlawfully” ordering soldiers under his control to put down the unrest.

“The Supreme Court will not second-guess the President of the United States on this issue,” Dershowitz said. “They will say, whether right or wrong, the president had the authority to make this decision and he had the authority to make it over the lack of consent of the governor,” Dershowitz explained.

“Let’s be clear, there was violence. You can see it on television; there were bombings, fire bombings, and burnings of Teslas and other self-driving cars. There were rocks being thrown at ICE officers. There were threats against ICE officers, threats against their families. Was it a full-blown insurrection? No.”

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President Donald Trump called in the National Guard to help after the violence against federal agents, the police, and the property damage erupted.

Meanwhile, Democrats were denying the violence and claiming things were in hand when they weren’t. Instead of truly standing focused against the riots, they were spending their time attacking Trump and inciting people.

But now, Mayor Karen Bass has truly given away the game in her latest remarks during a press conference she gave Monday night. She called on the federal government to stop the ICE raids. She claimed that on Thursday, it was peaceful until the intervention of the federal government [the ICE raids].

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Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that the suspect accused of assaulting a federal officer during the anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles has been identified.

The FBI initially asked for the public’s help by offering a $50,000 cash reward for information leading to the man’s arrest. He was accused of injuring a federal officer after throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles, according to the FBI.

Bondi was a guest on “Hannity” Monday night, when she broke the news to host Sean Hannity.

The FBI has identified a man accused of throwing rocks and injuring a federal officer while damaging federal property during the LA riots on Saturday. (FBI)

“The FBI has identified him,” Bondi said. “That guy has just been identified, and they are doing a search warrant on his house, as we speak. And he has been identified…his name is Reyes. He is going to be on the Most Wanted list.

“He has been identified by the great police work by the FBI,” she continued. “So, you can run, you can’t hide. We are coming after you federally. If you assault a police officer, if you rob a store, if you loot, if you spit on police officers, we’re coming after you.”

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President Donald Trump is not backing off his battle with Elon Musk, saying Saturday that he has no desire to repair their relationship and warning that his former ally and campaign benefactor could face “serious consequences” if he tries to help Democrats in upcoming elections.

Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker in a phone interview that he has no plans to make up with Musk. Asked specifically if he thought his relationship with the mega-billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is over, Trump responded, “I would assume so, yeah.”

“I’m too busy doing other things,” Trump continued. “You know, I won an election in a landslide. I gave him a lot of breaks, long before this happened, I gave him breaks in my first administration, and saved his life in my first administration, I have no intention of speaking to him.”

The president also issued a warning amid chatter that Musk could back Democratic lawmakers and candidates in the 2026 midterm elections.

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ELON Musk has “White House PTSD” and thinks he made a mistake by helping Trump get reelected, his dad has claimed.

Errol Musk, 79, made the explosive remarks in Moscow, where he’s set to appear at a Kremlin-backed forum organised by Putin’s inner circle.

It comes just days after his billionaire son’s high-profile alliance with the US President imploded in a fierce online feud.

The world’s richest man — who reportedly donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign and briefly served as a White House aide — has now turned on the president over his sweeping tax and spending bill.

Elon even claimed on X that Trump was tied to disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, though the post was later deleted and the White House dismissed the allegation outright.

Their bromance is now beyond repair.

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President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles to stop rioting could last 60 days and is estimated to cost at least $134 million, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday — as House Democrats slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his role in the mission.

Trump took control of California’s National Guard Saturday to deploy 4,100 of its members to halt violent protests against immigration enforcement raids. He also ordered 700 Marines to the area Monday to help provide security for federal buildings and officials.

Looting and clashes with police continued for a fourth straight night Monday in downtown Los Angeles.

“We stated very publicly that it’s 60 days because we want to ensure that those rioters, looters and thugs on the other side assaulting our police officers know that we’re not going anywhere,” Hegseth told Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) during a House budget hearing Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that troops deployed to LA could remain there 60 days.

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“If Governor Gavin Newscum, of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!” Trump wrote.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that 2,000 National Guard troops will be sent to Los Angeles to arrest protesters.

 

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The military has activated about 700 active-duty Marines who could be sent to Los Angeles, joining National Guard troops who were sent to the city to respond to protests, the U.S. Northern Command said in a statement.

Members of the Marine Corps could start arriving in the Los Angeles area as soon as Tuesday, a defense official told CBS News. The Marines are based in Twentynine Palms, a city east of Los Angeles.

Northern Command said the Marines will “seamlessly integrate” with hundreds of members of the National Guard to protect “federal personnel and federal property.” They have been trained in “de-escalation, crowd control and standing rules for the use of force,” the military added.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday that around 700 Marines “are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested late Monday he could take legal action over the planned use of Marines, calling it illegal.

In a post on X, he wrote, “U.S. Marines serve a valuable purpose for this country — defending democracy. They are not political pawns. The Secretary of Defense is illegally deploying them onto American streets so Trump can have a talking point at his parade this weekend. It’s a blatant abuse of power. We will sue to stop this. The Courts and Congress must act. Checks and balances are crumbling. This is a red line — and they’re crossing it. WAKE UP!”