POTUS sends 2,000 National Guard troops to L.A. to handle ICE protests - 6/7/2025

[ParallelLines]

Barely Moderating:

The discussion of the Florida sheriff is tangentially linked in terms of reactions, but isn’t central to the National Guard presence in LA. Let’s not let it become a hijack to this thread, though it’s perfect fodder for our “No Kings” protest thread, where it’s already been linked and not yet had nuance discussed. This is barely a mod-note, more of a please and thank you.

"No Kings" rallies, Saturday June 14th 2025

How about: Shatter the Creep State! No DC Bureaucrats Deploying Troops In Our Cities!

[bobot]

@bordelond

CNN’s not helping

CNN has not been helping for a long time.

[Sherrerd]

@Locrian

transcript from Mayor Bass on military presence in LA:

“i was listening to the words of the secretary at her press conference and she described L.A. as a ‘war zone,'” began Bass. “It is my understanding that she arrived last night, was here for a few hours today, and came to that conclusion. There’s no one up here [onstage] who sees Los Angeles like that. This is isolated to a few blocks in a city that is over 500 square miles. And out of those 500 square miles, the protests and especially the protests that devolved into vandalism, represents about half a square mile.”

She continued, “So the notion that this is happening all over our city, the notion that this city is not governable, the notion that we need the military to intervene …To characterize what is going on in our city as a city of mayhem is just an outright lie. I’m not going to call it an untruth. I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I’m going to call it for what it is, which is a lie.”

GOOD for her. It IS clearly a lie, and Republicans are continuing to spout this lie.

@ParallelLines

@Stranger_On_A_Train has opened up a dedicated thread for the Kristi Noem Conference / Senator Alex Padilla incident. Other than the causal relationship, most future discussion of that specific event is probably better there.

I will comply with that but did want to thank @Roderick_Femm for posting something that CNN and MSNBC (at least) are choosing not to show: the seconds of footage that prove that Noem, Mike Johnson, and other Republicans are (again) flat-out lying:

@Roderick_Femm

Here is a CBS news clip that shows the video from just before he started talking.

(Now I’ll head over to the other thread.)

[Babale]

Here’s something I love seeing: a couple of Mexican-American protesters preventing far left rioter types from burning an American flag. They make it clear: we are here protesting for a better country. We are not the same as the rioters.

notsoErudite