June 2025, California National Guard deployed by America’s wannabe dictator
Written by slaveholders who never imagined that anyone but wealthy white plantation owners would ever be running the country, the United States has one of the most vague and dysfunctional Constitutions and system of government in the Western world.
Antidemocratic design choices like the US House of Lords (the Senate), our peculiar Electoral College, the inability to hold no-confidence votes to end a government, together with all the mood swings of voters and the periodic and arbitrary re-interpretations of law by a broken, partisan judicial system drive citizens of every political persuasion mad.
The level of corruption, criminality, cowardice, and hypocrisy within every branch of this system of government is astounding and only keeps growing.
Last month Supreme Court approval ratings dropped below 50% for the first time in five years. Since being elected, Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped 12 points and are now at 41%. Coming in dead last in being trusted by Americans, Congressional approval ratings are now at 37%.
We no longer have a government that governs by the consent of the governed.
Instead, our rulers are a lawless band of pardoned criminals and oligarchs who have set about to loot the country, destroy anything of use to working people, and are doing a bang-up job of reprising Germany of 1933. Not to mention participating in a genocide and threatening us all with World War III.
Naturally, would-be dictators are sensitive to criticism and don’t much appreciate hearing from the hoi polloi.
Last week we experienced Trump’s unusual mobilization of the National Guard in California and an illegal deployment of U.S. Marines on the streets of Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. I guess we had it coming. We find nothing wrong with sending in the Marines on other people’s streets to intimidate and/or murder them — or as we like to say, to “keep peace” — so it was just a matter of time before it happened to American citizens too.
June 2025, U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, attached to Task Force 51, police Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act
Watching Angelinos stand up for their undocumented friends and neighbors must have been a shocking, unwelcome sight to MAGA Americans whose ideological roots trace back to the aptly-named No Nothing Party, which had a platform remarkably like their Führer’s.
One of MAGA world’s many conspiracy theories is that of the paid “crisis actor.”
Magnified by social media and the rightwing press, a narrative emerged that the Los Angeles ICE protests and the “No Kings” demonstrations were funded by George Soros, always the go-to Jew that MAGA antisemites accuse of “bankrolling” any protest or progressive effort they don’t like.
The Washingon Examiner dismissed community outrage at masked men in unmarked cars operating like Stasi agents with no warrants. Instead they figured it had to be a “well-funded” effort by Democratic operatives to “make them appear spontaneous and grassroots.” If only Democrats would fight like that — or at all.
The New York Post ran out of fingers coming up with new culprits — immigration rights groups, the Chinese Communist Party, Code Pink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), various terrorist groups and individuals — not to mention your grandmother in Pasadena.
Others imagined they recognized the fingerprints of lefty tech mogul Neville Singam and the service employees international union SEIU on the protests. Naturally, ICE, which has now become Trump’s Republican (or perhaps Praetorian) Guard, assaulted the SEIU president and arrested him on Trumped-up charges. Several Democratic elected officials shared similar manhandling. Thuggish beat-downs of the loyal opposition were a prominent feature of the Sturmabteilung.
It was inconceivable to any of these racist morons that people might come out into the streets to show solidarity with their friends, coworkers, and neighbors. After all, people like this can’t imagine solidarity with anyone except perhaps other white Christian nationalists.
Josh Hawley, “brave heart” (left). Josh Hawley: frightened little wabbit (right)
One of the biggest racist morons of them all is Senator Josh Hawley. You’ll remember him as the puffed-up provocateur who stood behind a protective police shield egging on January 6th seditionists, but who ran like a jackrabbit when his neo-nazi buddies actually breached the Senate.
Hawley — a hypocrite with clearly selective outrage for protest — is now playing the well-greased part of Joseph McCarthy by launching a witch hunt against the Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights and at least one socialist group, the PSL.
Without a shred of proof or bothering to enumerate any specific cases of lawbreaking other than the Constitutionally-protected right to protest and (yes) disrupt, Hawley accuses both of “financing and materially supporting the coordinated protests and riots” and providing “logistical support and financial resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive actions.”
Threatening each with “referral for criminal investigation,” Hawley’s fishing expedition is asking for each to provide:
- All internal communications, including emails, text messages, chat logs, and messaging applications, relating to protest planning, coordination, or funding.
- All financial documents related to protests, demonstrations, or mobilization efforts in Los Angeles or elsewhere relating to immigration enforcement.
- All third-party contracts or vendor agreements, including any arrangements with event organizers, transportation providers, security personnel, or communications consultants relating to immigration enforcement or the Los Angeles protests, or similar protests elsewhere.
- Grant applications and funding proposals that relate to or reference immigration enforcement.
- Travel and lodging records for individuals or groups supported or reimbursed in connection with protest activities.
- Media or public relations strategies, including talking points, press releases, and coordination with journalists or influencers relating to immigration protests.
- Donor lists.
That’s quite the shopping list.
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Treating dissent as terrorism is precisely how the Nazis began hounding the German Left in 1933. And we all know how that turned out.
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