Theres a distinct possibility that all these riots and threats of riots fizzle out quickly as the Democrats allowing and supporting them begin to realize that normal people are getting pretty dam sick and tired of their commie bullshit and start to widely support mass deportations and even militarized law enforcement to do it. The FAFO principle may begin to rear its head. For a long time they and the media could convince people that Trump was the “cause” of all the chaos and turmoil; normal people are beginning to figure out that he is actually the solution. Fear is a powerful motivator and most normal people will follow almost anyone that promises stability over chaos, and especially so if they actually deliver it. Itll make Trump more popular than ever. Itll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Meanwhile the Trump admin can do a lot of good the Left hates such as RFKJr sacking the entire CDC vaccine board, while the media is distracted by bigger outrages.
I think that you are correct. It's stomach churning to be CA tax payer and have these folks running up the taxpayer tab (by probably millions to deal with it as law enforcement overtime is not cheap) all the while waving the mexican flag.
I can feel CA turning red. Despite it's blue reputation, believe me, red is building momentum, a lot of momentum.
Yes, it's all about control. Skimming a lot from a shrunken tax base beats getting zero percent of a big one.
And you can cement control by driving out the productive who might vote against you. Many ways to do that. Civil disorder--including rioting, but also widespread crime, permitting/encouraging widespread drug use in public spaces--is one of those ways.
The dissolution of USAID has gone a long way, or will go a long way, to reducing the coffers of the sponsors of this sort of domestic terrorism, but they still have a hell of a lot of money to sponsor it left over from the billions they stole from the American taxpayers over the past 4 years with their unethical and illegal NGO funding.
While it may not happen in my lifetime, I believe no later than my children's lifetime, we will experience a second Civil War, where the South defeats the North because the North is filled with a bunch of goofy, woke, progressive adherents to policies of so-called well-intentioned theory that just doesn't work and the South will be filled with people that focus on consequences and results.
The Democrat run big cities in the south will be squeezed, but the Democrat run big cities in the North are not going to be able to destroy the rural areas up there, even though they will tax them ridiculously.
This is just another effort by desperate Democrats who have seen their approval ratings drop below 20% to work in conjunction with Chinese and Iranian dissidents and attempt to start a second Civil War, or at the very least create as much chaos and unrest as possible to try to diminish the Trump administration's popularity and Power and they are failing, because they are becoming more irrelevant by the day and the typical American with an IQ above 60 sees right through the ridiculous extremist strategies.
If you're not intelligent enough to come up with comprehensive policies and plans to effectively counter your opponent, then you should get the hell out of politics, instead of committing treasonous acts to attempt to overthrow a government that border on insurrection. Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely, because there's just too damn much money to be made taking advantage of the useful idiots on the fringes and when the fringes grow from less than 1% to damn near 5% you have total chaos in certain areas. The only thing that has ever worked to defeat extremists is the use of force.
It is true that Democrats encourage destruction of the cities and states they rule over because they know that they will still be in power and profiting from whatever is left after the destruction. You must remember that the US overall and every state are fabulously rich. As much as we like to dump on Illinois and Chicago for their one party rule and rapidly declining quality of life, if Illinois were a country, its total GDP is in the top 25 of the world. So yes, the Marxists in Illinois can destroy all the good in Illinois and tax and spend and chase people away, and even if the GDP and population in Illinois take a huge hit, Illinois will still be a rich state worth plundering by the ghouls and goblins of the left.
The closest analogy would be Third World countries ruled by fabulously rich dictators. That is the model the Dems work off of. If a Third World dictator ruling over a backwards and desolate country can become fabulously rich, just imagine how rich a Dem can become ruling over even a hollowed out US city or state.
One definition of a Third World country is one with only a few rich people, no middle class, and a bunch of poor people. Sound familiar? Take Chicago as an example. What has been the Dems M.O. the last 20 years? Drive out the rich. Check. Drive out the middle class. In progress. Increase the number of poor people dependent on the regime. Check.
All that freedom loving Americans can do is leave blue cities and states as soon as possible. Most importantly they must encourage their children to leave these backwards cities and states because a lifetime of oppressive Dem taxation will reduce their net worth and quality of life.
Here is an interesting statistic about Chicago suburbs. In 2018, Chicago had 12 suburbs on the list of the 100 richest suburbs in the US. In 2025, only 3 suburbs remain on the list: Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe.
100%. Great summary. Every.Little.Battle we can engage in - do it.
1776:
1/3 of our population fought for independence(rednecks)
1/3 were indifferent(republicans)
1/3 backed the Crown(democrats)
Good news is that the economy is starting to boom and everyone now knows these are manufactured riots that are confined to a city block; they are losing everywhere.
It will be interesting to see what happens when those rioters arrested by feds for assaulting/obstructing feds realize they are not going to be facing a liberal local DA. (Hochman is a lot better than Gascon, but still subject to local political pressure.) What is overlooked in most discussions of riots in very blue cities is that not only are there no consequences for the elected officials, but often no consequences for the rioters (dismissed charges, ridiculously reduced charges, pre trial diversion, insane plea bargains) because the local prosecutor is on their side. This will not be the case for those prosecuted in federal court. If any of these defendants knows something worth telling, it will come out quickly.
On another blog (the excellent Don Surber) I read that in at least one case the officers were serving a criminal warrant on charges of (apparently) money laundering, tax evasion and customs fraud..under-declared imports of $80MM with $17MM unpaid fees...connected to Mexican and Columbian interests.
Hmmm very suspicious that. Seems that there are additional avenues of nefarious $$ in the LA area.
Where’s the proof? In yesterday’s post you used a Trump approval rating that didn’t match any of the six resources I found ( and to the best of my knowledge they were all middle of the road sources. ) I’m tired of both sides tossing out serious allegation like “they are paid protesters” without substantiation.
1. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL); and,
2. The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
This is known because these groups have held press conferences and have provided support in the form of transaportation, food/water (rioting is a thirsty business), medical care, and legal services.
They admit to paying their "supervisors" and their staff.
Again, this is based on their own words.
Antifa and BLM in the past have provided similar support and have delivered rioters to riots. They have also been supported financially by the same folk who support PSL and DSA above.
So, this isn't any huge leap of faith.
There is a ton of anecdotal evidence of leftist agitator groups "hiring" persons on Craigsalist to support their riot efforts. Their answer to these allegations would be: "These are people we hire to supervise transportation, the distribution of PPE, the food/water layouts, the medical care tents, and legal services.
All of these groups are funded entirely by leftist "donors" and government grants.
There is no excuse for the public disruption, the violence, the arson, and the looting. This is by no means a peaceful protest. The vivid images of damage, serious injuries, property damage, burning buildings, and burning cars are overwhelming.
The attempt by Gov Newsom and Mayor Bass to minimize the seriousness of these riots is unconscionable and an affront to law and order.
The Dems -- the folks who wanted to defund the police -- again find themselves on the wrong side of another 80-20 issue -- first immigration/Southern border, then the deportation of criminal illegal aliens, and now riots.
After the 6 Jan DC National Guard response fiasco, Trump is exactly right to react and to over react to ensure public safe and peace.
if you can tolerate being on X, datarepublican is beginning to piece together the connections and people. She does not speculate and shows her work. Please take a look and see what you think.
The NGOs have been used by the Dem party to warehouse their political operatives whilst they are out of power.
Just the NGOs supported by USAID are an insight into a cesspool of waste, fraud, and corruption that is beyond belief. There is criminal liability in those actions and records.
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinions of sheep.
They think of themselves as the lion and everyone else as the sheep. They don't care what the sheep think. The sheep are prey animals who exist to provide the lion with sustenance.
They want you to shut up and pay your taxes.
While they build ever more elaborate pens to keep you confined in.
The Left (and let's just call them what they are) Communists, can only destroy. They not only don't want to build anything, they can't because communism goes against human nature. Folks won't work for the good of society or people they don't love. The subtitle to George Gilder's seminal work, "Men and Marriage" is "Civilization is Built by Men With Families to Feed" is quite true.
If you look at the history of the 20th and 21st centuries, it is replete with Commies taking over countries and instantly running those countries into the ground.
Mr. Carter is correct. These people would prefer to rule (as opposed to govern) over a destroyed and demoralized people.
Quick prediction. Not allowing the National Guard and the Marines to have live ammo will not end well.
Your second to last paragraph is worrying. It's more than worrying, it means the end of the American experiment. If you get American military firing on American citizenry, it is all over. It can not be likened to the Civil War where military engaged military. Where federalized state militias fought federalized state militias. Where the initial reason for the war was the supremecy of the federal over the state in essence.
We woild be better served if the paid chaos sowers were identified, unmasked and jailed.
Just noticed that Nev. Congressman Mark Amodei is trying to thwart defunding NPR and PBS. Maybe you know someone that can clearly explain how the taxpayers don't want to fund "public" media.
I hear Putin is planning to influence U.S. politics again this Saturday by sending flash-bang drones into riot areas where rioters are protesting against non-rioters.
Theres a distinct possibility that all these riots and threats of riots fizzle out quickly as the Democrats allowing and supporting them begin to realize that normal people are getting pretty dam sick and tired of their commie bullshit and start to widely support mass deportations and even militarized law enforcement to do it. The FAFO principle may begin to rear its head. For a long time they and the media could convince people that Trump was the “cause” of all the chaos and turmoil; normal people are beginning to figure out that he is actually the solution. Fear is a powerful motivator and most normal people will follow almost anyone that promises stability over chaos, and especially so if they actually deliver it. Itll make Trump more popular than ever. Itll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Meanwhile the Trump admin can do a lot of good the Left hates such as RFKJr sacking the entire CDC vaccine board, while the media is distracted by bigger outrages.
I think that you are correct. It's stomach churning to be CA tax payer and have these folks running up the taxpayer tab (by probably millions to deal with it as law enforcement overtime is not cheap) all the while waving the mexican flag.
I can feel CA turning red. Despite it's blue reputation, believe me, red is building momentum, a lot of momentum.
Totally agree.
‘This issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’
Yes, it's all about control. Skimming a lot from a shrunken tax base beats getting zero percent of a big one.
And you can cement control by driving out the productive who might vote against you. Many ways to do that. Civil disorder--including rioting, but also widespread crime, permitting/encouraging widespread drug use in public spaces--is one of those ways.
Snake Pliskin has the answer…
The dissolution of USAID has gone a long way, or will go a long way, to reducing the coffers of the sponsors of this sort of domestic terrorism, but they still have a hell of a lot of money to sponsor it left over from the billions they stole from the American taxpayers over the past 4 years with their unethical and illegal NGO funding.
While it may not happen in my lifetime, I believe no later than my children's lifetime, we will experience a second Civil War, where the South defeats the North because the North is filled with a bunch of goofy, woke, progressive adherents to policies of so-called well-intentioned theory that just doesn't work and the South will be filled with people that focus on consequences and results.
The Democrat run big cities in the south will be squeezed, but the Democrat run big cities in the North are not going to be able to destroy the rural areas up there, even though they will tax them ridiculously.
This is just another effort by desperate Democrats who have seen their approval ratings drop below 20% to work in conjunction with Chinese and Iranian dissidents and attempt to start a second Civil War, or at the very least create as much chaos and unrest as possible to try to diminish the Trump administration's popularity and Power and they are failing, because they are becoming more irrelevant by the day and the typical American with an IQ above 60 sees right through the ridiculous extremist strategies.
If you're not intelligent enough to come up with comprehensive policies and plans to effectively counter your opponent, then you should get the hell out of politics, instead of committing treasonous acts to attempt to overthrow a government that border on insurrection. Unfortunately, that is highly unlikely, because there's just too damn much money to be made taking advantage of the useful idiots on the fringes and when the fringes grow from less than 1% to damn near 5% you have total chaos in certain areas. The only thing that has ever worked to defeat extremists is the use of force.
It is true that Democrats encourage destruction of the cities and states they rule over because they know that they will still be in power and profiting from whatever is left after the destruction. You must remember that the US overall and every state are fabulously rich. As much as we like to dump on Illinois and Chicago for their one party rule and rapidly declining quality of life, if Illinois were a country, its total GDP is in the top 25 of the world. So yes, the Marxists in Illinois can destroy all the good in Illinois and tax and spend and chase people away, and even if the GDP and population in Illinois take a huge hit, Illinois will still be a rich state worth plundering by the ghouls and goblins of the left.
The closest analogy would be Third World countries ruled by fabulously rich dictators. That is the model the Dems work off of. If a Third World dictator ruling over a backwards and desolate country can become fabulously rich, just imagine how rich a Dem can become ruling over even a hollowed out US city or state.
One definition of a Third World country is one with only a few rich people, no middle class, and a bunch of poor people. Sound familiar? Take Chicago as an example. What has been the Dems M.O. the last 20 years? Drive out the rich. Check. Drive out the middle class. In progress. Increase the number of poor people dependent on the regime. Check.
The Dems know and love the Curley Effect because it consolidates their power, and this is key, *with no cost to them*! https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/curley_effect_i.html
All that freedom loving Americans can do is leave blue cities and states as soon as possible. Most importantly they must encourage their children to leave these backwards cities and states because a lifetime of oppressive Dem taxation will reduce their net worth and quality of life.
Here is an interesting statistic about Chicago suburbs. In 2018, Chicago had 12 suburbs on the list of the 100 richest suburbs in the US. In 2025, only 3 suburbs remain on the list: Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe.
100%. Great summary. Every.Little.Battle we can engage in - do it.
1776:
1/3 of our population fought for independence(rednecks)
1/3 were indifferent(republicans)
1/3 backed the Crown(democrats)
Good news is that the economy is starting to boom and everyone now knows these are manufactured riots that are confined to a city block; they are losing everywhere.
It will be interesting to see what happens when those rioters arrested by feds for assaulting/obstructing feds realize they are not going to be facing a liberal local DA. (Hochman is a lot better than Gascon, but still subject to local political pressure.) What is overlooked in most discussions of riots in very blue cities is that not only are there no consequences for the elected officials, but often no consequences for the rioters (dismissed charges, ridiculously reduced charges, pre trial diversion, insane plea bargains) because the local prosecutor is on their side. This will not be the case for those prosecuted in federal court. If any of these defendants knows something worth telling, it will come out quickly.
On another blog (the excellent Don Surber) I read that in at least one case the officers were serving a criminal warrant on charges of (apparently) money laundering, tax evasion and customs fraud..under-declared imports of $80MM with $17MM unpaid fees...connected to Mexican and Columbian interests.
Hmmm very suspicious that. Seems that there are additional avenues of nefarious $$ in the LA area.
Where’s the proof? In yesterday’s post you used a Trump approval rating that didn’t match any of the six resources I found ( and to the best of my knowledge they were all middle of the road sources. ) I’m tired of both sides tossing out serious allegation like “they are paid protesters” without substantiation.
The riots are being organized by inter alia:
1. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL); and,
2. The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
This is known because these groups have held press conferences and have provided support in the form of transaportation, food/water (rioting is a thirsty business), medical care, and legal services.
They admit to paying their "supervisors" and their staff.
Again, this is based on their own words.
Antifa and BLM in the past have provided similar support and have delivered rioters to riots. They have also been supported financially by the same folk who support PSL and DSA above.
So, this isn't any huge leap of faith.
There is a ton of anecdotal evidence of leftist agitator groups "hiring" persons on Craigsalist to support their riot efforts. Their answer to these allegations would be: "These are people we hire to supervise transportation, the distribution of PPE, the food/water layouts, the medical care tents, and legal services.
All of these groups are funded entirely by leftist "donors" and government grants.
There is no excuse for the public disruption, the violence, the arson, and the looting. This is by no means a peaceful protest. The vivid images of damage, serious injuries, property damage, burning buildings, and burning cars are overwhelming.
The attempt by Gov Newsom and Mayor Bass to minimize the seriousness of these riots is unconscionable and an affront to law and order.
The Dems -- the folks who wanted to defund the police -- again find themselves on the wrong side of another 80-20 issue -- first immigration/Southern border, then the deportation of criminal illegal aliens, and now riots.
After the 6 Jan DC National Guard response fiasco, Trump is exactly right to react and to over react to ensure public safe and peace.
The Dems have no bloody common sense.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
In some instances we have evidence that PPE equals pallets of bricks
There are three polls in this list showing Trump with an-over 50% approval rating.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating-2nd-term
Tom, I clicked on the link and it is not working. Do you have another link?
How about this?
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating-2nd-term
If this doesn’t work, go to Real Clear Politics and click on polls and then on Trump approval rating.
I see that for whatever reason that link is dead too.
Here is RCP:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Go to the site, pull down ‘polls,’ and then ‘Trump approval.’
Tom, thanks! It worked!
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Paid protesters. This isn't that hard to find.
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/671363837-freedom-caucus-gop-lawmakers-target-1-billion-in-taxpayer-funded-ngo-spending-uncovered-by-illinois-doge-series
That's a damning article. It's government funding for purely leftist causes and it makes me angry and sick at the same time. Ugh.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
We need to salt the fields of the NGOs.
The NGOs have been used by the Dem party to warehouse their political operatives whilst they are out of power.
Just the NGOs supported by USAID are an insight into a cesspool of waste, fraud, and corruption that is beyond belief. There is criminal liability in those actions and records.
JLM
www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
I've seen at least a dozen written verifications of sjw groups paying protesters.
I honestly don’t see a difference between Al Qaeda and members supportive of the DNC at this point.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/mexican-and-palestinian-flag-waving
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinions of sheep.
They think of themselves as the lion and everyone else as the sheep. They don't care what the sheep think. The sheep are prey animals who exist to provide the lion with sustenance.
They want you to shut up and pay your taxes.
While they build ever more elaborate pens to keep you confined in.
The Left (and let's just call them what they are) Communists, can only destroy. They not only don't want to build anything, they can't because communism goes against human nature. Folks won't work for the good of society or people they don't love. The subtitle to George Gilder's seminal work, "Men and Marriage" is "Civilization is Built by Men With Families to Feed" is quite true.
If you look at the history of the 20th and 21st centuries, it is replete with Commies taking over countries and instantly running those countries into the ground.
Mr. Carter is correct. These people would prefer to rule (as opposed to govern) over a destroyed and demoralized people.
Quick prediction. Not allowing the National Guard and the Marines to have live ammo will not end well.
Excellent insight and commentary Jeff.
Your second to last paragraph is worrying. It's more than worrying, it means the end of the American experiment. If you get American military firing on American citizenry, it is all over. It can not be likened to the Civil War where military engaged military. Where federalized state militias fought federalized state militias. Where the initial reason for the war was the supremecy of the federal over the state in essence.
We woild be better served if the paid chaos sowers were identified, unmasked and jailed.
Jeff,
Just noticed that Nev. Congressman Mark Amodei is trying to thwart defunding NPR and PBS. Maybe you know someone that can clearly explain how the taxpayers don't want to fund "public" media.
Dumb move by him if true
I hear Putin is planning to influence U.S. politics again this Saturday by sending flash-bang drones into riot areas where rioters are protesting against non-rioters.