Riot season has arrived! And it's all Trump's fault, apparently... (06-09-2025--Hour1)

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[00:02:29] Thanks. So, watching the coverage of what's been going on in Los Angeles now for the last three days, the media has behaved exactly as we have seen them behave. They haven't used the term, as far as I'm aware, they have not used the term yet, fiery but mostly peaceful. But they want to point out to us repeatedly that Los Angeles is a big place.

[00:02:59] They feel like this is very important information. L.A. is a big place. And there's the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles. And so, where some of the initial, sorry, demonstrations, right, where some of the insurrectionist activity was occurring was not technically inside the city of Los Angeles. It was in Compton and, oh, where was the other place?

[00:03:29] It's in the notes here. I forget the name of the other nearby town. It's like four miles from downtown L.A. So, they're pointing this out for some reason. I don't know why, but they keep pointing this out. And they want to let us know that not only is it a geographically large place, but that also there are a lot of people in Los Angeles County.

[00:03:56] And they keep telling me this as some sort of a, I don't know, a contextualization that most people aren't even aware this is happening. 99.9% of Los Angelinos are just going about their normal days, oblivious to the insurrection activity occurring in their county. It's like, you stop making this such a big deal, which is always hilarious to me,

[00:04:22] when literally the people whose job it is to hype all of this kind of stuff to the point where everybody becomes aware of it, right? But now we're supposed to, I don't know what, have some measured viewing experience here. Just because we're covering this wall-to-wall and, you know, it's got fire, it's got mayhem, it's got, you know, people looting,

[00:04:49] it's got brawls in the streets, and, you know, it's all Donald Trump's fault and all of this. So, it's like checking every single box except for the sex part. Like, maybe if we get some scantily clad black blockers out there, then that's an Antifa term, people. It's not a racial one. So, yeah, maybe then we could get every one of the media checkboxes checked.

[00:05:14] Do you ever wonder why they have footage of, like, apartment fires and house fires and stuff on the news? It's because fire makes good video. That's it. It makes good video. You can have an apartment fire where nobody is injured. Nothing happens. It's just a building that caught fire. But it's going to get covered in local news. Why? Because it's visually attractive. It makes people go, ooh, what's that?

[00:05:45] Media's job, right, is to stand on the corner and scream about what's going on today. Extra, extra, read all about it, right? And you can do that. You can gain interest by making it, you know, if it bleeds, it leads. If it's sex, it's next. Also, fear, right? You can use fear to motivate people's buying habits. So that's what media tends to traffic in. Fear.

[00:06:14] But in the leftist violence, they recognize that this could redound to the detriment of Democrats. And so we have to tamp down this stuff. I mean, yes, we're covering it. We're going wall to wall. We're showing all the burning cars, all of the violence. We're going to show all of this stuff, but we're going to constantly remind you that while this part is fiery, it is mostly peaceful.

[00:06:43] And it's Donald Trump's fault. For example, this is not AI, folks. This is literally the news anchors at ABC7, the Los Angeles local news ABC affiliate, explaining why this is law enforcement, why it's, you know, it's the militarization of the law enforcement.

[00:07:11] And they really were the bad actors in all of this, you know. As we are watching on the screen, a car burning. Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and and demonstrators. Right. And we can't have that. Oh, dear Lord. No.

[00:07:42] OK, fine. We ordered some of the Waymo cars to come in. These are the driverless robotic cars. They got a bunch of them in L.A. And people ordered them, I guess, like it's like a taxi Uber service or whatever. And so they ordered them and they came to the site of the protest and then they torched them. They lit them on fire, which. I'm not sure you're aware of what happens when a and an electric vehicle burns.

[00:08:12] Do you have any idea what the what the environmental ramifications of that would be? Jim Garrity at National Review. Waymo driverless vehicles run on lithium ion batteries. According to the company, a battery involved in a fire or exposed to high heat levels will release toxic vapors, including sulfuric acid, oxides of carbon, nickel, lithium, copper and cobalt.

[00:08:36] He says our brave new world of driverless cars now provides malevolent actors with mobile toxic bombs on demand. They set dumpsters and trash bins on fire. They looted stores. Dozens of buildings were vandalized with graffiti, including LAPD headquarters, the U.S. courthouse and the old L.A. Times building. They also broke the windows of the LAPD headquarters.

[00:09:06] Which got me thinking. Maybe we could. I don't know, like hire some people and train them to try to like respond to the breaking of windows at police headquarters. I think that people would be willing to pay taxes for this kind of a protective service, you know? I mean, it would take a lot of training and then they would have to confront some of the demonstrators.

[00:09:31] That is part of the gig, which then, of course, would escalate stuff because it's because they're just demonstrating peacefully as they're breaking all of the windows of the police headquarters. And nobody is around to stop them like maybe the police. I know it's a brain buster, people. I'm not sure how we're going to get a hold of this. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain? And Cabins of Asheville is your connection.

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[00:11:19] That is the unifying intersectionality of all these different groups. That's it. So the issue is never the issue. This is just what they're using right now. The issue is always the revolution. That's always at the heart of all of these efforts, whether it's BLM or it's the celebration of the Hamas death cult, whatever.

[00:11:45] All of these things are transferable to whatever the moment demands. The New York Times ran a headline. Trump calling the National Guard is the real emergency. No. No. No, the emergency is the violence. And I know this is difficult for people who have been telling us that silence is violence, but also words are violence. But apparently real violence is not actual violence.

[00:12:14] So the real emergency is when people attack law enforcement and they attack federal buildings. And that's what the National Guard was brought in to do. I've seen the video rioters that were launching fireworks, explosives, right? At LAPD on horseback. They're shooting M-80s into horses.

[00:12:45] Like that's the side you're on, guys. That's the side you're on. And for the media that was, you know, so intent on letting me know that L.A. is so very big and has so many people and, you know, most of L.A. and the people have no idea or not affected by any of this going on. It's like, why not just focus on all the cars that haven't been burned? Right, Pete? How come you're not talking about all the cars that weren't burned? What about the businesses that weren't looted?

[00:13:17] Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, he shared a Wall Street Journal headline. National Guard arrives in Los Angeles in response to protests. And DeSantis said, no, they're being deployed to combat rioting, not mere protests. Typical legacy media bias.

[00:13:40] Our governor of North Carolina signed a letter with all 21 other Democrat governors from around the state, around the country, rather. And they're upset. At President Trump's move to deploy California's National Guard. Governor Newsom. Well, this was a statement from Democratic governors on Donald Trump's use of California's National Guard. This is an alarming abuse of power.

[00:14:08] Governors are the commanders in chief of their National Guard and the federal government activating them in their own borders without consulting or working with a state's governor is ineffective and dangerous. Further, threatening to send the U.S. Marines into American neighborhoods undermines the mission of our service members, erodes public trust, and shows the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement. Well, there's a reason for this. I'll explain in a moment.

[00:14:35] It's important we respect the executive authority of our country's governors to manage their National Guard. And we stand with Governor Newsom, who has made it clear that violence is unacceptable and that local authorities should be able to do their jobs without the chaos of this federal interference and intimidation. Okay. So there is a reason why. There was. Why this deployment was necessary. Again, Jim Garrity.

[00:15:06] At National Review. This would have been on Saturday morning. The ICE acting director, Todd Lyons. He said that an angry crowd of Los Angeles residents had assaulted federal agents and the Los Angeles Police Department had an inexplicably delayed response. As rioters attacked federal ICE and law enforcement officers on the L.A. streets, Mayor Bass took the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement, he said.

[00:15:35] Our brave officers were vastly outnumbered as over a thousand rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building. It took over two hours for the LAPD to respond despite being called multiple times. The brave men and women of ICE were in Los Angeles arresting criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, drug traffickers and those with a history of assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, robbery and smuggling. That's who they were there to arrest and deport.

[00:16:05] And you've got Democrat officials and these leftist moon bats that are out there trying to prevent the arrest of criminals. And then when they call LAPD. LAPD takes two hours to get there. Well, Pete, they were they were like way far away, you know, because Los Angeles is so very big, right? Yeah. LAPD headquarters is point three miles away from this location.

[00:16:35] So if you cannot trust the local law enforcement officials to provide security when you are being attacked by a mob of a thousand rioters. Then, yeah, the president sends in the National Guard, which I think the president, former presidents have done before. I think Eisenhower did it in order to desegregate schools, right? Use the National Guard of a state to enforce federal law.

[00:17:03] Because at the heart of all this, always remember, this is about federal law enforcement enforcing federal law. And the states are trying to nullify that. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too. And you probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News.

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[00:18:19] So on this question of whether or not Donald Trump has the authority to send the National Guard into California to protect ICE agents and facilities. And to restore order. Section 10 U.S. Code 252 Use of Militia and Armed Forces to Enforce Federal Authority

[00:18:42] Whenever the president considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impractical to enforce the laws of the United States in any state by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,

[00:19:01] he may call into federal service such of the militia of any state and use such of the armed forces as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion. I read that as pretty clear. He can do what he did. Donald Trump put out a statement on his Truth Social platform.

[00:19:27] Over the weekend, a once great American city, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals. Now violent insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our federal agents to try and stop our deportation operations. So those would be the federal laws that they are trying to follow and trying to enforce that are now being prevented.

[00:19:53] And the locals are not stopping that prevention, right? They're not preventing the prevention. So that would allow him to send in armed forces.

[00:20:34] He says, And just in case there was still a somewhat a lack of clarity, here is the Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell. And then the National Guard was federalized. So they're working for the U.S. Army, not for the California State National Guard. Do we need them? Do we need them? Well, looking at tonight, you know, this thing has gotten out of control.

[00:21:04] I think before I could answer that, I'd have to know more about what their capabilities are, what their role is intended to be, to be able to make that determination. But we have great cops in Southern California here that work together all the time. So we have tremendous capability here. To say that we would go to that right away, I'd say we wouldn't have been there yet. But looking at the violence tonight, I think we've got to make a reassessment. A reassessment?

[00:21:32] Coral, how has your department interacted with the National Guard at all since we've been here? I'd say very little other than we had a conference call this afternoon. There aren't a whole lot of soldiers in place at this time. They're still incoming. Interesting. So they weren't even really there.

[00:21:52] Just simply the suggestion that troops are coming in to secure ICE agents, ICE operations, and ICE facilities that are being attacked. The mere suggestion of doing that before you actually see them. That's enough to make leftists go even more violently crazy. It's almost like you can't win.

[00:22:19] It's almost like anything that you do is an excuse. And it's not almost, by the way. This is actually the rule. One of the tactics that they employ, Saul Alinsky rules for radicals, the action is the reaction. That's the idea. It's to purposefully put you or whoever their opponents are in an unwinnable situation. That's why they're bringing their kids to these riots. And then the kid gets, you know, tear gassed.

[00:22:49] And I'm talking like two-year-old kids in strollers getting tear gassed because they're in the mob. And then all the pictures and videos that get shared out show, oh, the poor children. How could they do this? What sort of a monster? Does this sound familiar? It should. It's the Hamas playbook. These are the same tactics.

[00:23:19] Let's see here. I mean, I got so much stuff here. Let me go back to Jim Garrity. In the coming days, he says, you're going to see an enormous effort by the Democrats in large swaths of the media to declare that if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had never tried to enforce immigration law in Los Angeles, then the city would not be beset by so much widespread violence and unrest.

[00:23:40] First, implicit in this argument is the idea that Los Angeles city and county are so primed for violence, such a powder keg of anarchic malcontents, that the U.S. government must simply throw up its hands and concede that it cannot enforce immigration law there. Right? And that is, in fact, what they have been saying. You cannot do ICE raids here.

[00:24:10] We shall not let you enforce federal law here. And a couple of months ago when I did the show on the fourth turning, immigration was cited by the authors of the fourth turning, this theory that everything moves in these turnings. There are four of them, and they're pretty much like the seasons. They last a generation, about 20 to 25 years apiece.

[00:24:39] And that's why you see the same cycles repeat themselves. And the authors had made a series of predictions back in, I think it was like the 90s when they wrote the book. And they all came true, except for one, and it's in the fourth turning, which they say the sole living author, there were two authors, one of whom passed away. But the one that's still alive, Neil Howe, I think is his name.

[00:25:06] And he said that one of their last predictions was that the issue of immigration would be the flashpoint for the nullification crisis. And at the time, he said, hey, look what's happening when Biden was president and Texas wanted to secure its border. And then the Biden administration sued, like you can't put up the buoys in the water. You can't do the razor wire. You have to allow your border to be completely overrun. And he saw that as the nullification. I think this is it.

[00:25:36] I think this is it. I think these Democrat states are going to try to nullify federal immigration law. They're going to say we're not going we're not going to let you do it. And then that creates the escalation effect that the federal government will then have to respond because they can't let that go. The states then come back at them and it just ratchets up until it ends in calamity. And then from the ashes, the turnings reset.

[00:26:06] So that's what I that's how I view all of this right now. The left is pushing this and pushing this. And because it's Trump, they get all this leeway with the media. Right. To cover for them, to ignore certain things, to minimize certain things. I don't know if the American public is having it. We saw what happened five years ago. We don't we do not want to see that again.

[00:26:30] And if you're going to say, like, you can't enforce federal law in my town, my city, my state, whatever. And so that justifies attacking law enforcement. With the stamp of approval from the governor. Like all bets are off, man. All right. So spring is here, a time of renewal and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and the special days for mom and dad.

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[00:27:57] I'm good, Pete. How are you doing? I'm doing all right. I think your take on the fourth turning is pretty much on target. But in the meantime, I think the Gavin Newsom lawsuit will go to a friendly judge and they'll shut Trump down and it'll have to... LL will continue to burn until it goes through a couple of appeals. Does that sound about right to you? Well, no.

[00:28:23] I mean, if Gavin Newsom is right and the only reason that leftists are engaging in all of this violence is because Donald Trump sent the National Guard after the violence had been occurring, then I guess if the courts say that he can't use the National Guard under his Article 2 powers, or Article 1 powers, rather, then... Or sorry, no. Article 2 is the presidency. Then he can't have them there. And then the violence would abate, right?

[00:28:52] The violence would have to subside because he's not allowed to have the National Guard there. So then there wouldn't be any reason to get all insurrection-y because they're not there. You're right. I don't see why I didn't see that. Yeah. So, I mean, sometimes it's like right in front of us, you know? So it's... Yeah, I don't know. That would be the leftist logic. It's a good point, though. Like, I suspect that a judge is going to try to, you know, stymie the president on this front as well.

[00:29:21] And look, I mean... Yeah, but I mean, look, on the other side... The flip side of that is that it's building precedent and case law, right? So every time something like this happens and then it goes up the, you know, the chain through the courts and then you get the Supreme Court coming in and saying, no, you can't do this. It's, you know, it's putting up guardrails. It's erecting these guardrails and firming them up. And so maybe, you know, some of this stuff can be avoided in the future. I don't know.

[00:29:51] I'm trying to find the silver lining on that. Yeah. And then I think also that every time these kind of things happen, it causes the left to lose a few more voters on Election Day. Yeah, this is not a winning issue for them. The immigration issue, it's not a winning issue for them. The violence issue, it's not a winning issue for them. Yet they cannot...

[00:30:16] The problem is the Democrats cannot cast out this violent faction that's part of their base. They just cannot do it. Either some of them are okay with the political violence, but they don't want to say so. Or they recognize that if they cast them out, then they become a target and then they could be defeated in primaries. They're not going to get the support, the votes of these people, and they need them. So... That's true. Yeah.

[00:30:46] It's a tough spot to be in, but it's of their own making. Ray, I appreciate the call, man. Thank you, Pete. Yes, sir. Take care. To wit. Here is Kamala Harris. Los Angeles is my home, unburdened by the things that have been... No, she didn't say that part. She says, like so many Americans, I am appalled at what we are witnessing on the streets of our city.

[00:31:09] Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos, which is not actually why you bring the National Guard in. You bring the National Guard in to restore order, to provide security. I know Democrats are loathe to do this because they don't want their base to get pelted with rubber bullets.

[00:31:36] But that's why you bring the National Guard in. And when you have a governor that refuses to do it because he doesn't want his base to be pelted with rubber bullets, then the president says, I'm going to send them in there because they're going to be there to protect federal law enforcement operations. And if you don't like it, pound sand. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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