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One of the most horrifying symbols of national impotence during the first Trump administration wasn’t just the nationwide BLM riots or even the assault on the White House, but the sustained assault day after day by Antifa on the Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse in Portland, and the helplessness of federal authorities to intervene.
Small pods of three to four protesters dressed in black circulated in the crowd, stopping every few minutes to point green laser beams in the eyes of agents posted as lookouts on porticoes on the courthouse’s upper stories. The agents above were silhouetted against the dark sky as dozens of green laser dots and a large spotlight played on the courthouse walls, projected from the back of the crowd.
Thirty minutes later, someone fired a commercial-grade firework inside the fence. Next came a flare and then protesters began using an angle grinder to eat away at the fence. A barrage of items came whizzing into the courthouse: rocks, cans of beans, water bottles, potatoes and rubber bouncy balls that cause the agents to slip and fall.
The firework came whizzing over the fence so fast that the agent didn’t have time to move.
It exploded with a boom, leaving his hearing deadened and bloody gashes on both forearms. Stunned, with help from his cohorts, he stripped to his boxer shorts and a black T-shirt so his wounds could be examined and photographed for evidence.
He told his fellow agents he was more worried about his hearing than about the gouges and burns on his arms.
By the end of the night, five other federal agents would be injured, including another who got a concussion when he was hit in the head with a commercial-grade firework. One agent was hospitalized. Several agents have lingering vision problems from the lasers.
This was part of a war that went on for months. This time around, the Trump administration is signaling that this will no longer be tolerated with a large-scale intervention in Los Angeles.
Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property. It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 2 hours to respond.
2,000 National Guardsmen, double the number of rioters, are to be deployed.
The fact that communist rioters in LA are painting Hamas target symbols and calling for murders of police officers immediately predisposes me against them. pic.twitter.com/Ppx7KsPlv4
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) June 8, 2025
President Trump has taken control of the California National Guard, over the protests of Gov. Gavin Newsom, “to address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.”
Newsom is calling the move “purposefully inflammatory”. But it will help police whose resources have been taxed by the latest round of open borders rioting and whose hands are routinely tied by the state and country’s radical leadership.
And it also sends the larger message that this time around, riots will be thoroughly suppressed.
As I noted in the past, nationwide riots are election prep. And that means we’ll be far more likely to see them leading up to 2026 and 2028. We’ll be less likely to see if them is the message is sent early on that they will be shut down. And shut down hard.
The best way to avoid a repetition of 2020 is to make it clear that riots will not be tolerated.
Time to go Kent State.
Issue live ammunition and authorize its use when things like molotovs and rocks are being thrown.
This is nothing like Kent State. This is an actual invasion of our homeland.
The Democrats are trying to start a Civil War in LA.
Absolutely not. That’s exactly what the Left wants–someone firing the first fatal shot under Trump’s watch. Let’s not go running into the fray with our hair on fire. If the Dems want a civil war, let them make the first move. Keep a clear cool head people.
That was Abe Lincoln’s tactic.
The timing of this just shows that it is a total hail Mary by the Democrats. They tried to build tension and empathy for illegals and organize around a cause celebre “Maryland Dad” or “child with cancer” but both flopped and backfired in spectacular fashion. The riots have to be this summer if they are to disrupt Trump II like they did Trump I. The fact is that the mood of the country has dramatically shifted and the ability of the deep state to maneuver and manipulate has been degraded. Trump is still vulnerable to sabotage from within, and the violent riots will continue, along with other psyops meant to divide and confuse the population, but I do believe the people, by and large, are tired of it and not buying into it anymore.
Well said, Gordon. I’d just like to add one thing: “Eff the riots!”
I told my wife a few months back that I expected large-scale rioting in large urban areas this summer. So far, not as big as I expected, but this is exactly a “Hail Mary”. The bad actors, having flooded the nation with illegals and doing everything imaginable to finesse elections, may be thinking, “it’s now or never. ”
The trouble is, this is the hill to die on. The good actors may also think, “it’s now or never. ” If the Federal government doesn’t act firmly, then the message is that L.A. is an international city — a Mexican outpost. Soon California becomes ungovernable in the same way. After that a half-dozen of the idiot states follow suit. Then we don’t really have a country, do we?
Well, maybe I’m being a little too pessimistic — there were the 1960s, and the 1992 riots….
Time to declare Martial Law and when Newsom protests, arrest him for sedition.
There’s a “saying” – “as California goes, so goes the Nation”! It’s TIME to make THAT a REALITY! Oh, I’ m not saying spread the absolute insanity of CA to the rest of the Nation, but END the INSANITY and establish RULE OF LAW so it does spread!
For far too long, CA has operated like some kind of Foreign Nation comprised of the most illogical leadership and profoundly insane policies! It’s almost as if they do stuff to DESTROY everything and everyone – except for ILLEGALS! Makes no sense whatsoever! Maybe it’s time to wrest control from the State and have Federal Agents and National Guard units in charge!
Imagine what the HOUSING situation would be without all the Gov’t subsidized or SUPPLIED housing! The market would certainly become more affordable due to availability. Think about the CRIME! That too would reduce! Consider WELFARE when the ILLEGALS are removed from entry level or SKILLED Construction jobs! So much to gain and not much to lose!
Wait, he hasn’t done this for anti-Semitic riots on campus or in the streets. Brooklyn,NY comes to mind. Why this and not those? Hmmmmm
Well, he should, but the huge scale of the problems in LA is probably the reason.
This involves protecting federal agents doing their jobs enforcing federal law.. The other involves protecting civilians, which is the responsibility of local law enforcement. The DOJ should be used for the latter due to local failures.
Newsom and Bass are indebted to anti-American philosophy and donors that aim to remove President Trump from office. Californians have been boiled like the proverbial frogs in a stew of union featherbedding, regulatory excess, and corporate greed. Their personal indifference to foreign invaders was rewarded by low cost lawn care and car washes. They excuse their ridiculous cost of living as the cost of “living in paradise.” And they vote to keep making matters worse.
Most citizens in most states consider their state governments to be unresponsive and distant. Sacramento might as well be on Mars in its relationship to the taxpayers who support it. Los Angeles took a wrong turn in the 1940s with the elevation of neighborhoods that made citizens less focused on the health of the city as a whole.
Now the debt is coming due.
No more 2020 riots? … Hope springs eternal.
re 2028… It makes it a tad difficult for Newsom to run on Law and Order or border control. It likely wouldn’t matter for the primaries unless the DNC sticks its nose in (for what would be at least the 4th straight presidential election) but the general election may be another matter. Newsom’s protests might cement him in the camp of open borders.
Yeah, that is the main situation I have been thinking about today. I think Trump is right in principle. Street violence was one of the main problems in Ancient Rome, providing proof enough that it needs to be suppressed. Street violence has also been a major problem in many other historical situations, including 1930s Germany and Russia before the Revolution.
“Oh no you don’t, anarchist Democrats. Not this time you rabid skunks!”
Sincerely,
America
Threats of Violence and Riots will no longer be tolerated Americans will not cower away while mobs of uncivilized Bolsheviks Loot and Burn whole City Blocks and Rioters and Looters belong in Prison for 20 or more years and those who instigate the Riots should be made to pay for it all and Soros should be the first to pay