Those fuckers aimed at an Australian reporter while she was describing the situation on camera and shot her in the leg with a rubber bullet. I'm disgusted.
The video is chilling. Her cameraperson focuses on the "cops" behind her, and you can clearly see the one who turned toward her (away from the protesters), aimed and shot. Not. An. Accident.
Thank you, God. California girl here. 🏄🏽♀️ I don’t always see eye to eye with Gov. Newsom, but right now he and Attorney General Bonta are standing tall and doing a good job. Same with Mayor Bass. Three badasses who won’t bow down to Twitler and his goons. Our leaders have my admiration and support. I feel safer with them in charge. Sending love and strength to the City of Angels. Stay fierce and be safe, my sweet Angelenos!
Yeah, I was worried about Gavin there for a bit, when he was schmoozing with Charlie Kirk and others of that ilk; I doubt he'll be doing that now, regardless of where that puts him in the 2028 polls (should we get that far). I think they've personally pissed him off so Him-damned much, he won't have anything more to do with them. ;)
Same here, Nancy. I have been on the fence about Gavin these past months, esp. when he broke with his party on trans athletes in sports (really pissed me off), but in this crucial moment, I am proud of him. Keep going, Gov!
Calypso honey, I’ll be there with my cane and I will use it as defense if I need to. Those walkers could probably take out a couple of goons in one stroke!
Loved that you posted the thing from Rick Wilson, this dude is spot on and funny to boot thank you. And I too believe there are waymo of us than there are of "HIM." I've read that this act was just a test to see if it would work (I think kind of like the parade) everything is distraction or Smoke and Mirrors so we all need to be vitally aware of what "HE'S" doing while all the chaos is erupting. I also heard that, although, Orange Crush said LA was burning up the "riots" happened in a small section of LA. It's a big place and I guess he hasn't been there very often but exaggeration will get you everywhere I guess! Amen, Awomen, A-lgbtq+ and A-all the waymo others I've missed!
You don't have to call him an "accused" pedophile. He admitted it years ago when he talked about going in the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant and watching the girls get undressed.
TACO couldn't scare China with tariffs. He couldn't scare Canada, either. The world knows him for what he is: A weak, spineless, hide-behind-the office (at any expense) dumbshit. He is desperate and he's scared. The economy is tanking because of his stupidity, not to mention the countless lawsuits against him. Groceries have never been higher. 401Ks have either flatlined or tanked. People are being forced into bankruptcy. Muskrat accused him of being pedophile with a teaser that "the truth will out." So TACO claimed that L.A. was rioting therefore, he saved us by sending in armed forces. He is arresting children at their schools! If you had a child with an umber tint to his or her skin, would YOU send your kid to school? Are the farm workers who provide us with our produce at work? How's the daycare business faring these days? What about our hospitality industry? Have the maids and janitors stayed home? He wants to tank our economy. That is his goal.
And has anyone seen proof that Mistress Dark-of-Eye Strong-of-Beak is here legally? Melanoma Tump is costing the American people a fortune and for what?! So she can go whip and chain shopping with an armed escort?
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Thanks for the reminder, God! We can beat this fool back with our collective peaceful protests. He looks more and more like the Wizard of Oz every day.. or the naked Emperor, if you will. Your choice. Keep up the heat!🔥
There are definitely more of them than us. We need to be sure to stay away from dc and the capitol on Saturday and be in other areas. Hopefully his great birthday party will be a flop as was his inauguration. He will claim the bigly, the greatest, the best ever but it will all be lies as that is his only vocabulary. If he ever told the truth the world would stop spinning.
What, all that hot air from him keeps it going? X-D
Yeah, I still like that one meme that featured Springsteen and Swift: "FREE CONCERT IN D.C. ON THE 14th" in probably a location at the opposite end of town. ;)
In Real Life news, I hear God's Steward on Earth (or some such), Pope Leo, is gonna have a big official Mass, the first one since taking office, not on a Sunday, but on a Saturday...
June 14th. X-D
And it'll be shown live in Rate Field, where the White Sox play at, on their big-screen T.V. there... X-D
Nope; they didn't have fiddles back then, only.....LYRES (pronounced exactly how you think it is). X-D
But apparently, according to historians nowadays, one reason why everyone was so bent out of shape at Nero was that he wasn't even in the City at the time; he out was touring the provinces (and probably "winning" all the local music and drama competitions: "Ooh, yes, sir, your performance was...one for the record scrolls, absolutely.").
And once he got back, give him credit, he did try to help out (just his rich oligarch buddies, of course, but hey...), and his informants told him that of all the people's reactions to the fire (including those of the PRIVATE FIRE COMPANIES, which is why it blew up so badly, probably), that nutty off-shoot Jewish sect folks, the "Christ-ians," were really overjoyed about it and were dancing in the streets, yelling things like, "Yay! It's the End Times! Take us now, Lord! :D"
"They probably SET it, sir! =8-0"
"Ooh, that is naughty. Round up the happiest ones and 'put them to the question'." (= torture. It's one of the reasons for things like due process, the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, etc.)
Needless to say, they confessed to being arsonists (finally) and were publicly executed, but not for being Christians, so they weren't martyrs, but for being arsonists, in a fire-trap of a congested city... X-P
There are thoughts by historians nowadays that the Book of Revelation wasn't so much an apocalyptic vision as a pissed-off people's political rant back when they didn't have freedom of speech (with Nero being the [disguised] ultimate "anti-Christ" [a fairly common term for folks who didn't like Christ or Christians] and enemy of the religion).
Wow Nancy, you have given me an eye-opener this morning as I scroll through and catch up on what happened overnight. Thanks for your comments. I’m going to check out that saying about Nero. I can see that something probably got lost in the translation.
Mind, this is from what I've gleaned, largely off the Internet, though I trusted the sources; I'm not an expert by any means (though I probably would've double-minored in History and Journalism if I'd had the chance in my college days). :)
But, knowing human behavior, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. The early Christians were pretty steamed at Nero, and that could be why.
I wonder what it will take until the rethuglican congress attempts to rein in this madman. I’m reminded of the song “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan sung by Peter, Paul & Mary.
That’s hysterical, thinking that the Republican “party” would ever rein him in. They’re making money hand over fist and they won’t speak up unless the madness affects them personally. Look at Josh Hawley begging for a FEMA response that isn’t coming. The Republicans are counting on the Dems to once again save them and their voters from their own poor representation. The GOP has no leaders, only a group of followers and deep down, all they give a shit about is the bottom line on their own statements, not their states, and certainly not their constituents.
Drat; was basically behind a "paywall" of "IF YOU DON'T TURN OFF YOUR AD BLOCKER, PROTECTING YOU, YOU CAN'T SEE THIS WITHOUT BEING A SUBSCRIBER. NYAH. >:-P" unlike most of my other things that ask politely to please turn it off (which I ignore). :(
Nancy, I am sorry. I was able to open it with no problem. Here is the opinion piece.
California under attack: A weak and failing Donald Trump seeks a punching bag | Opinion
By The California McClatchy Editorial Board Updated June 9, 2025 6:44 PM
With his national agenda on the brink as the United States Senate balks at trillions in additional debt, and as President Donald Trump loses the support of the world’s richest man in Elon Musk, the president has chosen to shift attention westward, back to his favorite punching bag. Instead of giving Los Angeles the tens of billions of dollars the region needs to recover and rebuild from January’s devastating fires, Trump instead dispatched federal law enforcement to round up immigrants outside of a Home Depot — then called in the National Guard. This feels like nothing short of an attack on California, the nation’s largest state and a global engine of innovation, by our president. This weekend’s events were merely the excuse Trump needed to test this state in ways we have never confronted before.
How can any state succeed when its leader wants it to bend to his political will or fail? The effects of Trump’s growing war against California will only worsen over time. So far, D.C. has denied $40 billion in economic assistance and reimbursements for rebuilding Los Angeles, and the city and the state face an unimaginable financial blow. In addition, Trump’s global trade war has already halved activity at the once-busy Port of Los Angeles. But that’s not all: Trump officials are looking to defund grants to numerous state agencies, billions in federal funding for the High Speed Rail project are now in jeopardy and roughly a million Californians could lose their Medi-Cal health insurance if the president gets his way by denying care as a way to decrease taxes for the nation’s most fortunate.
We aren’t yet halfway through the first year of Trump’s term in office, but the pattern is fast emerging — and the reality is evident: We’re on our own. California has only begun to come to terms with this reality. Los Angeles can seem a world away from Northern California, but our state’s largest city has been preparing for the global stage: In 2026, it will host games of the globe’s largest sporting tournament, soccer’s World Cup. In 2028, it will host the Summer Olympics. If Los Angeles shines, the country shines. Yet Trump doesn’t want to invest in Los Angeles’s success.
And what is Trump doing? He has dispatched law enforcement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid garment factories, Home Depot parking lots, and donut shops. He has stripped our governor of his ability to manage protests that started calmly. He has sought to tear Los Angeles down in hopes of rehabilitating his own shaky standing. And to what constructive end? Sadly, the attacks on the Golden State play well elsewhere, but a clear pattern has emerged: The rest of the nation is not immune.
California — Los Angeles in particular — is in the president’s crosshairs today. But it will be Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle or New York tomorrow. Trump is promising Americans as much. “We’re going to have troops everywhere. We’re not going to let this happen to our country,” the president told reporters on Sunday. “If we see danger to our country, to our citizens, we’ll be very, very strong in terms of law and order.” This is a suffocating level of hypocrisy, coming from a president who was slow to respond to the Jan. 6 siege of the nation’s Capitol.
It was perhaps inevitable that Trump would choose California as his lead target. But we are not the lone innovator under siege; the nation’s universities, medical research apparatus, and perhaps soon our space program are all under financial attack. Trump so far isn’t building anything other than a larger apparatus to deport immigrants. And he is centering the destruction on places and institutions once without peer in the world.
The geopolitics of this state make it hard to unite in the best of times. Our great regions, such as the Central Valley, Southern California, the Central Coast, and the Bay Area, are so different from one another. But we had better find a way to stand together and resist what Trump is doing to California — or he will tear us apart.
Feh; Newsom is seriously considering not sending the Feds any of our tax dollars. If Trumpty-Dumpty bankrupts us, the Feds STILL won't get any money from us. He's cutting off his tail to spite his ass (and probably please his "daddy" Vladimir; if he takes the U.S. apart piecemeal, one state at a time, Vladdy-Daddy can pretty much do what he wants to/with us, which might just include either rewarding Donnie for being so useful, or tossing Donnie under the bus, like Don himself has done to so many before him).
As I have read elsewhere, Newsom has no control over Californians’ federal tax dollars. We all file directly to the IRS and it would be up to each individual Californian taxpayer to cease paying their federal taxes. I doubt enough of us would do that to make a real difference.
Dear God,
We shall OVERCOME!
Love,
me
Those fuckers aimed at an Australian reporter while she was describing the situation on camera and shot her in the leg with a rubber bullet. I'm disgusted.
The video is chilling. Her cameraperson focuses on the "cops" behind her, and you can clearly see the one who turned toward her (away from the protesters), aimed and shot. Not. An. Accident.
They elected a lawless, incompetent, felon. What could possibly go right?
So what’s wrong with the gop majority Congress? Spineless, greedy and power hungry.
Thank you, God. California girl here. 🏄🏽♀️ I don’t always see eye to eye with Gov. Newsom, but right now he and Attorney General Bonta are standing tall and doing a good job. Same with Mayor Bass. Three badasses who won’t bow down to Twitler and his goons. Our leaders have my admiration and support. I feel safer with them in charge. Sending love and strength to the City of Angels. Stay fierce and be safe, my sweet Angelenos!
Yeah, I was worried about Gavin there for a bit, when he was schmoozing with Charlie Kirk and others of that ilk; I doubt he'll be doing that now, regardless of where that puts him in the 2028 polls (should we get that far). I think they've personally pissed him off so Him-damned much, he won't have anything more to do with them. ;)
And good for Bonta and Bass! :D
Same here, Nancy. I have been on the fence about Gavin these past months, esp. when he broke with his party on trans athletes in sports (really pissed me off), but in this crucial moment, I am proud of him. Keep going, Gov!
I am attending a No Kings march on Saturday. Not gonna lie, I am a little nervous. But it's too important to stand up and speak up!
I am too. I'm not nervous at all. What are his goons going to do with a 67 year old on a mobility scooter?
0r a 77-year old with her walker…..and if they do, it will make great video
Calypso honey, I’ll be there with my cane and I will use it as defense if I need to. Those walkers could probably take out a couple of goons in one stroke!
Good for you, Teddy!
Almost 75 with a Rainbow 🌈 collapsing stool. I’ll sit every block if I must. 👹
Loved that you posted the thing from Rick Wilson, this dude is spot on and funny to boot thank you. And I too believe there are waymo of us than there are of "HIM." I've read that this act was just a test to see if it would work (I think kind of like the parade) everything is distraction or Smoke and Mirrors so we all need to be vitally aware of what "HE'S" doing while all the chaos is erupting. I also heard that, although, Orange Crush said LA was burning up the "riots" happened in a small section of LA. It's a big place and I guess he hasn't been there very often but exaggeration will get you everywhere I guess! Amen, Awomen, A-lgbtq+ and A-all the waymo others I've missed!
Some have been reporting (with photos for proof) that LAPD was so not-needed-for-total-control that may were able to participate in the Pride parade.
In any event they didn't need National Guard or Marines at all!
Amen, etc.! If they'd felt the need, they would've asked. X-P
"There wasn't a problem until the president got involved."
You don't have to call him an "accused" pedophile. He admitted it years ago when he talked about going in the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant and watching the girls get undressed.
Eww, yeah... X-P
"When you're a celebrity, when you're famous, they let you do it."
Probably what happened was either a) they were startled, and/or b) they were told to let him do it if they wanted to still be in the contest. X-P
TACO couldn't scare China with tariffs. He couldn't scare Canada, either. The world knows him for what he is: A weak, spineless, hide-behind-the office (at any expense) dumbshit. He is desperate and he's scared. The economy is tanking because of his stupidity, not to mention the countless lawsuits against him. Groceries have never been higher. 401Ks have either flatlined or tanked. People are being forced into bankruptcy. Muskrat accused him of being pedophile with a teaser that "the truth will out." So TACO claimed that L.A. was rioting therefore, he saved us by sending in armed forces. He is arresting children at their schools! If you had a child with an umber tint to his or her skin, would YOU send your kid to school? Are the farm workers who provide us with our produce at work? How's the daycare business faring these days? What about our hospitality industry? Have the maids and janitors stayed home? He wants to tank our economy. That is his goal.
And has anyone seen proof that Mistress Dark-of-Eye Strong-of-Beak is here legally? Melanoma Tump is costing the American people a fortune and for what?! So she can go whip and chain shopping with an armed escort?
If you hate TACO, SUBSCRIBE and fight back! Thank you.
Thanks for the reminder, God! We can beat this fool back with our collective peaceful protests. He looks more and more like the Wizard of Oz every day.. or the naked Emperor, if you will. Your choice. Keep up the heat!🔥
The wizard turned out to be a nice guy after all. The naked Emperor is the one.
There are definitely more of them than us. We need to be sure to stay away from dc and the capitol on Saturday and be in other areas. Hopefully his great birthday party will be a flop as was his inauguration. He will claim the bigly, the greatest, the best ever but it will all be lies as that is his only vocabulary. If he ever told the truth the world would stop spinning.
What, all that hot air from him keeps it going? X-D
Yeah, I still like that one meme that featured Springsteen and Swift: "FREE CONCERT IN D.C. ON THE 14th" in probably a location at the opposite end of town. ;)
In Real Life news, I hear God's Steward on Earth (or some such), Pope Leo, is gonna have a big official Mass, the first one since taking office, not on a Sunday, but on a Saturday...
June 14th. X-D
And it'll be shown live in Rate Field, where the White Sox play at, on their big-screen T.V. there... X-D
Talk about distractions! :D
Gotta love the new Pope Leo. He definitely is making a statement!
He's quite proud of being "woke." :D
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
YE ARE MANY - THEY ARE FEW.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy"
Many thanks to the god of media, who’s put all his efforts into making truth KNOWN!! A little respect is in order.
Thanks to you who also care enough to FIGHT FOR TRUTH!!
Does Trump remind anyone else of Nero? Let's raid the costume and pawn shops and send him violins and togas!
Yes, Niquie! Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Nope; they didn't have fiddles back then, only.....LYRES (pronounced exactly how you think it is). X-D
But apparently, according to historians nowadays, one reason why everyone was so bent out of shape at Nero was that he wasn't even in the City at the time; he out was touring the provinces (and probably "winning" all the local music and drama competitions: "Ooh, yes, sir, your performance was...one for the record scrolls, absolutely.").
And once he got back, give him credit, he did try to help out (just his rich oligarch buddies, of course, but hey...), and his informants told him that of all the people's reactions to the fire (including those of the PRIVATE FIRE COMPANIES, which is why it blew up so badly, probably), that nutty off-shoot Jewish sect folks, the "Christ-ians," were really overjoyed about it and were dancing in the streets, yelling things like, "Yay! It's the End Times! Take us now, Lord! :D"
"They probably SET it, sir! =8-0"
"Ooh, that is naughty. Round up the happiest ones and 'put them to the question'." (= torture. It's one of the reasons for things like due process, the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, etc.)
Needless to say, they confessed to being arsonists (finally) and were publicly executed, but not for being Christians, so they weren't martyrs, but for being arsonists, in a fire-trap of a congested city... X-P
There are thoughts by historians nowadays that the Book of Revelation wasn't so much an apocalyptic vision as a pissed-off people's political rant back when they didn't have freedom of speech (with Nero being the [disguised] ultimate "anti-Christ" [a fairly common term for folks who didn't like Christ or Christians] and enemy of the religion).
Wow Nancy, you have given me an eye-opener this morning as I scroll through and catch up on what happened overnight. Thanks for your comments. I’m going to check out that saying about Nero. I can see that something probably got lost in the translation.
Mind, this is from what I've gleaned, largely off the Internet, though I trusted the sources; I'm not an expert by any means (though I probably would've double-minored in History and Journalism if I'd had the chance in my college days). :)
But, knowing human behavior, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. The early Christians were pretty steamed at Nero, and that could be why.
TACO Tuesday, Folks!
The Lord has Spoken 🙏
I wonder what it will take until the rethuglican congress attempts to rein in this madman. I’m reminded of the song “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan sung by Peter, Paul & Mary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKKIgkLPY3k
That’s hysterical, thinking that the Republican “party” would ever rein him in. They’re making money hand over fist and they won’t speak up unless the madness affects them personally. Look at Josh Hawley begging for a FEMA response that isn’t coming. The Republicans are counting on the Dems to once again save them and their voters from their own poor representation. The GOP has no leaders, only a group of followers and deep down, all they give a shit about is the bottom line on their own statements, not their states, and certainly not their constituents.
Exactly
I remember when that firt came out and it tuly does apply to this moment - again.
Shared by Simon Rosenberg at Hopium!
Read this remarkable editorial from the editorial board of McClatchy media in California.
California under attack: A weak and failing Donald Trump seeks a punching bag / Opinion
Sacramento Bee, June 9, 2025
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article308232985.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Drat; was basically behind a "paywall" of "IF YOU DON'T TURN OFF YOUR AD BLOCKER, PROTECTING YOU, YOU CAN'T SEE THIS WITHOUT BEING A SUBSCRIBER. NYAH. >:-P" unlike most of my other things that ask politely to please turn it off (which I ignore). :(
Nancy, I am sorry. I was able to open it with no problem. Here is the opinion piece.
California under attack: A weak and failing Donald Trump seeks a punching bag | Opinion
By The California McClatchy Editorial Board Updated June 9, 2025 6:44 PM
With his national agenda on the brink as the United States Senate balks at trillions in additional debt, and as President Donald Trump loses the support of the world’s richest man in Elon Musk, the president has chosen to shift attention westward, back to his favorite punching bag. Instead of giving Los Angeles the tens of billions of dollars the region needs to recover and rebuild from January’s devastating fires, Trump instead dispatched federal law enforcement to round up immigrants outside of a Home Depot — then called in the National Guard. This feels like nothing short of an attack on California, the nation’s largest state and a global engine of innovation, by our president. This weekend’s events were merely the excuse Trump needed to test this state in ways we have never confronted before.
How can any state succeed when its leader wants it to bend to his political will or fail? The effects of Trump’s growing war against California will only worsen over time. So far, D.C. has denied $40 billion in economic assistance and reimbursements for rebuilding Los Angeles, and the city and the state face an unimaginable financial blow. In addition, Trump’s global trade war has already halved activity at the once-busy Port of Los Angeles. But that’s not all: Trump officials are looking to defund grants to numerous state agencies, billions in federal funding for the High Speed Rail project are now in jeopardy and roughly a million Californians could lose their Medi-Cal health insurance if the president gets his way by denying care as a way to decrease taxes for the nation’s most fortunate.
We aren’t yet halfway through the first year of Trump’s term in office, but the pattern is fast emerging — and the reality is evident: We’re on our own. California has only begun to come to terms with this reality. Los Angeles can seem a world away from Northern California, but our state’s largest city has been preparing for the global stage: In 2026, it will host games of the globe’s largest sporting tournament, soccer’s World Cup. In 2028, it will host the Summer Olympics. If Los Angeles shines, the country shines. Yet Trump doesn’t want to invest in Los Angeles’s success.
And what is Trump doing? He has dispatched law enforcement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid garment factories, Home Depot parking lots, and donut shops. He has stripped our governor of his ability to manage protests that started calmly. He has sought to tear Los Angeles down in hopes of rehabilitating his own shaky standing. And to what constructive end? Sadly, the attacks on the Golden State play well elsewhere, but a clear pattern has emerged: The rest of the nation is not immune.
California — Los Angeles in particular — is in the president’s crosshairs today. But it will be Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle or New York tomorrow. Trump is promising Americans as much. “We’re going to have troops everywhere. We’re not going to let this happen to our country,” the president told reporters on Sunday. “If we see danger to our country, to our citizens, we’ll be very, very strong in terms of law and order.” This is a suffocating level of hypocrisy, coming from a president who was slow to respond to the Jan. 6 siege of the nation’s Capitol.
It was perhaps inevitable that Trump would choose California as his lead target. But we are not the lone innovator under siege; the nation’s universities, medical research apparatus, and perhaps soon our space program are all under financial attack. Trump so far isn’t building anything other than a larger apparatus to deport immigrants. And he is centering the destruction on places and institutions once without peer in the world.
The geopolitics of this state make it hard to unite in the best of times. Our great regions, such as the Central Valley, Southern California, the Central Coast, and the Bay Area, are so different from one another. But we had better find a way to stand together and resist what Trump is doing to California — or he will tear us apart.
Feh; Newsom is seriously considering not sending the Feds any of our tax dollars. If Trumpty-Dumpty bankrupts us, the Feds STILL won't get any money from us. He's cutting off his tail to spite his ass (and probably please his "daddy" Vladimir; if he takes the U.S. apart piecemeal, one state at a time, Vladdy-Daddy can pretty much do what he wants to/with us, which might just include either rewarding Donnie for being so useful, or tossing Donnie under the bus, like Don himself has done to so many before him).
"What. An. Idiot." --Hermione Granger
Thanks for sharing, though, Punkette! :)
As I have read elsewhere, Newsom has no control over Californians’ federal tax dollars. We all file directly to the IRS and it would be up to each individual Californian taxpayer to cease paying their federal taxes. I doubt enough of us would do that to make a real difference.