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Jilly_in_VA

(12,061 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 03:49 PM 8 hrs ago

Dispatch from LA

This was posted on Facebook by a friend. I thought you might be interested. I'm leaving it anonymous because they prefer not to be outed.

To all my friends and everyone else,
Despite what you may be seeing and hearing on the news, Los Angeles ISN’T a war zone. Protests and unrest have been limited to areas of downtown near the federal building and a few other places in LA County.
For the most part, protestors are peaceful and not filled with violence as the Trump regime and some media wants you to believe. Don’t get me wrong. There are people doing illegal things, but those people include ICE who are targeting non-violent, law-abiding LA residents, not the criminals people were led to believe would be targeted.
In 1992, there were city wide riots. The National Guard were deployed (by the Governor) across the large, vast city. I live in Northwest LA in the San Fernando Valley, which is business as usual. No riots or protests here, just some worried Angelinos that are afraid of the escalation created by your President.
We are safe. For now. But make no mistake, Los Angeles and California for that matter will protect our own INCLUDING immigrants who clean our facilities and harvest our food and build our homes. And, with California being the one of the largest agricultural producers in the world and the 4th largest economy in the world, people around the country will feel the horror as food becomes scarce because there is no one to process it.
It’s unbelievable that lies and terror have now hit my home directly. We will fight, but know that we’re peaceful and safe. We also care about ALL of our people

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Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
1. Much prefer migrants missing a few papers to those who hate them. But LA optics won't help migrants one bit.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:05 PM
8 hrs ago

More will be deported to trumpster cheers and trump's approval won't suffer either. It will likely increase.

Keepthesoulalive

(1,411 posts)
3. It's the media
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:26 PM
6 hrs ago

They control the narrative and they have been kissing the orange Caligula's rear from the beginning.
The cowardice in the home of the brave is astounding.

Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
4. It's always the media, according to Democrats and Republicans in equal numbers. I think
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:45 PM
5 hrs ago

videos and facts speak for themselves.

Keepthesoulalive

(1,411 posts)
6. Biden is demented
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 07:32 PM
5 hrs ago

Trump is not. How about you show pictures of people in chains on the nightly news. How about you stop giving in to his baseless lawsuits. When they call the protesters criminals you show MAGA invading the capitol. We saw them put their hands on the scales and sit at his inauguration. The media is not blameless for this mess, they are complicit.

Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
7. Do you have a quote where media -- other than FOX -- called Biden demented and trump cogent? Don't think that happened.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 07:52 PM
4 hrs ago

Keepthesoulalive

(1,411 posts)
8. Biden, Jake tapper CNN and every channel and tons of alternate media
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:15 PM
3 hrs ago

Trumps dementia is not mentioned no matter how crazy he sounds and all the insanity from his truth social, he reduced the price of eggs by 400%. He’s brought back American jobs. The media does not do its job and that is to tell the truth. Not cover for rich men who are gaming the system. Oh , I forgot about that monstrosity of a bill that will hurt millions to give a tax break to millionaires.

Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
9. Didn't say trump is sane or cogent. But media I watch never said Biden is demented and trump is not.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:11 PM
2 hrs ago

Besides, who needs a pundit to tell one that trump is an idiot and POS when they show him multiple times a day being an idiot and POS.

Keepthesoulalive

(1,411 posts)
13. Perhaps you don't watch the same media
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:53 PM
1 hr ago

When trump said he was going to investigate the Biden family for elder abuse, it was glossed over. When Jake Tapper said Biden was in decline and his staff hid it. He was on every talk show and the news media reported it. The president of the United States said everyone was kissing his ass to make a trade deal. Crickets, no one called him out on his lies or his lies about who would ultimately pay those tariffs, the head of the Chinese government said it wasn’t true again crickets.

Torchlight

(4,766 posts)
2. ICE wears the masks and shoots civilians and reporters
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:22 PM
8 hrs ago

as the quiescent continue to wring hands over commercial branding.

Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
11. Don't think ICE is shooting anyone in LA. It's LAPD and they aren't wearing masks.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:20 PM
2 hrs ago

Nor are they shooting with lethal intention. That’s not to say rubber bullets, etc., aren’t dangerous and unwarranted. Hope Bass and Newsom come up with something that cools things down.

LA needs to show they can handle this, without Guard or Maines even having a pretense to attack. So far, troops appear hanging back around Federal buildings.

sagetea

(1,505 posts)
5. My husband called me this morning from the port
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:52 PM
5 hrs ago

And I had to tell him what was happening! Lol!

He went through LA last night...I guess he wasn't in the right place...?

sage

ITAL

(1,050 posts)
10. LA is huge
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:17 PM
2 hrs ago

Especially when you include LA County (which is where the Paramount protest was.....that's not in Los Angeles). The areas of the protests are really, really small. A few blocks is it.

Silent Type

(9,843 posts)
12. Good point. Hope it stays isolated. I'd hate to have a business there, though a TACO stand might be popular.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:24 PM
2 hrs ago

Selling “trump’s a TACO” t-shirts.

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