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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:17 PM Monday

LA Mayhem: Trump's Reality Show Distraction

So here we go again: 2,000 National Guardsmen, plus L.A. police and ICE agents, now standing shoulder to shoulder in downtown Los Angeles. Not in response to violence. Not in response to any actual threat. But in response to a peaceful protest being sold by President Trump as—get this—an “insurrection.”

Insurrection? Please. The only thing being hanged in L.A. right now are protest banners from overpasses. No gallows. No broken windows. No zip ties or Viking cosplay. No calls to execute the Vice President. What we have here are citizens—yes, actual Americans—holding signs, waving flags, and voicing opposition to a government that’s once again stomping on the Constitution in steel-toed boots. And in response? Trump mobilizes the military and spins up the same toxic fantasy he’s been peddling since January 6th: that dissent is dangerous, and he alone stands between us and the abyss.

Let me tell you what this really is. This isn’t national security. This isn’t law and order. This is a pure, unfiltered, weapons-grade reality show distraction. A re-run of the oldest trick in the Trump playbook: create a crisis, redefine reality, and hope the public is too overwhelmed to notice the man behind the curtain is full of shit.

You want to know what Trump doesn’t want you talking about? His war with Elon Musk. And more importantly, the legislative time bomb under his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”—a bloated bribe to the billionaire base stuffed with tax breaks, work mandates, and billions for his ego wall—that’s heading for a Senate buzzsaw. Why? Because even his own party is quietly plotting to kill it. They know it’s a disaster. They just don’t want to say it out loud until after the primaries.

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