June 10, 2025 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Well, it turns out that we're in a bit of a conundrum right now.
Los Angeles is being burned down.
There's trash everywhere.
There are Mexicans running around in their little go-karts and vehicles, lighting autonomous vehicles on fire.
And that was last weekend before the riots even started, right?
Now we actually have riots going on.
You can see the peaceful protests are fully underway.
Check this out.
Absolutely beautiful scenes here.
The only problem with this was I couldn't figure this out.
Was this a Tuesday of last month?
Was that this month?
Because at this point, it's just Los Angeles culture.
The media was quick to support and defend these peaceful demonstrations.
And I want to emphasize peaceful in the same way that we had the summer of love and the peaceful, fiery, but mostly peaceful protests of 2020.
Now, in response to this, we're going to find out that Trump has decided he's going to send 2,000 National Guard troops that is now mobilizing as of just two hours ago, 500 Marines.
But why?
Well, we're going to be talking about the cover-up, why Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass are allowing this chaos in the streets of LA, what it means to uncover, and is this all part of a plan?
My name is Elijah Schaefer.
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Every day I reminded why I didn't want to live in California, whether it was the enforcement of insane laws during the lockdowns or the fact that you have to learn kung fu moves, not to fight, but just to dodge Daryl, the meth addict, swinging his arm around, trying to knock you out.
I've always said living in LA is like being in a cantina in actual Star Wars.
You ever seen those scenes where Hansello shoots someone and then everyone stops and he goes, go back to whatever you were doing and people just keep going back.
And it's like somebody died and nobody cares.
That's actually what LA is.
You have to step over dead people to buy an overpriced avocado toast.
But if you aren't stepping over dead black people, are you really in LA?
Joining me in the back on the control board today.
We got kind of a small group tonight.
We have Mendoza of the MendozaReport.com, which, by the way, has been on the ground all weekend releasing these videos, which have been copied by people like Anthony Cabasa, Aldo Betazzoni, Julio Rosa has been stealing his videos.
You've been doing good work out there.
And by the way, by good work, I don't mean he's been filming.
So, unless you've been around the corner and you don't know what's been happening, let me enlighten you.
It turns out that over the weekend, a lot of fun went down inside of Los Angeles.
We can continue to replay this video if you're just joining us on the live.
Check this out.
Some scenes from LA.
This is just one street in the middle of the day, I might add.
We'll never be divided.
I love that one.
What's interesting about this is my favorite part about riots.
Let's talk a little about the riots.
People were in somewhat of they called this organic pushback to federal ICE agents who were conducting arrests in California.
Now, during these arrests, you had local citizens of which we also just call violent Hispanics.
So there's a lot of them.
We have to have a real conversation here in Los Angeles.
I'm from there.
It's a real thing.
Began to push back against the ICE agents.
Now, one of the things that I want to bring up is that everyone said, you know, this is this riot is an organic formation of angry Los Angeles residents who don't want their family members ripped from their arms and leaving the country through ICE deportations.
But I'd like to bring up as a journalist and someone who noticed something, that original organic reaction to the ICE agents, they had, let me see if I can bring out a picture.
They had these people there in the group.
Now, the legal observers, go to my screen here.
This is a group called Illegal Observer.
It's the National Lawyers Guild, also called the Legal Observer.
You can see the hat there.
Now, we've talked about these in the show back in 2020, 2021.
This is like the ACLU for the left.
These are lawyers that go on the ground or paralegals.
They take notes for the protesters and the rioters.
And when they get arrested, they basically report poor and bad conduct from the police or use these lawyers to get people out of jail without paying bail.
So this is an organized left-wing NGO that is deeply entrenched in planned and organized resistance to fascism.
And at the organic pushback of ICE agents that was angry citizens, there were several of these green hats with their hat on in the organic crowd, which is just my alarm bells to remind you guys, this was all planned.
This was all orchestrated.
We start our conversation there.
I don't know if you're surprised by that, but that to me is enough evidence to prove, yeah, this was a plan.
It reminds me back in 2020 with the BLM riots that we were having then, saying that that was organic and it was far from organic.
One thing that we have in common with the riots in 2020 versus what we're seeing now is you even see not only the green hats, but you're seeing bricks, piles of bricks all around the city where they're trying to entice people to make it to cause destruction.
And I believe it's actually a big push.
You know, the American people, one thing is I wish we did gather together, not like this.
Obviously, this is more illegals and things of that nature.
But as far as putting our voice out there, speaking up against what we find as repression or what we find as a government tyranny towards us, but we really don't.
And all of a sudden, you see these groups and massive groups of people just pop up out of nowhere.
So I do believe a lot of this is orchestrated.
I do believe that there are people behind the scenes who are pulling the strings, maybe the NGOs.
Some people say George Soros.
There's a bunch of different people that they believe are doing it, but there's nothing organic about this.
So you go to the back and you read the ingredients and it says, where is it?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It says made with 1%, less than 1% fruit juice from concentrate.
So you put a splash of fruit juice and now this is made with real fruit and it's sugar-free.
And it's, you know why it's sugar-free?
Because there's actually no fruit juice in it.
That's why it's sugar-free.
There's no fruit in it.
You know, and so the reality is like people advertise stuff like it's good for you.
It's like, oh, this is an organic thing.
And it's like, no, stop lying.
Stop pretending like, you know, this is some Hispanics are just mad because Boppy got ripped out of their arms.
Like somebody in the left-wing government tipped them off.
Somebody told them what was going on.
We're going to break down the whole story of what's happening.
Let's get into our top stories for today.
As in, Donald Trump will be bringing in 2,000 National Guard troops and 500 Marines are mobilizing.
Let's get into the top stories for the day.
All right, let's go into this.
Gateway Potter reports that bring in the troops.
President Trump goes off as violent riots escalate in LA.
Well, President Trump late Sunday night and into Monday morning called for troops to be brought in to help stop the violent riots in downtown Los Angeles.
Mass rioters are setting cars on fire and launching commercial grade explosives at law enforcement officers.
LAPD declared an unlawful assembly on Sunday evening.
They're literally just burning and destroying cars in LA right now.
What's even the point?
And that, of course, is a original post from Eric Daughtry, who posted this.
Hell yeah.
Burn another car down and dad's for sure going to come home.
Nothing's going to tell the federal government that having Mexicans in this country is a good thing than a bunch of Mexicans burning down autonomous vehicles.
Mr. Mendoza, as a representative of this community, of the Waymo Burning community, I need your thoughts on this.
I got to know what I don't know where your mind is because who are these people?
We're going to talk to Anthony Cabasa later who's been on the ground.
A lot of this footage that we're going to look at has actually been his, but it's like, let's be honest, America's not ready for the conversation that there's actually a lot of really crazy Hispanic people, Mexican nationals mostly, El Salvadorians, who identify with their country so much so that they're so proud of it that they don't want to live there.
Well, also, not just that, but this kind of reminds me of once I was younger, there were some kids I hung out with in the neighborhood and literally in their free time, like to have fun, they would just go to the local church, which was like a Catholic church, mostly Mexicans, and they would just bash windows.
And then they went to a local abandoned hospital that had like abandoned cars in there too.
And then they just bashed windows.
So something about the Mexican phenotype, I guess, has a penchant for burning windows and for breaking cars.
But you're right.
I mean, it's crazy that people come here and they're so dedicated to their former country that they have to.
And, you know, I mean, I noticed this my whole life, especially being from a predominantly Hispanic and mostly Mexican area is that September 16th rolls around or Cinco de Maro rolls around.
And everyone has all this pride.
But if you ever ask them what have the people actually accomplished, well, really nothing.
And, you know, they extend no grace to the colonialists as they would put to the people who so graciously put them up in their own country.
But, you know, everyone said on Twitter this weekend, and I don't think I have to say it again, but it's like, if you love your country so much, you should probably go back to it.
You know, when you had the South Africans, the white South Africans come here to America, they were waving the American flag.
They were actually excited to be a part of the country.
And then you have these, and they got hated by news and media was talking about how dangerous these people were, how it was going to affect the black community.
And then when you have these type of rioters, these type of illegal immigrants who come here, they hate America.
They're burning the flag.
They're waving their own, you know, destroying property.
The first thing that, you know, Democrats and a lot of politicians want to do is they want to defend them.
So the comparison is not even close.
But these are the ones they choose as, I guess, the ones we want in the country, which is far from the truth.
So the problem with this is, is that there is a diabolical conversation going on where the Mexican president came out, Gloria Scheinbaum or Claudia Scheinbaum.
She said that if necessary, we'll mobilize.
We don't want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen from the U.S. to Mexico.
A foreign leader bravely inciting U.S. protests.
This is unheard of.
She also said that she didn't support any pushback from LAPD and from the military to restore order with Mexican citizens.
Basically, that they should have immunity to protests because they're special in our country.
And as you know, the leader of Mexico and the leader of Ukraine are what?
You know, the Sheinbaums and Zelenskies and the Steinbergs and stuff.
Those Democrats, they're everywhere.
She actually is inciting this.
So when you talk about the government, you know, being justified to put down this uprising as a potential threat to national security, it's absolutely true.
And we see the same parallels time and time again, like with 2020, where, look, people, I saw like Harry Sisson and people being like, oh, so we should arrest all these people.
You mean like this?
And they show a picture of January 6th and you go.
Literally, they stopped even trying to prevent illegals from coming into the country to focus their agents on arresting people for nonviolent crimes at the Capitol.
Nobody ever argued that people shouldn't be prosecuted for violent crimes at the Capitol until we realized that there was entrapment and it came out that the event was orchestrated by the United States government to entrap people.
And then that's the only reason why we sought for them to be pardoned.
We never justified our people attacking police officers, vandalizing property.
We never said that was a good thing.
And we go, wait a second.
They could have stopped this and they intentionally didn't to provoke that violence.
The same thing goes with 2020.
The government gave standdown orders.
When I was in Philadelphia, we listened to the readers.
They gave a stand down order to the officers and allowed the African Americans to loot the entire city because the police were told not to do their jobs.
This happened in Chicago.
This happened in Dallas.
This happened in New York City.
It happened in Los Angeles.
It happened in San Francisco.
It happened in Portland and Seattle that the police departments were told to stand down.
And you see that, right?
You see that the police departments stand down for six, seven hours here in Los Angeles.
Eventually they move to clear the streets.
But then what?
After how many millions of dollars of damage is done?
After how many dozens of cars are set on fire?
I believe one girl might have already been killed.
I haven't confirmed yet, but I know she got hit by a car.
She was unresponsive when paramedics arrived.
But it's like, you know, when this is being supported by these foreign leaders, this could be considered a potential uprising.
And just like January 6th, yeah, we should arrest these people.
If they could figure out, you know, anyone who was in a two-mile radius that sent a text message that day, why can't we prosecute these people?
And most importantly, my question is, if we can and they won't and they don't want us to, then that means that these people, these people, of which many are not their best, are acting on behalf of the mayor of Los Angeles and Governor Newsome.
They are his, what, foot soldiers, right?
These are his people that he wants doing this because he wants the federal government to know what?
You cannot enforce federal law here.
We are a lawless state.
We are our own autonomous government.
And of course, the libertarian presidential candidate, Chase Oliver, was like, this is a good thing what the Mexicans are doing.
If you compare this to January 6th, January 6th, I was there.
There wasn't many people who were being violent or destructive.
Yes, there was some bad apples that were in the group, 100% for sure.
But they were telling you, like, this is the worst thing since 9-11.
And what do you have here?
You have where they're burning cars, they're looting stores, they're causing mayhem.
And everything you put on in the news is like, well, it's peaceful.
It's mostly peaceful.
Using that same line that we heard in 2020.
And as you mentioned, one of the things about J6 is that they, one of the things with Trump was they prosecuted him or not tried to tried to prosecute him for inciting violence, saying that he took too long to come out to say that, you know, everybody's go home.
This isn't right.
We need to disperse.
That was like one of their biggest talking points.
But what do we hear?
We hear here, we hear the mayor, we hear other politicians all just egging these people on, telling them, you know, it's justifiable what they're doing.
Things are mostly peaceful.
So if you put the two together, they don't even compare.
I never agreed with what's a little short Jewish guy's name that is like a he's an anarchist and he's famous and he's friends with like Blair White and oh Michael Malice.
Michael Malis.
Yeah, Michael Malice always kind of says like this is like gross incompetence, right?
Or the proletariat class is never as impressive when you meet them in person.
And I like Michael Malice and I think he's a very intelligent man, but I don't think this is incompetence.
I don't think this is like when he says, oh, look at the railroad he built.
That's corruption, not incompetence, right?
So that's a very different statute of limitations here.
We're not dealing with people who don't know what they can do or what they could do.
You're looking at people who are intentionally doing this.
Now, you know, Karen Bass, whatever her name is, you know, the mayor of LA, she's a famous Marxist, a part of the Marxist institution.
We've known about this for a very long time.
This is when she was running why you had moderate Democrats being voted.
I mean, Republicans were trying to vote for the moderate Democrat to avoid a Marxist from taking over back in the day when she was running.
And what happens is that MSNBC and all these people work with the government to downplay what's going on.
Listen to this.
In front of all of this, in front of a riot, it's again, the media is running cover saying that it's not chaos.
There is no violence.
It's completely peaceful.
One of my favorite clips is a black woman for, I think she was with MSNBC talking about how these people are lovely.
They're very kind.
And they're like trying to, this guy's a pit bull behind her.
He's trying to get the pit bull to bite her hair.
And he's like flipping her off.
And they're like these black guys like threatening and screaming at her.
She's like, they're just kind residents.
They're people who just want their voices heard.
And you're like, man, they're behind you and you need to run.
Look at this.
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It's not chaotic.
It's not, nobody's, you know, other than what you see behind me.
It's actually relatively mellow, even though it might not seem that way.
It's like, it's like a sort of, you know, another thing that happens at protests like this is that they sort of settle into almost like a celebratory atmosphere, you know, as much as like a confrontational one.
Looks behind him and goes, well, I mean, besides like, yeah, the line of melted cars in the middle of the street that were burned down as their lithium-ion batteries exploded.
It's really not chaotic.
And I always wonder, how long have these people who run these news networks been married for?
Because they know how to gaslight better than anyone I've ever heard.
You know, that guy's come home late enough times.
He's like, it's not even that late.
Look at the clock.
It's like 3.30 a.m.
You know, technically it's early tomorrow.
You know?
Right?
That's basically what he's saying.
It's not really chaotic.
It's like peaceful cars blown up and you're like, it's mellow.
MSA, I mean, ABC said that it's just people having fun.
That's pretty good.
I'm sure that's actually not a lie.
Once again, it is a lot of fun.
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It's a 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 police.
She's talking about peaceful protests as there's like a Mad Max developing with a car on fire.
It is a little bit like people always, right?
I love when people are like, you know, in Animal Farm or in 1984, you know, because the extent of their reading is like their high school, you know, eighth, ninth grade English class.
It is kind of crazy, though, that people are like, you know, in that book, they say there's going to be news speak and, you know, there's going to be words you can't say.
You're like, bro, why do you need that book to talk about this?
Go watch CNN today and just say, hey, go watch CNN.
And they show you videos of literal vandalism and chaotic violence.
And then they call it peaceful.
And they literally tell you, he just doesn't like this kind of peace.
It's very weird because my peaceful, as a man, I want peace.
And that doesn't involve my children lighting things on fire.
And they try.
You know what I mean?
They try, you know, they get, they get, they get their dad heated, you know.
Kids find a way.
I was at a little mini getaway today with the family.
And I don't normally like, you know, sleep in bed with my son, but we had one bed.
So it's like me and my wife and my son.
He's like two.
And yeah, I mean, like, you know, we almost had violence because at like two in the morning, he was like two-year-old Twitches, if people know, and he got his toes and he like just super jabbed, like right my balls until I almost like threw up.
And I woke up and went, and my wife said she'd never heard me make a noise like that.
And so, yeah, you know, there are moments in your home where there's a lack of peace and it's annoying.
But I feel like when I think about life and what's going on, no one in the world ever ever sees a two-year-old and goes, yeah, two-year-olds bring a lot of peace into the house.
You know what I mean?
They're literal maniacs.
They're literally like little devils running around with very cute little smiles.
When I look at these images, there's nothing cute about it.
It is just, it is demonic.
It is disgusting.
And there's nothing peaceful about violent Mexican people in their cars.
And by the way, people keep saying, oh, you're being racist.
And if you do decide to go out there, maybe you should dress like Snake Plitzkin.
I feel like we're seeing escape from LA firsthand.
But this is something the Democrats have been wanting for a while.
They love these type of events.
You know, as far as California, it's been a burning pile of, you know, I don't want to say the word, but that's what we've seen.
They've lowered what you can actually arrest people for as far as crimes are concerned, how much they can steal.
You had Gavin Newson promising all these health benefits to all the illegals that came over the border.
They were ushering them in.
They're creating sanctuary cities.
I mean, this was a ticking time bomb over, you know, that we've seen.
And trying to make it so like the country is a melting pot.
We are not a melting pot.
I know California right now is looking up is like 38.7% is actually Hispanic in California.
It comes in number two to, it was New Mexico.
So they've been piling these foreigners in here.
And what they're doing is they're bringing their destructive habits that they had in their country into our country.
We're not getting their best.
You know, I remember a lot of that one time everybody was pissed at Trump saying when Trump said they're not sending their best, everybody was like up in arms.
Oh my gosh, how can he say it?
But is it, does this represent the best of each country?
No, we're getting the bottom of the bottom and it's destroying our country in the process.
But when I look at the people who are out there doing the violence, that's not the people that we see during the day who are legitimately out there exercising their First Amendment rights to be able to express their feelings about the immigration enforcement issue.
These are people who are all hooded up.
They've got a hoodie on.
They've got face masks on.
They're people who do this all the time.
Get away with whatever they can, go out there from one civil unrest situation to another, using the same or similar tactics frequently.
And they are connected.
Some would call them anarchists or by any other variety of names, but they're people that we run across routinely city to city, and this is what they do.
So even more disgusting that many of the people who are doing this come in from other places just to hurt people and to cause havoc.
So let's talk about this professional agitator accusation here and whether that holds any weight.
So number one, it was said on TV, so it's true, right?
You know, you watched it on television, but no, I dealt with this a lot.
There are real NGOs.
We just talked about this a couple episodes ago about the CRS, the CRA, how the civil rights action comes in, and they're government agencies.
And they will find these groups on the ground, like the Social Democrats.
They'll find these groups like the Brown Berets, groups that are professional agitators.
They will coordinate, provide them resources, communication, tell them where to meet up, plan the events.
Like our government and these trained Marxist organizations that are run, paid for by U.S. aid, paid for by earmarks, paid for by the railroad project, right, in California, where that money go goes to things like this.
They come in and they coordinate to make lawlessness abound.
In the last days, it says lawlessness will abound.
And I don't think people realize how coordinated the left is at pushing their agenda through constant chaos.
They'll never allow the world to go through a peaceful transition.
There'll never be the world you grew up in is gone.
It's never coming back.
You will never see it.
You will never find it.
The republic that you wanted is dead, right?
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But I don't know what your takes are on this, gentlemen, but I am 100% confident that there are people in power that will not let us have our country back.
And we would not be able to get it back unless we were able to use non-peaceful means.
And that's why everyone's like, look at these Australian, I mean, look at these Irish.
I can't promote violence, obviously, on here, but I do think something has to be done.
It has to be done drastically.
These Democrats are not going to take their foot off the gas pedal.
They're going to allow the destruction of the country to continue.
They're never going to play fair, and we can't allow stuff like this to continue.
And the problem, too, is now I'm even seeing that in Asheville, North Carolina, they just approved as well.
I believe it started at 6 p.m. today, where you can actually go out and protest against ICE.
After seeing the chaos that was caused in California, they're like, Yeah, let's go ahead and allow it here as well.
So, unless we take more forceful measures, I believe that this is going to continue.
You know, unfortunately, we'll never have the country back to where it was, but we can't allow it to continue in the downward spiral that we're seeing now.
By the way, if your super chats are like off topic, I'll probably just more read them at the end.
You know what I mean?
So, I see yours cocked toe.
I'll read that a little bit towards the end, but also Homer J. Fuentes, $20 in the chat.
So, the Tree of Liberty is dying of thirst.
It's true.
Dying of thirst.
It does feel like that, right?
That we're being mocked.
And, you know, being an Angelina, a Los Angeles native myself, it's really, really was always this show originally, my old show, Slightly Offensive, which retired a couple weeks ago after nearly eight years of production.
It's pretty great, nearly eight years of production.
And ended on a high note last episode, about 100,000 views.
So it ended in a good position, a good place.
Very, very happy.
It's like the Kama Sutra of podcasts.
That show has been bent, moved, and pushed into every different position and somehow still made it out with just a little bit of soreness.
But a little bit of a weird example there.
But no, that show retired.
And I know it started in LA because we had protesting became a pastime in LA, right?
And that's what it was.
It was in LA.
Every day I would get out of my house.
I would just walk out at any day with my phone and pass a protest.
And it got to the point where I would just start walking with the protesters and talking with them.
I'm like, we should be talking to these people.
We should be showing what they're talking about.
The reason why a lot of this stuff doesn't hit so hard, like why these, you know, protest, these riot filmers, these people that are interviewing people, the reason why it doesn't really hit as hard as it used to is simply because everyone's seen it all.
Everybody knows that nothing ever happens.
And everybody knows that the people that put this stuff together always get away with it.
And so we're really tired, right?
We're really, really tired.
It is interesting.
Let me see.
It is interesting that when you look at where California came from, look at this.
So with the immigration issue, look at what California look at Los Angeles looked like before we had the wonderful blessing of multicultural immigration.
They always say, right, that Hispanics had so much to the community.
And as Matt Walsh said, people always say that, but was Los Angeles better or worse after we let all these people live here?
That's a good question, right?
If they're really so helpful and so needed, what did it look like?
Let's see how broken and destroyed LA looked before we allowed Mexican immigrants in because this is scary, guys.
I don't know, Mendoza, but I'm like, I'm getting sick and tired of this is seeing that like it looks like when I see those images, you know what I think?
Get get some MS-13 members into that city immediately and show those people what it's like to experience real culture.
Because before we had the blessings of multi-ethnic multiculturalism, we had to suffer in peace.
And God knows that the peace in the 50s wasn't like the peace we have today, which of course is Burning Waymos.
This is like, it's, it's, you know what I thought was crazy, too.
There's not even like four foot tall pigeon looking people with like nine kids walking across.
Have you ever seen that?
Like when you drive through East LA, it's like pidgin people.
They're like, they have like pigeon bodies.
It's like pigeons walking and they wear and their butts invert and it sucks in and they like walk and they have like nine kids who are the same size as them and the kids are four.
Have you ever seen that?
It's like the mom's like here, the dad's here and they have like toddlers and they're all the same size walking down the street.
That's LA for you.
And you're going, not a single one of you has citizenship.
And I don't believe in anchor baby citizenship.
I think that's illegal.
So I don't think that's true.
I don't think you can have two parents born overseas and have a kid born here that makes makes American.
I think you have to have one parent that is naturalized naturally to be your parent in order to be born here.
I don't think that's legal according to our founding documents.
So they say that and say you just hop over the wall, you pump out a baby right then, and then all of a sudden you're American.
I know Trump was trying to put an end to that, but yeah, no, if you at least have one parent here that is an American, that's understandable.
But to just come here from a foreign country, two different people who aren't here, you know, part of the United States and just pump out a baby as their getaway free card, that should not be allowed at all.
Okay, what does the Mexican president and former Homeland Secretary Mayorkas have in common?
Calergi plan in full effect.
That's crazy.
They've been doing this.
It's like the Democrats have been doing this since like 1300 years.
Isn't that crazy?
The Democrats have been trying to like, wasn't that funny that one survivor from the attack that just happened in Colorado that she was like, how did all these immigrants, Muslims get here?
And she's got the HIAS pin on that welcomes immigrants in.
It's like, man, that's crazy.
You literally work for an organization that brings in unveted immigrants, and I'm supposed to feel bad that you got hurt by one.
I'm laughing.
I'm laughing.
Yeah, that also being said, check this out.
We just got an interview with Anthony.
He's on the field.
Let's go ahead and let's talk to him.
Out in the streets in Los Angeles, field reporter and independent journalist Anthony Cabassa.
You can find his ex account, Anthony Cabassa underscore.
So, um, if you bring up my screen here, I mean, this is the insanity, right?
You're out in the streets.
That's why we're talking.
Uh, you posted some of the most viral content that's going on right now, and you know, we're jaded, you know, things are bad because uh, these are people's lives.
This is a city, this is the state of the country, and I'm calling it content, right?
It's not even talking about real life, it's like this is what we consume now as people.
You uh captured this a Molotov cocktail was just thrown at a police car on the 101 underpass.
to this so anthony let's talk about this All right, so uh, what's going on right now on the field?
I mean, we're seeing violence, we're seeing uh, you know, people attacking cop cars.
Break it down for me: what's really happening?
What are the people mad about?
Who are the players that are involved, and what the hell is actually going on on those streets?
I actually just got a notification right now that there's breaking news that 500 U.S. Marines are being deployed to the city of Los Angeles to help with the containment of the ongoing civil unrest that's happening.
Um, but yeah, I've been out there since Friday of last week when everything started.
Uh, there's a lot of misinformation going out on when the protest started, when the violence started.
A lot of people, uh, like uh Governor Gavin Newsom of California, uh, saying that you know, this is on the federal government, these escalations that the violence has only been here because of his activating of National Guard.
Uh, but that's just simply untrue.
On Friday, I was able to capture footage, video, images of the protests because I was there on the ground.
I live here in LA County, uh, and so I just made my way over because I had heard uh from sources and looking on social media that protests Protests had started against some of these ICE raids that have been going on over the weekend.
Obviously, ICE raids have been going on nationwide, but also California-wide for months now.
But I think this is the federal government is looking to escalate and increase those deportation numbers.
So they've been cranking up the numbers of people getting deported from Los Angeles.
And so, of course, this led to escalation with protesters.
Now you have organizations like Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, PSL, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, DSA, Democratic Socialists of America, the LA chapter, and you even have city council members and the LA mayor, you know, asking people to get out there and protest and protect the immigrant community against quote-unquote Trump's fascist and Nazi Gestapo, basically.
That's what they're labeling all these federal agents.
And I actually got to witness the city council members likening the federal agents to, again, Gestapo or Nazi-like, and even calling local law enforcement pigs, which is ironic because they set up a perimeter against the protesters to make sure that they were all good to go and safe.
You know, and okay, so I want there's a few questions that I have for you.
So, you know, you and I were out in the field back in 2020, 2021, covering Black Lives Matter.
And one thing that I noticed at the beginning of the first protests before the violence broke out was everyone's like, oh, there's people starting to get mad at ICE.
But I noticed that the green hats, right, the civil lawyers that represent people in protest, basically they help protect you from getting prosecuted for committing crimes during far-left protests.
These lawyers were there at the organic resistance to the original ICE raids that were kicking off.
And it kind of wrung my suspicion there.
It didn't feel then that maybe these organic opposition gatherings were really that organic.
Am I right on that?
Or do you feel like there was some sort of a tip-off?
They, you know, the governor or different people knew that it was going to happen.
And then they've, you know, kind of set this up.
This is something like we saw with Black Lives Matter or the Women's March, that there's deeper organization happening to set this off and create the civil unrest?
Yeah, I mean, of course, you've got these organizations, again, like Black Lives Matter, LA chapter, you have the DSA and the PSL.
These are like the main kind of like organizers of any of these protests.
These people have the infrastructure, they've got the leadership, they've got the chapter leadership here in LA, and they've got national support.
So I'm sure there's some way where USAID can be, you know, work away to these nonprofits, quote unquote, that are combating, you know, these pro-immigrant rights.
But these people are collecting these little protests just the same way they were collecting out there collecting these protesters who were pro-Palestine or pro-Palestine encampments at the UCLA campus.
This is a very organized web of orchestrators, of leaders that have the backing of the state government, the local government.
These people are encroached in positions of power in the judicial system here locally.
You're talking about, you know, me hearing directly from city council members saying it is time to get out there and fight back against this fascist tyrannical government that is Donald Trump.
And of course, Gavin Newsom is going to use that to his advantage, which I believe, you know, a lot of these protesters are proxy of the representatives themselves.
Somebody labeled it correctly.
I think it had a really good point in saying that essentially the protesters are Gavin Newsom's army right now.
So he suffers no repercussion because he can just call them protesters.
But basically, they're acting on behalf of the state.
And I completely believe that is true.
Again, because this isn't just like a random occurrence.
These aren't just people just walking out of their homes.
This is being organized.
This is strategic.
This is targeted.
This is, you know, well-funded.
I've discovered pallets of bricks.
Again, flashback to 2020, strategically placed at these locations where protests are happening.
Who's funding that?
Who's putting that there?
For what reason?
Right.
And how is it that the protesters always manage to find them and use to launch against DHS agents and local law enforcement?
So a lot of the same that I'm seeing.
I've been covering protests in LA since 2017.
And the only thing that I can liken what's happened over the weekend is similar to the George Floyd riots.
Although with the George Floyd riots and the protests, obviously there was a mass number of people, way, way larger than anything I'd ever seen, probably ever will see.
And that's because, of course, the pandemic, people were stuck indoors and they're wanting to get out there and trash the city.
And I can see here, you know, here's your footage right here of the pallets of bricks.
Like, right?
So they were taking these out and they're breaking them apart and they were using them to throw at the police.
And, you know, this is obviously gets pretty dangerous with this projectiles, with the chemical agents.
Then you also have the threat of anti-right violence, right?
So when they find out you're a right-wing reporter or you're pro-American, it doesn't matter if your skin's brown or black.
They'll still attack you.
They'll try to break your stuff.
We saw a video of Fox LA, you know, getting their car broken into because it was a Ford Explorer.
And just because the car was the same that the police used, they people thought it was a police car and destroyed it, right?
They're not sending the brightest, you know, they're sending the drug dealers, some of which I assume might be good people, but they're not sending their best.
But I want to get personal here with you.
I want to get racial with you because, you know, obviously you're Hispanic.
You know, you're not, you don't hate being Hispanic.
You don't hate Hispanic people.
And, you know, when we're talking about really, you know, the motivations behind this, you know, it's not that we have a bunch of illegals out here rioting.
These are mostly legal American people with a Hispanic background that are doing a lot of this rioting, this violence.
What groups of people are actually responsible?
Like, what kind of Hispanic people are these?
Are they Mexican nationalists?
Are they just ghetto people that like mayhem?
And what has been the general response from the Hispanic community, both liberal and conservative, to their own community destroying the city, kind of like BLM, lighting cars on fire?
What's sort of the demographics and what's going on here with that?
Because I think we all are kind of confused on who's good, who's bad.
And what I've seen, because this isn't the first time that there's been protests, a couple months ago, there was also protests in downtown LA, basically protesting ICE and the deportations that were about to begin under President Trump.
They closed off the freeway.
There was a lot more Mexican flags back then being waved.
But for the most part, it remained pretty peaceful.
And then at night, you and I know both know what happens when the sun starts setting.
You have these agitators, these people in ski masks that have nothing to do really with the protests, but they're just there to kind of take advantage of the situation.
So, one example, when I went in Paramount and Compton on Saturday, which are pretty, you know, bad areas of Los Angeles to begin with, what I noticed was that there was a lot of immigrant businesses that had to shut down.
A lot of these immigrant businesses, Spanish-speaking, I got to talk to them myself.
They didn't appreciate what was happening to their immediate community.
You got to remember that a lot of these people are either flying in, but being bused in or driving in from other cities that have nothing to do with each other.
If you look back at the George Floyd protest, for example, you see some of these people that got arrested, the few that actually did, a lot of them were from out of state.
And so, again, you have these coalitions like the DSA, PSL, Black Lives Matter.
They have these chapters across the nation.
They have funds.
So they're able to bust people in or at least provide gas cards for people to drive in.
And of course, you have people that are just quote unquote sympathetic to the pro-immigrant community or protesters that, you know, they want to come and stand in solidarity.
This kind of reminded me, and I know it sounds, you know, pretty silly or stupid to be like, well, we're just here to stand in solidarity, but believe it or not, it does happen.
I remember when Roe v. Wade was overturned to give the power back to the states, there was protests happening in downtown Los Angeles.
I didn't understand why that was happening.
California actually has abortion rights protected in its state constitution, which was amended by vote in 2022.
So it was a little bit perplexed for me.
Why are you protesting in one of the most deep blue cities where abortion is allowed and constitutionally enshrined?
And when I was interviewing people there, they're like, we're here to stand in solidarity with people that don't have abortion rights in red states.
So to me, it didn't make sense.
Okay, well, why are you protesting abortion if abortion is legal here?
And you don't have to worry about that.
But that's what they care about.
This is their hill to die on, you know.
And actually, there are studies that prove that conservatives tend to lean more toward religion and family, which is why we tend to be happier and in a healthier state of mind.
But with leftists and liberals, they don't really tend to believe in religion at all.
So government becomes their form of religion.
So every policy is like a commandment to them.
Every pushback is a belief in their belief system.
And so, of course, they're going to be violent.
They're going to be protesting.
As far as the demographics of people that are there, I mean, it's the same mix of people that we see all the time.
Yeah, there's a lot of knucklehead Hispanics out here.
There's anyone, you know, there's whites, there's blacks, there's Asians.
I've seen Jewish people there.
I'll never forget that when Roe v. Wade was there, I saw a lot of pro-Jewish people saying, hey, you know, we believe in abortion rights, you know, and this is trampling on our rights as well as Jewish people in our Jewish community.
I saw the same thing for Black Lives Matter, all these different coalitions of people and races and ethnicities.
And if you want to get, you know, you said, well, who's in charge or like, you know, who's pulling the strings?
Again, it's these organizations, these nonprofits that are receiving funding from somewhere.
You know, you can maybe say George Soros or USAID up until recently when all that got defunded.
They're receiving the funds to make sure that these things are happening.
And the problem is, is that LA is full of crackheads and it's full of drug addicts and it's full of alcoholics.
And so I actually saw like just homeless people just joining in.
I was actually hearing a conversation between a protester and a homeless person.
And the homeless person was actually saying, I hate that there are illegals here because it's taking away funding from us.
He's like, I've been living on the streets.
I'm no longer receiving free bonuses or whatever because they're telling me that it's being given to illegal aliens and that their health care needs to be taken care of.
And so it's just an interesting, you know, insane amount of like different levels of what's going on.
And then on top of that, you know, you have the education system.
UTLA, you know, the largest, one of the largest union in the nation, is ran by a Black Lives Matter Marxist.
So you have all these labor unions that are getting arrested.
Actually, SEIU, one of the largest, if not the largest union in the entire nation, one of the labor leaders down here in Los Angeles, David Werthat, just got arrested for impeding in ICE arrests.
He got in the way.
They actually put out a statement that they had no idea who he even was.
They just arrested him because he was interfering with operations and that they're going to throw the book at the guy.
This is by Bill Asaley, who's a U.S. attorney here representing the Trump administration in Los Angeles.
So you want to take a look at why this is happening.
Want to take a look at why Los Angeles is so radical and chaotic.
Look no further than the leadership.
You have Mayor Bass, who used to belong to the Vince at Emmels Brigade.
It is a communist nonprofit or organization, political organization founded in the 1960s and 70s.
They had to dismantle in the 1980s for acts of terrorism where they were blowing up actual buildings and judges.
She's part of that organization, and now she's a mayor.
She used to take trips in high school and college to go hear Fidel Castro speak because they were, you know, communists.
And the same person that was in this group was ex-mayor Antonio Villarregosa.
So if you start, you know, looking into the money, you start looking into who are these people and how did they grow up and why are they suddenly in positions of power?
It's because this execution of communists and Marxists has been long playing into taking over the institutions.
And California has kind of been ground zero, going from, you know, look at the history of UC Berkeley.
You know, look no further than that when you have huge communism, anti-capitalism, people coming out of there, and you're sending your kids to go get educated there.
Of course, they're going to have clubs.
They're going to have these organizations that are on campus actively recruiting because this is what I see.
People think protests are stupid.
And yeah, maybe there's a case to be had.
But what these anarchists and these organizations do is when people show up, they recruit every single time.
They're handing out flyers saying, join us, give us your yearly membership money so that we can continue to fight for you.
This is all about anti-Westernism.
This is against anti-America.
This is anti-white, 100%.
You know, unless you're a white ally, which is interesting because I've witnessed more liberal white people just making it about race at these protests, saying we need to fight the man.
And I'm like, dude, you're hating on your own.
Like, what are you talking about?
You know, and so they just spread these messages.
And yeah, I mean, it's just the education system is what needs to be revised.
You have these communist labor union leaders, these people leading the education system, and they're creating the next generation, the present generation of anarchists, Marxists, communists.
Look, I've lived in Los Angeles my entire life outside of when I stepped out of the state to serve my country honorably for 10 years.
And I came back to LA.
And that's really when I started back into noticing as an adult now with children and married, just how bad the state has gotten.
This is one of the things that a lot of us don't feel represented in in that These, these governor and these elected officials seem to care about everyone except the people actually paying them to do their jobs and the people that have voted them in.
They continue to go out there and virtue signal to these small demographics of protesters and looters and rioters and saying that they stand in solidarity with them, issuing false statements to include LAPD, which I was very shocked about.
The LAPD is issuing statements that there were no incidents and that all protests remain peaceful through the weekend, which is absolutely asinine to put out.
But again, if you follow the money, you can see that LAPD Union endorsed Karen Bass, who is a known communist.
I don't just throw that around.
If someone disagrees with me, I'm not just going to be like, oh, you disagree with me?
You're a communist.
That's something that leftists do a lot, right?
It's like, oh, you disagree with me?
You must be a fascist or a white supremacist.
So there's no arguing there.
But when I say communist, I actually mean that.
Again, look at the history of Karen Bass and a lot of these elected officials.
These are neo-Marxists.
These are communists that have one role only, and that is to bring and sow division to an already kind of divided country.
But especially when it comes to immigration, you know, this is kind of like their backs are against the wall because for so long they've been virtue signaling rights of undocumented illegals, promising health care, promising this.
And so because California is a lot of the percentage of Californians are Hispanic and Latino, they feel like they have to put out these statements, even if it might incite more violence.
And so to me, seeing Union Station and City Hall lit up at night after a full day of rioting and fire and violence, it's just to me, it's like the perfect encapsulating picture of what is Los Angeles.
A picture of police having to defend themselves because you have elected officials calling them pigs and inciting violence against law enforcement and federal law enforcement.
And oh, but here's, don't worry, guys, we didn't forget what month it was, you know.
So it's kind of like it's so asinine.
And people are quite frankly going very, very angry at this.
And I would say that, again, you know, Los Angeles is a city of millions.
The fact that only maybe 10,000 are showing up, it just comes to show that not a lot of people really care to fight off the federal government to allow them to do their job.
And in fact, you know, Trump had one of the highest approval ratings for the Hispanic and Latinos, a lot of them, which voted for him and said, We're voting for you because we want to get rid of this illegal immigration.
You know, one quick story is Cesar Chavez, who was actually a labor union activist, he was actually also against illegal immigration because he said, and there's testimony and there's videos of it.
He said that illegal aliens come and steal jobs of the legal immigrant.
So you have a lot of legal immigrants, regardless of where they're from, openly and like happy to endorse what Donald Trump is doing with getting a lot of these violent people out of our country.
And the reality is 2024 showed that he has an overwhelming mandate to get rid of these people.
So I think that the problem moving forward is going to be misinformation.
You have the governor and you have local officials saying that they're just raiding anywhere and everywhere and you should fear for your life.
But then you have Tom Homan coming out with a rap sheet of all the people that were actually targeted in targeted raids.
This isn't just like, you know, ICE agents just knocking door to door, asking everywhere, hey, where's your paperwork?
Where's your documentation?
That's just not the case.
These are targeted raids for specific people that have arrest warrants out for the arrest because they have violent crimes.
And Tom Holman is doing a really good job at highlighting that.
So it's really going to be more a war of information.
And so that's why it's imperative for journalists like myself to head on out there every day to make sure that we're capturing what's really happening on the street.
Well, yeah, everyone, a shout out to everyone who's doing such a great job.
As we wrap the segment, man, I want to say please stay safe.
You know, it breaks my heart not to be out there, but unfortunately, I've got to be in the beautiful sunny aisles of South Florida hanging out with the other Hispanics, but the ones that don't riot.
You know, we have the Cubans.
So these are the typically, they're less riotous and they more just want to give you some black beans and some pork.
And that's basically all they want to do out here.
But if people want to find you and follow you, I mentioned it earlier.
I know they can find you at Anthony Cabasa underscore right there on X.
But is there anywhere else that they can keep up with your work in real time or ways they can support you or donate to what you're doing if they want to help?
Yeah, she's the one who told people to literally use violence in the last 2020 protests.
But my favorite part of it is that shocking news just came out.
She's still not dead.
That's crazy.
So also, what's up with the white plantation slave owner accent?
We don't know what to do.
I don't know if I was in a Jared Taylor's, like, you know, ghost haunting a black woman.
What, people?
The way that she spoke was so eloquent and interesting.
She's obviously a demon and a troll.
But, you know, she says all this stuff.
Now, what I want to remind people, she says, that the Trump's bringing out his guns.
Trump is issuing the deployment of 2,000 troops to California, to Los Angeles, aka the National Guard, not to restore order.
He is still leaving the job of restoration of order into the hands of the LAPD and of the California or the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.
He is not, I repeat, trying to restore order.
Therefore, by de facto, this is not considered the militarization of a city, despite the military's presence being there.
The troops, he's clear, are being deployed in order to protect ICE agents.
And in some cases, I'm going to put my own words in, the LAPD, in order to make sure that they can do their jobs effectively because they were being attacked.
And Governor Newsom was not protecting federal agents.
So they are going to protect not just the agents, but federal property, which includes not just buildings, includes cars too.
So the property, people are throwing rocks at it.
They're coming there to be a deterrence to protect federal property and the people.
Now, I know, Mike, you obviously and I might be a little bit, you know, we would love, we kind of want there to be, you know, more of a response, right?
Like, I'd like there to see more of a push, you know, like out there to actually bring about order in the world.
But Trump is using restraint.
And again, he's not trying to, you know, control or any of these things.
He is trying to protect his people.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Because, I mean, I think I saw a number on Twitter earlier today saying that, you know, out of all of the illegal immigrants that we have in the country right now, there's probably about 4 million in LA.
And I mean, even if you guess that, what, a quarter of those are mobilized, or let's even just play it safe.
I mean, an eighth of those were mobilized.
That'd be what, a quarter million or something.
It's probably like a lot less than that.
My math may be wrong.
Who knows?
But I mean, I think what's most important is that these agents need some kind of protection because if not, then they'll just get burned like these way more cars.
And it's not funny, but just it's sad, the state of affairs.
But, you know, obviously all of this is kind of just fear-mongering from the left, from the mainstream media, trying to make Trump seem like more of a fascist Than he actually is.
We all know that Trump has become a lot more moderate than he has been in 2016.
And some people are not so happy with that.
Some people are more happy with that.
But most important thing is that these agents need some protecting because obviously the governor of California, Gavin Newscomb, does not really care about that, unfortunately.
He was even on, I don't know if it was Fox or CNN where he was challenging Tom Homan, saying, come arrest me, you know, for allowing these illegals to be here and harboring them in our country.
So, no, he doesn't care at all.
He's never cared about California.
He's allowed it to be destroyed ever since he's been in office.
Nothing good has come of it.
And I mean, the only time we've seen him clean up LA was the time that the China, you know, the president of China came to our country.
Well, I will say, Newsom is more conservative than pretty much any conservative I know.
He doesn't race mix.
He married a beautiful white woman.
He created like six white, beautiful children.
He doesn't live anywhere near minorities.
He lives in a gated community, is rich, fiscally conservative, keeps all this money, finds ways not to pay taxes, and in the end, doesn't give a shit what anybody has to say and allows the minorities to kill themselves.
That's what he does.
So I actually am kind of support Newsome as a Californian.
I'm not going to lie.
I've always thought he was cool.
I respect him as a politician, but I do believe what he is, is he is a, I believe that he was hand-selected, you know, him and his, him and his family to essentially make white people that are rich in California feel okay because it's like, well, we're being like run by like a pretty cool down-to-earth white guy.
Meanwhile, the actual city leadership is what's the problem, my opinion.
It's not just the state.
It's like Los Angeles City because look at Orange County.
I mean, despite being in California, yeah, there is insane state taxes.
What do you get for those taxes?
Nothing.
Orange County is one of the best places to live in the entire world.
So it's clearly not just like a state issue.
Plus, even if you go up, right, into like central and you go into like some parts of northern California, not San Francisco, but it's like Northern California still is the center of technological development.
Like I'm kind of like a big California stan.
I think people rip it apart because it's expensive and they can't afford to live there.
But it's like, really?
Is it Governor Newsome or is he really just like kind of holding a terrible state together and the cities are retarded?
And maybe he's got a plan.
I'm not even joking.
I know it's like not the Republican way to be like, yo, Newscomb, he sucks.
And it's like, he runs the most powerful state in the Union with the largest economy, the most people.
There's more people in California than there are in Australia.
He's more powerful than the presidents of the United Kingdom, of England, of Australia.
Like Governor Newsom has more authority and influence than most presidents of any Western nation.
Maybe only under like the United States and a few other in Germany, maybe he's got less than Germany and France.
But other than that, he's definitely powerful.
And I feel like people don't give him enough credit because I don't know if you know this about LA.
And I mean this, by the way, this is my defense of him is this.
These cities are run like cartels, you know?
Like Chicago, like, do you think that the governor of Illinois has any authority to tell the Chicago government what they're going to do?
No.
Do you think LA would listen to Newsome?
Do you really think Mayor Bass do you really think Mayor Bass being an arm of the communist party is going to give two craps on what Gavin Newsom says?
If you think Gavin Newsom's best deal is to try to keep the party together, keep Democrats in control, and in the end knows that, look, kind of like what you see today, even if Trump gets in office, the conservatives won't get what they want.
Democrats are never going to get what they want in California in Los Angeles and Sanford.
They're run by extremist parties.
That's my personal opinion from living there.
Los Angeles is run by a communist party.
Maybe that sounds crazy, but from living there, I've always thought my opinion that LA was run by its own government and it has nothing to do with the rest of the state.
I mean, everyone always thinks, too, that like, you know, it's funny that every time people go to Chicago, they're like, oh, it's so windy here.
Like, it's a windy city.
If I'm not mistaken, actually, the windy city actually came about because they said that politicians were always blowing smoke or they were just full of hot air.
So that's actually where it came from.
The Daly family, the, you know, I know that they were in a lot of stuff.
Obviously, there was the outfit, there was the mafia in Chicago.
So there's a lot of stuff going on in all those cities.
But yeah, I do think that Trump probably sees Newsome as a threat too.
So I think that's why Newsom can probably take the angle that he's taking right now is because he's thinking, or like he can at least put the facade out there that like, oh, like, like, well, you know, this isn't between me and Trump based on what's going on.
It's actually because he's trying to set up either JD Fance or his son to run next.
So he's trying to make Newsome look bad.
But I mean, I do agree with you generally.
And I know several other people who are on our side.
And by our side, I mean, you know, not the moderate side, but a little bit further right than that.
I know other people that actually like Gavin Newsom because, yeah, like, I mean, at least at the very least, he's not like a Brandon Johnson.
He's not like one of these cuck governors that you would see.
He's more pro-freedom than the governor of Florida and the governor of South Dakota.
He's not restricting people's speech.
Like he actually believes in, yeah, was like the COVID stuff reminding you too was also city-based.
Like Orange County didn't have any of the restrictions.
It was actually county-based.
It was county government, not state government mandate.
And like, I remember I went to the protests and the only place that was allowed to protest without any police intervention was in front of the Capitol in Sacramento.
And the governor let us set up a massive thing there and actually like personally told the police not to get involved.
So my opinion, if this people, people in the chat that don't, that are not from California don't know this, it's like, yeah, well, you know, Christy Noam, Christy Noam's base.
He's a Republican.
Meanwhile, she's like bowing at a wall in Israel, kissing it, putting in laws that, you know, that violate the First Amendment, doing literally gosh darn nothing to help anything, you know, making it a, what is it, you know, revoking people's, spending her entire time in DHS, revoking people's visas if they're anti-Semitic.
Like, oh, yeah.
And then, you know, Gavin Newsome is bad.
It's like, hey, my point is, is that if you think Gavin Newsome is bad, it's true.
He's, there's, he's, he's a very corrupt person and he's not the best choice for the state.
But if you're looking at Gavin Newsome, like he's a bad governor and you don't understand the complexity, not you, but people don't understand the complexity of the state.
It's like, like from being from Los Angeles, if you don't get this, what I'm saying in the chat is it's really hard to just say that a president's bad.
Because if a if a president's job is to represent the constituency and they're representing, let's say, the other half of the constituency that voted him in, is he really a bad president?
No, you just don't like him, which is different.
However, like I would say all of our presidents are bad now because they're not representing the constituency at all.
America's been being pulled since the 70s about limiting immigration, not allowing illegals in.
And they've always wanted, in every Western country, no one wants more immigrants.
No one wants illegals.
No one wants any of this shit.
And then what do our presidents do?
They just let it continue and let the people roll in.
So on that regard, all the presidents are bad because nobody's listening to their constituency.
My point is, is that Gavin Newsom represents his constituency.
I don't agree with him.
I don't personally like his policies.
I don't think that he's a good moral person.
I'm sure he's a freaking megalomaniac corrupt guy, but he does represent the will of Californians.
He does.
Californians love that guy.
And I am not joking.
And I, and have you seen the Republican Party in California?
There are a bunch of Christy Noam wall-kissing dumbasses.
No, no, you know, I know that there are, as far as LGBTQ is concerned, he did say that he didn't want men and women's sports, but he also passed a bill as well.
It was AB493, where he wanted to create training programs for educators.
This way they can help teach them how to better approach transgenderism in the school district.
So there are different things that he has done that I personally do not agree with.
Was it AB493?
Yeah.
So, you know, transgender wellness and equity fund that he put together for that.
So yes, I'm glad that he doesn't want, you know, men and women's sports, you know, but there are a lot of other things that he said that he was going to do.
You know, the homeless problem, I know that was supposed to be the biggest thing he was going to tackle.
Instead, he just wasted fun.
He allowed it to go out to illegals and all these other crazy ideas for making health care for all of them affordable.
And he didn't take care of his own state, his own people that are actually part of this country.
So no, and to compare him to other politicians, I believe majority of the politicians we have nowadays are all corrupt.
Unfortunately, it's true.
Our country is completely occupied.
But that doesn't mean I could take something bad and compare it to Elsta something like that.
No, I don't think Vivek should be in politics at all.
I mean, he's already shown, first off, the way Vivek came up was totally corrupt.
He took advantage of people using medicine to help battle L-Timers, which he knew was not going to work.
He collected all that money.
He also has come out and attacked the American people, trying to flood our country with H-1Bs, calling us pretty much brain dead and uneducated.
So, no, I don't agree with Vivek, and I don't agree with Newsom.
And I think a lot of times what we do is we look at, we've been choosing the lesser of two evils for so long.
And I believe that's why our country has gotten to the place it is.
Unfortunately, all these politicians are bought and sold.
You have Christy Noam kissing the wall, just like almost every other politician, unfortunately, is going out there kissing the wall and showing allegiance.
I mean, every president that we've had almost, you can see them go to the wall.
So I just, for me to say that I think he's a good governor, I don't believe it at all.
Christy Noam, I think, sucks, and I think Vivek sucks.
And I think that Gavin Newsom is a corrupt person and has joined and leads a corrupt system.
But I just think if we as a country, I think the reason why he's able to retain such power, he does is because people treat him like he's just some like governor.
And it's like, he's actually more powerful than the vice president, in my opinion.
So I think the only person more powerful than him in our government is Trump.
Oh, he has a lot of power, especially if you look at the size, which is actually very heartbreaking when you see California, because California, when we look at it now, is just a, it's a war zone.
It looks like Palestine right now, how it's just being destroyed and being allowed.
And I'm sure the same individuals are tied into this somehow.
But California has a lot of beauty.
America has a lot of beauty.
California should be one of the best states that we have just based off everything that you can do there and everything you can see and experience.
But unfortunately, we allowed it to rot just like all of our other major cities and states.
Yeah, but I'm saying like, you know, California, like people, these are the kind of conversations that like break Normie's brains because it's like they've never thought would if Gavin Newsom isn't some like dumb incompetent person.
That's what I'm saying, like the Michael Malisen, like he's incompetent.
Like, no, he's not.
He is calculated.
He is shrewd.
He is, he is extremely calm he is a calculated gentleman.
He knows exactly What he's doing, and he is accomplishing what he wants.
He also is going to be cleaning up California.
You'll watch this happen because he wants to run for president.
What he's doing is he's avoiding causing too much controversy to clean up, to clean up the state of California would require so much battling of corruption.
He would get embroiled in that battle.
He has higher aspirations and he wants to get out of California.
And so, my question to you in the chat is: if you had to vote for a white man like Gavin Newsom with a beautiful family who is pro-America and has lived his life to follow all the ideals that you say you believe in and clearly has his choice of what he does,
or someone named Vivek Ramaswamy, who has got four more kids named Vivek, who says that he wants to fight for free speech and liberty, and he's barefoot in his interviews, and that's who you're voting for, knowing that in the end, you're probably going to get pretty much identical policies from all these people, and just as little is going to happen.
I mean, reminding you, Trump, with all of this ruckus, is doing deporting less people still than most people are saying they would not vote.
Because the only other option him always was when I was there.
The only other option, I never voted for Gavin Newsome.
I never would.
But the only other option always was like some dumbass Republican guy who would be like, you know, what this state really needs is bigger American flags.
And you're like, dude, you don't understand Californians.
Californians are the smartest people in the country intellectually.
They have the highest IQs.
They are the biggest problem solvers in the country and they're elitists.
Because of that intelligence has allowed them to accumulate a lot of wealth and they're also racist.
Why does no one tap into the racism of Californians?
White Californians are extremely racist.
They don't, they hate living around blacks and brown people and they segregate all their cities and they move away and create all these communities.
And dude, they all hate, they hate the crime and they hate criminal activity.
Why don't you just try to get tough on crime and clean up crime?
No Republicans doing that.
It's like, we need free speech.
Californians don't care about speech.
They control the narratives of the entire country.
They have Hollywood, the media.
They don't care.
The tech industry, they control the country.
They are in control of the country.
You can't tell them what to do.
And it's like, oh, it's because you're from there.
No, it's true.
Everyone in media that you watch in the right wing comes from a fucking mega state.
You're like, literally, yes, California is like actually, have you ever seen the beauty, the ingenuity?
When people move to America for opportunity to get ahead, only the best survive.
It's the hardest state to get ahead in.
It's the shittiest economy to try to drive into.
It's scary.
Okay.
It's a dystopian nightmare.
It's like Mad Max in LA.
It's actually frightening.
I left because I couldn't, I can't raise a family there.
And you know why?
Because I'm too poor to do it.
It's like, it's because I'm not good enough.
If I could afford to live in Newport and live in a $5 million house, I would, right?
But I'm too poor.
I don't have the resources to live there.
Is that a good thing?
No.
Is that California's an elitist hellhole?
Is that, is that by proud of that?
No.
But I do think that people need to realize that Governor Newsom and that state is laughing at the rest of the country right now.
Well, they're like, you know, get your state under control.
They could do it tomorrow.
They just don't want to do it.
Like, they don't want to do it because Governor Newsome does not have control over Los Angeles.
Los Angeles controls itself.
And quite frankly, Los Angeles, in many ways, has more authority to govern itself.
Like, why the hell is our president talking about a mayor?
It's because people just think like, oh, she's a mayor.
She's stupid.
She was hand-selected by the CIA.
Like, this is a deep state operation.
Like, the federal government is helping run Los Angeles as a resistance to the will of the people.
And you think that you can get in the way of that?
I just think people don't really know what's really going on in government these days.
And they just think like News, they like listen to some boomer schlop on Facebook.
It's like, yeah, New Scun and Gavin Newsome's a dumb idiot.
You know, it's like, really?
He has more power than the prime minister of Australia.
You know, also our major bases are there.
Our major marine bases, air bases, our major facilities for the Navy are there.
It's like, this guy's, you know, our nuclear facilities are there.
This guy's not a fucking joke.
And I wish people took people more seriously and realized that, you know, this is calculated and that this is going to back.
I don't know.
I'm just saying they know what they're doing.
And a lot of people have said that Trump knows that.
And what Trump is trying to do is he's trying to create a destabilization.
That's why he's bringing in the troops because he wants to destabilize the cities and bring duress out to such an extent that he brings these cities finally to the negotiation table.
I know very smart people inside of the administration saying that Trump may be trying to manipulate these cities by basically saying, hey, look, you guys want to play dumb?
I'm going to destabilize the central core of your city and we're going to cause problems.
But the fact that people think that like, these are just dumb people that you're going to bring 2,000 troops in and they're going to bend to you.
It's like, did you see?
Do you know why Trump didn't get involved in 2020?
He didn't know what to do.
He didn't have the authority, the power, or the control in his own administration to get the cities under control.
The reason why he didn't bring the National Guard in is because he didn't know how to keep, he didn't know how to work with the governments, the governors.
He had made them their enemies.
I'm just saying, it's a very, like, no one, no one thinks this.
I do believe that they have a plan that they put together and they execute it.
So I know a lot of that's tied in.
It's whoever is their biggest donors or whatever direction they want to trick us to fall into to believe whatever narrative that they want to create for us.
So we've followed the agenda blindly.
I know that they do do stuff like that.
So just to say that things just happen or he's just an idiot, I don't think that.
I just don't agree with the way he goes about it.
I don't agree with what he pushes for.
I think we've had a lot of trouble with him.
And I think we have a lot of trouble with a lot of Republican ones too.
They're going to say there's only one God, Gavin Newsome.
No.
Sorry, that's so sacrilegious.
No, you know, it's the funny thing is, is I'm not even people think this is defending Newsome.
Have you heard, you said you've heard Californians like try to explain to non-Californians like the reality of Newsome and like no one listens to us?
It's like, well, who are you to say that?
You go, I don't know.
I'm from there.
And I'm like, like my, like my fan, like, everyone I know that's like a moderate Republican likes Newsome, you know, and that's in the state.
You know what everyone hates?
It's just the fact of this.
And you'll hear, you know, from Theo Vaughan all the way to Tim Dylan say this.
What everyone hates in California is just the fact that like you don't, you pay insane levels of taxes and you don't know what you get for them, right?
Like I don't pay any state tax here in Florida and it's nicer than LA, right?
But in Orange County, when you live there, when I'm there, I feel like I should just start paying the state taxes to live there because it's so beautiful, right?
It's like such a beautiful and well-kept place, especially like Newport, Laguna, Laguna Nigel, you know, especially South Irvine.
I mean, just beautiful.
It's there's no place on this planet with just the same weather and views.
But it's like, what I think is that people do not realize, for instance, like Los Angeles doesn't have any legal problem.
It has a Mexican problem, like legal Mexicans.
And it, because they're not illegal anymore.
Like they've had so many since the 60s, so many generations of illegals.
All those, they're all legal now.
Like they're anchor babies.
So you have like a, you have a problem of like a culture that never assimilated.
That's like this, this enclave of like Mexican conquistadors who hate America and they feel like they're reconquering the land for Mexico.
They're, they're, they're proud of being Mexican.
The only people that are more proud of Mexicans of Mexico as Mexicans are in LA are every Puerto Rican you meet of Puerto Rico that don't live there, right?
Am I right?
Am I is that right?
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Every Puerto Rican lets you know that they're Puerto Rican.
Puerto Ricans are so proud of being from Puerto Rico.
They just don't want to live there.
You know, but the Mexicans in America are like in California, it's like, it's like, it's like it's a little bit like the Hunger Games.
It's like you have the rip, you have the Mexicans that are in America and they live like Mexicans.
We were just in LA and you know, you said like when people are hopelessly Mexican, right?
Like they still build their like favelas against like the freeway.
Like they never change.
If you go through East LA, it looks like you're in Mexico and the cartels still control it and it's dangerous.
It's actually the only city I visit in America that even like you have to drive through areas where you're unsure if you're going to get carjacked and that if you walk into streets to go to nice restaurants, you do think something bad's going to happen to you.
I was in Beverly Hills and there's a black guy walking past me with a with a mattress on his head.
You know what I mean?
In Beverly Hills.
Four and a half million dollar apartments on both sides.
No, because they have so many engineers and scholars in Oakland.
That's what people will be like, hey, people will literally show you a neighborhood full of Harvard graduates and be like, That city's bad because of Democrats.
And then you go like, take, go to Connecticut.
Go to New Hampshire.
Why don't you take it to Nantucket?
Nantucket's a Democrat.
Go to Martha's Vineyard.
It's all Democrats there.
Go anywhere.
You know what?
Go into the Palisades in LA.
It's all Democrats.
You know, it's crazy, but it's peaceful.
It's nice.
It's beautiful.
Go into any other area that is full of people that look like me or not full of people look like me.
And it's dangerous.
And it's literally racially divided danger in California.
We don't have a race problem.
We have problem races.
So there's two of them.
One of them is more problematic than the other.
And the one other one just causes a lot of problems.
So you'll find all this content there because a lot of you guys bought memberships and I wanted you to be able to still get the content because I feel bad if you bought a membership and I just like pulled the rug on you guys.
So I'm putting up all the content there.
But I also don't mind, I don't know about any of those other shows getting canceled or anything.
Honestly, I'm not going to comment on anything, but I will say they took a different direction about a year ago, merged with Compound, and everyone from Compound got fired.
And I don't know.
It looks like maybe that's just what's happening here or something like that.
And usually what that means is that people want to take a different direction with their company and they have every right to do that.
It's sort of like a freedom when you own a company to do whatever you want with it.
People will get mad.
Not everyone will be happy.
No one likes to get fired.
It's not fun.
But actually, they were really supportive of the, when I spoke to the guys there, we're very close with Censored now.
And so I don't have any bad beef with them.
And I really like Censored and we're going to continue to work alongside them.
So I can't say everyone's happy or that everyone's around there, but the Tony and the guys that are there have been so supportive of what we're doing at Rift.
And I have been so grateful to them.
They've been so incredibly kind and wonderful.
And Gavin, you know, is Gavin.
He'll show you his poop toilet paper in your face.
But slightly offensive retired because we decided to do the Rift.
And it's crazy because we're only on our third week.
So obviously people that are new to the show that don't know, you know, we are here and we're doing the show every day to be sort of a panel show.
We have a guest on tomorrow.
It's a surprise guest.
We have guests on almost all week.
We're going to try to be, we're spending a lot of money to bring guests in.
And so we need your support.
So make sure you check out our sponsors in the description.
I don't think I did any ads today just because it's just one of those days.
I'm on medication.
I'm not feeling very well.
And I've been in and out of urgent care.
And so I will, I have a fever.
Just so you know, I'm doing this show with a fever because I love you guys.
Now, that also may mean that not all of my ideas may have made sense, but I have a fever and it's mostly from being around hot people like Michael Hennessy.
Kyle Fuller117 said, who do we need to talk to get the rift on the lineup after Nick D. Paolo at 7 p.m.
There's no, there's, I wouldn't, Crowder would never, I don't think Crowder would ever put the show on his network, right?
I mean, I would do it.
I would totally team up with Crowder if he wanted to do a combo, but I think that's, that would be really cool.
I like Crowder.
He's always been a good friend of the show.
Someone said, Elijah, getting the Gavin Bucks now.
I could tell you what Mendoza smells like on next episode, though, but I'll leave that for the surprise.
I'll tell you what, it ain't free joles, boys.
All right, to the rest of you guys watching, I really appreciate you.
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Shout out to Mendoza for running the board tonight and uh contributing so much uh good stuff, including the sound effects, and to Brian, good old faithful, who uh set up the streams tonight.
And to the rest of you guys watching, have a great rest of the week, as always.
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Good night, Humber Jay Fuentes, and may God bless the United States of America.
