As per the norm, there is rarely anything "peaceful" about leftist-organized "protests," and that goes double when they get underway in liberal bastions like New York City, Portland, and Los Angeles.
That has most certainly been the case for the last four days in LA, where, as we've extensively documented, mobs of agitators - some of them taxpayer-funded - have wreaked absolute havoc on Los Angeles County in response to ICE sweeps that were reportedly taking place in the area.
In response, the scenes of LA, Paramount, and Compton looking like a war-torn country - with agitators attacking city and federal law enforcement officers and their vehicles, President Donald Trump went over California Gov. Gavin Newsom's head in ordering in the National Guard, an action the prospective 2028 Democrat presidential candidate astonishly claims was unnecessary and for which he's already announced a lawsuit.
Predictably, the Usual Suspects on the left and in the press (but I repeat myself) are doing their thing in declaring the Days of Rage in so many words as "mostly peaceful protests" despite what we're seeing and hearing with the videos and audio snippets.
My RedState colleague Rusty Weiss reported on a pretty insane example of a reporter from ABC 7 claiming as cars were burning in the footage being shown that, "There'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."
Not to be outdone, in another instance of reality intruding in real time, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC to talk about how there was allegedly no need for the National Guard to be brought in to help quell the unrest.
Incredibly, she proclaimed that the LAPD had the situation "under control," though video that was playing beside her on the split screen told a very different story:
Yep, looks totally under control to me:
Just like we saw over and over again during the Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led George Floyd riots in 2020, as we saw during the Occupy Wall Street insanity, Democrats and their media comrades will gaslight you until the cows come home on hot-button topics like these if you let them.
The tapes, the images, the words, and the actions of those orchestrating these "protests" and those carrying them out don't lie, no matter how often their apologists on the left and in the media might try to. This is who the mainstream left is and, in fact, has been for quite some time now. And no amount of gaslighting whatsoever on their part is going to change that inconvenient fact.
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