Armageddon Outta Here

Los Angeles Burns and No One is Happier than Smilin' Commie Karen Bass

It’s the start of summer of the first year of Donald Trump’s new term and that means warm weather is approaching and the riots shall begin. Since these looting and insurrections are long-term events and are ongoing as you read this, any interim reports of damages would be premature and incomplete. Let’s just say at least 5 Waymo vehicles have been destroyed, downtown businesses are being looted, and people waving Mexican flags are hurling rocks at law enforcement vehicles. As Gwen Walz assured us in her husband’s failed campaign, she enjoys the smell of burning tires on a hot summer night—so she is likely to be going to L.A. soon to soak up the rubber-burning rioting ambience.

By the way, mark your calendars for June 14 when these “spontaneous” and “organic” “protests” will break out all across the country. Find out more here and here. You can find out who’s backing these things and where you need to not be next Saturday.

But while we have a new Trump who is most decidedly unlike the Old Trump, the Democrats have the same old wearisome playbook.

The usual liars have crawled out of the woodwork. It was comical. Karen Bass, failed mayor, went on the media to state categorically that the 101 Freeway—one of the main arteries of Los Angeles—was open at the very time that news footage showed it was closed. In a hark-back to four years ago, CNN is still spouting that the riots are “mostly peaceful” while showing cars, including cop cars, on fire and masked thugs hurling rocks at moving vehicles. The whole time Karen Bass is on camera, she’s grinning and practically bursting at the seams with raw joy.

And my favorite was Greasy Gavin Newsom, failed governor, who went on the air to proclaim that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had come after a “four-year-old girl” who only came to America to “get an education.” While there are surely a lot of unaccompanied minors who entered the United States under the Biden regime, most were “lost” into the system or handed over to people who claimed to be relatives. (Previously, DNA tests were required for relatives to claim unaccompanied minors but Biden made such genetic testing illegal. Claiming the kids and transporting them God knows where to do God knows what was perfectly legal under Biden—only the DNA testing that would confirm familial relationship was verboten.)

Newsom’s story of the plucky little four-year-old is a lie. ICE did not arrive in Los Angeles in early June in order to find that a preschooler who trekked solo across the burning desert just to get into an American preschool. As far as I know, no four-year-olds at all were arrested, least of all those who came by themselves to get an education. And, last time I looked, Mexico has plenty of kindergartens and elementary schools, which offer free education to the children of its citizens.

Speaking of Mexico

It’s important to realize that illegal immigration is a cash cow for Mexico because many Mexican nationals living in the United States—both legally and illegally—regularly send money home to their Mexican families. This isn’t chump change. In 2023, remittances (as they’re called in legal parlance) totaled over $63B, the highest it’s ever been. (To put this in perspective, Big Pharma company Eli Lilly has annual revenues of $45B. So this remittance business is big business.)

Remittances from the United States alone make up about 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Mexico. If you break it down by Mexican regions, remittances to places like Chiapas, Guerrero, and Michoacan might be as much as 15% of that region’s GDP. In case you want to see what a cash cow we’ve been to Mexico, especially under Madame President Sheinbaum, see this. Scroll down to the graph that shows how the remittances have soared under Biden.

Even before the riots, Donald Trump had floated the idea that perhaps the United States should impose some tax on this outflow of dinero into Mexico. He’s thinking a modest 3%. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, first went on the news to criticize the ICE raids and said that cities like Los Angeles wouldn’t be what they are without immigrants. She also said many of her citizens left Mexico for a better life, and she encouraged that, which is a weird thing for a president to do. Why doesn’t she offer them a better life in Mexico? What president urges her people to emigrate out of the country to get a better life? But then again, her ex-pats are big business thanks to remittances. She vehemently opposes taxing the remittances to Mexico and only a couple of hours ago made a tepid condemnation of the violence in the riots. But make no mistake, Sheinbaum’s Mexico is going to lose big if many illegal immigrants get deported.

JD Vance had an interesting observation on the violence as we watched rioters waving Mexican flags and destroying American law enforcement vehicles and local American businesses. When foreign nationals who enter this nation illegally, then commit acts of violence and arson, all while waving foreign flags—that’s war. That’s not a peaceful protest. That’s not even a violent riot.

It’s war.

Oh, and President Sheinbaum has promised legal support to her citizens destroying America who get in trouble with the law. She also added hastily that Mexicans in the United States illegally are welcome to come home. Nice that Sheinbaum will allow her own citizens to inhabit their own country.

Criminals First

The mainstream media paints the picture that the people being rounded up are mainly plucky children seeking education or honest hard-working tax-paying families (if they’re illegal, they can’t work here so they’re being paid under the table and likely not paying taxes). However, ICE for the time being is actually prioritizing criminal aliens, many of whom are involved in gun running, cybercrime, money laundering, cartel stuff, and drugs.

Speaking of drugs, fentanyl overdose deaths have gone down with Trump. Isn’t that funny how that works? No one has given Trump much praise for improving this terrible situation.

And speaking of criminals, Democrats, the party of chaos and criminality, encourage illegal migration and defend it because it is their last grasp at political power. For Democrats in 2025 America, every day is the battle of Armageddon.

Let’s face it, things look bad for the blue party.

• The Democrats are losing the Black vote, a constituency they both abused and depended on

• Black males in particular are deserting them in droves

• Overall, young men are migrating to MAGA, since most guys are not utterly captivated by transsexuals dancing naked in the street. Young men are disproportionately heterosexual and have the normal desires to be strong men, rather than simpering gender-confused mental cases dancing in evening gowns on TikTok

• Hispanics, too, are drifting to MAGA because nobody hates illegal immigration more than legal immigrants. The Democrats just figured all Hispanics were the same (just like all Blacks are Democrats, all women are pro-abortion, etc.) and every Hispanic was all in for illegal migration

• Women who are pro-life have no place in the Democrat party and many are defecting. You can’t be a Democrat without applauding abortion

• Many of MAGA’s heavy-hitters like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. were former Democrats. Trump, too!

• Good grief, even Karine Jean-Pierre has more self-respect than to be called a Democrat and she lied for a living on television

So hemorrhaging voters in all of these categories is causing the Democrat to lose voters the same way that the mainstream media is losing its audience largely to a group of rowdy podcasters who never went to journalism school. The people are the media now, the Democrats just don’t know it yet

But the Democrats have one last hope. It’s not much of one, but people clutch at straws in desperate times. Their main hope now is illegal immigrants. Illegals, they figure, will resoundingly vote Democrat because Democrats have defended them (never mind, the good white Democrats of Martha’s Vineyard called the military on 50 rag-tag illegal immigrants who arrived on the all-white island in September of 2022 courtesy of Ron DeSantis). The Democrats hope that with enough freebies, welfare, benefits, and other goodies, they can get more criminals to break into this country and eventually vote blue.

And it’s not just votes, it’s seats.

The diabolic Democrats need massive amounts of illegals if they hope to stay in power. The Senate has two Senators per state, that’s fixed. But the House of Representatives has 435 representatives who are portioned out by population. Every 10 years, based on the national census, the states determine how these 435 seats are divided by the states. States that lose population can lose a seat in the House and states that gain people may add a seat or two. If any party gets a super-majority in the House (60%), they are virtually assured to be able to pass any bill they want and block any bill they don’t want.

According to Google, there are approximately 11M to 14M illegals in the United States right now. Let’s estimate that there are 12M illegal people in the United States. Right now, a representative in the House represents about 800,000 citizens. These 12M illegal immigrants could mean up to 15 new seats in the House. Right now, we have 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the House. That’s a thin majority, considering that people sometimes cross party lines. With just 7 seats separating Red from Blue in the House now, you can see that 15 new seats are something that interests the Democrats.

Technically, illegals should not vote. That’s why we need to get them out of the country. (It’s also why Democrats do not want voter ID and love mail-in voting.) The illegals who manage to stay will find their way into the voting booth either on their own or somebody else will help them mail in a vote (or mail in a ballot for them). Voting by mail is just about matching a name to a ballot—you don’t actually need the person to participate as long as you can prove that such person exists. It’s an efficient system, except it’s entirely illegal.

Democrats need the illegals or they’ll never win another federal election. That’s why this is Armageddon.

The Riot Act

The riots are an act. A stunt. Choreographed and outsourced. It’s organized by No Kings, and one of their funders is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) run by Randi Weingarten. The AFT is the teachers’ union and it’s subsidized heavily by our tax dollars. The riots have been bought and paid for, and we paid for them, at least a lot of them. Fortunately, Americans have smartened up to the fact that a lot of these riots are an act. The participants are paid actors, and they do as their told. The fact that pallets of bricks have magically appeared at unlikely but convenient-to-rioters locations indicates that there is organization going on. Somebody recently found a stash of baseball bats hidden away at a riot site.

It’s the last stop on the Democrat express train to Armageddon. As horrific as this spectacle is, it’s a tired old playbook. It worked better in the “summer of love” with the George Floyd riots than it is working now. Back in 2021, Trump did not know the playbook, plus he was a first-term president who had limited experience, few allies in blue states, and might have even weighed in his electability for a second term as he calculated his response.

This new Trump has been down this road before. The Democrats arrested him more than once and I doubt he has many reservations about arresting a few Democrats now. He knows what Democrats are capable of and what they are incapable of (running a safe city). He has friends, more than we likely imagine. Plus, this is his last term. I think he’d rather save America than be viewed as Gavin Newsom’s best friend and Karen Bass’s brunch guest. He doesn’t care if Democrats don’t like him. In fact, it may be easier for him if they don’t.

The new sheriff in town may look like the old sheriff, but this is a new guy. Trump is more seasoned and experienced. He’s been arrested, slapped with the label “convicted felon” (or more appropriately “victim of lawfare”), and taught about just how far Democrats will go to keep power. This is not the same Trump who came down the golden escalator.

Meanwhile, poor, pitiful Gavin Newsom has no new tricks up his sleeve. He’s going to sue Trump, while his city burns. If I were an Angelino, I’d be worried, since the rioters are setting fires and the water reservoirs are empty and the fire hydrants don’t work. Newsom already has 24 lawsuits against Trump, so it seems that filing lawsuits against Trump is one of his hobbies. This last one says it is illegal for Trump to deploy the National Guard. That’s not going to prevail, although there’s nothing stopping him from filing a bogus lawsuit.

And in a wonderful touch of irony, Gavin Newsom lamented that the National Guard is “being forced to sleep on the floor.” He says that this is disrespectful to our noble troops and law enforcement agents (the same ones his people are pelting with rocks). But Gavin does mind if other people sleep on the floor, and outside to boot. California has a quarter million homeless people—24% of all the homeless individuals in the country. Gavin hasn’t done anything but increase the numbers at a rate of about 3% year over year. But now that the National Guard is sleeping on the floor, Gavin is apoplectic. How cute.

(By the way, the National Guard and other military groups often sleep on the ground, the floor, or under makeshift conditions when they are deployed, when they enter combat situations, and when they are carrying out field exercises. They don’t always get sleeping bags either. Particularly in rapid emergency deployments, our military personnel may have to sleep wherever they can find a spot. Part of military training involves building up resilience and adaptability and military are often trained to learn to sleep in very challenging environments. Like I said, this is war.)

The Blame Game: Lightning Round

And no crisis in California is complete without a word from Kalamity Harris, who must have bought a thesaurus because she called the riots “appalling,” but not for the same reasons I would call them appalling. She said the riots were “overwhelmingly peaceful” (somehow the words “overwhelming” and “peaceful” don’t really go together). She claims that calling out the National Guard will only escalate the violence and “provoke chaos.” She said Trump has a calculated agenda to spread “panic and division.” While Harris was roasted on social media for siding with rioters and trying to pin the riot on Trump, Leo Terrell, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights put it best:

“No one is interested in your opinion,” he said about Kamala’s pronouncements.

Amen, brother.

Notice that Kamala offered no plan to fix things. Her idea is just let everyone enter the United States and never vet anyone or try to deport criminals. (Remember, she was border czar—she and that awful Alejandro Mayorkas are largely responsible for this mess.) If Harris had her way, the border would still be wide open, and ICE would have no authority. And speaking of not knowing what you’re doing, there’s one more lunatic in California we should mention.

Knock knock. Who’s There? Mad Max!

When the riots first broke out in Los Angeles, geriatric Mad Maxine Waters was mute. But as soon as Trump sought to bring order to the streets, Mad Max called him a “cruel, dishonorable human being.” But why was he cruel and dishonorable? She said he had no reason at all to try to bring order to the streets since in her mind, this was all just a harmless little protest.

Maxine loves lawlessness. She’s the Senator who told Democrats in Washington to give Republicans a hard time and “get in their face” if they saw them in restaurants or at gas stations or anywhere in public. If age, sex, and general physical frailty weren’t stopping her, she’d make a great boxer. Never saw a fight that didn’t want to join!

Mad Max inserted herself in the violence because she wanted something she could not have. A guy by the name of David Huerta was arrested by ICE. Huerta is the president of the Service Employees International Union, and Mad Max thought it would be beneficial if this man could hear from her. (Like he doesn’t have enough trouble already.)

Mad Max tried to get into the federal building where Huerta was being held, but contrary to her belief, she had no authority to enter. Mad Max assumed that as a Congress woman, she can come and go and do whatever she wants and no laws apply to her. However, even Congress people have no-go zones and this federal building with this particular prisoner on this particular riot-torn day was one of them. The door was shut in her face. Always one to rush to violence, the 86-year-old pugilistic woman shouted at our military personnel, “You better shoot straight!” indicating that she wanted to provoke gun play.

It goes without saying that Mad Max is more interested in getting press time and stirring up violence and hatred than she is about fixing the riots in her own district. This is happening largely in her district or adjacent to it. (She doesn’t have to worry though, she doesn’t actually live among the riffraff in her own dirty, dilapidated, drug-infested district. She lives in another district with the rich people behind gates and with armed guards.)

Maxine Waters has been in office 18 consecutive terms. She’s older than Biden. If you’re old enough to have dated Ben Franklin, I say you’re old enough to retire.

Arrest Me, Bro

But let’s get back to Gavin Newsom, the arch villain on the plains of Armageddon. Gavin Newsom is busy taunting Tom Homan, the no-nonsense border czar under Trump. Gavin is baiting Homan to arrest him. Homan is not the kind of guy you can bait—law enforcement and military are immune to basic backyard bullying techniques like the ones Gavin is using. But the fact is that impeding the ICE activities in Los Angeles is a federal crime. A serious federal crime.

Not only that, it’s a crime in the court of public opinion. More people in this country side with Tom Homan and law and order than side with Gavin Newsom and a state in free-fall. These riots are the end of Gavin’s national political ambitions.

Still, Gavin is posing for the cameras, teasing an unsmiling Tom Homan, “Arrest me, Ese.” Actually, I don’t know if he said those exact words, but if he were smart enough to know a few words of Spanish (one of the most-spoken languages in his state), he would have said that.

(By the way, Tom Homan has all the warmth of Mike Ermentraut on Better Call Saul. It’s a character type. And just like you didn’t mess with Mike in Albuquerque, you don’t mess with Homan when it comes to the riots.)

Homan can use his discretion here. It may not be in the best interest of Homan’s plan to arrest Gavin Newsom. Then again, it might.

Whatever happens, my bet is that Homan will arrest Newsom and smilin’ commie Karen Bass if they put their hands on ICE agents, destroy property, impede law enforcement activities, or knowing harbor and/or conceal an illegal alien. I’m pretty sure they will do these things in the next few days. Then Democrats will scream that you can’t arrest political figures, and we can point to the lawfare against Trump. Democrats claim that this—illegal immigration—is the hill they want to die on. Trouble is, the Democrats are like zombies—they don’t know they’re already dead.

There are 2,000 National Guard troops in LA and something like 700 Marines coming in from the base in San Diego. More are on the way. And if we all know about June 14, you can bet the Trump White House does, too. May God protect our ICE agents, law enforcement, the National Guard, and all our brave military. May God protect Tom Homan and the entire Trump administration throughout this ordeal.

I think these riots are going to be intense, because it’s Custer’s Last Stand. The line in the sand at the Alamo (but without the nobility of purpose). It’s Armageddon. In the Bible, the ramp-up to the battle of Armageddon was intense, time-consuming, and complex. But the battle itself was over quickly.