As far as I can tell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem means to "liberate" myself and all the other people in California from the oversight of the duly elected governor of the state, whom I have voted for, twice. It's with embarrassment that I understand now that I have done so incorrectly, probably on both occasions I guess. I shouldn't be surprised to see the second Trump administration putting into action the longstanding Republican fundamental principles of hyper-active governmental commandeering of state functions, superseding all local and/or regional autonomy in favor of a vigorous, expensive and unasked-for response at the federal level. I'll confirm this for you as soon as I can secure response statements from the restless earthbound spirits of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. If this doesn't get them out of the ground, then fuck you, ghosts objectively do not exist, never bring them up again.
This is becoming a theme, though, Things Happening Where I Live I Have To Rely Upon The Executive Branch To Inform Me Of/Protect Me From. Gavin Newsom bad, OK, check, got it. I saw him do a bunch of podcast hits with white supremacist fuckheads recently trying to brush up his cross-aisle/edge-lord bona fides ahead of a certain run for president. So OK, we'll put the suspension and disregard of his legal authority as governor in the "For Consideration" category. Also, though, I'm being told that the place I live, the state and sub-region (though I'm not in LA city or county) is on fire and a constant riot zone. Just because the idea that urbanized areas where Not Red political thought congregates are hostile to "decent" people and inherently unsafe is straight out of a long-standing playbook of ratfucking media narratives created out of whole cloth, that doesn't mean it's necessarily not true in this case, right? Just because me nor anyone else I know has seen or been disrupted by (or even disapproves of the idea of) anti-ICE protests doesn't mean it's not a lawless hellscape on the verge of self-immolation. I mean, you saw the Waymo cars burning on literally every news outlet everywhere, it's safe then to extrapolate that media saturation of a single sensational image means the experience is ubiquitous, not that it's the most visually interesting thing to publish for for-profit enterprises reliant on click-through numbers for advertising purposes. No, that would be reckless and self-serving, two things it would irresponsible to accuse either the news media or the government (as currently composed) of being.
But to be fair, it's not just local Latino population being targeted, it's also the federally based elected representative Latino population getting it in the neck at the same time, so you'd have to call that at least "consistent." Honestly, Senator Alex Padilla walked into a press conference with Kristi Noem and a bunch of ICE agents, carrying the double whammy of being an American born to Mexican parents AND a highly educated Coastal Elite. In retrospect, it would have been newsworthy if they didn't try to tackle him in those conditions. I'm certain I'll be hearing in the next few days about all the ways he definitely had it coming. Has anyone even asked yet what he was wearing?
Oh wait, Jesus, what am I wearing? I think this calls for a trip to the Tactical Suburban Tough Guy store, not for any protection, just so all my ICE bros register me as one of their own and let me pass. Cosplay internet-based warrior bro is the safest thing to be right now. Oh, and white. That always helps.
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