"We are not going away," [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] said, referring to the National Guard and DHS presence in Los Angeles this week amid protests against Trump's sweeping and drastic deportation mission in the city. "We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
You mean elected officials who were voted into office by the citizens of California? I wonder how Kristi is going to fare in a women's prison someday.[image or embed]
-- Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) Jun 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Speaks ... It's bc like in real life you have to do something you've never done before and apply for the job first. Here, go fill out an application:
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@#9 ... "we were overwhelmed"....LAPD CHIEF ...
Is that a recent quote?
For LAPD chief Gates, more humiliation May 5, 1992|Updated Oct. 11, 2005
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... Until the very day the rioting began, last Wednesday, Gates was defying an order by the Police Commission to halt high-level personnel changes and was taking verbal jabs at his newly named successor, Willie L. Williams, the Philadelphia police commissioner who is to take over next month. ...
But this time, no police officers were in sight as the city watched transfixed.
"We were overwhelmed," a chastened Gates told a televised news conference the next day. ...
One theory: Trumpf may be trying to discredit and destroy Gavin Newsome's potential 2028 presidential candidacy. He saw the entirety of the Biden Administration going after him with the Special Counsel. Another theory: The Trumpf junta is seeding the American mind that seeing the US military everywhere should be a common everyday occurrence. After 9/11, the first time New Yorkers saw US military or NYPD personnel with assault weapons initially stunned them, but this is now an ordinary sight for them, like Americans seeing heavily armed ICE agents everywhere: 4.-------------
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