Jun 09, 2025 2:45:46 pm
Explain it to me like I’m FIVE. Who benefits if the riots in Los Angeles spiral out of control? Donald Trump of course. The more violence the better, the more chaos the better. Do Latino communities want this madness, definitely not. Now the question is, and I apologize if it seems slightly conspiratorial, but is it possible that instigators have been activated by people with serious connections? Someone like former Sinaloa cartel boss, El Chapo, for example. In case you missed it, but 17, yes seventeen family members of El Chapo were quietly snuck over the border from Mexico by the TRUMP CARTEL around the middle of May, scouts honor.
I will add an article at the end of the post so you don’t have to take my word for it. There is also evidence that misinformation about ICE raids caused widespread panic, which in turn led to the violent escalation. Whatever dodgy deal El Chapo struck with Trump, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that it included providing foot soldiers to help Trump take over Los Angeles. (Not necessarily as part of the deal, more like I scratch your back you scratch mine, a favor for a favor). The more violence, looting, destruction and chaos, the more Trump can feed his base the red meat they so crave. The cartels are fighting a turf war in both Mexico and California, and although El Chapo is in prison, two of his sons still run the cartel on his behalf.
For a moment in time, Trump became the Pedophile President. Every single news channel across the world focused on Elon Musk’s incendiary claim that Trump was on the Epstein client list. Musk belatedly deleted the post, but the damage was done, or so we thought. Trump needed a huge cover story to change the subject, which he managed to orchestrate in the blink of an eye. Yes he has been pushing Homeland Security and ICE to make as many as 3000 arrests per day, and yes he has been sparring with California governor Gavin Newson since the devastating wildfires and even before. But why now?
Some might ask, why would El Chapo and other members of the Sinaloa Cartel help Trump to hurt immigrants? You’ve obviously not been paying attention. The cartels routinely chop people’s heads off, hang bodies off bridges, torture, mutilate, murder, rape and kidnap, Mexicans. They don’t care about anything or anyone but themselves, much like Trump. I’m not saying this is what is happening, but I have my doubts that this is spontaneous outrage. Many immigrants are afraid and even angry, but why attack ICE if you know it will create more trouble not less. Why burn cars, loot, hurl rocks at vehicles and law enforcement when Trump clearly stated that he will activate the military to deal with the violence.
Peaceful protests are one thing, violent chaos something altogether different. Trump has been waiting for a moment like this since the height of the BLM protests. He is relishing the opportunity to flex and at the same time scare the hell out of immigrants and Americans alike. It could also be a not so subtle warning to Elon Musk to tread very very carefully. If Trump wanted to, and he often does, he could crush Musk by using the almost limitless power the Supreme Court bestowed upon him when they gave him a free pass by indemnifying him from oversight.
ANGELENOS – MAS TRANQUILO: Officials in Los Angeles are calling for protesters to stay peaceful as National Guard troops are deployed in the city In a post on X, LA Mayor Karen Bass writes that she met with Governor Gavin Newsom and law enforcement officials a little earlier to discuss public safety.
“Angelenos — don’t engage in violence and chaos. Don’t give the administration what they want,” she says. Separately, California’s Lt Governor Eleni Kounalakis writes: “What’s happening in LA isn’t about safety — it’s fearmongering.”
She adds a call for protesters to be calm: “Stay peaceful. Don’t give Trump what he wants. Our strength is in unity, not chaos.” BBC
Food for thought. The day before Trump’s birthday and military parade is Friday the 13th. History teaches us that bad things happen on this day, just ask the Knights Templar. Trump repeated his directive of NO MASKS at least three times on social media. Palantir, Alex Karp and Peter Thiel require no masks in order for their AI Surveillance facial recognition technology to work.
THE DOORS OF MISPERCEPTION: MEXICO CITY — Key pillars of the Trump administration’s policy toward Mexico involve large-scale deportations and a crackdown on cartels.
But reports in the Mexican media suggest that U.S. authorities recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpin — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel — to California.
On Wednesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, clearly frustrated, said U.S. authorities had failed to notify their Mexican counterparts of what appeared to be a highly choreographed operation by Washington to transport the drug lord’s extended family across the border from Tijuana to San Diego.
“We are doing our work” to fight drug trafficking, Sheinbaum said. “The issue is: What information is out there and how do they [U.S. officials] explain this? They have to give information.”
Various social media sites have circulated images purporting to show El Chapo’s kin lugging rolling suitcases as they waited to enter the United States last week at the San Ysidro border crossing connecting Tijuana and San Diego. In a radio interview Tuesday, Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s security chief, confirmed that the move took place.
He characterized the transfer of El Chapo’s relatives as part of a “negotiation” between the U.S. Justice Department and representatives of one of El Chapo’s sons, Ovidio Guzmán López, who faces drug smuggling and other charges in federal court in Chicago.
LA WOMAN: On Monday, citing “sources,” Chaparro reported on his YouTube channel that 17 of El Chapo’s relatives — including his ex-wife, various nephews and nieces, a grandson, a daughter and a son-in-law — entered U.S. territory in San Ysidro around midday May 9 and were met by FBI agents. They carried more than $70,000 in cash, reported Chaparro, who said at least one sniper watched over the group as they turned themselves in to U.S. authorities.
Among the group was Griselda López, El Chapo’s former wife and the mother of Ovidio and his elder brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, who is also in U.S. custody facing drug charges.
There has been widespread speculation in the Mexican press that the two jailed brothers may seek a plea deal and possibly agree to testify against Ismael Zambada García, a co-founder, with El Chapo, of the notorious Sinaloa cartel.
Zambada has said he was kidnapped by Joaquín Guzmán López in the summer and flown into the custody of U.S. agents outside El Paso. Mexican authorities say they too were blindsided by that sensational operation, which Mexican authorities say was probably orchestrated by U.S. agents. Zambada is reportedly in plea negotiations with U.S. authorities to avoid a potential death penalty.
His arrest has sparked a bloody turf war splitting the Sinaloa cartel. Backers of Zambada are fighting supporters of El Chapo’s sons, known as Los Chapitos, for control of the notorious organization. Two of El Chapo’s other sons are both fugitives who have remained in Mexico and avoided arrest while assuming their father’s legacy of running the cartel, authorities say.
By Patrick J. McDonnel Foreign Correspondent for LA Times Published May 13, 2025.
RUMORS OF WAR: Protests erupted in this Hispanic-majority city, turning violent as rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown. Authorities used pepper spray, rubber bullets and smoke bombs to subdue the crowd. But the demonstrations in Paramount appear to have spawned out of misinformation.
While dozens of migrants have been detained by authorities elsewhere in the area, the rumours of raids at the store were misinformation, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“Despite false reports, there was no ICE ‘raid’ at a Home Depot in LA,” the DHS told the BBC. Christal Hayes BBC News Reporting from Paramount, California. 9 June 2025.
SUMMER OF PROTEST: The speed with which Trump reacted suggests that this is a fight his administration is prepared for – and even eager to have.
The White House believes that law and order, and aggressive immigration enforcement, are winning issues for him.
His actions will thrill his core base of supporters and could sway political independents concerned about public safety.
Noem, in her interview, said the Black Lives Matters protests of 2020 in Minnesota were allowed to spread unchecked – and that the new Trump administration was going to handle things differently.
“We’re not going to let a repeat of 2020 happen,” she said.
Democrats, however, have said the administration’s use of masked immigration officers with military gear to arrest civilians in restaurants and shops has been inflammatory, and that the president’s eagerness to deploy trained soldiers was unwarranted.
“For the president to do this when it wasn’t requested, breaking with generations of tradition, is only going to incite the situation and make things worse,” said New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.
“A lot of these peaceful protests are being generated because the president of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law.”
The US has a long tradition of summer protests, and it is only early June.
Five months into Trump’s second term, these California demonstrations may be an isolated event – or the start of greater civil unrest in the days ahead. Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent•@awzurcher BBC
IT’S GOING TO GET WORSE: There are concerns protests could spread to other major US cities.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says his home city could be next.
“I believe it’s going to get worse and it’s going to be New York,” Cuomo tells Bloomberg Radio.
He adds that Trump’s decision to deploy to the National Guard against Newsom’s wishes was part of the president’s formula to create chaos.
Cuomo is running to be New York City mayor, challenging incumbent Eric Adams. BBC
I would also add Chicago to the list. Hometown of Obama, and Pope Leo is doing a Holy Mass in the city on the same day as Trump’s parade. Not to mention one of El Chapos sons is being held in Chicago.