It’s protest season in America once again, which means that I and my fellow clear-headed but very pissed off Americans will take over the streets of multiple cities across the country to voice our extreme displeasure with Donald Trump. I’m not gonna get into all of Trump’s offenses, because even the internet doesn’t have enough space to accommodate them. So let’s boil it down to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We’re protesting Trump’s Not Terribly Secret Police for all of the evil s—t they’re doing, like this:

Kimberly Hernández’s father is now missing after an ICE raid on the car wash where he worked.

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The woman in the above video is but one of many innocent people who have either been targeted by ICE, or had their family members targeted by ICE. They’re yoinking people out of car washes, farms, Home Depots and any other place that sets off their Immigrants Just Minding Their Own Business alarm. They’re targeting every nook and cranny of this country they can find, but they’re particularly taken with tormenting Los Angeles, including accosting its elected representation. Angelenos took to the streets in protest, because they were pissed, and they had every right to be. Yet the president of the United States and his Homeland Security secretary-slash-vampire bat Kristi Noem had no issue spreading the contemptuous lie that LA protesters were a bloodthirsty mob, adding a twist by suggesting that they were also somehow acting under the orders of Mexico’s president:

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“Claudia Sheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests in LA, and I condemn her for that. She should not be encouraging violent protests that are going on. People are allowed to peacefully protest. But the violence that we’re seeing is not acceptable, and it’s not going to happen in America,” Noem said at a press conference.

Now, there are obvious political reasons why Trump would launch an assault on this part of the country. Los Angeles is........

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