Maddow tonight-don't fear Trump:

[applegrove]

Maddow said:

This Trump presidency wants to be seen as fearsome, right? They want to be seen as powerful and scary. They want people to be afraid of them. But what they really are in equal measure is awful and weird. And it's worth being afraid of that because it's weird and awful and scary to have somebody that weird and awful in charge of the federal government. But it's not fearsome in the way they mean it to be. It's fearsome in the sense of like, oh my god, these people are in charge of what? I mean, Trump really did pardon the guy who bragged about pooping in the US Capitol, and that footage of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is a real thing. And the bizarre thing with his justice department today and its pronouncement on the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, what are we supposed to make of all that from these people?

At the same time, he's got the military, the US military deployed in Los Angeles, California, while the National Guard is now asking, please, for its troops back because, among other things, they need to prepare for wildfire season. But no, Trump today, for whatever reason, sent a small army of federal agents and National Guard troops in military vehicles and on horseback into a park in Los Angeles for a big, weird show of force that nobody can figure out.

There was nobody in the park. They didn't seem to have any reason to be there. But this is how they fanned out across a mostly empty Macarthur park in Los Angeles, California, today. What's that about? What are you doing? The president of the Los Angeles city council telling reporters today, quote, looked like a staging for a TikTok video saying that if border patrol wants to film in Los Angeles, quote, you should apply for a film permit like everybody else, and stop trying to scare the bejesus out of everybody who lives in this great city.

The Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, showed up herself at MacArthur park while Trump's agents were doing whatever they were doing there today made them look all the more ridiculous, with them masked up, dressed up like they're going to repel out of helicopters into Fallujah. Here's the mayor in her light blue suit saying, guys, what's up here? She basically shooed them away and they left.

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[chowder66]

1. "She basically shooed them away and they left". That made me chuckle.

[creon]

2. despise

That is the word: despise.

he is bringing the USA into disrepute. el gringo loco is a poltroon.

Dishonor.

[Beartracks]

3. Were they getting footage of soldiers for use in a fake battle scene in future campaign ads?

Then they most certainly should have applied for a filming permit for this fictional fantasy film.

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4. It was like some 13th Century battle on a field with horses and no opponents.

[Deuxcents]

6. I think TSF wanted something to go awry with the Calvary, storm troopers all decked up ready for battle

So he would make a video of the moment he had to install martial law. You know, a big production for the midterms he’d have to cancel. I do think he’s gonna try this again.

[applegrove]

7. Instead he got Monty Python.

[markodochartaigh]

8. Brave Sir Robin

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[applegrove]

9. LOL!

[benfranklin1776]

10. Nice!

😹😹

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Was there a rabbit in the park?

Or maybe giant blancmanges from the planet Skyron, turning everybody into liberals?

[applegrove]

13. I assume that is "Holy Grail" talk.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. The first one is, yeah

The second's from "Science Fiction Sketch" in Monty Python's Flying Circus episode seven, titled "You're No Fun Anymore."

[proud patriot]

5. watching now

[valleyrogue]

11. Trump definitely left his cake out in the rain. n/t

[calimary]

15. Yep.

God bless Karen Bass.

Saw the replay and it was ridiculous! All these police, some on horseback, sent out ready to fight members of the public… and the park was EMPTY. Nobody there for any police to manhandle or make negative examples of.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. No one is more afraid of King Taco than the spineless weasels of his own party.

If they dare offend him (or even just pass on the traditional ass-kissing ritual), he might pluck his magic twanger and put their exalted no-show positions in jeopardy. When one really has no marketable skills outside of congress, that knowledge makes incels of them all.

[blubunyip]

17. Looks like

Trumpian Guards vs Antifa



we have met the enemy and he is us….