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Los Angeles Erupts While the Empire Crumbles — Welcome to the American Reckoning

EDITOR'S NOTES

Los Angeles is not protesting—it’s revolting. This isn’t about immigration or taxation. It’s about a crumbling empire, mass betrayal by both foreign and domestic powers, and an orchestrated demolition of trust in American institutions. The city burns while the elites watch from behind gated compounds, sipping cocktails funded by your dwindling tax base. What’s happening in LA is the death rattle of a republic that sold its soul for global capital and woke credentials.

The Smoke Signals of Empire: LA Isn't Protesting—It's Revolting

The fourth day of chaos in Los Angeles isn't about immigration enforcement. It's about a boiling point reached long ago—where corruption, governmental cowardice, and unchecked lawlessness collided under a brittle economy. The corporate press wants you to think this is about ICE, or three suspects facing tax charges. Don’t fall for it. This is a riot not just against arrests—but against a system that has failed every honest American from sea to poisoned sea.

Forget “peaceful protest.” This is systemic rot made visible. What’s burning on the streets is not just gas stations and storefronts—it’s the last veneer of legitimacy our institutions wore like a decaying mask.

From Freeways to Freefall: The Infrastructure of a Failed State

The 101 freeway is shut down, commerce frozen, public services paralyzed—and that’s just the opening act. Looting isn’t random anymore; it’s methodical. Small businesses, the last gasp of local economic independence, are targeted repeatedly while megacorps sit safely offshore, dodging taxes in Caribbean shell firms.

Emergency services can’t respond, not because they won’t—but because they’re outnumbered. The so-called leadership in LA? Hiding behind PR statements while the working class boards up their livelihoods with plywood they can barely afford.

This isn't civil disobedience—this is the social invoice coming due for decades of economic betrayal.

The Flag in Flames: From Patriotism to Pyromania

Burning the American flag is no longer a fringe act. It's become a symbol—distorted, enraged, dangerous. Veterans who bled for this country are watching from their rusting wheelchairs as kids raised on surveillance capitalism torch what little fabric binds us.

Let’s be clear: there is no honor in desecrating a symbol paid for in the blood of Okinawa, Normandy, and Khe Sanh. But there’s also no honor in the bureaucrats who turned patriotism into propaganda while exporting jobs to Beijing and letting fentanyl pour over borders they refused to secure.

This rage didn’t come out of nowhere—it was engineered by globalists who never missed a dinner party while Main Street withered and died.

Politicians Fan the Flames from Gated Estates

Senator Chris Murphy, safe behind walls you paid for, has the gall to call for nationwide protests—as if torching another city block is just an exercise in democracy. Politicians like him aren’t leaders; they’re arsonists in suits, soaking your neighborhood in gasoline and blaming you when it ignites.

Let’s not forget Mexico’s President and Claudia Shyburn throwing verbal Molotovs from across the border. Praising rioters while American businesses burn? That’s not solidarity—it’s geopolitical exploitation. Foreign leaders have no place dictating morality to a country they leech remittances from like a fiscal parasite.

Historical Echoes: The Repeat of '92... and '68... and '1776

This isn’t new. In 1992, the Rodney King riots exposed the racial powder keg. In 1968, American cities erupted after the assassination of MLK. And in 1776, colonists torched royal property and dumped tea in the harbor when they’d had enough of tyrants.

But here's the difference: Back then, leaders feared the people. Today, they mock them on TikTok while militarizing the IRS. We’re not in a revolution—we’re in a controlled demolition of public trust. And it’s happening in broad daylight.

Collapse by the Numbers: 6,800 Buildings Gone, Only 68 Replaced

Pacific Palisades, a wealthy coastal neighborhood, has seen just 68 building permits issued while nearly 7,000 structures lie in ruin. The city’s tax base is vaporizing, recovery funds are nowhere to be found, and the only thing being rebuilt is a narrative.

Meanwhile, the media peddles sob stories about looters being "misunderstood youth" while honest families evacuate like it's Saigon, 1975. The new American Dream? Don’t die waiting for FEMA.

EVs, Green Promises, and the Ghost of Federal Subsidies

Electric vehicle adoption has collapsed—down 16% to levels unseen since 2019. Turns out, when cities are burning, nobody cares about the carbon footprint of their getaway car. The green industrial complex pushed by global finance and Silicon Valley is imploding under the weight of unreliability, high cost, and raw indifference.

Subsidies are gone. Confidence is gone. And soon, the EV utopia might follow Solyndra into the footnotes of economic failure.

While LA Burns, D.C. Funds a Foreign War

Across the globe, Russia just launched 500 drones into Ukraine. U.S. taxpayers, meanwhile, foot the bill for endless weapons shipments while American citizens can’t get an ambulance during a riot. Our priorities? Out of sync. Our leadership? Out of touch.

Foreign policy is now a distraction industry. It exists to give Congress a soapbox while ignoring the fact that your streetlights don’t work and your water bills doubled. Why are we playing World Police while our cities become warzones?

Conclusion: Welcome to the Breaking Point

This is no longer just about Los Angeles. This is about the survival of America’s soul. Are we a nation of laws or a nation of opportunists? Are we led by patriots or by parasites?

If reform doesn’t come from the top, revolution will come from the bottom. The next few weeks won’t be about healing—they’ll be about survival. You can trust the headlines, or you can trust your gut. One is scripted. The other is screaming at you in sirens and broken windows.

America isn’t on fire by accident. It’s by design.

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