Yikes.

This is a propitious time to state, for the record, that the Ethics Alarms criticism, indeed condemnation, of what the 21st Century American Left and the Democratic Party has mutated into is not a partisan activity but an objective, non-partisan, and ethical one. I would take the exact same position regarding any party (I am a registered Independent) that jumped the Ethics Shark to the extent that Democrats have since at least 2012.

Readers of long-standing here will recall that I vociferously wrote though almost all of 2015 and 2016 that I would debase myself by voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election until it became obvious that her party was cheating, manipulating the nomination process and media coverage to an extent that showed its contempt for democracy and the American people. I announced that an unethical party was at least as great a threat to the nation as an unethical, unqualified President (that was Donald Trump). I did not vote for either. By 2020 and of course 2024, he was no longer unqualified, and that the Democratic party was corrupt and untrustworthy was beyond debate.

The conduct of the Axis of Unethical Conduct (the resistance, Democrats and the news media) following Trump’s upset election only reinforced my belief, which has since become certainty. It has now been almost a decade of escalating totalitarian objectives and tactics emanating from the Axis. Its conduct and rhetoric revealed by the Los Angeles riots appears to be the apotheosis of its stunning ethics rot. I have written in previous posts that there is only one ethical side to the issue in LA, and that those who are incapable of seeing that fact are almost clinically deranged, frighteningly indoctrinated or unfixably stupid. Every day, indeed almost every hour, since the rioting started four days ago has supported my analysis.

Res ipsa loquitur means, “The thing speaks for itself.” The items I am listing and discussing below should speak for themselves, but I’m going to do a little speaking for them anyway.

1. Polls appear to be indicating that a majority of the public supports the President in his action against the LA rioters and in support of ICE. Around one in three Americans (36 %) said they approve of the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, compared to 45% who disapprove, a YouGov poll of more than 4,200 U.S. adults found. Of those polled, 19%—you know, the vegetables, said they were “not sure.” I don’t know why that surprises anybody. Trump has the law on his side, and public opinion on his side regarding enforcing the immigration laws. Hispanics support Trump, who has made enforcement of the immigration laws the centerpiece of his agenda since 2015, more than any other demographic group. Illegal immigration hurts law abiding Hispanic citizens more than anyone else.

2.   California’s AG formally announced that he’s suing the Trump administration over the President’s entirely legal and precedent-based decision to active the National Guard to protect Los Angeles citizens from lawless rioters. The suit is an abuse of process. As usual, Democrats are depending on ideologically biased judges to issue incompetent and irresponsible orders, but the suit both misrepresents the law and the facts. That so many progressive hacks—I include California’s Attorney General in that description—use the length of time between episodes of the National Guard being employed without a state governor’s request demonstrates just how corrupt the movement and the Democratic party have become. The reason this action hasn’t occurred for so long is that states haven’t refused to protect law enforcement officers trying to enforce the law since Democrat Governor George Wallace of Alabama defied federal law in 1965….because doing so is illegal, unconstitutional, and spectacularly wrong.

3. “The View,” ABC’s “news” show that is now 100% Trump Derangement All the Time has hit new levels of hypocrisy and stupidity in response to the rioting. Whoopie Goldberg, a black woman, actually appealed to “states rights,” making the same argument the Confederacy did to claim it had the right to “nullify” Federal law. (Somebody tell Whoopie that states have never had the right to defy Federal law and that she’s arguing for a revival of Jim Crow.) Then Ana Navarro made an equally fatuous statement: By sending the U.S. Army National Guard to Los Angeles , President Donald Trump was setting a “trap” for Hispanics to force them into employing violence. This is so moronic and illogical that I’m afraid that even reading it might cost one crucial IQ points, so consider this a warning.

She said, “Today, he is sending in the National Guard to attack the protesters who are there. And look, this for me hits really close, I’m Latino, I’m an immigrant, these are my people who are getting dragged through the streets. We must be strategic, we must be nonviolent. We have the right to protest, we are Americans, this is our country, we have the right to free speech, but we cannot fall into the trap that Donald Trump is setting of wanting to turn this into violent protests.”

Boy, I feel dumber already: I’m suddenly considering paying for an extended warranty for my new smart phone.

4. I recently wrote that I realized an old hippie girlfriend who still occuries a warm corner of my heart had lost her mind when I saw that she linked to a Robert Reich post on Facebook. Reich is, after all, not merely a Communist but like all of his fellow travelers, a sinister liar. In “We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state” Reich intones, “As civilian control gives way to military control, the nation splits into those who are most vulnerable to it and those who support it. The dictatorship entrenches itself by fomenting fear and anger on both sides. These are frightening and depressing times. But remember: although it takes one authoritarian to establish a police state, it takes just 3.5% of a population to topple him and end it.”

Enforcing laws when elected officials refuse to do so while encouraging public defiance is not “enforcing a police state,” but preserving the rule of law that Democrats so piously invoked while trying to lock up their political enemies. Even more “it isn’t what it is”-ish was This Would All Die Down If ICE and National Guard Left on the CNN site, authored by Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-Calif.) Brilliant! People won’t riot over being forced to obey laws if we stop trying to enforce those laws.

5. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass—if she is re-elected after her LA fires debacle and this, the entire city should be walled off like in “Escape from LA” to protect the rest of the public from being infected with whatever it is that is killing brains —was interviewed yesterday on CNN. The network split the screen with live video of the riots. Bass told CNN, “But it is important for people to know that even in downtown this is isolated to a few streets. This is not citywide civil unrest taking place in Los Angeles. A few streets downtown, it looks horrible. People committed crimes. It is absolutely unacceptable. And those people that set cars on fire or did other forms of vandalism will be sought to be arrested and prosecuted. This is not the way to promote a cause. No, I don’t think the National Guard is needed now. Things in LA are calm.”

And as she was saying this, CNN showed a car blowing up.

Then Bass said, “I will tell you that I’m saddened by the extent of the vandalism in the form of graffiti all through the downtown area.”

6. Finally, here is a supercut of the news media and Democratic officials including veteran Ethics Villain Maxine Waters, aping Bass’s lies…

SUPERCUT!

Corporate media: These murderous riots are actually mostly peaceful pic.twitter.com/9Aig54BoH2

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 9, 2025