The Skinny: To Live and Lie in LA
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Everything, Everywhere, Is Coming Up War
If Swine Trump’s initial invasion of Los Angeles was ominous, the next week and a half in the United States of Amerika could more accurately be described as a pervasive environment of existential terror. Murderpigs kept rioting in LA while violating the civil rights of protestors and journalist alike, the regime slapped handcuffs on two more Democrats including shockingly a United States Senator, and oh yeah: Downmarket Mussolini appears to be dead set on dragging us into another forever war in the MENA. Here at The Skinny we don’t even know how to read a doomsday clock, but we’re ready to party like it’s the end of the world anyway; which is good, because if Der Leader gets his way on Iran it just might be. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article.
June 11th – 20th, 2025
War on “Terror” – LA Edition
“Regardless, if we consider the official deployment of military personnel to be a de facto statement of the regime’s policing priorities, that still means the Trumpenreich is arguing that unarmed domestic protesters inside very small pockets of the Los Angeles area are a greater threat than militarized terrorist militias in two countries US intervention has helped transform into semi-perpetual warzones. Please keep in mind that the LA protests are happening on livestream, and there are hundreds of eye witness accounts in the public discourse from Angelinos saying there is no widespread disorder for the troops to quell.”
Manufacturing Consent and the Invasion of LA
“At some point the idea that Trump is just accidentally falling into all the steps he’d need to take to install a permanent fascist dictatorship in America, ceases to hold water. This guy is either the world’s luckiest accidental authoritarian, or the Trump regime is planning to go the full nine yards and what we’re talking about now is a question of courage, not will. There is literally no reason to consolidate all power in the executive branch and create a private army under the president’s control unless you mean to use those things to rule as a tyrant.”
Police Brutality and Intentionally Targeting Journalists
“Do you have any idea how confident a mainstream press org has to be before they accuse the cops of purposely targeting journalists? Security forces, particularly Trump’s federal Gestapo, have been intentionally attacking journalists to prevent them from covering their widespread civil rights abuses and fascist piggery towards migrants and protestors; full stop. Which brings up some obvious questions for both California officials and a Trump regime that just invaded LA under the guise of stopping violent insurrection and restoring order. Is purposely attacking reporters violence? Is is targeting journalists for simply documenting law enforcement activities disorder?”
Gestapo Barbie Sends a Message
“There are only a hundred United States Senators, and while Capital Hill may be a city within a city, it’s not a particularly large city. Every single person in that room, including Noem, her security detail, and the press corps, knew who Alex Padilla was the entire time. Furthermore, while Noam might have a TV star’s face thanks to her surgeon, she’s still a very poor actor and watching her during this widely-recorded moment makes it clear she’s fully aware of her security team laying hands Padilla even as she kept speaking. The assault, and it was an assault, by Noem’s security detail on a Democrat sitting US Senator representing the community the Trumpenreich is currently invading, was completely intentional; Noem, and through her Trump, meant to send a message.”
The Swine Emperor Declares War on Dem Cities
“Of additional importance here is Trump’s very deliberate use of white nationalist ideology and phrasing. The president openly references “mass migration destruction,” and accuses Democrats of turning our “once Idyllic Towns into scenes of Third World Dystopia.” Perhaps most alarmingly, Trump directly refers to “remigration” which is a euphemistic word used only in white nationalist and nazi circles to describe the forced ethnic cleansing of Pig Empire nations to establish white ethnostates. If you told me this post had come from the diaries of Joey Goebbels himself, the modern American signifiers is the only way I’d know you were lying.”
JD Vance Tips Trump’s Hand on Iran
“Naturally, we all know that Trump can’t legally just walk us into a war with Iran, but have you seen any signs that this is stopping him from doing so yet? Vance’s argument that the decision to go to war with Iran is Trump’s and Trump’s alone, strongly reflects the fascist Trumpenreich regime’s views on executive branch power, and this government has a long pattern of signaling they believe Trump can do something outrageously illegal, doing it regardless of the law, and then fighting like hell in court about later. Well, in this scenario, “later” is going to be “after we’ve already attacked Iran” so being “right” about the law does opponents of this war no good.”
Why The Gestapo Keeps Arresting Democrats
“The fascist Trumpenreich regime is actively working to criminalize its political opposition, and acclimatize the American public to images of Democratic officials being led away in handcuffs for opposing the mighty God Emperor Trump or his fascist agenda. This isn’t about conviction rates, or whether or not any of these cases go to trial; although I should point out that the absurd assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are still outstanding. This is about sending a message to both Democrat politicians opposing the fascist mass deportation program, and the American people, and that message is “do not cross the Swine Emperor, because anyone who does is definitely a criminal.”
All Signs Say Trump Wants War With Iran
“So what’s more reliable than the intentionally deceptive ravings of a septuagenarian nazi, or his latest Mouth of Sauron, Karoline Leavitt? How about leaks from inside the government that the US military has already drawn up a plan of attack for an assault on Iran, the Klepto Kaiser has already approved it, and the only thing the American war machine is waiting on is the order to launch from Trump himself. An order which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has already stated the Pentagon would obey regardless of any actions taking by Congress.”
– Nina Illingworth
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