Trump Uses National Guard to Bully LA

What do you call it when the President sends military troops into Los Angeles without the governor’s request, then unleashes ICE on peaceful communities under the guise of "order"? We call it Pride, and not the good kind.

In this week’s Mindf*ck Monday, I’m breaking down the Title 10 maneuver Trump used to override state control, why the National Guard showed up in LA without warning, and how ICE raids and suspicious fires became part of a bigger playbook of fear and federal force.

This is not law and order.
This is control, masked as safety, wrapped in a lie.

We are talking ICE, LA, militarization, media manipulation, and the deadly sin that keeps showing up in politics: Pride.

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Where the chaos gets clearer, the truth gets louder, and the lies do not stand a chance.

Chapters

• 0:00 Questioning Borders and Humanity
• 2:23 ICE Raid at LA Home Depot
• 4:53 Trump Deploys National Guard
• 5:32 Expats vs. Immigrants: The Double Standard
• 8:16 Addressing Comments and Common Arguments
• 11:15 Call for Empathy and Action

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Okay, just for a minute, let's break this down in real human terms. At some point, a person, just a regular human being, decided to draw a line in the sand and say this is mine, that's yours. If you cross it, I can arrest you, deport you or kill you. I'm Christy Chanel and this is Sassy Politics. And now we call that a border, we treat it like gospel, we tear families apart over it, and I was feeling emotional and decided to write that all out into a Facebook post and, of course, crickets Nothing, because you know, I'm in Texas and well, we have very different views. A lot of my family and old friends still watch Fox News and get uncomfortable when I say something that sounds real or liberal. Yeah, I know, but I felt the need to post it anyway. I'm getting stronger, I'm kind of proud of myself, because they need to see it, they need to feel it, and maybe that's why I felt the need to post it, Because this moment is not about politics, it's about humanity. So I took that same post and I put it on TikTok, where, of course, I'm going to get a little bit more traction. And TikTok did not stay quiet like at all. It's almost at like 15,000 views right now and I just posted it last night. So it's doing well and it's only words. I just copied it into a post form and put music to it and put it on my TikTok, I think. Let me see right now where it's at. It's got almost 400 likes, 30 comments, 40 saves and shares. I noticed that people wanted to hold on to that truth and people wanted to also fight it, which is very common. The divide is getting bigger, it's just true. But that post wasn't random. It was sparked by something real, something real urgent. If you watch the news, this may not be the first post that you're seeing on what happened in LA. But I'm going to break it down because I was watching live on TikTok when all this went down. I was not watching mainstream media and I want that point to be very, very clear when I go through what happened.

Speaker 1: 2:37

Ok, this week ICE showed up at a Home Depot in Los Angeles. I saw footage of the ICE agents taking boxes of ammunition out of a vehicle, massive amounts of boxes. They were preparing to really make a statement. They didn't come quietly. They came with riot gear vans, tactical units and, yes, live ammunition. At the same time, fires broke out, a car exploded, shopping carts were lit on fire and the reports they're not saying that the fires were not started by protesters. That is a really important point to note. So when you get gaslit because you already know, if you follow me, because I explain what that whole political gaslighting is about If you get gaslit, no, no, let me be clear. The protesters did not start any fire. They were peacefully protesting, all right. The fires were started by ICE and federal agents themselves. Why? Because chaos creates cover. If it looks like a riot, they can justify a crackdown.

Speaker 1: 3:50

And guess what came next? Donald Trump signed an order deploying 2,000 soldiers from the National Guard troops to Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom, their governor, confirmed it publicly. He did not ask for this. Governor Gavin Newsom did not request the National Guard. Trump unilaterally deployed the troops to Los Angeles under federal control. Newsom confirmed the deployment publicly, but made it clear he did not authorize it and called the move inflammatory and dangerous. This bypassed traditional protocol and escalated the presence of federal forces in a way that many are calling authoritarian. Why this matters? When the federal government deploys the guard without state consent can undermine local authority, escalate tensions instead of resolving them, which it's starting to do, be used as a tool of intimidation instead of protection.

Speaker 1: 4:50

All right, I needed to clarify that before we move any further here. This wasn't about safety. This was about flexing power, and my little conspiracy self thinks that they were already waiting for this. They were hoping for it. They were actually freaking, drooling over it. So when it happened, they were like done Anyway, anyway, federal agents were already in place. They were waiting for them to react. They were waiting for the people to get loud so they could say see, this is why we need troops in the streets. That's not public safety, that's a setup. Now here's the part that hit me the hardest this week and I cannot believe I didn't fully realize it before.

Speaker 1: 5:29

Let's talk about this word expat. If a white American decides to retire in Mexico or start a yoga retreat in Bali, we call them an expat, short for expatriate. It sounds fancy, elite, like they're worldly and adventurous, but when a Mexican family crosses the US border looking for safety or a job, we call them an illegal immigrant or, worse, just illegals. Same action, moving from one country to another, totally different language, totally different treatment. Why? Because race and privilege determine the story. We don't question the white people moving abroad. We build cages for brown ones trying to survive. Nobody's showing up at an expat's house with ice agents and smoke bombs. Nobody's ripping a white tourist out of a Home Depot and throwing them in a van, but we do it to undocumented workers every single day.

Speaker 1: 6:31

We've been trained to believe that one type of person deserves freedom and the other doesn't, and you guys know I talk about this stuff every day, and even I hadn't connected the dots this clearly until this week. So if this is new to you too good, that means you're learning. That means you're waking up. Let's stay here, let's get deeper. So, okay, back to the post. I shared all of this on TikTok and the reaction was huge.

Speaker 1: 7:01

Some people said well, borders are real, sovereign nations exist. This is just the way the world works. Let me say this yes, borders are real today, but someone still made them up. They're not natural. They were created just like every system that's ever been used to control people. We used to think slavery was just how things worked.

Speaker 1: 7:26

We used to say women shouldn't vote, because that's the law. Existing doesn't mean equal justice. Then someone commented I shouldn't have to pay taxes to support someone else's family. Okay, but you already do you pay taxes that fund billion-dollar military contracts, tax breaks for billionaires and bailouts for massive corporations? Nobody gets mad about that. But the second it's a poor brown family trying to eat. Now it's an outrage. Let me remind you, undocumented migrants pay taxes. They pay sales tax, they pay property tax and, yes, even if they pay rent, many of them pay taxes without getting the benefits no Social Security, no Medicaid, no government handouts. They're literally funding our benefits and getting nothing in return. I think we make out better in this scenario. What are you not seeing? Then somebody else said they broke the law period. Let me tell you what else used to be against the law. Okay, rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.

Speaker 1: 8:41

Harriet Tubman leading people to freedom. Women voting before 1920. Being queer in public, loving someone of another race. The law is not morality. The law has always been used to protect power. Another person tried to clap back with if we don't have borders, we'd have no rules and no order. Look, nobody's saying we shouldn't have communities. What I'm saying is we've taken something made up like lines drawn in the dirt and turned it into justification for cruelty. We're criminalizing need, we're pushing survival.

Speaker 1: 9:27

This isn't about law, it's about power. It's about control and it's about whose life we think matters and whose doesn't. Let's take away the politics for a second. Okay, let's strip off the media spin and the legal jargon. We're talking about people mothers, fathers, kids, co-workers, fathers, kids, co-workers, neighbors. People who bleed like you, love like you and fear like you. We are rounding them up, tearing them from their families, sending them back to places they fled for a reason, and calling ourselves the land of the free. No, that isn't freedom. This is fear dressed up as policy. This is racism wrapped in paperwork. If you made it this far, thank you.

Speaker 1: 10:25

I hope this woke something up. In the same way, it woke something up for me, because we're living through something terrifying and also something powerful. People are rising up, people are paying attention and once you see the truth, you can't unsee it. No one is illegal on stolen ground. No one deserves a cage for seeking safety, and if ICE is out here starting fires and the government is sending in the military, we don't have an immigration crisis. We have a humanity crisis. If this episode meant something to you, share it, talk about it with your family, even the ones who don't get it yet. Tag someone, send it to someone who still says illegal like it's a punchline. Follow me on YouTube and TikTok under Sassy Politics, and also I recently started a sub stack under Christy Chanel. So if you want to help me build a real movement, email me. We're just getting started because the voices are getting louder, and so is mine. Love you, miss you, bye you.