The group of individuals who filled the meeting room appeared as if they had just come from a Halloween costume store. They loudly expressed their opinions to the council members until the council eventually gave in to their demands and provided a sanctuary that ultimately proved to be of little value.
A decade and a half earlier, the LA City Council made a decision with a 13-1 vote to stop any government-related travel and future agreements with Arizona. During the council’s discussion on the matter, there was an abundant usage of hyperbole. The initiator of the ban, Former Councilmember Ed Reyes, along with his associates, went as far as comparing the Arizona legislation to heinous events such as Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Similar to Margaret Brennan, Ed seemed to have a keen understanding of history – drawing parallels that were strikingly clear. Even back then, there was a trend on the left of resorting to the extreme “everyone I disagree with is like Hitler” rhetoric.
Councilman Ed said: “Los Angeles the second-largest city in this country, an immigrant city, an international city…As an American, I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport. If I come across an officer who’s having a bad day and feels that the picture on my ID is not me, I can be … deported, no questions asked. That is not American.’’
Yeah, that wasn’t remotely true, Ed. Not 15 years ago. Not now.
But, 15 years later, lots of cities have vowed not to cooperate with ICE. ICE is looking to deport the worst of illegal aliens, like rapists and child predators but cities in California think that getting in the way of arresting felons is a good look.
Recently, another leak was revealed to the Los Angeles Times. ICE is coming to Los Angeles. So the worst of the worst will scatter. Thanks, leaker. Apparently social justice warriors are reasoning that alerting criminals of impending raids is a high virtue.
In Huntington Beach, a former NFL punter who is a mighty social justice warrior came calling on the City Council. Gone is the guise of a (sorta) football player, Chris Kluwe is a player on the social justice field. Kluwe apparently thinks he is a modern-day Oskar Schindler. Recently he appeared on a podcast to yell at clouds. Kluwe is convinced that the NFL removed “End Racism” because Trump attended the game.
It’s such a self-defeating philosophy,” he said, “because the NFL might think, ‘oh, we have to bow down to Trump and get rid of anything that even remotely hints at being non-segregationist, because that’s what allows us to keep making money.’ But what they don’t understand is that a large chunk of people who would otherwise consume your product just saw you do that and are going to be like, ‘Welp, guess I’ve got other things I can spend my money on.’
“They think they’re doing the right thing from a financial standpoint, but driving people away is never a good business decision. It’s so stupid. Forget the moral aspect of it for a second. You are literally costing yourselves money.”
Mr. Kluwe, you are literally a dope.
“End Racism” at the end of NFL endzones did nothing to end racism. Nothing. Zero. It is, and always was, pablum. It was useless sloganeering – like a beauty contestant saying she wants “world peace” or “end poverty.” No one – quite literally no one stopped being a racist when that stencil appeared on NFL fields. And no one went back to being a racist because that stencil disappeared.
Kluwe wasn’t satisfied with that silliness, he went Full Monty silly. Kluwe went to a Huntington Beach council meeting dressed like a hobo to screech about Trump and the president’s movement… NAZIS!! The MAGA Movement is a NAAAAAZI movement.
The reason for Kluwe’s protest revolved around a sign proposed for Huntington Beach’s public library, which would have the words “Magical,” “Alluring,” “Galvanizing” and “Adventurous” next to each other. The words spell out MAGA.
“Through hope and change our nation has built back better to the golden era of Making America Great Again!” the signage reads.
“I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience,” Kluwe said at the end of his speech to the City Council before walking up to the front where the council members were sitting.
Here is Kluwe playing his virtue-signaling game and punting his brain into jail
Civil Disobedience is often necessary. Thank you @ChrisKluwe pic.twitter.com/HrbTCAZpru
— Protect HB (@protect_hb) February 19, 2025
The inevitable “YOU’RE MY HERO, CHRIS! comments followed. However I enjoyed this counter:
— Rick J.🇺🇸 (@RickJ007) February 20, 2025
Yeah, ok Chris, everyone you don’t like is ‘literally’ Hitler.
Now go away.
