Hegseth Sends 700 Active-Duty Marines to Los Angeles
Newsom sticks his foot in his mouth…again.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the Defense Department will send 700 Marines to Los Angeles to help law enforcement:
Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order.
We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers – even if Gavin Newsom will not.
Due to increased threats to federal law enforcement officers and federal buildings, approximately 700 active-duty U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton are being deployed to Los Angeles to restore order.
We have an obligation to defend federal law enforcement officers – even if Gavin…
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) June 9, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to dig his political grave by spouting off his mouth with a bunch of nonsense:
U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes.
They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President.
This is un-American.
U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes.
They shouldn't be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President.
This is un-American. pic.twitter.com/v5Va7hbgBb
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 9, 2025
Oh sweet summer child. Bless your heart.
Bless your heart, Newsom.
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How can he do this without Trump declaring an insurrection ( which he should )?
No insurrection needs to be declared so long as the active-duty and/or federalized Guard troops are only protecting FEDERAL buildings. If they were to extend the perimeter or give aid a material distance from federal property, that would be legally problematic w/o a declaration of insurrection.
I should add that on-the-ground commanders will have some in extremis flexibility. So, if nearby police or civilllians were in immediate danger from a violent mob, local command could surge a QRF to protect life w/o worrying about court-martial.
President only needs to invoke the Insurrection Act if they want the Marines to be able to make arrests.
Typically, they use the military and national guard to defend federal buildings for the purpose of freeing up the local police to deal with the riot.
Bush the Elder did the same thing in 1992 to help end the Democrat’s riots in LA that year.
You mean their “peaceful protests”, right??/s
It’s defending federal buildings from vandalism. The marines and National guard are not making arrests. They are acting as a human shield against domestic terrorists….and should use reciprocal force to defend themselves up to and including live fire in the case of thrown bricks and molotov cocktails.
Here’s an interesting factoid: Up until just a few years ago, the Navy & Marines were technically exempt from the Posse Comitatus statute. While DoD did extend the prohibition through regulation, a president was free to set-aside that regulation if needed (a power POTUS enjoys). During the 20th century, the Marines were used in a number of domestic law enforcement mission, most famously to protect mail and post deliveries during the 1920s and early 1930…with tremendous success, btw. When Marines began protecting the mail, mail robberies fell to zero. Edwin Denby, SecNav at the time, issued ‘shoot to kill’ orders for the Marines. Denby went so far as to say, ‘“When our Corps goes in as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered, Or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty. There can be no compromise.” He and Trump would have got along.
Never knew this, thanks for the education!
https://www.uspis.gov/history-spotlight-2023/send-in-the-marines
Here’s an interesting factlet (a word coined by William Safire):
In his 1973 book Marilyn, Norman Mailer coined the term “factoid” to mean facts that had no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper. Mailer’s use of the -oid suffix follows in the pattern of humanoid: just as a humanoid appears to be human but is not, a factoid appears to be factual but is not. The word has since evolved so that now it often refers to things that decidedly are facts, just not ones that are significant.
Newsome you ignorant slut. Pretty much everything you stand for, do, and don’t do is unAmerican. Shut your ungrateful mouth and sit down!
“Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum…….and I’m all out of bubblegum”
We need a Duke Nukem-like figure to clean out the Dhimmi-crat thugs and fifth columnists in California.
It does not look that much like our countrymen, however, but enemies thereof.
Will these marines be authorized to use lethal force against these violent invaders who will attempt to murder them with rocks, bricks, bottles, and fire?
If not, what’s the point? Serious question.
It’s also a question that needs to be answered by Pete! My guess is that the Marines will be there to look tough and absorb any projectiles hurled by the mob
I wrote this on 6/30/22:
…because the Capitol is the preserve of Congress, it would be an unwise thing for a president to direct force toward that building when the assistance was unasked for. It would have the appearance of an actual coup attempt-the domination and intimidation, by force, of one branch of government by another. In this instance, even if untrue, force directed at the Capitol by Trump would have been played as such, no matter how good a result it may have had. It was a losing proposition for Trump in any event-damned if he did, damned if he didn’t. He didn’t, and he was correct to not project force under his control towards the Capitol that day.
Now we’re seeing Trump correctly projecting force in order to protect federal facilities, and he’s being roasted for it. As I wrote back in 2022, Trump is always at fault. Always. Nothing he does is legal or proper according to his opponents.
In the late 50s and early 60s Desegregation became Federal Law.
And….. local govts were both tacitly and actively supporting violent protestors attempting to prevent enforcement of the Law.
When Eisenhower and later Kennedy called out the Kansas and later Alabama National Guard the local govts and governors opposed the call out – under the weak-sauce argument that having the Feds “keep the peace” when the locals preferred not to – was “escalating the situation”.
You have no “right to riot”. Never had.
Why are demonrats so dedicated to idiocy?
It’s who they are.
Well….they aren’t called Dummycrats for nothing…..🙄
Do it Trump…give them some FAFO. I honestly think it would be good for the country.
Marines “facing their own countrymen”? It looked like none of the flags the rioters were waving matched the Stars and Stripes.
They realized the bad optics so they were bought American flags
I’m not kidding
Yeah eventually on day 5/6 they handed them out…but they didn’t start with them instead opting to burn the few US Flags they had and continue their march under foreign flags. Too much imagery already captured to turn the PR debacle around.
The Marines will be facing men who hail from the halls of Montezuma without even having to leave the country and go to Chapultepec.
Hey, Newsom. Go tell it to the Marines.
IMO, the.strategy by Trump Admin is very smart. They wild back for a couple.days allowed local and State officials the opportunity and space to solve the riots. When the local.and State leaders failed they then brought in the NG and now Marines to guard/protect Federal Property.
The NG and USMC ain’t deployed across the City. Instead they are static around Federal Property. The ‘streets’ in LA are still the responsibility of the Mayor and Gov to police. They continue to fail. Either the riotous foreign mob losses interest and stops, the locals figure out they make mass arrests, the mob gets exuberant and tries to burn the rest of LA.
IMO only in the 3rd instance should the Trump Admin step in to restore order…when it it do so or the mob burns it down. When they move it must be vigorous, sustained and overwhelming. Declare martial law from that moment until the military courts not civilian justice system is finished prosecution of the last offender. If the mob in LA keeps committing crimes then the length of martial law extends and on and on. Blockade the City of LA. Shut down seaports, airports, marinas, rail and road traffic. Nobody comes into and nobody leaves until the end of martial law.
We should just hire rooftop Korean contractors….more cost effective than active duty troops.
Based.
so if fired upon by the blmplo would they return fire? or just be sitting ducks!?
they wont open up the fire hoses b/c its to much tied to the riots where blacks ( who were in FACT wrongly being denied civil rights) were the main rioters
so ,again,,if fired upon what is the plan of action?
(cause we are almost somalia at this point)
Those 60s fire hose targets were, I have to correct you, NOT “rioters”.
MLK marchers were ACTUALLY “peaceful protestors”, not just “mostly peaceful” or “occasionally peaceful” or “almost never peaceful” like the current crowds.
The optics of videos of peaceful negro men, women, and children being attacked with billy clubs and fire hoses by “good ol’ boys” for the “crime” of peaceful assembly did more to kickstart the buy-in of the average white voter to Civil Rights legislation than any thing else going on at the time,
Even the Kennedy brothers were unwilling to “escalate the situation” in re: Civil Rights until that disgraceful series of filmed attacks forced their hands. Before then “you have to be patient” was the mantra for the non-Dixiecrat wing of the Dems – including the Brothers K.
as I noted their rights were in fact being denied
but ,,here is the catch
mlk jr actually had a different city picked for the march
but when the local sheriff and people were accommodating to mlk
he said he didnt want that scenario
so if he didnt want the peaceful protests/police accommodations then that only leads to the other possibility
that he wanted the havoc etc
so I am not above being corrected and I do appreciate your post
but my statement stands
and needless to say there were about 100 other riots with black rioters that the pd/fd used fire hoses on the rioters…but the msm will/would only pull out the mlk jr scenarios to further something closer to your post
Your implication is that only the few confrontations with cameras were peaceful, and everywhere else the UNARMED marchers attacked the ARMED police and firefighters?
Delusional, much?
The MLK marchers “provoked” violence just as much as an abused spouse “provokes” her black eyes, bruises, and broken bones.
That is, not so much.
Yes, if they slavishly (not a pun – just an apt adjective) give in to oppression they’ll likely only be abused every time the abuser(s) get liquored up and bored – that is every other day.
so when an abused male spouse is hit by a female you obviously think that she must be in the right b/c he is in charge and uch stronger than her
same way you think blacks cant be racist
DC – u r imputing facts not in evidence.
> never said “blacks can’t be racist” – that’s a foolish meme of The Left.
> never said ANY gender (or race) of abuse victim is “always asking for it”.
> will say that in the 60s and prior racism was almost entirely anti-black
That’s no longer the case obviously- now it’s equal opportunity.
> will say if u hear hoofprints it’s prob a horse and not a zebra or unicorn.
In m/f couples the more likely abuse dynamic is from m to f – that’s just the facts.
Doesn’t mean it can’t go f to m – and in m/m and f/f couples abuse isn’t unusual either. The driver doesn’t seem (imho) to be something like The Left’s silly meme that “Men are bad, mkay?” but who’s the bigger or more aggressive of the pair. You even get pairings where they both abuse each other. But – again – your implication that MLK marchers were instigating their abuse is (imho) comparable to blaming the quite common instance of an abused woman leaving her abuser (m OR f or any alphabet letter) for “instigating” the resulting murder attempt.
U.S. Marines have served honorably across multiple wars in defense of democracy. They are heroes.
They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen
They’re not.
They’re being deployed against foreign nationals –according to the Mexican president– who have invaded our country.
No need for the ‘insurrection act’ These are enemy aliens.
I’m sure there are also a bunch of domestic “useful idiots” sprinkled among the foreign nationals attacking ICE and other law enforcement enforcing the law.
After all our modern unis are now pretty much “useful idiot” factories grooming them and churning them out – Jews – and Gays and Trans-adjacent folks that march to support the lovable folks that would kill them if they lived where those folks make the rules.
Fact is the majority of legal Hispanics SUPPORT border control AND expulsion of illegal immigrants. They want to live in America, not Mexico. Heck, even the illegals agree on that last point. And – in Mexico – they enforce border control AND expulsion of illegal immigrants out of Mexico. Just, hypocritically, not for the USA.
bob m:
you stated:
But – again – your implication that MLK marchers were instigating their abuse is (imho) comparable to blaming the quite common instance of an abused woman leaving her abuser (m OR f or any alphabet letter) for “instigating” the resulting murder attempt.
you then have never heard of kamikazi’s??
people do sacrifices allll the time
and I stated a fact you did not know ( mlk CHOOSING an non hospitable place for his march as opposed to the city that was welcoming to him)
so that threw you off
Didn’t “throw me off” so much as I didn’t think I needed to address it.
If your goal is to fight X protesting where X ain’t happening or supported seem like a waste of time and effort – only thing it does is reinforce a self image of “smug better than Y” without having any skin in the game.
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