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Agreed... two other things to consider as to why what Newsom is doing is effective: Trump isn't getting any younger, the contrast between the two is noticable. Including in energy levels (often the thing that the media uses to excuse concerns about Trump's age) Trump is a narcissist (not a clinical diagnosis, but clear from his personality); the best way to cut people like that down to size is through ridicule. I still can't stand the guy, but he's threaded the needle of expressing the seriousness of the situation while ridiculing Trump (and his subordinates) in a way that no D has so far. I have to credit him for that.

Miller is doing what Miller wants. Trump, given his statements yesterday about farm and hospitality labor, appears to have zero clue what he wants and is just coasting. Ultimately Trump bears the responsibility for what happens in his administration, but I don't think he's fully there TBH.

I'd go a step further to say that it isn't clear that even has much day-to-day control of his administration. On immigration in particular, seems pretty clear that Stephen Miller is the one calling the shots

I honestly don't know that they wanted Netanyahu to go in here, but it really doesn't matter. He was going in regardless, and all this supposed influence that he has is about as real was one of his Trump University diplomas

I continue to wonder, for all the authoritarianism, what exactly the payoff is supposed to be. Even his supplicant leaders don't give a crap about his influence

He told to leave? I didn't hear that. Hell, rewatching the video, I'm not sure more than six seconds lapsed from the moment he started speaking to federal officers laying hands on him. Seems pretty clear to me that federal officers escalated this situation and deserve the brunt of the blame. Says the guy saying that a federally elected representative from California, and someone who was born, raised and lived in Los Angeles, who dared to ask a question of an unelected federal bureaucrat who is carrying out a policy that his constituents largely detest, is the real bad guy here.

As much as we revere MLK today, a lot of what he did at the time was decried as being provocative and counterproductive. When I see people rant about "political stunts", that's what my mind goes to.

He was allowed to be in that room, yes. I also truly believe what I am saying and don't need you to condescend to me about how "stubborn" I am

It gave him the power to be in that building today. And in that room today. So yeah, being a Senator does give you abilities that a normal person doesn't have. Same goes for GOP members as well

Oh wow, a staffer of his had a smartphone in year of our Lord 2025 Scandalous

I've felt this for a long time, but the successes he has had say way more about Americans collectively than they say about him.

I don't know it actually... I've never *ever* seen a sitting US Senator or Cabinet Member get tossed like this. Furthermore, regardless of what they say, they *knew* who he was. And it was *they* who lost their poise (purposely or otherwise) to assault the Senator. Don't make excuses for the DHS Secretary

Thugs, all of them

What a moron

I'm assuming that LA Sports teams winning a title cause more property damage (Kings included lol)

Does the President understand what is happening in his own administration?

There's been a lot of conventional wisdom out there in pundit-world about this conflagration in LA being good for Trump in a purely political sense, but the three public polls released since this has started (YouGov, Quinnipiac, WaPo) have all showed him dropping underwater on his overall immigration policy. One blind spot for the purveyors of this conventional wisdom IMO is that they are ignoring that so much of Trump's gains in the electorate came from Latino voters. Many of whom likely voted for him in spite of, not because of, his immigration policy. Something to monitor going forward....

He's demonstrating that the best way to go after Trump is with ridicule.... which is easier said than done given the proclivity of the anti-Trump opposition (both Dems and anti-Trump Rs) to doom all the time.

A big example of why it's pointless to ever apologize or back down to any of their pressure. They themselves don't believe any of it

That's funny coming from him given how incoherent his logic sounds anytime he discusses policy on the Sunday shows lol

Citizens of the UK and France?

Somebody alert Jake Tapper...

I wouldn't underestimate the suburbanites who are reacting to the changing demographics of their neighborhoods.... they are out there, saw it quite a bit when I lived in DFW in particular (which has a lot of immigrants)