What’s Happening in L.A.?
Psychological warfare against Americans is no longer a hidden tactic—it’s unfolding in real time. As tanks roll into D.C. for a planned propaganda spectacle, and Blackhawks take to the skies over Los Angeles, a disturbing truth is revealing itself in plain view: the U.S. federal government is executing a coordinated psychological warfare campaign—against its own people.
This isn’t theory. This is not abstract. It is happening now. And it is happening by design.
One of the president’s top advisors—Stephen Miller, an unelected, unaccountable figure known for his long history of extremist rhetoric and white nationalist policy positions—is accusing the State of California of aiding and abetting “an invasion,” a word that is not casually chosen. It’s a legal trigger for a charge of treason. Miller’s role here is no accident: he has spent years shaping propaganda designed to incite fear, justify brutality, and pave the way for authoritarian control.
Meanwhile, the so‑called “Border Czar” and former head of ICE, Tom Homan, is threatening to arrest California’s governor. These are not policy disagreements. These are statements meant to justify military action against U.S. states. This is how dictatorships test the water before declaring martial law.
Los Angeles is now the testing ground.
How to Understand Psychological Warfare Against Americans
On Friday, ICE launched surprise raids throughout the city—targeted, performative, and meant to provoke. This is what’s known in military doctrine as a PSYACT, or psychological action. According to the U.S. Army’s own 2003 manual on Psychological Operations, Tactics, Techniques and Procedures, a PSYACT is:
“An operation conducted by Special Operations Forces or other agents of action, planned and conducted as part of a PSYOP supporting program… used in conjunction with other types of products to modify the behavior of a Target Audience.”
The target audience here is us. American citizens.
And the behavior they’re trying to modify? Fear. Compliance. Division.
The ICE raids were designed to outrage the city’s most vulnerable, to provoke protest, and to draw people into the streets. That reaction—peaceful protests on Friday and again Sunday—was then exploited by the federal government as the next stage in their operation. National Guard troops were deployed to Los Angeles against the will of both the mayor and the governor. It was a calculated escalation meant to trigger more chaos, to justify even more violence.
Even with all that, the protests were modest. By every measure, Sunday’s demonstrations were ranked relatively insignificant by people actually living in the city. There was no mass violence. No widespread property destruction. And yet, the images now saturating cable news and social feeds tell a different story: burning Waymo cars, a flaming dumpster, scattered flags. Cherry‑picked images, hand‑fed to propaganda networks. They’re not documenting reality. They’re manufacturing consent for military occupation.
An Australian journalist, Lauren Tomasi, was deliberately targeted and hit in the leg with a rubber bullet—caught on video—while clearly identified as press. Other reporters say they were barricaded away from the protest zone, unable to capture the full truth. I watched a video just this morning (June 10) where a CNN anchor was threatened with arrest and forced to leave the area with their “hands behind your back,” the crew being escorted out of the area one by one by the cops. This is a direct violation of the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
My media friends, when that happens, ditch the press pass and get in there with our people, or find a nearby skyscraper and make friends with the janitor and record from above. The press has every right to record the truth on the ground. It is a fundamental function of a free society. Only fasicsts want to supress the press.
This is not new. This is textbook psychological warfare. The president’s former National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn—a key architect of this strategy—released his own definition in a 2022 psychological operations playbook:
“A Psychological Action (PSYACT) is the occurrence of something that affects the Target Audience. The PSYACT and the responsive behavior create the desired psychological reaction of a Target Audience.”
That’s exactly what this is.
The “desired reaction” is different for different people: for MAGA loyalists, it’s radicalization. For everyone else, it’s fear. Fear of dissent. Fear of each other. Fear of what comes next. This is psychological warfare against Americans, carefully staged to destabilize and divide. But what they didn’t calculate is the outrage—the outrage of a people being attacked by their own government.
Tom Homan—the self‑described enforcer of “law and order” (cough, cough)—was conveniently already in Los Angeles when the raids began. He escalated immediately. Then he went on Fox News, the state’s preferred misinformation channel, to boast about how “we’re making Los Angeles safer.” But he gave away the game when he said:
“We were already mobilizing. We’re gonna bring National Guard in tonight.”
Not in response to violence. Not in coordination with local leaders. But because they had already planned this. This was never about safety. It was and is about spectacle.
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And once the operation hit the propaganda pipeline, opportunists followed. Place a few planted agitators (just like with BLM. You can find further information on this here and here), a couple of symbolic flags, and suddenly the narrative is complete: Los Angeles was “out-of-control.” Calls for federal force grew louder.
Let’s not forget the comparison: On January 6th, thousands of armed, mostly white, insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, beat police officers, erected a gallows, and called for the Vice President to be hanged. The National Guard was deliberately withheld—for three hours—because officials feared “the optics.”
Remember the Kent State University protests in 1970? The Ohio National Guard fired upon a crowd of students peacefully protesting the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, killing four and wounding nine.
This is what they want.
So when a small protest in Los Angeles turned tense instigated by their own actors, the president immediately deployed the National Guard and had his Secretary of Defense begin preparing active‑duty Marines.
Let that sink in. This is not about rule of law. This is not about peace. This is about power.
Trump has now signed a Presidential Memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. Reports from Governor Gavin Newsom suggest that Trump is attempting to federalize California’s National Guard.
Meanwhile, Trump’s media surrogates are calling for escalation. Pete Hegseth, a known propagandist, an allegedly severe alcoholic, and Trump loyalist, openly called for Marines at Camp Pendleton to be mobilized—a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
And what is Trump doing while all of this unfolds?
Not leading. Not responding. Not calming tensions. He’s being Trump, and spending an exorbitant amount of tax payer dollars while doing so.
He posted on Truth Social, then made a gleeful appearance at a UFC event alongside his wife‑beater friend Dana White and paid propagandist Joe Rogan, while his fascist regime leads the infiltratration of Los Angeles—an echo of Germany in 1933, as authoritarian forces crept through the institutions and streets.
This is the test run.
The ICE raids. The National Guard. The state controlled media spin. The manufactured chaos. The PSYACTs. This is how authoritarian regimes seize control—by turning cities into laboratories, neighbors into enemies, truth into fiction.
What makes this federal PSYACT operation even more suspect is its timing—as it seeks to deflect attention from Trump’s deepening legal entanglements and scandals. Let’s recount just a few: He’s now a 34-count convicted felon, found guilty in New York of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments—marking the first criminal conviction of a former U.S. president, and the first sitting president to govern (and I use that term lightly) as a convicted felon.
He was also held liable in E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuits, with juries awarding her a combined $88.3 million—$5 million in the first verdict for sexual abuse and defamation, and an additional $83.3 million in a second defamation trial in January 2024.
Although no criminal charges have been brought against him in connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s name appears in Epstein’s flight logs and contact lists, and he was directly accused in a 2016 civil lawsuit filed under the pseudonym “Katie Johnson,” who alleged rape when she was 13 years old. She also named another young girl, a 12-year-old, in the suit.
“Defendant Trump forced Plaintiff and a 12-year-old female named Maria to engage in sexual acts with each other and with him.”
That lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff days before the 2016 election, after she canceled a press conference citing threats to her safety, and her attorney confirmed she had received “numerous threats.”
Trump has also issued a stream of constitutionally dubious executive orders throughout both terms in office, and has continuously made public threats against members of Congress, warning of retaliation if they voted against his policies.
“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
Trump also publicly threatened Supreme Court justices and the broader judiciary. In May 2025, he criticized what he called the Supreme Court “playing the ref” on Truth Social, suggesting it would be “illegal” for justices to rule against him—and warning that “the people are with us.” For the record, it is not illegal for SCOTUS to rule against Trump or any sitting U.S. president. Our presidents are not kings, nor are they above the law. And no, the majority of the people are in fact not with him.
This escalating spectacle of military force, public feuds, and PSYACT operations isn’t governance—it’s a calculated distraction from Trump’s status as a convicted felon, a twice-liable sexual abuser, a named figure in rape allegations (against children), and a man actively threatening Congress and the courts to cling to power.
But make no mistake: the end goal here is a full-on dictatorship. And the very public feud with Elon Musk? It may not be what it seems. Is it just another distraction from Trump’s criminal convictions and authoritarian maneuvers—or is it a crack in the alliance between two competing factions of fascist power?
On one side, Trump and his allies are pushing Christian nationalism, using psychological operations and street-level militarization to build a theocratic, authoritarian state. On the other, Musk and the tech oligarchs including Peter Theil, Mark Andreessen, Curtis Yarvin with Zuck, Bezos, and Pichai thrown in for measure, are driving toward a vision of techno-feudalism—an unelected world order ruled by billionaires and algorithmic control, with Trump being replaced by their puppet JD Vance. (Read our article on this here). They’re not enemies of authoritarianism. They just want different flavors of it.
Trump has now turned on Musk—threatening to cut off federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX—while Musk has responded by attacking Trump’s legislative proposals and openly musing about impeachment. He also publically states through a tweet that he is directly responsible for getting Trump elected.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”
Is this another of Musk’s admissions to the mounting evidence that the 2024 election was manipulated in favor of Trump?
SMART Legislation, an arm of SMART Elections, has filed suit in Rockland County, New York demanding hand recounts of ballots in the 2024 presidential election and senate race due to evidence of vote manipulation they’ve uncovered.
“A legal challenge has been launched… calling for a comprehensive hand recount of ballots specifically for the presidential and U.S. Senate races.”
In addition to this, the Election Truth Alliance has submitted various official documents and press releases regarding their data analysis and requests for hand audits. Their data analysis has uncovered a plethora of potential vote manipulation in several states. You can also read our coverage on these findings in Pennyslvania 2024 Election Audit Report, and Vote Manipulation in the 2024 Presidential Eleciton. I’ve also interview Nathan Taylor from Election Truth Alliance and the video podcast will be up on our YouTube channel soon.
So the questions to ask are these: Is Donald Trump the useful idiot in a larger scheme of oligarchic consolidation? Or is this a genuine power struggle between two authoritarian visions for the future?
For Trump, the goal is increasingly clear—invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying military force to centralize power. For the tech bros, the ambition is techno-feudalism governed through AI—an unelected, algorithmic chokehold over society.
Regardless of which angle they are playing. Let me be clear: this is an act of war on the American people.
The people of Los Angeles are not the enemy. Nor are the people of California, the peaceful protesters in any city, or immigrants seeking a better life from destabilized countries that we helped destabilize.
The LAPD, to their credit, issued a press release recognizing the peaceful nature of the protests and stating clearly that they are “prepared to respond to unrest”—but implying the federal military presence is not necessary and not welcome.
Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta have filed a federal lawsuit against President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They argue the federalization of California’s Guard and deployment of active-duty Marines are unconstitutional overreaches under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the California Constitution.
This is how the resistance starts.
Not with violence. Not with panic. But with calm, deliberate refusal.
Do not panic, my fellow Americans. Do not react the way they want. That’s the trap. This entire operation is built on provoking fear and then using that fear to justify authoritarianism. Don’t give them what they want.
We are witnessing the slow‑motion staging of a dictatorship through manipulation.
This is not a drill.
If you’re wondering what to do, remember this: Truth is a form of resistance. Community is a form of resistance. Come together as a community where you are and support each other, build mutual aid, resist together. Noncompliance with illegitimate authority is a form of resistance. So Resist!
Staying grounded in reality, despite their efforts to distort it, is a revolutionary act. And remember this. Make it your mantra.
Without our participation, they are nothing.
If you would like to build mutual aid in your area, you can find resources through Mutual Aid Hub and General Strike US. When you go to General Strike, you can join their Discord server and connect with others organizing in your state and area. If you are in Michigan, you can go to General Strike Michigan and connect there. Together, we have all the power we need to push them out and build a true democracy, one that works for everyone.