FIESTA IN LA ☙ Monday, June 9, 2025

It’s like giving a kid matches for his birthday, then paying the fire department overtime when he torches the garage.

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By Jeff Childers
June 09.25

The “Summer of Protest 2025” has officially begun, and if it feels like a sequel, that’s because it is — same script, same chaos, new season. The Wall Street Journal ran one of yesterday’s many stories headlined, “L.A. Protests Stretch Into Third Night After Chaotic Sunday.” Let’s play connect the dots.

On the Lord’s Day yesterday, “peaceful protesters” summoned fleets of confused, driverless Waymos, which they converted into self-driving Molotovs — a use case the engineers never beta tested. Hopefully, the Waymo Corporation has good insurance. Thousands more angry activists launched fireworks at police, threw furniture off overpasses at cop cars, pickaxed chunks of concrete off federal buildings to chuck at law enforcement, and generally made obnoxious nuisances of themselves.

For fairness

It remained a mystery why the combatants proudly carried flags from their home countries while (allegedly) protesting anyone being deported back to those dangerous hellholes. If your homeland is a flaming trash pile worth fleeing, maybe don’t wave its flag like a tailgate banner while you riot to avoid going back. It sends mixed signals.

So what’s really going on?

Let’s follow the money!

🔥 According to a recent New York Post story, one of the ‘LA protest’s’ leading organizers is an NGO called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). The story reported (while hat-tipping DataRepublican—go, girl!) that —get this— CHIRLA’s annual $34 million budget is nearly completely funded by … the State of California.

Congratulations, Californians! Your tax dollars, hard at work

And because insanity is a growth industry, California increased CHIRLA’s budget by $12 million this year — a 50% raise for lighting things on fire. Between October 2021 and September 2024, CHIRLA also got about half a million federal tax dollars from DHS grants, which thank DOGE were cut off in March (and about $100K was clawed back).

It’s like giving a kid matches for his birthday, then paying the fire department overtime when he torches the garage.

How on Earth does it make sense to pay radical protest groups to put on protests and then pay for law enforcement response to, and subsequent healthcare from, the same riots those activists were paid to stage?

More broadly

Americans are paying NGOs to settle illegals here, then paying ICE to deport them. Make it make sense.

The Post’s story also found groups funded by the Chinese CCP and locally-grown communists. Weird. It’s kind of like a progressive “all hands on deck” moment. Besides organic outrage over deporting a few criminal illegal aliens, what else could be behind this?

Just over a week ago —days before the LA riots began— an immigration story quietly broke all over the world, especially in countries supplying most of our illegals. You never heard about a teeny-tiny provision buried in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, but the short paragraph made Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum denounce the United States in a fiery tirade that Evita Perón would have loved. She promptly shipped a team of diplomats to DC (with tacos), to lobby the Senate to stop the bill— a panicked response that the oddly named president never even tried during the tariffs crisis.

Days later, the riots started. What was in the bill that so inflamed Claudia’s Latin temper? Our useless corporate media never mentioned it, and we’ll get back to that absurd silence soon, believe that.

Prepare for a little wonkiness

Buried deep in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill — in a footnote somewhere between fencing specs and visa quotas — was a real bombshell: a modest 5% tax on remittances, i.e., money shipped out of the U.S. by non-citizens.

In political terms, it was like taxing oxygen.

Denouncing the proposed remittance tax as “unacceptable,” Sheinbaum yelled, "If necessary, we will mobilize! We do not want taxes on remittances from our compatriots!”

Expansión reported that remittances from the United States are one of Mexico’s largest single income sources, more than cars, food, or oil. In 2024, the total swelled to $64.7 billion— 3.5% of Mexico’s entire GDP. That’s just Mexico. Remittances to India exceeds $165 billion.

For context, in both cases (Mexico and India), the amount of remittance revenue exceeds those nations’ entire trade surplus with the US.

It is always about the money

Take a good look at this chart from the Inter-American Development Bank. In 2023 alone, over $155 billion was wired from the U.S. to Latin America and the Caribbean alone — a 9.5% spike from the year before. Mexico hoovered up $64 billion of it — more than the GDP of some small countries. Guatemala pulled in nearly $20 billion. Colombia and the Dominican Republic each got over $10 billion.

These aren’t pocket-change wire transfers to Grandma. Live links and more at https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/fiesta-in-la-monday-june-9-2025-c

It’s more than just about money

It’s about humans acknowledging deception, betrayal, collusion, corruption, propaganda and withdrawing consent that sustains the status quo.

Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
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