🖕HEY ASSHOLES—LEAVE L.A. ALONE.🖕

Welcome to the Resistance Dispatch: Sarcasm, Truth, and a Dash of Fury

Hey ASSHOLES—yeah, I’m talking to YOU.

The ones trying to torch Los Angeles—not literally, but politically, socially, and culturally.

Let’s be clear. There’s a long line of assholes forming around this. First in line? The Trump administration. Right behind them? Every chaos tourist, keyboard warrior, and law-and-order cosplay fanatic who suddenly gives a damn about “violence” when it happens in a blue city—but had nothing but admiration for January 6th cosplay insurrectionists and flag-humping traitors. Spare us your concern. Seriously.

If you’re showing up in LA this week—on the streets, on the airwaves, or on the internet—and your goal is anything but peaceful protest and community solidarity, pack it the hell up and go back to your MAGA bunker. LA doesn’t need your fake patriotism, your selective outrage, or your fascist cosplay boots marching around pretending this is 1933 Berlin.

Let’s take a moment to remember what Los Angeles actually is. Not just smog and celebrities and traffic (although, sure, they’ve got all that). LA is where immigrants built communities. Where Black and Brown voices became culture. Where Asian Americans transformed neighborhoods into living resistance stories. Where queer and trans artists turned rejection into revolution. It’s not a perfect city—no one’s claiming that—but it’s a diverse, defiant, resilient city that reflects the actual America Trump and his cronies pretend doesn’t exist.

Trump and his goons love to paint cities like LA as “lawless hellscapes.” But that’s just projection from a party that oversaw the greatest domestic terror incident since 9/11 and called it a “beautiful day.” The guy who unleashed the National Guard on peaceful protesters so he could do a Bible cosplay photo op is now wagging his orange finger at Los Angeles? Sit the hell down.

Let’s get into some L.A. history for the folks at home, especially those who think culture starts and ends with Cracker Barrel and Duck Dynasty reruns.

💥 A QUICK (AND PROUD) HISTORY OF LA

• 1781: Founded by 44 settlers—two-thirds of them people of color. Boom. Diversity at day one.
• Early 20th Century: LA becomes a refuge for African Americans fleeing Jim Crow South. The Great Migration didn’t stop at Chicago.
• 1940s-50s: Japanese Americans who survived internment camps (yes, America did that) rebuilt their lives in LA.
• 1960s-70s: Chicano activists sparked the East LA walkouts and the Chicano Moratorium. Don’t know about that? Google it, patriot.
• 1992: The Rodney King uprising. Don’t tell LA about injustice—we’ve been living with it and fighting it for decades.
• Today: LA is nearly 50% Latino, with vibrant Korean, Armenian, Iranian, Filipino, Chinese, Ethiopian, and Salvadoran communities. It’s a living mosaic, not a monolith.

So when white-bread grifters from MAGA-Land show up, pretend to care about “American values,” and act like they’re saving LA from themselves? The irony could power all of Skid Row with renewable bullshit energy for a decade.

🧠 TO THE MEDIA—STOP PARROTING BULLSHIT

Mainstream media, stop acting shocked when LA protests attract “agitators.” That’s like being shocked when a Trump rally attracts white nationalists. It’s part of the package.

Let’s be clear: not everyone protesting in LA is part of the problem. But the ones showing up looking to break windows, provoke cops, and then pose for Tucker Carlson’s next “America Is Burning” segment? Yeah—those people are assholes too.

Stop giving air time to bootlicking Congressmen who’ve never set foot in South Central but are suddenly “deeply concerned” about violence. Where was that concern when kids were locked in cages? When your party tried to overturn an election? When women were stripped of rights? When LGBTQ youth were targeted by policy after policy?

You don’t get to cherry-pick your outrage. We see through it.

🔥 IF YOU’RE GOING TO PROTEST, DO IT RIGHT.

LA is a city of art, resistance, and soul. If you’re heading to the protests, bring your voice, your spirit, and your humanity. Not your performative rage, your TikTok clout-chasing, or your tactical vest from Amazon.

Don’t give the fascists the footage they want. They’re counting on a few broken windows to justify tanks in the streets. Don’t hand it to them. Instead, hand them something they fear more: a peaceful, powerful, unified, diverse uprising that doesn’t blink, back down, or burn out.

Because you know what MAGA can’t handle? When we don’t punch down. When we don’t self-destruct. When we don’t turn on each other.

What they really fear is that we’ll rise up together—queer, Black, Brown, immigrant, union worker, teacher, street medic, artist, and abuela—and show them the America they’ve tried to erase. The one that’s still here. Still loud. Still not buying their bullshit.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION:

1. Protect LA. Support peaceful protest. Expose infiltrators. Don’t be a prop in someone else’s propaganda.
2. Flood social media with images of unity, not destruction. Take their narrative and drown it.
3. Call out disinfo. Trolls are everywhere—so be louder, sharper, and more relentless with the truth.
4. Support local orgs helping unhoused neighbors, immigrants, and protest defense funds.
5. VOTE, VOLUNTEER, ORGANIZE. Because what they fear more than Molotov cocktails is a well-organized democracy.

And to the assholes still reading this with clenched cheeks and MAGA tears in your eyes?

They’re not going anywhere.

Not from LA.

Not from this fight.

And not from your nightmares of a diverse, inclusive America.

Buckle up, buttercup.

Julie Bolejack, MBA

No Kings. No Tyrants. No Bullshit.