June 9, 2025 • 11 mins
What do you call it when the President sends military troops into Los Angeles without the governor’s request, then unleashes ICE on peaceful communities under the guise of "order"? We call it Pride, and not the good kind.
In this week’s Mindf*ck Monday, I’m breaking down the Title 10 maneuver Trump used to override state control, why the National Guard showed up in LA without warning, and how ICE raids and suspicious fires became part of a bigger playbook of fear and federal force.
This is not law and order.
This is control, masked as safety, wrapped in a lie.
We are talking ICE, LA, militarization, media manipulation, and the deadly sin that keeps showing up in politics: Pride.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, just for a minute, let's break this down in
real human terms.
At some point, a person, just aregular human being, decided to
draw a line in the sand and saythis is mine, that's yours.
If you cross it, I can arrestyou, deport you or kill you.
(00:23):
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
And now we call that a border,we treat it like gospel, we tear
families apart over it, and Iwas feeling emotional and
(00:46):
decided to write that all outinto a Facebook post and, of
course, crickets Nothing,because you know, I'm in Texas
and well, we have very differentviews.
A lot of my family and oldfriends still watch Fox News and
get uncomfortable when I saysomething that sounds real or
(01:07):
liberal.
Yeah, I know, but I felt theneed to post it anyway.
I'm getting stronger, I'm kindof proud of myself, because they
need to see it, they need tofeel it, and maybe that's why I
felt the need to post it,Because this moment is not about
politics, it's about humanity.
(01:28):
So I took that same post and Iput it on TikTok, where, of
course, I'm going to get alittle bit more traction.
And TikTok did not stay quietlike at all.
It's almost at like 15,000views right now and I just
posted it last night.
So it's doing well and it'sonly words.
I just copied it into a postform and put music to it and put
(01:51):
it on my TikTok, I think.
Let me see right now where it'sat.
It's got almost 400 likes, 30comments, 40 saves and shares.
I noticed that people wanted tohold on to that truth and
people wanted to also fight it,which is very common.
The divide is getting bigger,it's just true.
(02:13):
But that post wasn't random.
It was sparked by somethingreal, something real urgent.
If you watch the news, this maynot be the first post that
you're seeing on what happenedin LA.
But I'm going to break it downbecause I was watching live on
TikTok when all this went down.
I was not watching mainstreammedia and I want that point to
(02:33):
be very, very clear when I gothrough what happened.
Ok, this week ICE showed up at aHome Depot in Los Angeles.
I saw footage of the ICE agentstaking boxes of ammunition out
of a vehicle, massive amounts ofboxes.
They were preparing to reallymake a statement.
(02:56):
They didn't come quietly.
They came with riot gear vans,tactical units and, yes, live
ammunition.
At the same time, fires brokeout, a car exploded, shopping
carts were lit on fire and thereports they're not saying that
the fires were not started byprotesters.
That is a really importantpoint to note.
(03:18):
So when you get gaslit becauseyou already know, if you follow
me, because I explain what thatwhole political gaslighting is
about If you get gaslit, no, no,let me be clear.
The protesters did not startany fire.
They were peacefully protesting, all right.
The fires were started by ICEand federal agents themselves.
(03:41):
Why?
Because chaos creates cover.
If it looks like a riot, theycan justify a crackdown.
And guess what came next?
Donald Trump signed an orderdeploying 2,000 soldiers from
the National Guard troops to LosAngeles.
Gavin Newsom, their governor,confirmed it publicly.
(04:03):
He did not ask for this.
Governor Gavin Newsom did notrequest the National Guard.
Trump unilaterally deployed thetroops to Los Angeles under
federal control.
Newsom confirmed the deploymentpublicly, but made it clear he
did not authorize it and calledthe move inflammatory and
(04:24):
dangerous.
This bypassed traditionalprotocol and escalated the
presence of federal forces in away that many are calling
authoritarian.
Why this matters?
When the federal governmentdeploys the guard without state
consent can undermine localauthority, escalate tensions
instead of resolving them, whichit's starting to do, be used as
(04:47):
a tool of intimidation insteadof protection.
All right, I needed to clarifythat before we move any further
here.
This wasn't about safety.
This was about flexing power,and my little conspiracy self
thinks that they were alreadywaiting for this.
They were hoping for it.
They were actually freaking,drooling over it.
So when it happened, they werelike done Anyway, anyway,
(05:10):
federal agents were already inplace.
They were waiting for them toreact.
They were waiting for thepeople to get loud so they could
say see, this is why we needtroops in the streets.
That's not public safety,that's a setup.
Now here's the part that hit methe hardest this week and I
cannot believe I didn't fullyrealize it before.
Let's talk about this word expat.
(05:32):
If a white American decides toretire in Mexico or start a yoga
retreat in Bali, we call theman expat, short for expatriate.
It sounds fancy, elite, likethey're worldly and adventurous,
but when a Mexican familycrosses the US border looking
for safety or a job, we callthem an illegal immigrant or,
(05:54):
worse, just illegals.
Same action, moving from onecountry to another, totally
different language, totallydifferent treatment.
Why?
Because race and privilegedetermine the story.
We don't question the whitepeople moving abroad.
We build cages for brown onestrying to survive.
(06:15):
Nobody's showing up at anexpat's house with ice agents
and smoke bombs.
Nobody's ripping a whitetourist out of a Home Depot and
throwing them in a van, but wedo it to undocumented workers
every single day.
We've been trained to believethat one type of person deserves
freedom and the other doesn't,and you guys know I talk about
(06:39):
this stuff every day, and even Ihadn't connected the dots this
clearly until this week.
So if this is new to you toogood, that means you're learning
.
That means you're waking up.
Let's stay here, let's getdeeper.
So, okay, back to the post.
I shared all of this on TikTokand the reaction was huge.
(07:01):
Some people said well, bordersare real, sovereign nations
exist.
This is just the way the worldworks.
Let me say this yes, bordersare real today, but someone
still made them up.
They're not natural.
They were created just likeevery system that's ever been
(07:21):
used to control people.
We used to think slavery wasjust how things worked.
We used to say women shouldn'tvote, because that's the law.
Existing doesn't mean equaljustice.
Then someone commented Ishouldn't have to pay taxes to
support someone else's family.
Okay, but you already do youpay taxes that fund
(07:45):
billion-dollar militarycontracts, tax breaks for
billionaires and bailouts formassive corporations?
Nobody gets mad about that.
But the second it's a poorbrown family trying to eat.
Now it's an outrage.
Let me remind you, undocumentedmigrants pay taxes.
They pay sales tax, they payproperty tax and, yes, even if
(08:10):
they pay rent, many of them paytaxes without getting the
benefits no Social Security, noMedicaid, no government handouts
.
They're literally funding ourbenefits and getting nothing in
return.
I think we make out better inthis scenario.
What are you not seeing?
(08:30):
Then somebody else said theybroke the law period.
Let me tell you what else usedto be against the law.
Okay, rosa Parks refusing togive up her seat.
Harriet Tubman leading people tofreedom.
Women voting before 1920.
Being queer in public, lovingsomeone of another race.
(08:54):
The law is not morality.
The law has always been used toprotect power.
Another person tried to clapback with if we don't have
borders, we'd have no rules andno order.
Look, nobody's saying weshouldn't have communities.
What I'm saying is we've takensomething made up like lines
(09:17):
drawn in the dirt and turned itinto justification for cruelty.
We're criminalizing need, we'repushing survival.
This isn't about law, it's aboutpower.
It's about control and it'sabout whose life we think
matters and whose doesn't.
(09:38):
Let's take away the politicsfor a second.
Okay, let's strip off the mediaspin and the legal jargon.
We're talking about peoplemothers, fathers, kids,
co-workers, fathers, kids,co-workers, neighbors.
People who bleed like you, lovelike you and fear like you.
(09:58):
We are rounding them up,tearing them from their families
, sending them back to placesthey fled for a reason, and
calling ourselves the land ofthe free.
No, that isn't freedom.
This is fear dressed up aspolicy.
This is racism wrapped inpaperwork.
(10:23):
If you made it this far, thankyou.
I hope this woke something up.
In the same way, it wokesomething up for me, because
we're living through somethingterrifying and also something
powerful.
People are rising up, peopleare paying attention and once
you see the truth, you can'tunsee it.
(10:44):
No one is illegal on stolenground.
No one deserves a cage forseeking safety, and if ICE is
out here starting fires and thegovernment is sending in the
military, we don't have animmigration crisis.
We have a humanity crisis.
If this episode meant somethingto you, share it, talk about it
(11:09):
with your family, even the oneswho don't get it yet.
Tag someone, send it to someonewho still says illegal like
it's a punchline.
Follow me on YouTube and TikTokunder Sassy Politics, and also
I recently started a sub stackunder Christy Chanel.
So if you want to help me builda real movement, email me.
(11:31):
We're just getting startedbecause the voices are getting
louder, and so is mine.
Love you, miss you, bye you.
Okay, just for a minute, let's break this down in
real human terms.
At some point, a person, just aregular human being, decided to
draw a line in the sand and saythis is mine, that's yours.
If you cross it, I can arrestyou, deport you or kill you.
(00:23):
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.
And now we call that a border,we treat it like gospel, we tear
families apart over it, and Iwas feeling emotional and
(00:46):
decided to write that all outinto a Facebook post and, of
course, crickets Nothing,because you know, I'm in Texas
and well, we have very differentviews.
A lot of my family and oldfriends still watch Fox News and
get uncomfortable when I saysomething that sounds real or
(01:07):
liberal.
Yeah, I know, but I felt theneed to post it anyway.
I'm getting stronger, I'm kindof proud of myself, because they
need to see it, they need tofeel it, and maybe that's why I
felt the need to post it,Because this moment is not about
politics, it's about humanity.
(01:28):
So I took that same post and Iput it on TikTok, where, of
course, I'm going to get alittle bit more traction.
And TikTok did not stay quietlike at all.
It's almost at like 15,000views right now and I just
posted it last night.
So it's doing well and it'sonly words.
I just copied it into a postform and put music to it and put
(01:51):
it on my TikTok, I think.
Let me see right now where it'sat.
It's got almost 400 likes, 30comments, 40 saves and shares.
I noticed that people wanted tohold on to that truth and
people wanted to also fight it,which is very common.
The divide is getting bigger,it's just true.
(02:13):
But that post wasn't random.
It was sparked by somethingreal, something real urgent.
If you watch the news, this maynot be the first post that
you're seeing on what happenedin LA.
But I'm going to break it downbecause I was watching live on
TikTok when all this went down.
I was not watching mainstreammedia and I want that point to
(02:33):
be very, very clear when I gothrough what happened.
Ok, this week ICE showed up at aHome Depot in Los Angeles.
I saw footage of the ICE agentstaking boxes of ammunition out
of a vehicle, massive amounts ofboxes.
They were preparing to reallymake a statement.
(02:56):
They didn't come quietly.
They came with riot gear vans,tactical units and, yes, live
ammunition.
At the same time, fires brokeout, a car exploded, shopping
carts were lit on fire and thereports they're not saying that
the fires were not started byprotesters.
That is a really importantpoint to note.
(03:18):
So when you get gaslit becauseyou already know, if you follow
me, because I explain what thatwhole political gaslighting is
about If you get gaslit, no, no,let me be clear.
The protesters did not startany fire.
They were peacefully protesting, all right.
The fires were started by ICEand federal agents themselves.
(03:41):
Why?
Because chaos creates cover.
If it looks like a riot, theycan justify a crackdown.
And guess what came next?
Donald Trump signed an orderdeploying 2,000 soldiers from
the National Guard troops to LosAngeles.
Gavin Newsom, their governor,confirmed it publicly.
(04:03):
He did not ask for this.
Governor Gavin Newsom did notrequest the National Guard.
Trump unilaterally deployed thetroops to Los Angeles under
federal control.
Newsom confirmed the deploymentpublicly, but made it clear he
did not authorize it and calledthe move inflammatory and
(04:24):
dangerous.
This bypassed traditionalprotocol and escalated the
presence of federal forces in away that many are calling
authoritarian.
Why this matters?
When the federal governmentdeploys the guard without state
consent can undermine localauthority, escalate tensions
instead of resolving them, whichit's starting to do, be used as
(04:47):
a tool of intimidation insteadof protection.
All right, I needed to clarifythat before we move any further
here.
This wasn't about safety.
This was about flexing power,and my little conspiracy self
thinks that they were alreadywaiting for this.
They were hoping for it.
They were actually freaking,drooling over it.
So when it happened, they werelike done Anyway, anyway,
(05:10):
federal agents were already inplace.
They were waiting for them toreact.
They were waiting for thepeople to get loud so they could
say see, this is why we needtroops in the streets.
That's not public safety,that's a setup.
Now here's the part that hit methe hardest this week and I
cannot believe I didn't fullyrealize it before.
Let's talk about this word expat.
(05:32):
If a white American decides toretire in Mexico or start a yoga
retreat in Bali, we call theman expat, short for expatriate.
It sounds fancy, elite, likethey're worldly and adventurous,
but when a Mexican familycrosses the US border looking
for safety or a job, we callthem an illegal immigrant or,
(05:54):
worse, just illegals.
Same action, moving from onecountry to another, totally
different language, totallydifferent treatment.
Why?
Because race and privilegedetermine the story.
We don't question the whitepeople moving abroad.
We build cages for brown onestrying to survive.
(06:15):
Nobody's showing up at anexpat's house with ice agents
and smoke bombs.
Nobody's ripping a whitetourist out of a Home Depot and
throwing them in a van, but wedo it to undocumented workers
every single day.
We've been trained to believethat one type of person deserves
freedom and the other doesn't,and you guys know I talk about
(06:39):
this stuff every day, and even Ihadn't connected the dots this
clearly until this week.
So if this is new to you toogood, that means you're learning
.
That means you're waking up.
Let's stay here, let's getdeeper.
So, okay, back to the post.
I shared all of this on TikTokand the reaction was huge.
(07:01):
Some people said well, bordersare real, sovereign nations
exist.
This is just the way the worldworks.
Let me say this yes, bordersare real today, but someone
still made them up.
They're not natural.
They were created just likeevery system that's ever been
(07:21):
used to control people.
We used to think slavery wasjust how things worked.
We used to say women shouldn'tvote, because that's the law.
Existing doesn't mean equaljustice.
Then someone commented Ishouldn't have to pay taxes to
support someone else's family.
Okay, but you already do youpay taxes that fund
(07:45):
billion-dollar militarycontracts, tax breaks for
billionaires and bailouts formassive corporations?
Nobody gets mad about that.
But the second it's a poorbrown family trying to eat.
Now it's an outrage.
Let me remind you, undocumentedmigrants pay taxes.
They pay sales tax, they payproperty tax and, yes, even if
(08:10):
they pay rent, many of them paytaxes without getting the
benefits no Social Security, noMedicaid, no government handouts
.
They're literally funding ourbenefits and getting nothing in
return.
I think we make out better inthis scenario.
What are you not seeing?
(08:30):
Then somebody else said theybroke the law period.
Let me tell you what else usedto be against the law.
Okay, rosa Parks refusing togive up her seat.
Harriet Tubman leading people tofreedom.
Women voting before 1920.
Being queer in public, lovingsomeone of another race.
(08:54):
The law is not morality.
The law has always been used toprotect power.
Another person tried to clapback with if we don't have
borders, we'd have no rules andno order.
Look, nobody's saying weshouldn't have communities.
What I'm saying is we've takensomething made up like lines
(09:17):
drawn in the dirt and turned itinto justification for cruelty.
We're criminalizing need, we'repushing survival.
This isn't about law, it's aboutpower.
It's about control and it'sabout whose life we think
matters and whose doesn't.
(09:38):
Let's take away the politicsfor a second.
Okay, let's strip off the mediaspin and the legal jargon.
We're talking about peoplemothers, fathers, kids,
co-workers, fathers, kids,co-workers, neighbors.
People who bleed like you, lovelike you and fear like you.
(09:58):
We are rounding them up,tearing them from their families
, sending them back to placesthey fled for a reason, and
calling ourselves the land ofthe free.
No, that isn't freedom.
This is fear dressed up aspolicy.
This is racism wrapped inpaperwork.
(10:23):
If you made it this far, thankyou.
I hope this woke something up.
In the same way, it wokesomething up for me, because
we're living through somethingterrifying and also something
powerful.
People are rising up, peopleare paying attention and once
you see the truth, you can'tunsee it.
(10:44):
No one is illegal on stolenground.
No one deserves a cage forseeking safety, and if ICE is
out here starting fires and thegovernment is sending in the
military, we don't have animmigration crisis.
We have a humanity crisis.
If this episode meant somethingto you, share it, talk about it
(11:09):
with your family, even the oneswho don't get it yet.
Tag someone, send it to someonewho still says illegal like
it's a punchline.
Follow me on YouTube and TikTokunder Sassy Politics, and also
I recently started a sub stackunder Christy Chanel.
So if you want to help me builda real movement, email me.
(11:31):
We're just getting startedbecause the voices are getting
louder, and so is mine.
Love you, miss you, bye you.
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