State of Monday: WELCOME TO THE PRE-APOCALYPSE
Let’s check in on Los Angeles, shall we?
Greetings, Dear Reader,
It’s Monday, so naturally I’m already in fifth gear.
Let’s get to it.
WELCOME TO THE PRE-APOCALYPSE
Few things signal the health of a society better than how it cares for women and children.
Let’s check in on Los Angeles, shall we?
New York Times Magazine is out with a long story about “The Blade,” a strip in LA known for child sex trafficking and prostitution. The reporter on the story, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, focuses her profile on the street itself, an LAPD vice officer and a 19-year-old girl named “Ana” who has been working the street since she was 15.
“She knew which motels had rooms set aside for just this purpose,” Nunn writes, “which schools and businesses didn’t padlock their parking lots at night.”
School parking lots in LA are routinely used for tricks.
The story is only hours old and has prompted all sorts of reactions on social media. Some are calling for Trump to “invade” LA with the National Guard. Some are calling for Gov. Gavin Newsom himself to deploy them.
Trouble is, Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass are as much to blame for the explosion of trafficking as the pimps and players enslaving children. First, you’ve got sanctuary status in California and LA, driving human trafficking numbers ever skyward. Remember Joe Biden’s admin losing 233,000 illegal alien minors?
How many of them ended up working the Blade?
Hard to find out because following the death of His Holiest George Floyd, Saint of Productivity, Bass cut the LAPD’s budget.
“In 2021, the Police Department’s central human-trafficking unit was disbanded following budget cuts,” Nunn writes.
Not woke enough, apparently. Next, Newsom repealed a law allowing police officers to interdict obvious street trafficking. They called it “SB 357” and the explicit intent was to prevent cops from “profiling black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed.”
And how are they dressing? The story pinging around social media turned me toward a YouTube page that’s been posting videos of the Blade since 2023. It’s called “Los Angeles Hoods,” and it has nearly a million subscribers.
All it posts are videos of women walking the streets in lingerie, sometimes just flat-out G-strings and thigh-highs, in broad daylight. Hours and hours of footage. The streets are disgusting and run-down, the buildings unkempt. It’s decay for all to see, unchecked and spreading. The only thing that appears modern and clean are the cars lining the streets.
As if we need more signs, the YouTube channel even sells “LA hood” swag.
From the NYT (emphases mine):
The Blade was an eight-minute drive from the University of Southern California, and yet another universe. Parents pushed strollers past the trafficked girls as they took their own children to school. Amid boarded-up storefronts were a few that catered specifically to the trade: a smoke shop with the banner “free Magnum condom with any purchase” and a lingerie store named — in cursive — Sluts. Figueroa seemed to be the one street in all of Los Angeles where nobody ever honked: Customers waited politely, as if in line at a drive-through, to peruse the menu and take their pick.
The NYT even talked to Bass:
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said she’s seen the trafficking firsthand. Though the county, not the city, oversees foster care, she called it “a failure of government, period,” adding: “It is our responsibility, and therefore, it is our fault.”
Welcome to the pre-apocalypse of America, where minors are sold in open slave markets in broad daylight on public streets and the elected leaders who set the conditions for the decay simply say “oops.” Beleaguered, under-resourced police are themselves cuffed by bad policy, as moms push strollers by child sex slaves and public school parking lots are venues for lurid sex crimes.
It makes me sick to my stomach. It makes me want to kit up. It makes me want to drive straight to LA and enlist in the nearest vice squad.
Strollers past child sex slaves? Not my America.
Get Kash Patel on the horn. Wake Trump. Suspend habeas corpus! Arrest the traffickers. Arrest them hard. The cops know who they are. Arrest Karen Bass, too. Investigate Newsom. Hogtie him in probes. And for the streets? Send in the f***in’ Marines!
We cannot have this in America. In broad daylight. Slave children available for purchase.
It will bring about our ruin if we don’t end it in a fashion so spectacular that nobody ever thinks of doing it again.
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Maybe all we can do at this point is widen our lens and realize that the whole world is going into a turbulent time ? What went up, must come down ?
So, what went up? Earth has been around for a loooong time, but around 1900s, our world population started to grow from a relative "flatline", and within 100+ years jumped straight-up to 8+ billion people now.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Maybe all of the current "tragedies" now is Mother Nature trying to adjust earth's unhealthy explosion of people?
Have we noticed there are less importance being placed on human lives? Over use of this earth also lead to bad land, bad water, pollution of all natural sources... which will lead to less human .....