Summer of Love 2.0: Democrats Unmask Themselves at Riots - John Kass

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By John Kass

June 13, 2025 

In the collapsing big blue Democrat cities where the left has revealed its true nature, there are two lasting images from their riots:

That anarchist crouching at the curb in Los Angeles drawing the hammer from his backpack, breaking the curb into chunks for throwing at police and law enforcement officers upholding federal law to deport some of the 20 million illegal aliens allowed to cross the border into the U.S. by the corrupt Biden regime.

The last time I saw the hammer thing, it was Greek communists hammering away at the marble steps of the great hotels of Athens, to throw their deadly jagged missiles at cops, the deadly missiles flying at me and photographer Chris Walker, the rocks coming at us out of the clouds of tear gas overhead as we walked through Constitution Square, where my father fought the Communists decades before.

And back to the images from LA, I cannot unsee the illegal migrant lighting Molotov cocktails to throw at Los Angeles law enforcement officers.

All the while as left-wing corporate media (CNN, MSNBC, Chicago Tribune, etc.) the coms shop for the Democtrat Party, the media blaming the violence not at the angry Jacobins bent on destruction, but at President Trump for federalizing the California National Guard to protect federal immigration officers trying to do their duty by enforcing law already passed by Congress.

The riots in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and other cities across the country have been set by Democrats and their financial backers to impede federal authorities from arresting and legally deporting some 20 million illegal aliens released into the U.S. through Democrat Open Borders policy. Some of the illegal aliens are dangerous criminal offenders, including the worst-of-the-worst murderers, rapists, and child-sex traffickers.

These are who the Democrats are defending with their riots.  Yet none of the images I’ve mentioned so far explain exactly what is happening. But this next one does: The rioters waving foreign flags as they destroy the Sanctuary Cities designed to protect illegal alien criminals.

Yes, Democrats are indeed funding the riots and destruction of our cities. And over the weekend, the Jacobins are planning more unrest with their so-called “No Kings Day,” a slogan hatched by some illiterate.

But I’m not a Jacobin destroying a blue city. And there is nothing quite like this image in the X post from “Libs of Tiktok.” It explains everything. It leaves no wiggle room for the double tongues to play. It is what it is. A declaration of where they and the Democrats stand, with those opposed to our immigration laws.

Leftist rioters embraced and defended by Democrats flying foreign flags, some were Palestinian flags but for this iconic photo of the LA riots 2025–they were using the foreign flag of choice, the flag of Mexico.

We’re now in a confused emotional state, with double tongues shouting to distract us sounding as they must have sounded years ago, when the Confederates attacked Ft. Sumter on April 12, 1861, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The Democrats now reveal themselves as the neo-confederates defying American law.

Don’t let the left confuse you. As the National Review’s Rich Lowry writes:

“El Tricolor is the new Stars and Bars.

“Do you want to make your national flag a symbol of lawlessness and defiance of federal authority?

“Well, then, here’s a one-step plan: Prominently wave it at violent anti-ICE protests.

“The foremost image of the L.A. riots so far is a masked motorcyclist holding a Mexican flag as he does donuts around a burning car with smoke billowing in the air and police cars in the background — Mad Max for haters of ICE.”

California leftists gaslight the nation as they’ve done for many years. Consider failed Mayor Karen Bass and the Gov. Greasy Gavin, who couldn’t keep the LA emergency water reservoir filled before the LA fires destroyed the city.

Consider this good and useful piece in The Federalist, written by Breccan F. Thies, titled “Fidel Castro Acolyte Karen Bass Is No Stranger To Orchestrating Organized Chaos”

“With riots and looting destroying Los Angeles (again), it is important to remember that the city’s mayor, Karen Bass, reportedly led a radical Cuban communist cell that was part of a group responsible for radicalizing youth and organizing chaos.

“In the 1970s, when Bass was in her 20s, she led the Southern California cell of Cuban Venceremos Brigade — a Fidel Castro regime-linked organization and alleged terror group started to subvert the United States and proliferate communism. After working as a “brigadista,” Bass climb the ranks to become an “organizer,” visiting Cuba every six months.

“The rioting, looting, destruction, firebombing, assaults on federal officers, waving the Mexican flag, burning the American flag, and the like in her city — deemed by Democrats and their friends in the corporate media as “peaceful” — coupled with the failure of state and local law enforcement to protect the citizens of Los Angeles is far less surprising when put in the context of Bass’s reported violent revolutionary sympathies.

“She actually let the cat out of the bag on CNN recently, admitting that Los Angeles has a “rapid response network” of agitators, adding, “if they see ICE, they go out and they protest.”

Democrats are all about childish political theater as their great cities burn. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Tim Walz and Kathy Hochul raised their right hands as if they supported law-and-order and hoped theatrically they’d be arrested by Homeland Security.

“I have the highest duty to protect the people of my state, and indeed, if Tom Homan were to come to try to arrest us, me, rather, he can try,” Pritzker said. “I will stand in the way of Tom Homan going after people who don’t deserve to be frightened in their communities.”

He wants attention, we can hear him thinking: arrest me, please arrest me Tom Homan please. 

JB is a frightened fat boy who has never taken a stand. He just oozes where gravity takes him. JB Pritzker as president? I don’t think so.

The Democrats will applaud as they burn American flags on Flag Day, June 14. Americans don’t fly Old Glory to the right or to the left. We raise it straight, with pride. We salute her and love the republic she represents.

This is my Pride Flag.

Old Glory.

Make no mistake.

You see the American flags burning? You see the leftists as they raise Mexican flags as they attack American cities?

You hear the hissing of the double-tongues like Pritzker, Newsom, Maxine Walters, and Hakeem Jeffries telling us that if we only stopped defending the American borders, and stop deporting the illegal invaders, then they would relent and stop the riots and attacks on law enforcement officers. Is that their understanding of common sense?

It sounds like a deal only fools and chumbolones would accept. Not American patriots.

And you see Chicago’s own failing Mayor Panic Attacks calling for more resistance to the legal ICE deportation raids.

Johnson said he’s “counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment.”

“It’s a war on our culture. It’s a war on our democracy. It’s a war on our humanity. I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment because, whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next,” the mayor said. “I know there is an effort to divide us in this moment, but none of us are immune from this disease.”

Disease? You mean the disease you carry? That’s communism. My father fought it once. I will fight it with my sons if the need arises.

A Chicago Police commander friend texted this to me: “How the HELL is the Superintendent supposed to keep the city from burning when the Mayor is CONDONING it????!!!???”

As I type this on the evening of Thursday, June 12, the Israeli Defense Forces have just attacked Iranian nuclear facilities  and took out senior Iranian military commanders. I can hear the wailing of the Israeli air raid sirens.

Israel could not allow a nuclear Iran with nuclear weapons. Iran had supported terrorist Hamas that slaughtered Israeli civilians, children, moms and dads. The Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 will not be forgotten not by Israelis, and not by Iran that paid for the October 7 slaughter. Grown ups in the world understood. Israel made her decision. Israel wanted to live.

And now every American has to make a decision as well if you want America to live.

Is this your country, a nation of laws?

Or is it theirs, where the Jacobins break the concrete to throw at police, where Democrats spit on our flag, and burn it and call themselves patriots by trying to confuse Americans and demand that we do not uphold immigration laws?

This is a battle for America’s sovereignty, for American law.

Where do you stand, with them or with the United States?

Time to decide, America. There is no safe middle ground now.

Do you support the laws of the United States? Or not?

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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.

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