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First Tesla's now Waymo (owned by Google, competitor to Elon)...

A visible emblem of ire has emerged from the protests in Los Angeles: graffitied, burning Waymos.

Vandalism and torched cars are a hallmark of many riots, and Los Angeles is no exception. In 2020, protesters defaced and burned police cars as protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody turned violent. Now electric, driverless vehicles have been summoned to protest scenes via the Waymo app. The resulting EV fires burn hotter than traditional car fires and are potentially more hazardous.

The autonomous robot taxis owned by Google parent company Alphabet were tagged with protest slogans and profanity—and set on fire—as a way to disrupt traffic over the weekend and demonstrate against the widespread roundup of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Waymo said Monday that it has restricted travel for the autonomous vehicles so they won’t be able to travel to downtown Los Angeles, but the fleet continues to serve other parts of the city.

Waymo EVs can be called up on a mobile-phone app to areas a human driver might not be willing to go. The cars can be spray-painted, set on fire or pummeled until glass breaks without the possibility of hurting a human driver. But EVs that are set on fire burn hotter and longer than traditional cars because they run on lithium-ion batteries.

Firefighters who are called to put out flaming electric vehicles find that the surest approach is to stand back and “let it burn,” Fire Marshal Andy King of Franklin, Tenn., told The Wall Street Journal in 2023.

The Waymo vehicles on the road in Los Angeles are Jaguar I-PACE EVs, with a starting price tag of around $73,000. They are equipped with an array of cameras, radar and lidar—a detection system akin to radar that uses a laser—as well as a sophisticated computer system. The total price tag was estimated in 2024 to be between $150,000 and $200,000.

Waymo wouldn’t comment on how much its vehicles cost or quantify how much damage has been done to its fleet of 300 EVs in Los Angeles.

Waymo Driverless Taxis Become Protesters’ New Favorite Target

700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, now departing for the greater Los Angeles...


USNORTHCOM statement on additional military personnel in the Los Angeles Area


700 Marines Deploying to Downtown Los Angeles for Night Ops Round-up in Battle of LA. All this chaos in LA would be solved by a few Rooftop Koreans.  Just sayin.





The LA Chaos Is an Illusion and Trump Will Not Fall for It


If you are a Californian, the current LA riots are an example of your tax dollars hard at work. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Right—CHIRLA is one of the key players in fomenting the violent response to immigration enforcement actions. It’s an LA-based nonprofit with a history of taking radical positions on immigration; for example, it led a 2018 campaign to abolish ICE. It currently leads the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, which gathers intel about enforcement actions and deploys activists to respond.

CHIRLA has strong ties to the Demoncrat Party in California and has supported the election of Democratic candidates through its lobbying arm. It has a particularly close relationship with Los Angeles Marxist Mayor Karen Bass. The organization also has a close relationship with organized labor in the state, which in turn is a major financial supporter of Democrat politicians. On Friday, amid rising tensions, CHIRLA held a rally protesting ICE’s enforcement actions and the arrest of SEIU President David Huerta for obstruction. The incredible part is that CHIRLA’s activities are primarily funded by California taxpayers.

In a nutshell: Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding. This is the nonprofit industrial complex at work.