There’s a difference between serving in Congress and simply occupying a seat in Congress.
Maxine Waters has made a career of the latter. For decades, she has held a title but never once acted as if she respected the responsibility that comes with it.
And her latest performance, blaming President Trump for starting the L.A. riots while claiming “there was no violence,” is just the latest brick in her crumbling house of fiction.
Let’s be clear: Maxine Waters doesn’t speak from facts. She speaks from a place of agitation for agitation’s sake. That’s her brand. Stir the pot. Spread the fire. Then, when the smoke rolls in, shout "Trump!" and disappear until the next round of outrage.
A Career of Stirring Trouble Without Evidence
There’s a long and ugly list of examples.
Waters doesn't debate. She doesn’t legislate in good faith. She instigates. And she does it loudly.
Remember when she told a crowd back in 2018 to harass members of Trump’s cabinet in public?
If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”What member of Congress talks like that?
A statesman doesn’t.
A serious lawmaker doesn’t.
A mob boss might.
But Maxine does it with a microphone, a press badge, and applause from the very crowd she’s emboldened to act like jackals.
When You Can’t Argue With Facts, You Just Scream Louder
Let’s walk through her latest hallucination. Waters told MSNBC with a straight face that President Trump “started” the L.A. riots.
Really?
He didn’t fund the agitators. He didn’t organize the protests. He didn’t torch stores, loot pharmacies, or assault officers. He responded to the violence with the National Guard after the streets were already burning.
Anyone with eyes could see it. Anyone who was watching the news that wasn’t filtered through partisan blinders saw it.
But Maxine doesn't deal with timelines or truth. She deals in emotionally charged fiction, carefully timed to protect her narrative and deflect attention from her own absence of leadership.
There Was Violence. Everyone Saw It. Except Maxine
Waters claimed “there was no violence” in Los Angeles. Someone might want to tell that to Johnny Wong, whose flower shop was trashed.
Or to the owner of a sushi restaurant who watched a flash mob clear out his business in under 10 minutes.
Or the cops who took bricks to the face while trying to deescalate mayhem.
But Maxine says there was no violence. Because if she acknowledged the reality, she’d have to take some responsibility for fueling the fire herself. She’d have to admit that calling for confrontation and refusing to condemn violence when it suited her political side helped lay the groundwork for chaos.
And she’s not about to do that.
It’s easier to lie and hope MSNBC nods along.
Not a Voice of the People. A Megaphone of Madness.
Let’s stop pretending Maxine Waters is some bold truth-teller standing up to power.
She is powerful. And she’s been wielding it irresponsibly for years.
The truth is, she doesn’t engage in challenging conversations. She doesn’t advocate for all constituents. She instantly blames the enemy she’s decided exists in her head, and from there, it’s all performance.
Ask yourself: Has Maxine Waters ever introduced a bipartisan bill that healed her district? Has she ever visited a looted neighborhood and asked what people need? Has she walked into a damaged shop and offered to help rebuild?
No. But she’s good at microphones. And better at microphones when the cameras are on.
The Real World Would Never Tolerate This
Let me tell you something. In Wisconsin and the real world, if you showed up to a city council meeting with this kind of ranting, if you blamed a president for riots without a shred of evidence, you’d be escorted out. The sheriff would raise an eyebrow, and the rest of the room would quietly shake their heads and wait for the grown-ups to talk.
Out here, we’ve got our problems, too. But we haven’t lost our common sense.
We still expect elected officials to talk like adults, not like YouTube activists with a grudge.
You represent the people, not your Twitter feed.
She’s Not Just Wrong. She’s Dangerous.
Here’s the actual cost of Waters’ nonsense: it desensitizes people to real danger. When someone screams “fire” every time they disagree with a policy, nobody hears the alarm when there’s an actual blaze.
She has spent her career telling the public that Republicans are fascists, that police are occupiers, and that violence is protest as long as the cause has the right slogan.
And while she’s doing all that, the people she claims to represent are the ones getting hurt.
Bottom Line
Maxine Waters isn’t a trailblazer. She’s not even a leader. She’s a chaos merchant with a congressional title and a mic addiction.
Does she say Trump caused riots? That’s rich, considering Trump was the one calling for order while Waters was busy pretending nothing happened.
She says there was no violence. Tell that to the business owners.
To the cops.
To the kids whose parents couldn’t get to work because roads were blocked by “peaceful” flames.
Enough!
She doesn’t deal with facts.
She deals in volume.
And every time she opens her mouth, the rest of us lose a little more trust in the system.
Suppose she wants to be an activist, fine. Quit Congress and scream into the wind with a picket sign. But if she wants the honor of a congressional seat, then she’d better start acting like it.
Because right now, she’s not fooling anyone.
Not even herself.
