Thanksgiving week is supposed to be about family, food, gratitude and maybe a little airport stress, but not the kind manufactured by Gavin Newsom’s California. Tonight is one of the busiest travel nights of the entire year. Flights packed, terminals overflowing, people scrambling to make connections. And right on cue, activists decided the perfect place to stage their grand protest was the main intersection outside LAX, blocking drivers from entering the airport. Because, naturally, nothing inspires sympathy for your cause quite like trapping thousands of people, making them miss flights, and sending their holiday plans straight into the shredder.
One video making the rounds shows a protestor lecturing a furious woman who was about to miss her Thanksgiving flight. The activist scolded her like she had personally caused all the world’s injustice, as if the moral high ground is automatically yours the moment you sit down in traffic and ruin someone’s week. That clip is going viral for a reason. When regular people, who paid good money and arranged days of travel, get screamed at by self important activists, the sympathy meter drops to zero.
🚨 BREAKING: Protestors have TAKEN OVER the intersection outside LAX on one of the busiest travel days of the year
Travelers are desperately trying to get through, yelling “I’m going to miss my flight!”
SHUT THIS BS DOWN, LAPD! Americans are SICK of it pic.twitter.com/cTmCW1QlSd
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 26, 2025
Imagine trying to get to your family, maybe the first reunion in years, only to have a group of sign waving strangers decide you don’t deserve to get there. That is not activism. That is entitlement wrapped in arrogance.
LAPD showed up in full riot gear to clear the blockades because, shockingly, shutting down the road to one of the country’s busiest airports is not legal, heroic or remotely sane. The scene looked exactly like what you would expect, officers pushing forward while protesters sat in the street pretending they were starring in a documentary about civil disobedience.
LAPD has arrived with riot gear. Protesters still have the intersection closed pic.twitter.com/GkYuvbeOAC
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) November 26, 2025
BREAKING: Protesters have taken over the intersection outside of LAX on one of the busiest travel nights of the year pic.twitter.com/IXUklWZCEM
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) November 26, 2025
The group behind the chaos turns out to be airline catering workers protesting wages and working conditions under the Flying Food Group. Their union claims the company has had safety violations and low wage issues, and if that’s true they have every right to negotiate, strike or organize. But blocking airport access on Thanksgiving week is not negotiating. It is tantrum politics, the kind California has perfected.
According to Fox LA, the disruptions caused delays but were eventually cleared around 6:15 p.m. No word yet on arrests. Online, though, people are demanding them. And honestly, it’s hard to blame them. Ordinary Americans shouldn’t be held hostage because a group of activists decides the entire travel corridor must stop to validate their message.
If California wants to understand why people keep fleeing the state, they can start by watching these clips. Dysfunction is becoming a lifestyle there, and everyone else is forced to pay for it.
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