Random Monday Morning Thoughts

It was actually a "service van" which was supposed to be on the tarmac. Apparently, the driver had a medical issue. 

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• After being on the run for 12 days, he was captured less than two miles from the prison.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• His Wikipedia page is worth a read.
  
  
  
• Trophy Club making the news.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• He's got a very good point if the gummies were bought at a local smoke shop.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• California - So What Happened?
• After ICE raids on Friday which resulted in 44 arrests, there was a fairly mild protest on Saturday after ICE made arrests at a Home Depot.  After one car was burned, any further confrontation was primarily limited to one street, and I found a live stream of it that night on YouTube. For four hours, just a fairly small group would yell at the guys below who would never really move but who would respond with tear gas about every 30 minutes.  It was truly no big deal and kind of boring.
  
  
  
• But Trump, wanting a confrontation, announced he was sending in the National Guard even though California had not requested it.  
  
  
  
• Then the Secretary of Defense even ramped things up by threating to bring in the Marines. 
  
  
  
• The National Guard finally arrived the next morning when all was quiet.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• But with National Guard on the scene on Sunday, the protests became bigger that afternoon which, as always, gave rise to pockets of violence. Primarily, Waymo driverless EVs were set on fire in the downtown area, and cop cars were pelted from above after they parked and abandoned on the highway in front of a bridge. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The governor of California summed it all up this way:
  
  
  
• Bottom line: Trump wants these confrontations because he knows, correctly, that he will win the PR war.  Images of property violence with guys carrying Mexican flags will be all that people see. No amount of words can overcome that. 
  

  
  
  
• Side note: Lost in all of this was Trump just creating imaginary laws on on the fly from Mar-a-Lago.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• ABC correspondent Terry Moran ranted against Stephen Miller on Twitter, the White House then called for him to be sanctioned, and ABC obliged. Good lord. 
  

  
  
  
• Meanwhile, tanks are rolling into D.C. for this Saturday's birthday party for Trump Video
  
  
  
• They'll probably be written a check.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Just the government threatening a private citizen that he better not support the other political party. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• But we did learn from The Washington Post as to how Elon got his black eye . (Gift link.) 
  
  
  
• It goes on.
  
  
  
• Like I said, Trump will win the war of optics: