From the barrel roll by the cop to pulling out his gun, the 2015 McKinney Pool Party incident has its own Wikipedia page. And here's video of it all.
- Overall, it was all calm in Los Angeles last night as Trump ramped up a federal response for some reason.
- . . . . Unless you consider "heckling" to be the equivalent of an insurrection.
- The governor of California continues to fire back at Trump.
- Wise County's state rep Andy Hopper got a not-so-friendly review yesterday in Texas Monthly as it reviewed the legislature's performance.
- Wise County's congressman, Brandon Gill, was throwing out some "it was better when the country seemed all white" vibes yesterday.
- By the way, his father-in-law was born in Mumbai and came to the United States as an exchange student.
- A weird case which will be the responsibility of the Tarrant County D.A.'s office.
- Although I would hope there is more evidence than this . . .
- A shooting on the Las Vegas strip on Sunday night was caught on video.
- Just a couple of hours ago: School shooting in Austria. Another report puts the death toll at 10.
- Trouble brewing. Instead of searching and clicking on a link to get an answer, now a search just gives you an answer in text at the top of the page.
- The Southern Baptist Convention is meeting in Dallas this week.
- A faithful reader caught this very strange sight in the hallway outside of a Wise County courtroom in Decatur yesterday.
- I'm still beginning to believe that Gov. Abbott will veto the THC Ban bill. But he has a deadline of June 22nd to do so or it will automatically become law.
It was actually a "service van" which was supposed to be on the tarmac. Apparently, the driver had a medical issue.
- 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:
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