Mark Davis

I've heard a lot of ridiculous political rhetoric in the past, but to say China has moral authority was like trying to tell me the sky is green. The Uyghurs would like a word.

I used to deal with a lot of it taking online credit card orders. I now just wholesale to other companies who take that risk. I have been told by others that the bank scams are getting more sophisticated. It seems like there are so many more data breaches today where your data is prone to being compromised.

Stay tuned for how this one turns out

Apparently they've found some writings and a list of lawmakers in this guy's car https://www.wftv.com/news/police-say-they-have/QN6NVORVYJEQ5FXGK5YXQU2FNA/

Whenever one of these things comes up where the slats/flaps are suspected the Northwest Detroit crash comes up. One of the guys I used to work with, his daughter was friends with the sole surviving girl from that flight. She was raised locally by her aunt and uncle. They shielded her from the press while she grew up. The only interview I ever know of her giving was to a documentary a few years back. Supposedly this plane was supposed to be "smart" enough to not allow that type error. However if it is that same cause, very ironic it would also perhaps have only a sole survivor.

It turns out the Egyptians aren't really down for a "March to Gaza". Twitter is full of good stuff on this. https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1933688335337140575 https://x.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1933585105445949815

Looks like Khalil is still staying at the government sponsored Hilton https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-wont-release-mahmoud-khalil-rcna212889

I think it's true Trump didn't want Israel to strike. However, from my following of Netanyahu through the years his entire political career has been centered on not allowing Iran to have nukes. Anything short of that he would see as a failure. According to all the intelligence out there it appears we were at the end of the road and the Mullahs weren't taking the off ramps. I think we are going to hear about how this is Trump's fault for peace talks not being successful, Obama's for allowing progress in uranium enrichment even under the old nuclear deal, or Biden's for allowing assets to flow back to Tehran. However, neither party was going to stop Netanyahu from taking this action. It's just a political football here and likely makes no difference because for Netanyahu, a nuclear Iran is a true red line, not just a rhetorical one like some of our politicians create. The genie is out of the bottle unless the Trump Administration somehow pulls a negotiated settlement out of this no matter how unlikely that seems tonight.

All valid concerns. For as much as they hate the Saudis, etc I think that a war with the Sunnis is the least likely of those dire outcomes. They have their hands full with Israel. I do see them using terrorism or attempting to here in the U.S., also perhaps trying to draw us in to gain broader support in the Arab world. The Houthis could fire up their provocations again as well, that's almost a certainty. Either way, this thing is on now and hopefully Israel has wiped out those nuclear sites.

I always believed the day Israel did this it wasn't going to be any half measure. The Mullahs will have to go as well. To go in this deep they can't be in halfway.

I also want to just point out that the Secret Service doesn't have a hockey style line shift when the party in the White House changes. The same folks who pushed Padilla out were almost assuredly securing events for the Biden Administration. It's not like they are Trump loyalists or trained differently than they were under a Democratic regime.

I largely agree. Although I think it's more than likely he anticipated this type thing could well happen. If you've ever been around Secret Service personnel when they are on the job you should be able to sense they aren't playing around. How many kooks show up to random events claiming to be whoever or whatever? I follow politics more than most and I wouldn't have recognized him at a moment's notice. I think if you or I showed up to an event of a protected individual and interrupted and started walking forward we would be lucky to get away with no worse than being pushed to the ground. However, I think this largely helps Padilla with the people he wants it to help him with.

It would make for a better game IMO. They are going to need it given the PE money flowing into college sports and year to year free agency now. The loyalty that college teams have enjoyed will slowly erode if they don't find a better solution. To clarify, I think the main benefit is assessing the penalty. We have games where teams are in the bonus at 14 minutes or so. I think in the past there was a proposal to just reset the team fouls at the 10 minute mark but have the bonus start at 4 or 5 fouls.

Outstanding. Odds are he just was given the money to make the buys and drop them off. They need to lean on him or subpoena his bank records to determine sourcing and go after the people paying to create the violence. I actually believe Chris Cuomo was reporting last night that many organizations who fund/organize these type things are funded by organizations tied to China. I know that's a shocker.

I'm pretty much where you are. It's possible to criticize both. But violence, disrupting people's lives, damaging their property, and being in the streets aren't going to win people over. Some here argue the opposite, but the polling even on CNN shows it. How Trump is fortunate enough to have people hate him so bad they defend this element from a political standpoint I just don't know. It's really amazing. The pretense is essentially that ICE shouldn't be there and see what they caused. So the inference is that if enough people go to the street and commit crimes and violence, that you should not enforce the laws to avoid that.

Mayor Bass should read the readily available information. Here are a few of the illegal aliens that LA's sanctuary policy were providing sanctuary to: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/08/ice-captures-worst-worst-illegal-alien-criminals-los-angeles-including-murderers

Every time these things come up we want to sit in judgment of a time long gone. By today's values, most every man of that time was flawed. The truth is that at the time, people often viewed themselves as citizens of their states first. The entire populace would have had to have been "traitors", and if it happened today they would be. But that wasn't the case in that period of time. As someone who grew up in the heart of the old South these things rarely come up here. I can't tell you the last time I saw the old stars and bars flag. It doesn't bother me one way or the other what we do with the names. Now, I do agree when the Montgomery schools changed their major high schools names from Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee. Shockingly that's only been within the last few years. Those schools are almost 100% black and being reasonable I get why the folks there wanted the name change. No issue here at all. However, I don't think we should erase these people from the history books and things that were named for them. Robert E Lee didn't live in 2025, he was an old man by the 1860's. I don't think many people of the time would pass judgment by modern standards.

The Chief of Police said at the press conference last night they were overwhelmed and officers were under attack. He stated the guard hadn't been there enough yesterday to make an impact positively or negatively yet and depending on their capabilities he didn't know if they would be an asset or not. He made an effort to not step on the politicians' toes, but his assessment of the situation on the ground wasn't the same as they portrayed.

Get to watching this silver van they are following on News Nation. This guy is going wild

If by that you mean enforce Federal immigration law then I agree. It's a funny thing. When you stand down and don't confront the criminals and let them commit their crimes they don't have a reason to riot en masse, they can just go about breaking the law day to day. How dare we try to enforce the law.

Just watched the LAPD news conference. You could tell he was trying not to cross the politicians but he stated they were "overwhelmed and the situation is getting out of control" when he was asked whether or not the national guard was needed. He wouldn't come out and say yes, but admitted their resources were stressed and their reaction times were slow. They only have 10 arrests so far which shows you they are just taking cover. He also referenced his officers were under attack and weren't able to take the posture of making arrests at the present time.

Just saw severely damaged CA Highway Patrol vehicles taking cover under an overpass. Concrete all over the freeway where people above are dropping that and hammers on them. They need to advance on that group from both sides and take those people into custody.

It should never be allowed to happen. There’s a lot of us who live where this isn’t allowed. It puts in harms way, damages the property, and disrupts the lives of law abiding citizens. If I went out and took some buddies blocked our interstate up, I’d get ran over first. But if by some miracle the traffic stopped I’d have my skull cracked open by a state troopers nightstick within the first few moments. It’s so weird to me this is tolerated. If you don’t want escalation, go home. It’s not hard.

They must not have NewsNation on their TV service.

Now the freeway is blocked. Doesn't look like this is under control to me. Here are the great folks that these people are trying to protect https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/08/ice-captures-worst-worst-illegal-alien-criminals-los-angeles-including-murderers