Quote:Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is much more interested in winning the social media wars than bringing peace and prosperity to his failed state.


On Monday afternoon, President Trump was asked his thoughts about White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations, aka “border czar,” Tom Homan saying he would arrest Newsom and failed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass if they broke federal law… even though Homan never said he would arrest Bass or Newsom. All he said is that if they cross a specific legal line, they are not above the law.

Here’s what Homan actually said.

“You cross that line,” he told MSNBC over the weekend, “it’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien. It’s a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.”

So Homan’s comments are nothing like the fake media are portraying them.

Quote:A visible emblem of ire has emerged from the protests in Los Angeles: graffitied, burning Waymos.

Vandalism and torched cars are a hallmark of many riots, and Los Angeles is no exception. In 2020, protesters defaced and burned police cars as protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody turned violent. Now electric, driverless vehicles have been summoned to protest scenes via the Waymo app. The resulting EV fires burn hotter than traditional car fires and are potentially more hazardous.

The autonomous robot taxis owned by Google parent company Alphabet were tagged with protest slogans and profanity—and set on fire—as a way to disrupt traffic over the weekend and demonstrate against the widespread roundup of migrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Waymo said Monday that it has restricted travel for the autonomous vehicles so they won’t be able to travel to downtown Los Angeles, but the fleet continues to serve other parts of the city.

Waymo EVs can be called up on a mobile-phone app to areas a human driver might not be willing to go. The cars can be spray-painted, set on fire or pummeled until glass breaks without the possibility of hurting a human driver. But EVs that are set on fire burn hotter and longer than traditional cars because they run on lithium-ion batteries.

Firefighters who are called to put out flaming electric vehicles find that the surest approach is to stand back and “let it burn,” Fire Marshal Andy King of Franklin, Tenn., told The Wall Street Journal in 2023.

The Waymo vehicles on the road in Los Angeles are Jaguar I-PACE EVs, with a starting price tag of around $73,000. They are equipped with an array of cameras, radar and lidar—a detection system akin to radar that uses a laser—as well as a sophisticated computer system. The total price tag was estimated in 2024 to be between $150,000 and $200,000.

Waymo wouldn’t comment on how much its vehicles cost or quantify how much damage has been done to its fleet of 300 EVs in Los Angeles.

Waymo Driverless Taxis Become Protesters’ New Favorite Target

(06-10-2025, 04:56 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Welcome to Commiefornia

(06-10-2025, 10:38 AM)FCD Wrote: I guess my question is, how does Trump get away (legally) with deploying 'active duty' troops (Marines in this case) on American soil?  Last time I checked, I thought the 2/7 Marines was an active duty line infantry unit.

Now, I understand their current charter is just protecting federal buildings which is "if-y" in terms of not violating the Posse Comitatus Act, but wider involvement, especially engagement with the enemy may cause some problems for Trump.

Note - Where I see this becoming the biggest problem for Trump is within the notion that these protesters are violently anti-Trump, and this is one of the core reasons why the Posse Comitatus Act was enacted, so Trump is on thin ice here with this action.  I'm sure the liberal media will pick up on this exact theme and start reporting progressively more heavily on it going forward.  For my part, I support the action in principle, and I think I understand Trump's reasoning (i.e. that active duty troops aren't under the command of the State Governor, unlike the National Guard).

Quote:There are many statutory exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act, but the most important one is the Insurrection Act. Under this law, in response to a state government’s request, the president may deploy the military to suppress an insurrection in that state. In addition, the Insurrection Act allows the president — with or without the state government’s consent — to use the military to enforce federal law or suppress a rebellion against federal authority in a state, or to protect a group of people’s civil rights when the state government is unable or unwilling to do so.