Donald Trump has been nominated for President at the Republican National Convention.
JD Vance has been picked for Vice President. We’ll talk about that one.
And Elon Musk has decided to support Trump in a big way.
Some News
Here is some news
- Donald Trump is officially the Republican candidate for President.
- JD Vance was picked by Trump to be the VP candidate.
- He is a Senator from Ohio.
- He started out poor.
- He joined the Marines.
- He got his B.A. from Ohio State University.
- Got his law degree from Yale.
- So much for the rhetoric tamping down. The Biden/Harris campaign tweeted after Vance was announced: “Trump has selected far-right MAGA extremist JD Vance as his running mate. Vance is a 2020 election denier, supports a national abortion ban, and voted against IVF access.”
- The leftist network decided not to air the top-rated politics show’s first broadcast since Saturday’s deadly shooting over concerns that one of the show’s guests might make an “inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole,” CNN reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
- Protestors are outside the RNC and have been loud. They have not caused any damage, but are very close to the delegates.
- Democrats may push to nominate early to avoid a Democratic rebellion. The Democrats are stuck with Biden. It sounds like Democrats are conceding the election.
- The Wall Street Journal reported Musk that is committing to giving $45 million a month to America PAC. Other major backers of the PAC include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, the report said.
- The political action committee is focused on “registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states,” the report said, adding that the group wanted to neutralize the massive advantage Democrats have had for years with their “get out the vote” campaigns.
This is How Conspiracy Theories Start
More updates (or lack thereof):
- The shooter was spotted with a scope 30 minutes before Trump took the stage.
- Some snipers were in the building that the shooter was perched on.
- The FBI said it was having trouble getting into the shooter’s phone. The finally got in.
- There is still no motive.
I Got Some Problems Here
Just Weird
According to Fox News:
Florida mass shooter Nikolas Cruz has agreed to donate his brain to science in a “unique” civil settlement reached with one of his victims, according to court papers and experts.
Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to massacre 17 students and staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, 2018, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the nation’s history.
An attorney for Anthony Borges, 21, who was shot five times in the attack, proposed the unusual stipulation.
“I figured if scientists studied his brain they might be able to figure out what created this monster,” Borges’ lawyer, Alex Arreaza, told Fox News Digital. “Maybe there was some kind of imbalance that caused this that we can prevent in the future.”
Berkeley-based attorney Scott Herndon, who has represented victims of mass shooters, called the settlement novel.
“I’ve never heard of anything like this before. It’s pretty unique,” he told Fox News Digital. “It underscores the feeling of those left behind that whatever can be done to avoid these massacres in the future should be done.”
The new settlement agreement also gives Borges the right to Cruz’s name for use in movies, books and other media.
The 25-year-old killer, who is serving life in prison, can’t profit from his crime and must obtain permission from Borges prior to giving any interviews.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-mass-school-shooter-agrees-give-brain-science-stunning-settlement
It Just Keeps Getting Better
According to KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles:
California will impose permanent water restrictions for the first time in history after the state’s Water Resources Control Board approved a long-debated policy.
The policy, dubbed Making Conservation a California Way of Life, is intended to permanently decrease statewide water use so that water reductions during droughts aren’t as severe. The new policy was prompted by legislation signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018.
Retail water suppliers, not individual households or businesses, will now be required to reduce their water use by close to 30% over the next 15 years. Suppliers who do not follow the new guidelines will face $10,000 daily fines.
Suppliers will have to find ways to encourage their customers to reduce their water usage, such as imposing restrictions or promoting the use of low-flow appliances.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the cuts will not be based on a one-size-fits-all method but on a formula that weighs several factors, including the area’s past water consumption, climate, and land use.
Some areas, like the Bay Area, won’t see dramatic reductions since water use in the region has historically been low. For the Los Angeles County area, water use reductions will also vary.
Not a Mental Illness, Huh?
According to the Post Millennial:
A 16-year-old girl who had been transitioning to the opposite sex, per police, was arrested over the weekend in Palm Bay, Florida after allegedly killing her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. Julia Egler was subsequently charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder for the deaths of Kelley McCollom and Matthew Szejnrok.
Egler initially staged a home invasion in an attempt to convince police she was simply an innocent bystander to a grisly double homicide, but later came clean and admitted that she had killed them. The teen cited disagreements with her mother over “her transition,” claiming she “was not very accepting.”
As WKMG reports, shortly after midnight on Sunday police pulled up to an address on Bencher Road after Egler herself called 911 to report a home invasion. The teen told officers she had been in her room when a man broke in and attacked the pair. She proceeded to show evidence she’d planted, however eventually investigators caught on and took her in for questioning.
Egler reportedly said she used a .38 caliber revolver that she stole from her mother’s room to shoot her and Szejnrok. The former died instantly, while the latter was still alive. After running out of bullets, Egler grabbed a chef’s knife and stabbed him again, before he asked her to reload the gun and shoot him dead.
According to WFTV, at the station, she confessed that it was she who had committed the murders, noting that the attack was the culmination of “many disagreements in the previous weeks.” She told police that she “was not happy with the fact that [McCollom] was not very accepting of her transition, and she also did not like that [McCollom] was dating [Szejnrok] who was 22 years old.”
Egler was transported to a juvenile detention center, where she remains in custody.