NOT AS HE HOPED but as I expected.

FROM POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES there are just too many this week to pick a favorite, so go see them all.

HEH: Consequences teach lessons.

Just as I predicted this morning. I have to admit that I'm surprised they learned that fast -- or learned at all.

A BIT LATE, BUT AMMO GRRRLL has thoughts about Father's Day.

THE BABYLON BEE is now Iran's news of record.

TO OBSQUATULATE: If only more Leftists would learn....

WHEN THE RIOTERS WORK AT CITY HALL you've got a problem.

ANOTHER 'EDUCATIONAL' INSTITUTION UNDESERVING OF ANY FEDERAL, STATE, OR STUDENT MONEY: Professor sends email encouraging campus to join LA protests against ICE.

SHOOTING THEM IS TOO KIND: That moment at the riot when a brown lady realized white female commies don't have her back.

IS THAT A SERIOUS QUESTION? Has the Democratic Party, once again, started a Civil War in America?

EVEN INCINERATED ROBOTAXIS KNOW A RIOT WHEN THEY 'SEE' ONE, and they saw everything.

Or they soon will....

SKIP THE ADS and watch the late, great American cities fall.

I'd also recommend reading A Canticle for Leibowitz if you can find it at a bookstore. America is rapidly approaching the novel's ending.

VODKAPUNDIT: How the rioters blew it.

A question: can the car hailers be tracked and identified? If not today, they certainly will by tomorrow....

SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN [D-PA] may be the last remaining sane Democrat.

As for the rest, I'm reminded of a comment attributed to David Horowitz: "Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out."

NOT IN THE DEMOCRATS' AMERICA: Is it possible to have fun and be productive in America?

The question popped up in a segment on Trey Gowdy's Sunday Night in America; my answer is the lede.

HARMEET DHILLON reminds the Left about Kings.

ABSURD, BUT TRUE: In the end, David Hogg was just too masculine for a leadership position in the DNC.

And that's not saying much for Mr. Hogg....

DHS SECRETARY KRISTY NOEM ASKS A SIMPLE QUESTION: Why is California's governor siding with foreign criminals?

ICEBERG AHEAD FOR DEMOCRATS: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

My (many) thoughts on Social Security are here.

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM CALLS LAW ENFORCEMENT “CRUEL,” while presiding over chaos, crime, and policies that punish Californians just trying to survive his idea of compassion.