I’m just going to get this started. This is the kind of week that’ll leave you speechless, and I’m right there with you.
1. You Might as Well Pick Now to Boycott Walmart
She isn’t the CEO of the place, but she’s one of the principal beneficiaries of Walmart’s profits. So when you turn Walmartian, you’re feeding Christy Walton’s overstuffed wallet. And what does that get you?
Riots. She pays for riots, or at least the promotion of them. And your fellow patriots are PISSED.
Walmart is facing a furious boycott by the MAGA world after its billionaire heiress endorsed and promoted an anti-Trump rally amid the raging protests happening in Los Angeles.
Republicans have erupted online over Christy Walton’s support of the group “No Kings” — which took to social media several times calling President Donald Trump’s response to the protests ‘a distraction’ because ‘he wants to blind us to the chaos and damage he’s inflicting nationwide.’
Christy Walton is the widow of John T. Walton, who was one of the sons of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart.
Although Walton, who is worth $19.4 billion, has not publicly spoken out about the protests or Trump, she placed a full-page ad in the New York Times Sunday calling on Americans to stand up ‘against aggression by dictators’ and ‘mobilize’ this upcoming Saturday — the same day the president is set to host a military parade in Washington D.C.
I’m going to let Ace of Spades take the lead on this one…
Walmart says that it has nothing to do with Christy Walton’s call for more rioting.
If that’s true, then they should run a counter-ad.
But they won’t.
Christy Walton doesn’t work at Walmart. She doesn’t work at all. Wikipedia lists her occupation as “heiress.” She gives Walmart proceeds away; that’s how she occupies her time. And she isn’t good at it, so you’ll know — this is somebody who once gave $30,000 to the Lincoln Project.
No wonder she’s now promoting this asinine “No Kings” thing, which is a Randi Weingarten joint with the noxious Ezra Levin (Levin fronts the communist agitation group Indivisible).
This is a classic case of the sepsis that sets in among the idle rich. You would think that if your wealth, which you didn’t have to work for, comes from a retail chain catering to working-class Americans, your values and overt activities would be at least somewhat sympatico with the identity of your meal ticket.
But… of course not.
Almost every hard-core leftist I’ve ever met came from money. Almost all of them have every material convenience it’s possible to have. Very few of them have real jobs — or if they do, they universally aren’t good at them, a couple of trial lawyers of my acquaintance excepted.
I don’t know anybody as rich as Christy Walton. But then, I don’t live in a massive estate in Jackson Hole like she does.
And here she is promoting a Marxist organization which is almost certainly going to engage in — at minimum — property damage this weekend at a time there are riots going on in the second-largest city in the country that the local government, made up of people who believe in all the same limousine leftism Christy Walton does, refuses to put an end to.
She’s perfectly emblematic of the modern AWFL.
Will a boycott hurt Christy Walton? Not really. It’ll probably hurt the working-class employees of Walmart a lot more. Christy Walton is so rich from her husband’s money that nothing ordinary Americans do will send a message to her that she’ll even take notice of.
She’s pushing “No Kings” while enjoying all of the trappings of royalty.
Yes, it’s frustrating.
And you’ll do nothing productive by boycotting Walmart. Should you do it anyway? Well, if you shop at a locally-owned grocery or hardware store, or a locally-owned pharmacy or clothing store, you’re probably doing some good for your community’s economy. That money will stay in the community rather than being siphoned off into the trust fund Christy Walton donates to stupid leftist causes from.
When you consider how likely it is that this weekend’s “demonstrations” being pushed by the Christy Waltons of the world will result in the looting and burning of at least one and probably several locally-owned retail establishments, it’s worth thinking about supporting the ones you can.
Walmart’s corporate headquarters is breathlessly hollering to anyone who’ll listen that Christy Walton doesn’t work there, isn’t on the board, and doesn’t represent them. And that’s valid. At the same time, their profits flow to her, which is something they can’t stop. And they’re not doing anything to counter her destructive “activism.”
Let’s just leave this one where it is, but I can’t help reiterating how absolutely obnoxious it is that somebody who sits on billions of dollars made in the retail business would be promoting an organization that is going to stage riots during which retailers will suffer catastrophic losses.
No depth of contempt is sufficient enough for this woman. And if there is collateral damage from the public’s efforts to show that contempt through a boycott, so be it.
2. Alex Padilla Needs To Be Censured, If Not Expelled From the Senate
This is not acceptable.
Senator Padilla chose disrespectful political theatre and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem.
Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’… https://t.co/5TGxrRZ2Ex
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 12, 2025
At Front Page, Daniel Greenfield had a spot-on assessment of Padilla and his fellow California Democrats…
Sending in the National Guard, the Marines or for that matter, the Rangers, won’t stop the riots. Much like bombing Afghanistan didn’t stop Islamic terrorism, arresting street level activists isn’t going to deal with the root cause which operates at a level far above the Molotov hurlers.
And that’s not just George Soros or the Ford Foundation (which got into funding the radicalization of Latinos back when George was still grifting his way across Manhattan) or a handful of groups here and there… it’s California’s entire Democrat political leadership.That majority claimed that outraged Latinos rose up over Prop 187. What really happened then, much as now, is that leftists set off riots, and steamrolled sellout Republicans who never really believed in 187, and built a massive network of organizations to seize permanent power.
Some of those organizations, under various names, are still active today 30 years later. Under whatever names they go by, their real name is the California Democrat Party.
The same network of organizations trying to murder law enforcement officers in Los Angeles provides voter turnout and outreach to California Democrats. No politician can get elected, however dubiously, as governor or as the mayors of certain key cities, especially Los Angeles, without its support. Its activists call themselves “community organizers,” much as current Mayor Karen Bass, does, what they actually are is “community commissars,” using federal, state and local funds to run groups that double as voter turnout operations for local Democrats.
California is not, as Gov. Gavin Newsom falsely claims, a “democracy.” It’s a leftist political network riddled with “ghost districts” filled with illegals, where elections depend on the flow of government money to the “community groups” who provide manpower for election rallies, find voters, harvest ballots, advocate for propositions (usually for pay) and determine “elections.”
He says taking down the kleptocrats in charge of that state’s political class is the only way to truly restore order. That’s hard to argue with when you see how they’re handling Los Angeles.
3. The Warner Bros.–Discovery Mess
One of the Big Five media conglomerates is disintegrating before your very eyes. Breitbart’s John Nolte…
And so, this week, what was long expected to happen finally happened. WBD announced it would split into two separate publicly traded companies. One will be known as “Streaming and Studios” and consist of Warner Bros. TV, Warner Bros. Studios, DC Studios, HBO, HBO Max, and the studio’s legendary library of television and films.
That’s what you call the “good stuff.”
The second company, Global Networks, will consist of “CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, top free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as the profitable Discovery+ streaming service and Bleacher Report (B/R).”
That’s what you call the dead weight.
Each company will have its own president. David Zaslav, the current CEO of WBD, will grab the good stuff. WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels will take over the dead weight.
The reason for the split is obvious. The dead weight is a huge drag on the WBD stock price. With the split, investors can purchase stock in the good stuff, in the future, in streaming and content production (the TV and studio units), without worrying about the dying and discredited CNN’s cratering ratings or TNT losing its license to broadcast the NBA.
I’m not sure who’s going to buy Global Networks stock. That’s a collection of channels on the cable rolls with practically zero use.
TBS and TNT haven’t had original programming of note in forever, other than the NBA coverage that’ll be going away and their participation in the network blob with the NCAA Tournament rights. They show old movies that most people would rather just stream on demand. And CNN? Good Lord. The ratings for that channel are utterly microscopic. If it weren’t for boomer couch potatoes droning out in front of the TV instead of taking up a productive hobby — and Scott Jennings, but let’s face it, you watch Scott Jennings clips on X; you don’t watch him live on TV — there would be no audience at all.
At one point, the thought was that CNN would try to become more of an actual journalistic enterprise. That didn’t materialize, because how could it? No conservative media stars would work there. Jennings has become a star on CNN’s air only because he’s the Christian who can actually kill the lions he’s fed to, and everybody knows he’s not going to be there long.
What’s that company going to look like in a year? I can’t tell you. It’ll be interesting to watch its denouement.
4. I Can’t Stop Watching This, and You Can’t, Either
It needs no introduction, and you can’t watch it just once…
Would love to see this guy go same foot, same shoulder – but the explosiveness and snap from his hips when running through the tackle MY GOD
It’s art in motion https://t.co/o7vbIlAug3
— Will Compton (@_willcompton) June 12, 2025
5. The Rescission Arriveth
I should give at least a little bit of space here to the great vote in the House for the first rescission bill to pass in quite a while. The $9.4 billion spending cut that OMB Director Russ Vought sent up to Capitol Hill passed Thursday on a party-line vote, and it’s already been filed in the Senate, thanks to freshman Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri. (RELATED: Five Quick Things: The Rescission Cometh)
Well, not quite a party-line vote. Thomas Massie voted against it in the House, which is a little dispiriting. Massie says he wants a balanced budget, and he’s right in holding the line for that, but then a rescission bill comes in and it shaves just under $10 billion off the federal baseline, and he says… no?
Anyway…
“Under President Trump’s leadership, your taxpayer dollars are no longer being wasted. Instead, they are being directed toward priorities that truly benefit the American people,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
Today’s House passage of this initial rescissions package marks a critical step toward a more responsible and transparent government that puts the interests of the American taxpayers first.
Thanks to DOGE’s work, this package eliminates $9.4 billion in unnecessary and wasteful spending at the State Department, USAID, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds politically biased media outlets like NPR and PBS. It is just one of the ways Republicans are codifying DOGE’s findings and putting taxpayer dollars to better use.
We had hoped our Democrat colleagues would join us in this effort to ensure every dollar spent by the federal government is used efficiently and effectively. Rather than expressing concern over the misuse and misspending of funds, Democrats have instead chosen to oppose these reforms simply because Republicans are leading the charge. While they defend the failed, toxic status quo, Republicans will continue to deliver real accountability and restore fiscal discipline.
The NPR/PBS defunding is only $1.1 billion. The other $8.3 billion is DOGE cuts for stupid foreign aid spending.
You would assume there are 51 votes for this in the Senate, and as you know, if you’re a frequent reader of this column, the Democrats can’t filibuster it.
This is the way.
There are supposedly more rescission packages coming down from OMB based on cuts DOGE has found, so this is a template that hopefully will be reused often.
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