5.22.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




As the dust cleared on the Waco Twin Peaks Biker Shoot Out, news that they were holding all of those guys at a $1 million bond each was my first clue that the Waco justice system had no idea what it was doing. 


  • The House budget vote was taken around 6:00 a.m. this morning, and it passed 215-214. What Trump wants, Trump gets. Side note: Remember that a Democratic House member died yesterday?



  • In Texas, the House voted late last night to ban any amount of THC, 86-53.  The current law allows THC with a concentration of less than 3% and Delta-8.  Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper voted for the ban. 

  • Horrible news last night out of D.C.

     

    • Video of shooter immediately afterwards.  There's no question his motive is what has happened in Gaza. 

  • The South African president was ambushed in the Oval Office and shown a video depicting "mass graves" while Trump denounced the "genocide of white farmers" in South Africa -- neither of which exists


  • We live in a time where we don't know if a foreign leader is joking or feels comfortable bribing the President of the United States in broad daylight. Video.

  • Speaking of. 


  • It's a new day.  By the way, the five year anniversary of the death of George Floyd is Sunday.


  • No more transcripts on the White House web site. 

  • Why is Bill Clinton catching strays for this?


  • The Business Second™. "On Wednesday, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said the company was paying $6.5 billion to buy IO, a one-year-old start-up created by Jony Ive, a former top Apple executive who designed the iPhone." The plan is to create "AI devices" which haven't been conceptualized yet, but which will go far beyond a cell phone. It's like the opening scene of a Black Mirror episode.


  • That looks like a hard 65.


  • Messenger - Above the Fold