7.16.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




  • Last night in Bridgeport:

  • "Border Czar" Tom Homan and Greg Abbott appeared at a Texas sheriff's convention in Fort Worth yesterday. Nothing good can come out of that.  Side note: They all need to rethink the obligatory cowboy hats.

  • If you headed down 114 near Trophy Club this morning, you found all westbound lanes shut down, and eastbound lanes backed up for miles, because a truck used to protect construction workers hit a guardrail on its own and flipped over. The driver was actually killed. 


  • Trump, for the first time ever, has no idea how to handle his MAGA base when it comes to the Epstein scandal. Yesterday, he only made it worse.
    • First, he said on camera that the files were "made up" by Obama and Biden and others. Video

    • And then he called the whole Epstein case "boring" and that only "bad people" care about it. Video. His base believing in a "cabal of pedophiles in the deep state running the county" beg to differ. 

    • Wired, which has been all over the release of the "raw footage" of Epstein's jail cell at the time of the "suicide", came out with a new revelation yesterday.

  • That death toll will continue to rise, but it will take months before we get the final count.

  • The National Weather Service is handling all the DOGE cuts well.

  • Crazy Trump stuff from yesterday.
    • Trump didn't take an IQ test. He took a basic cognitive test to make sure his brain was functioning. He doesn't know the difference.  Video

    • Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, never attended MIT.  Video

  • The Business Second™. I don't know what this means because the story doesn't say where in Fort Worth it will be built or how many jobs are involved.

  • Exactly how was the All-Star game decided?

  • It's hard to get over that we have a functioning concentration camp in the Florida everglades, and everyone just shrugs.