Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Side note: "As officers were handling the scene, another man, also 52, jumped in the river several times in the presence of the officers. That man was arrested on a public intoxication charge."

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• Trump has taken over the  D.C. police.  It's like a soft opening for martial law.  And it's only the beginning. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The press conference announcing it was straight out of Bizarro World. “They love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform… and then they start spitting in their face,” Trump said. “You tell them [now], ‘You spit, and we hit.’ Now they [the police] are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.”
  
  
  
• And we've got more news this morning. Plans are to have 600 troops on stand-by at any time to be deployed to any U.S. city in as little as an hour.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We have a much needed challenger to local state Rep. Andy Hopper, as a lady from Krum announced her candidacy yesterday.  I thought she would campaign on being capable of passing a simple water district bill, but instead she went full MAGA.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Jack County may be washing away.   A thunderstorm has been sitting on it for hours this morning. 
  
  
  
• Truck goes into a home in Mesquite. And there is a video from inside the home capturing the vehicular intrusion.
  
  
  
• Big news out of Austin yesterday but, as so typically is the case these days, there are few details. No names. No motives.  
  
  
  
• Trump has announced a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired the old one because he didn't like the numbers. Not surprisingly, the new guy is a yes man, would appear on  Steve Bannon's show, and is an author of Project 2025.  Trump will never have to deal with bad job numbers ever again.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This photo was in the New York Times on Sunday, and it's so good that I thought is was fake.
  
  
  
• Midland Lee, named after Robert E. Lee, became Midland Legacy five years ago.  But now, with "wokeness" dead, the school board feels safe to possibly bring the Lee name back.  
  
  
  
• The AP pre-season poll was released yesterday. Texas opens the season at Ohio State and is a -2.5 underdog. 
  
  
  
• Overused phrases: I think "At the end of the day" has been replaced by "Two things can be true at the same time."