9.26.2025

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And they keep happening. 

  • What I warned about yesterday has happened. We've crossed the Rubicon. It's over. 



    • It cannot be overstated what has happened. 

    • Here's Trump's hand-picked prosecutor - the only prosecutor to be in the grand jury room, and the only one willing to put her name on the indictment. She had been named by Trump as Acting U.S. Attorney only four days earlier.


    • She'll never get a conviction.  (It wasn't even a lie by Comey.)  And, by the way, she sought another charge against Comey from the grand jury, and they refused to do so. 

  • And it's just the beginning. 

  • And I'll say it again: Trump isn't leaving office in January of 2029.    
  • What's this about?

  • Trump has signed an executive "memo" for the federal government to target ANTIFA.   There is no ANTIFA.  It is - and this is the point of it all - just any group at any gathering that Trump wants to call ANTIFA. And when Stephen Miller is behind it, look out. 


    • But the most dangerous and potentially telling thing Trump said yesterday largely went unnoticed.  Trump was asked who he blamed for an “uptick” in political violence, and below is his response.  (Video.) He's basically giving the go ahead for private groups to be his own Brownshirts.  Remember when he told the Proud Boys to "Stand back and stand by?"  We're here. 


  • On a lighter and different note, this quote is even crazier when you hear it.

  • I don't think ICE agents are your typically trained police officers based upon a couple of videos floating around yesterday.
    • Video - Dropping a gun and then pointing it at the crowd.

    • Video - He didn't have to do that.

  • Metroplex quick hits: 
    • He's probably right. 

    • There's a million people who live at The Village. The body was found at 11:00 a.m. That's all we know (which is now the standard for any DFW "local" news.). 

    • That's quite the drop off at the beginning of that ride.


  • The Business Second™.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 84 days.
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9.25.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




The bank robber was identified as Dylan Perry, 38, but I can't immediately find out whatever happened to him. 

  • Quite the one week history of this story.
    •  On Monday:

    • Then we have a tense arrest in Grapevine yesterday.

  • Look, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but the podcaster turned FBI Director posting this pic while people were still bleeding at the Dallas ICE facility almost makes me want to be one.  "Anti-ICE" written on one unspent round after three detainees of ICE were hit, one fatally, and then the guy immediately commits suicide? They are begging for conspiracy folks to come out of the woodwork.

    • And by noon the President, Vice President, and the Secretary of Homeland Security had all blamed the shooting on "the left." And then the paper of record for Trump runs with it today . . . 


  • The upcoming indictment of former FBI Direct James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress five years ago is the surest sign yet of "It's Over." If it happens, here is what led up to it over the last few days: 
    • Over the weekend, Trump fired the acting U.S. Attorney in Virginia for not indicting Leticia James. A shocking moment that would have any prior president impeached and convicted immediately. 

    • Trump then tells AG Pam Bondi, in a post that almost reads like a direct message instead of a Twitter post, to get her underlings busy indicting his enemies including James Comey. Once again, a 100% authoritarian move.

    • Trump then immediately names one of his former lawyers who has never served as a prosecutor to replace the fired U.S. Attorney in Virginia.

    • And now we have the news yesterday that the she will try to indict James Comey with the the five year statute of limitations running next week.  It's a five alarm fire that can't be stopped. 

  • We are ruled by a child.

     


  • The sample ballot in California for voter approval of the new congressional district redrawing specifically refers to what just happened in Texas. 

  • Updates on posts from yesterday:
    • That statue didn't last long.

    • "Ed Martin was ordered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract the letter he sent to the FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook massacre, which Alex Jones was touting online." (Letter.)

  • Messenger - Above the Fold  (which features a story of an Alvord teacher feeding a kitten to a snake in front of their class.)

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9.24.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The answer is "no", and this guy wasn't executed. But he died on May 26th of this year. 

  • Developing national news out of Dallas this morning: "DALLAS — Two ICE detainees were killed and one person was injured at a Dallas ICE facility Wednesday morning and one shooter is dead, police sources tell WFAA." Most reports are saying that that shooter died on a roof from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  But the victims are "detainees"?

  • Aggies making national news.


  • A bad accident on FM 730 in Azle around noon yesterday left two dead.  

  • No reason was given by the city.  He earns $352,612 (as of 2021).


  • The courtroom artist was also doing bad things with his own drawing instruments. 


  • Tell me about indoctrination again. Walters is Oklahoma's State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He last made news by ordering 55,000 "Trump Bibles" to be placed in every school. 


  • Trump did a 180 on Russia/Ukraine yesterday. He went from "you don't have any cards" and "land swaps" to a position that Ukraine can now completely push Russia out of Ukraine and even take some of Russia's land as a bonus.  Make it make sense. 


  • Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air last night as Trump, speaking on behalf of the U.S. Government, doubled down on his pressure to remove him from the airwaves with a rant on social media.

  • Escalator-Gate!



  • A statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been temporarily erected on the National Mall. It's entitled “Best Friends Forever” and it's legal. It has a permit to remain on the grounds until Sunday. 



  • We are so doomed: 
    • Justice Department official, and all around crazy, attorney Ed Martin met with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on September 12th.

    • Three days later, Martin sent a threatening letter on Justice Department letterhead to the lawyer of an FBI agent who sued Alex Jones because of Jones' lies over Sandy Hook:

    • And Alex Jones celebrated it. 

  • COVID can still get you. 

  • Finally.

  • The Dallas Morning News is now owned by the same company that owns the lead paper in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.  This is not good. 

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