Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

I bet you don't even remember this one. 

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• The second ICE detainee shot last week in Dallas has died overnight.
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth is speaking right now to generals gathered from around the world like he's Patton.   It's already had some cringe-worthy moments.  "No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression . . . . We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans." Trump is up next. 
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And Trump stopped to talk to reporters this morning on the way there.
  
  
  
• Last night DPS announced is was suspending the "issuance" of CDLs for legal refugees, asylees, and  DACA recipients.
  
  
  
• Fox 4 weatherman Evan Andrews announced his retirement this morning. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump tweeted out this racist video last night. It is absolutely, like him, insane.
  
  
  
• Call it extortion or call it a payoff, Google's YouTube caved yesterday.  There's no legal reason for them to pay a penny.  
  
  
• Trump posted this in response:
  
  
  
  
• There was so much news over the weekend, most people missed that masked troops were roaming around Chicago. 
  
  
  
• Take a step back and ask yourself why are heavily armed masked men in military uniforms standing on the streets of a U.S. city are chasing people who say mean things to them? Video. (Which is very Keystone cops-like.) Spoiler: He got away.
  
  
  
• If he writes a different letter which says, "He's a good ol' white boy," would that have been ok? 
  
  
  
  
• Kushner continues to make money from with his Saudi pals. Always remember that he made an "official" visit to the U.S. immediately after January 6th.
  
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• I meant to post this yesterday:  Trump posted an AI video of himself on Sunday promising healthcare for everyone via a magic health bed that doesn't exist.   He later took it down. I have no idea why he did that.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Every year we go through this "government shutdown" drama only for a deal to be made at the last minute.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Trump's first ever campaign meeting with religious leaders occurred at Trump Tower. It was very awkward, (Youtube)

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• New this morning:
  
  
  
• Mass shooting weekend update:
• #1: A man opened fire at a waterfront bar from a boat in North Carolina leaving three dead and five injured. The shooter was a 40 year old Marine who served in Iraq. 
  
  
  
• Oddity: In 2012 he escorted American Idol star Kelli Pickler to the CMT Awards.
  
  
  
• #2: At least four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting and intentionally set fire at a Mormon Church in Michigan on Sunday morning. The shooter was a 40 year old Marine who served in Iraq.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• #3: "Eagle Pass, Texas — Two people are dead, including a retired CBP agent, and several others are injured after a shooting at the Lucky Eagle Casino on the Kickapoo reservation on Saturday." The shooter was 34 years old an not a veteran.
  
  
  
• Truly shocking news: In a crime that once sent one man to death row, with others facing the same fate,  the 1991 Austin Yogurt Street Murders has been solved.  It turned out to be a serial killer who had never been associated with case.  (If you have HBOMax, watch the documentary on the killings that just came out a couple of months ago.) 
  

  

  
  

  
  
  
• Over the weekend, the Alvord Kitten/Snake controversy made its way to the DFW media outlets and then, this morning, to the New York Post. 
  

  

  

  
  
  
  
• It's getting weirder.  First we had Stephen Miller tweet this strange thing out Friday night. (NSPM-7 is the odd "memo" Trump signed last week threatening ANTIFA which basically is defined as anyone who doesn't support Trump and ICE.):
  
  
  
  
• Then Trump decide to invade Portland and authorized "full force" in doing so.  Pure insanity. 
  

  
  
• Trump now says he will attend the hastily called meeting of all of the military brass this week.
  
  
  
• But the Secretary of War said what? 
  
  
  
• I told you they would go after Fani Willis:
  
  
  
• The new FBI is not going to put up with anyone who is anti-racism. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We said E-P-S-T-E-I-N, not . . . 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Just the President of the United States demanding one of his donors fire a private person at a private company just because he doesn't like her. 
  
  
  
• And look at the looney who took credit for it. And she's probably telling the truth. 
  
  
  
• Trump's granddaughter has joined the Grift Train. She's selling $130 sweatshirts and using the White House as a backdrop to promote them.
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™:
  
  
  
• Apparently the Ryder Cup crowd was very unruly this weekend. You mean a country made up of people who go to Walmart in their pajama bottoms and loudly drop F bombs while on speaker phones can act boorish?