Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Lots of Wise County crime and justice news that week.

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• Non-Venezuelan quick hits.
• "Around 2:40 a.m., officers noticed a vehicle headed the wrong way on Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards. According to police, the driver ignored commands to stop, made a U-turn and sped away."
  
  
  
• The trial begins today. WFAA will live stream it. 
  
  
  
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• Now that's a bus crash. 
  

• Now on to Venezuela: I don't know much about international affairs, but if we just replaced Maduro with his vice president, what was the point?
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Top Trump quotes at the press conference after the invasion of Venezuela. 
• "We are going to run the country." (Video) Reality: No we won't. And he has no plan. 
• “The oil business in Venezuela has been a bust…We're going to have our very large U.S. oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil infrastructure, and start making money."(Video) Reality:  Not a chance. Trump might believe it, but he's the only one.  
• "We are not afraid of boots on the ground. We had boots on the ground last night. We are not afraid of it. We’re going to run the country right. It’s going to make a lot of money. They stole our oil." (Video.) Reality: It will never happen. (Venezuela is two times the size of Iraq and half of it is jungle.)
• And right in the middle of the press conference, Trump's brain wandered to D.C.  "We haven't had a killing. We had the terrorist attack a few weeks ago. Uhhh. A little bit of a different kind of a threat. But we haven't had a killing in a long period of time. Six, seven months." (Video)  Reality: He can't stay on track. And there have been 59 homicides during that time frame. 
• Quick other hits about Venezuela:
• Pete Hegseth: "America can project our will anywhere, any time" (Video)
• AG Pam Bondi promised Maduro would face "the full wrath American justice."  Wrath?
• Well, this was embarrassing.
  
  
  
• Last night Trump said on Air Force one that we "need" Greenland next. Steven Miller's wife post even before he said it: 
  
  
  
  
  
  

• And buried in all that news, Trump posted a wild conspiracy theory that would have had him removed from office in a nano-second a few years ago when the country was sane. Side note: Moments ago, Walz announced he would not seek re-election.

• The Business Second™: Based upon this headline being on the Dallas Morning News home page a second ago, I'm a little worried about the newspaper being taken over by the hedge fund a couple of months back. 
  
• Random NFL tidbit: The New York Jets became the first team in NFL history to not get an interception in a full regular season.