1.19.2021

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

 

  • Texas Hospitalizations: +130. That ends the streak of declining days. 

  • It's Pardon and Clemency Day. 
  • Reporter from ABC's affiliate station KOCO in Oklahoma City: 

  • Tomorrow morning, Trump and Ms. Be Best will not stick around to greet the Bidens as they arrive at the White House.  

  • When it is all said and done, Dominion might own MyPillow. Those boys aren't messing around in these defamation suits.  But he might be out of business before then: Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl's, Wayfair, and HEB have dropped the product. 

  • A couple of MyPillow Guy screenshots from yesterday:

  • Compare and contrast these headlines:


  • There were a ton of racists celebrating MLK Day yesterday. You don't get to come out one day a year and throw some hollow words at a cause you don't believe in. 


  • Remember when Trump threatened to unleash "vicious dogs" on protestors last summer if they got close to the White House? At the time, I didn't know about this art work at the Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • "But what I would submit to you what happened on January 6th [the Capitol riots] was not done at the hands of Trump supporters. I don't know who they were. Antifa? Black Lives Matter? Any random anarchist group for hire out there? Who knows." -- Rick Roberts, host on WBAP, yesterday afternoon at 3:35 p.m.  This is the type of crap being spewed by right wing radio every day. (And this guy ain't far behind Alex Jones, but for some reason WBAP thinks his is worthy of being on the air.) 

  • I have no idea if this video of people running through what looks like a Cabela's is real. The caption reads "Every morning when you work for a store that sells ammo." I can see it happening, though. 

  • Want to see a criminal defense lawyer who shouldn't be a criminal defense lawyer? She wanted her client/inmate to take a plea deal, he didn't want to do it, and she wants to withdraw because she "has been to the jail five times." The end is quite the shocker. 

  • For the first time in my life, I visited something on Saturday which has been in my back yard the entire time: Fort Richardson State Park.  Verdict: Pretty cool if you have an understanding of the Comanches around and after the Civil War time period. Side note: Jacksboro seems to be doing a lot better than it used to.  Second side note: I don't think David Spiller needs to necessarily blanket his home town in campaign signs for his Texas legislative bid. Good lord, sir. They are everywhere. 


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1.18.2021

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

 

  • Texas hospitalizations: They've only been slight declines, but there have been five straight days of them. That hasn't happen since the rise in October began. (But a Baylor student died of COVID yesterday.)

  • Well the little Frisco real estate broker was finally arrested on Friday.  What's more shocking? That she immediately asked Trump for a pardon or that she actually lives in a townhome in Carrollton? (Side note: Did you know this gal is 50 year old? Dare I say she's a pretty good lookin' little terrorist?)

  • But the little fireball is always closing. Two examples:


  • We had a twofer: A county commission and a "cowboy for Trump" was arrested. 

  • If you haven't seen the 12 minute video released by the The New Yorker of the storming of the Capitol, you need to.
    • Couple of random shot:
      Going through Ted Cruz's notes. 


    • The Evil Empire was represented! 

    • Of course, they said a prayer. 



    • Why is this?

  • So I spend almost all of Friday's Random Thoughts on how you're an idiot if you think Trump is going to declare Martial Law under the Insurrection Act and then the idiot My Pillow Guy shows up at the Oval Office Friday afternoon carrying notes about Martial Law and the Insurrection Act. (It sounds like even Trump didn't listen to him.)


  • Wall Street Journal:  Trump's tweet of "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" inspired the Proud Boys. (Who didn't know that?) 


  • Take a look at four female new Republican Congressmen twitter accounts. The QAnon supporting Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) absolutely dwarfs the others in followers. That would seem to be a Republican problem. And Republican Senator Ben Sasse penned an article this weekend in The Atlantic saying just that. 




  • From last Friday in Austin. The dude is wearing overalls. 

  • You know what I'm not ruling out? Chief Justice Roberts, who presides over Trump's impeachment trial, dismissing the case on the Motion of Trump for want of jurisdiction, To-wit: You can't impeach a president no longer in office. 
  • Here's a great question. What if Trump actually did form a third party? And what if on the next November ballot in 2022 in Wise County for a local county wide race, Candidate A was from the Trump Party and Candidate B was from the Republican Party. Which one wins? If I'm the Republican candidate, I'd be scared to death. 



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1.15.2021

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

(Yes, the last one is about a year old, but I was reminded of it again this week. Still makes me laugh.)
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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

 


  • Texas hospitalizations: Slight drop from second day in a row. Next week will tell us more. 

  • The guy who beat the cop with a flag pole said, "Death is the only remedy for what's in that building" after he beat him. 

  • The guy who threw a fire extinguisher is an ex-firefighter. Video. 

  • Good pic of the "Law and Order" crowd surrounding a cop at the Capitol. 

  • Tremendous headline. 

  • Why was everyone so shocked the Trumpers stormed the Capitol with the intent of taking hostages? This just happened last November:

  • [Warning: Multiple bullet point subject.] Ok, this stopped me down yesterday. I started hearing way too many very stupid people talking about "martial law" being declared over the next six days, and the need to stock up on food and water.  And then I went down the rabbit hole. 
    • I first saw lots of stories about the rumor's falsity (surprise!) and how it could be tracked to QAnon and nutcases in general (double surprise!)

    • Then I saw this story in the Star-Telegram -- a story about a subject which went national yesterday. The pastor is Brandon Burden, lead pastor at KingdomLife Church in Frisco.
      Looks like an expensive piece of property.

    • Thanks to a then-existing Facebook link to the sermon in the article, I was able to watch all one hour and thirty-six minutes of it. It has since been deleted -- probably as a result of all the press yesterday.  I'm so pissed. I desperately wanted you to see it. If anyone can find it, please send me a link. (The rest of the sermons are still up -- Just this one was taken down.)

    • EDIT: Here it is. The full thing! (Thank you faithful reader!) If you only watch five minutes, please go here and then here. 
    • I can't tell you how amazing it was. A normal looking pastor in a Pentecostal like church saying the craziest stuff you've ever heard.  

    • He told his congregation last Sunday that Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 2019 (uh, they didn't) which gives Trump the authority to arrest people at the "highest level of government" and try them in front of "military tribunals" and, he told his people, that this was going to happen before the inauguration. In fact, he added, "they have already started to arrest" people. 
    • He screamed "Arrest the traitors!" during a prayer asking God to send his "senior" angels "to find them . . . wherever they are hiding - expose their hiding places!" All of this in front of an adoring crowd. 
    • It was a Trump worship service. He repeated how Trump was anointed by God, how the people -- with Texas leading -- will rise up against Washington as he compared D.C. to the City of Jericho.  At one point he "found" the beat of the U2 cover band playing in the background (why does every progressive church have a U2 cover band?) and began speaking of "the sound of war." 
      They marched the flags down the aisles -- Texas flag commanded to be 
      first. The other flags were the Christian (?) flag and the flag of Israel. 

    • "We have an executive order—not from Congress or D.C., but from the desk of the CEO of heaven, the boss of the planet. He said from his desk in heaven, this is my will; Trump will be in for eight years." It is the church's job to "execute that order", he said.
    • Finally, at the end of the hour and a half service, he tells his white congregation that he didn't want to alarm them, but they needed to be "smart" over the next several days just in case this "this goes into a military tribunal situation." He told them to stock up on water, get a generator, a short wave radio, encouraged guns, and even reminded everyone that under the Castle Doctrine that they can shoot anyone who breaks into their homes. (He joked about shooting someone at the doorstep and dragging them inside but warned of the evidence trail of blood it would leave.)
    • Oh, and also "take off your Apple update" from your phone because "they" will try to prevent Trump from communicating through the use of the National Emergency System. 
    • Of course,  he reminded everyone that the church would have a speaker on Tuesday night about the "truth behind Black Lives Matter." (Earlier, for no apparent reason, he mocked Native Americans with a cartoonish accent saying, "White man coming!")  
    • So here's my question: Is this just some random nutcase or is this happening in small churches all across the South? And how many people don't think he is nutty at all?
    • It was pure White Christian Nationalism calling for a revolution and the overthrow of the United States.
    • How many people out there believe what he is saying? And how much of it is some deranged view of "faith"? Remember that the video I linked to yesterday of the Frisco realtor (what's up with Frisco?) as she filmed herself as she apparently walked in the Capitol  showed her yelling, "In the name of Jesus!"  Heck, I've long pointed out how Robert Jeffress is a disciple of Trump and not Jesus. 
    • You know what I think? I think a lot of people believe this. A whole lot of people. They are sitting next to you. They look normal. They talk normal. But they are either as dumb as a box of rocks or willfully ignorant,  and they believe anything they are pre-disposed to believe -- especially if they read it on Facebook. 
    • I've always known a significant percentage of our population wasn't that bright, but I never knew they were so gullible. But the problem is that they are gullible and dangerous. 
    • But, hell, Gov. Greg Abbott fell for Jade Helm. 
    • By the way, it seems like all of this Insurrection Act crap got started because of a fake Parler post from someone claiming to be Trump.  It would be easy to blast people who fell for this -- and I do -- but they at least have a defense in that Trump is so unstable that you could actually believe he went over the edge and said it.  That is what he has done to the country. But this false post is why Amazon took Parler down. It was a clear and present danger to the United States for allowing this: 
    • Folks, this country is in deep trouble.  
    • End of rant.
  • Even those who stick to real news instead QAnon garbage have a weird focus:

  • Is Trump's staff stealing stuff from the White House? Didn't Trump tell us to start shooting when the looting starts?

  • I still subscribe to my "ads described as segments" theory, and I still see it all the time. Like all these people on Fox and Friends First just happening to eat Taco Bell before dawn this morning. 

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 560 days
  • Messenger: Above the Fold.
That's the best picture they could get of the the school administrator? (Right column)


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