2.03.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Our County Judge had been in office for only a month and
was already making baller moves. 

  • I'm so used to seeing fake stories online that my brain initially doubted even this headline from the Dallas Morning News yesterday --  which was actually the first thing I looked at after I got up. (Kudos to them for having late breaking news in the Sunday morning edition.)

    • The Villains: Billionaire owner Miriam Adelson and general manager Nico Harrison

    • Mavs fans treat the trade as if Luka had died at a makeshift memorial outside the AAC.

  • In one of the goofiest moves yet, Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. I'm not convinced the tariff threat isn't just a bluff. That he calls it off and then announces a victory despite nothing about the status quo changing at all.

    • The Wall Street Journal didn't mince words. 
    • And then Trump went back to his weird rant about making Canada the 51st state. Are we going to invade them like Austria?


  • After pardoning the criminals, Trump now fires their prosecutors and the police who investigated them.   We are watching a fascist revolution in real time.
  • Speaking of, eliminating the media, and replacing them with his Pravda-like mouthpieces, is another sign of fascism. Three major examples from the weekend:
Kicked out of the Pentagon

Musk's X is the official communication channel

Trump sues 60 Minutes and now his FCC
goes after them.
  • Did someone elect this oligarch to anything? 
    • He now has access to everything and control of the government's financial infrastructure.

    • And he's shutting down entities authorized by Congress. This one is the world's largest distributor of food assistance.

    • And is just a strange guy.

  • The guy is literally in a wheelchair.  And, yes, physical disability is included in DEI.

  • A Learjet crashed into the heart of Philadelphia on Friday night, and it came down like a rocket. Six onboard were killed and one on the ground.  Video 1. Video 2.
Someone's dashcam caught it.

It left an eight foot crater.
    • Watch debris from the crash fly into a restaurant and strike the guy circle in blue in the head. Video. 

  • Politician cosplay:
    • The new secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is really leaning into her gig.


    • State rep. Jeff Leach (middle) at the Fort Worth Stock Show playing cowboy as well. 

  • Kanye West's girlfriend showed up naked to the Grammy's last night. Video. (Insert appropriate warnings here.)


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1.31.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Oh, the old, fun days of social media.

  • Bridgeport's own J.T. Manoushagian had a busy night.




  • That's quite the collision yesterday.

     

  • There's a new and clearer video out there of the D.C. airplane/helicopter crash other than the one that was seen all over the place yesterday morning. 

  • Trump has said a lot of disgusting things, but he reached a new low yesterday morning when, with bodies still in the Potomac, he blamed minority hiring for the crash.  It was incredible. It was racist. It was sickening. He was an American embarrassment.


    • Video.

    • Video

    • Video. 

    • Just in case you were wondering. 


    • And then later in the day, he topped it off with this. Video.

  • This makes no sense. Are media entities just making payments to a mob boss now because they are scared of the consequences it they don't?

  • Great moment from the next FBI Director's confirmation hearing. Video.

  • It's been a stellar week for the Insurrectionists.
     

  • The Fifth Circuit was at it again yesterday. (PDF of opinion.)

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 212 days. 



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1.30.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




When the courthouse renovations are over, I hope they bring back
the guest book with a "remarks" column. Always fun to look at. 

  • Tragedy in D.C. last night at around 9:00 p.m. EST as an army Blackhawk helicopter collides with a landing AA passenger plane carrying 64 people. Video.  There are no survivors based upon a press conference this morning. 




    • There were  around 14 very young figure skaters who were Olympic caliber on the plane as well as a couple of famous coaches. They were "returning home from the National Development Camp held in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.” 

    • The President of the United States:

    • "Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, the new Secretary of Transportation this morning. Video.

    • I been telling you we were headed for a major collision around an airport. 
  • This is a wacky story. He was in a patient room and peaked out after waiting some 30 minutes, and the whole place was shut down.  "I'm at CareNow," he posted to social media. "They forgot about me. The alarm is going off and police are on the way. #CareLater."  (Now that's a funny hashtag.)


  • Wise County (in the red box) willed the heavy rain away for some reason last night.

  • Trump's federal spending "freeze" was put on hold and then (maybe) put back in place again in a matter of moments yesterday. No one seems to know what is going on. 

    • It's over:

    • No, it's not: Press Secretary's official tweet.

  • This is silly.  They are a private company and can ban whoever they wish.  This is closer to a bribe by Zuckerberg than a settlement. 

  • And you just thought I was kidding about the concentration camps. It begins.  No word yet on whether this will include waterboarding.  

  • Two of the nuttier people will have their confirmation hearings today at the same time.  That divides the public's attention in the "flood the zone" plan. 


  • “President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” He had gold bars in his home which were payments for bribes. 


  • Idiocracy: The National Weather Service is now referring to the Gulf of Mexico in a manner dictated by our dear leader.

  • Before the aircraft crash last night, Trump was hawking a book from the White House

  • Messenger - Above the Fold.

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