4.07.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




A state prosecution would end in a hung jury. A subsequent federal prosecution resulted in a 20 year sentence. 

  • A weekend timeline regarding the Trump Tariffs and his self-inflicted gunshot wound to the economy.  
    • On Friday, the stock market crashed, and Trump headed off to the golf course. The Wall Street Journal summarized it: 

    • His henchmen, meanwhile, tried to do damage control. Stephen Miller makes Joseph Goebbels seem charming as he lies with anger.

    • The White House provided a statement on Saturday: Was the news going to be that Trump was backing down on tariffs? Nope. We were told that Trump had advanced to the club championship for Sunday. Very Kim Jong Un.

    • On the Sunday morning talk shows, Trump administration officials floundered in  trying to justify why the tariffs were being imposed in the first place.  Get your little screwdrivers ready:

    • Yesterday on Air Force One, after four days of golfing and with the Monday morning stock market futures plummeting, Trump got to the important stuff. 

    • Then he fired off this tweet to indicate that he's not backing down on the tariffs as he threw in a few lies. 

  • Watch this development: A federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration to return by midnight tonight the man who was wrongly sent to the El Salvador prison.  The White House responded Friday night with a shocking retort:

    • And on Saturday: 


  • Protests occurred across the nation on Saturday. (And I found my favorite sign.)


  • Never mind that Congress passed a law banning it which was then upheld by the Supreme Court. But what do laws mean these days, right? 

  • Measles update.
     

  • Man, that's one big root system. 

  • Remember that big pile up in Austin where the truck driver was arrested for DWI?. The toxicology report came back and found no alcohol and no drugs.  The police have said the are "aware of the report" and  they are working with the DA to figure out the "appropriate charges."
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  • The Business Second™.

  • Texas Tech spring football practice on Friday afternoon: 

  • Stock market opens right now with the Dow down 1,125.



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4.04.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The former Wise County attorney in charge of misdemeanors passed away 10 years ago. The blurb above is from when he was in office. It was some wild days back then, but Hale, when it comes to marijuana, was just way ahead of his time.  

  • The hours after "Liberation Day" didn't feels too liberating.

    • Here comes China:

  • As the markets were crashing, Trump headed to Mar-a-Lago to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course.

     

    • And in case you wondering if he had anywhere else to be this weekend. 
  • Let's check in on Fox News was covering the tariffs impact on the markets. .


  • On his way to Florida on Air Force One, he showed off the new "Trump Card" which allows immigrants to buy their way into the U.S. for $5 million.

  • The fact that Laura Loomer even sets foot in the Oval Office, much less give advice that Trump heeds, is amazing.




      
  • I don't know if I would have hired this guy, but the proposed development in Collin County, which will welcome those of the Islamic faith, needs to fight back over the bigotry trying to stop it.  Affluent white Christians live in their own little enclaves all the time -- and then simply move to another one once it is no longer all white. When Muslims try to do it, everyone yells "Sharia law!!!"

  • This is an update on the the car that went into the Trinity River last weekend which led to the death of a child and mother (later at the hospital.)  But "Fort Worth police said they 'are not at liberty to say' what information led investigators to believe the crash was intentional." Uh, that's kind of important. 

  • Tell Wise County representative Andy Hopper not to sell out our public schools. The school vouchers are a scam to move your tax dollars to private religious schools which you have no control over and can't afford.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 276 days. 

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4.03.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




I think it was a cacomistle.

  • This is bad. Very bad.  
     

  • Trump imposed the greatest peace time tax in American history yesterday by assessing outrageous tariffs on imports from basically every country on earth.  He's a madman. And Congress, which has the constitutional power to impose tariffs, could change all this today. But they won't. 

    • Here's one of the charts of what tariffs the other countries impose on the U.S. and what Trump will impose "on them" as a consequence.  ("We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us because we are being very kind,” he said.) If those numbers in the middle column seem wrong and incredibly high, you're right because . . . 

    • . . . this is what he did to come up with the middle column numbers.  It's comical. We're doomed. 

    • And even though there are no tariff's imposed on Russia, North Korea or Belarus, Trump did impose a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands which have no one living on them except penguins. 

    • Trump had this guy speak at the tariff announcement who basically just said he loved Trump. Trump just stood by and nodded. Kim Jong Un would be pleased with this staged praise. 

    • Great moment from the event yesterday in the Rose Garden. Video. 

  • Oh my gawd.  Trump's very bad personal lawyer, Alina Habba, who he named as Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, immediately played cosplay cop and brought along the New York Post.


  • Oligarchy update:  
    • Zuckerberg joins Amazon's Jeff Bezos in having a mansion in D.C. to be closer to the center of government.


    • And Jeff Bezos wants to buy TikTok -- which faces a deadline to be banned again on April 5th.

    • Elon Musk is suggesting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was stolen, and he is using Alex Jones as his source.  Yep, we're doomed.

  • Oh, my.


  • Legal nerdy stuff for criminal practitioners: State rep Jeff Leach's HB 1762 would eliminate the option for deferred adjudication and straight probation for plea bargains and even trials if the defendant is an illegal alien. Incarceration would be the only option for all crimes. The bill was heard in committee yesterday. 
  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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