Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The time Tiger Woods had a tooth knocked out. 

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• Trump and his clan attended the traditional inaugural prayer service yesterday morning and heard a sermon of compassion. Watching them all squirm was pretty entertaining.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He finally got all big mad in the middle of the night: 
  
  
  
• You are either going to care about this story or you won't, but this is pretty wild. He was serving a life sentence for creating the Amazon of drug trafficking stores (and probably hired a hitman or two):
  
  
  
• I've written about this book before and it is absolutely fantastic.
  
  
  
  
• When I visited the now-closed Newseum in D.C. a few years back and went through an FBI exhibit, they were so proud of the case they even had his seized laptop on display. I snapped this picture. 
  
  
  
• Trump, in his announcement, could have a least spelled his name right. (By the way, the "scum" Trump is referring to is the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.  Strange times.)
  
  
  
• New this morning: U.S. Attorneys will be keeping an eye on local police departments and sheriff's offices.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hey, what happened to this promise?
  
  
  
• Random Insurrection Pardon notes:
• Rep. Lauren Boebert went to the federal prison in D.C. yesterday: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Granbury-native Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group, was released from federal custody three years into his 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy after being commuted." As expected, he showed no remorse.
  
  
  
• It's really no surprise how basically every Republican lawmaker wouldn't condemn the pardons yesterday. That's because they fear Trump and his mob.  No one will stop him this time.
  
• As we gear up for mass deportations, Trump held a press conference yesterday and showed he had no idea what that the H1-B visas are: "I know the program very well. I use the program, maître d's, wine experts, even waiters, high quality waiters. You got to get the best people." Video.  Sheesh. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Netflix prices are going up again.
  
  
  
• I didn't mention President Biden pardoning five family members yesterday because it made perfect sense to me.  He had to protect them against a madman who is capable of doing anything to anyone for no reason.