Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It really was the Church of Bits for a streak back then.

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• This is a little abbreviated today due to the wind storm causing a power outage, and then locking myself out of my office while collecting trash bins off the courthouse square. 
• Trump has shockingly stopped all aid to Ukraine. Now we know why the staged blow-up happened in the Oval Office on Friday -- it was a pretext to do this all along. 
  
  
  
• And "quick end to the war" means a Ukraine surrender.  
• So what's it going to take to get Trump and Zelensky back together again? Trump says that he needs Zelensky to apologize.  Sheesh. For what? And why does Trump sound like an ex-high school girlfriend?
  
  
  
• A 25% tariff went into effect at midnight on Canada and Mexico as well as an extra 20% tariff on China. Why? Who knows. If you complained about the price of groceries before, get ready.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Wall Street Journal's reaction:
  
  
  
• New this morning.  This is pure fascism. And "illegal" is doing a lot of work in his post below. It will mean whatever Trump and MAGA doesn't like - First Amendment be damned. It's over. 
  
  
  
• And something very similar is already starting locally involving Wise County's state representative:. Texas government is coming after if you dare say that genocide has been committed in Gaza (even if 50,000 are dead.) 
  
  
  
• Elon Musk called social security a "Ponzi scheme."
  
  
  
• And his DOGE cuts via chainsaw may very well cause the current social security system to stop functioning even if nothing is cut.
  
  
  
• I meant to post these headlines about Gaza yesterday -- an area and subject which is being buried in all the other news.  Maybe starving the people to death will facilitate Trump Tower Gaza construction:
  

  
  
  
• What in the world is up with Forest Hill?
• This happened yesterday morning in broad daylight:
  
  
  
• This from late February:
  
  
  
• And this was the next day: 
  
  
  
• Do not forget that school vouchers have yet to be voted on in the House. Tell Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper that as a rural representative, he should not gut our hometown schools. Email him online or call (512) 463-0582  or find him on Twitter @RepHopper. And you might want to ask him to have a townhall and face the fire like one of his compadres did of Friday.