Friday Potpourri: 2 May 2025

The best thing you’ll see this week (If you haven’t seen it yet) is Governor JB Pritzker’s speech from last Sunday at a New Hampshire fundraiser. It is PITCH PERFECT. Drop what you’re doing and watch it. You won’t be sorry.

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Canada Oh! Canada

Congratulations on the election of Mark Carney and the Liberals. It was such a wash that Pierre Poilievre, who was running for PM, actually lost his riding (their equivalent of our Congressional seats).

On Election Day, the Orange Menace tried to get Canadians to vote Conservative.

Also Canada:

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My Current Theory

Lots of people are curious why VonShitzenpants is trying to tank the US economy. Most theorize that it’s because he actually believes in tariffs as something that will work to build the American economy through monies to the Treasury and eventually the resurgence of manufacturing.

I think he doesn’t understand anything about economics, and doesn’t even know what happened with the McKinley and Smoot and Hawley tariffs.

What I DO think is that the pee tapes are real, and that Putin has even more on the Convicted Felon than we know, and Putin asked him to do this because it puts Russia in a better position the weaker the US ends up.

Just a thought.

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And Now, Humor and Other Things I Found Interesting This Week

For anyone who’s ever done tech support…

And finally, if you are interested in the THOUSANDS of dollars that Washington politicos spend on food and drink in DC, along with which party favours which restaurant, click this link. And yeah, they spend donated dollars at these places….that’s OUR contributions. Biggest single spender? Steve Scalise spent $ 155,563.09 at the Capital Grille. Can’t make it up.