The LuLac Edition #5, 293, April 8th, 2025

 

THE PETTINESS AND MEANNESS CONTINUES

The man child MAGA voters put in charge now is asking his Supreme Court to detain a man that was excited to a jail BY MISTAKE to block his release. EVEN THOUGH HIS ADMNISTRATION SAID YES. The Justice Department argued in an emergency appeal to the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.

The administration has conceded that Abrego Garcia should not have been sent to El Salvador because an immigration judge found he likely would face persecution by local gangs. So once more Trump is paying with the lives of innocent people.

Here’s why Trump is so pissed.

1.   The Judge is a woman. He can’t stand them.

2.   He is undermining his own administration, who said it was an administrative order.

Doesn’t he want to fix a mistake? Any normal person would but he see a man of color and a woman judge.

His HATE is showing.

 

CANADA MEANS BUSINESS AND IT ISN’T OURS

Florida hotel vendor with a stack of cancellations from Canada   

(Photo: CNN)

When I was working in the travel industry, I learned that Pennsylvania was the main stopping over place for Canadian snowbirds who were coming from Ontario on their way to and from Florida. Hotels and restaurants did very well.

But now Canadians are canceling reservations to Florida.

Even air travel is down. Big time.

Canadian air travel to the United States has seen a 13 percent drop in February, while land border crossings by Canadians decreased by 23 percent1. Airline reservation data shows severe declines exceeding 70 percent in monthly bookings through September 2025.

Canada was our biggest trading partner. Right now, there is an election for Prime Minster in Canada. John Kearney the Liberal party candidate and Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre disagree on what is good for Canada.

But WHAT THEY AGREE ON 100%  is that Trump is wrecking not only the Canadian economy but the world economy too.

CANADIAN ADVERTISING  AND BOOZE

Canadian businesses give 70% o their advertising to American media. Now Canadian media is asking those b businesses in the provinces to reduce their budgets by 20% and give it back to Canada. They have radio ads beseeching advertisers to buy Canadian because the people will come.

Then there’s the spirits. Canadian officials responded swiftly to Trump’s move, with Ontario Premier Doug Ford directing workers at the province’s government-run liquor retailors to remove all US products – from California chardonnay to Jack Daniel’s whisky – from the shelves. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is one of the world’s largest wholesalers and sells about $1 billion worth of US liquor per year.

 

BRESNEHAN BREAKS INTO THE GRAY LADY EARLY

It generally takes a Congressman from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton a few years to get a mention in the New York Times. Congressman Joe McDade was mentioned in a line when former Governor Bill Scranton was named UN Ambassador by President Ford. That was 10 years after he took office.

Dan Flood was mentioned in the course of the John F. Kennedy campaign. That was 14 years. Paul Kanjorski had a mention 8 years into his term when being described as a moderate Congressman. It took Lou Barletta about a year with his immigration stance and Cartwright about the same time.

But here was Rob Brsenehan in the New York Times 3 months and change into his first term.

And it wasn’t pretty.

Remember last year when all the trailer park MAGAs, union and military ingrates and fellow millionaires were bitching about how “elite” Matt Cartwright was because he had an airplane and dressed better than they did? It was like Cartwright was this enemy of the working class when in fact he brought millions of dollars to the district to help ordinary folks.

During the campaign, Rob Bresnahan told Pennsylvanians he’d end stock trading in Congress and even promised voters that he would “happily co-sponsor” a bipartisan bill to ban the practice. Sounded good but it was a lie.  A broken promise. Now before you start blaming Nancy Pelosi who has done the same thing, remember she used the system in place, just like the MAGA President did with everything you could imagine.

Bresnahan has broken that promise.  The aforementioned New York Times has reported that since taking office, Bresnahan has become the most prolific stock trader among his freshman class, executing over 264 trades—totaling $1.7 million in purchases and $3.03 million in sales (median income in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District is $61,140, according to Census data).

While my family’s 401K is hemorrhaging (as well as others I know who aren’t rich) this guy is trading at a level in the MILLIONS. No wonder the guy can’t do face to face meetings.

Wait it gets BETTER!

Bresnahan’s portfolio includes tens of thousands of dollars in stock in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant known for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

So the party of MAGAs who call Democrats commies and socialists back a guy who makes money on China, right?

I have no issue with Bresnehan as a person.  At first, I didn’t understand his sudden departure from his promise, Then it occurred to me in stark terms.

HE’S RICH. HE WANTS TO GET RICHER. He does that on the backs of the misguided MAGAs who don’t have a pot to you know what in, to young people who are modest means to think they can become him and doesn’t really understand what it is to lose $40,000 in a money market because of a policy that undermines the United States economy but the worlds.

As Rickie Ricardo said to Fred Mertz, “He’s got some ‘splain’ to do.