Wednesday Potpourri

First, hedge fund tycoon Bill Ackman is not the only person to note the conceptual deformity, but why not begin with his succinct comment on the current political scene:

A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.

Second, meanwhile down in Argentina, the Javier Milei reforms are bearing fruit. Mario Nawfal reports:

MILEI’S “CRAZY” PLAN WORKED—ARGENTINA’S PAYCHECKS JUST HIT A 6-YEAR HIGH Private sector wages in Argentina just spiked to their best level since 2018—real wages hit 107 in Feb 2025, up from a sad 91 in late 2023. What changed? Oh, just Milei dropping economic reforms like they were hot. People called it “shock therapy.” Turns out, it was more “money therapy.” Critics yelled, “He’ll crash the economy!” Workers are now yelling, “Payday!”

Third, obviously, everyone is talking about the big show that Democrats are putting on in regard to a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member who is currently sitting in a Salvador prison. 

Allow border czar Tom Homan to explain. This, from an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl.

Homan said this, regarding Maryland Senator Van Hollen:

"What bothers me more than that is a U.S. Senator travels on our taxpayer dime to meet with a MS13 gang member." 

"What concerns me is Van Hollen never went to the border last four years, when Joe Biden had a 600% increase in s*x trafficking of women and children." 

"What shocks me is he's remained silent about the travesty that happened our southern border — many people died."

Fourth, from Elon Musk, in conversation with Joe Rogan, from February of this year:

As bad as Twitter was, the federal government is much worse. At least, Twitter passed audits.

“Twitter was at least break-even, and it had to pass an audit. The federal government is literally losing $2 trillion a year, and it fails its own audits.

There's a case where, Senator Collins gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, got no extra submarines, and then held a hearing to ask where the $12 billion went.

And they were like, we don't know—that was it. Only the federal government can get away with this level of waste.

The reason I'm putting so much effort into this is that I think it is a very dire situation. America's going bankrupt. That just can't happen.”

Fifth, Larry David-- you remember him-- just wrote a nasty and stupid op-ed for the New York Times entitled: “My Dinner with Adolph.” The subject was comedian Bill Maher’s dinner with President Trump.

The concept was sufficiently stupid to make its way into the Times. And sufficiently embarrassing to be penned by a man who has no shame.

Anyway, over at CNN Scott Jennings explained the game:

“But this isn't about that dinner. It's about the next one. Because this is the modern left. It's an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again.”

“It's to silence yourselves or we'll do it for you. That's the purpose of this op ed, so that the next comedian or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump.”

“This is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders.”

This is how the modern left enforces obedience: torch one person in public—so no one else dares step out of line.

Sixth, meanwhile in the movie theatres, Disney’s woke Snow White continues to fail, miserably. By the numbers, via PJ Media:

In its fifth weekend on screens, "Snow White" earned about $7 million in ticket sales domestically and internationally, bringing the total box office take to an estimated $194 million. The film cost an estimated $270 million (after tax credits!) plus another $70-$100 million to market and probably needs $625 million, after theaters take their cut, just to break even.

Seventh, in the therapy world, we now have a distinguished Brooklyn therapist named Natasha Cohen. She was trying to set a good example for her child patients, so she did something stupid. The New York Post has the story:

The Brooklyn woman accused of leaving a brick scrawled with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on a parked Tesla is a super-woke family therapist who was involved in criminal justice diversion programs — and blamed Elon Musk for her heinous actions as she was taken into custody.

Natasha Cohen was released on her own recognizance following her arraignment on hate-crime charges Saturday night, according to prosecutors.

Cohen, 46, has a private practice, working with children, adolescents and their families for more than two decades.

Eighth, in once-Great Britain the Supreme Court has declared that there are only two sexes. Now, even Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has come around to this view.

Julie Burchill has mostly opposed transmania, as has J.K. Rowling. Now Burchill has a few words about Rowling’s case:

Many brave people – mostly women, but joined by a few exceptional men – have sacrificed much for the victory we finally took receipt of in the Supreme Court last week. They have been robbed of reputations, careers, relationships and – almost – sanity, as much of the world’s establishment and institutions went gender-woo gaga and told us that women could have penises, men could grow cervixes and giraffes are born without sex. …

Until she was hated, I never cared for J.K. Rowling. The idea of anyone over the age of majority who could be reading, say, Lionel Shriver instead wasting their time reading stories about boy wizards irritated me intensely. There were so many of these clowns, apparently, that special ‘adult’ covers of the Potter books were being manufactured, to cover their embarrassment. As with adult babies, I must admit an intolerant part of me felt that such people should probably have their voting rights removed if they were not willing to fully embrace the blessed state of being a grown-up.

Last but not least, I now have some free consulting hours in my life coaching practice. If you are interested email me at StuartSchneiderman@gmail.com.