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We’re going to go a little light with this edition of the 5QT, because I think we need it.

And I’m renewing my commitment to make the five things actually quick. So what follows is an expression of that, and not at all that I’m exhausted and mailing this column in. Because I would never do that, you know.

So, ummm, anyway…

1. Making America’s Showers Great Again

This might well be my favorite Trump executive order…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order reversing a federal regulation on water pressure, a longstanding source of concern for the commander-in-chief.

“I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” he said during remarks in the Oval Office. “You have to stand under a shower for fifteen minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip drip drip. It’s ridiculous.”

Trump in the past has pointed to the regulation — a relic of the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden — for contributing to less-than-optimal water pressure.

In the president’s executive order, he rolled back restrictions pertaining to the water flow from shower heads.

“Hopefully, we’ll have Congress approve it,” Trump said Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal obtained a draft of the order before the singing.

“No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless,” the draft said, per the WSJ. The order also said it wanted to “Make America’s Showers Great Again.”

The previous rule went into effect under Obama and was rolled back by Trump — who had complained about not getting enough water from showers to wash his hair — during his first term.

“So shower heads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out,” he said in 2020. “So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.”

Trump talking about his hair is practically a Saturday Night Live sketch, from back when Saturday Night Live was funny. But he’s absolutely correct — having to jailbreak your shower head so you can get a proper shower is the kind of anti-quality of life idiocy we’ve come to know from the Democrat Party.

Ace of Spades nailed this…

The left’s entire mission can be boiled down to let’s f**k with people for almost no reason, just to show that we can, just to feel powerful in our impotence, just to dominate people who are better and stronger than we are.

And they’re consistently baffled when the people revolt because they don’t like anti-productive busybodies constantly f**king with them to prove that they have Power over other people.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. And now I can plan a trip to Home Depot soon, because that pre-Obama shower head in the middle bathroom is on its last legs. Trump couldn’t have rescued that shower at a better time.

2. Mr. Wonderful Wrecks MSNBC Host on China

Jose Diaz-Balart is one of the more nondescript hosts that the increasingly nondescript MSNBC deploys. But when Diaz-Balart brought investor Kevin O’Leary on to talk about the Trump tariffs and trade conflict with China.

O’Leary absolutely went off on the world’s most destructive rogue state after Diaz-Balart attempted to go soft on the Chinese, and it was glorious.

🔥WOW: Kevin O’Leary ERUPTS at MSNBC host who tries (and FAILS) to PIN HIM for applauding President Trump’s pressure campaign against China!

“They cheat, they steal. They don’t play by the rules. And I’ve had enough!”

“I don’t care about the volatility. I don’t care if Trump… pic.twitter.com/eRZ4wjAetK

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 10, 2025

Thank you, Mr. Wonderful.

3. Where Are the “I Stand With China” Tweets? You Know They’re Coming.

I joked on X Thursday morning that it’s just a matter of time before we’ll see the performative anti-Trump idiots siding with Xi in the trade conflict.

I was joking. Not completely. And I found myself rewarded in due time.

You might have seen the state propaganda X account of the Chinese government — at least I think that’s who it was — dredging up an old video of Mao Zedong bloviating about “never backing down” against the U.S. back at the height of the Korean War in 1953. The response to that was less than respectful or supportive.

Generally. But then there was this guy…

Dear @SpoxCHN_MaoNing this’s the strong statement the world needs to hear especially from China we’re in full support of Beijing this bully who thinks the world revolves around it made a huge mistake his tariffs will terrify its citizens hard in their pockets

— Ronnie Pitso (@PitsoRonnie) April 10, 2025

4. Riding a Horse in Walmart, Because…Why?

Here in Baton Rouge, this incident caused a mini-sensation just out of weirdness…

Bizarre, right? Why on earth would anybody want to ride a horse through a Walmart?

Well, I don’t know.

I’d say these guys are original. Except they aren’t. When I searched for that video at YouTube’s site I also found this…

and this…

and also this…

not to mention this…

No, I can’t explain the attraction. Unless this has to do with an attempt to be the weirdest Walmart customer.

And let’s face it, this kind of activity won’t win that competition.

So anyway…

5. Kevin Bacon Is Back. He’s Dead, but He’s Back.

If you’ve paid attention to Melissa and I at The Spectacle, you’ll know that we’re both very surly about the quality of the content on all the streaming services of late. We laid into Adolescence, the Labour Party anti-wypipo propaganda show out of the U.K., which has been atop Netflix’s charts for a few weeks now, and I threw a fit about the atrocious writing of 1923 on Paramount Plus while Melissa groused about Amazon’s Wheel of Time.

By the way, 1923 did get a little better with a payoff in the last episode, but not enough to make it less than a disaster. I can’t remember being more disappointed in a season of a TV show. Just awful.

But two episodes in, Guy Ritchie’s British crime drama MobLand (Paramount Plus), starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Paddy Considine, and Helen Mirren, definitely has potential.

And then this thing popped out at Amazon (warning: a little salty language)…

The Bondsman is definitely a Blumhouse show. It’s gory and gross, and it’s got nonstop comic-book violence, and you’ve got to have both a strong stomach and the ability to laugh at the gross-out horror-show stuff to enjoy it.

But within that, it’s actually a pretty fun watch, and, interestingly, there are some worthwhile values in it.

Bacon stars as Hub Halloran, a musician-turned-skip tracer who’s murdered by a villain he’s attempting to apprehend, and as the trailer notes, he’s sent to hell only to be brought back by the devil to hunt demons.

We find out that Halloran is anything but a good guy and probably deserved to be delivered into the devil’s clutches, but as he embarks on his campaign to save his Georgia town from the demons now plaguing it he also begins a quest for redemption — if for no other reason than he’d like to retire from demon-hunting without having to go back to hell.

It’s goofy and a bit simplistic, but The Bondsman just works.

I’m not sure Amazon can get too many seasons out of it before the series jumps the shark, but I actually liked it. Maybe you will too, if you aren’t put off by the blood-and-guts horror-show style.

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