OUR NEWS INDUSTRY AND THE JUNTA SHOULD REMEMBER THIS:  Once Burned, Twice Wary.

But it might already be too late.

I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THIS:  If you thought calling women “birthing people” was bad….

As the left careens at speed past peak insanity screaming “hold my decaffeinated natural cream latte”…  Can this country even produce enough Thorazine for the emergency?

ONCE IT’S HAPPENSTANCE; TWICE IS A COINCIDENCE; THRICE IT’S ENEMY ACTION:  Sometimes a Coincidence isn’t a Coincidence.

YEAH, BUT DID HE CALL HER FAT? CHALLENGE HER TO PUSH UPS?  Biden Yells at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins After She Asks About Putin.

Sure. She’s a dog faced pony soldier, but all the same this seems like Biden might perhaps have overreacted.

THE PRESIDENT WE ELECTED IS BETTER THAN THE USURPER:  Trump Will Visit Border on June 30 With Texas Gov. Abbott.

AND THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE, AGAIN:  Cuomo: Another Report Confirms What We All Knew.

BECAUSE, OF COURSE THEY DO:  Today’s blacklisted American: Wells Fargo blacklists Republican candidates for Congress.

How long will you tolerate this?

KEEP THIS ARTICLE AROUND IN CASE YOU RUN OUT OF SYRUP OF IPECAC AND ACCIDENTALLY POISON YOURSELF:  Dinner With Kamala, Cheese Puffs No Border Talk.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  New studies: Plexiglass does nothing; masks carry diseases; lockdowns destroyed 40% of all small businesses.

All while they prevented Hydroxychloroquine from being used to save lives.

If we don’t call this evil, what are we saving the word for?

MANDATING MINIMUM WAGE IS LIKE MANDATING RAIN:  Minimum Wage Employees Might Lose Out With $15 Per Hour.

Despite the wishful thinking of idiots and Marxists (BIRM) Economics is a science. Also, the real minimum wage is always zero.

SNOPES IS THE POLITE TERM FOR “BULLSH*T” ISN’T IT?  Fact-Checking Snopes On “Well-Regulated Militia”.

MEH. FOR HEALTH REASONS, AS WELL AS REASONS OF HEREDITY IT’S UNLIKELY I’LL EVER BE SKINNY:  When Good Ideas Go Too Far.

That said, if I stopped trying to control it, I’d be… 500 lbs and unable to move. BTW the government trying to convince us one diet fits all is no help to anyone. Particularly since their favored diet for everyone is carbs and more carbs. (Now with a side of bugs.)

SO A PERFECT FIT IN THE JUNTA’S TEAM?  Biden Land Management nominee ‘collaborated with eco-terrorists,’ traded testimony for immunity.

MOST COMPANIES THAT CLAIM TO BE GREEN OR GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT ARE ENVIRONMENTAL HORRORS:  Once-Celebrated Onalaska Company Leaves Behind 100,000 Gallons of Hazardous Waste.

The same goes for appliances, regulations, new formulas for asphalt, etc. etc. ad nauseam.  The only constant I’ve found in all the “Green” and “environmentally conscious” bull excreta pushed at us from everywhere is that it will use twice as much of what it purports to save, pollute three times as much as the old “dirty” methods and generally do nothing of worth. But hey, it allows would-be-dictators to preen and tell others how to live.

WHY IS IT ANYTIME THE DEMOCRATS GET SCARED THEY OBSESS ABOUT SPACE ALIENS?  UFOs could threaten US security, pols say after Capitol Hill briefing.

THOSE WHO THINK THE MALE GAZE IS OBJECTIONABLE WON’T BE HAVING DESCENDANTS:  Victoria’s Secret Commits Suicide.

I’d say the new plan is to appeal to butch lesbians, but that’s silly. By calling their new models the “VS Collective” they clearly want to appeal to communist butch lesbians.  I don’t think they’ve thought this through, though. There’s no way to put a Mao collar on a pair of panties.

Roll left and die, Victoria’s Secret. Roll left and die!

TOM COTTON FINISHES DICK DURBIN AFTER HE STUPIDLY COMPARES ENDING FILIBUSTER TO STORMING NORMANDY BEACHES:

“What makes the tweet especially cutting is that the remarks in question were specifically made in response to a question Durbin was asked at the time about then-President Trump calling on GOP Senators to abolish the filibuster. As you’ll recall, Republicans could have ended it at Trump’s request, but they didn’t.”

FLASHBACK: Thoughts on a Conservative Resistance.

OPEN THREAD: Hit me with your best shot.

HOW’S THAT “WELCOME WAGON” PROJECT COMING ALONG? Florida Sheriff To Blue-State-Migrants: Don’t Vote The Way You Did Before “Or You’ll Have Here What You Had There.

Florida needs to follow Texas’ lead: “Newcomers moving to Texas will also receive a pamphlet outlining the history and policies that make Texas what it is, thus putting the ‘welcome wagon’ project that myself, Glenn Reynolds, and others have sought to establish into state law.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to launch 3 astronauts to space station tonight. Liftoff is scheduled for 9:22 pm ET.

UPDATE: “China has successfully launched the Shenzhou 12 astronaut mission to its Tiangong space station core module Tianhe.”

A TRILLION HERE, AND TRILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: Biden’s $6 Trillion Blowout Budget Proposal Would Have Three Embarrassingly Bad Results, Study Finds.

Not least of which: Deutsche Bank Issues a Terrifying Warning for America Under Biden. “The authors warned that ‘neglecting inflation leaves global economies sitting on a time bomb.’ They noted similarities between the 1970s and today.”

Fortunately, President Biden takes economics seriously: “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” And we’re all paying for Biden’s rejection of sound economic policies. “The irony is that Biden’s rejection of Friedman’s teachings on money, taxes, and spending may bring about the same circumstances that established Friedman’s preeminence. In a year or two, the American economy and Biden’s political fortunes may look considerably different than when Janet Yellen blurted out the obvious about inflation. Voters won’t like the combination of rising prices and declining assets. Biden’s experts might rediscover that it is difficult to control or stop inflation once it begins. And Milton Friedman will have his revenge.”

As their photo last month illustrated, Biden is Jimmy Carter, super-sized.

JIM TREACHER: Libs Are Still Lying About Congressional Baseball Shooter James T. Hodgkinson. After all, what’s their incentive to tell the truth?

Four years ago this week, a leftist lunatic named James T. Hodgkinson shot at a bunch of Republican lawmakers during their baseball practice in Alexandria, VA, almost killing House Majority Whip Steve Scalise. And ever since that day, our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the media have gone out of their way to erase Hodgkinson’s name from history.

That’s because he was one of their own, a Bernie Bro who vocally hated the GOP, and he went to that baseball field with the express purpose of killing as many Republicans as he could. As the Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney concluded: “The evidence in this case establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspect, fueled by rage against Republican legislators, decided to commit an act of terrorism as that term is defined by the Code of Virginia.”

We know what Hodgkinson did and why he did it.

And now CNN contributor and noted fabulist Andrew McCabe is lying about it, because that’s his job.

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I’m old enough to remember the days before CNN stood for Certainly Not News. They can blame their declining ratings on Fox News if they want, but they’ve done this to themselves. There’s just no coming back from this sort of self-inflicted reputational damage. I don’t trust the Republicans any more than CNN does, but I trust CNN to tell the truth about the Republicans even less.

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

WE WERE SOMEWHERE AROUND WILMINGTON ON THE EDGE OF THE GOLF COURSE WHEN THE DRUGS BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD. Hunter Biden’s Crack-Fueled Misadventures:

Hunter Biden interjects two paragraphs into his book explaining what he did to earn those huge paychecks from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma — something about corporate governance and facilitating contacts with folks he says he knew in Mexico — but dozens of pages explaining how he spent the money. Mainly it went to his most assiduously pursued hobby: crack.

Wheeeee! What a story. The gonzo “I’m a crackhead” chapters in the memoir Beautiful Things are a lot more convincing than the half-dozen “I make for a formidable player in any respectable company’s internal oversight mechanism” sentences. Hunter Biden is amazed he’s still alive. I’m amazed, too. At the end of the book I wanted to give him a standing ovation for not being dead. If you didn’t know Hunter himself was telling the story, you’d expect to hear at any moment that some scumbag or other has simply conked him on the head, stolen his stuff, and left the body to cool under a broken streetlight on a forbidding block in Bridgeport or Baltimore. It’s a commonplace to aver that one drug addiction is very much like any other. Untrue! cries Hunter Biden. It turns out that being a crack addict is tremendously unlike being, say, a Riunite devotee or a Lucky Strike fiend.

From what Biden tells us, in the three years before his father announced his presidential candidacy, he spent night after night crawling into the worst neighborhoods in America hundreds of times, probably thousands of times, dealing with the worst characters, flush with money and willing to do almost anything for the next hit. Advantage was taken by certain fellows whose specialty it is to separate crack fiends from their money.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: ‘No yellow!’ Hunter Biden used slur to refer to Asians in 2019 texts with his cousin Caroline who asked if he preferred ‘foreign or domestic’ women — as he’s already been blasted as racist for using the n-word.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Healthy levels of vitamin D may boost breast cancer outcomes.