ALL FAMINES FROM ABOUT THE 1600 ONWARDS ARE GOVERNMENT CAUSED: Media peddling a new ‘climate change’ lie.

Specifically they’re “stupid planning famines.”

I’d say #eatthecommies, but I know where they’ve been.

FOR A MOMENT THE TITLE THREW ME:  Unpacking the Port Part Two.

You see, the family room right now contains a tightly packed box of Port Wine.  I do need to unpack it. This is about more serious stuff.

ADULTS? OR CHILDREN IN GROWN BODIES:  A Talking Dinosaur, for Adults.

MAKE HER NAME TO SHINE:  America, as founded, is worth fighting for.

CLOSING THE BORDERS IN 3, 2, 1:  Hispanic vote migrating to GOP must terrify Dems.

SUING MIGHT BE TOO SLOW:  Here Are The Conservatives Suing Biden Over His ‘Unconstitutional’ Vaccine Coercion.

AND OUR FREEDOM. AND OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT:   Rep. Thomas Massie: Biden’s Vaxx Coercion Will ‘Destroy Our Economy’.

Fortunately (?) #teamheadsonpikes waits in the wings. Someone slip them a few pocket constitutions and maybe we’ll get lucky?

LOOK, IT’S NOT DIFFICULT: Election irregularities, election fraud, past and present.

We all saw the sudden closure and spike, election night. The chances of those being real are the same as of a coin, tossed in the air, coming down as a pink fluffy duck. Not in this reality. No amount of analysis is going to change what we saw. It’s “believing our lying eyes” time.

YOU CAN ONLY IGNORE OBJECTIVE REALITY SO LONG:  The Ouroboros Moment.

The shared psychosis of the American left is about to run out of steam, as universities run out of money and pupils. It’s an hothouse flower*. It only survives if protected.

*Possibly the Corpse Flower.

NAH, THEY THINK THEY’VE WON:  Democrats Determined to Go Big AND Go Home.

Look they still stole NJ. They’re the sort of people who think that cheating is a safe way to be in power forever. I expect them to start talking about the empire of a thousand years any minute now. They probably also think disconnecting the fire alarm means the house will never burn down.

#teamheadsonpikes waits in the wings. Reality is a stone cold b*tch. You can ignore it. It will end you.

CONSERVATIVES ARE AUTOMATICALLY WHITE:  The Squad: Winsome Sears? Never Heard Of Her.

LOOK, HE’S CLUELESS ABOUT HIS FEET:  Biden Is Clueless About His Own Administration.

HOW THE LEFT THINKS:

The mockery is based on the gut reaction that 12 gallons of milk a week is absurd. But with 11 people in the family, it’s an average of two and a half cups — 20 ounces — of milk per person per day.

One of the mockers — a sports editor at the Orlando Sentinel — tweets “Having to buy 12 gallons a week means you have an issue with contraception… not the price of milk.” But as you can see above, only 2 of the children are the natural offspring of the parents. The Stotlers have opened their home to 7 more children. And he’s sneering at them!

Mean and stupid, that’s the left today.

FAUCI IS A FRAUD:

FROM A FRIEND: “I didn’t expect to spend my twenties mad at the price of bread.”

AGE OF DISCOVERY 2.0: Episode 2 of a six-part podcast series I’m co-producing that looks at the past and future of human exploration. I was a guest on this episode — America’s New Destiny in Space, with Glenn Reynolds.

With private space companies launching rockets, satellites, and people at a record pace, and with the US and other governments committing to a future in space, Glenn Harlan Reynolds looks at how we got here, where we’re going, and why it matters for all of humanity.

OPEN THREAD: Walk the tightrope.

RITTENHOUSE DEFENSE SUGGESTS KENOSHA DA COLLUDED WITH DETECTIVE TO HIDE CELL PHONE EVIDENCE TAKEN BY WOUNDED MAN.

Earlier: FBI Spy Video Shows Kyle Rittenhouse Being Chased Down at Kenosha Riot…Which Explains Why You’ve Never Seen It.

PLENTY OF GUILT TO GO AROUND: The Tiki-Torch Hoax Should Not Be Blamed Only on the Lincoln Project’s Grifters.

Jim commented on the Intercept story about Lauren Windsor and the Lincoln Project attempting to defend their role in the now-infamous tiki-torch stunt at a Glenn Youngkin rally by making the case that they planned it as an open satire — sort of like “Billionaires for Bush” — rather than intending it to be a hoax that people mistook for actual white nationalists. Jim’s conclusion: “The simple answer seems to be the accurate one. The folks at the Lincoln Project are just stupid. Really, really stupid.”

That’s true, but there are two additional, related points worth considering here about why the blame should not stop with the Lincoln Project. One is about the media coverage. The story went national starting with Elizabeth Holmes, a supposedly straight-news reporter from NBC29 in Charlottesville, who presented the fake white nationalists as if they were for real:

Read the whole thing — and then check out this Twitter thread by Drew Holden, who spots additional players getting in on the action. “Now, you’ll notice that these tweets were never flagged for disinformation or anything of the sort. Something tells me that if the parties were reversed, some outlets may call this an organized attempt to spread lies days before an election to suppress the vote. The takeaway here should be clear: as I’ve said many times before, if a story perfectly, hilariously and inexplicably confirms all of your priors, it may well be too good to be true. It never hurts to wait for more details to come out. And it should go without saying, but it’s despicable behavior from @ProjectLincoln at a time when racial relations are, by any metric, bad and trending worse.”

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Massive comet exploding over Chile 12,000 years ago may have created strange glassy rocks.

MANCHIN AND SINEMA: Cassandras of the Senate.

After Biden surveyed the wreckage in Virginia, he urged his party to hit the gas pedal on passing the infrastructure and Build Back Better bills, suggesting that perhaps the failure to pass the acts affected the outcome of the Virginia governor’s race. This is a typical trick, one he learned from his old boss: if people don’t like the agenda, it must be because there isn’t enough of it.

But Manchin and Sinema are in the right here. They have navigated the negotiations patiently and deftly, perhaps aware of what happened to their party the last time an enormous unpopular package was rammed through Congress by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Obamacare was passed in 2010, but four years later the Democrats were still paying the price for its unpopularity. The 2014 midterm swing was the largest transfer of congressional power since World War Two. 2022 looks to not only be a repeat, but worse, even at local levels where the core of the Democratic Party power structure is in danger: teachers’ unions.

The media is haranguing Manchin and Sinema. Activists and members of their own party are hounding and alienating them. But the two senators who have urged restraint on Biden’s massive spending agenda not only find themselves looking like prophets for issuing electoral warnings but could very well find themselves as two of the safest members of the party. And they know it.

Sinema, and more to the point Manchin see what lies ahead of a rudderless president who can’t get out of his own way and is beholden to the far left and journalists on Twitter. They are both playing the long game for their own political futures. Their party is failing to take notice.

Related: Manchin, Spanberger: Fellow Dems better realize Biden’s no FDR.

UPDATE: Far left environmental activists swarm Joe Manchin’s Maserati as he tries to leave parking garage. “‘Weird that blocking someone from driving to work, screaming at them, and then pretending he was running you over didn’t make him empathize with you!’ added Maggie Howell, a staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Democrats’ war on suburban women includes inflation-fueling reckless spending.

The key to beating Trump, Democrats told us, was suburban women. They found The Donald crass and overbearing and unsuitable. Instead, Democrats gave them the soothing figure of Uncle Joe Biden. Uncle Joe is moving kind of slow these days, but after 40 years in politics, he offered a reassuring promise of returning to “normalcy.”

But no. Instead, it’s as if the Democratic Party has gone out of its way to alienate those very suburban women. The School Board Offensive, with Attorney General Merrick Garland treating angry moms like domestic terrorists, was bad enough and cost Democrats Virginia this week. White women swung an amazing 15 points toward the GOP from 2020. But the wave of consumer inflation the Democrats have unleashed with their reckless spending will make that look like, well, a shrunken bag of more-expensive Doritos.

Those bags of Doritos are getting smaller and more expensive because of what’s called “shrinkflation.” That’s where companies shrink their products to hide the extent of price increases. Something sold by the pound turns into a 12-ounce package at the same price. It’s everywhere nowadays.

Read the whole thing, of course.

I LOVED THAT PLACE: Cayman: Remembering the Crow’s Nest. Best conch fritters I’ve had anywhere, and lots of other quality local food, with lovely friendly people. Completely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, to the point that driving by it was hard to tell exactly where it had been.

WELL, CHARLES BLOW:

YEP: