BIDENFLATION: US inflation surges to 39-year high as consumer prices soar higher.

Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.

Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned Helen and I were at a dinner party Sunday where everyone reported having seen these stickers in various places around the country.

UPDATE: Via a friend:

Plus, from the comments: “Biden Misery Index = Unemployment Rate + Inflation Rate + Murder Rate.”

Related: Democrats’ war on suburban women includes inflation-fueling reckless spending.

ANOTHER UPDATE: “This is a such an obvious disaster that WaPo can’t find a way to help Biden or blame Republicans. There’s an ineffectual slap at Republicans — for blaming Democrats. But you can’t blame Republicans for blaming Democrats. The Democrats are in charge.”

I wonder if we’ll see more of those “I did that!” stickers in grocery stores?

HEATHER MAC DONALD: The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard: White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.

CYBERSECURITY: Lack of Patching Leaves 300,000 Routers at Risk for Attack. “A new report from security firm Eclypsium says that of the approximately 2 million MikroTik routers deployed in small-office and home-office (SOHO) settings, 1.88 million — or 94% — have the router’s management interface, Winbox, exposed to the Internet. The open ports are not the default setting, suggesting that either users are willfully undermining their security or the configuration is a sign that the devices have been compromised, says Scott Scheferman, principal cyber strategist at Eclypsium.”

WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE? LARRY KRASNER OR YOUR OWN LYIN’ GUNSHOT WOUND? Violent Crime Continues to Soar, No Matter What the Left Says.

STILL POPULAR: Let’s Go Bourbon!: The Bourbon Reader You’ve Always Needed.

BORDER WALL, BAD; IMAGINARY PERSONAL PRONOUNS, GOOD: Customs and Border Protection To Host ‘Unconscious Bias’ Seminar During Immigration Crisis.

JOHN LUCAS: Biden’s Diplomatic Boycott Of The Beijing Olympics Shows He’s A Weak And Unserious President. “To suggest that national policy must be shaped to avoid more modest sacrifices by these elite athletes is an insult to the service members and families who had no choice but to do their duty.”

FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: ‘Cowardly and malicious’: College Republicans fight anti-Semitism ‘hoax purveyors’ at Arizona State University.

“RESCUE:” Exposing the $1.9 Trillion Swindle By Democrats in the American Rescue Plan.

STILL POPULAR: New Apple AirPods Pro. #CommissionEarned

I WON’T BACK DOWN: Rittenhouse responds to ASU protestors: ‘I’m going to ASU… in person’.

HMM: Ghislaine Maxwell trial suddenly cut short Thursday after lawyer falls ill.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Who Could Have Seen This Coming? Hospitals That Laid Off Unvaccinated Staff Now ‘Overwhelmed.’

BATTLESWARM BLOG WITH MY FAVORITE HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Faster, Blue Cities! Kill! Kill! “Crime rates will continue to spiral until Democrats become more concerned with protecting law-abiding citizens from violent felons than earning social justice brownie points, or until the citizens of blue cities finally reach their breaking points and are willing to throw the bums out.”

WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE OTHER 39%? Main Street businesses reject Biden, won’t reelect 61%-39%.

STOPPED CLOCK: AOC’s latest rant about law enforcement actually makes a good point.

“This is an issue that so many people in this country cannot believe is real,” Ocasio-Cortez said . “Civil forfeiture means that the government, law enforcement, etc., is allowed to take away your property — often your car or even your home — without an arrest, without criminal charges, and without ever going to court. And then the police can sell your property and use the proceeds as revenue.”

Ocasio-Cortez has identified a very real problem. Over the last 20 years, the government has confiscated roughly $68.8 billion in property through this unfair process, according to the Institute for Justice. And, as the below graph shows, in 2019, the federal government alone — not even counting state and local law enforcement — stole more property annually than burglars did!

To be fair though, AOC isn’t entirely opposed to asset forfeiture for the right cause: AOC, who makes $175K a year, says taxpayers should have to pay off her $17K in student loan debt.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Jussie Smollett Should Spend the Rest of His Pathetic Life In Prison. “Smollett’s low-grade intellect allowed him to believe that a story about an attack by random MAGA dudes IN CHICAGO would be something he could sell to the public.”

GREAT STOCKING STUFFER: Atomic Bear Paracord Bracelet. #CommissionEarned

SLAVERY IN THE 19TH CENTURY, STILL BAD TODAY. SLAVERY NOW, NOT EVEN BAD TODAY. State Department Gives Corporate Excellence Award to Patagonia, Accused of Using Chinese Slave Labor.

WAPO WARNS: Come and see the systemic racism of electric vehicles.

Alternate headline: Will the Washington Post put the Babylon Bee out of business? We have barely moved off square one in the progressive push to eliminate internal-combustion engines (ICEs), and we’re already hearing about the upcoming systemic racism in their proposed replacement. Here’s the headline, which is almost a satire in itself of the old joke about media reporting on the end of the world:

Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanics communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles

Get ready for some new and woke vernacular in the EV era. Now we have to worry about “charging deserts”:

Look at any map of charging stations in the United States, and in most of the big cities, what is immediately apparent are big blank spaces coinciding with Black and Latino neighborhoods. Electric vehicle advocates call them charging deserts.

While electric vehicle use is growing rapidly in well-to-do, mostly White communities, minority neighborhoods are being left behind.

Maybe we need to recover a bit from the left-on-left violence of 2020 before worrying about “charging deserts:” Those ‘Food Deserts’ May Become Food Wastelands.

Elected officials and low-income advocates have been encouraging more grocery stores to locate in the food deserts to provide residents with at least one healthy alternative.

Unfortunately, the riots we are seeing in many cities are likely to bring those efforts to a halt—for years.

Would grocery store owners want to invest money in a building and stocking the shelves—or rebuilding and restocking the shelves—if there is a decent chance the store will be looted and burned?

Especially when some of the riot supporters have come to see looting as a feature rather than a bug.

Now do the same equation for installing expensive new charging stations in an area that could become a war zone. As Ed Morrissey concludes, “If we want to avoid ‘mobility justice’ and ‘charging deserts,’ maybe we shouldn’t implement a scheme with this much systemic racism built into it. Who knew the humble internal-combustion engine was so woke?”

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Methodist pastor relieved of duties after performing as drag queen.

CHANGE: Many more Democrats in Nevada are switching to Republican than vice versa.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Boat Wins Boat Parade Contest, Is Then Disqualified Because of Liberal Tears.

ABIGAIL SHRIER: What I told the students of Princeton: Show some self-respect and reclaim your freedom.

BIDEN’S A FAILURE, AND THE LINE OF SUCCESSION ISN’T ANY BETTER: Incompetent Kamala Harris is even worse than you think.

Then there’s Nancy Pelosi, who looks sharp and in charge only by comparison to Biden.