HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Berkeley Dorms Guarded by Cops Who Only Let Students Out To Eat, Use the Bathroom, or Get a COVID-19 Test.

UNEXPECTEDLY: House impeachment manager brings up the Charlottesville ‘fine people’ hoax during trial.

HE SPOUTS THE PARTY LINE, GRANTING HIM UNLIMITED IMMUNITY: Disney Fired Gina Carano for a Holocaust Post. What About Pedro Pascal?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Hoo boy… Gas is up 18% since Biden took office, but that’s just the beginning.

Related: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Has Buyer’s Remorse After Helping to ‘Fortify’ the Election.

[T]he members of the “conspiracy” — Time‘s characterization, not mine — put pressure on the media and social media to manage what Americans’ were allowed to see and read. They kept the pressure up as the Trump campaign attempted to demonstrate its claims of election irregularities in several states. We would come to find out that in swing states where vote-counting stalled there were significant infusions of cash into Biden-heavy districts. These donations funded a get-out-the-vote initiative through selected election offices that are supposed to be financed by the taxpayer. The Amistad Project currently has lawsuits against the counties that took the funds from the not-for-profit funded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife.

Yet the U.S. Chamber of Commerce partnered with these progressive groups and somehow expected Biden would not implement those groups’ radical wish list. The proposed energy policies alone should have scared them, but they didn’t. Now, with Biden’s express endorsement of a $15/hour minimum wage, the Chamber has objections.

Or to put it another way:

JIM TREACHER: What Did the Lincoln Project Know About John Weaver, and When?

MARK PULLIAM: NOT-SO-UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES. “The most controversial aspect of President Biden’s Executive Order, or at least the item that has received the greatest attention to date, is the likely impact on women’s sports.”

YOU STAY CLASSY, NANCY: Pelosi Banned GOP Congresswoman’s Military Officer Son From Attending Her Swearing-In.

HOLLYWOOD: And by the way, what does it say about America that something new called “QualityLand” is shunned and they’re bringing back “Beavis and Butt-Head”? “Watching ‘The Sopranos’ in the 1990s, I might have wondered, What would HBO be in the 2020s? If the only fact I had from the future was HBO will be generating new episodes of ‘Beavis and Butt-Head,’ I would have been terrified. What the hell will have happened to America?!”

Possibly related: The Decline of Intelligence in the West. “Recent studies have reported a worrisome decline in IQ scores in Western nations over the last decades, a reversal of the once-hopeful Flynn Effect (named after the late philosopher and psychologist James R. Flynn) which posited a growth in cognitive abilities for much of the 20th Century. Now the Flynn Effect seems to have reversed.”

RIP: Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79.

ALBANY DETERMINED TO FINISH OFF DECADENT BOURGEOIS NEW YORK CITY FOR GOOD: “State lawmakers in Albany, New York are considering imposing a tax on financial transactions. If they go through with it, the iconic New York Stock Exchange might actually leave the Empire State.”

21^st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym.

I’D BE MORE IMPRESSED IF THE PREVIOUS RECORD HADN’T BEEN HELD BY A FORD FIESTA: Porsche Taycan claims indoor speed record.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Review: Federal .357 Magnum HammerDown Ammunition.

LIVE IN FIVE… FOUR… THREE…: VIP Gold Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

OUCH: Bloomberg News is laying off about 100 editorial staffers.

FLASHBACK: Biden Compared Trump to Goebbels, Used Hitler in a Campaign Ad.

Every Republican for at least the last 20 years has been Literally Hitler™, but Gina Carano makes one on-point reference and she’s canceled.

READER BOOK PLUG: From J.P. Mac, Death Honk: Nine Tales of the Macabre.

UPSTAGED BY STARLINK? Alphabet’s Loon Failed to Bring Internet to the World. What Went Wrong?

BTW, I’ve signed up for Starlink whenever it becomes available in my area. I’ll let you know how things work out.

DISNEY CANCELS THE MANDALORIAN STAR GINA CARANO OVER PROVOCATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS. If over-the-top statements likening one’s political opponents to Nazis are grounds for firing, Hollywood is in trouble:

Hollywood is chock full of people with quirky political views making dramatic analogies. As Bloomberg‘s Eli Lake pointed out, Sean Penn is an apologist for former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Benicio del Toro dedicated an award to the memory of murderous Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. Nick Cannon praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a repugnant anti-Semite. (ViacomCBS fired Cannon for his remarks, but rehired him after he apologized.)

Carano has occasionally made other controversial comments: She has criticized universal masking and suggested that combating voter fraud should be a major part of the Republican agenda. Disney apparently abandoned plans to give Carano her own show following one such post back in November.

Some conservatives have called for a boycott of Disney following its decision. While I’m not the biggest fan of boycotts, it strikes me as reasonable for conservatives to be upset about this double standard. Why does Disney care more about Carano’s dumb but relatively inconsequential Instagram post than it does about China’s ethnic cleansing of the Uighur Muslims? If the company thinks “denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities” is abhorrent, then perhaps it shouldn’t be working so closely with the Chinese Communist Party, which earned a “special thanks” in the credits of Mulan.

Flashback: Lucasfilm Leftists Join Forces With Communist China:

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Mainstream Media to Trump, ‘I Wish I Could Quit You.’

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Remember when we told you that the MSM could never give up their Trump addiction?

Answer: They’ll try to deny it, they’ll try to stealth edit it, but they just can’t quit him.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Wesley Mouch — er, Joe Biden — has it in for Florida
• New York to NYSE: Drop Dead!
• Gina Carano is going to be just fine

Bonus Sanity: Justice for Warnock? Maybe…

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

WELL, GOOD: Study finds fewer older people are having strokes.

THIS WILL END WELL: Biden and Yellen brush aside inflation warnings in pursuing $1.9 trillion plan for full employment.

REDLINING THE GODWIN METER: Los Angeles Times Review of Andy Ngo’s Antifa Book Compares Him to Nazi Josef Goebbels.

It appears that the Yahoo News White House correspondent, Alexander Nazaryan, has not changed his ground game in at least five years. In 2016 he compared Ted Cruz and his staff to Nazis. He was forced to delete that tweet after being publicly shamed for his over the top comparison but apparently he has not learned his lesson.

Nazaryan’s latest shameful comparison runs along the same lines when he compared journalist Andy Ngo to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in his his latest review of Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Racial Plan to Destroy Democracy. 

Not only does Nazaryan compare Ngo to the notorious Nazi, but he also absurdly downplays the dangers posed by Antifa to the extent of not capitalizing the name of that organization in both the text and title of his Los Angeles Times book review on Monday, “Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy.”

First let us cut to the chase with Nazaryan’s Goebbels comparison:

…Every act of violence by antifa, meanwhile, is described so meticulously and ominously that Herr Goebbels would have been proud.

And while Nazaryan goes over the top with his comparison of Ngo to Goebbels, he also completely underplays the dangers posed by Antifa which he portrays as basically harmless.

As Joe Biden would say, they’re just an “idea.” Speaking of which: Left-wing Atlantic writer bizarrely compares covering Trump to storming Omaha Beach on D-Day.

Left-wing Yahoo “national correspondent” Alexander Nazaryan compared covering the Trump administration to being on Omaha Beach for the D-Day invasion in a piece for The Atlantic on Thursday.

“Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas,” Nazaryan wrote. “He hadn’t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France.

I don’t think soldiers storming Omaha Beach had to worry much about airbrushes that day, though:

SHOCKER: New York City subway has dirtier air than neighboring transit systems.

I remember less than a year ago, when Bill de Blasio was encouraging people to ride the subway. “”I’m here on the subway to say to people nothing to fear, go about your lives.”

Related: MIT study: Subways a ‘major disseminator’ of coronavirus in NYC.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot:

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said while campaigning in Iowa City, Iowa, arguing that China has problems of its own.

—“Biden downplays Chinese economic competition, drawing criticism from Republicans and Sanders,” CNN, May 2^nd, 2019.

● Chaser: China is ‘going to eat our lunch’ on infrastructure, Biden says.

—The New York Post, today.