THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST FOR CHRIS WALLACE.

For most conservatives, it was no surprise that Wallace, a registered Democrat whose broadcasts tilted leftward during the Trump years, would jump ship to Fox News’ long-struggling rival network. Still, questions were raised as to the sensibility of such a move considering not just CNN’s plummeting ratings but also the various embarrassing scandals they were dealing with at the time of the announcement, the most notable among them being the firing of “Prime Time” host Chris Cuomo, ostensibly over his level of involvement advising his brother and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the sexual harassment scandals from early-mid 2021.

Fast forward a couple of months, and not only have CNN president Jeff Zucker and his lover/CNN executive VP Allison Gollust “resigned” over their previously undisclosed affair, but there are fresh accusations swirling that both Zucker and Gollust had far more of a hand than previously known in some of those cutesy segments between the Cuomo brothers at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ve also recently learned that the real reason Chris Cuomo was ousted from the network likely had to do with a sexual assault allegation made against him the week he was booted out.

Understandably, all of this would make anyone who had committed to joining CNN+ nervous, but for Wallace, the anxiety over being associated with the network during an exceedingly tumultuous time has reportedly reached a fever pitch. . . . In announcing he was leaving Fox News for CNN, Chris Wallace was trying to make a statement of sorts. Unfortunately for him, the statement he made was not the one he intended.

Chris Wallace never struck me as especially talented or bright. And being Mike Wallace’s son didn’t seem like much of a credential. But moving to CNN when he did certainly suggests that he wasn’t a very good judge of people, and that he didn’t have good sources who could have given him a heads-up about what was going on.

I’M SURE IT WILL BE GOOD NEWS: NASA plans update on SLS moon rocket’s first flight.

I REMEMBER WHEN THE MOUNTIES WERE CLEAN-CUT HEROES: CONFIRMED: Leaked RCMP chat shows members celebrating violence against freedom protesters.

In an official statement published Sunday, RCMP have since confirmed the legitimacy of the leaked messages, which have been shared widely, both acknowledging that authorities are aware of the material circulating on social media and verifying that they’re “looking into the matter.”

“This material is not representative of those who have committed themselves to serving Canadians with integrity and professionalism,” the statement reads.

“All members of the RCMP know that, whether on or off duty, they have a responsibility to hold themselves to the highest professional standards and are subject to the Code of Conduct of the RCMP at all times. This includes acting with integrity, fairness, and impartiality, and avoiding any potential conflicts between their professional responsibilities and private interests,” the statement concludes.

In a group chat called “SOCIAL Musical Ride 2022,” the RCMP members expressed their excitement at going to Ottawa to crack down on the protests there.

Now they’re just regime thugs.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Biden lacks Trump’s punch, and Putin knows it. “Whatever you think of Donald Trump, he never would have allowed Vladimir Putin to run circles around him, which is what Putin has done to hapless Joe Biden. And he certainly would not have appeased Putin and given the Russian president everything he asked for from the START treaty to greenlighting Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, without getting something in return. All Biden got from Putin was grief. Trump is a businessman and that is what businessmen do. They do not give things away without getting something in return. He is also a bully who knows how to deal with other bullies.”

BUT THEIR PRONOUNS ARE PERFECT: Pentagon worried the ‘Nintendo Generation’ can’t survive boot camp because their bones are weak. “The ‘Nintendo Generation’ soldier skeleton is not toughened by activity prior to arrival, so some of them break more easily.”

WASN’T KAMALA HARRIS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT THIS? Photos show Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Related: Ukraine conflict: What we know about the invasion.

BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Breakfast and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply Everyday Meals 4 Gallon Pail. #CommissionEarned

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden underwater on all key issues, independent support halved: Gallup.

President Joe Biden’s downward spiral in polling that started with the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August has continued nonstop, and he is now underwater on the key issues measured by Gallup.

Even on the coronavirus crisis, long the lone standout for the embattled Biden’s approval ratings, voters now disapprove of his performance, said the latest Gallup survey.

The most hopeful line in the pollster’s analysis is that Biden’s ratings are so low, especially with his own party’s base and independent voters, that he might soon hit bottom.

Might. Or not! Plus:

His drop in support from independents threatens to undermine Democrats in 2022 and his own reelection campaign, as it is that block of voters that influences election outcomes.

“Over the course of his presidency, Biden’s job ratings have fallen the most among independents, among whom 35% currently approve, compared with ratings in the high 50s to low 60s in his initial months as president,” said the polling note.

Well, to be fair, he’s been terrible. But this drop is particularly astounding given how hard the press has worked, and is still working, to prop him up.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Ukraine debacle showcases Joe Biden’s many failures.

Speaking of economic matters, do you remember the good old days when America was energy independent, nay, when it was producing so much energy that it was actually a net exporter? Probably you do. It was was recent as 2020.

Then came the Biden administration. One of their first acts was to shut down the Keystone Pipeline, a major source of energy production, not to mention thousands of jobs in the US. At the same time, they green-lighted the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring gas from Russia to Germany. In response to Putin’s excellent adventure in Ukraine, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, suspended certification of the pipeline, but since Germany, having shuttered its nuclear power plants, is heavily dependent on the gas supplied from Russia, it is anyone’s guess how long German resolve will last.

I bring in gas in order to present you with this cheery data point. In 2020, when Donald Trump was president, the price of natural gas was $4.36 per 1,000 cubic feet. In 2021, with Joe Biden presiding, prices more than doubled, averaging $9 per 1,000 cubic feet. Not only does that mean that it costs more to heat your house this winter. It also means means that the US is helping to fund Russia’s military adventurism.

I am not sure that most Americans could locate Ukraine on a map. And the truth is our interest in the region is negligible. It has been important to Hunter Biden’s cash flow, it is true, and it has furnished Joe Biden with an opportunity to display his thuggishness on television, but it is a thoroughly corrupt state that is teetering on the edge of economic collapse. Some cynical commentators think that the media and The Committee are riveted on Ukraine as a way of distracting attention from such things as runaway inflation, the stock market disintegration, and the institution of police tyranny in Canada. Sounds plausible.

In any event, as my friend Roger L. Simon observed, the crisis in Ukraine is entirely on Joe Biden. We’re told that Biden’s approval rating is down to 39 percent. That’s the official number. The real number, I suspect, is in single digits.

Well, Biden still has the blue states to prop him up — oh, wait: Yikes: Just 36% rate Biden’s performance as “good” — in New York.

GIVE HIM CREDIT, HE STILL REMEMBERS WHO HE REALLY WORKS FOR! Biden Touts Chinese-Backed Company at Made in America Event.

EVERYONE IS CONSERVATIVE ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS BEST: USPS Shuns Biden’s EV Dreams With Massive Gasoline-Powered Mail Truck Purchase. “USPS wrote that given its financial condition, ‘the battery-electric option has a significantly higher total cost of ownership than its combustion-engine counterpart.’ USPS under DeJoy appears to be locking in decades of fossil fuel consumption as the president’s ‘Build Back Better’ green plan appears to be faltering. Gasoline mail trucks are more reliable than electric ones, and ownership is cheaper.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

GLENN GREENWALD: The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West: Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.

When it comes to distant and adversarial countries, we are taught to recognize tyranny through the use of telltale tactics of repression. Dissent from orthodoxies is censored. Protests against the state are outlawed. Dissenters are harshly punished with no due process. Long prison terms are doled out for political transgressions rather than crimes of violence. Journalists are treated as criminals and spies. Opposition to the policies of political leaders are recast as crimes against the state.

When a government that is adverse to the West engages in such conduct, it is not just easy but obligatory to malign it as despotic. Thus can one find, on a virtually daily basis, articles in the Western press citing the government’s use of those tactics in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and whatever other countries the West has an interest in disparaging (articles about identical tactics from regimes supported by the West — from Riyadh to Cairo — are much rarer). That the use of these repressive tactics render these countries and their populations subject to autocratic regimes is considered undebatable.

But when these weapons are wielded by Western governments, the precise opposite framework is imposed: describing them as despotic is no longer obligatory but virtually prohibited. That tyranny exists only in Western adversaries but never in the West itself is treated as a permanent axiom of international affairs, as if Western democracies are divinely shielded from the temptations of genuine repression. Indeed, to suggest that a Western democracy has descended to the same level of authoritarian repression as the West’s official enemies is to assert a proposition deemed intrinsically absurd or even vaguely treasonous.

Yes, disagreeing with the ruling class now constitutes treason and will be punished as such to the extent they can get away with it.

GET YOUR QUANTUM GRAVITY GRADIOMETERS RIGHT HERE, FOLKS! No, it’s not something from “Back to the Future,” it’s the first-ever locating of something buried underground using quantum physics outside a lab.

“The quantum gravity gradiometer, which was developed under a contract for the Ministry of Defense and in the UKRI-funded Gravity Pioneer project, was used to find a tunnel buried outdoors in real-world conditions one meter below the ground surface. It wins an international race to take the technology outside,” Phys.org reports.

“The sensor works by detecting variations in microgravity using the principles of quantum physics, which is based on manipulating nature at the sub-molecular level. The success opens a commercial path to significantly improved mapping of what exists below ground level.”

This is potentially a huge breakthrough that will create new markets and possibilities in multiple fields. Among other things, it could revolutionize the search for natural resources buried miles below the surface (Think petroleum and maybe those ultra-scarce Critical Minerals, for example).

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Texas Middle School Teacher: “Those Conservative Christians Need to Get COVID and Die” (Video).

BEGUN, IT HAS: Two endangered incumbents admit Biden’s America is bad in tv campaign ads.

A DIFFERENT SORT OF SILENT SPRING: A team of scientists from Belgium, France and Sweden studied fish bones and determined that Chicxulub — the meteorite that smashed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs — did so in the Spring time, according to Phys.org.

“Around 66 million years ago, the so-called Chicxulub meteorite crashed into the Earth in what today is the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, marking the demise of dinosaurs and the end of the Cretaceous period. This mass extinction still puzzles scientists today, as it was one of the most selective in the history of life: all non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ammonites, and most marine reptiles disappeared, while mammals, birds, crocodiles, and turtles survived,” Phys.org points out.

What puzzles me is why the crocs made it but the Tyrannosauri didn’t.

CHURCH IS FULL OF HYPOCRITES: Well yes, that’s a huge part of the whole point of the thing, according to the Colson Center’s Sarah Stonestreet in the latest “What Would You Say?” video on HillFaith.

KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS! Schools in Rochester, Minnesota, monitor parents’ social media posts and have twice contacted critics’ employers.

The superintendent of Rochester Community Schools monitored the social media of parents who criticized the district and he and a deputy reported posts to at least two employers and one police department, the superintendent acknowledged in a deposition.

One of those parents was fired shortly after the district contacted her employer about a posting.

Superintendent Robert Shaner testified during a Feb. 3 deposition that he called one parent’s employer, the Detroit Police Department, because he was “scared” by a social media post that called for protests outside private homes in March 2021. It was not clear to whose homes the post referred.

Shaner also acknowledged, under oath, that he called the police on a parent based on his belief that the woman had submitted a written threat to the district, although he admitted he never spoke with the woman.

The deposition was taken as part of a lawsuit filed in May and amended on Feb. 15 that accused Rochester school officials and staff of widespread monitoring and documenting of social media activity of parents the administration labeled as “protesters” because they demanded the reopening of schools.

Rochester Community Schools parent Elena Dinverno sued in May in U.S. District Court alleging she lost her job at Blake’s Hard Cider in December 2020 after Board of Education President Kristin Bull called her employer to falsely claim Dinverno was participating in a group launching threats against the school district.

Make them pay.

ENABLED BY BRANDON AND CO.:  The “World’s Dumbest Energy Policy” Just Got Dumber…The Frightening Race To Reset By World War.

Hey, they’ve tried plague. It fizzled. Now they’re trying war. I’m going to place a bet it also fizzles.  Next comes…. oh, yeah, famine.

It’s great to see the classics being followed by those who wish to remake the world in their idiot image.

I HAD BEEN RELIABLY ASSURED BY THE TRUDEAU ADMINISTRATION THAT NO PROTESTORS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED:  Trucker beaten by Canadian police says ‘they broke my body a little bit but not my spirit’.

Yeah, I just used “reliable” and “Trudeau” in the same sentence. Now excuse me while I go slap myself to sanity again.

SURE. THAT’S WHY CHINA AND RUSSIA HELPED WITH THE SOFT COUP:  Feckless Biden Emboldens Putin’s Dream of Empire.

Stop staring that way. If you hadn’t worked it out for yourself, you haven’t thought about it much.

DEAR LORD, AT THIS RATE MY SHOCKED FACE IS GOING TO GET WORN OUT:  Biden Awards Mining Contract To China-Backed Company.

STILL A BIT OF A MYSTERY:  On this day in 1978, the Yuba County Five disappeared.

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED, SHOCKED FACE:  Not All Republicans Are Worthy Of Trust, Either.

TO BE FAIR, THEY WERE NEVER VERY RAVELLED:  Unraveling.

Control of the means of mass communication just kept that hidden.