LEFTISTS ARE MELTING DOWN AFTER JOE ROGAN CALLS JEN PSAKI A LIAR AND PRAISES TRUMP PRESS SECRETARY:

Rogan made the comments on his podcast with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

“She was a propagandist, I mean when she working for the White House, she’s this person that answers questions, and most of it, the hard questions were all by Peter Doocy on Fox News, he was like the only guy that was pushing back against her,” said Rogan.

“And she just f***ing flat out lied, on not just one occasion, on multiple occasions,” he added. “I mean maybe they had a narrative that they told her, maybe these are talking points, maybe that’s her job.”

He went on to say that he thought the job was weird.

“The only one that was good was that girl, McEnany, what’s her name? Kayleigh McEnany, that one that worked for Trump, that lady was a f***ing assassin. That lady had like binders, with footnotes,” Rogan continued.

“That lady was the best ever at that job,” he added. “She’s the f***ing Michael Jordan of White House press secretaries. She’s a f***ing wizard.”

Fans of Psaki were incensed that Rogan would make such a suggestion and they registered their fury on social media.

Flashback: Kayleigh McEnany Opens Press Conference With Video Loop Of Democrats Breaking Their Own Lockdown Rules.

FAUCI’S LEGACY WILL BE THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL NEVER TRUST GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPERTS IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN: Dr. Fauci and the Covid Rule of Experts.

Fauci’s influence was all the greater because he had an echo chamber in the press corps and among public elites who disdained and ostracized dissenters.

A flagrant example was Dr. Fauci’s refusal even to consider that the novel coronavirus had originated in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This may have been because the NIH had provided grant money to the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which helped fund “gain of function” virus research at the Wuhan lab. In a semantic battle with Republicans, Dr. Fauci denied that the NIH funded such research. But his refusal even to consider the possibility that the virus started in a Wuhan lab showed that Dr. Fauci was as much a politician as a scientist.

Worse, Dr. Fauci smeared the few brave scientists who opposed blanket lockdowns and endorsed a strategy of “focused protection” on the elderly and those at high risk. This was the message of the Great Barrington Declaration authors, and emails later surfaced showing that Dr. Fauci worked with others in government to deride that alternative so it never got a truly fair public hearing.

“There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,” NIH Director Francis Collins wrote to Dr. Fauci. Their inability to abide criticism and dissent undermined the U.S. pandemic response.

“It’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous,” Dr. Fauci said last November, in a comment that summarizes the view of the public-health clerisy. The public is supposed to let a few powerful men and women define science and then impose their preferred policies and mandates on the country.

The costs of that mindset have been severe, and not merely economic. We know now that states that locked down fared no better, and sometimes worse, than those that didn’t. We also know that the vaccines, while invaluable against serious disease, don’t prevent the spread of Covid—even after multiple boosters. More honest candor would have been better for America’s trust in public-health authorities.

“Whether you’ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work,” President Biden said Monday about Dr. Fauci’s resignation. That’s true enough. But his legacy will be that millions of Americans will never trust government health experts in the same way again.

I can’t say I blame them after the last two and a half years.

Earlier: Roger Simon: Say Goodbye to Experts (Mostly).

SCIENCE: Facing the Truth About Lockdowns. “In my opinion, the responses of governments to the covid epidemic represent the worst failure of public policy since, at least, the Vietnam War. In fact, the covid responses were probably more destructive than Vietnam. You would likely have to go back to the perverse reactions of the Hoover/Roosevelt administrations to the Great Depression to find their equal.”

WELL, GOOD: Binge eating disorder may be eased by deep brain stimulation, small study says.

THIS SOUNDS SEMI-FASCIST: Biden Says The Military Can Obliterate The Second Amendment.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday while in Pennsylvania that “brave right wing Americans” who claim the Second Amendment is meant to fight back against a tyrannical government would be obliterated by the military.

Biden was speaking in Wilkes-Barre while promoting gun control and bolstering police forces across the nation. Biden pushed for a federal ban on so-called “assault weapons” and took aim at Republicans during his speech, invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

“As one of the most – one of the most conservative justices in history, Justice Scalia, once wrote like, quote, ‘like most rights, the rights granted by the Second Amendment are not unlimited’,” Biden said. “They’re not unlimited right now.”

“You can’t go out and buy an automatic weapon, you can’t go out and buy a cannon, and for those brave right wing Americans who say its all about keeping America independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country you need an F-15. You need something a little more than a gun.”

The Taliban could not be reached for comment: ‘A Nation in Anguish:’ One Year After Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal From Afghanistan.

DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T END BADLY THIS TIME AROUND: Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages for Minority Communities.

What’s the worst that could happen?

Earlier: The Economic Doom Loop Has Begun.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: How an Unqualified Sex Worker Allegedly Infiltrated a Top Air Force Lab. Yeah, it’s from last month but I had missed it.

REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED FOR THIS FOR YEARS, ONLY TO BE BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS: Clinicians React to Over-the-Counter Birth Control Possibility.

DEAL OF THE DAY: iRobot Roomba Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum. #CommissionEarned (Bumped)

WATCH: Kamala Harris Launches Another Word Salad During NASA Remarks.

FIGHT THE POWER: ATF Agents Attempt ‘Solvent Trap’ Confiscation, Man Tells Them To Get a Warrant.

On this day at this address, ATF-Troop ran into a gun owner who not only refused to admit to anything, but he told them to beat it and come back with a warrant. He also videotaped the encounter. Ouch. . . .

ATF-Troop didn’t like his assertion of his rights.

Agent #2: “We’re not trying to be jerks here.”

Man: “You are though…”

Agent #2: “But we’re not.”

Man: “You’re the ATF.”

The man then told them that their job is to take away people’s guns. To which, Agent #2 says, “I don’t think you have any idea what our job is.”

Man: “I know everything about your job. All it is, is to erode the 2nd Amendment.”

Agent: “Please tell me…”

Man: “Shall not be infringed.”

Agent: “So, uh, violent, uh, criminals with guns that we take off the street – “

Man: “Oh, like at Waco?”

Ouch that one’s gonna leave a mark. But the man wasn’t done yet.

Man: “Or at Ruby Ridge?”

Agent: “Oh gosh.”

At this point, the agents dialed the snark up to 11, but eventually left empty-handed after making assorted veiled threats toward both the man and his dogs.

Why do they hate dogs?

GOING GREEN IS ALL ABOUT THE GREENBACKS FOR THE WELL-CONNECTED: A reality check on electric school buses. “The last thing to consider is the time it will take us taxpayers to realize the savings on electric school buses. If you figure an average of 16,000 miles per year (the high end estimate on yearly mileage for a bus), and include only the costs laid out here, the payback on electric is about 20 years. That number was startling to me because 20 years was the top end, best-case-scenario I could find for the life of the bus batteries. In other words, right as we’d start to realize the savings, the bus would stop working.”

EX-SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DEAD AT 91, RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS SAY.

UPDATE: The Daily Beast apparently wishes they were “Back in the USSR:” Mikhail Gorbachev, Who Sank the Soviet Empire With His Own Glasnost, Dead at 91.

FLASHBACK: Credit The Liberator, Not The Dictator. “Here’s another column from a freed Soviet, who recalls, ‘On the morning of April 20, 1989, the day my family leaving Moscow, a knock came on my parents’ door. It was our next-door neighbor. Ours being one of the Soviet Union’s cramped, communal apartments, I mean that quite literally. Waving a bottle of vodka, he insisted my father drink a toast. He wanted to celebrate our new freedom, which also meant his: By leaving him our half of the apartment, we were bypassing Soviet restrictions on the sale of state property. Agreeing, my father suggested they toast to Gorbachev. After all, our neighbor was a common day laborer, unlikely to be up on the complex realities of international politics; and more than likely to have imbibed his fair share of politburo propaganda, which Gorbachev, in his hick Caucasus accent, spouted daily. Our neighbor only laughed. ‘Gorbachev? You think Gorbachev gave me this apartment? We’ll drink to Reagan. Reagan gave me this apartment.’’ He gave you a lot more than that, comrade. And I’m sure you know it today.”

DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal. “Several commenters mention Oberlin College going to federal court. That is a long, long, long shot. The appeal would be from the Ohio Supreme Court to the U.S. Supreme Court. The likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to hear a case the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear is not zero, but it’s approaching zero. I would not be shocked if they tried, but they would have to obtain another stay of enforcement of the judgment from the U.S. Supreme Court, another major hurdle that has little likelihood of success.”

THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: Struggling, ‘Lazy’ Washington Post May Cut 100 Newsroom Positions.

The New York Times would like you to know that its competitor, the Washington Post, is struggling.

Not only is the Post on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability, it’s been unable to boost the number of paying subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 as its business has “stalled.”

The organization is on track to lose money in 2022, after years of profitability, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s finances. The Post now has fewer than the three million paying digital subscribers that it had hailed internally near the end of 2020, according to several people at the organization. Digital ad revenue generated by The Post fell to roughly $70 million during the first half of the year, about 15 percent lower than in the first half of 2021, according to a recent internal financial document reviewed by The New York Times. -NYT

As such, CEO Fred Ryan has floated the possibility with newsroom leaders that the paper may cut 100 positions – around 10% of its newsroom.

Will they be learning to code, or building solar panels?

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ticked-off Liberals Turn Against CNN, Launch Viral ‘#BoycottCNN’ Twitter Campaign.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Researchers bring first underwater messaging app to smartphones. “With AquaApp, we demonstrate underwater messaging using the speaker and microphone widely available on smartphones and watches. Other than downloading an app to their phone, the only thing people will need is a waterproof phone case rated for the depth of their dive.”

UPDATE: Solomon Islands to ban US Navy ships from its shores. “Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the U.S. government has been informed of a ‘moratorium on all naval visits, pending updates in protocol procedures,’ according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Australia, who added that officials will ‘monitor the situation.'”

Translation: The Solomons are Beijing’s client state.

ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE THOROUGHLY CORRUPTED: Biden Names MSNBC Pundit Who Pushed Hunter Biden Laptop Conspiracy to Intelligence Board.

READER FAVORITE: Rand McNally 2023 Large Scale Road Atlas. #CommissionEarned

THE HIGHER ED SCAM: College is an ‘expensive gamble’ for the artsy and the unprepared. “Unselective colleges often enroll poorly prepared students who have trouble completing degrees or turning low-tech degrees into good jobs.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Ark Of The Covenant Unboxing Video Goes Horribly Wrong.

WHEN LAWFARE FAILS: Dish and Viasat’s fight against Starlink satellite deployment fails in court.

We shouldn’t reward such efforts.

OUT ON A LIMB: Jean-Pierre insists ‘MAGA Republicans’ are the ‘definition of fascism,’ doesn’t know the definition of fascism.

BANANA REPUBLIC: Biden Admin Already Reviewed Potentially Privileged Documents Taken in Mar-a-Lago Raid.