LIGHTNING DEAL: SOLVTIN S6 Pro Jump Starter. #CommissionEarned

WE’LL SEE: Don Surber: Bud Light May Tank All the Woke Ads. Well, all fads come to an end, usually when somebody or something jumps the shark.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN RAN AS A MODERATE: The end is nigh for gas-powered cars.

It won’t be as easy as banning the sale of gas-powered cars or mandating that companies only sell vehicles with electric powertrains. Rather, the new EPA rules would set an emissions limit on the total number of new cars each automaker sells in a year. That limit would essentially ensure that two-thirds of vehicles they sold in the US by 2032 would be EVs, according to a report by The New York Times. The full details are expected to be released on Wednesday.

The effort to make this a reality will be absolutely massive. Automakers have already set out on the path to more EV sales, but plug-in vehicles still only account for a fraction of the overall car market in the US. Getting them from where they are today, at around 7 percent of new car sales, to where the Biden administration wants them, roughly 68 percent of all car sales, will be unlike anything ever attempted in the 150-year history of the auto industry.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the supply chain: ‘They Will Die’: Tesla-Linked Mining Project Is Devastating One of the World’s Uncontacted Peoples. “Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.”

ANDY NGO: Exclusive details about ‘disturbing and gruesome’ video capturing murder of Portland taxi driver by trans suspect.

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Walmart Closes Four Stores In Chicago Amid Elevated Crime Rates.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s America – A Society That Has Given Up on Itself. Well, it’s more a ruling class that has given up on the society it rules.

They’re following Rhett Butler’s maxim that you can make as much money by tearing a civilization down as by building it up.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Bud Light suffers bloodbath as longtime and loyal consumers revolt against transgender campaign. “‘I think society flexes it muscles sometimes and reminds manufacturers that the consumer is still in charge,’ Jeff Fitter, owner of Case & Bucks, a restaurant and sports bar in Barnhart, Missouri, told FOX Business. ‘In Bud Light’s effort to be inclusive, they excluded almost everybody else, including their traditional audience.’”

I THOUGHT THOSE WERE RACIST: European countries are building border walls. Seems like Covid really killed open-borders Europe.

BLUE STATE BLUES: Unplanned L.A. Port Closure Likely to Accelerate Business Flight From West Coast.

THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: ‘TikTok-Famous’ Freshman Dem Violated Ethics Rules To Build Following on Chinese Spyware App, Watchdog Charges.

THAT WOULD BE FAIR. IF YOU’RE BOYCOTTING, YOU’RE BOYCOTTING, RIGHT? Will U.S. News Refuse To Count Votes From Deans, Faculty, Lawyers, And Judges From Boycotting Law Schools In Reputation Metric In 2024 Rankings?

JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘I was Screaming Before You Interrupted Me’: American Politics has Become Amplified Rage.

THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: Secret limits to stop ‘suspicious’ Xanax and Adderall orders are forcing some legitimate patients to scramble.

Patients diagnosed with conditions like anxiety and sleep disorders have become caught in the crosshairs of America’s opioid crisis, as secret policies mandated by a national opioid settlement have turned filling legitimate prescriptions into a major headache.

In July, limits went into effect that flag and sometimes block pharmacies’ orders of controlled substances such as Adderall and Xanax when they exceed a certain threshold. The requirement stems from a 2021 settlement with the US’s three largest drug distributors — AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. But pharmacists said it curtails their ability to fill prescriptions for many different types of controlled substances — not just opioids.

Independent pharmacists said the rules force them come up with creative workarounds. Sometimes, they must send patients on frustrating journeys to find pharmacies that haven’t yet exceeded their caps in order to buy prescribed medicines.

It’s just like shopping in the Soviet Union, but without the low prices.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: IMF: “Turbulence is building,” “hard landing” ahead for global economy.

WILL MANCHIN AND/OR SINEMA BE NEXT? A third Democrat state legislator decides it’s time to switch parties. (Yes, I know the first two are federal legislators and the other three are state legislators. But there are signs and inferences regarding the former that suggest a possible trend seen in the latter. Okay?)

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: It’s merely performative.

Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson is a total fraud

Pearson in 2016 vs 2023: pic.twitter.com/iPLXFFJ6r2

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 11, 2023

We’re in a curious place where two of the most prominent leftists of the moment are full-time performance artists: The performance of a lifetime. Dylan Mulvaney’s mimicry of women is absurd.

CDR SALAMANDER: The PRC’s Preparation of the Battlefield. “Conditioning is one of the oldest techniques we humans use against each other. Either we learned it from domesticating animals, or we used the techniques learned in domesticating animals against the top animal in the wild – our fellow humans. You get the target of your attentions used to either your presence or a specific activity that comes and goes on a regular basis. A few cycles of it happening and eventually it just becomes part of the environment – hardly noticed at all.”

Plus: “So, what do we see this month west of Wake? The People’s Republic of China already has a larger navy than the United States of America and is not slowing down their building and modernization. She has a plan. She has a list, and we know what is at the top once conditions are ripe.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Meet Radical Trump Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. “In sum, Bragg has appointed a militant leftist attorney to prosecute Donald Trump in New York City. A Harvard Law graduate, Colangelo has used his powers and position to advance far-left ideological aims. His abuse of power has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in one state.”

A FRIEND HIT A MAJOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY FOR ONE OF HER KIDS:  I and other friends assumed we could help by helping with meals for the kids at home while she’s in the hospital with her child. We didn’t realize she has a disastrously large deductible. So, yes, it’s a give-send-go. Yes, I realize everyone is tight. But each other is all we have. Throw your bread upon the waters, if you can.

STATE-AFFILIATED MEDIA: NPR Peddles Propaganda for the Regime. It’s Past Time to Pull its Funding.

OH, SO THEY ASSUMED THAT THEIR LITTLE ECHO CHAMBER IS THE NATION:  Bud Light distributors ‘spooked’ by backlash to Dylan Mulvaney partnership.

LIBERAL INSTITUTION? CHECK!  SINKHOLE OF DEPRAVITY, OPPRESSION AND RUDENESS? CHECK!   NY Times HR exec under fire from LGBTQ staffers over ‘disrespectful’ Slack post.

WHERE DOES SHE GET OFF FOLLOWING A FAITH (Baháʼí) PREACHING INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE?  Iranian prison guards break kneecaps of 70-year-old political prisoner, grandmother: report.

OOPS. OOPSIE. IF ONLY WE HAD A TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY!  Truck Carrying Contaminated Soil from East Palestine Train Derailment Crashes.

FOR THOSE FOLLOWING THE OTHER SORE SPOT:  Russia: Some Players.