ONE UNDER CHINESE INFLUENCE? Just What Kind Of A Republican Is Mitch McConnell?

OR HE WOULD HAVE IF DEMOCRATS WERE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR ANYTHING:  Biden just put Obama in a delightfully serious bind.

YEP. MOST RECYCLING HURTS THE ENVIRONMENT: It’s Wish-Cycling, Not Recycling.

And that’s if anyone wants the materials and they don’t end up in the landfill.

THE POLICE DON’T EXIST TO PROTECT CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS:  VIDEOS: Americans step up because the police aren’t there.

They exist to protect criminals from citizens.

THEY TOLD ME IN THE SEVENTIES WE’D ALL BE UNDER ICE BY NOW:  Too Wet? Too Dry? It’s All Climate Change!

SO SHOCKED, MUCH FACE: ABC News Refuses To Ask Adam Schiff About His Push For Big Tech Censorship.

BECAUSE HIS SERENE MAJESTY ZHOU BAI-DEN IS THE VICE ROY FOR XI THE POOH?  Here’s Why The Hunter Biden Corruption Story Is Worth Investigating, Chuck Todd.

UHUH. SPEAK INTO MY OTHER EAR. THAT ONE IS DEAF:  Former Covid Absolutist Now Says We Are Overcounting Covid Deaths & Hospitalizations.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Biden, Secret Service Don’t Have Visitor Logs at Delaware Residence Where Classified Documents Were Found.

THERE’S NO MORE ROOM FOR INVADERS ANYWHERE:  NYC Mayor Eric Adams Says There’s No More Room for Migrants in the City, Demands Biden Do Something.

If NYC can’t afford it, why do they think the little border towns can?

BIG IF TRUE, MATE: Flat Earthers Claim Australia Doesn’t Exist And People Who Live There Are Actors Paid By NASA.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: A Federal Judge Blocks New Jersey’s Sweeping Restrictions on Public Gun Possession.

20 YEARS AGO: With Incessant Postings, a Pundit Stirs the Pot. It hasn’t changed all that much, although with various people constantly trying to get me fired from my day job, I’m somewhat more interested in making money. And my daughter has graduated beyond “Arthur’s Second Grade.”

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden falsely claims he fought apartheid, was in civil rights movement, in gaffe-filled MLK Day speech.

Just another day for ol’ Super Gaffe-O-Matic ‘76:

UP IN SMOKE: ‘Crisis mode:’ Failing pot farms are killing this California town’s economy.

In the 1980s, the federal government waged a brutal war against illicit cannabis farming in the Emerald Triangle, yet the industry continued to grow larger. And then California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, creating a green rush of new cannabis farms. Soon, Humboldt’s farms were sending cannabis to dispensaries across the state and even feeding the entire country’s illicit market. By some estimates, the Emerald Triangle grew 60% of the pot in the entire United States.

But the same things that made Southern Humboldt County one of the country’s best places to grow pot before legalization are now working against it. After voters legalized recreational cannabis in 2016, the region’s dense forests and long winding dirt roads, which were good for evading law enforcement, became costly expenses when it came to running a legal business.

Wendy Kornberg, the owner of Sunnabis, a small cannabis farm 20 minutes down a dirt road from Garberville, said all of the surrounding pot farmers either have given up or are on the verge of bankruptcy. “Everyone is struggling. We all had to raid our kids’ college funds,” she told SFGATE. She said these farm failures have drained the town’s economy.

“I grew up in Garberville, from 1977 till I graduated high school in 1995, and I have never seen so many empty storefronts. The whole side of one of the streets is just empty storefronts. It’s a little bit terrifying when you look at it from that viewpoint,” she said.

Didn’t California’s pot growers stop to think that legalization had its own risks?

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, VLAD: Ukraine war: Russia’s Wagner Group commander requests Norway asylum.

OOPS: WaPo Columnist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Biden’s Classified Doc Scandal. “Joe Biden’s classified document scandal continues to rage, with legions of liberal pundits, legal scholars, and congressional Democrats making the most predictable and irrelevant excuses for why an aging, dementia-ridden old man can keep state secrets unsecured in his garage. Biden got busted for having classified materials at multiple locations, including his residence in Wilmington, Delaware. Liberal America just got slapped in the face; the moral grandstanding that was pervasive and incessant after the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago last summer is now looking increasingly ridiculous. . . . The Left has no defense, so they’re going with their go-to line: it’s okay when we do it because we’re Democrats. That’s what Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart said on PBS Newshour, saying the Trump and Biden classified documents scandals are different because—in his eyes—they just are. Well, that settles it.”

OPEN THREAD: Just be yourself.

I’M SORRY DAVE, I CAN’T ALLOW YOU TO DO THIS: ChatGPT says it ‘cannot’ write a tweet saying that gender-affirming care for teens is harmful.

Related: America ‘Most Permissive Country’ For Sex Change Surgeries, Study Shows.

OUR MEDIA IS ALWAYS ADMIRING THE EMPEROR’S CLOTHES: “The mainstream media… was reporting on it like it was all beautiful… But then when it came out, a little boy pointed out — ‘That’s a penis!’ and everyone was like, ‘Yo, that’s a big old dong, man.'”

IT’S COME TO THIS: HBO’s Scoobie-Doo Reboot ‘Velma’ Is So Bad Some Call It a Planted Conservative Commentary at Wokeism.

As the show was unveiled for the public, revulsion was widespread. On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience rating is below 10 percent and plunging. (The critics, sensing the public backlash, are beginning to follow suit as the show has dipped to 55 percent approval.) Now that the blatant flaws permeating this property have been shown, we’re seeing a new approach. A new interpretation has emerged, and it appears to be the result of seeing how much conservative mockery has arisen in regard to this program.

Forbes has come out with a piece about the show that follows a theory being floated that the show was crafted to be intentionally bad. Paul Tassi writes that one theory is that the content in “Velma” is so broad and groan-inducing that the show is actually a parody of leftist social mores made intentionally cringe-worthy so as to be a commentary on Hollywood – made on behalf of conservatives.

The farcical premise is shown by a Twitter user who states this was made intentionally bad so it would be a viral focus on YouTube, and then that ensuing attention would generate internet heat and traffic and deliver viewers. Making this suggestion all the more laughable, Tassi goes on to get on board with the concept that the show’s creator, Mindy Kaling, might have executed this precise plan.

Yet if that wasn’t the intent of the show, it sure feels like it in practice. On one side, it absolutely is working to spark mockery from the right, exactly as you might imagine it would. But on the other, it’s just not defensible at all by those who would normally welcome a progressive series. 

You have to love this. When a woke show is so horrid that even woke audience members do not like it, as conservatives roundly disparage the show, then it just might in fact be an intentional dig on Hollywood! Of course, you have to ignore many common sense realities, such as Hollywood performers being duped by this premise, and the owners of the intellectual property signing on for an intentional trashing of their product, to say nothing of a studio like HBO going along with a conservative plot to undermine the industry.

No, it’s simply a bunch of uber-woke writers letting it all hang out, with predictably dreadful results:

AD ASTRA, PER ASPERA: World’s largest plane, Stratolaunch’s Roc, aces 2nd captive-carry test flight.

LATERAL MOVE: CNN Desperately Seeking Comedian to Replace Chris Cuomo.