APPLE SHAREHOLDERS SHOULD HAVE SOME VERY POINTED QUESTIONS FOR TIM COOK: Over Reliance on China Could Cost Apple $8 Billion.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Find a New Lunatic Fringe After SCOTUS Leak. “We’re overloaded with examples of the tantrum but I’ll just give you a sort of greatest hits list this morning.”

SPACE: SpaceX engineer says NASA should plan for Starship’s ‘significant’ capability.

As part of its Artemis program to return humans to the Moon this decade, NASA has a minimum requirement that its “human landing system” must be able to deliver 865 kg to the lunar surface. This is based on the mass of two crew members and their equipment needed for a short stay.

However, in selecting SpaceX’s Starship vehicle to serve as its human lander, NASA has chosen a system with a lot more capability. Starship will, in fact, be able to deliver 100 metric tons to the surface of the Moon—more than 100 times NASA’s baseline goal.

“Starship can land 100 tons on the lunar surface,” said Aarti Matthews, Starship Human Landing System program manager for SpaceX. “And it’s really hard to think about what that means in a tangible way. One hundred tons is four fire trucks. It’s 100 Moon rovers. My favorite way to explain this to my kids is that it’s the weight of more than 11 elephants.”

This is exciting.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Give Them an Inch and They Want the Third Trimester: How the Left Made This Happen. “As a kid, my mother allowed me to have one cookie per day. When I pushed to eat the whole box in an afternoon, I was told I couldn’t have any more cookies. What did I learn? Don’t be greedy, and don’t be pushy. Somehow, pro-abortion lefties never learned that lesson.”

To be fair, leftism is the political philosophy of, by, and for spoiled children.

DECISION 2022: Follow Tonight’s Primaries in Indiana and Ohio Here.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: So, You Want to Skydive from Space?

NO, IT DOESN’T: California runs on 100% clean energy for the first time, with solar dominating.

But: California ISO imports 26% of its electricity from other states.

OFFICIAL LAWLESSNESS: FBI Nearly Triples Unconstitutional Searches of Americans in 2021.

IDEOLOGICAL GROOMING: Read the ‘Antiracism Fight Club’ Guide Distributed at a Public Elementary School

Janney Elementary School hired “antiracist” activist Doyin Richards to host an online discussion for parents in November, the Daily Caller first reported. Following the event, parents received copies of what Richards calls a “Fistbook,” a name inspired by the combative nature of the activist’s approach to fighting racism. The “Fistbook,” a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, provides definitions for white privilege and white supremacy and asks parents where they see racism in their “daily life” and in themselves.

The parents-only webinar was followed by a separate event for students that left some young kids traumatized, according to anonymous posts on an online message board.

“Anyone else’s Kindergarten kid freaked out by an anti-racism assembly today?” one parent posted on November 30. “My kid needed to sleep with a light on and the door open tonight. Anyone know what specifically was talked about? My kid couldn’t relay much except that she was scared.”

Sounds like Richards told those poor kids the first rule of Fight Club.

BIRTHING PEOPLE: Suddenly the Left Remembers That Men CAN’T Get Pregnant.

DON’T GET COCKY (UKRAINE EDITION): Russia’s victory parade may cause further humiliation for Putin by showing ‘weakened’ army.

The parade in Moscow has traditionally become a show of military power and strength for Russia, but after the conflict in Ukraine and Russia sustaining losses, the parade may seem much sparser. There will be fewer soldiers, armoured vehicles, tanks, and self-propelled artillery vehicles and, according to Russia’s defence ministry, there will be no T-80BVM tanks, Solntsepek flamethrower equipment or Pantsir-S anti-aircraft systems due to their continued use in the conflict.

Compared to the 191 military vehicles that were paraded last year, approximately 130 vehicles will be displayed this year.

Meanwhile, 2,000 fewer military personnel will take part in this year’s parade compared to the 12,000 people of last year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the lack of military equipment at the parade demonstrates how much the Russian army has suffered from the war.

Or they could just be economizing because there’s a war on.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: After the Dobbs Leak, Here Comes the Real Insurrection. “It was the pro-choice side the usurped the rule of law. It was the pro-life side that did the difficult work of using moral suasion and our legal processes to undo the Left’s assault on our federal system.”

Plus:

• The antifascists sure look an awful lot like fascists
• Beijing is about to get Shanghaied
• Indiana Jones explains the current thing we have to care about

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

DON’T GET COCKY: It’s Not Just Hispanics. The Democrats Are Losing the Black Vote. “According to Pew Research Center, fully 25 percent of Black Democrats identify as ‘conservative’ (around 40 percent identify as ‘moderate’). And with these voters, like their Hispanic counterparts, there was also a massive shift between 2016 and 2020.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Update On Food Plants: More Fires, FBI Alert, One Off-The-Wall Explanation. “Now the fact-checkers have come out in force, so we know there’s nothing to worry about. Right?”

SNOWFALLS ARE A THING OF THE PAST: Vail Mountain completes longest season on record with snow to spare.

CHRIS QUEEN: Georgia District Attorney Calls Grand Jury to Investigate Trump. But Why? “Fulton County, Ga. is the county where Atlanta is located. It’s a reliably Democrat county, and that party has dominated much of the county’s politics in recent years. It’s also home to an ambitious district attorney who is clearly looking to make headlines for herself by convening a grand jury to investigate Donald Trump’s calls to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC – and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US).

Previously: Joe Biden used alias of KGB spy from Tom Clancy novels, emails from Hunter’s laptop show.

THE OLD JOURNOLIST LISTSERV NEVER SHUT DOWN, IT JUST MOVED TO A SLACK CHANNEL: 60 Minutes Spotlights a Disinformation Absurdist as DHS Launches ‘Disinformation Governance Board.’

THE SPOILED SPOILS OF WAR: Russian troops stole $5M worth of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership, which remotely locked the thieves out of the equipment. “Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian city of Melitopol stole nearly $5 million of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership and shipped some of them more than 700 miles to Chechnya, CNN reported, only to find they had been rendered useless by a remote-locking system that prevented the thieves from turning the equipment on.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Supreme Court Leaks, Progressive America Freaks. “Because none of them ever seem to work, they took very little time to gather at the Supreme Court to protest. There was chanting and shrieking, probably even some rending of garments.”

YEAH, I WOULDN’T WORRY ABOUT IT THOUGH, IT’S NOT A BIG DEMOCRAT STATE: In 2020, Biden was a political juggernaut in Massachusetts. A new poll shows voters have soured on him. A lot.

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Matt Margolis: The Brewing Myth of Medical ‘Consensus’ on Transitioning Children. “Rachel Levine is a sick, twisted man who wants people to believe that there is a medical consensus for transitioning kids so that more people will do it. This is what a predator looks like.”

Cameron Arcand: Here’s More Proof that Americans Don’t Trust the Democrats. “While the Virginia gubernatorial election last November was the first indication of a red wave back by concerned parents, there is new data to back up that claim. It should leave Democrats quaking in their boots.”

Yours Truly: Part II: Russia Is Fighting the Ukraine War on Five Fronts: Where Are They Winning? “When Russia’s most notorious propagandist goes on Russia’s most popular TV news show to threaten to “sink” Britain under a tsunami with his country’s nuclear torpedo, it’s a safe bet that the diplomatic effort hasn’t been going very well.”

SATIRE… OR IS IT?

NOT A CHINESE SPY? Joe Biden used alias of KGB spy from Tom Clancy novels, emails from Hunter’s laptop show. “Joe Biden wrote to his son Hunter and others close to him using the pseudonym ‘Peter Henderson’ – a fictional Soviet Union-era spy in several Tom Clancy novels who infiltrated the US government, emails show.”

“MODERATE JOE” IS THE PUPPET OF IDEOLOGUES: Pollsters Warned Biden That Inflation and Immigration Could Sink His Approval.