THE ROT RUNS DEEP: Biden Dodged Blame For Lying About Hunter’s Foreign Dealings For Years Because Corporate Media Let Him.

After Biden said he didn’t know anything about Hunter’s business dealings, NBC News journalist Kristen Welker took Biden’s claim that “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, talking about China” at face value when moderating the final presidential debate in 2020, and waited another year before she finally asked the White House about the president’s false comments.

“During the last presidential debate, [Joe] Biden was asked if there’s anything inappropriate or unethical about his son’s relationships, business dealings in China and/or Ukraine. The president said ‘nothing was unethical.’ … Does the White House stand by that comment?” she asked last month.

White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield declined to acknowledge Biden’s lie and instead defended the president and his son. She endorsed Biden’s claim that “nothing was unethical” about Hunter’s complicated dealings and that Hunter “has not made money” off of his transactions with a Chinese Communist Party-controlled company despite receipts showing otherwise.

Why did Welker just recently press the Biden administration about an issue that came up two years ago and again less than a month before a key election? She had the opportunity to push back on Biden directly during the debate but she didn’t.

The corporate media is the propaganda arm of the administration, which is why, when Biden dismissed President Donald Trump’s laptop questions during the final debate as Russian disinformation, so did Welker and everyone else in the corrupt media establishment.

Previously: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Bratty Libs WEEP as Republicans (Finally) Clown-Slap Some Manners Into Them. “There are some rock stars on the right throwing down with the commies on a street-fight level, and we need to acknowledge them and follow their lead. Mad bomb shouts go out to the following donkey-punchers.”

THE STREISAND EFFECT: ‘Libs of TikTok’ Gains 300k+ Followers Since Doxxing From Hack Journo Taylor Lorenz.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: Ron Klain Says Biden Can Still Win in 2024. “American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Danielle Pletka called Klain ‘pathetic’ for celebrating “the possibility of victory when your ratings are in the toilet” rather than striving for the support of the American people.”

Rick Moran: TASS Says Russia Has Designs on Nations Beyond the Borders of Ukraine. “Moldova is an annoyance for Putin, nothing more. Once the Ukraine issue is settled, he can decide its fate.”

Yours Truly: At Twitter, It’s All Over But the Shrieking. “Let us watch now the Left’s rending of its garments and hear the lamentations of their womyn.”

ICYMI: Florida Man Friday: Mike Tyson Says Knock You Out.

RECOVERY SUMMER: Xi’s lockdowns will pull the rug out from under US truckers this summer.

While Americans watch in horror as innocent Chinese citizens are caught up in an ill-conceived, reckless, or nefarious – take your pick – act by the Chinese Communist Party, there is little Americans can do about it. But like most geopolitical events these days, the lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities are also a supply chain story that will have a dramatic effect on domestic freight markets.

The recent slowdown in U.S. truckload markets is likely a precursor to a steeper decline in the coming weeks. The lockdowns in China were not a factor in slowing U.S. truckload volumes in February and March, as evidenced by record container imports at nearly all major U.S. ports.

But that shouldn’t give anyone comfort because the slowdown is about to hit U.S. ports – and the trucking companies that service them – in a dramatic way. FreightWaves estimates that container imports from China represent approximately 16% of U.S. truckload volumes and an even larger percentage of U.S. dry van truckloads. After all, nearly half of the containers that come into the United States originate in China.

Here comes stagflation.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Free Speech Now Has a Heavy Musk Scent. “If free speech lovers had to pick a Who’s Who list of people and organizations we’d like to see annoyed, we couldn’t do better than what Musk provided on Monday.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Global edible oil markets simmer after shock Indonesia export ban. “Palm oil is the world’s most widely used vegetable oil and is used in the manufacture of many products including biscuits, margarine, laundry detergents and chocolate.”

Previously: A friend writes from London that they’re experiencing a shortage of vegetable oil: Soybean, sunflower, grapeseed — basically everything but olive oil. Shelves empty, customers limited to two bottles when they have any. They’re blaming the Ukraine war. No idea if that’s the real reason.

#RESIST: Angry Moms vs. LGBTQ Groomers in Spicy Glendale School Board Meeting. “This video is intended to instruct children about appropriate interpersonal relationships – and what did the child learn? The child learned that it is okay for an adult to talk to a child about watching nude people in movies, and having it affect their sexual desires and sexual arousal. This is normalizing behavior – a known tactic of sexual groomers – that should be a warning sign to parents and children.”

DON’T USE GOOGLE: Google Launches New ‘Inclusive Language’ Function to Promote Political Correctness.

PROBABLY JUST A COINCIDENCE: New York Times, FX Team Up for Elon Musk Exposé on Tesla Deaths.

NO. JUST NO. Army of worm larvae hatch from man’s bum, visibly slither under his skin.

IT’S ON: John Durham Subpoenas Members of Clinton Campaign and DNC.

BATTLESWARM: Disney Fallout Roundup. “Publix is a bigger employer in Florida than Disney is. Publix is certainly aware of Floridians’ reaction to Disney declaring war on parental rights—and losing $41 billion in shareholder value. I doubt Publix will make the same mistake Disney did.”

SHANGHAI SURPRISE: Locked Down at Work Instead of Home? “The question might not be whether workers would be willing to trade an at-home lockdown for an at-work lockdown, but whether they’ll be allowed — or even physically able — to make the one-way commute.”

YOU DON’T SAY: ‘It reeks of pay-to-play’: Joe Biden and his staff met with Hunter’s top business partner at the White House throughout his vice presidency, visitor logs reveal.

EVERYTHING IS… YOU KNOW: Washington State Bans The Word ‘Marijuana’ From Legislation. Can You Guess Why?

SPOILER: IT WASN’T. CNN+ collapse: Insiders, critics doubted service all along as Brian Stelter ponders if it was a ‘success.’ “You’ve got all the haters today saying this thing was a failure. I don’t know if we can even ever assess that because it just simply didn’t have enough time because of the management’s change in direction.”

Stelter’s show is called Reliable Sources.

If CNN+ had been a success — or had even showed potential for success — there would have been no change of direction.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Libs Spending the Weekend Licking Their Wounds While the Good Guys Rejoice. “Despite my Catholic upbringing, I have abandoned my ‘turn the other cheek’ approach to my enemies, the libs. I revel in their tears, I laugh when they get fired, and I toast when they get kicked in their non-binary crotches.”

COLORADO: Polis gets fact-checked on Disney, Twitter offer.

The latest feud between Corporate America and Americans is unfolding in Florida, where the legislature passed a law against teaching adult issues about sex and gender to children in kindergarten through third grade.

It’s the exact opposite in Colorado, where the Democrat-controlled legislature mandated teaching LGBTQ issues a few years ago, and parents are just now rising up against the law and expressing their opposition to teaching the issues to children that young.

In case you haven’t noticed, the woke Ivy League colleges that produce woke teachers pushing the issue are also churning out woke corporate CEOs who insist that potato head toys and M&M candies embrace all genders.

Capitalism and Hollywood are seemingly thriving off the sale of merchandise and programing that promotes the radical, progressive agenda and victimization of new classes of people who are not white and conservative.

It shouldn’t be surprising the magical kingdom of Disney would join them and endorse teaching sensitive sexual issues to children who haven’t yet learned to read, write, or think for themselves.

Which is the whole issue behind their spat with the governor of Florida, and where Polis has joined in the fray and offered asylum to cartoon mice, and Twitter.

Around here we joke that Colorado’s four seasons are Snow, Mud, Fire, and Construction. I wonder which of those Polis thinks would appeal most to amusement park-goers.

VIDEO: L.A.’s Transit System Is a Criminal Cesspool.

#RESIST: The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv. “The attacks were simple but effective, targeting the signal control cabinets essential to the functioning of the railways, members of the activist network said. For days on end, the movement of trains was paralyzed, forcing the Russians to attempt to resupply their troops by road and contributing to the snarl-up that stalled the infamous 40-mile military convoy north of Kyiv.”

A lot of Belorusians aren’t exactly happy with Vladimir Putin’s effort to reintegrate their country into Mother Russia.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Has Woke Worn Out Its Welcome for Some Lefties? “COVID-19 isn’t the only plague that this country has been dealing with these past couple of years. Woke wandered away from college campuses and infected almost every area of life, including the boardrooms of corporate America.”

GOOD: Twitter under shareholder pressure to seek deal with Musk.

While the views of Twitter shareholders vary over what a fair price for a deal would be, many reached out to the company after Musk outlined his acquisition financing plan on Thursday and urged it not to let the opportunity for a deal slip away, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. read more

Twitter’s board is expected to find that Musk’s all-cash $54.20 per share offer for the company is too low by the time it reports quarterly earnings on Thursday. Nonetheless, some shareholders who agree with that stance still want Twitter to seek a better offer from Musk, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at $270 billion, the sources told Reuters.

One option available to Twitter’s board is to open its books to Musk to try to coax him to sweeten his bid. Another would be to solicit offers from other potential bidders. While it is not yet clear which path Twitter will take, it is increasingly likely that its board will attempt to solicit a better offer from Musk even as it rebuffs the current one, the sources said.

For all the media fuss — it’s where the media hangs out, after all — Twitter isn’t all that large or all that profitable. Musk has made a generous offer and I’m not sure there’s anyone else out there willing to make an all-cash bid for even more cash.

So I guess this is where we find out if Twitter’s board is more interested in returning value to their shareholders or in enforcing woke orthodoxy.

ROBERT SPENCER: ‘Al Qaeda Is on Our Side’: How Obama and Biden Aided Our Enemies in Syria.

THEY NEVER REALLY STOPPED BEING COMMIES: Why Are Russia’s Arms Sucking So Badly? “By acquiring more and more companies, Rostec has ended up consolidating even more monopolies. For example: fighter jets. The United States works with four major manufacturers: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Airbus (Yes, Airbus is European but it also has contracts with Washington). In the case of Russia, practically all fighter jets are manufactured by the same company: UAC which, of course, is under the umbrella of Rostec.”

Much more at the link but the short version is: Russian procurement makes ours look like a model of thrift, honesty, and competitive efficiency.