NOW: Real Wages Plummet Nearly 3% Due To Inflation.

Then: Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years.

I could sure use some mean tweets right about now.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Yet Another Conspiracy Theory Comes True: ‘At Least 20’ Feds Embedded at Capitol on Jan. 6.

BECAUSE WE FINALLY LEARNED THE EXTENT OF GROOMING, AND INSTEAD OF GROOMERS CRAWLING FAR AWAY FROM SOCIETY, THEY BECAME CELEBRATED BY LEFTIES LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE: Why So Many Conservatives Are Talking About ‘Grooming’ All Of A Sudden.

CORN POOP: Is This the Dumbest Fact Check Ever?

ARTEMIS/SLS WEST DRESS REHEARSAL UPDATE:

Teams concluded today’s wet dress rehearsal test at approximately 5:10 p.m. EDT after observing a liquid hydrogen (LH2) leak on the tail service mast umbilical, which is located at the base of the mobile launcher and connects to the rocket’s core stage. The leak was discovered during liquid hydrogen loading operations and prevented the team from completing the test.

Before ending the test, teams also met test objectives for the interim cryogenic propulsion stage by chilling down the lines used to load propellant into the upper stage. They did not flow any propellant to the stage because of an issue with a helium check valve identified several days ago.

When teams paused propellant loading, the rocket’s core stage liquid oxygen tank was about 49% filled and the liquid hydrogen tank had been loaded to about 5% capacity prior to the hydrogen leak.

Teams are now working to drain propellant from the rocket. They will inspect the umbilical connection, review data, and establish a go-forward plan to address the hydrogen leak.

Not much of a rehearsal, really.

HMM: Tesla’s Texas Charger Grant Applications Fail; It’s Bad For Texas But Reveals Tesla’s Super-Low Costs. “A Texas program which gives grants to install fast EV chargers, as long as they support non-Tesla TSLA cars got applications by Tesla. This was a first for Tesla in the USA, as their stations normally only charge Tesla cars. Also interesting is the amounts of the grants, which can cover 70% of the cost of the chargers, to a maximum of $150,000 per charger. Tesla’s applications ask for as little as $30,000 per charger, while most other applications are claiming the maximum $150,000 and perhaps cost even more.”

A MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE WEALTHY: Schumer Says Biden ‘More Open’ to Canceling Student Debt by Executive Action.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Left Lost Hispanic Voters When It Chose To Be The Party Of White Woman’s Instagram.

LIVE AT 3 P.M. EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

JON GABRIEL: We Can No Longer Afford to Be ‘Respectable.’

Perhaps if you’ve made a lot of money, sold a lot of books, need to curry favor with media moguls, and have grown accustomed to a certain level of material wealth and social influence, these attacks spook you. After all, you have to pay for the house, the cabin, and your kids’ private school.

Or you’re less materialistic yet thrive on the speaking invites, conferences, and Beltway social connections. You think the primary goal of life is to be “nice” and “respectable.” Abandoning that belief horrifies you.

The rest of us no longer care about being respected, especially by people who despise us. We expect the insults, the bad-faith arguments, and attempts at cancellation. When attacked on social media, the only passion I can gin up is clicking the “mute” button.

Read the whole thing.

NO: Fauci Fanboys on Chinese-style Lockdowns, Admits Real Purpose of Lockdowns. “Well, China has a number of problems, two of which are that the complete lockdown — which was their approach — a strictest lockdown you’d never be able to implement in the United States. Although that prevents the spread of infection — I remember early on they were saying, and I think accurately, that they were doing better than anyone else.”

STRANGERS IN A NORMAL LAND: WaPo Mounts Another Expedition To Darkest Redstate Texas.

MOSKVA DOWN: Did Ukraine Really Sink the Pride of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet?

DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats face nightmare scenario, ‘biblical disaster.’

Inflation, immigration, the war in Ukraine and the still-lingering COVID-19 pandemic make for a dreadful political atmosphere for President Biden’s party.

The problems are compounded by Biden’s weak approval numbers and the historical pattern whereby a president’s party typically loses seats in the first midterms of his tenure.

Some Democrats believe a turnaround is still possible, or at least that losses can be kept modest.

But others, granted anonymity to speak candidly, sound a louder alarm.

“I think this is going to be a biblical disaster,” said one such Democratic strategist, who did not wish to be named. “This is the reality we are in as Democrats and no one wants to face it.”

Well, they’ve been able to implement so many of the policies they wanted – what did they think would happen?

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Feds Apologize to Violent BLM and Antifa Rioters for Not Being Nicer to Them as They Set Fires in Front of White House.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Product shortages and soaring prices reveal fragility of U.S. supply chain/ “About 31% of grocery products consumers browsed were out of stock in the first week of April, according to Datasembly, a research firm that tracks grocery and retail pricing. That’s up from 11% at the end of November 2021. Out-of-stock notices were even more common in Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington, where they surpassed 40%.”

I don’t think the country should even have a Secretary of Transportation, but since we do have one, where the hell is he and what the hell is he doing?

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Matt Margolis: Biden Can’t Even Convince CNN That Putin Is to Blame for Inflation. “Neither a CNN host nor a guest could sugarcoat inflation for Biden? Ouch. And Lemon wasn’t finished calling Biden out.”

Stephen Kruiser: What If Liz Cheney Doesn’t Lose? “My latest cause of concern is the nagging feeling that Liz Cheney might not be going away next year. I mean away from the House of Representatives. Should she lose her seat in Congress, we know she will soon resurface at CNN, MSNBC, or Adam Kinzinger’s house, where they’ll sip wine coolers in a kiddie pool and whine about Donald Trump all day.”

Yours Truly: Ukraine War: Have Missiles Made Tanks Obsolete? “A few guys sneaking around the woods with a few antitank missiles can do a whole lot of damage to an entire armored column.”

AND THEY’LL PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO YOU! Amazon to Start Charging Sellers 5% ‘Fuel and Inflation’ Fee, Reports Say.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Mexican Official Warns That Revoking Title 42 Will Mean ‘Chaos’ for U.S. and Mexico.

SPOILER: WE’LL GET BOTH. White House Expects More Inflation, Not Recession.

It was Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Clinton and later a senior economic adviser to President Obama, who warned the White House for months last year that, no, inflation would not be temporary or transitory as they had hoped.

And he was right: the Consumer Price Index rose by 7.9% through February, the fastest annual increase in four decades. Eventually President Biden came around, announcing last month that addressing inflation would be his “top priority.” Now, ahead of new data to be released by the Labor Department Tuesday, the White House warns that inflation numbers will be “extraordinarily elevated.”

Given that Summers was right about inflation, does Biden believe the economist will be right about a recession? “That is not a projection we have made from here,” Jen Psaki told reporters in the briefing room Monday. “We believe,” added the White House press secretary, “that the economy is strong.”

They might actually believe this, which means the White House will keep us on a course that makes stagflation almost inevitable.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hey FBI, We’re Running Low on Those White Domestic Terrorists You Keep Warning Us About. “Before the cries of ‘RAAAAAAACISM’ come raining down harder (they’re always raining down, after all), I want to say that I’m not positing that all white people are innocent. And I have no doubt that there are some fringe groups out there that are heavy on the Caucasian. What I am saying is that maybe federal law enforcement should look at things on a case-by-case basis, rather than through a lens that’s clouded by a narrative that is driven by a political vendetta.”

BILL WHITTLE ON “THE GREAT RESET”: Part I, Technocracy.

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WE MAY NEVER KNOW HIS TRUE MOTIVES: Nabbed New York Terror Shooter Suspect Is Black Nationalist Who Praised 9/11 and Called for Killing ‘All the Whiteys.’

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Gilbert Gottfried Is Irreplaceable.

Gone… too soon.

DECEMBER: Sweden PM Andersson Avers ‘will Not Apply For Membership In NATO’ For Country’s Security.

April: Sweden On Verge of Applying For NATO Membership.