WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JUST PUMPING OUR OWN? OH, RIGHT — JOE BIDEN HAPPENED: OPEC refuses to increase oil output as US announces massive release of crude reserves.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden’s Border Nightmare Continues to Get Worse. “Naturally, the Democrat Media Complex is all but ignoring the issue. When Trump was president the flying monkeys couldn’t shut up about it. Now it’s as if the border has vanished into thin air.”

“BUSY SPACE SCHEDULE” IS A NICE PROBLEM TO HAVE: NASA, SpaceX delay Crew-4 launch to April 20 due to busy space schedule.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Globalists Have Turned U.S. Border Patrol Agents Into Welcome Mats.

FALOUT: As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain.

IS THE FIX IN? Why Is Everybody Ganging Up on Poor Hunter Biden? “ There has been speculation ever since Biden began pretending to be president that eventually he would resign or the 25th Amendment would be invoked and America would have its first inappropriately cackling president. Kamala Harris’ abysmal performance in one of the easiest jobs in the entire world, that of vice president of the United States, may have extended Old Joe’s tenure, but it may be that after his numerous appalling missteps in Poland, the jig is up.”

KRUISER’S BRIEFING: Democrats See DeSantis Everywhere and They’re Terrified. “The greatest thing about DeSantis is that he seems to become even more bulletproof after every leftmedia attack on him. And there are a lot of attacks.”

LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.

THIS IS CNN+: CNN’s New Streaming Service Already Headed For Layoffs Amid Dismal Sales.

DON’T GET COCKY: Are Democrats Panicking? It Sure Looks That Way.

NOT ONE SECOND BEFORE A NEW NARRATIVE DEMANDS IT. NEXT QUESTION? When Will Comedians Stop Protecting Kamala Harris?

DEMOCRATS: Pressure Mounts on Sheldon Whitehouse To Resign in Shame Over Ties to Racist Beach Club.

FLORIDA GOP VOTER REGISTRATION EXPLODES: The Trickle-Down Genius of Ron DeSantis. “It isn’t all good news for the GOP. Some of it is bad news for Democrats.”

ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY: Kamala Harris tosses word salad after meeting Jamaican prime minister. “For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic … we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential.”

I hope you got all that. There will be a quiz later.

“NOT PEDO-FRIENDLY” HAS BECOME TO MUCH TO ASK: Ketanji Jackson’s Record on Sentencing Child Porn Offenders Is Worse Than We Thought.

IT WAS NEVER MORE THAN A DREAM: Democrats’ Dreams of Ousting Ron DeSantis Crushed by New Poll.

MOURNING IN AMERICA: In U.S., Life Ratings Drop to 13-Month Low.

CALIFORNIA WAS NEVER A SLAVE STATE: California Panel Approves Limits on Compensation For Slavery. “The panel agreed by a 5-4 vote that only those blacks whose ancestors were in the U.S. in the 19th century would be eligible for compensation. The panel rejected a motion to include all black people regardless of lineage.”

DEMOCRACY DIED IN DARKNESS: Washington Post authenticates laptop after dismissing ‘fake’ scandal in 2020.

WELL, GOOD: Biden’s ‘Billionaire Tax’ Crashes and Burns on Takeoff.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: DHS preparing for unprecedented Title 42 border rush of up to 18,000 migrants per day.

In other words, our border resources are stretched with the number of daily encounters near the peaks we saw last summer, but a CDC announcement that Title 42 is ending could send 2 1/2 times as many migrants to the border in any given day. The border patrol doesn’t have the manpower, transportation capability or holding facilities to deal with all those people.

Of course there are all sorts of caveats here. For one, DHS is saying this is just a worst case scenario not a prediction. Also, there are probably tens of thousands of people waiting on the other side of the border who would try to cross if Title 42 were to end but there may not be enough to sustain levels as high as 18,000 per day (540,000 per month!) for very long. At that rate, maybe the surge would only last a couple weeks before the backlog dies down.

On the other hand, what we’ve seen in the past several years, since at least the Obama administration, is that anytime word goes out that crossing the border has become easier, there is a fresh surge of migrants.

Incentives matter.

HEH: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Shows How to End a Russian Invasion With 1 Weird Trick.

JILL FILIPOVIC: The true cost of Biden’s budget: a red wave in November.

Typically, Democrats-with-bylines like Filipovic wait until after the lost election to blame Democrat politicians for not having gone far enough to the Left.

Read into that what you will.

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Athena Thorne: Tragic Kingdom: Disney Enters End Stage of Terminal Wokeness Infection. “To my many family and friends who loved the Disney company, I am so sorry for your loss. But your friend is already dead.”

Robert Spencer: Trump Reveals His Plan to Reverse the Damage of the Biden Years. “Trump did not, however, simply assess our current predicament; he also offered hope for the future.”

Yours Truly: PAIN: Inflation Will Cost You $5,200 This Year. “A $5,200 “inflation tax” means the average U.S. household is going to be 10% poorer this year. Essentially, the average American household will have its 2022 tax burden increased by a painful 33%.”

Bonus: Florida Man Friday: Trapped in Port-a-Potty, Caught With More Than His Pants Down.

CHINA: Biden Pushing Ukraine Crisis into ‘Nuclear War.’ “No matter how well Biden’s propaganda machine works, it cannot downplay the fact that such a blunt statement at a sensitive time could further inflame the situation. This was unwise and irresponsible, reflecting a dire problem within U.S. policy-making: some politicians are taking their personal grievances to the national level.”

Previously: Joe Biden and World War III for Dummies.