COVID IS OVER BUT THE GRAVY TRAIN ROLLS ON: White House Wants $22.5 Billion for More Covid Funding.

MATT MARGOLIS: Joe Biden Is Trash: Ignores Question About Deaths of Americans in Ukraine.

GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO: NY State Comptroller Confirms Cuomo’s Cover-Up of COVID Nursing Home Deaths.

THERE’S A LOT OF RUIN IN A NATION, BUT THE LEFT IS ALWAYS TESTING THE LIMITS: Will Anything Be Left of the U.S. After Biden Is Done With It?

REARMAMENT: Germany decides to buy F-35, in major reversal of announced plans.

Previously, “Berlin had not only taken a strong political stance against F-35 and sacked the former head of the Luftwaffe for publicly supporting its acquisition, but had also previously refused to engage with practical discussions of any kind around the operational delivery of the DCA [dual capable aircraft] mission,” he said. “This is a clear sign that all that has now changed.”

The news was cause for celebration for Lockheed Martin, as the F-35 has now won every fighter contest it had entered, with Germany previously standing alone as the sole holdout.

Russia’s failure to gain air superiority over Ukraine (!) proves my long-held assumption that stealth is the price of admission to the modern battlespace — and it’s finally a price even Germany’s parsimonious Ministry of Defense is willing to pay.

THIS IS EITHER THE FUNNIEST OR WORST THING YOU’LL SEE ALL DAY: Has Nancy Pelosi Been Drinking on the Job Again? It Sure Looks That Way…

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: University cancels black, Christian scholar. She’s not leaving without a fight.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Homeless Monsters Commit Unprovoked, Life-Altering Violence.

BIDENFLATION: Producer Prices Rise 10% for Second Straight Month.

I THINK YOU MEAN SHE LAUNCHED HER RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: Stacey Abrams Kicks Off Her Second Attempt to Ruin Georgia.

FLASHBACK: Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company.

KRUISER’S BRIEFING: Vladimir Putin Is the Best Thing to Happen to Joe Biden’s Pathetic Presidency. “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a godsend for Team Biden and its flying monkeys in the mainstream media. The noise of the news from Ukraine has become the perfect screen for Biden to hide his myriad failures behind.”

LOCKDOWN FALLOUT: Bronx apartment block building where blaze killed 17 ‘was due for inspection but it never took place because officers were transferred to check if restaurants were following COVID rules.’

LEFTIST JUSTICE: Plea Deal in the Offing for 9/11 Terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Four Defendants.

CHANGE: Michele Tafoya Leaves the Sports Plantation. “Americans are tired of being bullied by the left and exhausted by constant accusations of systemic racism. In fact, this is the least racist period in our country’s history. My parents and grandparents would have loved to have grown up in the America I grew up in. We are not going to be the generation that lost America. We are going to be the generation that saved it, restored it and passed it onto the next generation.”

LIKE TRYING TO ALTER ROBERT REICH’S SUIT TO FIT JERRY NADLER: White House Alters Transcript to Cover for Kamala Harris’ Stupidity.

HEH: Kamala Harris Quotes As Motivational Posters, Because The Time To Be Inspired Is Every Day.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Put a Fork in Seattle. “I grew up in the Motor City and I have no sympathy for what used to be Seattle. Detroit’s death was drawn out over years and involved a perfect storm of nonsense, including foolish decisions by auto execs, stupid import/export laws, and a corrupt mayor named Coleman A. Young. Detroit languished. Seattle was executed.”

THE POWER OF THE PODCAST: Few Politicians Have Appeared on Joe Rogan’s Podcast. But Data Shows They Should Be Targeting His Fans.

Politicians, especially Democrats, have largely eschewed appearances on Joe Rogan’s chart-topping Spotify podcast, where the elevation of bigoted rhetoric and COVID-19 denialism has thrust him into the center of America’s cultural and political fissures.

But despite these controversies — or perhaps because of them — the Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator has amassed an enormous and loyal audience for his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” New Morning Consult research of self-described “avid” Rogan fans reveals a following that leans Republican, though many say the cohort could also be receptive to a Democratic message.

“If the Democrats aren’t going to go to working-class voters, Republicans will, and they do, and that’s what happens on a lot of these types of shows,” said Briahna Joy Gray, who worked as national press secretary for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign. Referring to the left’s comfort with the personalities of the safe Democratic airwaves of MSNBC, she said, “America isn’t filled with Michael Steeles, Rachel Maddows or Nicolle Wallaces.”

Plus: “An analysis of Americans who described themselves as avid Rogan fans found a group whose average member is younger, more likely to identify as Republican and less likely to be white than the average nonfan.”

I had been assured that younger, nonwhite people were the future of the Democrat party.

MATT MARGOLIS: Another Disturbing Detail About Biden’s SCOTUS Pick Emerges. “We did talk … about her representation of Guantánamo Bay detainees. I expressed some concern about this.”

A LOT CAN GO WRONG – FOR EITHER SIDE – IN TEN DAYS: General Says Putin Days Away From Critical Point Where War Could Turn. “The Russians, I think, are about ten days away from what is called the culminating point, when they just no longer have the ammunition nor the manpower to keep up their assault. I think we keep pouring it on, and the Russians culminate.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Last Party in Davos 2019. “Who could have predicted that, three years later, the president of Afghanistan would have been driven out of the country by the Taliban, the global Covid pandemic would have displaced concerns over antimicrobial resistance, President Joe Biden would be begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil, Europe would be reviving nuclear power and coal, there would be worries over famine in the Middle East, and NATO would be on the brink of war with Russia invading Ukraine. The in-person 2021 Davos meeting itself would be canceled due to the Covid pandemic.”

JOE BIDEN DID THAT: Catastrophic Inflation: ‘I’ve Never Seen Prices Jump This High, This Fast.’ “This is what the early chapters of an inflationary meltdown look like. Last week, we were informed that ‘consumer prices were 7.9% higher in February than a year ago,’ and that was being touted as the highest figure ‘in 40 years.’ Of course, those that follow my website regularly already know that the reality is much worse than that. If the inflation rate was still calculated the way that it was back in 1980, it would be over 15 percent right now.”

At this point in 1980, the federal funds interest rate was nearly 20% as the Fed at least tried to tame inflation.

“The current federal funds rate as of March 11, 2022 is 0.08%.“

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: We Need to Talk About Groomers.
Plus:

• Math is hard (for Pete Buttigieg)
• Teachers don’t know grammar but they do know microaggressions
• Nuance explained without nuance

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

FOG OF WAR: The Problem With That ‘Russia Sought Military Aid From China’ Story.

“Officials familiar with the matter.”

Remember that phrase?

Remember that phrase (and similar ones) a lot from those endless “sources say” hit pieces on President Trump that turned out to be complete garbage made up out of whole cloth?

Read the whole thing.