I HOPE THEY TAKE HIM UP ON IT: Air Force F-35 pilot Hasard Lee challenges AI firm to a fighter fly-off. “Here at Sandboxx News, we’re known to play favorites when it comes to pilots, so when our friend and contributing writer Hasard Lee reached out to tell us that he recently issued a public challenge to pit him and his F-35 against any fully autonomous aircraft in a complex real–world simulated battlefield environment, we certainly took notice.”

BRINGING AMERICANS TOGETHER: Americans Are Deeply Divided on Covid—But Distrust Biden, His Experts, and the Media.

FIRST-YEAR LAME DUCK: CBS/YouGov Poll Sweeps the Legs out From Under Biden.

The poll found that a huge majority of Americans believed he wasn’t sufficiently focused on the economy (58 percent) and inflation (65 percent). Only 38 percent approved of his handling of the economy, while a whopping 62 percent disapproved. It’s even worse when it comes to inflation — 30 percent approval, 70 percent disapproval. He’s about to dip into the twenties on the approval of his handling of inflation.

If he thinks their opinion is going to go up if he was able to raise the Build Back Better bill back up from the dead, the answer is no, it wouldn’t. The poll showed that that wouldn’t help him at all: 76 percent said no, their opinion of him wouldn’t improve if he was able to pass the BBB bill. The poll indicated that what they want is a change in inflation, and their opinion of him might improve if he were to do that.

But the problem is inflation is made worse by government spending, which is all Biden has been focused upon. So, what he needs to do to change Americans’ opinion of him is contrary to the Democrats’ massive spending dreams and what they want him to do.

At this point it will almost certainly require a Fed-engineered recession to tame inflation, something Biden doesn’t have the stomach for — even if he did still have the political clout to back the Fed.

And I’m not sure the Fed has the stomach to raise rates, given that overall employment is still down millions of jobs from its pre-lockdown high.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Post-Pandemic World. “This may expose the bureaucrats who’ve spent the last three years building ’empires of fear’ to a widespread political backlash. What will make it worse is that the bureaucrats cannot even claim victory over the virus for their policies. It just seemed to have run its course, with omicron representing the final stage of the viral evolution to an endemic disease.”

GHISLAINE MAXWELL DID NOT KILL HERSELF: Ghislaine Maxwell ‘will no longer fight to keep names of John Does secret.’

CLEANEST ELECTION IN HISTORY: Wisconsin Judge Rules Ballot Drop Boxes Used in 2020 Election Were Illegal.

SOROS JUSTICE: Los Angeles DA Gascon ripped over sentencing for transgender woman who sexually assaulted girl. “Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon is facing criticisms after a 26-year-old transgender woman pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a young girl, and faces sentencing of a short stay in a juvenile detention center or probation.”

Juvenile detention for a 26-year-old biologically male rapist? You’ll need a fresh batch of “unexpectedlies” for how that turns out.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Remain Disturbingly Fond of Islamic Terrorists. “We were subjected last weekend to the zillionth Democrat production of ‘Pretend It’s Not Islamic Terrorism Even When a Five-Year-Old Can Tell It’s Islamic Terrorism.’ It’s one of the longest-running productions of the ‘Things Democrats Get Wrong’ theater.”

BIDENFLATION: Bidenomics cost the average worker nearly two paychecks in 2021. “To put this into more practical terms, the average U.S. worker earns 26 paychecks a year on a biweekly pay schedule. Inflation in 2021 effectively wiped out nearly two of those 26 paychecks. Suffice it to say, the devastation of inflation is not evenly distributed, and as usual, the data demonstrate the damage is regressive.”

YOUR BODY, THEIR CHOICE: Family Fights for Ivermectin for Dying Loved One, Courts Say ‘No.’

AND JUST LIKE THAT…: Help! I May Need Therapy For What the ‘Sex And The City’ Reboot Is Doing to Me.

SEE THE RACISM AND THE FOREIGN COLLUSION INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM:

“When I use the filibuster,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

WHAT ELSE ARE YOU GONNA CALL JOY REID? ‘Bimbo’ Got Me Banned on Twitter.

THE WORST IS YET TO COME AND IT WON’T BE FINE: 2022 Will Break Joe Biden.’ “Undaunted by political reality, Biden and his coterie of hardcore leftists decided to affect radical changes without having even a Senate majority. It might be the biggest — not to mention the fastest — presidential self-own in this century. Biden’s epic failures are the albatross he hung around his own neck.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Army readies to deliver first set of Strykers with 50-kilowatt laser weapons. “The Army has dubbed its Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense system ‘Guardian.’ After testing its first prototype last spring at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, against one-, two-, and three-class unmanned aircraft systems and rockets, artillery and mortars, the service is planning to conduct more tests this month.”

AXELROD’S PROBLEM ISN’T BIDEN’S DIVISIVE MESSAGE, BUT THAT THE DELIVERY LACKS OBAMA’S MOCK-MODERATION: Obama Advisor Blasts Biden’s Racial Rhetoric.

SHE’S NINE YEARS OLD: Former CNN producer John Griffin faces $15 million civil lawsuit alleging ‘horrific sexual abuse’ of Connecticut minor.

VICTORIA TAFT: The Supreme Court’s Incoherent COVID Mandate Rulings. “This duplicity has Chief Justice John Roberts’ fingerprints all over it.”

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, DO THE EXACT SAME THING AGAIN: COVID vaccines funder Bill Gates not impressed with their performance, predicts ‘yearly shots.’

DON’T GET COCKY: Sabato Says GOP Could Win Its Biggest Congressional Majority Since the Depression.

FLASHBACK: May 2020 Assault On The White House Leaves 60 Secret Service Agents Wounded, President Trump Taken to Secure Bunker.

LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY: Sen. Ron Johnson Demands Details From Pentagon on Project Veritas COVID Story Origins Report. “The impetus for Johnson’s request was a report by a Marine major working at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The report was subsequently released by Project Veritas. In it, we learn that EcoHealth Alliance pursued a grant from DARPA in 2018 to study ways to prevent a coronavirus outbreak similar to the Sars CoV-2 coronavirus that caused the current pandemic.”

MEAN, LAZY, AND VINDICTIVE IS NO WAY TO GO THROUGH LIFE: To staff, Kamala Harris is a clueless bully who refuses to do her homework.

GONE HOLLYWOOD: Iran’s Supreme Leader Releases Video Depicting Assassination of Trump.

THE PRIME MINISTER OF VINLAND COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Is the Viking next to go? WWU eyes ditching Viking mascot due to colonialism.