THE TRIPLE LINDY OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE:

I LIKE THE CUT OF HER JIB (AND THE CALIBER OF HER RIFLE): Meet Virginia Lt. Governor-Elect Winsome Sears: She’s Crashing Through Glass Ceilings and Demolishing Stereotypes.

POST-PRIMETIME PLAYER: ‘SNL’ Legend Dan Aykroyd Cheers on Cancel Culture. “It turns out the ‘SNL’ alum would happily cancel himself.”

AFTER LAST NIGHT, EVEN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE MIGHT STEP AWAY FROM THIS: CDC Approves Immediate Use of Coronavirus Vaccine For Kids Age 5-11.

AS A ST. LOUIS NATIVE, IT WASN’T EASY CHEERING FOR THE BRAVES, BUT CHEER I DID: The Braves winning the World Series is a smack in the face to woke MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred for moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta.

MATT MARGOLIS: Kamala Will Regret These Words After Tuesday Night. “What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.”

YOU DON’T SAY: Is inflation “transitory”? Some economists say to brace for the long term.

VODKAPUNDIT: Midterm Election Disaster: Will the Democrats Ever Learn?

The Republican didn’t quite sweep the board in Tuesday night’s mid-midterm election, but they very nearly did.

It must be quite a thing for Democrats who were so giddy after having claimed the White House, Senate, and House late last year and January of this year.

But then they got to the part where they actually had to govern, to deliver on promises made. So here they are, just ten months later, as flatly rejected by voters as a poor, homely man hitting on a Victoria’s Secret angel.

Shrieking “ORANGE MAN BAD!” is easy. So is shutting down the country’s economy just to ruin a sitting president. Governing is hard, owning up to the bad results of your governance is harder still. Democrats did neither this election season and paid the price last night.

Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.

HECKUVA JOB, JOEY:

Come see the racism inherent in voting for the [checks notes] gun-toting black female immigrant.

OH: D.C. Jail Transfers Out 400 Prisoners for Disgusting, Inhumane Conditions — But Not a Single J6 Detainee.

CHUTZPAH: Upset Over ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’ CNN Warns Political Speech Has Reached ‘Toxic Levels.’ “Perhaps CNN could clean up their act and admit their own role in this toxicity before complaining about it. But then what would Brian Stelter have to talk about?”

HEDGE: Biden Predicted Victory in Virginia… With a Catch.

Also: Biden Won’t Take Calls From McAuliffe After ‘Bloodbath’ In Virginia.

OOPS: SpaceX’s leaky Crew Dragon toilet means 4 astronauts returning to Earth will have to rely on ‘undergarments’ instead, a NASA official said

FAIL, BRITANNIA: British Government May Jail Those Accused of Causing ‘Online Psychological Harm.’

LASERS, IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: GOP Diversity Ticket Trounces Racist CRT Dems In Virginia. “To the surprise of absolutely no one who’s been paying attention to the execrable members of the mainstream media, their response to this momentous occasion was to say that the Republicans won because of racism.”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Here’s the Latest Little Bit of Biden Administration Hypocrisy on Fossil Fuels. “The obnoxious motorcades and private jet lines are infuriating because the only people actually required to sacrifice to save Gaia are working families.”

Working families are the sacrifice.

SUSAN PAGE: Crushing defeat in Virginia could signal more bad news for Democrats ahead.

In his first bid for public office, Youngkin managed to unnerve Democrats nationwide and give Republicans a template to succeed even in places Joe Biden carried by double digits in the presidential campaign one year ago.

The outcome fortified Republican hopes of winning back control of the House and the Senate in next year’s midterms. It complicated Biden’s embattled efforts to push his ambitious agenda through a Congress that is still under Democratic control, albeit narrowly.

Joe Biden couldn’t push Terry McAuliffe over the finish line in deep-blue Virginia, where a Republican hadn’t won statewide office since 2009. Whatever clout he might still have still held with Senate holdouts Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin has evaporated.

Biden is every bit as inept and toxic as a lot of us have been saying for years, and as of this morning it looks like he’ll be the worst thing to happen to down-ticket Democrats since Barack Obama.

OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: Iranian Oil Sales to China Skyrocket as Experts Say Biden Admin Turns Blind Eye to Sanctions Enforcement. “China imported nearly 800,000 barrels of Iranian crude per day on average during the last three months, almost double the amount it was illegally buying from Iran during the same period last year when the Trump administration was pressuring Iran with a crippling sanctions campaign. The increase comes amid an effort by China and Iran to boost diplomatic ties and force the Biden administration into removing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.”

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: House Republicans Request All Documents Concerning DOJ Targeting of Concerned Parents.

LET’S GO BRANDON! Virginia Election Results Are In.

HMM: Welp, We’ve Already Got Problems in Fairfax County, Virginia.

LIVE: Virginia Election Results.

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YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 9 Examples That Show Why Democrats’ Revised Spending Bill Is Still Awful.

OH: Speed-Dating Jury Selection Is Over in Rittenhouse Trial as Poll Shows 2/3 of Possible Jurors Think He’s Guilty as Hell.