KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ICYMI — Portland Is Still an Antifa/BLM/Commie Hell Hole. “It’s not likely that Portland can be saved. Its politics are left of Havana, its citizens too stoned and woke to see what’s happening in front of them. There doesn’t seem to be any level of awfulness that would prompt a correction back to law and order.”

THE REVELATION WAS ACCIDENTAL, NOT THE CRUSHING: New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): As I was saying: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force, sticks rocket landing at sea.

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY OR DECENCY OR WHATEVER: Biden Uses Juneteenth to Push His Federal Takeover of Elections and the Suburbs.

PUSHBACK: Rabbis Drag Pelosi Over the Coals for ‘Acceptance of Bigotry and Abdication of Leadership.’

COLORADO: Weekly $300 Pandemic Unemployment Payments Will Continue.

Easy call: Colorado’s unemployment rate will remain among the worst in the nation.

SAY ANYTHING: Biden Falsely Claims Capitol Rioters ‘Killed’ USCP Officer.

THAT ’70S SHOW: Federal Reserve Delivers Bad News About Expectations For Inflation, Raising Interest Rates. “The Fed is now signaling that rates will need to rise sooner and faster, with their forecast suggesting two hikes in 2023. This change in stance jars a little with the Fed’s recent claims that the recent spike in inflation is temporary.”

How is it that Washington and Wall Street are the only people shocked by this?

TODAY AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

Cold drinks, hot takes.

SHE CAN COMFORT HERSELF WITH ‘NO MEAN TWEETS’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Walloped By Ratings Nosedive. “According to analytics provided by Nielsen Media Research, Wallace’s 4 p.m. show Deadline: White House has seen a nearly 80 percent drop in viewership since January 2021 in the critical 25-54 demographic. At the end of May, just 147,000 non-geriatrics above the age of 25 tuned into her two-hour MSNBC program per day.”

MEANWHILE, CHINA CONTINUES WORK ON ITS SECOND SPACE STATION: Biden’s ‘Mission Equity’ Threatens to Destroy NASA. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that this hyper-focus on characteristics like race–not actual employment qualifications–could lead to unqualified individuals being employed at NASA simply based on their human characteristics or membership in an ‘underserved’ or ‘underrepresented’ community.”

BRIAN BENNETT: Biden’s Summit Gave Putin the World Stage He Craves.

The stagecraft played to Putin’s long-standing desire for Russia to be taken seriously as a major rival to the U.S. Even the setting seemed designed to place the two leaders on equal footing and emphasize the global power they each hold. When Biden and Putin sat down to meet in a library filled with leather-bound books inside the Villa La Grange, an antique globe had been placed between the two leaders.

At the start of their meeting, Putin was quick to point out that the summit was Biden’s idea.

Well, it was somebody in the White House’s idea.

NEWSPEAK: Biden DOE Redefines ‘Sex’ to Force Transgenderism on Schools. “The Department of Education under Biden twisted Title IX to push transgender orthodoxy, undermining women’s sports and the rule of law.”

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is the Tide Turning Against Cancel Culture? “Kevin Hart, Charles Barkley and Rita Moreno slam woke scolds … will more follow?”

BREAKING: Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Religious Freedom in Foster Care.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Eye Broccoli’ Megan Rapinoe to Replace Victoria’s Secret ‘Angels.’

Plus:

• Now even hamsters get to choose their gender
• Will the real Anthony Fauci please stand up?
• Chris Cuomo get schooled on Chris Cuomo

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

JOANNE JACOBS: To vax or not to vax: What will parents do? “A Kaiser Family Foundation survey, also in late May, reported lower numbers: 41 percent of parents with children 12 to 17 plan to get their child vaccinated as soon as possible, including 24 percent whose child has received at least one dose. Another 21 percent will ‘wait a while to see how it is working.’ Fourteen percent will get their child vaccinated only if their school requires it and another 20 percent say they will ‘definitely not’ get their 12-17 year-old vaccinated.”

My 15-year-old has had both Pfizer shots, with nothing worse than a sore arm for 24 hours, and my 10-year-old doesn’t need them for a couple more years.

CLEANEST ELECTION EVER: Significant Election Irregularities Exposed in Fulton County, Georgia.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: In Latest Hunter Biden Racism Reveal, Corrupt Democrat Media Silent Again. “Where are the virtue-signaling elites and journalists now that records show Hunter Biden has been racist on more than one occasion? Surely, given that the Biden administration purports to be taking actions against ‘Anti-Asian Violence, Xenophobia and Bias,’ wouldn’t it make sense for left-leaning outlets to cover his family’s track record? Shouldn’t they stay the course on opposing bigotry?”

UGH: Another ‘Random’ Black-on-White Shooting, This One With 5 Victims.

FOR NOW, ANYWAY: F-35 pilot says ‘Forget drones, the skies still belong to fighter pilots.’

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Matt Margolis: A Group of Parents Sent Their Kids’ Masks to a Lab. What They Discovered Will Horrify You. “Let’s focus on the fact that even if masks have any value at all when it comes to protecting kids from COVID, they’re likely making your kids sick anyway.”

Tyler O’Neil: Cable Networks Bury Dems’ Election Power Grab While Hyperventilating About Election Integrity Laws. “Not once did the networks scold Democrats like Joe Biden for inflammatory rhetoric condemning GOP state election laws as ‘Jim Crow on steroids.’ Instead, the networks occasionally repeated the heated rhetoric.”

Yours Truly: Joe Biden Purposely Fritters Away Any Chance for Peace in the Middle East. “The message from the White House is clear: Any further peace process will have to go through the intransigent Palestinian leadership — and therefore there will be no peace.”

HMM: Could humans be too heavy to land on Mars?

Landing a relatively light rover like the Perseverance rover is one thing, but landing craft carrying the crew of astronauts – and much of the provisions and equipment needed to keep them alive on Mars for many months – would be heavy.

And that means it needs a powerful rocket motor to touch down safely.

For the Apollo moonlandings, the descent motor mostly blasted dust horizontally away across the surface, and no visible crater was gouged out by the rocket.

This is because over billions of years, the lunar surface has become compacted, and the vacuum conditions allow the rocket exhaust to disperse.

However, the situation is very different on Mars. Its surface material is much looser, and the atmospheric pressure serves to keep the engine plume focused on one small spot, allowing it to blast much deeper.

This means, Metzger says, that the descent engine of a large Martian lander would blow loose rocks across the surface at high speeds up to a kilometre away – presenting a risk to the crew habitats or other equipment that the mission needs to touch down near.

This is where reusable spacecraft will become even more valuable, creating a more affordable way to test landing larger, heavier spacecraft.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: I Keep Missing the Part Where Biden Brings Back Dignity. “Since I’m not on the side that has to pretend Biden’s behavior is normal, I don’t think it’s dignified or presidential when he responds to a serious question from the press by laughing like village idiot.”

MORE FOREIGNERS DOING THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T: Australian Media Mocks CNN’s Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden.