PODCASTING FROM THE BORDER: Breaking Biden’s Border Blackout.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Looted & Burned Target Store Puts Up Mural Celebrating Arson.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When will woke corporations learn the wokeness is no good for the bottom line?

Answer: When normals stop buying their stuff, and not one minute sooner — we’re still the majority.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Lefty Bloomberg writer comes out against “politically guided science”
• Brookline, Mass denies the science, keeps outdoor mask mandate
• If there’s one thing lefties hate, it’s people who take them seriously

Bonus Sanity: World not to end on June 6.

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

PROGRESS: Farm Robot Zaps Weeds With High-Powered Lasers, Eliminates Need For Toxic Herbicides.

AT THIS POINT I TRUST THE IRANIAN MEDIA MORE THAN OUR OWN STATE DEPARTMENT: State Department Denies Iran TV Report of Paying $7 Billion For Four U.S. Hostages.

OUTDOORS, IN A PARK: SF teacher warned for teaching in park. “In a letter to Libson, Mission High principal Pirette McKamey said he’d violated a health order by teaching students from more than three households.”

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE THAT EVERYTHING WAS ON THE UP-AND-UP: Maricopa County 2020 Election Audit Expands, Could Last Weeks Longer Than Expected.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Pentagon to cancel Trump border wall projects using military funds.

STACEY LENNOX: The Democrats’ Increasing Struggle with Wokeness Is Just Another Sign of the Political Realignment. The political parties are at a crossroads, and whether Carville and Harris know it or not, their coalition is changing. Democrats are no longer the party of the underdog. Union leaders support them for political power, but increasingly union members vote Republican. Part of the reason was President Trump’s ability to authentically speak in plain English to let them know he valued their work and understood the hollowing out of middle America by the coasts. Somehow an octogenarian, who never built a thing in his life and became rich off a 50-year political career yammering about Scranton, doesn’t sound as genuine as a man who built skyscrapers.”

WELL, NOT JUST THE GLOBAL MICROCHIP SHORTAGE: Global microchip shortage has China eyeing Taiwan.

HMM: What Happened to Mikaela Haynes? Missouri Guardian Ad Litem Withdraws from Case Involving Teen Suicide After Press Inquiry.

WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF THE PRESS: How the White House is hiding the true cost of its spending plans.

The first budget gimmick is to provide a cost estimate for the administration’s infrastructure plan, the American Jobs Plan, for only eight years, instead of the standard budget convention of 10 years. The White House Fact Sheet (March 31, 2021) states that the plan will “invest about $2 trillion this decade.” But White House officials have admitted that this $2 trillion number is imprecise. The real spending is closer to $2.4 trillion, and that number does not include more than $400 billion in new tax credits for various programs, making the real eight-year number $2.8 trillion. Over 10 years, the true cost of the plan would be at least $3.5 trillion, nearly double the original estimate.

The second budget gimmick comes in the form of an estimate of the revenue raised over 15 years, not the conventional 10 years. This ruse allows the White House to overestimate the amount of money coming in so that it can then claim the proposed tax increases cover the cost of its proposed spending. But that is not the case. The corporate tax increases would raise an estimated $2.5 trillion over 15 years, according to the Treasury. This works out to about $1.7 trillion over 10 years, which means that only about half of the $3.5 trillion to be spent over the same 10 years would be covered.

In sum, the White House accounting gimmickry is hiding the actual cost of its spending plans, overestimating the tax revenue coming in to pay for the spending, and obscuring the plan’s actual impact on the budget. Every journalist covering this issue has either missed this budget gamesmanship or is in on the ruse and has neglected to point it out.

Democratic operatives with bylines.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump-Hating Romney Wing of GOP Is Learning It’s Not Popular. “It’s Trump’s party now and, as I’ve written more than once, if it’s going to survive this Biden horror, it needs to stay that way. Going back to pre-Trump business as usual will guarantee that the Democrats will stay in power forever. Or at least until they kill the Republic. The GOP types who decided to be vocal about hating Donald Trump have been marginalized and are getting pushed more towards the party’s fringe every day.”

JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO DECENCY: Pentagon says no to parking permit for Rolling To Remember.

The U.S. Department of Defense has denied a parking permit to the American Veterans or AmVets to stage a rallying point at the Pentagon ending a 32-year-old tradition on Memorial Day weekend for Rolling To Remember.

Now AmVets will try and secure RFK Stadium as an alternative staging area.

AmVets Executive Director Joe Chenelly tells the 7 News I-Team he received a call from the Pentagon Friday afternoon saying “A gentleman at the Pentagon told me that after careful consideration, our permit application was denied. He said considerations involved the continued spread of COVID-19 in the region and the nature of our event being that we are proposing a large gathering for an extended period of time.”

Biden’s Pentagon is dishonoring vets as part of the White House’s ongoing effort to keep people in a panic over a fading pandemic.

WHEN HE’S RIGHT, SHE’S RIGHT: Even Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner Gets It Right on Boys Playing Girls’ Sports: ‘It Just Isn’t Fair.’

PJ MEDIA VIP WRAP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Stacey Lennox: News on COVID-19 Testing Should Prompt an IMMEDIATE Congressional Investigation. “ In other words, a positive COVID-19 PCR test is not a definitive diagnosis in the absence of a full assessment of the patient and the situation. Yet, in December of 2020, the revision to the CDC guidelines for laboratories still used a Ct of 40 as the threshold to be considered negative.” (That’s a lot of not-sick sick people.)

Tyler O’Neil: Professor Makes a Stunning Admission About How She Trains Future K-12 Teachers. “I mean, it’s all social justice. All day, every day, I get to talk about the things I love. I’m really living the life over here.” (“Social” in front of any word reverses the word’s meaning.)

Yours Truly: What Do You Do with Democrats Who Enjoy Being Accused of Racism? “Imagine for a moment that you’re a well-meaning Democrat. How much of ‘All White People Are Racist’ clips could you get through before jumping on board the Trump Train?” (All of them, apparently.)

WELL, YES: Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable

We’ve arrived at the “gain power by whatever means and then raid the Treasury” stage of banana republicanism.

MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY: A Plurality of Voters Deem Biden’s First 100 Days a ‘Failure.’

SANITY: U.S. will cut off foreign aid to Afghanistan if Taliban takes over, senators say.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Arizona School Board Flees from Concerned Parents, Parents Elect New Board.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call it when a cowardly local school board flees from parents demanding relaxed mask rules, only to have the parents use Roger’s Rules of Order to elect a new board right there on the spot?

Answer: ‘Merica, baby.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Cowardly congresscritter calls for higher taxes on herself, won’t write a check to the Treasury
• American scientists who assured us the Wuhan virus could not have escaped from that Wuhan lab worked with that Wuhan lab and praised the CCP
• Bob and Bing on the road to Zimbabwe — along with the rest of us

Bonus Sanity: For only the third time ever, it’s right there in the lead story.

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

CHARMING: Franklin Graham Wanted to Honor Seattle Police. They Spat in His Face.

SATIRE… OR IS IT? Biden Official Confirms Plans to Ban Fried Chicken and Grape Drink. “Some have raised concerns about the menthol ban, arguing that it would lead to more interactions with the police which could result in more black fatalities during these encounters. However, the FDA assures us the number of black men shot to death by police will pale in comparison to the warm fuzzy feeling white progressives will have knowing African Americans are no longer smoking Newports, eating Popeye’s, or drinking carbonated grape-flavored beverages.”

MORE VOTES THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN HISTORY: The Ratings for Joe Biden’s First Address to Congress Are in, and They’re Really Bad.

XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: North Korea bans criticism of China as economic dependence grows due to pandemic. “Some North Koreans really dislike Chinese leadership for saying publicly that China is part of a ‘socialist brotherhood’ with North Korea, but Beijing does very little to support us even though we are living through economic hardship due to the coronavirus. Even the authorities in the past have been wary of our unconditional dependence on China and the expectations that they’ll take care of us, saying ‘Don’t trust China too much.’”

Indeed.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: 5 Ways Joe Biden Attacked Americans’ Fundamental Rights in His First 100 Days.

BIDEN’S WAR ON YOUR RIGHT TO CONTRACT: Uber, Lyft stocks plunge after Biden official says drivers are employees.