UNITY: Several Super Bowl Advertisers Bow Out over Fear of Offending Viewers.

NOT THE BEE: Husband stabbed repeatedly by his wife after she finds photo of him with young skinny girl, turns out it’s an old picture of her.

REFILL THE SWAMP: Hickenlooper Taps Lobbyist to Lead Senate Office.

BREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Runs for Governor: ‘I Took on the Media and I Won.’

THE CORPORATE STATE: Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. “The Biden administration will need to tread carefully to avoid Big Tech taking over functions of government. Early in Obama’s presidency, Google representatives attended more than one White House meeting a week, leading some to jokingly call the administration Google.gov. More than 250 Google employees moved back and forth between the company and government during the Obama years. Schmidt is now poised to have even more sway within the new White House.”

Everything is worse in reruns.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘CCP Joe’ Welcomes Communist Firms Back into U.S. Energy Grid.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it good news that President Joe Biden turns out to be one of those honest politicians who stays bought?

Answer: Not when he’s a majority-owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, it isn’t.

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

• Prime Minister Zoolander feeds the mouth that bit him
• Woman who knitted those Bernie Sanders meme mittens driven out of business by feds
• Who turned off the lights at the White House?

Bonus Sanity: You aren’t losing your mind — Joe is.

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

THEY ALREADY HAVE, AND HE’S JUST GETTING STARTED. NEXT QUESTION? Will Biden’s Policies Lead to Job Losses? Here Are Possible Economic Impacts of 4 of Them.

PRIVACY: WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update. “The exodus was so large that WhatsApp has been forced to delay the implementation of the new terms, which had been slated for 8 February, and run a damage limitation campaign to explain to users the changes they were making.”

WhatsApp claims they won’t share data with parent company Facebook, but for some reason, no one seems to believe them.

ECO-TOURISM, KIND OF: Oklahoma lawmaker proposes ‘Bigfoot’ hunting season. “Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Joe Biden Is the Worst 5 Day President Ever. “I almost have to hand it to Ol’ Gropes, he’s spreading the pain all over the place. There have already been multiple moments for schadenfreude but that feeling is fleeting when I realize that I’m going to be miserable too. It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m sure there will be a knock at the door.”

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: President Biden to reinstate COVID-19 travel rules, add South Africa, sources say.

BIG TECH BLUES: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia.

Australia is introducing a world-first law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.
But the US firms have fought back, warning the law would make them withdraw some of their services.

Australian PM Scott Morrison said lawmakers would not yield to “threats”.
Australia is far from Google’s largest market, but the proposed news code is seen as a possible global test case for how governments could seek to regulate big tech firms.

Tech firms have faced increasing pressure to pay for news content in other countries, including France, where Google struck a landmark deal with media outlets on Thursday.

In Australia, the proposed news code would tie Google and Facebook to mediated negotiations with publishers over the value of news content, if no agreement could be reached first.

On the one hand, this might be a case where the cure is worse than the disease — at least according to the man who invented the world wide web.

On the other hand, Google and Facebook.

NOT SATIRE: A confounding kimchi kerfuffle shows the CCP has made people at home hungry for news of China’s dominance. “When China came for their kimchi, South Koreans knew they had had enough. Over the past several weeks, China’s state-backed Global Times has turned its crosshairs on Korea’s beloved fermented cabbage dish, running a provocative series of pieces asserting a version of the dish from China’s Sichuan province is the authoritative version, and pointedly reminding Koreans China was the world leader in the kimchi industry.”

SAD: The Washington Post Just Proved How Desperate It Is to Be Kamala Harris’ Pravda.

THIS IS THE TRIPLE LINDY OF FLIP-FLOPS: Biden Flip Flops on COVID: ‘There’s Nothing We Can Do to Change the Trajectory’ of the Pandemic.

(Classical reference in the headline.)

TACIT ENDORSEMENT: Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki FAILS to Condemn Antifa Violence.

INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK? Aero Precision Moves Out of Tacoma In Response to Gun and Ammo Tax.

WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Unforgettable Anti-Mask Bagel Shop Outrage Video.

THE STREISAND EFFECT: Change! “Speaking of Andy Ngo and antifa, by protesting against Powell’s bookstore for carrying his new book, Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, they managed to jump it to the top of Amazon’s political bestseller list.”

BREATHLESS: In the Last House Race Undecided, the Republican Leads by 29 Votes.

SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: US, UK Sign Agreement to Merge Forces for Historic Joint Carrier Deployment.

That was Monday, when Trump was still in office.

This is Thursday: Fury as Joe Biden REMOVES bust of Boris Johnson’s hero Winston Churchill from the Oval Office.

MEDIA OUTRAGE AT THIS ABUSE TO FOLLOW IN APPROXIMATELY NEVER: Biden Admonishes Reporter for Questioning Whether Vaccine Goal Is Ambitious Enough: ‘Give Me a Break.’

DIGITAL ASTROTURF: Google-Funded ‘Conservative’ Groups Tell Congress To Leave Google And Big Tech Alone. “The so-called conservative National Taxpayers Union, which led the effort recruiting groups to sign on, is also named on Google’s list of associations that ‘receive the most substantial contributions’ from the California company. Several other signatories, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the R Street Institute, and TechFreedom, are also featured on Google’s list of supported organizations.”

BREAKING: Man Suspected of Setting Fire to Church and Painting ‘Jesus Is Black’ Kills Cop in Shootout.

‘RUSH TO FAILURE’ SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD MOTTO FOR BIDEN’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Don’t Rush to Failure on Iran Nuclear Negotiations.