BLUE STATE BLUES: Elon Musk Moving Tesla Out Of California Over Shutdown? “Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore. The ‘it’ in this case is the decision by the Interim Health Officer of Alameda County to take a more cautious approach to reopening businesses than the course outlined by Governor Gavin Newsom and President Trump. This means that Musk hasn’t been given the green light to reopen Tesla headquarters as he planned to do this week. As a result, he claimed this weekend that he would be suing the county and also relocating his headquarters to either Texas or Nevada.”

AND THEN WHO DID JUST THAT: German Intelligence: China’s Xi Asked the WHO to Cover Up Coronavirus.

WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Full Speed Reverse!

NOTHING GOOD: What Would Happen if Democrats Passed Another New Deal to ‘Fix’ This Depression-Level Unemployment?

Flashback: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.

But it got FDR reelected three times so, omelets, eggs.

A JOB FIT FOR A KAREN: Hard-Hitting Chicago ‘Reporters’ Gleefully Snitch on Neighborhood Ice Cream Man, Urge Viewers to Call 911.

NICE: Photography Life Just Released All of Their Paid Photography Courses for Free. “If you’re running low on free educational content and you’re eager to use this time to improve your craft, we have some good news. The website Photography Life hast just released all of their premium photography courses, usually $150 apiece, for free on YouTube.”

HE DIDN’T? Joe Biden Says He Campaigned For Democrats “in 1918.”

HMM: What Does Trump Know About the Russia Hoax That Is About to Come Out?

MODERN PROBLEMS: Calculator Hacked for Cheating Includes a Secret OLED Screen, Wifi, and Even a Chat Function.

KIRA DAVIS: The One Act of Heroism We Never Acknowledge Is the Nuclear Family.

In these days of coronavirus, the word “hero” has been used non-stop to describe doctors and nurses working on the “front lines”. We’re even calling our teachers heroes. I guess I don’t mind all that much. I understand the sentiment. I suppose it’s quite easy to look at a picture of a tired doctor at the end of a long day in ICU and call him a hero for sticking out the job he gets paid to do. We can look at his fatigue, his crumpled scrubs, the lines on his face from his mask and we can see the sacrifice right there on his face. We can measure his impact because what he does has immediate outcomes in real-time.

It is far more difficult for some starry-eyed, millennial opinion writer with a brand new thesaurus and a gig at The New York Times to look at a father schlepping back and forth to his office job every day and see a hero. That writer probably sees a bored man, or a defeated man, or an uninteresting man who doesn’t have an immediate impact on those around him….certainly not the way a doctor does. His heroism is invisible, because you can’t make a commercial out of it. His service, his bravery is spread out over an entire lifetime, not just one crisis.

The commitment to the nuclear family is one of the most heroic acts in our culture and yet it remains invisible…to the media, to celebrities making thirsty social media posts thanking the “heroes” four times a day, to our elected officials. In fact, the traditional family seems to only ever be insulted and derided in pop culture these days. I suppose that is because so many of our coastal reporters and celebrities don’t have families of their own. They don’t know how to quantify the sacrifice it takes to raise a family and maintain a marriage. It just looks like a relic of a different era to them, instead of the essential foundation of a healthy and prosperous society.

Needless to say, read the whole thing.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Michael Moore Hearts Extinction Rebellion. Here’s What They Do. “Does the filmmaker support destruction, violence and hurting a reeling economy?”

OH: Court Docs From 1996 Confirm Tara Reade Told Her Husband About the Sexual Harassment in Biden’s Office.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Second Cold War: Oops, We Did It Again. “‘The Capitalists will pay us to make the rope with which we will hang them.’ – Deng Xiaoping, apparently.”

This is the first of a multipart series available to just our VIP members, and I hope you’ll use that VODKAPUNDIT discount code if you’ve been thinking of becoming a supporter.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was ‘reckless.’ Then he was seen at a private beach.

JOHN KASS: How does Gov. J.B. Pritzker — and how do local governments — collect taxes from businesses he’s shut down?

Until Pritzker shut down the state’s restaurants and bars, they employed more than 500,000 Illinois workers. The only employers with more workers are the state and local governments.

And he has yet to offer leadership for business owners who are obligated to pay state and local taxes, and who, through no fault of their own, are hemorrhaging money because he shut them down.

Pritzker has granted himself immense state emergency powers. But he hasn’t demanded the Illinois General Assembly meet and act, and the state tax code is written largely by the legislature, though local governments set their own levies.

Pritzker also hasn’t told homeowners what he’d do, if anything, about paying the property bills they’ll be getting in July, even if they’ve lost their jobs.

Most government operates on the Goodfellas principle: “F*** you, pay me.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Betsy DeVos Brings Back Due Process and Libs Lose It. “Liberals are aghast that DeVos has brought fairness to a previously nightmarish situation. Rather than objectively assess the new rules, they’re miffed that their least favorite Cabinet member dared touch something that The Lightbringer instituted. “

CHANGE: 90% Of Illegals At Border Immediately Returned To Mexico In April Because Of CDC Order, Report Says.

HARD TRUTHS: Rand Paul Has a Frightening Reality Check for States Keeping Their Residents in Lockdown.

“We have no money, we have no rainy day account, we have no savings account. The three trillion that we’ve already passed out is imaginary money,” said Paul.

“It’s being borrowed, basically, from China. So the irony is we got the virus from China and now we’re going to be more dependent by borrowing more money from China,” continued Paul.

“The only thing that recovers our economy is opening the economy,” said Paul. “It’s not a lack of money, it’s a lack of commerce. If you let people have commerce, if you let them trade, if you take them out from forcible home arrest, our economy will recover. But if you keep everybody under home arrest and say you cannot practice your business, you cannot sell your goods, there will continue to be economic calamity.”

Let’s get back to work.

WHAT’S THE MANDARIN FOR GLEICHSCHALTUNG? EU envoy says removal of phrase in op-ed in China newspaper ‘regrettable.’

The European Union ambassador to China said on Thursday it was “regrettable” that part of an opinion piece co-authored by 27 European ambassadors and published in the official China Daily had been removed before publication.

A comparison between the original op-ed uploaded onto the EU embassy website and the one published on Tuesday by the China Daily showed that in a sentence beginning, “But the outbreak of the coronavirus”, the words that followed – “in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world over the past three months” – were removed.

“It is regrettable that part of the sentence about the spread of the virus has been edited,” EU Ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis told reporters at a briefing.

Predictable, too.

HE’S TOO KIND: Trump blasts Obama DOJ as “human scum” guilty of “treason” after Flynn case dropped.

A LOT: Here’s How Much New York City Is Skewing America’s Coronavirus Numbers.

BOMBSHELL: Obama Knew of Flynn Wiretaps, Declassified Docs Show.

I don’t want to hear one more damn word about Obama’s “remarkably scandal-free” administration. He’s a Chicagoland crook through and through.

BREAKING: Trump Warns a ‘Big Price Should Be Paid’ by Obama Administration for Targeting General Flynn.

WHO OWNS YOUR STUFF, ANYWAY? Wink accused of extortion as it says smart home products now need subscription.

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT? ‘Tonight Show’ Host Jimmy Fallon Provides Linda Lovelace-Level Lip Service to Andrew Cuomo.