KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: LOL We’re All Gonna Die Coronavirus Edition. “The media is stuck in a permanent state of awful on any subject which requires President Trump’s input, and they’ve certainly lived down to their reputation with this story. In fact, the CPAC coronavirus angle provided new opportunities for them to be awful.”

It’s what they do.

ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY: Elizabeth Warren staffer tells reporter to ‘eat s**t’ for not ‘actively’ supporting Warren’s campaign.

Politico reporter Alex Thompson, who was assigned by his editor to cover Warren’s campaign, posted screenshots of messages that Warren staffers have been sending him.

One of the staffers chided him for not “actively supporting” Warren’s campaign while others told him to “eat s**t.”

Thompson explained, “Some Warren campaign staffers don’t have a good understanding of campaign journalism. Not my job to ‘actively support the candidate that you were assigned’ It is my job to contact as many ppl as possible rather than just rely on what the campaign wants to give me.”

That’s refreshing.

“VEEP” WITHOUT ANY OF THE LAUGHS: Amy Klobuchar Misspeaks, Accidentally Tells Campaign Crowd She’ll Be Biden’s VP, Receives Applause.

PROMISING: Are Trump’s MAGA rallies a hotbed of ‘hidden voters’? “In total, the campaign has identified more than 1.4 million potential voters from their events since Inauguration Day 2017, primarily the raucous Make America Great Again rallies. But most importantly, the campaign says that dataset includes thousands of people who have failed to cast a ballot in recent years, people who aren’t traditional Republican voters, even people who say they are Democrats. Nearly 10 percent of those registered, for example, had not voted in at least three of the last four elections while up to a quarter are Democrats, the campaign claims.”

FALLOUT: OPEC deal collapse sparks price war: ‘$20 oil in 2020 is coming.’

″$20 oil in 2020 is coming,” Ali Khedery, formerly Exxon’s senior Middle East advisor and now CEO of U.S.-based strategy firm Dragoman Ventures, wrote Sunday on Twitter. “Huge geopolitical implications. Timely stimulus for net consumers. Catastrophic for failed/failing petro-kleptocracies Iraq, Iran, etc – may prove existential 1-2 punch when paired with COVID19.”

The comment came as oil prices are down 30% for the year and a day after Saudi Arabia announced massive discounts to its official selling prices for April. Plunging price forecasts are also coming amid reports of a possible increase in production by the OPEC kingpin from its current 9.7 million barrels per day (bpd) to more than 10 million bpd.

Here’s where we find out how well American frackers are hedged, and how far they’ve really come in getting costs down.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Virginia to Force Anyone Who Buys Any Firearm to Undergo Background Check. “There are 19 such questions where answering “yes” to any one of them could deny you your constitutional right to bear arms.”

RUNNING OR RUINING? ‘It’s Like the Democrats Are Running Baseball’: HOF Pitcher ‘Goose’ Gossage on Why He Can’t ‘Watch the Game Anymore.’

THANKS! We Can Thank Trump for the United States Having Such a Low Per-Capita Infection Rate of Coronavirus.

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Schumer’s SCOTUS Threats Should Place Him on ‘Red Flag’ List, Gun Rights Leader Says.

BREAKING: Trump Campaign Files Multi-Million-Dollar Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN Over Russia Collusion Claims.

Yuge.

SET ASIDE THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES: Florida Man Friday: Did Someone Say Corona?

DYNASTY: Lt. Gov. Attacks George P. Bush Over Alamo Project After Rumors Surface That Bush Plans to Challenge Patrick.

CHANGE: Ireland records first-ever venomous snakebite.

IT’S A START: FISA Judge Says FBI Officials Involved in Carter Page Wiretaps Cannot Seek Other Surveillance Orders.

HEH: Paul Krugman Tries to Diagnose Liz Warren’s Campaign Failures, Gets Sent to Burn Ward Instead.

WOW: USAF Gunship Crew Awarded Medals For Nine-Hour Battle With ISIS That Saved 15 Wounded In Afghanistan.

In need of assistance, the Special Tactics operators on the ground called for an AC-130U “Spooky” Gunship, (Callsign Spooky 41) who arrived to suppress the enemy located in close proximity to the group.

As the gunship fired down on the enemy, at times less than 140 meters from the group, three medical-evacuation helicopters hovered more than an hour to safely rescue all 15 patients. The enemy was not able to get a single shot off at the MEDEVAC helicopters, due to the precise airpower strikes of Spooky 41’s aircrew.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Jim Slife, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, presented two Distinguished Flying Crosses with “C” device and 12 Single Event Air Medals with “C” device to 4th Special Operations Squadron Airmen, March 2, 2020, here, for their actions in April.

“The most lethal part of any gunship is not the 25 mm, the 40 mm, or the 105 mm [weapons] sticking out of the side of this big beautiful airplane,” said Slife during the ceremony. “The most lethal part of the gunship is the crew.”

What a crew. Read the whole thing.

FALLOUT: Coronavirus: China’s key ports handled 20 per cent fewer containers in February.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: 10 Things We’ll Miss About ‘Gifted Storyteller’ Elizabeth Warren.

THE TRUTH HURTS: Uh Oh, Trump Says What We’re All Thinking: There’s Something Wrong With Joe Biden.

PICK A SIDE, MITT: Romney Claims Senate Probe into Hunter Biden ‘Appears Political.’

OLD AND COLD: But Hillary won the popular vote!

THE NEW HOTNESS: Stop Lying, America: You Were Never Gonna Vote for a Woman President.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: America Isn’t Sexist—Female Democratic Candidates Are Just Awful People. “My favorite of all the ridiculous attempts to explain away Warren’s failure was this piece in The Atlantic titled ‘America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence’.”

To believe that about Liz Warren, you’d have to be as tone-deaf as, well, Liz Warren.

HMM: CA Primary Reveals Bad News For Pelosi. GOP Could Win House Back.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Republicans took a strong first step in the primary election toward grabbing back at least some of the seven California congressional districts that Democrats flipped in 2018. With millions of late-arriving mail ballots still uncounted from Tuesday’s election, Republicans have so far combined for a majority of the votes in six of those seven districts. GOP candidates have solid leads in two of them.”

The Chronicle noted, “In Orange County, GOP candidates were winning a majority of the votes in three of the four targeted districts.” Fred Whitaker, chairman of the Orange County GOP, stated, “On Tuesday night, the waters of the blue wave began to recede … and Republicans showed that we will take back Orange County. The pathway to restoring the House of Representatives is through Orange County.”

It’s good to see the California GOP is only mostly dead.

DON’T GET COCKY: Joe Biden is ‘completely unelectable,’ says ‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: EPA releases list of approved disinfectants to kill coronavirus, and why homemade sanitizer won’t work. “Hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol can also reduce the number of germs on your hands to a lesser extent, but CDC said products that are alcohol-free or have a lower percentage of alcohol are not as effective.”

Most booze is only 40% alcohol, and you’re better off using it internally, anyway.