AGAIN? Close call between 2 aircraft at Boston Logan under federal investigations. “The NTSB is also investigating four other runway incursions involving commercial airliners at major US airports this year.”

It’s only the beginning of March.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Usurper Edition.

Megan Fox is filling in for Kruiser today, who is sleeping off his birthday festivities.

EVERY SILVER LINING HAS A CLOUD: TikTok’s potential ban in U.S. could be boon for Meta and Snap. “Andrew Boone, an analyst at JMP, said Meta likely stands to benefit the most should TikTok face a U.S. ban. Facebook has been pumping money into its TikTok rival, Reels, which has yet to establish a revenue model that’s as effective as the core newsfeed.”

WELL, PAUL RYAN: Et Tu, Paul? Ryan Rolls Over on Tucker Over Fox News Content.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Obesity Raises Risk Of Early Death By 90 Percent. “After adjusting for biases in BMI, Masters found people carrying excess weight had far worse mortality outcomes than previously known.”

SAY ANYTHING: Old Joe Biden Has Never Told a WEIRDER Story Than This One.

BLUE ON BLUE: Why a DC crime bill is creating big problems for Democrats.

Senate Republicans are trying to put the squeeze on Democrats ahead of an expected vote on legislation next week that would undo parts of a District of Columbia crime bill.

The bill would eliminate most mandatory sentences, lower penalties for a number of violent offenses, including carjackings and robberies, and expand the requirement for jury trials in most misdemeanor cases.

The legislation was unanimously approved by the D.C. City Council, which then overrode a veto by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in an overwhelming 12-1 vote.

The GOP House passed a resolution of disapproval that would block the implementation of the law. It’s that resolution the Senate is expected to vote on next week — and it is likely to pass despite the Democratic Senate majority and the party’s usual support for D.C. home rule.

At least Republicans got to “squeeze” this time instead of “pounce.”

More seriously, on DC’s Democrat-enabled shoddy home rule, Republicans are acting like the only adults in DC — and yet The Hill’s Al Weaver frames it as a bind the GOP somehow put the Dems in.

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: Did You Ever Wonder How and Why the Left Is Able to Push Their Narratives Almost Unhindered?

NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: Did You Ever Wonder How and Why the Left Is Able to Push Their Narratives Almost Unhindered?

FILM LADD HAS SOME FIGHTING WORDS ABOUT WRATH OF KHAN: Star Trek II: The Anti-Star-Trek-Star-Trek.

IT ISN’T THAT WE SPEND TOO LITTLE OR TOO MUCH ON DEFENSE, IT’S THAT WE SPEND UNWISELY: GOP Hawks Say the Only Thing Cut From the Pentagon Will Be ‘Wokeness.’

SEEMS LEGIT: Cori ‘Defund the Police’ Bush Weds Unlicensed Security Guard She Paid With Campaign Funds.

FASTER, PLEASE: Schools are abandoning progressive curricula from teachers colleges.

THE BUREAU HAS KNOWN THIS SINCE 2021: FBI Director Wray Acknowledges for the First Time the Bureau’s Belief in Lab Leak Theory.

HEH: Blaise Ingoglia files bill to ‘cancel’ Democrat Party for past slavery stance.

Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed “The Ultimate Cancel Act” Tuesday to immediately de-certify any political party that previously advocated for slavery in their party platform.

“For years now, leftist activists have been trying to ‘cancel’ people and companies for things they have said or done in the past. This includes the removal of statues and memorials, and the renaming of buildings. Using this standard, it would be hypocritical not to cancel the Democrat Party itself for the same reason,” Ingoglia said.

The Democrat Party adopted pro-slavery positions into their platforms during the conventions of 1840, 1844, 1856, 1860, and 1864, according to a press release from Ingoglia.

“Some people want to have ‘uncomfortable conversations’ about certain subjects. Let’s have those conversations,” he said.

Let’s.

YOU CAN’T CANCEL ROWLING: ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ One of the Fastest Selling Games Despite Woke Efforts to Cancel It.

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: The One Weird Trick Hollywood Doesn’t Want to Know About.

When The Daily Show became a runaway commercial and critical success twenty-five years ago it triggered Hollywood’s instinctive “monkey see-monkey do” response. Within a few years network, cable and later the streaming services, were immediately swamped with knock-offs of Stewart’s show. On the networks you got Colbert, Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Fallon doing Stewart’s same brand of Progressive politics married to clown-nose-on/clown-nose-off commentary masquerading as comedy. Even David Letterman spent his last few years on Network TV jettisoning the broad comedic sensibility had made him a late night staple in favor of an increasingly grating version of Stewart’s in-your-face progressive condescension. But even across the entire spectrum of free and paid TV you had a million other imitators who got their shot to do the same thing… from Samantha Bee and John Oliver to Bill Maher, Trevor Noah and now Jon Stewart again in a new incarnation on Apple TV. All of them trying to squeeze blood from an increasingly dry Progressive stone as they relentlessly carve up the same audience into smaller and smaller slices.

Now let’s compare how Hollywood responded to The Daily Show’s success to the very different reaction to the similar runaway success of Greg Gutfeld’s late night Fox News show. Perhaps you’ve heard that Gutfeld now has the most popular show in late night? Fox even bought a very expensive 30 seconds of Super Bowl ad time to promote it. He is a ratings monster on paid cable, dwarfing what his progressive competitors are doing on free over-the-air network TV. And do you know how many networks, cable channels and streamers are looking to replicate Gutfeld’s success with conservative news, comedy and variety shows of their own?

Exactly zero.

Read the whole thing.

YOU MIGHT NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: The Day Your Doctor Won’t Treat You If You Aren’t the Right Kind of Patient Is Closer Than You Might Think.

THEN START CUTTING: CDC Refuses to Answer House GOP Questions About Codes to Track Reasons Why Americans Turn Down the COVID-19 Jabs. “Why won’t the CDC explain why it’s gathering data about Americans’ personal choices? House Republicans are not afraid to use the budgetary process to keep the CDC accountable to the American people.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Dear Lori Lightfoot: You Were a Terrible Mayor, Get Over Yourself. “Ousted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, as sure as the sun rises in the east, blames sexism and racism for her rejection at the polls yesterday.”

DECOUPLING: AirPods maker says Apple suppliers are rushing to get out of China faster than expected: ‘When can you move out?’

Behind the scenes, 9 out of 10 of Apple’s most important suppliers may be preparing large-scale moves to countries like India, which is dangling incentives to drive Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates it could take eight years to move just 10% of Apple’s capacity outside of China.

The GoerTek executive argues it’ll be far quicker.

Most Chinese tech manufacturers are experiencing the same pressure. “I would say currently 90% of them, they’re looking at that,” he added. “It’s the brand companies’ decisions.”

India is high on clients’ wish-lists — a reflection of its potential both as a market and a manufacturing base.

“We get requests from our clients almost every month. ‘Do you have any plans to expand to India?’” Yoshinaga said. “If they decide to build up the production lines in India, we may have to think about it seriously. Currently we are focusing on developing our Vietnam production facilities.”

Plus: Huawei Export Licenses Could Be Revoked by U.S. “The White House is now telling Commerce, ‘Cut off the 4G sales, the time has come to do more pain to Huawei, to try to finish their demise.'”

Positively Trumpian talk from the Biden White House.

THEY DON’T SEEM TOO UPSET WITH JOE: Iranian Mullahs Ratchet Up Threats to Kill Trump. “Armies of all kinds throughout history have invoked God’s help upon their activities in wartime, and so it’s no surprise that a commander in an avowedly theocratic regime would do so. It’s nonetheless worth noting, however, as those who are convinced that they’re fighting an apocalyptic struggle of good vs. evil are unlikely to give up easily.”

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report.

CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reported Tuesday morning on the warning from the social media pages of the Global Times, the English-language subsidiary of the government-controlled People’s Daily. The Global Times warned Musk that he could be “breaking the pot of China” after the Tesla and Twitter CEO responded to tweets that asserted that the Covid pandemic originated in a Wuhan research laboratory.

The saying is akin to the idiom “to bite the hand that feeds you,” Yoon reported. Tesla has an expansive factory campus in Shanghai, and China is the electric vehicle manufacturer’s second largest market.

Nice car company you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lori Lightfoot Goes From Historic First to Historic Loser. “While Lightfoot focused on playing American Stasi with anyone who broke an arbitrary COVID rule, poorer parts of her city were under siege. She always seemed to be in denial about it, and that’s probably why even Democrats began to sour on her.”

DECLINE IS A CHOICE BUT COLLAPSE BECOMES INEVITABLE: ‘Stockpile food and water’: South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions if power grid collapses.

Western embassies including the United States and Australia have advised their citizens in the country to stock up on “several days worth” of food and water and be on high alert during extended blackouts sweeping the country.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national “state of disaster” on February 9 in response to the record electricity shortage, which has seen state-owned power company Eskom institute rolling blackouts – dubbed “load shedding” – lasting up to 12 hours in some cases.

“Rolling blackouts (load shedding) are occurring throughout South Africa which are affecting private residences, businesses, municipal lighting, traffic lights and hotels,” Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said earlier this month.

“Blackouts can also affect water availability, internet connectivity, mobile phone network coverage, fuel availability, residential security features, and food supply.”

DFAT warned power outages can increase crime. “For example, traffic jams due to power outages provide opportunities for smash-and-grab crime,” it said.

“Residences can be targeted when lights are out and security systems are not functioning. Ongoing conditions have led to increased protests and demonstrations, and in some cases, civil unrest, throughout the country.”

Here’s a lengthy and detailed Twitter thread from a South African citizen meticulously detailing a country he says already has collapsed.

This should be a bigger story and I suspect it will be shortly.