KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: DeSantis Is Again the Desperately Needed Adult in the Room. “There is a lot to unpack in this story, most of it creepy. The important detail is that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his office became aware of the freak show and now the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is looking into it, per a statement from DeSantis’s press secretary.”

GRATITUDE: US military bases that housed Afghan evacuees suffered $260 million in damage. “Air Force officials described tables, chairs and cots broken by guests and tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter and holes.”

That’s an average of over $2,000 in damages per evacuee.

NO, HE WILL SERVE HIS TIME WITH WOMEN: A Man Who Murdered His Parents Will Serve His Time as a Woman.

YOU DON’T SAY: Inflation Takes Biggest Bite From Middle-Income Households.

Inflation is often called a tax on the poor, but this time it’s hit middle-income households the hardest.

Many low-income households, benefiting from exceptionally low unemployment rates, have found jobs and experienced wage increases that lifted income more than the cost of living, according to studies by the Congressional Budget Office and others. Many were also bolstered by federal payments during the pandemic.

At the high end, many households have seen big losses in stock and bond markets, but their income and savings were large enough that they were able to keep spending aggressively.

The middle has been in a vise.

Previously: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

BLUE ON BLUE: Far-Left Group Running Ads Urging, ‘Don’t Run, Joe!’

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Overdose deaths up 14% nationally since the pandemic.

I KNOW SEVERAL WOMEN WHO SAY THE SAME THING: Studios Ignore Henry Cavill at Their Own Peril.

Henry Cavill is like many leading men. He’s handsome and talented, and anything he appears in automatically attracts viewers. However, unlike most leading men, his fanbase consists of both typical and atypical elements for someone like him. While he does have the love of moviegoers, women, and the respect of many a man, he also has a massive following in the nerd and geek communities.

This is because Cavill is, himself, a rabid geek and an unabashed one at that.

It’s this geeky quality that led Cavill to pursue various roles that should have made studios a lot of money. All they had to do was listen to Cavill. However, that’s not what they did. They ignored him, and now things are crumbling around them.

Read the whole thing.

IT ISN’T AFFIRMING: ‘Gender-affirming Care’ for Children Has No Medical Benefits.

SAD: Saudis Scrap $280 Million Jumbo Jet After Just 42 Hours Of Flight. “Since the prince died, the plane never flew and sat in Switzerland for a decade. No buyers ever struck a deal to purchase the jumbo jet outfitted with luxury throughout the cabin.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: CCP-style Social Credit Controls Now Showing at Radio City Music Hall. “’I don’t practice in New York. I’m not an attorney that works on any cases against MSG,’ Conlon explained. But none of that mattered once the computers in charge decided she didn’t have enough social credit to attend a show.”

HISTORY: The Nimitz Way. “Admiral Chester W. Nimitz commanded the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Areas Theater during World War II, but his contributions to victory have been obscured by his modest leadership style. An ‘accommodating’ and ‘nurturing’ nature—well described by historians Craig L. Symonds and E. B. Potter—meant that Nimitz was content to see his subordinates receive accolades for battlefield successes while he remained in the background. But Nimitz’s style belied the extent of his skills. He used an aggressive theory of combat to overcome the inherent uncertainty of war and shape the conflict in the Pacific. Nimitz had an artistic ability to seize emerging opportunities, impose his command’s will on the enemy, and bring the war to a successful, and surprisingly rapid, conclusion.”

An excellent — and not too long — read from USNI.

UGH: Republican Community Leader Murdered by Wife on Christmas Day.

THAT ’70S SHOW: Global economy is heading into a decade of low growth, economist says.

RATIONIERUNG: Bundle Up, Germany. 2024 Could be a Long Winter. “The cryptically-named Federal Network Agency has announced plans to empower German power grid operators to remotely limit home heat pumps and EV chargers. And this can be done without the customer’s permission. And lest German citizens think that they have the spring, summer, and fall to make adjustments, this policy is set to take effect next month.”

Decline is a choice and one that Germany has made.

SPENDING MORE, GETTING LESS: Holiday Sales up 7.6% in 2022 — but Outpaced by 8.5% Inflation.

YET MORE MAGICAL THINKING FROM THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY: LGBTQ+++™ Pinocchios Now Claim Male-to-Female Transgenders Can Get Periods: ‘I’m a Real Girl’!

ALL BUBBLES POP: Tesla Stock Keeps Falling, Logging Seventh Straight Decline. “Tesla’s shares continued their retreat Tuesday, with the electric automaker’s stock marking its lowest close since August 2020 and falling out of the top 10 list of U.S. companies by market capitalization.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Title 42 Is a Band-Aid on a Border Wound That Will Soon Bleed Out. “They’ve been working overtime since Biden was installed in the Oval Office to create a fictional account of what’s happening. Avoiding the word ‘crisis’ is the only policy they seem to have.”

CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: For Some in Congress, Proxy Voting Was a Game Changer. It’s About to Go Away.

The article is in Time magazine, which now serves as the official mouthpiece — well, one of many — of our poor, put-upon criminal class.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Alone at the End Of History. “Perhaps the biggest underreported story of the 2020s is the widespread collapse of institutional trust and the loss of confidence in the inevitability of progress, even among the Western elite. Like frightened children in the dark, we find that we can’t trust the science and can’t trust each other. When a society finds it can’t control the future, what does it do?”

THE META-ANALYSIS: Ivermectin Is Safe and Effective.

In a meta-analysis of 63 studies of ivermectin versus COVID-19 in humans, 100% of these have shown positive results. Studies were from all continents except Antarctica. Considered individually, 29 of those studies were found to be statistically significant regarding use of ivermectin alone. Over the 63 studies in meta-analysis, pooled effects showed 69% improvement in early treatment, and prophylactic use showed 86% improvement. Of those studies in the meta-analysis that were peer-reviewed, overall improvement in early treatment was found to be 70% (64% in randomized controlled trials), and 86% of those in which ivermectin was used prophylactically showed improvement (84% in randomized controlled trials).

Mortality from COVID-19 over all time periods of delay in treatment was 76% improved over controls (69% in randomized controlled trials), whereas mortality was improved 84% in early treatment of COVID-19 (82% in randomized controlled trials). Forty studies were excluded from the meta-analysis for complicating factors or insufficient detail reported, and these also showed 100% positive results.

It is estimated that the likelihood of an ineffective treatment showing such positive results as the above results in the 63 studies in the meta-analysis to date is exceedingly small. That probability is estimated to be one in one trillion.

The narrative: Horse dewormer dangerous for humans, ineffective COVID-19 treatment.

PAULA BOLYARD WITH AN EXTREMELY CONTRARY TAKE: Hear Me Out: We Need More Men Like Prince Harry.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Keeps Immigration Rule Title 42 in Place Indefinitely.

THEN I HAVE TO ASSUME IT’S YET ANOTHER HATE CRIME HOAX: UCincinnati officials silent about racist letter investigation. “The College Fix has reached out to the alleged victim, Professor Antar Tichavakunda, campus police, the university’s media team and a student who published the photo and all have remained silent about the message that contained racially charged language and used the n-word repeatedly.”

A MILLION HERE AND A MILLION THERE…: Adidas Sits On Half Billion Dollars Of Unsold Yeezys After Terminating Deal With Kayne West.