COLORADO: From transportation agency to state’s urban planner: CDOT’s new mission is to micromanage your life.

Over the last few years, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has had a habit of playing fast and loose with taxpayer money, and setting their own priorities regardless of what those of Coloradans might be. In part, they’re able to get away with this because CDOT’s governing body, the Colorado Transportation Commission, is appointed entirely by the governor, with the approval of the state Senate.

In 2019, an audit found that “Budget-to-actuals analysis cannot be performed for nearly $1.3 billion — about 80 percent — of the department’s approved budget…” This resulted in precisely none of the commissioners overseeing CDOT tendering their resignations. Now, the state auditor is looking into possible favoritism toward an out-of-state contracting company. The commissioners have lost control of the department.

Now, the commissioners also appear to have lost touch with the citizens whose money they’re spending.

This past December, they voted to adopt a rule that could end up redirecting billions of dollars from roads and highways toward inefficient boutique “green” transit. It would also encourage denser housing, thus limiting people’s ability to buy single-family homes. The new rule even manages to work “equity” into the mix, echoing questionable arguments made by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

#DefundEverything, it’s all been weaponized.

THEY’LL TURN US ALL INTO BEGGARS ‘CAUSE THEY’RE EASIER TO PLEASE: The Surprising Ways Biden’s NIMBY Energy Policy Could Affect You Sooner Than You Think. “Rising prices affect the price of goods and services because of increasing transportation costs. However, what if it could leave you to defend yourself while Democrats work feverishly to disarm you?”

IS NOTHING SACRED? Sriracha maker warns of ‘unprecedented shortage’ due to supply issues. “All orders submitted on or after April 19, 2022, will be scheduled AFTER Labor Day (September 6, 2022) in the order it was received.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

As predicted, it looks like this weekend the national average will break $5 for the first time ever — just three months after breaking 2008’s all-time record.

OK, GROOMER: ‘Flash’ Star Ezra Miller Accused of Child Trafficking and Abusing Minor for Four Years.

WELCOME BACK, CARTER: Rand Paul warns of ‘double digit’ interest rates, recession, and joblessness.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Pro-Murder Abortion Ghouls Are Really Getting Out of Control. “Seriously, this is a criminal enterprise, not a protest group.”

OUR “TRANSITORY,” “HIGH CLASS” PROBLEM IS ACCELERATING AND BEGGARING US: U.S. Inflation Hit 8.6% in May “May’s increase was driven by sharp rises in the prices for energy, which rose 34.6% from a year earlier, and groceries, which jumped 11.9% on the year. Prices for used cars and trucks rose 1.8% in May from April, reversing three months of declines. Shelter costs, an indicator of broad inflation pressures, accelerated on a monthly basis in May and were up 5.5% compared with a year ago.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

YOU WANTED THIS, YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN, YOU F*CKING FIX THIS: ‘Be The F*cking President’: Dems Hammer Biden For Blundering From One Crisis To Another.

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Stacey Lennox: Why Does Twitter Insist on Practicing Medicine Without a License? “Here is the information that Twitter believes could be unsafe for you to see.”

Matt Margolis: Liberal Media Fails Hard With Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt. “Even when they did cover it, the media did its best not to go against The Narrative™.”

Yours Truly: Joe Biden and the Optics of Failure. “Joe Biden has a serious problem with optics, perhaps never revealed so badly — and made worse by — his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night.”

ELON WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS: Within mere seconds of each other, dozens of accounts tweeted appreciation for Biden and Democrats in Congress for passing a $1.9 trillion spending bill.

OF COURSE THEY WERE LYING: Biden Officials LIED When They Said Disinformation Board Wouldn’t Target Americans.

LIVESTREAM: The PJ Media J6 Sham Show Extravaganza! Join Megan Fox, Charlie Martin, and Chris Queen for Live Chat and Mockery of Adam Kinzinger’s Tears.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: McConaughey Just Picked His Political Party. Huge Mistake. “And he did it at a moment when Team Biden is on its heels, pounded by terrible polling numbers and facing a Red Wave come November.”

WATCH: Biden Glitched so Badly During His Interview That Jimmy Kimmel Had to Cut to a Commercial.

SPACE: NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected micrometeoroid. “The impact means that the mission team will have to correct for the distortion created by the strike, but NASA says that the telescope is ‘still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements.'”

LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Jeff Reynolds.

SUSTAINABILITY:

COLORADO: Thousands of Democrats are changing their voter registration in Lauren Boebert’s district ahead of the primary.

Thousands of voters have recently left the Democratic Party in Western Colorado — some as part of a grassroots effort to defeat Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert in her upcoming primary election.

Among them is Steven Hallenborg of Montrose.

“Well, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and now I’m unaffiliated,” he said. Because he changed his affiliation, he now can vote against Boebert in the June 28 Republican primary.

For the last few years, Colorado’s “open primary” system has allowed unaffiliated voters to participate in either party’s primary elections. That means voters like Hallenborg can weigh in on Boebert’s primary run — without actually joining the Republican Party.

“It’s very unfortunate what’s going on in this state. So, I mean, she has to go,” Hallenborg said in an interview at a Democratic event. Voters who oppose Boebert have one other option, Republican state Sen. Don Coram, in the June 28 primary.

Open primaries are a joke and wide-open for abuse.

CHARMING: Pro-Abortion Activists Send ‘Special Message’ To Kavanaugh’s Wife And Kids — After Would-Be Assassin Is Caught By His Home.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: A Disturbing Poll in the Aftermath of the Attempted Assassination of Brett Kavanaugh.

HE UNDERESTIMATED HIS ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: Biden’s base abandoning him: Youth, women, minorities, and unions.

A bit more on the poll Glenn linked to earlier this morning:

In new polling provided exclusively to Secrets, he is losing support among younger voters, suburbanites, women, minorities (especially Hispanics), and union members.

And the reason is simple: They think the country is headed in the wrong direction, and by a country mile.

Two polls from Zogby Analytics lay out the problems facing Biden. In one sizing up the economy, just 27% believe the country is headed in the right direction, down from 51% just a year ago.

To be fair, a year ago Biden’s policies hadn’t really started kicking in.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: LeBron James Is a Hypocritical, Racist Crybaby. Here Are the Receipts. “LeBron James, arguably the G.O.A.T of the National Basketball Association (NBA) who has somehow managed to become a billionaire despite living in a nation seething with ‘racism’ (just ask him he’ll talk about it for days) isn’t saying much about the savage beating death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming, which took place in the parking lot of LeBron’s ‘I Promise’ school in Akron, Ohio.”

WE MIGHT SOON BE LOOKING BACK FONDLY AT THE MALAISE YEARS: There’s No Stopping a Recessionary Reckoning. “If there was only one causal factor nudging the economy into recession, it might be a mild, brief recession. But with all five conditions in confluence, this recession will be unlike any other.”

THE REAL GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA™ SPEAKS: Stacey Abrams Remarks About Her ‘Trouble’ With Kids and Masks.