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The Texas drought (insert climate change sarcasm) caused a three-month nugget supply chain issue. Then the rains came 72 hours ago. Let’s get to them.
- Do you listen to #iheartradio? They have more COVID scare commercials than J&J and Pfizer combined. Last night they lit up the Empire State Building in blue to bring awareness to themselves and the coming next threat certainly in that order. It should make you see red.
- Three years ago America was scared of COVID and mostly welcomed the “free” vaccination to vax the nation that wasn’t a vaccination nor free. Three years later they’re going to cost about $100 a jab and we predict that the open arms with rolled-up sleeves will be few and far between.
- Speaking of commercials,
surely and unfortunately you’ve seen the one touting the pharmaceutical prescription issued Jardiance? It’s approved to lower blood sugar. It has to be, we repeat has to be, the worst commercial ever. It’s just an opinion, but it’s a strong one. - The US Military is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing $80 million dollar F-35 stealth fighter in South Carolina. Officials reported last evening that there was no concrete evidence of it crashing. The pilot ejected along the way. We should take better care of our toys. Of course, $80 million isn’t what it used to be, just ask Ukraine.
- Speaking of lost, we can’t find any video of Epstein’s cell or from the White House that got a little whiter when some cocaine was left behind. But, if you want to see Rep Lauren Boebert get chummy with her beau in a theater in the dark, we’ve got TMZ-level coverage.
- The Senate officially changed its rules so that Senators no longer have to dress decently to appear on the Senate floor. Call it the Fetterman Rule. How low can we go? It’s yet another example of reducing standards or laws in the country. Lower the bar low enough and everyone passes the test. Thank you Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Hunter Biden’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against the IRS on Monday, alleging that agents have “targeted and sought to embarrass” the president’s son. Biden’s lawsuit seeks for the court to declare that the IRS “willfully, knowingly, and/or by gross negligence, unlawfully disclosed Mr. Biden’s confidential tax information.” Hasn’t he cost America enough already? Rules for thee, but not for me.
- “Nancy Pelosi was in charge of security. She turned down 10,000 soldiers. If she didn’t turn down the soldiers, you wouldn’t have had Jan. 6,” former President Donald Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker during a recent sit-down interview aired yesterday. He’s persistent. But is he right? If so, it sheds a different light on the dark day. Will we ever know?
- Pelosi retorted yesterday as well. “There is a sickness here that has to be an intervention. That intervention has to be the election, which we have to win. That’s one of the reasons why I am running again, to fight for our democracy. Which is at stake, if he’s on the ballot.” Seems like our democracy is always at stake.
- Deion Sanders and the transfer portal, not in that order, have changed the college football game. It’s not that he’s 3-0. It’s that he’s brought an incalculable amount of free press to a university that hasn’t been relevant in the sport for 20 years. Last night it was 60 Minutes that cozied up.
Happy Monday!