This morning’s Ten(11) Piece Nuggets are so tender and tasty that they can almost replace baby formula.  Almost.  We’re delivering them to your virtual door this AM because who can afford to drive anymore?

1. Megan Rapinoe and the U.S. Women’s National Team got what they’ve been wanting for so long.  The U.S. Soccer Federation just announced both the men’s and women’s national teams will receive equal pay.   The USWNT filed a lawsuit against the USSF shortly after winning the World Cup in 2019 accusing it of engaging in “institutionalized gender discrimination” against the team.
2. Good for them.  Maybe the WNBA, as progressive as the NBA portends to be, will be next.  Wait until men’s soccer players who don’t make the team want to try out for the women’s team as they suddenly identify as women. We’ll see what the institution does about gender discrimination then.
3. Be careful what you wish for.  In 2017, the USWNT played an exhibition game with FC Dallas against the club’s under-15 boys team. The famed women’s team, the winner of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, was soundly defeated in a 5-2 final.
4.  This must be viewed as progress.  We know you’ve been hearing recently about how men can get pregnant.  The Biden administration even replaced the word “mothers” with “birthing people” in the 2022 fiscal year budget.  Now if they could replace the word “deficit” in the budget with either “balanced” or “surplus,” that would be a trick as amazing as men birthing people.
5. Earlier this week, Los Angeles became the second metro area, joining San Francisco, with the average cost for a gallon of gasoline surpassing $6.  All of the liberal elite Hollywood types that moved to Canada when Trump was elected can be thankful that a gallon of gas was only $2 back then for their move north.
6. Forget for a moment, if you have to, who coined the phrase.   But doesn’t the slogan MAGA- Make America Great Again sound so timely and desirous right about now?
7. “In contrast, Russian elections are rigged,” George W Bush said yesterday. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”  Bush took a page(er, chapter) out of the Biden Gaffe book.  It was a beauty.
8. That worthless Iraqi invasion under the Bush administration cost the U.S. about a trillion dollars and too many soldiers’ lives back when a trillion dollars was a lot of money and one life was one too many.  So far Ukraine(or Russia if you prefer) has cost us a measly 75 billion.
9. “You know, those border communities are just getting killed down in southern Texas,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday. “Biden should be given an honorary membership in the Mexican drug cartels because nobody has done more to help the cartels than Biden with his open-border policies.”  If you think DeSantis isn’t gearing up for a presidential nomination run then you probably think men can give birth.
10. What’s the new number one cause of death in US adults aged 18-45?  Looking at their 401k statement?  No.  Traffic accidents?  Nope.  Covid-19?  Hell no.  Fentanyl overdose? Correct.  DeSantis will have many issues to run on.  This is a big one.  It’s one that still isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
11. It’s been suggested to anyone that wants to write a book about CNN+ that they skip the first ten chapters and start with Chapter 11.  Jimmy Failla is a good follow on Twitter.

You’ve been served.