The Show Notes: Psaki Leaves, Ukraine Attacks Russia, & The Red Tsunami
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🚨 BREAKING: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House for MSNBC gig. - Axios
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Ukraine Attacks Russia
A Russian state-owned media outlet released security camera footage showing Ukrainian missiles striking an oil depot inside Russia’s border. This is the first offensive move we have seen from Ukraine and comes at a time Russia has lost control of multiple Ukrainian cities. Despite recent progress in Ukraine, the Biden administration is reluctant to supply the Ukrainians with heavier arms.
More headlines on Ukraine:
War in Ukraine fuels fears among draft-age Russian youths. - AP News
Europe rejected Putin’s ultimatum. Why is gas still flowing? - CNN
Let Ukraine go on the offensive against Russia. - WSJ
Russia’s war lacks a battlefield commander. - NYT
100,000 people remain trapped in Mariopul. - CNN
Zelesnkyy demotes 2 Ukrainian generals. “They will be punished.” - Fox News
Peace talks resume between Russia and Ukraine. - WSJ
Fact-Checkers Call Out Biden
Fact-checkers from the Associated Press say President Joe Biden “vastly overpromised” when claiming Americans would save $500 per month by moving to renewable energy. Go deeper with AP.
BIDEN: “If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.”
THE FACTS: Not so. The average person in the U.S. spends far less than that every month on electricity.
More Economic Problems
A prominent economist is claiming the Russian war and other factors will force investors away from volatile public markets and into private markets. Doomberg highlighted the same trend with concern around the valuation of private holdings. We’re not economists at The Erick Erickson Show but find the trend interesting.
Botton line: Inflation, Russia, supply chain issues, and the Federal Reserve are changing how people invest.
More financial headlines:
As gas prices soar, Biden’s climate ambitions sputter. - NYT
Federal Reserve warns of "brewing U.S. housing bubble" - CBS
Key part of yield curve ‘inverts’ as short-term rates jump after jobs report. - CNBC
The economy added 431K jobs in March. - CNBC
The supply chain crisis is forcing corporate America into a “what if” mindset. - FT
Red Wave Now A Red Tsunami?
The Cooke Political Report has a fascinating piece breaking down the expanding 2022 playing field. Their analysis of the Real Clear Politics polling average is a 6.6% shift to Republicans from the 2020 ballot.
This week, Democratic and Republican campaign operations acknowledged that the House playing field is expanding. The NRCC added another 10 House districts to its already robust list of 72 Democratic-held targets. And on the Democratic side, the House Majority PAC announced it would be reserving nearly $102 million in advertising in a whopping 51 media markets for the fall campaign.
These moves suggest that both sides see the possibility of a Red Tsunami in 2022.
The rest of the news:
‘The baggage is too heavy’: GOP foes tee up last-ditch effort to sink Herschel Walker. - Politico
Federal judge blocks Florida restrictive voting law. - NBC
Think you understand suburban voters? Doug Sosnik has a 14-page memo betting otherwise. - Politico
Oberlin must pay a record $31M award to bakery it defamed as racist, says appeals court. - Washington Examiner
Google tells employees to return to the office in April. - Bloomberg
Apple tells employees to return to the office in April. - CNBC
Weed vote in the House? - Substack
CNN’s botched streaming service. - Fox News
The US is back in the World Cup. - Yahoo
The Taliban released an American aid worker. - Axios
Tweets that caught my eye:
Market snapshot:
Another thought... is this bill an admission that liberal policies have destroyed the black family in America?
Like with public schools, liberals are admiting they have failed by simply openly moving to not actually teaching children in schools, but indoctrinating them.
So here we have the statement that black women are so mistreated and tired of baby-daddy''s, and failed liberal promises of the Government daddy they are saying enough.
Is this white liberals seeing the failure and doing what that always do, not solving the problem because that would mean admitting they got it wrong.
The bill's author are saying, hay just because you get pregnant, and give birth it's ok to let the baby die.
"See how much we care about you? Those evil conservatives would make you keep the baby, but we don't want you to connect the destruction of your black family and community with our policies."
So the CA abortion / right to privacy when killing a new born refers to women. But Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn't know what is a woman.
So, a birthing person claiming to be a man would not have protection under this law?