Will's News Roundup, Local, International

It was Star Wars Day. You know, we've never seen the Rise of Woke, or whatever the last one was called. We're not even mad. We just don't care. We caught some of RoTJ and Empire last night. Which was good for our soul. With each year we get more emotional about the original trilogy. 

CNBC says that India's Covid outbreak is catastrophic: 'India crossed 20 million reported cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. There were 357,229 new cases reported over a span of 24 hours, bringing the total to 20.28 million, according to health ministry data'. One of our neighbors lost her dad in India. They won't even be able to go to the funeral. We expect to see more of this.

The above mentioned are moving to North Carolina. Another neighbor already has family down there. The Carolinas are a hot destination for fleeing Yankees. Tennessee too. This is the third move in our neighborhood this year. The neighbors held an open house last weekend. Every family we saw was Indian. 

NJ.com reports that the Covid numbers continue to improve. 'New Jersey on Tuesday reported another 1,208 confirmed coronavirus cases and an additional 45 deaths, 14 months after the state announced its first positive test and a day after Gov. Phil Murphy announced the state will lift many of its major COVID-19 capacity restrictions May 19 as vaccinations increase and numbers continue to improve. More than 3.15 million people have been fully vaccinated in New Jerseys as of Tuesday — roughly 46% of the state’s 6.9 million adults. Another 157,000 residents have been vaccinated out of state.' The infection rate plummeted to .027. Lat weekend we took the Stroocklettes for ice cream and didn't wear a mask. Nobody said nuthin'.

By now you've all seen the CIA's humiliating recruitment video. Cis-gendered Intersectional Agency, as Tucker says. This is what they're focusing on. Which is fine. The CIA was already an incompetent joke.  This blog supports whatever undermines the CIA so we hope to see more commercials like this. Day one of the Stroock Administration would see a massive Tomahawk Strike on Langley. 

It looks like Frank Luntz's rent boy is going to hold a vote on the War Profiteers Daughter when congress reconvenes. Leadership has abandoned Liz Cheney. As we said, she's trying out for Joe Scarborough's job on MSNBC, or Mika's anyway. Heh. Watch out Mika, you're wife #3. What's a 4th? 

We saw W was saying something about how the GOP can't be the WASP party. Who said that's what the GOP was trying to be? Honestly we weary of him. The man wouldn't defend himself and now...DeSantis 2024? Gentlemen, do yourself a favor and google Ron DeSantis' wife. Wow.

In Israel, the opposition gets a crack at forming a government. The Times of Israel says: Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid and Yamina chief Naftali Bennett have been negotiating a potential “change government” — “change” meaning ousting Netanyahu — in which the two would rotate the premiership.' They have 51 MKs. They need 60. Don't ask this blog how they get there. Likud defectors? The Times describes Bennett thusly: 'Bennett, a religious Zionist politician, is seen as having emerged from under Netanyahu’s shadow, wielding influence that goes beyond his native community and beyond just the right. While he staunchly opposes a Palestinian state and backs many right-wing policies, he is relatively liberal on religious issues and pragmatic on some others, and is seen as mostly independent of the rabbis he tended to follow throughout most of his career.' Remember, the Haredi are total jerks.