Day 1: Biden lies

Althouse: "Biden's announcement video is anchored in a demonstrable lie."  "I could not finish watching that video. I tried, but I couldn't force myself. It's utterly toxic bilge.  If Biden does not come forward and retract this video and apologize and commit himself to making amends, I consider him disqualified. He does not have the character or brain power to be President."

More from Twitchy.

Messiah complex

Twitchy: "Joe Biden tells donors world leaders are begging him to run and save the world."

There's a reason this guy has fallen short the last two times he ran: the reason is Joe Biden.

The press will learn nothing from the Russiagate fiasco

Commentary from Rolling Stone (!!!) via Instapundit.

Oh Bernie

Babylon Bee: "Bernie Sanders Vows To Round Up Remaining ISIS Members, Allow Them To Vote."

Fake news roundup

Brietbart: "Top 51 fake news 'bombshells' the media spread."

Evergreen headline: "Social Security going broke"

Hot Air: "Social Security Will Be Unable To Pay Full Benefits By 2035."

Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget tells the NY Times, “That fact that we now can’t guarantee full benefits to current retirees is completely unacceptable, and it should be cause enough for every policymaker to rally around solutions to restore solvency to those programs.”

This will be my less-than-yearly reminder that if Washington took incremental steps to fix this long-known problem, Americans could adjust to the changes.  But instead we'll just wait until the Titanic hits the iceberg and then scramble for the lifeboats.

Pepe Silvia!

Federalist: "The Collusion Dream Is Dead But The Conspiracy Lives On" - "Our political, intelligence, and media elites sold us this crazy story and promised the American people the proof that never came."

Put down the Kool-Aid

Report in haste, corrections on page 12

Federalist: "7 Ways The Mueller Report Exposed The Media’s ‘Bombshell’ Fake News Stories" - "When Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, some of the conclusions debunked many misleading, and anonymously sourced, conspiracy theories."

Regrets, she's had a few

Twitchy: "NYTs Maggie Haberman now regrets not giving ‘more weight’ to what Dems/media mocked Romney about in 2012."

Yeah, we know why Romney's your hero now.

Bravo, Putin, bravo

Ace: "Ohhhh: New York Times Reports That It's Very Possible the Entire Steele Dossier Was Itself Kremlin Disinformation."

Remember how we were told that Russian interference in the election was an attempt to tear America apart with Facebook ads of Satan arm-wrestling Jesus?  It turns out the real con was to dupe oh-so-willing dupes in the media to roll out this two-year charade.  Guess who got played.

Democracy dies in darkness, yo

6 headlines, none mentioning the most important finding: No collusion. https://t.co/y3s2MikD2I

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 19, 2019

Trump exonerated

Powerline: "The Mueller report: early returns"

One of the Democrats’ basic problems is that “attempting” to obstruct the investigation doesn’t make a lot of sense. If Trump had really wanted to obstruct the investigation, he could simply have terminated it. And Mueller acknowledges that the administration fully cooperated with the investigation in every way. So the “attempts to obstruct” come down to Trump expressing outrage at the fact that a baseless, partisan investigation was hampering his administration. Arguably Trump should have brought the Mueller farce to an end, but he didn’t.

Nothingburger yesterday, nothingburger today, nothingburger tomorrow.

The heckler's veto wins again

Reason Online: "Middlebury College Cancels Speech by Polish Politician-Academic." 

We'll get to that minor detail later

Federalist: "At Fox Town Hall, Bernie Sanders Still Can’t Explain How He’s Paying For ‘Medicare For All’."