NEO: The debate: the supposed intelligentsia versus the commoners.

There are polls in which people say Kamala won the debate but that doesn’t make them vote for her. That’s not so hard to understand, because life in the real world is not a debate, complete with mugging, lies, and moderators who control the questions and the flow. The gist of what I’ve seen is that a great many undecideds were annoyed that Kamala gave out little of substance during the debate concerning her proposals for what she would do as president. They wanted the nuts and bolts, and she didn’t provide it.

With a video assist from the Ruthless Podcast, who as Neo writes, “do a good job of analyzing – in enormous and yet entertaining detail – what happened at the hands of the debate moderators on Tuesday night. When I say ‘entertaining,’ what I mean is that the podcasters all have a good sense of humor, not that the moderator bias itself was the least bit amusing.”

A RECEDING WAVE: What happened to DEI and LGBT?

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Tourist who dropped Cheetos in largest US cave could trigger ‘world-changing’ chaos, parks service warns.

Didn’t we learn anything from The Pepsi Syndrome?

(Classical reference in headline.)

BREAKING: Trump Reveals Decision About Future Debates.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Coway Airmega AP-1512HH(W) True HEPA Purifier. #CommissionEarned

OLD AND BUSTED: Dangerous content flagged by media to avoid exposure to sensitive puritanical conservatives.

The New Hotness? Media content to block dangerous flag to avoid exposure to sensitive puritanical leftists.

HAHAHAHA. Weatherman covers the camera as Trump flag is waved in the background. pic.twitter.com/1UhxAMoYls

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 12, 2024

NEWS FROM 2015: Ditch the “Carry Rotation.”

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

“Above all else, the devil cannot stand to be mocked.” – C.S. Lewis

Author of “White Fragility” deletes her account after being fooled into an interview that made fun of her ridiculous racism. Solid work @MattWalshBlog. pic.twitter.com/XIbAAUbMGp

— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) September 12, 2024

Another plus: Walsh finally found the white fragility.

AND RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE ON WHOSE WATCH? Trump Is a ‘De Facto Russian Asset’ Says Former FBI Deputy Director.

Come to think of it, Trump is the only president we’ve had during this century who was not in office when Russia invaded a neighbor. Bush was around for the invasion of Georgia, Obama for the smaller-scale Ukraine invasion of 2014, and Biden for the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Some asset, eh?

READER FAVORITE: Apple iPad (10th Generation): with A14 Bionic chip. #CommissionEarned

INVASION BY INVITATION: Venezuelan Gang Takes Over El Paso Hotel. “Remember the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado? That same gang has taken over a hotel in El Paso.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: ‘Don’t eat cats and dogs,’ Biden tells voters while wearing Trump hat.

Joe Biden donned a Trump baseball cap and told a crowd of people “not to eat dogs and cats” during a light-hearted exchange on the campaign trail.

The US president was referring to wild claims repeated by Donald Trump during his debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are “eating the pets of the people that live there”.

Mr Biden was initially persuaded to wear his former opponent’s hat by a Trump supporter after a humorous back-and-forth between the two men.

It started off by Mr Biden offering to give his presidential hat to the Trump supporter, who asked him: “Are you going to autograph it?” Mr Biden said he would autograph the hat before the Trump supporter quipped: “Do you remember your name?”

The president joked back that he “doesn’t remember my name” because he’s “slow”, which sparked laughter among the crowd.

He doesn’t remember who is boss is as well, apparently.

Related: If You Want Haitians Eating Cats And Decapitating Ducks In Your Town, Vote For Harris.

UPDATE: “Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5 million to city where many Haitian migrants have relocated,” according to those crazed MAGA-hat wearing nuts at, err, PBS.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

IT’S ABOUT TIME: Archaeologists discover an ancient Neanderthal lineage that remained isolated for over 50,000 years.

HEY, REMEMBER THAT TIME THE SECRET SERVICE FAILED IN MULTIPLE WAYS DURING THAT NEAR-ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP AND THEN IT ALL GOT SWEPT UNDER THE RUG?

Dem CT Sen Blumenthal on info about Trump shooting after briefing by acting USSS Dir Rowe: I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 12, 2024

And this from the replies: “If this is coming from Blumenthal, I can’t imagine how bad it actually is.”

Developing…

ED MORRISSEY: Bidenflation Still Hammering the Working Class — Minorities Hardest Hit: WaPo.

Has inflation begun to ease back to normal? The Biden-Harris administration wants voters to believe it, arguing that consumer-goods prices appear to have stabilized. Have they?

Today’s Producer Price Index shows annualized unadjusted wholesale inflation dipping down to 1.7% in August. That would be welcome news for consumers, but inflation for wholesale consumer foods hit 4.2%. Most of the overall decline came in wholesale energy prices (-8.4%), which consumers will also welcome but may not be all that good of a trade-off from their weekly visit to grocery stores.

Yesterday’s Consumer Price Index offered a mixed bag, too, but not for the middle and working classes. The overall annualized rate dropped from July’s 2.9% to 2.5% in August, again mainly because of a dramatic fall in energy prices (-4.0%). The upward spike continued in shelter costs, shooting up 5.2% in August, and included both rentals (5.2%) and owner costs (5.4%). Insurance spiked 3.6%, and municipal utilities went up 4.2%.

And this, of course, follows on the effects of three years of high overall inflation and its compounding effects, especially on shelter costs. The unnecessary and predictably corrosive mass stimulus in the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris American Rescue Plan of March 2021 — the key initiative of Bidenomics — launched that 40-year-high inflation cycle, and it continues to pound consumers to this day.

Don’t worry — all the stats look fine:

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Who Rigged the Debate for Kamala? Her Best Friend and Her Sorority Sister.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Study reveals how antibiotics contribute to inflammatory bowel disease risk.

CATCH UP FASTER. AND HOW ABOUT SOME MORE 9MM AND .223 WHILE YOU’RE AT IT? Arms Manufacturers Catching Up with World’s Insatiable Need for 155mm Rounds.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Under Gov. Tim Walz, Babies Born Alive in Botched Abortions Were Left to Die. Then He Removed Reporting Requirements.

DO TELL. The future of Boeing’s crewed spaceflight program is muddy after Starliner’s return.

DITTO: This Focus Group Changed How I Feel About the Trump-Harris Debate.

There’s a world of difference between the perceptions of Very Online People and normal human beings.

SOON, SKINNINESS WILL BE PLEBEIAN AGAIN: GLP-1 hybrid drug being tested as weight-loss aid. “People who took the drug amycretin lost up to 13% of their body weight over three months, according to early clinical trial results presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in Madrid.”

WINNING:

BREAKING: North Carolina public universities have closed their DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI positions, and saved $17,118,889, according to a new report today: pic.twitter.com/zovelVPgdn

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 11, 2024

POLARIS DAWN SETS ANOTHER RECORD: That’s One Small Walk for a Man (and a Woman)…