HUGE IF TRUE: Emerson, Rasmussen Polls Show 34% Black Voter Approval For Trump.

More here.

HEY, KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT?:  Time for Supreme Court term limits.  Maybe.

NO SAFE SPACES: Documentary Takes Aim At Higher Ed’s Free Speech Violations.

HAPPY EVACUATION DAY:  On this day in 1783, the British Army left New York City.  Huzzah!!

WOW: Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird because otherwise it would break the machines that make it.

As Musk and designer Franz von Holzhausen demonstrated on stage, the Cybertruck is built for abuse. Instead of using stamped aluminum or steel like Tesla’s other cars (and most other vehicles on the road), Tesla is using 30X cold-rolled steel.

Tesla’s Cybertruck design differs from traditional autos because it uses a stainless steel exoskeleton instead of a traditional body-on-frame design. In the traditional design, the car body doesn’t have as much structural integrity and is mainly used for aerodynamic and styling purposes, and to protect occupants from the elements.

In the Cybertruck’s design, the entire vehicle exterior is used as a stressed member, allowing it to do double duty as both the body and the frame. This reduces complexity, and, since Tesla is using ultra-hard steel, increases sturdiness of the vehicle exterior.

This is why the doors were able to resist a sledgehammer swing from von Holzhausen, and were shown to be bulletproof in a demonstration video shown by Tesla during the reveal event.

The problem with this hardened steel exterior is that traditional auto-body stamping machines are made to deal with much smaller, more malleable pieces of sheet metal.

Bodyshops that can work on a Cybertruck will be few and far between.

BYNGO: Kurt Schlichter: Fire the Admirals to Encourage the Others. “As much as the admirals – who really ought to have a bit more humility in light of the Navy’s recent demonstrated inability to perform its basic task of sailing ships without crashing them into other ships – might not approve of Trump, approving of him is not their job.”

INFLATING THE CURRENCY: Anyone Can Identify as Black, Lecturers Union Says: The UCU said that anyone should be allowed to identify as any race, sex, sexuality, or even being disabled.

WALTER DURANTY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Holodomor Holocaust Remembered In Four Films.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: “How paranoid were the Nixon-hating TV networks during Watergate? Far enough out there that, according to liberal former ABC correspondent Carole Simpson*, they feared that instead of resigning, President Nixon would announce a military coup supporting him.”

Of course, since at least 2017, the DNC-MSM have gone full Seven Days in May, as long as it’s a military coup removing the president. Glenn’s 2016 paper on military coups in the United States just keeps getting more timely!

* Yes, the same Carole Simpson who saw the Confederacy ascendant on election night in 2004.

BYRON YORK: Why did Trump release Ukraine aid? The answer is simple.

Trump’s true reason for releasing the aid matters to the Democratic impeachment scheme. If he released the money after learning about the whistleblower — after he realized the jig was up — then that, at least to Democrats, suggests guilt. If he released it after gaining confidence in Zelensky, that does not suggest guilt.

But the evidence suggests that neither explanation is correct, that there is a much simpler reason for Trump’s decision to release the aid. On the day he OK’d the aid, Trump learned that Congress was going to force his hand and spend the money anyway. He could either go along or get run over. . . .

It was an entirely unremarkable end to the story: President tries to do something. Congress opposes. President sees he has no support and backs down. It has happened many, many times with many, many presidents.

In the end, the release of the aid is not dramatic proof of anything in the Trump-Ukraine matter. The facts do not support the Democratic notion that the president “got caught,” knew he was guilty, and gave in. It is not a smoking gun. It is a story of a president and Congress bumping up against each other on spending, and, as often happens, Congress won.

Well, where’s the drama in that?

UH-HUH: Kamala Harris: ‘I Am Not a Socialist.’

Related: Don’t injure yourself LOLing when you read what the Washington Post now calls Barack Obama. “Barack Obama is a conservative.”

We keep hearing how Trump has ruined conservatism’s reputation, but it seems like the Left wants to appear more to the right than they actually are.

Make conservatism cool again!

(It hasn’t been that way since Reagan left office, which is telling.)

DEMS WORRY ABOUT RECESS SLOWING IMPEACHMENT DRIVE: The data is accumulating rapidly that Democrats’ impeachment hearings seriously backfired among independents. Some Democratic campaign advisers see it, others not so much. Now the recess is here and don’t be surprised if the downward slope in the data continues.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Can Storied Williams College Be Saved From Itself?

How did Williams, founded in 1793, the cradle of captains of industry, ever get to this point of intellectual dysfunction? Look at the Wikipedia entry and weep at the roster of distinguished alumni: 3 chairmen of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 71 members of the United States Congress, 22 U.S. Governors, 4 U.S. Cabinet secretaries, an associate justice of the Supreme Court and a president of the United States. And now the very thought of living by the First Amendment on campus proves grounds for a hit squad of students to disrupt a faculty meeting, while courses on anything European inspire a boycott.

Cost of attending Williams College: $75,520 per year. Most of it funded by taxpayer money, one way or another. But when taxpayers get tired of funding it, we’ll be told it’s because of “anti-intellectualism.”

Related: Whatever the Left touches, it ruins.