HERESY: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ shows how masculinity can make the world a better place. Also true.

MAKE FUN OF ELON IF YOU WANT, BUT HE KNOWS HIS MARKET: Tesla already received 146,000 Cybertruck pre-orders worth over $8 billion.

WHEN YOU’RE A CELEBRITY, THEY LET YOU DO IT: D.C. Attorney General declines to charge Jane Fonda for Friday protests.

AND FOR THE POST, THIS IS AN UNALLOYED EVIL: Washington Post: ‘Impeachment will make the president hellbent on the destruction of the civil service.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Not just the president.

HONG KONG: A friend who lives there writes:

Just returned from voting for my District Councillor.
(Voting for District Council doesn’t really amount to much – their job is about garbage pickup, etc. – but this is an opportunity for people to have their voices be heard, albeit at a minimal level).

In every other election, I have gone in the afternoon and there are maybe 3 or 4 people in line.
I show up just after 8 am this morning and the line goes out the room – a least 100 deep.
I see a building neighbour, a fellow Foreign Correspondent Club member, a Chinese International School parent / friend, and C H Tung (first Chief Executive).
(I was tempted to go to CH Tung and say, “this voting concept seems to be pretty popular” – but I refrained).

I asked if it is alway this crowded in the morning as I usually vote in the afternoon.
About 5 people all chirped up saying basically, “Oh no, not at all. I think we all know how we feel about the matter”.

And the line was longer when I left than when I arrived.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I suspect that the pro-Government candidates are going to lose quite badly in most parts of Hong Kong today.
People are mad and want their voices heard – not dismissed.

Just my “on the ground” observations.

Good to know.

MAXIMIZE THE DRAMA: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, four-time cancer survivor, is back in the hospital. I feel like the writers are just throwing everything in at once this season.

OK, MILLENNIAL: One-Third of Young Americans Say Complimenting a Woman’s Looks is Sexual Harassment.

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YEAH, BUT BACK THEN IF YOU WORRIED ABOUT RUSSIAN SPIES YOU WERE CALLED A MCCARTHYITE AND SHUNNED BY ALL DECENT PEOPLE: Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project: His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Chris Matthews Asks Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Why Are So Many Democrats War Hawks?’

—PJ Media, today.

● Chaser: “On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today Op-Ed, ‘Relax, Celebrate Victory.’ The same day, exactly five years ago, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq — with the now-infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner arrayed behind him in the war’s greatest photo op. Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a ‘hero’ and boomed, ‘He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.’ He added: ‘Women like a guy who’s president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It’s simple.’”

—“Five Years Ago: How the Media Gushed Over ‘Mission Accomplished,’” the Huffington Post, May 1, 2008.

OUTREACH TO THE OTHER PARTY? TREASON! Democrats furious as video of Buttigieg saying nice things about Tea Party emerges.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced some strong criticism online after a 2010 video of him speaking at an Indiana state Tea Party event resurfaced this week, with critics of the South Bend mayor accusing him of “sidling up to racists” and saying he’s “absolutely done.”

In his remarks to the group, which came during his unsuccessful 2010 run for Indiana state treasurer, Buttigieg discussed how he understood the economic concerns of the Tea Party voters and candidates.

“There are some, especially in my party, who think that the Tea Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” Buttigieg said at the time. “But there are many others who believe that the Tea Party is motivated by real concerns about the direction of our government and the responsiveness of our government to citizens—and above all, a frustration with business as usual. That is what motivated me to run,” he continued. “And so, while we may come from often very different perspectives, I believe we might have a lot in common on that front.”

Responding to the resurfaced clip, Jodi Jacobson, an editor and analyst, called the clip “unreal.”

“@PeteButtigieg literally sidling up to racist Tea Partiers. And he’s got it wrong: @GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party,” she tweeted.

The Tea Party movement was not racist in the least, particularly by comparison to today’s Democratic Party. And as for the GOP being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tea Party — if only!

OUT ON A LIMB: Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell Paints Press As ‘Reckless, Corrupt, Immoral.’

IMPEACHMENT: The Empire Strikes Back. “It is no accident or coincidence that the only three presidents who have fundamentally challenged the administrative state—and questioned its song sheet, the ‘U.S. government policy community consensus’—have been dogged by ‘scandal’ and threatened with impeachment: Richard Nixon by Watergate, Ronald Reagan by Iran Contra, and now Trump. (Whatever you think of Bill Clinton’s impeachment, it was emphatically not driven or supported by the administrative state, which protected him at every turn.) Trump would likely take this as small consolation, but it’s a measure of how much he’s feared that his enemies are running this play against him now, rather than simply trying to defeat him next year. Which more than suggests they doubt they can.”

BRINGING NEW MEANING TO BILL WHITTLE’S LINE, “if Republicans had to run unopposed, they’d lose every time.” How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment.

Related: Why Democrats’ impeachment push is about to get a lot harder.

The cockiness; it is still best to eschew it, of course.

THE PLANE WHO WENT TO CHICAGO: The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course: A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance. “On the tarmac, Condit stepped out of the jet, made a brief speech, then boarded a helicopter for an aerial tour of Boeing’s new corporate home: the Morton Salt building, a skyscraper sitting just out of the Loop in downtown Chicago. Boeing’s top management plus staff—roughly 500 people in all—would work here. They could see the boats plying the Chicago River and the trains rumbling over it. Condit, an opera lover, would have an easy walk to the Lyric Opera building. But the nearest Boeing commercial-airplane assembly facility would be 1,700 miles away.”

Move your company HQ to a city run by grifters and crooks, then lose your bearings and values? Who could have seen that coming?

Executive offices should be in the factories, and you should have to walk through the shop floor to get to them.

SHOWING UP TO RIOT: “Enjoy your New Rules. When you want to go back to the Old Rules, let me know. I’d like that. Until then, hey, consequences, player.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Watch The Intellectuals.

I’m not interested in hearing Ann Coulter speak, but I am very, very much interested in fighting the mob culture that seeks to shut down speakers like Ann Coulter, in part by howling curses at, and attempting to humiliate, Americans who are interested in what she has to say.

If you think this is going to stay in Berkeley, you’re mistaken. This mob action might not spread to places outside of the coasts, but here’s what’s going to happen: those young people who join the mobs, they are going to graduate and move into the institutions of American life. They are going to carry their militant illiberalism, including their contempt for free speech and open discourse, into those institutions, and are going to do their damnedest to institutionalize them. One thing I have learned from the past few months spent studying Soviet-bloc communism: watch the intellectual class. It is a very big mistake to think that what they say and do only matters in the shadow of the ivory tower.

Read the whole thing.

I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY’RE PICKING THIS FIGHT WITH TRUMP. BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE DOING. Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher.

There is precedent for presidents intervening in military justice matters. John F. Kennedy stopped the punishment of an Army Reserve soldier who was court-martialed for bad-mouthing him. Abraham Lincoln infuriated some of his generals by regularly combing through court-martial orders for Union troops who were charged with desertion and other crimes and scrawling impromptu one-line orders for leniency, like “Let him fight instead of being shot.”

But experts say the constitutional arrangement of civilian control over the military can become strained when a president disregards the counsel of generals and admirals, or never seeks it in the first place.

Well, that’s one way it can become strained. Another is when people inferior to the President set themselves up in judgment over his orders, and publicly challenge them. Lt. Col. Vindman is apparently not alone in this.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Harvard-Yale football game delayed for 48 minutes due to on-field protest over climate change. Climate change so powerful, it caused CBS to do the time warp in their article’s lede:

The annual Harvard-Yale football game Saturday was briefly delayed due to protesters on the field at the Yale Bowl. The protest, which caused a 48-minute delay, began following the second quarter of the game at the Yale Bowl when more than 150 people stormed the field with signs. The protesters, led by students and alumni of both schools, were demanding the colleges stop funding of fossil fuel companies.

Exit quote: “Years ago the players would have cleared them out themselves.”

‘AMERICA’S MAYOR’ RESPONDS TO BIDEN, BOLTON: Rudy Giuliani responds to, well, pretty much everything that’s been said about him lately, including the former Vice President and the claim he expected to profit on a Ukrainian energy firm. Things got a little testy between Giuliani and Fox News’ Ed Henry, something that seems to be happening a little more frequently between Fox anchors and Trumpers.

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DESPERATE CLEVELAND BROWNS DRAFT JUSSIE SMOLLETT AS DEFENSIVE LINEMAN: Myles Garrett and the Excuses That Fall Flat.

The NFL suspended Garrett indefinitely, adding that the suspension would be, at minimum, for the rest of the year. The league also gave multiple-game suspensions to several other players who participated in the fight.

Thursday, while appealing to the league to lessen his suspension, Garrett claimed Rudolph called him a racial slur just prior to the brawl.

Garrett encountered quite a bit of skepticism over this claim. He never mentioned it at all in any interview over the past week, and his post-game statement declared that he had made “a terrible mistake,” and selfishly “lost his cool,” and apologized to Rudolph.

Meanwhile, not surprisingly: Mason Rudolph isn’t taking Myles Garrett’s racial-slur accusation well.

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