BELLY FAT IS BASICALLY BAD FOR YOU IN GENERAL: Belly fat might increase prostate cancer risk for men.

SO IT’S A 100-GRAND WAGONEER, THEN? Jeep Grand Wagoneer Returns as a $100K-Plus Full-Size Luxury SUV. That’s pretty grand, especially for a Jeep.

JIM TREACHER: Colorado Woman Beats Up Child for Carrying Trump Sign.

And get ready for more of this madness. Just today, WaPo has informed us:

This sounds like extortion, doesn’t it? “Vote for our team or there’ll be trouble.” And it’s a tacit admission that Trump supporters won’t get violent if he loses. That would poke a hole in the ol’ liberal media narrative, if they allowed themselves to stop for a minute and think about it.

Could somebody please explain to me why I should vote for a political party that’s expected to explode into even more rioting, looting, public assaults, and other chaos if they lose? I will not be coerced, by either side. If you can’t earn my vote, you’re not going to get it under threat of violence.

To be fair, Democrats have been the party of extortion long before Trump; I created this Photoshop back in 2010:

Oh, and note who the Post used to represent the Trump side in their “wargames scenario:”

For obvious reasons, we couldn’t ask Trump or Biden — or their campaign aides — to play themselves in these exercises, so we did the next best thing: We recruited participants with similar backgrounds. On the GOP side, our “players” included former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, conservative commentator Bill Kristol and former Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson. On the Democratic side, participants included John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and a top White House adviser to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama; Donna Brazile, the campaign chair for Al Gore’s 2000 presidential run; and Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan. Other participants included political strategists, journalists, polling experts, tech and social media experts, and former career officials from the intelligence community, the Justice Department, the military and the Department of Homeland Security.

I wasn’t familiar with Trey Greyson (you can check out his bio here) but I’m obviously familiar with Michael Steele and Bill Kristol. These were the people picked to represent the Trump administration. Steele recently wrote, “Instead of fighting for that future, Republicans gave credence to a man who traffics in conspiracies, fear, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and believes that he can rewrite the Constitution in his own image.” Not a fan I think it’s fair to say.

As for Bill Kristol…

Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase garbage in, garbage out? Having the “all Republicans must go” guy play the role of team Trump is like asking AOC to represent Joe Biden in a simulation of the Democratic primary. The outcome is surely going to be heavily biased by the contempt the players hold for their team. And so, sure enough, the outcome of the game was a disaster:

In 2009, the Post, through its then-subsidiary magazine Newsweek declared “We Are All Socialists Now.” And evidently, that applies to their RINOs they interview as well.

DON’T GET COCKY: Nate Silver’s Latest Shows Biden Is Headed for a Very Bad November.

WELL, GOOD: Dexamethasone, other corticosteroids help hospitalized COVID-19 patients. “It is relatively rare in medicine that you find drugs where the evidence of their effectiveness in saving lives is so consistent.”

KENOSHA RESIDENT AT BIDEN TOWN HALL: ‘I Was Told To Go off This Paper.’ (Video at link.)

Related: Reporter reminds everybody that the lack of energy in Kenosha for Biden (vs. the response Trump received) ‘is deliberate.’

Like Spinal Tap, Biden’s appeal is becoming more selective.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Professor Jessica Krug admits she lied about being black: ‘I cancel myself.’

I thought you are what you identify as nowadays.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: And End To Wokeness at Disney? “After the death of founder Walt Disney, the company has pretty consistently focused on profitability, and the SJW is clearly getting in the way of that overarching goal.”

NEVER CAVE TO THE MOB UNLESS YOU WANT MORE MOBS: Caving to Rioters, Louisville Removes Statue of the King Beheaded in the French Revolution.

Previously: Demonstrators Put Trump Effigy in a Guillotine Outside White House.

I’M SURE IT’S NICE, BUT AFTER DRIVING SUVS FOR YEARS WHENEVER I DRIVE A SEDAN I FEEL LIKE I’M IN A GO-KART: 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Revealed, Aims to Redefine Modern Luxury. You feel so . . . low to the ground.

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STACEY LENNOX: Joe Biden Goes to Kenosha and Kills Off What’s Left of the #MeToo Movement.

ADAM FORD: Watch this clip and then please, tell me more about how much BLM cares about black people.

WHEN THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMUNITY HAS SQUANDERED THE PUBLIC’S TRUST: One-Third of Americans Say They Wouldn’t Take a Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Shows.

Of course, the one-third isn’t irrational. The risk of the disease seems much lower than originally feared, and we know nothing about how safe or effective the vaccine will be — and there’s not-unreasonable fear that it’ll be rushed out. So while it might be rational to take it if you’re in a high risk group, it might be rational to avoid it if you’re not.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT THE DEEP STATE WAS NOTHING BUT RIGHT-WING PARANOIA: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Had Embassy Staff Monitor Social Media Of Pro-Trump Americans.

WE’RE REALLY LEARNING A LOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RUNNING AMERICA BEFORE 2016. In both parties.

THE PRESS IS SURE TO WHIP UP A FRENZY ABOUT TRUMP MEETING WITH… OH, IT’S NOT TRUMP, IT’S BIDEN? Jacob Blake’s father revealed to be anti-Semitic—Biden still scheduled to meet with him. “Conspiracies about the Jews controlling the media, lies about Jewish origins history are a prominent trend on his Facebook profile.”

SCHADENFREUDELICIOUS: Ha! Anti-Trump Network Snubbed by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

CULTURAL MARXISM IS EVERYWHERE, APPARENTLY: The Communist Roots of “White Privilege.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: College Prof. Says Inner-Cities Have Higher Temperatures Because Of Racism.

TRUMP AND WHAT ARMY… OH, RIGHT:

Heh™.

SHOCKER: COVID-19 in kids, teens mostly mild, rarely fatal, study says. That’s largely true for adults, too, of course.

DECOUPLING: India bans 118 Chinese apps including PUBG.

Apart from PUBG and PUBG lite, the government has banned VPN for TikTok, Alipay, Sina News, Dual Space – Multiple Accounts & App Cloner, LivU, and ShareSave by Xiaomi. Right now, most of these apps are available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store. But we expect them to be removed soon.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology accessed these apps of “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India.”

It’s good not to trust China.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Does Insurance Cover Rioting and Looting Damage? Either Way, It’s Disastrous. “Here are four reasons why the excuse that ‘businesses have insurance’ doesn’t mitigate the harm of rioting.”