THE UNRELENTING MR. JOHNSON: Boris Johnson hires Brexit-backing former Australian PM as UK’s new trade envoy.

DON LEMON SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Lemon: “The Rioting Has Got to Stop… It’s Showing Up in the Polls.”

Related: Wisconsin Riots: At Least Two Killed, One Injured in Shooting on Third Night of Rioting in Kenosha.

More: Daily Caller Reporter Takes Shirt Off His Own Back, Rushes To Save Life Of Man Who Was Shot In Head During Kenosha, Wisconsin, Riots.

As the mayor of Portland warned his city’s rioters at the start of the month: Mayor pleads with vandals: Don’t you see that you’ve become a prop for Trump’s campaign?

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Means ‘Entirely Dead,’ Plus CNN Gets Caught Telling the Truth (Then Deletes It).

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is America’s Worst Governor Not Named Cuomo Wisconsin’s Tony Evers or is it Oregon’s Kate Brown?

Answer: Yes. Yes, it is.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• NBC News can’t tell Kevin Hart from Usain Bolt, which we assume happens all the time

• Joe Biden is holding the country hostage

• Oliver Willis is still the worst human being on the internet

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

AH, GOOD OL’ TRUSTWORTHY BEER. MY LOVE FOR YOU WILL NEVER DIE: Vacaville, CA man fends off wildfire with Bud Light.

SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES PEOPLE STUPIDER, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: Live Streaming Yourself Stealing A Thin Blue Line Flag.

I IDENTIFY AS THE GALACTIC OVERLORD. MY PRONOUNS ARE SIR, MAJESTY, AND YOUR AWESOMENESS. DNC panel features Wake Forest U. staffer who identifies as ‘mermaid Queen-King.’

HANS VAN SPAKOVSKY ON the Democrats’ vote-suppression campaign.

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Cuomo: We’re not fact-checking the Democrats because ‘they are not lying the way Trump does.’

HEY, IT GOT BARACK ELECTED: VIDEO: Leftist voters admit Kamala Harris is not qualified…but still support her.

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UGH: Hurricane Laura: 500,000 ordered to evacuate along Texas, Louisiana coasts. “Tropical Storm Laura strengthened into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, and it is expected to make landfall as a Category 3 storm or stronger in eastern Texas or western Louisiana late Wednesday or early Thursday, forecasters said.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: RNC Night 2—FLOTUS Is Classier and More Attractive Than Any Democrat Alive. “You have to understand how remarkable this RNC is from the perspective of an activist who has been watching the GOP get in its own way for decades. It’s surprising and amusing to me that the Republicans have finally learned how to play the game of politics in a more functional manner after a non-politician became the party’s standard-bearer.”

FIGHT THE POWER: Covington Catholic’s Nick Sandmann: ‘I Would Not Be Canceled:’ Wrongly maligned by the media as a racist in a MAGA hat, the kid is now a celebrity speaker at the Republican National Convention.

Also the person highest-paid by both WaPo and CNN! Plus:

“I learned what happened to me had a name,” said Sandmann, reflecting on his experience. “It was called being canceled. As in annulled. As in revoked. As in made void. Canceling is what’s happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left. Many are being fired, humiliated, or even threatened, and often the media is a willing participant.”

An eager participant even. And frequently a fomenter.

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What is it about them that makes them want to punch a white high-school boy they’ve never met?

Plus:

Think of the press as a garbage industry heavily populated by garbage people and you wont go far wrong. Example:

I CREDIT ANDREW YANG: After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform.

CONFUSION BY DESIGN: Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings. “Users could make change, but it was ‘difficult enough that people won’t,’ one employee wrote.”

Flashback: Hotel Googlefornia. “Behind the scenes, Hill’s specialty VPN blocked her devices from trying to ping Google’s servers more than 15,000 times — in just the first few hours. After a week, it had stopped more than 100,000 attempts to share data with Google. And to repeat, this is after Hill had stopped using any of Google’s apps or services. The company has its tendrils all throughout the internet.”

THE NEXT BIG ONE?: China War Scenarios: Versus the U.S., Versus India, China Versus China. Some scenarios you hope are fiction — except perhaps China Versus China.

In July, senior government officials in Taiwan and the U.S. warned that communist China was aggressively threatening Taiwan’s independence. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper contended Beijing had taken its intimidation “to a new level.”…”The official warnings spurred several recent articles that examine a U.S-China war sparked by a Beijing invasion of Taiwan. Some are quite dire…”

It’s my latest Creators Syndicate column.

IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, THEY STARTED GOING AFTER HIM WHEN HE AND HIS WIFE AMY CHUA DEFENDED BRETT KAVANAUGH: Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld Has Been Suspended for Sexual Harassment. “I think subsequent to me having written some controversial articles about sexual assault, that I became a target of people making false allegations against me.”

WELL, YEAH: Biden’s odds lead cut in half after convention flop.

I got an unusual amount of hate mail for my USA Today column this week, which I thought was odd given that it wasn’t especially provocative. But I guess a lot of people are just moving from the denial phase to the anger phase.

LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE PREP: An F-35 F-35 Lightning II flies during practice prior to the 2020 Ocean City Air Show at Ocean City, Md. Photo taken Aug. 14, 2020.

WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT THE RUSSIAGATE CONSPIRACY THEORY WAS ACTUALLY PROMOTED BY RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE, AREN’T WE? RealClearInvestigations: Top Kerry Aide, Key Conduit for Steele Dossier, Once Worked for Russian Oligarch, as Did Its Author.

THE CULTURE WAR CONVENTION.

CHARLES LIPSON: Playing with Fire. “The pushback is coming. It will be seen at the ballot box, the gun store, and the moving company. Citizens will vote for public safety and move to safer locations. If police won’t protect them, they will do it themselves. Even the NY Times has noticed. They report there simply aren’t enough moving vans to meet the demand from fed-up New Yorkers. In Manhattan, Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, and other cities, they see the quality of life crashing and burning outside their windows.”

If you want more violence, vote for the people who won’t condemn the “mostly peaceful” riots.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GET-OUT-THE-VOTE SQUAD WORKING TIRELESSLY TO PROMOTE A MONDALE-LEVEL BLOWOUT: ‘Silence Is Violence’: D.C. Black Lives Matter Protesters Adopt Strategy of Intimidating Random White People. “Two years ago, there was a debate about whether restaurants were morally justified in asking Trump administration officials to leave their establishments. It’s a distressing sign of the times that such an act of public confrontation looks positively tame compared with what D.C. BLM activists did yesterday. A movement that deploys large crowds to confront, intimidate, and provoke random small businesses and their customers will quickly and rightly find itself demonized by the public.”

The whole point of leftist politics is to give people an excuse to feel good about being mean.