EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: F-35 deliveries suspended after finding Chinese alloys in magnets.

THE LEFT LIVES BY THEM:  Cultic Rituals.

LAS VEGAS DEMOCRAT OFFICIAL INVESTIGATED OVER MURDER OF JOURNALIST: “On Wednesday, Las Vegas Police officials confirmed that a search warrant had been carried out that morning at the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles in connection with the recent stabbing death of journalist Jeff German. According to 8 News Now, a large police presence was seen outside Telles’ home located near Charleston Boulevard and Hualapai Way.”

UPDATE: “Las Vegas police arrest county official Robert Telles in the murder of Jeff German, a journalist who wrote about him before he lost re-election,” Breaking News Online reports.

More details here: Police arrest Clark County official in reporter murder. Local NBC affiliate KSNV waits nine paragraphs to reference Telles’ party affiliation, not surprisingly.

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BUT OTHER THINGS EMERGE:  Things Fall Apart.

WELL, THAT’S…. GIFTED:  Almost 25% of Democrats think men can get pregnant.

THE HEROES WE DON’T DESERVE:  Project Veritas triumphs despite federal repression.

WELL, OF COURSE:  Democrats Dangerously Copy The Tactics Of Famous Fascists.

BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THE LEFT DOES: ENSLAVE POPULATIONS TO THEIR PET GROUPS:  California Democrats Pass Colossal Big Labor Giveaway Forcing Taxpayers To Subsidize Union Activism.

NO. HE’S PART OF DEEP STATE DECEIT:  Has The Trump Raid Made Bill Barr Forget All About Deep-State Deceit?

SO ANOTHER POTEMKIN CAMPAIGN?  Fetterman Stalling, Commits to Only One Debate Weeks After Early Voting Starts.

I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA HOW BAD IT IS:  Finnish economist: “I am telling you people that the situation in Europe is much worse than many understand”.

I’m not freaking out because my family is in a Mediterranean climate where food grows everywhere.

BTW our situation is not markedly better. Particularly not after the Bidentia starts getting his hand into food distro. He’s already messed up energy.

OH, SHE HAS NO IDEA:  Griffin: If You Want Civil War, Vote Republican.

And if you want to die of starvation in the dark, vote Democrat? Is that it?

OR PERHAPS PROFOUNDLY STUPID. AT SOME POINT, IT’S HARD TO TELL:  Karine Jean-Pierre – Callous, Unfeeling On Border.

LEFTY STANDARDS:

LIVE UPDATES: Man on shooting spree in Memphis, police say.

UPDATE: “The shelter-in-place order for the city of Memphis has been lifted now that 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly has been caught, according to Memphis Police…Kelly is in custody, according to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested after wrecking near Ivan Road and Hodges Road.”

But how long will he remain there? “Memphis Republicans lost major races in Shelby County Thursday, with Democrat District Attorney candidate Steve Mulroy defeating DA Amy Weirich and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (D) defeating Republican challenger Worth Morgan…Weirich spoke to supporters in a somber tone before the race was called for the George Soros-backed candidate Mulroy was declared the winner,” local talk station KWAM reported on August 4th in a post headlined, “CATASTROPHIC! Republicans Pummeled in Shelby County Election.”

The previous day, Weirich was asked by talk radio host Todd Starnes, “What does Memphis, Tennessee, look like if Steve Mulroy gets elected district attorney?” She replied, “Memphis, Tennessee, looks like San Francisco.”

It only took a month for that prediction to come true; as Tom Cotton wrote in December: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS IS SUING: NFGR FILES FIVE NEW LAWSUITS NATIONWIDE TO END MAGAZINE AND “ASSAULT WEAPON” BANS. “On September 7, 2022, the National Foundation for Gun Rights filed five new lawsuits in four federal court circuits to eliminate unconstitutional magazine and gun bans everywhere! Combined with our lawsuits in Colorado these represent nearly half of the country. This nationwide legal blitz aims to take out every single ban on semi-automatic weapons and standard capacity magazines for good.”

WELL, THEY DIDN’T SPEND THE MONEY ON POWER RESERVES: Germany’s Weapons Shortage.

OPEN THREAD: Roll it.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: Adult Man Snags Ball Intended For Young Girl.

There are many, many examples of adults stealing baseballs from kids, but this one that happened at a recent Washington Nationals game is one of the more egregious.

A group of young girls was on hand to watch the Nats and were about to get the thrill of catching a ball from a Big Leaguer. Nationals first baseman and outfielder Joey Meneses lobbed a ball to the girls. One of them reached for the throw, but… she wasn’t quite quick enough.

Grown man steals baseball from little girl. @Nationals can you get Joey Meneses to sign a baseball and send it to my daughter? ⚾️ pic.twitter.com/itcQFseOQO

— Gina Hilliard (@GinaHilliard33) September 2, 2022

“Fortunately, the Nationals reached out to make things right. So, everything worked out (for the most part). It’s always a bad look to hop in front of a kid and take a ball, especially when a player threw it to them. Now, a foul ball? Then it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves.”

GEORGIA DEMOCRATS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT STACEY ABRAMS’ CHANCES.

Don’t get cocky; she is the incumbent after all, and the president of United Earth.

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record: Stacey Abrams Claims The 2022 Midterms Have Already Been Stolen.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China performs two launches inside two hours.

COMING SOON TO MSNBC: Jen Psaki, Fact-Checker.

Because Jen Psaki will soon be on MSNBC, “debunking things, calling out BS.”

“First of all, my business is not rage,” Psaki said at Vox Media’s Code Conference in Los Angeles. “What I hope to do is bring that passion for explaining things, debunking things, calling out BS when you see it to my next job.”

That’s right, we’re about to enter the era of Jen Psaki, fact-checker. I expect this means we’ll get more declarations that the CDC director offers separate personal assessments of health policies, that President Biden meant to say the opposite of what he actually said, that the White House doesn’t have a view on whether it’s wrong to leak drafts of Supreme Court decisions, that it is “unfair and absurd” for companies to increase costs on consumers in response to higher tax rates, that anyone who criticizes a Biden speech is proving that the president struck a nerve, or that the supply-chain crisis is mostly a matter of treadmill deliveries being delayed.

Hunter and the Big Guy smile:

PORTLAND, RIP:

There must be a reason why some people still live in Portland, but I don’t know what it is. The city has become a hellhole, devastated by crime and overrun by homeless drug addicts. Antifa is rampant, and the city’s political leaders are–if this is possible–even more ineffectual than the leaders of San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis.

The Daily Mail takes note, in a story titled “‘I’m done with Portland’: Homeless people are forcing ‘terrified’ residents to sell their homes.” Sometimes you have to go to the U.K. press to get the straight story on events in the U.S. The Mail article is profusely illustrated with photographs and deserves to be read in its entirety. Here are some excerpts:

The Democratic city has one of the most deserted downtowns in the United States as soaring crime rates and homelessness are scaring away both locals and tourists. But now the crisis has spread beyond the downtown area and into the quiet suburbs, forcing many to leave.

These homeless camps are now becoming a permanent fixture in the suburbs, with the city being forced to conduct sweeps on a regular basis.

Exit quote: “So far, there doesn’t seem to be any sign that Portland’s municipal government has the will to address the crisis that is making the city unlivable. The Daily Mail notes that crime is up this year by 21.7% over 2021’s record-smashing pace.”

As Steve asked in February, “Have You Tried Voting for Anything Other Than a Democrat?”

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Exposed: Krystle Matthews, South Carolina Democrat candidate for Senator expresses disdain for whites in undercover exposé. ‘And let me tell you one thing, you ought to know who you’re dealing with, like, you gotta treat them like sh*t. Like, I mean, that’s the only way they’ll respect you,’ she added.

CHANGE: Liz Truss ditches fracking ban; vows ‘never again’ on exorbitant energy bills. Prime Minister pledges to ‘revolutionize’ supply as she takes action to ease household fuel crisis.

Britons must never again be forced to pay exorbitant energy bills, Liz Truss will declare on Thursday as she promises more North Sea drilling and ditches the fracking ban.

Annual energy bills will be frozen at around £2,500 for the average household both this winter and next, and green levies will be scrapped.

Businesses will get protection from energy price rises in a pandemic-style government intervention that could end up costing more than £150 billion.

But on Wednesday, the pound plummeted to its weakest level since 1985 on the new Prime Minister’s first full day in office as markets appeared to baulk at the scale of the move to tackle bills, underscoring the financial challenges ahead.

Ms Truss will say: “I know families and businesses across the country are worried about how they are going to make ends meet this autumn and winter.

“Putin’s war in Ukraine and weaponisation of gas supply in Europe is causing global prices to rise – and this has only made clearer that we must boost our long-term energy security and supply.

“We will take action immediately to help people and businesses with bills but also take decisive action to tackle the root cause of these problems so that we are not in this position again.”

That’s a massive change from Boris Johnson, her predecessor, who earlier in his career wrote car reviews for the British edition of GQ, and made several appearances on Top Gear, but last year, “spelt out the revolt against modernity that lies at the heart of climate-change alarmism when he used his speech at COP to complain about the invention of the steam engine. That contraption, which gave rise to the Industrial Revolution itself, was a ‘doomsday device’ that started the clock ticking on the eco-calamity we currently face, he madly said. And this is a PM who claims to stand up for British history and British greatness.”