AN EVEN MORE EARTHSHATTERING KABOOM: We Might Have Underestimated The Size of The Asteroid Behind Earth’s Largest Crater.

How’s that space program coming along? Well, at least we’re starting to work on asteroid deflection.

WELL, THERE’S YOUR PROBLEM, BECAUSE “FEMINIST CRITICISM” IS GENERALLY STUPID AND DISHONEST: “Apparently, Wilde’s opinion of Peterson is not based on direct knowledge of his work, but rather is based on feminist criticism of his work. And her idea that Peterson is ‘Leader of the incels’ — where did she get that? Isn’t that misbegotten notion also likely traceable to something Wilde got by reading Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti and other feminists?”

Feminist criticism at work: Women shouldn’t be treated as sex objects. Also, stupid incels can’t even get laid! While entirely misconstruing Peterson’s relationship to the incel community because of course.

THE LEFT FEAR ITALY’S NEW PRIME MINISTER, AND THAT IS WHY THEY VILIFY HER:

Meloni represents everything the Left hates and fears. She believes in the nuclear family as a foundation of her country’s survival. She is also a woman and pro-life — perhaps the Left’s worst nightmare. She is against indoctrinating the youth with radical gender ideology. She embraces her religion instead of shunning it. She’s against same-sex marriage. She is also an outspoken critic of the contemporary radical leftist politics that has dragged down Italy for years.

Meloni has already unequivocally condemned fascism. She previously stated that fascism was wrong, archaic, and “handed over to history for decades now.” However, this still isn’t good enough for most of the leftist cult, because they are not interested in what she actually believes — they are just trying to defame her in order to prevent people from listening to what she has to say.

This is why Meloni has been dubbed a “fascist” or the “next Mussolini” by these idiots. None of these issues are fascist, mind you; they just threaten what the radical Left believes. As a result, leftists turn to what they know best, sensationalist fear-mongering. It’s a core tenet of the Left’s global messaging strategy, and it has been so for the last 120 years. They don’t want her to lead Italy because she can become a beacon of hope and potentially change the toxic culture of infanticide that has run rampant around the civilized globe for far too long. The Left fears her influence.

And for good reason, Karol Markowicz writes in the London Daily Mail: The left and feminist harpies are not wrong to hate Italy’s first female prime minister. Giorgia Meloni is everything they are not — independent and plain-spoken.

In a 2018 interview with Reuters, she worried about Italy’s birthrate and the difficult choices facing mothers.

‘The first thing we asked for was a grand plan to sustain the birth rate and give incentives to become parents, which is a priority in our program,’ she said.

Children as important, as necessary, should be a mainstream idea, but the women ‘perfecting’ feminism rarely speak up for them.

Meloni will likely be neither the villain portrayed by the left nor the hero that some on the right hope she will be. Politics in Italy are tumultuous, and her success is not a given. But she is nothing like the monster invented by the left.

Maybe the newly minted Italian politics experts can take a seat and watch from afar what the woman, mother, Italian, Christian does or doesn’t do.

If the GOP takes one or both houses of Congress in November, expect a similar freakout from the DNC-MSM and leftist denizens of social media. I hope Republicans are prepared for it, but strongly suspect they won’t be.

HE’S NOT WRONG TO POINT THIS OUT:

LAWFARE NEEDS TO BE LESS ONE-SIDED: Exclusive: Attorney challenging Biden’s Academia bailout says they have more than standing — they have a solid case.

DUCHESS OF DECLINE: Meghan Markle obsesses us because she is a symbol of our willful degeneration.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mountain lion attacks boy, 7, at Southern California park.

NOBODY LIKES THE CORPORATE-FASCIST APPROACH THE DEMS ARE TAKING, EXCEPT FOR CORPORATIONS AND FASCISTS. Poll in Gun Control-Friendly Washington, D.C. Shows Americans Don’t Want Banks Monitoring Their Gun Purchases.

HMM: The BMW XM Is a Radically Unique Super SUV. “If 644 horsepower is not enough, the car will also be available in a trim called Label Red with 735 hp and 735 lb-ft of torque.”

FASTER, PLEASE: ‘Historic moment’ in race to beat Alzheimer’s: Experimental brain plaque-busting drug ‘significantly slows decline of patients battling early stages of the disease.’

WILL ROBOTS REPLACE US? Remember the Will Smith flick, “I, Robot” that depicted a scary future made possible by Artificial Intelligence(AI)? Folks still worry that such scenarios are by no means mere fictional possibilities.

But, as the latest edition of “Science Uprising” on HillFaith makes clear, there are some very smart guys who think such worries are unnecessary.  What about you, do you think we will someday wake up to a robotic Nurse Ratched tyranny?

READER FAVORITE: Vont 2 Pack LED Camping Lanterns. #CommissionEarned

YES: These Detransitioners Have A Message For Distressed Girls: Mangling Your Body Is A Sickness, Not A Cure.

WAPO: 7 ways a recession could be good for you financially.

5. Unemployment is still relatively low. People with jobs and money to spare can spend on luxuries such as a vacation.
Despite higher prices and rising interest rates, millions of Americans have been taking leisure trips.

More than half of Americans plan to travel for one or both of the holidays this year, even though airfares will be 43 percent higher than last year, according to Hopper, a travel booking app.

However, the unemployment rate did rise to 3.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So, if you’re worried about your job security or a recession, just cancel your vacation plans for 2023.*

6. Your used car is worth more. If you’re looking to upgrade to a newer car, and your car is in fairly good condition, you’ll get more for your trade-in.

Used car and truck prices jumped 7.8 percent, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unfortunately, new car prices were up 10 percent from a year ago.

This was the stuff of Saturday Night Live routines in the late ‘70s:

* And since there’s an Obama administration retread in the White House, enjoy the funemployment! “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome.”

UPDATE: Not the Bee asks us to “Look at this actual WaPo headline from today:”

Notice how she keeps comparing Biden to FDR?

That’s because the Party and Biden himself want the president to be compared to FDR.

But he’s not. The inflationary cycle we are in makes him Jimmy Carter 2.0, except that’s an insult to Carter.

Oh, I don’t know; I can see an FDR comparison here: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.

And a Woodrow Wilson comparison as well: Biden’s age, re-election plan recall Woodrow Wilson.

(Updated and bumped.)

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Unusual Ebola strain kills 23 in Uganda; no vaccines, treatments available.

I hope there’s nobody in an NIH-funded lab doing gain-of-function research on Ebola.

MEET THE NEW GOP: Younger, More Female, More Hispanic (and More Attractive, if You’ll Pardon Me). “The New GOP has changed a lot in a short time, moving quickly away from its old image of grumpy old men harrumphing over cigars during Ugly Pants Night at the local Chamber of Commerce.”

MORE SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Browse, graze, mate: Food and company help animals in captivity.

HE’S FLAILING: Beto Turns On Biden, Blames Prez For Latino Voters’ Rightward Shift.

ABOUT TIME: Hearing aids will be available over the counter in October.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO DECENCY: Biden Only Spoke to DeSantis After the Governor Called Out the President’s Pettiness.

JOE MANCHIN: People keep asking me, “Why am I penalized?” “We have about a $31 trillion debt that we have to be really realistic about. And the IRA bill, we had $300 billion being paid down and it seems to wipe this out. But the bottom line, I just thought there was other ways we could do it. I cannot answer when people call me and say, ‘You’re giving x amount of dollars away, $10,000, $20,000 to this class. How about I paid mine off? Why am I penalized?’ And how about the people in the future — “

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Weight loss beneficial for individuals with obesity, but not for the lean. So fat people benefit from losing weight, and skinny people don’t. Go figure.

JUST SPITBALLING HERE, BUT I’M GOING TO GUESS THAT IT’S BECAUSE EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: Why does the IMF care more about equality than growth?

The IMF is less than impressed with Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s first mini-budget. In the kind of admonishment you’d normally expect them to make about an emerging economy, they said, ‘the nature of the UK measures will likely increase inequality… [the government might want to] reevaluate the tax measures, especially those that benefit high income earners’.

This is a bizarre statement to make. The UK is substantially less unequal than the USA, and the inequality/growth relationship is not particularly strong for developed economies. Should the IMF be expressing concern that the American economy will be undermined by its low top tax rates?

The cut in the highest rate of tax from 45% to 40% has driven a huge amount of media coverage, but is expected to cost around £2bn a year once behavioural responses are taken into account. As the IFS notes, it may very plausibly end up costing nothing.

It does, however, run contrary to an interesting strain of thought that has begun to predominate the IMF’s guidance to Britain. In this analysis, what really matters is how equal a country is, rather than how well off rich and poor are. But if this were true then why are so many people leaving countries like Pakistan – fractionally less unequal than Britain – in the belief that they will live better lives in the UK?

Because the IMF isn’t doing its job, and hasn’t for a while.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: Did I Get a DDos Attack From Russia? “At some point during yesterday’s diagnosis of my ongoing technical difficulties, the BlueHost technician asked if 185.122.204.37 was my IP, because there were something like 30,000+ hits from it that day. I verified it wasn’t mine, and that it wasn’t Instapundit (which had linked me that day), and did a reverse DNS lookup, which brought up the following: ‘185.122.204.37 appears to be located in Moscow, Russia and allocated to Chang Way Technologies Co. Limited.'”

LOYAL SHILLS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION: Politico “pre-boosting” Biden for the Hurricane.