AT LEAST: NASA’s Mega-Rocket Launch Delayed at Least a Month After Engine Leaks.

BRITAIN GETS READY FOR LIZ MANIA!

People desperately want grounds for optimism and Truss’s growth agenda at least aims to do that. Moreover, the widespread and strangely intense contempt for Truss is a great asset for her politically, as anyone who understands the British can grasp.

As Gareth Roberts noted here, Truss’s woodenness is her strength. In the UK, we tend to form ironic attachments to public figures we feel are publicly awkward or even a bit crap. She isn’t polished or slick. She is awkward in a way that most people are.

She also inspires a particularly unpleasant form of clever-clever loathing that will make fair-minded people warm to her. She tends to make her enemies so angry they overreach and sound unhinged. It’s here perhaps that comparisons with Thatcher are apt.

The comedian Joe Lycett may have won lots of attention and some more fans for his mockery of Truss on television on Sunday. But most people will have seen his performance for what it was: a smug twerp in a stupid yellow shirt thinking he was better than everyone.

The attacks on Truss get much more vulgar from there. In contrast, one woman is already enjoying Liz Mania! to the fullest: Stop tweeting @liztruss your congratulatory messages. That’s not Britain’s new PM.

After Liz Truss was announced as the winner of her Conservative Party’s leadership vote on Monday — and officially appointed by Queen Elizabeth the following day — constituents, politicians and world leaders took to Twitter to share their reactions and messages to Britain’s newest prime minister.

Some of them tried to get her attention by including the handle @LizTruss. But rather than tagging the U.K. leader, who actually uses the handle @trussliz, they reached a woman named Liz Trussell. And, to the delight of many spectators, she’s having fun with it.

When one user erroneously tagged her in a tweet announcing Truss’ win, Trussell replied, “Gonna be busy.” On another announcing the vote tally, she commented, “Yay! Go me!!!”

Even Sweden’s prime minister wasn’t safe from the confusion. On Monday, her account mistakenly tagged Trussell in a congratulatory tweet (which has since been deleted and reposted with the right tag) emphasizing cooperation between the two countries.

“Looking forward to a visit soon!” Trussell responded. “Get the Meatballs ready.”

Heh, indeed.

LOOK AT THIS HEADLINE ABOUT THIRD-WORLD CALIFORNIA:

Nope, not even close.

A record heat wave is pushing California’s electric grid up against the point of failure this week, with officials pointing to climate change for putting continued stress on the system.

The California grid is only overworked because leftist politicians have been pushing toward energy policies that make zero sense for decades.

• Shut down nuclear plants? Check.
• Push solar and wind infrastructure that can’t sustain diddly squat in order to appear hip and cool? Check.
• Disincentivize the repair of aging power lines that tends to fail or spark and cause hundreds of wildfires by pushing companies to invest in green energy instead of maintaining current infrastructure? Check.

The California energy problem is man-made. It has nothing to do with climate change.

But it does have much to do with “California’s Potemkin Environmentalism:” No State Imports More Electricity Than California.

Even during the Schwarzenegger era, Max Schultz of City Journal, who coined the above phrase, noted that California’s “celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.” And California’s man-made energy woes have only gotten worse since.

THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: Editorial: Beneath campaign nastiness, legitimate concerns about Fetterman’s health.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has acknowledged his obvious struggles with “auditory processing” and speech, but the persistence of those struggles has contrasted with the campaign’s rosier predictions of a return to the rigors of campaigning, including debating his opponent, Mehmet Oz.

If Mr. Fetterman is not well enough to debate his opponent, that raises serious concerns about his ability to serve as a United States senator.

Related: Salena Zito: The truth about John Fetterman.

On May 13, just days before the May party primary here in the Keystone State, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman suffered a stroke while on the campaign trail in Lancaster in his run for his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.

As reporters and supporters noticed his absence, his campaign released a statement saying he had been hospitalized over that weekend after suffering a stroke caused by a clot from his heart during an episode of atrial fibrillation.

In the statement, Fetterman said: “The good news is I’m feeling much better and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery.”

The family referred to the medical incident as a “bump in the road.”

The public was told he would be back at the beginning of July. That moved to mid-July, then to August. With each change, no updates on his condition were made available to the press or the public.

The political ads he ran most of the summer had been recorded before the stroke. And although a flurry of Tweets did come from his account at a brisk pace, none of them provided a doctor’s update on his condition. Rather, they all centered on where his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, had lived prior to 2020.

It is not clear if Fetterman does all of his own tweets or if staff do them as well. His campaign staff did not provide an answer to that question by deadline.

When Fetterman returned to the public forum in Erie, the stroke went from “a bump in the road” to him saying, “I almost died,” leaving open the delicate question of what is the extent of his illness, with no one to date offering that answer.

It was later revealed that the stroke required surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator because he had a serious heart condition, one that neither reporters nor voters nor his most ardent supporters knew he had.

His teleprompter reading skills are approaching Brandon’s Trunalimunumaprzure territory:

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— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 6, 2022

UH, CHINA. The World’s First Needle-Free COVID Vaccine Just Got Approved in China.

I’VE WONDERED WHY BANKS ARE ALWAYS BUILDING BRANCHES: Here are some observations. “Bank branches exist to sell new accounts.”

THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS THAT THEY’RE FLEEING SHITTY URBAN GOVERNANCE BY SHITTY DEMOCRATIC URBAN GOVERNMENTS: The Atlantic: What’s Causing Black Flight?

Where did all the Black people go? If you live in an urban neighborhood and don’t spend your free time looking at the U.S. census, you might ask yourself this question, puzzled by the dissonance between the evidence of your eyes and your vague sense that most Black people live in cities, right? . . .

To make this stereotype work in the 21st century requires overlooking one key fact: Black families have been absconding from cities for decades. In a recent paper, the economists Alex Bartik and Evan Mast note that over the past 50 years, the share of the Black population living in the 40 most populous central cities in the U.S. fell from 40 percent to 24 percent. They are not the first to highlight this phenomenon. Demographers and sociologists in particular have been noting this trend for decades. As the Brookings Institution demographer William Frey has documented, from 2000 to 2010, the Black population of the central cities in America’s 100 largest metro areas decreased by 300,000. Detroit, Chicago, and New York (prime destinations during the Great Migration) as well as Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles all saw declines in their Black populations.

Note that this obvious answer is not addressed in the article.

DEAL OF THE DAY: NEXPOW Portable Power Station. #CommissionEarned

WASTED YOUTH: Students these days “don’t have a big relationship to their hands. I’ve had to show them how to cut a circle out of paper. You keep the scissors there and you move the paper like this, and they’re like, ‘What?’ There’s so much dexterity that they, by and large, do not have.”

“They start keyboarding in Kindergarten.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bear goes for a swim in California home’s backyard pool.

HMM: Embalmers Are Making Shocking Discoveries in the Blood of the Dead.

JIM TREACHER: How Long ‘Til California Runs Out of Juice? And not the orange kind.

FOR WHEN A GUN IS TOO MUCH: 5 Great Pepper Spray Options.

LAUGHING WOLF’S NUCLEAR WAR PRIMER CONTINUES WITH Nuclear 201: Targeting, Take 2.

EVERYTHING’S GOING SWIMMINGLY:

● Russia is running out of high tech parts and is now reduced to buying weapons from North Korea.

● Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Building That Stores ‘Radioactive Waste’ Damaged, U.N. Watchdog Finds.

● Russia Will Not Resume Nord Stream Gas Flow Until Sanctions Are Lifted.

Regarding that last item: Karine Jean-Pierre refers to the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline as the “Nordstrom” pipeline.

THAT SEEMS WISE: Poland Will Have a Large and Modern Tank Army.

HOW IT STARTED:

This is NEWS AND NOTES. I’m Ed Gordon. On today’s Roundtable, Senator Biden’s slave state – will it help him if he runs in ’08? And Kofi Annan booed in Beirut.

Joining us from out New York bureau is Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, and E.R. Shipp, distinguished professor of journalism at Hofstra University School of Communication. Also with us, Callie Crossley, social and cultural commentator on the television show Beat the Press, which is seen in the Boston area. She joins us as she gets that last-minute vacation in from Martha’s Vineyard. We appreciate you interrupting that, Callie.

E.R., let me start with you. The idea of – and we wanted to take a broad-based look at Dems as they move to ’08. A lot of talk about Hillary Clinton. But as we see others either quietly – like John Edwards – readying themselves, if you believe that he’s going to run, or others laying groundwork. John Kerry has suggested that he’s ready to go, and now has made claims which he backed away from immediately that perhaps Ohio didn’t do him right by virtue of voter intimidation.

We also hear now from Senator Joe Biden of Delaware when he talks about whether or not a northern liberal can be something that’s palatable to Southern voters. He said this on Fox News.

“You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state, my state is a border state, my state has the either largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state. We see Joe Biden embracing the fact that it was a slave state.”

Professor E.R. SHIPP (Professor of Journalism, Hofstra University): Yes. This -between Kerry and Biden, it seems like this is an episode of the Democrats version of Desperate Housewives; we just call it desperate politicians. With Kerry, he should’ve raised the issue back in 2004. And the particulars of the vote count then have been challenged and so far upheld. But what he’s doing now is pandering to try to raise money for the Democratic candidate in the race in Ohio.

But Biden sounds like he’s – he’s an interesting character – but it sounds like he’s basically saying, I had more slaves than you did. Delaware was just a slave state. I mean it was like – it’s ridiculous on his face. But he’s been known to have difficulties with expressing himself verbally.

Remember way back when when he gave this very heartfelt off-the-cuff speech about labor and all of that, and it was really plagiarizing a speech that had been given by a British politician earlier. So Biden – and he also was found guilty of plagiarizing in law school. Got an F in a class that he had to retake.

So he’s had difficulty with words, so who knows what he really wanted to say, but it didn’t come across well.

—“Roundtable: Slavery in Delaware; Heckling Annan,” NPR, August 30th, 2006.

How it’s going: Perhaps NPR is tacitly answering the question of what Biden wanted to say back then, particularly based on the administration’s Nazi and CCP-inspired “Dark Brandon” meme, which featured into last week’s disastrous optics: Biden’s so-white historians may miss crucial points on saving democracy.

—NPR, Sunday.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: “Lehman Event” Looms For Europe As Energy Companies Face $1.5T In Margin Calls.

Just the predictably disastrous consequences of green energy policies.

CYBORG WIFE, YES. CYBORG COCKROACH, NO. Robo-bug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach.

REDSTATE EDITOR-AT-LARGE KIRA DAVIS IS RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD IN ORANGE COUNTY and could use your support.

VOTERS REJECT BIDEN’S SPEECH-FROM-HELL: New survey by Trafalgar Group of 1,084 like voters finds 62.4 percent of Independents and 56.8 percent of respondents overall view the Biden Philadelphia oration as “a dangerous escalation of rhetoric that is designed to incite conflict among Americans.” Only 18.7 percent of Democrats so viewed the speech.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Remember, Biden’s own press secretary says that if you disagree with the majority, you’re an extremist!

HOW IT STARTED:

“We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all over the world who call Chicago their home. They’ll continue to do that, and we’re going to continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants and we want them to come to the city of Chicago.”

—“Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot Says Immigrants ‘Welcome’ Despite Donald Trump’s Remarks on Sanctuary Cities,” Newsweek, April 13th, 2019.

How it’s going: Chicago Asking for Help After Texas Sends Over…100 Migrants to IL.

—Julio Rosas, Townhall, today.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Outdated research on HRT is letting people down.

I DON’T WANT MALARIA: The brain can detect infection with malaria.

GUT UND HART, GERMANY: Germany Rules Out Keeping Nuclear Power On Despite Energy Crisis.