OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s secretive reusable spaceplane lands after 267 days in orbit.

FASTER, PLEASE: Human Defenses Against Viruses First Evolved Billions of Years Ago, Study Suggests.

IMPRESSIVE:

If you’re tempted to lose faith in humanity, watch this: A sea of Brazilians gather in support of free speech after the banning of 𝕏 in that country. The human spirit longs for freedom. pic.twitter.com/3uiSe56ort

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 8, 2024

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Compare and contrast:

One of the most powerful acts of a courageous people is refusing to be part of a lie. https://t.co/2rH4IGJDWW

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 8, 2024

SKYNET STIRS: Scientists Combine Quantum Internet With Conventional Internet in Landmark Discovery.

TO BE FAIR, ECONOMISTS HAVE CORRECTLY PREDICTED SEVEN OF THE LAST FIVE RECESSIONS: A recession indicator with a perfect track record has started flashing this week.

Meanwhile, Janet Yellen is still hopeful for a “soft landing” but most Americans might wonder, “A soft landing from what?”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: AstroAI Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor Tire. #CommissionEarned

SENSORY DEPRIVATION: Study of older patients suggests 1 in 5 cases of dementia may be attributable to vision impairment. “Prior research has found that there may be a connection between hearing loss in aging people and the onset of dementia. In a new study, a team of health care researchers and geriatric specialists affiliated with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Michigan and the Duke University School of Medicine surveyed patient health care records and reported that approximately 1 in 5 cases of dementia could also be attributable to vision impairment in community-dwelling U.S. adults aged 71 years or older.”

ANALYSIS: FALSE.

A member of Iran's parliament admitted that Russia has received Iranian ballistic missiles to use in attacks on Ukraine. When asked about potential sanctions for sending missiles to Russia, he responded, "It can't get worse. We provide missiles to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Hashd… pic.twitter.com/4EPXb1MMY1

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) September 8, 2024

There was a time — from roughly 2017 through Jan. 20, 2021 — when Iran was too heavily sanctioned to get into this kind of mischief.

A SHORT RANGE VEHICLE IS A GOOD USE OF EV TECHNOLOGY: First Drive: The Electric Moke Is a Cracking Good Time.

REMEMBER, ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS: Florida Deputy’s Sig P320 Sold For $40 On Cash App After Being Found In Restroom.

What, is he trying to join the Capitol Police?

WOEING: Why the return of Boeing’s Starliner is a hollow victory for crisis-hit company: There is a wider culture problem at Boeing, with staff leaving in droves for the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin, experts say.

When you take a company that’s about engineering, and turn it over to accountants and MBAs, things go badly.

DON’T GET COCKY: The New York Times Writes Eulogy for Kamala’s Momentum.

On top of that, despite Kamala branding her candidacy as a “new way forward,” Cohn says that Trump, not Kamala, is “seen as the change candidate in a nation that wants change.”

While President Biden’s departure from the race lifted the spirits of many Democrats, the national mood still isn’t great. An overwhelming majority of voters still say that the economy is poor and that the nation is heading in the wrong direction. And a clear majority — 61 percent — of voters say they want the next president to bring a “major change” from Mr. Biden, compared with 34 percent who want “minor change” and 3 percent who don’t want change.

In the poll, only 40% of likely voters view Kamala Harris as representing “change,” while 55% see her as offering “more of the same.” In contrast, 61% of voters perceive Donald Trump as representing “change,” with just 34% saying he embodies “more of the same.”

Cohn tries hard to give Democrats hope, but there’s no way to spin this poll as anything but bad news for Kamala Harris.

More from Jeffrey Blehar at NRO’s Corner: The New NYT/Siena Poll Hammers Home the Reality that Harris Is Running Out of Gas.

The most interesting number in the poll — the one that may tell the tale in November — came from NYT/Siena’s questions to likely voters: (1) Do you want a “major change” in this election? (2) Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, which candidate “represented a major change” from Biden? On the first, over 60 percent said yes — a staggering number. And then in answer to question 2, only 25 percent of likely voters said Kamala Harris represented that change. Fifty-three percent said Trump did.

The ruse isn’t working. The media can try to continue selling Harris as a “fresh start,” but voters are smart enough not to buy it for a second — if for no other reason than that she utterly refuses to tell voters what she actually is for in any way they are allowed to query. Voters want change, and if the race remains where it is now, they are about get it in the strangest way possible: heading back to the future with Donald Trump.

If you want “major change,” why would you vote for the vice president who’s currently in power?

But yeah, don’t get cocky. As Glenn wrote in July, “If you’re not donating and volunteering to phone-bank and drive people to the polls, then you’re not in this race. No, commenting on blogs doesn’t count.”

UNHEEDED WARNINGS: Mother of Mass Shooting Suspect Called High School with Warning.

AN ENDORSEMENT TOO FAR FOR KAMALA: George W. Bush Will Not Be Endorsing a Presidential Candidate This Cycle.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “Nothing is ever meant to get solved…What’s important the marching, shouting, controlling, the self importance and the power:”

And the reliance on DoorDash. Don’t forget about that:

BERNIE SAYS THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD:

Welker: "Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?"

Bernie: "No… I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election."

Oops, you weren't supposed to say that part out loud!pic.twitter.com/IKKbmGW5YA

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2024

During the Obama era, Jim Geraghty was fond of saying that “All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.” Kamala never explicitly walks backs her earlier promises to ban everything (plastic straws, cars, fracking, the police, whatever is the subject of the left’s two minute hate du jour), so one can safely assume some or most of these are still her goals.

KEEP KILLING HAMAS UNTIL IT HAPPENS. Hundreds of thousands march across Israel to demand return of hostages.

Unconditional surrender, baby, just like in WWII and the American Civil War.

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Push the Button. Remembering Evel Knievel and his Snake River Canyon jump 50 years ago:

Imagine being in such a situation as Knievel was then, knowing that the X-2 would likely fail—it had failed its two tests—and going through with it anyway. He had created an epic around his canyon jump, built a whole career on it, really, and now it was time to face the deed. He’d even gotten Bob Arum, the boxing promoter managing the event, to agree to a ruse: posing at a press conference with a fake check for $6 million, supposedly Evel’s purse. (In reality, his g