KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: Kamala Harris at the DNC: Supersized Joe Biden: The vice president has come full circle to the very agenda that landed the president with rotten approval ratings.

Democrats rolled out Joe Biden late on the first night of their Chicago convention, eager to get his obligatory moment over before disappearing him until November. Yet it seems fitting Biden led the week, since everything but his face remains on the ballot. The Kamala Harris policy agenda has turned out to be nothing more than supersized Biden 2.0.

A month into her coronation, the Democratic nominee is finally fleshing out an agenda and has settled the big question of whether she’d revert to her 2020 progressive platform or chart any different path from Biden. Answer: a resounding no. She’s instead doubling down on the failing status quo. So much so that the Harris team didn’t even bother to put its stamp on the party platform, which was released in July under the expectation of a Biden renomination.

The campaign and press will continue to repackage her as “fresh,” but the policy substance is pure Biden redux–only wilder, spendier and more damaging.

Yeah, pretty much.

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WOKE IS BROKE: Corrupt Media Couldn’t Save ‘The Acolyte’ from Cancellation.

Modern journalists no longer share the news as it happens. They sculpt narratives based on their liberal biases, attacking readers along the way. It’s why serious journalists insisted video evidence of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline were mere “cheap fakes” created by evil Republicans to take down a leader destined to grace Mt. Rushmore.

They lied. And lied. And told Americans not to trust their eyes and ears. They knew better. Until a fateful presidential debate stopped their lies. Cold.

Something similar happened from a pop culture perspective.

Audiences rejected “The Acolyte” en masse. Viewers watched the first episodes and slowly but surely abandoned the series. The ratings drooped. The show’s sizable budget stayed the same.

Disney brass crunched some numbers and called it a series.

Heads need to roll at Disney-owned Lucasfilm but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

PUSHBACK WORKS: Jack Daniel’s renounces ‘woke’ agenda, latest iconic US brand to ‘bring sanity back’ to business. “Brown-Forman, the parent company of the Tennessee distiller, ‘preemptively announced,’ Starbuck wrote, that it was renouncing a series of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and left-leaning initiatives.”

THE CANDIDATE: Untested. Unprepared. Ready to Do As She’s Told on Day One.

FAUCI LIED! SAY IT AIN’T SO! Just The News is reporting that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit told the NIH that they don’t have the right to use keyword filter to block or delete social media comments that contain the words  “animal,” “testing,” or “cruel.”

Animal experimentation is at the heart of First Amendment and Freedom of Information Act litigation against the feds, with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently defeating NIH in court and Judicial Watch suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for stonewalling its requests for communications about an alleged COVID-19 coverup.

“NIH hid a comment by one of the animal-rights activists who sued as an individual, Madeline Krasno, on its Instagram post depicting a COVID-infected cell. She wrote: “It’s time we had an open conversation about all the animal testing you fund. What a waste of life and resources.”

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“The D.C. Circuit struck down NIH’s prohibition of “off-topic posts” by visitors to its Facebook and Instagram pages as implemented through “custom keyword filters” – which hid comments using NIH-chosen words, not platform-offered defaults, from the public – and instructed the lower court that upheld the speech restrictions to instead enter summary judgment for PETA.”

I know, it’s hard for me to cheer in anyway for the whack-a-doodles at PETA, but free speech and due process have to apply to whack-a-doodles, perhaps even more than anyone else. Politics and strange bedfellows, indeed.

The Good Professor and others have posted about this here, here and here.

THAT’S NICE. DON’T GET COCKY: Real Clear Politics just released their ‘No Toss-Up States’ electoral map and Trump is gonna love it.

HMM: Harris erases Trump’s cash edge while RFK Jr. faces dwindling resources, new filings show.

CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Jewish high school grads avoid Columbia amid anti-Israel protests.

Flashback: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

THEY CAN’T TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES PEOPLE CARE ABOUT BECAUSE THEY’VE SCREWED THEM ALL UP: CNN Contributor Drops Major Truth Bomb About the DNC’s Messaging. “When it comes to the issues that matter to people, the Democratic Party is curiously silent — so much so that a Democratic Chicago Councilman even blasted the DNC for not talking about the issues.”

YOU SPELLED “RISIBLE TRADITION” WRONG: UMass will teach ‘rich tradition’ of ‘transnational Black feminist’ and ‘queer Marxist theorizing.’

YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR HER PLATFORM TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT: Democratic congressman says give Kamala’s ‘fuzzy’ policies ‘some time.’

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, defended the recently announced fiscal policies of Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris, telling Just the News that her ideas are “going to be fuzzy” because she has only been a candidate for about one month.

Cleaver was confronted with the words of Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell who castigated Harris for introducing a left-wing fiscal policy when the Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, has called her a communist. “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?” was the headline of her piece op-ed piece.

“What are these ‘clear rules of the road’ or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes ‘excessive’? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification,” she wrote.

When asked about Harris’ price control plans, Cleaver suggested that Harris should be congratulated for being so vague.

She’s been running for president since 2019.

JEFFREY CARTER: The BLS and Jobs: Not a Miss of 25%, a LIE of 25%.

LOL:

It’s nice to see Bill Clinton up there speaking and not some impeached, womanizing rapist. #DNC2024

— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🥥Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) August 22, 2024

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: DEI In Decline Everywhere but Boeing and the DNC.“Now the United States of America is perilously close to a commie takeover all because of a DEI idea that went horribly awry.”

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BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY:

This is astonishing: https://t.co/HWkGXsOAcp

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 21, 2024

WE SHOULD ABOLISH IMMUNITY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, SO THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS CAN BE SUED: The Worm Turns: House, Senate Investigate TSA Surveillance of Tulsi Gabbard.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Making families cool again — not federal cash — will solve US ‘birth dearth.’

Related:

Exactly:

“And then it dawned on me that the declining birth rate is not just a simple math problem – it fundamentally de-incentivizes civilization to look forward.” https://t.co/peuUfAcI8N

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2024

LEFTIES HAVE IT WORST BUT DEPRESSION IS UP FOR EVERYBODY SINCE 2020:

"Depression increased the most among liberal young women, where it went from 15% in the late 2000s to 46% in 2021-22 — more than tripling in a little more than a decade."

— Jean Twenge pic.twitter.com/5VOeE2NIo5

— Paul Graham (@paulg) August 21, 2024

IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN, BUT THEY HAVE PRESS COVER SO IT’S OKAY:

“Walz misspoke about his military career, and the fertility treatments, and..” https://t.co/ieWCfJguNr

— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) August 21, 2024

Related:

Any brave journalist firefighters of truth wanna ask why the Kamala Kampaign has to keep explaining why Walz's lies are totally accidental in politically convenient ways? https://t.co/JS9PJmWvRG

— Sunny (@sunnyright) August 21, 2024

SO TYPICAL:

Here's a look at some of the houses owned by speakers at last night's Democratic National Convention who spoke out against inequality in America and urged voters to fight back against evil rich people like Donald Trump and his friends: pic.twitter.com/SGg6gUQKGT

— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) August 21, 2024

It’s unsurprising, though:

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN RAISING THESE QUESTIONS FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS: Russia’s Glacial Response to Ukraine’s Kursk Advance Raises Questions About Putin’s Hold on Power.

LIFE IN BIDEN/HARRIS’S JOYFUL AMERICA:

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize and it’s being used with impunity against American citizens on our own streets. This isn’t just a Jewish issue others can dismiss. It’s an American issue. https://t.co/6HeBbxWD7X

— Victoria Coates (@VictoriaCoates) August 21, 2024

And the terrorism, as is usually the case, is government-enabled.

FERTILITY CRISIS:

The collapsing birth rate is actually way worse than you think.

One of the biggest things I've realized since becoming a father 3 months ago is that I spend an obscene amount of time thinking about the future.

This is because I want my child to have the best possible place to…

— Farzad (@farzyness) August 21, 2024