I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM, BUT “FUSION TIPPED?” DAMN. First Look: Federal Fusion Tipped Ammunition.

SPACE: SpaceX announces first human mission to ever fly over the planet’s poles: The highest inclination flight by a human spacecraft to date is 65.1 degrees.

DO TELL: Long COVID continues to evade diagnosis through lab tests.

Flashback: Long COVID ‘indistinguishable’ from other post-viral syndromes a year after infection, researchers find.. “The term ‘long Covid’ should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses, according to a major new study from Australia released yesterday. The study showed that only 3 percent of people who had Covid had ‘moderate-to-severe’ aftereffects a year later – numerically fewer than those infected with influenza or other mild respiratory diseases.”

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE, GUYS? NASA watchdog finds quality control problems with Boeing SLS work.

WELL, YES: Boeing Has Become The Poster Child for Ruling-Class Incompetence. “It isn’t only the gimpy thrusters. The Starliner is blocking one of the ISS’s two docking ports. The geniuses who designed the capsule’s flight software set things up so that it cannot be undocked remotely, meaning that the only way to free up the docking port for now is for at least one astronaut to strap in and ride the deathtrap down. What makes this especially baffling is that during its uncrewed test flight, the Starliner was perfectly capable of autonomous docking. . . . So far Boeing has extracted about $4B from NASA for its faulty Starlemon, which is well behind schedule. SpaceX, meanwhile, has charged half that for the Dragon, which has made 20 successful flights to the ISS since its first crewed launch in 2020.”

“THAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A LAUGH LINE?” Well, these days yes, even to a Colbert audience.

Stephen Colbert: “I know you guys are objective over there (at CNN) that you just report the news as it is”

Kaitlan Collins: “That supposed to be a laugh line?”

Colbert: “It wasn’t supposed to be” pic.twitter.com/ZsqPinvMz3

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 13, 2024

AND VOIDS QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, WHICH IS HUGE: 2nd Circuit Rules Lawful Gun Ownership Doesn’t Justify a Warrantless Search. “No one will ever mistake the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for a gun-friendly bunch of jurists. So that should be a good indicator of just how egregious the violation of one man’s rights was that they have slapped down a cop for conducting a warrantless search of his car simply because he had a concealed carry permit and a gun. A three-judge panel also ruled that the cop in question isn’t entitled to qualified immunity because he so egregiously chose to violate the civil rights of someone without any discernible probable cause.”

VICTORY: Equality activists defeat attempt to reinstall affirmative action in California.

LOSERS ON PARADE: Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, and alumni arrested at anti-Israel encampment.

DON SURBER: The Great Walz of China.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: You can tell it’s a working-class election by Harris and Walz’s choice of lies.

ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE ARE ANGRY THAT TRUMP IS ALLOWED TO SPEAK, UNCENSORED: Here’s the Unhinged Email Sent by the Harris Campaign Attacking Elon Musk’s Trump Interview.

There was a time when that would have been thought unAmerican. Anyway, it was hardly Hitler stuff, though of course it never is.

President Trump has now been speaking with Elon Musk for an hour and a half.

They've talked about the economy, the border, foreign policy, artificial intelligence, nuclear war, education, you name it.

Kamala, meanwhile, still has not even released a platform or spoken off…

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 13, 2024

Plus, truth:

TRUMP: "Kamala wouldn't have this conversation. She can't! Because she's not smart…Biden…? He would've given up in the first half of a question…He would've said where am I? Where am I going?" pic.twitter.com/BMgXdCftUZ

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 13, 2024

GASLIGHTING 101: Liberal Media Scream: PBS anchor falsely claims ‘no evidence’ of Walz’s stolen valor.

Just the paperwork, statements from his fellow soldiers, commander, and chaplain. . . .

REMINDER: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

I WOULD SAY DON’T TELL THEM, BUT IT’S NOT LIKE THEY LISTEN TO ANYTHING WE SAY: Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn’t Even Know Exists. “So far, over 30 million people (and counting) have already plugged into Trump’s X conversation with Musk.”

I am amazed how these young girls who pretend at journalism so easily dismiss the voting bloc that don't bother to watch CNN or The Spew. https://t.co/fjM5BYv2PQ

— Jennifer Oliver O'Connell (@asthegirlturns) August 12, 2024

THEY’RE TWO-FACED, BUT ONLY ONE OF THOSE FACES IS REAL: ‘I Might Have to School Them a Little Bit’: Embattled Democratic Rep. Susan Wild Smears Conservative Constituents in Private While Publicly Embracing Moderate Views.

THIS REMAINS AN ENTIRELY THEORETICAL QUESTION: What Would Ruthless Republicans Do?

WELL, IT’S NOT LIKE ANYONE’S MAKING HER: Kamala ‘Unequivocally’ Supported Cutting the US Defense Budget. She Won’t Say Where She Stands Now.

HEH;

Tim Walz Clarifies That He Is Not Stealing Valor, Just Redistributing It https://t.co/wyCWwQpeSi pic.twitter.com/5yLMZyZxqT

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 12, 2024

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

'I Will Fix Things If You Vote Me Into Office,' Says Woman Currently In Office https://t.co/GJwsmfBvZg pic.twitter.com/hV3cmgSLnm

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 12, 2024

Plus:

The only correct response when Kamala Harris makes a campaign promise is:

Why don’t you just do it right now?

Don’t let anyone forget that this wildly unpopular administration and their wildly unpopular policies ARE HERS TO OWN.

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) August 12, 2024

OUCH:

David French Says To Save Masculinity, He Will Now Transition To Female https://t.co/lYIKDRUJ9i pic.twitter.com/ix3mUbnUua

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 12, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

DO TELL: NASA watchdog finds quality control problems with Boeing SLS work.

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: DDOS ATTACK ON X TO BLOCK TRUMP INTERVIEW.

There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.

Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

Yeah

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

The establishment is making its insecurity and lack of legitimacy apparent.

FLASHBACK, September, 2004: “The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there’s going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.”

That’s what’s happening with Kamala now. But it didn’t last before. Will it last now?