VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Did Sneaky Jake Tapper Try to Rig an Election?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is it OK for a journalist like Jake Tapper to interfere in an election?

Answer: It’s never OK. Unless maybe it’s an election year or they want to or something.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

Vote-by-mail is perfectly safe, as you can see by these dicarded bags full of mail.

Has Bill Clinton been neutered?

We say goodbye to a childhood hero.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

TODAY’S NON-SHOCKING HEADLINE: Biden lead evaporates in Texas.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: We’re Open for Labor Day and the Rioters Are Still Morons. “The nightly scenes from Portland are probably the most effective Trump-Pence 2020 ads possible. Let these paste-eaters keep destroying this God-forsaken commie hellhole and themselves along the way. You know it’s awful there because the MSM has been working overtime to convince us otherwise. One of the safest bets these days is to assume that the opposite of what MSM hacks are saying is true.”

DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: A Violent August in N.Y.C.: Shootings Double, and Murder Is Up by 50%.

Mister, they could use a man like Rudy Giuliani again.

SOLD! Facebook paying users to delete accounts ahead of November.

The effort is part of a new research project Facebook announced in an Aug. 31 blog post to “better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviors during the U.S. 2020 elections.”

“We’d like to know how much you’d need to be paid in for deactivating your Instagram account…in late September for either [one] week or [six] weeks,” an Instagram notice to users reads in a screenshot Dwoskin posted to Twitter. “To participate, you must be willing to deactivate your account for both time periods and not use Instagram during that time.”

It isn’t a very good business model, but I approve of it more than their current one.

VIDEO: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets. “Representatives of the Biden family have denied any connection between the vice president’s visit and Hunter’s business. However, a BHR representative told The New Yorker earlier this year that Hunter used the opportunity to introduce his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li, who became CEO of BHR after the deal’s conclusion.”

Click on over.

LONGTERM, THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO STOP ELECTING THUGS: Cuomo’s and de Blasio’s COVID Discrimination Cost New York Restaurants $2B, Lawsuit Claims.

WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: We’re Begging You Not to Nurse the Nurse Sharks.

THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP:

UPDATE: From the comments:

The military story is battlefield prep for the Democrats to steal the military votes.
Voter fraud all the way.

Stay tuned for the MSM stories about how Trump’s support from vets is plummeting and Joe’s support from vets is skyrocketing.

Sounds plausible.

YUGE: Trump Administration Brokers Serb-Kosovo Deal — With Normalized Israel Relations.

I’m so old I still remember when Trump was a foreign policy bumbler who was going to get us into a bunch of new foreign wars.

DON’T GET COCKY: Biden-Harris Have a Big Problem in Pennsylvania.

Two months ago, Donald Trump’s numbers in Pennsylvania didn’t look good. Now, given this sudden grassroots groundswell, I’m convinced Biden is the one in trouble. That’s no B.S. And it’s Biden’s leftward lurch that has hurt him, especially with the highly ill-advised pick of Kamala Harris, who folk in this area see as a West Coast leftist whose “progressive” bona fides include an unwavering opposition to fracking.

Yes, fracking. Do not underestimate the significance of that issue to this region, and to the kind of guys posting the signs I’m describing. These guys are not white-collar businessmen. No, these are the blue collar, big labor, union hardhats that the Democratic Party once owned. They are totally for Trump.

Trump’s blue-collar appeal is, if anything, even greater than Reagan’s was.

POSTMODERN PROBLEMS: Hair salon forced to remove job ad because it said they’re looking for a ‘happy, friendly stylist’ and that’s ‘discriminatory’ against unhappy people.

OH: Joe Biden Accused of Groping Breast of Secret Service Agent’s Girlfriend During 2009 Photo-Op. “According to the report, an unidentified Secret Service agent was suspended for a week after the incident for shoving the vice president ‘after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him’.”

Much more at the link.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Flashback: Democrat Makes #MeToo Claim Against Joe Biden: He Smelled Me and Kissed My Head. “Flores said that pictures of Biden touching other women inappropriately made it more difficult to keep silent, referring to Biden nuzzling the neck of Secretary of Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s wife, kissing Sen. Chuck Grassley’s wife on the lips, whispering in women’s ears, and snuggling women on the campaign trail.”

Flashback: It’s time to talk about former Vice President Joe Biden, the open sexual predator.

Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents:

“Agents say that, whether at the vice president’s residence or at his home in Delaware, Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude,” Kessler writes in the book – due for release Aug. 5.

“Female Secret Service agents find that offensive,” he writes.

“Biden likes to be revered as everyday Joe,” an unnamed agent told Kessler. “But the reality is no agents want to go on his detail because Biden makes agents’ lives so tough.”

Plus: Washington Post: What Are We Going To Do About Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?

And: ‘Creepy Veep’ Joe Biden ‘nuzzles’ wife of colleague and claims he is friends with lots of Somali cab drivers.

Also: Joe Biden’s Woman-Touching Habit.

Related: Talking Points Memo: Why Does Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Get A Pass From Liberals?

Plus:

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: New Tapes Show Salon Owner Luring In Unsuspecting Pelosi With Her Favorite Ice Cream.

PEACE: The UAE-Israel Deal Spells Big Trouble For Iran. “The UAE deal is the first in a generation, ending a 26-year long dry spell. It’s also the first with one of the six Gulf Arab states that sit directly on Iran’s doorstep. The Emirates, whose population (minus expatriates) might, with some creative accounting, approach one fortieth the size of Iran’s, acted in brazen defiance of the Tehran-led resistance camp on an issue—peace with the Zionist entity—absolutely central to the Islamic Republic’s ideological creed. Talk about a lack of fear or respect for Iranian power. You couldn’t do better than the videos of beaming Emirati children celebrating the Israeli delegation’s arrival by waving the Jewish state’s flag alongside balloons decked out in blue and white, its national colors.”

Read the whole thing.

Trump will never get the credit due to him for undoing all the damage Barack Obama did to the Middle East by enriching and emboldening Iran, precisely because the damage was caused by Barack Obama.

IS THAT ALL? Here Are 31 Times The Media Pushed Narratives Downplaying Riots And Looting After George Floyd’s Death.

CHANGE? Black Pastors Demand Nike Drop the ‘Anti-Christian’ Marxist Black Lives Matter Movement.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Death Comes to Portland (Redux), Plus the Last Word on Nancy’s Hair.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When do antifa thugs recoil from violence?

Answer: When it is used against a stone-cold killer who happens to be one of their own.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

Joe Biden explores for gas.

Rich white feminist oppresses a black man, because justice.

The very last word on Nancy Pelosi’s hair, we promise.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

FIGHT FOR FIFTEEN: Storelift launches autonomous convenience stores using AI and computer vision.

TALCOLM X, TAKE NOTE: ‘I Absolutely Cancel Myself’: George Washington University Professor Apologizes For Pretending To Be Black. “A George Washington University professor has apologized for pretending to be black, admitting Thursday in a Medium blog post that she is a white Jewish woman from Kansas.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: ‘The Atlantic’ Barfs Up 2020’s Worst Trump Hit Piece Yet. “The whole article is pathetic. Goldberg pretends to be legitimately curious about Trump’s patriotism but the whole thing reads like something a drunk BuzzFeed intern wrote after his daddy told him he was disappointed again.”

LEGALIZED LAWLESSNESS: Maine Dem Campaign Staffers Helped Bail Out Violent Criminals.

At least seven staffers for Maine Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon donated to a bail fund that releases looters and other violent criminals from jail.

Gideon’s staffers posted on social media about their donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a group that pays criminal bail for protesters and looters regardless of whether they were violent or which crimes they committed. The donations came after individuals involved with anti-police demonstrations began looting and burning businesses in Minneapolis.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund has said it does not consider individuals’ charges before bailing them out. “I will see [the charges] after I pay the bill because it is not the point,” Greg Lewin, the fund’s interim executive director, said of the group’s efforts. “The point is the system we are fighting.”

At least he’s honest, I suppose.

HEH: These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat.

On Monday, Dana Simmons came downstairs to find her 12-year-old son, Lazare, in tears. He’d completed the first assignment for his seventh-grade history class on Edgenuity, an online platform for virtual learning. He’d received a 50 out of 100. That wasn’t on a practice test — it was his real grade.

“He was like, I’m gonna have to get a 100 on all the rest of this to make up for this,” said Simmons in a phone interview with The Verge. “He was totally dejected.”

At first, Simmons tried to console her son. “I was like well, you know, some teachers grade really harshly at the beginning,” said Simmons, who is a history professor herself. Then, Lazare clarified that he’d received his grade less than a second after submitting his answers. A teacher couldn’t have read his response in that time, Simmons knew — her son was being graded by an algorithm.

Simmons watched Lazare complete more assignments. She looked at the correct answers, which Edgenuity revealed at the end. She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. And she decided to game it.

You can probably guess what happened next.

CHANGE? AG Barr urges antitrust filing against Google in a few weeks.

Previously: Hotel Googlefornia. “Hill didn’t just stop using Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Waze, etc., she got “the help of a Motorola engineer who designed a custom VPN (virtual private network) that restricted all of her devices — laptops, phones, smart speakers, everything — from talking to Google servers.” The result? It pretty much broke her access to the internet.”

BLUE CITY BLUES: While Queen Nancy Pelosi flouts lockdown orders to get her hair did, here’s how people in her district are living.