THE ENEMY ALWAYS GETS A VOTE: An F-35 pilot’s take on the only ‘stealth fighter’ lost in combat.

COLD WAR II: China amassing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons.

CRY ME A RIVER: Antifa ‘Commander’ Collapses Crying Into the ‘Fetal Position’ When Arrested. “We have seen the enemy, and he is a wuss.”

NOT TO MENTION THE DIRECTION OF ESPN: Former ESPN Reporter Says ‘Direction Of Country’ ‘Impacted’ His Decision To Move Back To Fox News.

BATTLESWARM BLOG: The Totalitarian Epistemological Closure of Social Justice. “I have this ginormous post on Social Justice that just keeps getting bigger and bigger, with more and more links, and I’ll never finish it unless I start breaking it down into smaller chunks. So this post focuses on two meaty pieces about the theoretical underpinnings of Social Justice, and how it suffers from epistemological closure.”

It’s a good read.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Josh Denny Shares Full Story Behind Being ‘Canceled’ by Woke Mob. “The companies are now just firing people because they don’t like their beliefs.”

VICTORIA TAFT WITH AN EXCLUSIVE: Case of Portland Man Who Defended Himself Against Antifa Mob Heads to Supreme Court.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Seattle Burns, Biden Spurns.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When is cowardice the better part of valor?

Answer: When it involves a Democratic presidential nominee, silly.

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

Seattle’s peaceful protestors peacefully attempt to burn cops to death.

Matt Yglesias is still the world’s worst and most desperate gaslighter.

Mr. Trump Goes to Kenosha (but Mr. Biden won’t).

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

NO. ANYTHING ELSE? China tells US to stop building relationship with Taiwan after economic dialogue announcement.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Tony Baltimore School Buckles to Anti-Semitic Demands of Black Lives Matter Activists. “Letter to historically Jewish school denounces ‘parasites,’ ‘wealth hoarding,’ and ‘Zionism.’

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Democrats Can’t Go 1 Full Day Without Being Completely Insane. “The notion that the ‘values’ that ‘DC residents hold dear’ are now even dancing in the vicinity of canceling George Washington is all you need to know about how far afield the woke American Democrats have gone.”

FOR THE CHILDREN™: New York City delays start of school year amid pressure from teachers union.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Teen Vogue pushes young people one step closer to socialism.

Teen. Vogue.

GEORGE BARTLE: Beijing’s Strategic Ends: Harmony Through Hierarchy and the End of Choice.

Returning U.S. analytical models to a historically grounded understanding of China’s goals and methods refocuses efforts along a path that accepts China as being Chinese, not something that can be molded into a Western partner or that can be fully understood through Western political science theories. According to the neo-liberal and neo-realist theoretic perspectives guiding U.S. foreign policy, Chinese paradigms of empire, tribute, and vassalage had been relegated to the past, and therefore could be sublimated through a rules-based order governed by U.S.-created and led multilateral institutions. However, neo-liberal ideology failed to grasp that while the People’s Republic of China is a modern nation-state, it also maintains attributes of an ancient empire. This is not to say that China wants to abolish the current system or upend a rules-based order. Rather, Beijing seeks to bend global rules so they conform to its own worldview in an effort to define and direct international behavior, norms, and rituals.

Ultimately, a Stalinist-infused neo-tributary approach to international relations, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, seeks an end state where smaller countries are locked into a hierarchical relationship with Beijing—managed not just through hard power, but also deference and ritual—where freedom of choice and the ability to pivot between great powers give way to Beijing’s preferences. While Chinese academics have yet to coalesce around a single Sino-centric theory of international relations, one way of conceptualizing how Beijing achieves its strategic ends was articulated in a 2015 article by Su-Yan Pan and Joe Tin-Yao Lo, two scholars from the Hong Kong Institute of Education, who argued that China’s foreign policy is best understood through a neo-tributary framework that takes into account four core imperial concepts that continue to shape the Chinese Communist Party’s worldview.

Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.

SO START LICENSING MORE NUCLEAR REACTORS — AND LOTS OF THEM: Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change. “Soaring AC demand will threaten our power grids and accelerate global warming – unless we begin making major changes soon.”

HE ISN’T WRONG: Trump: ‘Joe Biden Has Given Moral Aid and Comfort’ to Rioters by Repeating ‘Peaceful Protests.’

FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE BABYLON BEE, IT’S ‘Not the Bee,’ your source for headlines that should be satire, but are not.

THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER: Portland Antifa Rioters Celebrate Mayor’s Birthday by Setting Off Fireworks at His Condo.

FINALLY: Japanese company successfully tests a manned flying car for the first time.

MAYBE HE JUST DOESN’T REMEMBER WHAT HE SAID BEFORE: Joe Biden Caught Flip-Flopping on Fracking in Pennsylvania.

CHARLES LIPSON: Joe Biden’s Three Risky Choices. “That Biden was willing to leave home on short notice, fly to a swing state, and speak out about the rioting is the clearest indication yet that the election is tightening. Discussing the violence is one of three big, difficult decisions Biden faces as the campaign heats up. Each entails significant risks for a candidate who must hold together a fractious coalition and avoid major gaffes.”

Lipson has some sharp analysis, but I’m still left with one question: Big decisions?

Biden can barely read other people’s words off a teleprompter.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: An End To Wokeness?

USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! Why is Dianne Feinstein helping the Chinese military?

FLASHBACK: When Black Lives Matter Portland Protesters Spectacularly Failed at Police Shoot/Don’t Shoot Training.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Joe Biden Hits the Campaign Trail, It Hits Back.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Remember when it was “up to you, New York, New York?”

Answer: Yeah, we can’t remember that far back, either.

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

White antifa ransack a black-owned business for racial justice.

Governor Granny Killer out on the town, sans mask.

And of course, more projectile word vomit from the alleged Democratic presidential nominee.

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