SLOW JOE: Joe Biden’s statement on the violence and riots is way too little, way too late.

It’s far too late for Democrats to pretend that they didn’t overtly advocate for and make excuses for this horror show. They’ve only changed their tune now because street violence, chaos, death, and fiery destruction are not exactly political winners — who knew?! That doesn’t mean we should forget that right up until last week, they thought and said that it was fantastic.

Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, said back in June that “everyone beware” because the protests are “not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”

Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts said in an interview on MSNBC, “There needs to be unrest in the streets.”

They were for the street violence before they were against it.

HARDBALL? Chinese government puts restrictions on TikTok sale ordered by Trump.

China on Friday introduced export restrictions on artificial intelligence technology, seemingly including the type that TikTok uses to choose which videos to spool up to its users. That means TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, would have to obtain a license to export any restricted technologies to a foreign company.

“This is clearly directed at slowing down ByteDance’s deal negotiations in this game of high stakes poker,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a research note. “With TikTok’s key algorithm at play, ByteDance/TikTok will likely now need to go through a licensing procedure around the need to transfer software code from China to the US,” he noted.

I guess instead of taking billions of dollars for their American operations, TikTok could just get shut down here completely.

Not exactly a power move on Beijing’s part, but what else have they got?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Media Won’t Be Able to Prop Up Drooling Train Wreck Biden for 2 More Months. “The Biden show gets tougher to watch each day, and the only people who seem to feel bad for him are conservatives and Republicans. The Democrats and his family are willing to let him keep embarrassing himself in pursuit of unseating ORANGE MAN BAD.”

NOPE, I STILL DON’T MISS NFL FOOTBALL: Seahawks’ Pete Carroll: ‘White People’ ‘Need To Be Educated’ About Racism.

Tickets don’t purchase themselves and there are plenty of other things to watch on TV.

USEFUL IDIOT? FELLOW TRAVELER? ON THE PAYROLL? YOU MAKE THE CALL! U.S. Universities Underreport Donations from Hostile Regimes by Over $1.5 Billion.

SURPRISED? Foundation With Biden Campaign Ties Funding Leftist Agitators On U.S. Streets.

Democratic presidential candidate-in-waiting Kamala Harris (before the internal polls turned sour) was promoting the Minnesota Freedom Fund (second item down) responsible for bailing out rioters and even a twice-convicted rapist.

COLD WAR II: Chinese researcher charged with destroying evidence relating to illegal transfer of US tech.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Chinese researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles for allegedly destroying evidence relating to a federal investigation into the possible illegal transfer of US technology to China.

The charged individual, Guan Lei, allegedly threw a hard drive into a dumpster nearby his US residence prior to attempting to board a flight to China.

The hard drive was recovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after Guan refused a request from the intelligence agency to examine his computer when he attempted to board a flight to China.

Following his refusal of the request, Guan was not allowed to board the flight.

He faces up to 20 years.

SHE’S FLAILING: Portland Commissioner Ties Deadly Shooting to ‘Perception’ of a Police ‘Alliance With White Supremacists.’

MY LATEST TECH PIECE FOR THE PJ MEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Apple Silicon and the End of Intel as We Know It. “Apple Silicon’s performance has implications far outside the comparatively tiny world of Mac buyers.”

This one is just for our PJMedia/Townhall VIP members. If you’ve been thinking of becoming a member, you can do so here — and don’t forget to use that VODKAPUNDIT discount code.

GET READY: More Spygate Docs Will Be Declassified Soon, Says DNI John Ratcliffe.

SPACE: SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday that was historic for two reasons. “The company required seven years to go from its first to its tenth launch. In seven more years SpaceX has gone from its 10th launch to its 100th.”

PETTY TYRANNY: L.A. County evicts John MacArthur’s Grace Church from parking lot lease held since 1975. “Since 1975, Grace Community has leased a large portion of its parking lot from the county. For unspecified reasons, the county’s Public Works Department has given the church until October 1st to evacuate the lot. All items that remain in the parking lot at that time will be taken as county property.”

Unspecified, but we can guess.

INSURRECTIONIST: ‘I Am 100% ANTIFA All the Way,’ Portland Shooting Suspect Said, Warning of ‘War’ to Come.

THERE’S REALLY ONLY ONE QUESTION REMAINING IN 2020: Are we doomed? Not if the ‘Monkey Busters’ can save the world.

WHO? BidenWatch for August 31, 2020. “Biden’s phony-baloney polls are running behind Hillary’s phony-baloney polls of four years ago, more China policy weakness, more anti-police rhetoric, and Slow Joe comes in many days and dollars short denouncing the antifa/#BlackLivesMatter riots.”

JEFF DUNETZ: Democrats Furious As DNI Moves To Block Disinformation Efforts Around Election Security Intelligence.

JEFF REYNOLDS: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Blames Trump for Deadly Shooting. “Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler gave a press conference on Sunday regarding the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter Saturday night. Wheeler bordered on insanity in his remarks, simultaneously blaming President Donald Trump for the violence and saying that not enough evidence existed to determine if the shooting was politically motivated. The chilling effect of his remarks was to imply, essentially, that Trump supporters had it coming.”

If you don’t want to get shot then keep your mouth shut, because freedom.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Death Comes to Portland.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: When do we get to drop the “mostly peaceful” fiction?

Answer: Today. Right now. That’s when.

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

• An old joke, revisited

• COVID-19 kills the walking dead and almost nobody else

• Introducing the mankini

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

HMM: Russian Navy Submarine Surfaces Off Alaska; Likely Same One That Fired Cruise Missile Earlier In Exercise. “The circumstances of the surfacing are unclear. It is not normal for submarines to come to the surface near another country’s coast. USNORTHCOM’s statements on Twitter raise questions as to whether something is wrong: ‘We have not received any requests for assistance from the Russian Navy or other mariners in the area. We always stand ready to assist those in distress.’ This may imply that there is an emergency aboard which the U.S. Navy is aware of.”

CHARMING: MSNBC Host Calls Black Speakers At RNC ‘A Modern-Day Minstrel Show.’

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Sorry Dems — ‘Trump’s America’ Is a Glorious Place. “The greatest indication of how effective Trump’s speech was is the reaction from the other side. The Democrats have been awash in flop sweat and panic from the moment President Trump wrapped up his star turn in a glorious fireworks frenzy last Thursday.”

MOSTLY PEACEFUL: ‘I’m Ready To Put These Police In The F**king Grave’: DC Protester Calls For More Violence.

GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Ubisoft to Remove Raised Black Fist Imagery from Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad Following Controversy. “Ubisoft has decided to remove the black raised fist imagery from Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad’s intro, as it has been deemed ‘insensitive and harmful’ and appears to connect a fictional terrorist group called Umbra to the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Yeah, so?

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DENY REALITY TO VOTE DEMOCRAT — BUT IT HELPS!

JOANNE JACOBS: Start class with racism reminder? “In Sane Advice for an Insane World, Kat Rosenfeld, Persuasion’s new advice columnist, responds to a professor whose ‘woke’ college is urging faculty to begin all classes ‘by acknowledging racism exists on campus to make students of color feel more comfortable.’ The prof thinks this sets the ‘wrong tone for teaching’.”

It sets the wrong tone for a lot of things.