OF COURSE THEY DID: Devin Nunes Says Obama and Biden Knew About Spying on the Trump Campaign.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Turns the Tables on Civil Rights Commission With Appointment of J. Christian Adams.

Boom.

MATT MARGOLIS: Tucker Carlson Gets the Last Laugh in the Faux Controversy Over How To Pronounce ‘Kamala.’

UNBELIEVABLY SAD: ‘On the Brink’ of Economic Collapse: COVID-19 Response Is Killing the Restaurant Industry.

CRUEL, BUT FAIR:

THEIR LOYALTY WILL NOT BE FOUND WANTING:

Glenn is right: The infotainment industry — I refuse to keep calling it the news business — is a Democratic psyops operation against the American people.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Late Night Propaganda: Noah, Fallon and Colbert Hail Harris. “Biden’s VP selection sparks fresh wave of Trump ‘jokes’ from the usual suspects.”

I’m so old I remember when comedy was funny.

On reflection, that has me feeling quite old right now.

STACEY LENNOX: Who Stands to Benefit? Group Behind Occupy Wall Street Plans 50-Day ‘White House Siege.’

GOOD: Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church sue state of California, Gov. Newsom, Mayor Garcetti over church closure.

IT INCLUDES SOME VERY NICE FACTORY-INSTALLED OPTIONS: M1A2C Abrams Tank Hits The Field.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Steve Saleen Claims Chinese Joint Venture Has Stolen $800M Worth Of His Intellectual Property.

In 2016, Saleen entered a joint venture with the government of Rugao, a city in Jiangsu province with a population of roughly 1.4 million. The plan was for Saleen to use his experience, design, engineering and related technologies worth $800 million in the joint venture while maintaining a majority stake in the company with his American partners. Meanwhile, Rugao would bring $500 million in capital and $600 million in subsidized loans over three years to fund manufacturing sites and operations in exchange for a minority stake.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Saleen claims “the deal was a sham.” According to the racing legend, the joint venture applied for 510 Chinese patents based on his designs, technologies, trade secrets and engineering developments. He adds that most of these patent filings didn’t list him as an inventor. The company, known as Jiangsu Saleen Automotive Technologies (JSAT), unveiled a range of models 12 months ago.

Saleen asserts that the government of Rugao is attempting to take over the joint venture now that it has his intellectual property and patents. He claims that the director of corporate affairs for JSAT, Grace Yin Xu, has been missing since June 22 when she entered a government building shortly after refusing to lie to local law enforcement who wanted her to state Saleen’s business partner had provided false information and embezzled money. In addition, the company’s vice president of manufacturing, Frank Sterzer, was allegedly detained for six hours by the authorities.

Apparently the company and its IP have been effectively nationalized by the mainland Communist Chinese government.

This story is actually from last week, but seems to have slipped under a lot of radars.

THOSE SICK KIDS BETTER LEARN TO CHECK THEIR PRIVILEGE: Chicago Looters Intent on Their ‘Reparation’ Terrorized Sick Kids at Ronald McDonald House.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Wisconsin Mandates Masks for Zoom Calls, CNN’s Biden/Harris Switcharoo.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Do face masks prevent the spread of computer viruses?

Answer: Certain Wisconsin officials seem to think so.

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

• Joe Biden is ready to be a great (former) president from Day One.

• Control the language, control the virus.

• Math is unkind to Democrats, socialists, progressive, and other demagogues.

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

TAKE ALL THE THINGS: Kamala Harris Brings Gun Confiscation Support to Dem Presidential Ticket.

FOR THE CHILDREN OR WHATEVER: Woke War on America’s No. 1 High School: Push to ‘Segregate by Race and Income.’

Last month, Suparna Dutta spent countless hours researching how her son could safely return to school this fall as a rising sophomore at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a sprawling campus of classrooms, laboratories and open spaces with names like “Gandhi Commons” and “Einstein Commons,” outside the nation’s capital here off Braddock Road. Little did she know that a secretive “task force” assembled by orders of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was quietly meeting to discuss legislating radical changes to the school that would threaten the very future of the school.

Unbeknownst to Dutta — and me, also a TJ mother — Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni, a former teacher, met remotely on Friday, July 24, with a carefully curated list of Democratic lawmakers, state education officials and others in a “Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Group” to make recommendations to the Virginia State Legislature on how to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and low-income students at the state’s 19 Governor’s Schools, specialized public school programs with admissions requirements. The group met again on Friday, July 31, and last week on Friday, August 7, and is expected to issue its recommendations in the coming days.

In its final meeting last week, the group weighed several options that would gut TJ’s merit-based, race-blind admissions process and replace it with standards that they even admitted in their private meetings would essentially be race-based.

Plus: “They set their sights on the school’s mostly Asian and mostly immigrant student body and vowed to change the demographics of the school.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Will Kamala Kill the Progressive Vote in 2020? “If the Biden-Harris 2020 ticket is going to appeal to progressives, Kamala Harris is going to have to vigorously and publicly disavow almost everything that she did before she was elected to the Senate. There may be enough Orange Man Bad fever out there make the progressives sing Kumbaya on election day, but that’s not likely given the taste of blood that they’ve gotten in recent months.”

AB5 FALLOUT: Uber CEO Says Its Service Will Probably Shut Down Temporarily in California If It’s Forced to Classify Drivers as Employees. “Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday that his Plan B if Uber can’t win on appeal would be to temporarily pause service in California. While he said Uber would later resume service in the state, it would likely be more centered in cities, which could mean limited availability in less concentrated areas like suburbs.”

ASHE SCHOW: Judge Denies Blue State AG’s Attempts To Deny College Students Due Process. “Judge Carl J. Nichols – a President Donald Trump appointee – denied the AGs motion to block the new Title IX regulations. The AGs made numerous arguments against the new regulations, including the fact that the new regulations provide due process to accused students. As The Daily Wire previously reported, the lawsuit filed by the AGs claimed the new rules would ‘reverse decades of effort to end the corrosive effects of sexual harassment on equal access to education,’ ignoring the fact that denying due process makes it easier for false accusations to limit access to education and does nothing to stop actual sexual harassment.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Chicago Neighborhood Ejects BLM Protesters At Police Station. “Englewood may set the tone for dealing with rioters for the rest of the summer. After the organized pillaging this weekend on the Magnificent Mile, the city of Chicago toughened up their security stance. Black Lives Matter protesters and others set their sights on the Englewood neighborhood’s police precinct, but residents there pushed them out — literally.”

DECOUPLING: Foxconn says trade war means China can no longer be ‘the world’s factory.’

Foxconn, which has just reported second quarter profits 34% up from last year, is now said to believe China’s manufacturing supremacy is over.

According to Bloomberg, the chair of Foxconn’s parent Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, says that the company is planning to move ever more manufacturing away from China. Young Liu said it was specifically to avoid the escalating tariffs on Chinese-made goods intended for the US.

“No matter if it’s India, Southeast Asia or the Americas, there will be a manufacturing ecosystem in each,” he Liu said. Reuters reports that he added that China will still remain a key part of its production, but the country’s “days as the world’s factory are done.”

Reportedly, the current proportion of Foxconn manufacturing made outside China is now 30%. In June 2019, it was 25%.

Faster, please.

OH: Portland Antifa Mayor Candidate Can’t Bring Herself to Condemn ‘Attempted Murder’ in Violent Riots.

TODAY AT 3:30pm EASTERN: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Bryan Preston.

There will be cocktails.

PAINFUL: The 10 Most Cringeworthy Kamala Harris Endorsements.

GREAT MOMENTS IN WOKE BRANDING: Only 3% of U.S. Hispanics use term “Latinx;” 76% have never heard of it.

NICE: South Korea Plans to Build F-35B Lightning Aircraft Carrier.

Beijing won’t be happy so you know it’s a good idea.