NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Watch this lady melt down and weep bitterly while reading a Trump fundraising email.

UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION, ANYWAY: Joe Biden and the NAACP Kick ‘Defund the Police’ to the Curb.

MAYBE SOME HELPFUL PROGRESSIVE WILL EXPLAIN THAT HATTIE MCDANIEL WASN’T “REALLY” BLACK:

MY LATEST FOR THE PJM MOTHERSHIP: Protestors Fear the Spread of Deadly COVID-19 They’re Probably Spreading. “How, exactly, governors are supposed to increase testing in urban areas that have fallen under the control of ‘protestors’ who destroy testing centers is not an issue Birx seems to have addressed. Like retailers who might never come back to the big city neighborhoods that torched them, those demolished testing sites could be gone forever.”

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

Talk of current events, comedy, pop culture, sports, plus our usual Ask Us Anything format.

HMM: George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “bumped heads” while working at nightclub, former coworker says.

As mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd’s death. According to a former coworker, not only did they know each other, but they had a history of friction.

Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at a nightclub at the same time. Coworker David Pinney said the two men had a history.

“They bumped heads,” Pinney said.

“How?” CBS News asked.

“It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue,” Pinney explained.

More to come, I’m sure.

FUNNY, BUT I DON’T FEEL VERY WELCOME: Welcome to America’s Cultural Revolution.

The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Senator Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted initially claimed that Cotton’s argument for bringing the National Guard into cities put black lives in “danger.”

Cotton’s critics are correct that not every dumb or radical idea deserves a debate or a place in the country’s biggest newspapers — although some of us believe editors should make room for contrarian and unpopular arguments. But this insistence masks their real objection: That Cotton’s column, which tonally and philosophically was well within the parameters of traditional editorial writing, might have found an audience. At root, our cultural revolutionaries are frightened of ideas. Do we honestly believe that had another paper published it, the same people wouldn’t have deemed that inappropriate, too?

None of the Times’ editors, all of whom are apparently comfortable with running fabulist histories or odes to Communist tyrannies, pushed back against the caustic notion that engaging in debate was act of violence. They bowed to the internal mob and pleaded for forgiveness.

They hope the crocodile will eat them last.

And do read the whole thing.

DOMINIC GREEN: The war of the statues is a battle for freedom. “Statues, like all monumental architecture, are visible symbols of a political order. This is why their identity and placement matter so much. This is why revolutions begin by attacking symbols: the Virgin and Child, the Bastille, Lenin, Saddam. And this is why pulling down a monument is always a mere prelude to the real action. The iconoclast never stops there. He is clearing the ground for building a new order, as the Taliban smashed the Bamiyan Buddhas and Isis blew up ancient Palmyra.”

YOU MIGHT NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: Merriam-Webster to Make Orwellian Update to the Definition of ‘Racism.’

GOOD BOY: Driven by Nacho: US troops at Polish base bond with a new canine.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Are These 7 Movies on the Woke Mob’s Chopping Block? “From comedies to inconvenient dramas, the following films could be ‘Gone’ next.”

We’ve moved very quickly from “Blazing Saddles could never get made today” to “No one will be allowed to watch Blazing Saddles tomorrow.”

My “Blockbuster Video at Home” hobby has never been more relevant than now.

HMM: Ignore the optics. Trump’s executive order could jump-start the cause of global religious freedom. “Has anyone read the executive order? Religious freedom advocates might well be frustrated that tear gas and controversy occluded a measure whose very purpose is to lift the cause of religious freedom out of the shadows. The second sentence of the order contains words that these advocates have been waiting for years to hear a president utter: ‘Religious freedom for all people worldwide is a foreign policy priority of the United States, and the United States will respect and vigorously promote this freedom’.”

LAPD: Homicides Up 250% During Past Week of ‘Defund Police’ Peaceful Protests.

Think of it as a preview of worse things to come.

BLUE ON BLUE: In fiery speech, NY police union chief slams media, politicians for “vilifying” cops: “It’s disgusting! It’s disgusting!”

COLD WAR II: Decades of Lax Oversight Allow Chinese Telecoms to Conduct Espionage in U.S.

Multiple Chinese telecom firms have operated in the United States with “little-to-no oversight” from government agencies for the past 20 years, the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations disclosed on Tuesday in a new report. These companies are permitted near-total penetration of American communications networks and have used this access to collect data on millions of Americans, including military members and those working in sensitive government posts.

Only in the past year has the federal government begun to take a closer look at these firms, including China Telecom Americas, China Unicom Americas, and ComNet—all Communist Party-owned firms that have been operating with impunity since the early 2000s. The Senate’s yearlong investigation concluded that the Federal Communications Commission failed to perform proper oversight on these companies, allowing them to collect data on scores of Americans. With the Chinese government exerting total control over these companies, it is likely these data are being used for nefarious purposes, the report warns.

Bill Clinton let them in, and George W. Bush and Barack Obama did nothing to stop them.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Knee-Benders Cancel ‘Gone With the Wind’ & ‘Cops’ on Same Day to Appease Frothing Rage Mob. “The Paramount Network hasn’t released a lot of information about the cancellation of Cops, but it was pulled from the lineup as a reaction to the protests/riots. It has been on the air for thirty-three years, which is forever in television time. A product that successful doesn’t usually get tossed aside so easily. That should give us all pause as we ponder how powerful this mob has already become.”

I’LL KEEP TAKING MY CHANCES: New guidelines on cancer prevention recommend cutting out alcohol completely.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Here Are The People Who Want To Ban The National Anthem At Sporting Events.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Hasidic Jewish children apparently booted from NYC park — after Mayor de Blasio endorsed massive protests amid coronavirus.

Last month: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will issue a Cease and Desist order closing down the city’s Jewish day schools.

SETON MOTLEY: The Censoring Left: ‘Net Neutrality’ for Thee – Not for Me.

Net Neutrality mandates ISPs deliver every bit of data they handle – neutrally. They can show no preference for any data.

Big Tech companies – are nigh all Leftist. So of course, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and more – have all long publicly professed their desire to see government regulate ISPs in Net Neutrality’s heavy-handed fashion.

Because why not? It doesn’t apply to them.

Oh: And Big Tech wants Net Neutrality for ISPs – because it is a HUGE government crony gift to Big Tech.

Net Neutrality outlaws ISPs from charging Big Tech for the MASSIVE amounts of bandwidth they use. So you and I would pay dramatically more for Internet access – as a giant subsidy to Big Tech.

It isn’t like any of those companies are exactly hurting for cash.

NARRATIVE WHIPLASH: With Trump Rallies Returning, the Media Suddenly Remembers the Coronavirus Pandemic.

INSURRECTION: Antifa Militants Seize Seattle Police HQ, Set Up ‘Autonomous Zone.’

THEY DON’T WANT TO ABOLISH THE POLICE. THEY WANT TO REPLACE THEM WITH STATE-SANCTIONED MOB VIOLENCE: New Video Exposes the Armed Antifa ‘Militia’ Who Want to Abolish the Police.

OH, BALTIMORE: Following Riots 5 Years Ago, One U.S. City Defunded Its Police Force in 2015; How Did That Turn Out?

YOU STAY CLASSY, LOS ANGELES: Severed pig head on spike left in front of L.A. police station.