SERIOUSLY, DON’T GET COCKY: Even CNN Is Panicking About About Kamala’s Slide in the Polls.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to test lunar-soil bricks in space to pave the way for its planned moon base.

Samples of bricks made of varying compositions from lunar soil simulant will be launched to the Tiangong space station aboard the upcoming Tianzhou 8 cargo mission, according to a report from Chinese state media CCTV.

The bricks will be subjected to three years of exposure tests in space. They will be bombarded by ultraviolet light and cosmic rays and subjected to temperature differences. This will test the strength and durability of bricks in extreme environments and how the materials behave in the vacuum of space.

The experiment is designed to give insight into which composition and which methods of producing bricks from lunar soil will be most suitable for building structures on the moon.

China is not messing around with landing — and staying — on the moon.

EDIT: I’d left the “not” out originally. Sorry for the confusion!

IF NOTHING ELSE, WATCHING DEMS DO AN INSTANT 180 FROM “DARTH CHENEY” TO “HE’S OUR GUY” HAS BEEN ENTERTAINING: Why Dick Cheney’s Endorsement of Kamala Is Utterly Worthless.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. A Harris Victory in 2024 Makes the U.S. a One-Party State.

In the wake of her 2024 election, Harris, by her own words, is certain to take the following actions in pursuit of the agenda of the one-party government.

Harris will target the Supreme Court, as that is the most potent source of resistance to Democratic rule. To defeat the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the Harris administration will push to pack the Court so that it may nominate justices who support judicial activism and oppose originalism—that the constitution, or subsequent laws, be interpreted by their original meanings. A Harris administration that packed the Court, with new Justices confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate, would usher in the one-party state that would never give up power.

Additionally, a Harris administration would seek to add states to the Electoral College. Specifically, the Harris administration supports the push to add the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states, adding four Senators and at least two Representatives to the House of Representatives. The addition of these states to the Union would give the Democrat Party permanent control over the presidency. Again, another example of a one-party state, something that is anathema to freedom and liberty and has always resulted in death and destruction to the citizens of the people of other countries.

Given the decisions by the Biden-Harris administration to open America’s border, illegal immigration will continue and be accelerated.

Read the whole thing.

KDJ: This Is Why Your Blue-Haired Harpy-in-Law Is a Raging Marxist. “The key to survival in college for white students is to denounce themselves and hate other white people who do not ascribe to Marxist values. They must submit fully to commie indoctrination. There is no diversity of thought.”

WE HAVE AN INCREASINGLY HOLLOW MILITARY AND ZERO LEADERSHIP. THAT’S NO WAY TO KEEP THE PEACE:

With Biden's incredible weakness in forbidding Ukraine from fighting back, Iran realizes they don't even need to lie anymore.

What's the US going to do?

For enemies of America, it's a golden era. pic.twitter.com/680bKTUFeB

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) September 8, 2024

WELL, AT LEAST SHE FINALLY HAS A POLICY PAGE: Kamala’s New Policy Page Reveals What She’ll Do With Illegals She Let Into the U.S.

PRIORITIES: Nation With Lowest Birthrate Is Rocked by Soaring Sales of Dog Strollers.

A global discourse has emerged, including in the U.S., about childlessness and the reluctance to bear offspring. But the hand-wringing might be at its fiercest in South Korea, home to the wealthy world’s lowest birthrate, as well as another distinction that has fur flying: the skyrocketing sales of dog strollers, which last year outpaced those of baby strollers for the first time, according to Gmarket, one of South Korea’s largest online retailers. The trend held true for the first six months of this year, too.

They are so ubiquitous a national broadcaster in January aired a segment titled: “‘Am I the Only One Annoyed By This?’ A Heated Debate Over Dog Strollers.”

In many advanced economies, including the U.S., adults treat their pets like pampered children, with fancy birthday parties, decked-out doggy mansions, private-plane travel and rides in dog strollers.

But pet parents have South Korean officials howling.

The country is confronting a national fertility rate of 0.72—or a mere third of the level needed to maintain the population. At a youth roundtable last year, Kim Moon-soo, the country’s now labor minister, scolded the fresh-faced attendees: “What I worry about is young people not loving each other,” Kim said. “Instead, they love their dogs and carry them around, they don’t get married, and they don’t have children.”

Dogs are great — I have three. It’s interesting that a society that’s basically stopped having kids has started treating dogs as substitute children.

But they aren’t children, shouldn’t be used as substitutes for children, and most importantly, won’t take care of people when they get too old to care for themselves.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Elon Musk Set a Timeline for Landing on Mars and I’m Slack-Jawed.

COLORADO: More On Venezuelan Gangs.

“The report recounts that this summer, the gang approached the property manager and told him they would help him out in exchange for half of all the rent that he collected.”

“The gang members then allegedly took over vacant apartments, and according to the document, moved families into those units and started collecting rent.”

The gang obviously didn’t fear property management or the police.

Much more at the link.

THAT DOES NOT MAKE ME FEEL THE JOY: Vote for Kamala Harris, You Sexist Pig.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Kamala Build a Wall? Most Voters Doubt It. “Axios reported last week that Harris promised to “spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called ‘un-American’ during the Trump administration.” Twenty-eight percent (28%) of voters believe it’s likely that, if elected president, Harris would actually build the border wall, including 11% who say it’s Very Likely. However, 64% don’t consider it likely Harris would actually build the border wall, including 41% who think it’s Not At All Likely.”

DOG BITES MAN: Dana Bash Defends Kamala Harris’s Evasive Answers During Interview.

THE BEEB: BBC breaches its own editorial guidelines 1,500 times over Israel-Hamas war.

The research analyzed four months of the BBC’s output across television, radio, online news, podcasts, and social media. Additionally, a team of around 20 lawyers and 20 data scientists contributed to the research and analyzed nine million words of BBC output using artificial intelligence (AI), The Telegraph added.

The research found that there was a “deeply worrying pattern of bias against Israel” and that Israel was associated with genocide 14 times more than the Hamas terror group was throughout the analyzed BBC coverage.

The total number of BBC editorial breaches, including impartiality, accuracy, editorial values, and public interest, was 1,553.
Further findings from the research included the BBC’s repeated downplaying of Hamas terrorism. Conversely, Israel was presented as a “militaristic and aggressive nation” by the BBC, the report said.

When 1,500 mistakes all run in the same direction, they aren’t mistakes.

HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA, IT IS NOT ENOUGH:

Republican: I have oppo that can make or break this race.
Reporter: Ehhhhh. Let me see. Feels like a stretch. Need to talk to my editor, my dog. Get back to you in a few days.

Dem: I need—
Reporter: Say no more https://t.co/SKxyv8sEF5

— Alex Wilkes (@AlexandraWilkes) September 8, 2024

Biden got away with running a basement campaign because the press let him. The only difference between now and 2020 is that Harris’s basement campaign is only in the metaphorical basement.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There Are Three Kinds of Lies — Lies, Damned Lies, and Political Polls. “Oddly, many of the people I know who don’t trust anything about our elections are still clinging to the polls. I’ve been bumping into a lot of them lately. The disconnect is understandable, though. Adrift on a sea of uncertainty, we need to cling to something to keep ourselves from drowning. Good news in the polls can feel like a life preserver while we’re waiting for the election.”

CRISIS BY DESIGN: Costa Rica Heightens Alert for Terror Suspects Among Migrants.

Panamanian authorities have reported that members of Hezbollah, one of the most influential paramilitary groups in the Middle East, have been detected crossing the Darién jungle. Authorities also noted that these individuals are linked to groups involved in migrant smuggling.

Costa Rica’s Minister of Security, Mario Zamora, explained that the recent rise in migration has heightened alerts for individuals connected to terrorism. However, no direct cases involving Hezbollah have been reported in Costa Rica so far.

Other cases of individuals with links to terrorism, however, have been recorded. “Costa Rica has detained three individuals with international terrorism alerts: two Somalis linked to a little-known group and an Egyptian connected to Al Qaeda. Currently, we have a person from Kazakhstan, linked to ISIS, in custody. This migratory flow has brought individuals with a history of terrorism,” Zamora stated.

More:

It's too little too late. Of the ~9 million who entered the USA illegally under the Biden admin, if a meager 0.1 % are terrorists, there are 9,000 in country.

— Mist – Free speech 🥩 🥚 (@Mist671) September 8, 2024

Even a tenth that many could do something truly horrifying.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: New California Law Will Require Cars to Beep When Traveling 10 Miles Over the Speed Limit.

NATE SILVER: The mistakes of 2019 could cost Harris the election.

Harris’s articulation of highly progressive positions on immigration and health care have become a talking point for the Trump campaign and one where the facts are mostly on their side. Harris has flip-flopped on some of these positions, like on Medicare for All and decriminalizing border crossings. Still, you’ll probably see clips like the one above in heavy rotation in Republican attack ads.

The flip-flopping may explain why Harris has been weirdly reluctant to do media hits or articulate policy specifics. This strategy may have worked well enough when she was riding high off the vibes of the Democrats’ candidate swap, but it’s causing her more problems now.

This morning’s NYT/Siena poll contained a pair of questions on whether voters think Harris is too liberal/progressive3 and whether Trump is too conservative. The numbers were lopsided in Trump’s favor. Only 32 percent of voters said Trump was too conservative, while 47 said Harris was too liberal. The demographics on this question are about what you might expect. Harris is faring poorly among white voters without college degrees, rural voters, and older voters: the types of voters who are plentiful in Blue Wall states like Pennsylvania.

I’m not a messaging-and-tactics guy like Dan Pfieffer, but I’m not quite sure how Harris is supposed to spin her way out of this perception.

Related:

She has the same problem Biden had but for different reasons and they know it, which is they have to put her out there more, but can't put her out there more https://t.co/loP2XbF6rd

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 8, 2024

Harris tried staying hard-left early on and, when that didn’t work, tacked hard to the center with flip-flops on almost every issue she supposedly held dear.

Progressive Democrats know it’s a ruse and will stick with her. But, dear Lord, the woman doesn’t even come across as convincing on those rare occasions when she tells the truth.

CHECKED OUT SINCE DAY ONE: Biden’s Excessive Vacationing Looks Even Worse When You Put It This Way. “The 81-year-old commander-in-chief has racked up 532 vacation days in less than four years in office — the rough equivalent to 48 years of vacations, according to shocking data compiled by the Republican National Committee.”

IMPRESSIVE:

If you’re tempted to lose faith in humanity, watch this: A sea of Brazilians gather in support of free speech after the banning of 𝕏 in that country. The human spirit longs for freedom. pic.twitter.com/3uiSe56ort

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) September 8, 2024

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

Compare and contrast:

One of the most powerful acts of a courageous people is refusing to be part of a lie. https://t.co/2rH4IGJDWW

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 8, 2024

TO BE FAIR, ECONOMISTS HAVE CORRECTLY PREDICTED SEVEN OF THE LAST FIVE RECESSIONS: A recession indicator with a perfect track record has started flashing this week.

Meanwhile, Janet Yellen is still hopeful for a “soft landing” but most Americans might wonder, “A soft landing from what?”

ANALYSIS: FALSE.

A member of Iran's parliament admitted that Russia has received Iranian ballistic missiles to use in attacks on Ukraine. When asked about potential sanctions for sending missiles to Russia, he responded, "It can't get worse. We provide missiles to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Hashd… pic.twitter.com/4EPXb1MMY1

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) September 8, 2024

There was a time — from roughly 2017 through Jan. 20, 2021 — when Iran was too heavily sanctioned to get into this kind of mischief.

HEH: Florida woman’s Apple Watch traces lost luggage to airport worker’s home.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Urine for a Real Treat This Week. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have Florida’s weirdest doctor, the Mystery Surfer, and a Kentucky family just discovered something scarier than murder hornets.”