Kamala Harris word salads again: "I was a United States Senator, so I know what happens in those rooms. In those rooms there are conversations that happen, where it's important for certain people to stand up and speak, to help at least encourage a certain conscience about what we should care about, in terms of the work we do in the halls of Washington D.C., and with some clarity about how it will actually play out in the streets of America."

Both WNBA Finals teams run off the court moments before the national anthem for the second straight game, returning seconds after the performance ends. @Outkick video shows players from the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries are noticeably absent during the anthem ahead of Game 2, as Grammy-winning singer Alanis Morissette performs. The repeated absence comes despite a WNBA rulebook requirement that players, coaches and trainers stand along the sidelines or foul line during the national anthem. See what the league's rules say and the questions surrounding the teams' actions: foxnews.com/outkick-sports/d…

Actual adults vote for Republicans. That statement may anger you, but I’ll say it again; those with a level of discernment beyond that of a child vote for Republicans. I don’t do a massive amount of politics on here, or truthfully, in real life. I have no love for politicians, they are merely a necessary evil. Why the statement? Actual adults understand a few things… The current Democratic Party refuses to accept the science of biology, stymy the flow of illegal aliens, identity voters through ID, recognize your Right to firearms (as outlined in the 2nd Amendment), and reject the ideas of Karl Marx as incongruent with the Constitution. They play games on the State level to block those who seek to reveal corruption and fraud. They literally named a law after Nick Shirley to prevent others like him from revealing massive scams in their State like he did in Minnesota. These are not the actions of rational adults, but rather emotional, power-hungry children who seek to upend our Nation as long as they personally benefit. I am under no delusion that Republicans will deliver everything I want. They have been tepid at best the past two years. I’m also no Trump sycophantic. Many of his positions would have been considered middle-ground in the 1990’s Democratic Party. He and the Party he leads have managed to deliver a few victories in areas that matter. The southern border is the most secure that it’s been in my lifetime. The NFA is currently starving for oxygen. Some common sense has been applied to preventing men from parading as women to crush their athletic dreams and act as government endorsed voyeurs in bathrooms. Trump is bombastic and publicly treats the Office of the Presidency as a celebrity position. Behind the scenes, it’s clearly different. I highly approve of some of the moves he’s made and shake my head in frustration at others. Trump is not on the ballot this election. Who is? Local representatives and managers, many House Representatives and some Senators; for some of you Mayor or County Sheriff. These are the people whose decisions will truly impact your life regardless of what the man who is not up for reelection does. Rational adults vote for the representation that doesn’t promise to steal what you have, give it to noncitizens, take away your right to self-defense, upend our founding documents, and allow the replacement of equal justice with Sharia law. The current Democratic Party endorses ideas that indoctrinate your children into ideas that prevent you from ever having grandchildren. They support that which will literally end your family line; they gain power and you lose your legacy. At this point in time, that rational option is by and large the Republican Party. Will Republicans likely fail to live up to all of their campaign promises? Beyond a doubt. A mature adult knows that and yet understands the opposite choice is guaranteed destruction. Naïve children make choices on emotions, “the feels”, promises of free stuff and believing that politicians won’t disappoint them. Rational adults stoically weigh the options based on projected course and values. The Iran war will not immediately end no matter which way you vote. Gas prices also don’t turn on a dime. No matter who you choose, inflation will not immediately disappear and Congress will spend money. I have my gripes, as do you. They are valid. National suicide is not the answer. Until the Democrats produce another JFK like option, eschew their current values and platform, you must do your job as a rational adult and block them at the voting booth and in the public square. Anything less is puerile.

The left has reacted in their usual and entirely predictable way to Tesla's new flying car. And once again, the explanation is to be found in the Frankfurt School. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno treated modern technology as the triumph of instrumental reason: the reduction of the world to what can be measured, controlled and made useful. Anything that cannot be justified as efficient or socially necessary is already suspect. Herbert Marcuse went further still: advanced industrial society, he argued, integrates people by delivering comforts and spectacles that leave the underlying relations of power untouched. A car that flips for the sake of flipping fails both tests. It is not optimised for transport and it does not expose or overturn domination. It is therefore waste - an affirmative culture that offers intensity without politics. It is, however, not just the critical theorists - the same instinct appears in older forms too. Rousseau’s suspicion of luxury survives in the idea that ostentation is a moral problem rather than a private choice. Marxist traditions treat concentrations of capital and engineering talent as socially produced and therefore socially accountable; spent on a private demonstration rather than a state-defined need, the expenditure is read as appropriation. Contemporary environmentalism supplies the immediate language of carbon and opportunity cost, but the deeper move is the same: once every resource is a claim on a shared budget, private technical play becomes difficult to defend. The demand that a new device name its social purpose before it is allowed to exist is a that of a central planner. It assumes the relevant ends are already known. Free-market traditions reject that premise; they treat many valuable uses as discoveries that appear after the thing exists. The left’s tradition treats unplanned exuberance as a category error. A machine built to do something astonishing, by a private firm, before its practical uses are fully enumerated, violates the requirement that technology be instrumental, collective, sober and pre-justified. The joyless outrage is entirely political.