A Cliff or Promised Land
The blue wall in the Midwest is on the verge of collapse
Look forward▶️: The New York Times figured out what New York is going to look like 80 years from now if Mamdani and fellow travelers have their way.
Watch📱: “A Movie Night in Cuba’s Blackout”
This is what happens when the state seizes the means of production — it’s very simple.
McConnell watch👀: Presidential hopeful Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear thinks a Where’s Waldo/McConnell campaign might help his chances.
📱Today, Gov Beshear posted on X:
“Today Rand Paul wants to force an 85-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci to address the American people but refuses to ask the same of 84-year-old Mitch McConnell.”
🤷The problem with Democrats trying to attack McConnell is they have zero credibility after Biden
Look forward▶️: August 3 is the last day McConnell can resign, and a special election can happen to fill his seat
Tonight📺: Chris Cillizza on McConnell watch and some of the epic trolling (from both sides.)
Perspective✈️: I triumphantly return from vacation today to find America a slightly amplified version of when I left.
‼️Trump continues to speak loudly and do nothing on Iran
Cynthia commented on our “First Dispatch” video, “DJT is not using Roosevelt’s example of walk softly and carry a big stick. He’s shouting, stomping his feet and swinging a wiffle bat blindfolded. “
‼️The left gets more socialist by the hour.
Lessons from Karbala⚠️
👀Shia Islam views every land as Karbala — the ancient battle that ended in the martyrdom of Muhammad’s grandson and a leader of Shia Islam — the 3rd Imam for those keeping count.
⏮️That happened in approx 680 AD — they are still fighting the battle.
💣Bombing radar sites doesn’t mean much to them.
🚨For the IRGC, putting spears through the bellies of pregnant women and heads at city gates is normal
Look at the atrocities of Hamas on October 7th — yes, they are Sunni but trained by Iran
Look at ISIS atrocities over the past 10 years — burning people alive
Look at the Iranian regime that rapes female prisoners before executing them
Look at the Iranian regime that murdered 40,000 of its own people in anti-government protests
🤷Trump has been talking about bombing bridges and power plants for months — nobody, especially the Iranians, really believes him or cares.
New threat🚨: “We’re going to beat the fuc-ing sh-t out of them,” President Trump told Fox News. “We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating”
🤷Important if true — but why should they believe him?
‼️What they consider a beating and what we consider a beating are different things — see above.
Back home📉: Trump’s approval rating on the war with Iran is 28% — who exactly are those people that think things are going well?
Politics🤦: Trump wasted another week — closer to the midterms — refusing to do what’s necessary
American reality: The American people are remarkably supportive of the military and patriotic when given the opportunity and told what we are fighting for and given
Watch tonight📺: Mick Mulvaney on why Trump is so reluctant to take on Iran and General John Teichert on what a “beating” would look like?
Midterm Watch👀
💨The Democratic car is speeding down socialist highway — here are some highlights:
Abolish ICE and the Senate — maybe the police too
Seize the means of production and take away private health insurance
Wealth taxes to fund free childcare and date nights
Who knows what comes next week
🛣️What is at the end of the highway?
🪨A cliff or massive populist support?
A cliff ⛰️: Their blue wall in the Midwest is on the verge of collapse — look at Michigan and Wisconsin
🗳️In Michigan’s senate race, the leading Democratic candidate, socialist Abdul El-Sayed, is 10 points behind Republican candidate Mike Rogers
🗳️In Wisconsin’s governor’s race, Francesca Hong, who has threatened basic safety, is leading the polls for the Democratic candidate
She has since walked it back but still won’t say if she wants to abolish police long-term
David Weigel@daveweigelHong getting some spin room Qs from JMart about abolishing the police1:32 AM · Jul 29, 2026 · 638K Views106 Replies · 57 Reposts · 676 Likes
Good read📰: The Wall Street Journal headlines “A Democratic Socialist Bartender Rattles Party Elite in Run for Wisconsin Governor”
🥗New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced plans for city-run grocery stores with prices 30% cheaper
🤦We have tried this before in Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union — it does not work.
‼️Just ask the United Kingdom — huge social welfare programs and a high percentage living in poverty
Government hospitals have bodily fluids in the hallways
Good read📰: Axios headlines “Behind the Curtain: The 6 stages of political surrender,” writing:
“Democrats swear that socialism’s growing grip on their party is difference, and can be contained. The early signals suggest otherwise.”
Watch tonight📺: Evan Barker, who is out with a new book “Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,” joins us.
Fauci & The Media / The Fifth
‼️Watching Anthony Fauci testify makes me slightly ill — not because of what he did to the country but how the media allowed it because they hated Trump.
The news📰: Fauci took the Fifth dozens of times before a Senate hearing about his diary.
📃The diary shows an egomaniac saying one thing privately and others publicly
Like writing the “lab leak” theory is most likely before telling everyone it wasn’t
The Free Press’s devastating takedown — “The Fauci Diaries”
Bigger picture‼️: We know down to the second texts from January 6th
Yet we still don’t know where and how COVID started
We have never held those responsible for the pandemic accountable
We have never held those responsible for the politicized response — remember you couldn’t go to the beach alone in California
We have never held the teacher’s unions responsible for what happened to students
Forget responsible — we haven’t even had a commission to answer basic questions
👎That is the sad legacy of Fauci — he’s the poster child for a media obsessed with demonizing those that wouldn’t follow the (terribly flawed) science.
Senator Rand Paul now says he will hold Fauci in contempt for not answering questions — after a presidential pardon — this will get interesting.
Tonight📺: Mark Halperin and Tom Dupree on the media and legal angles
Plus, Dr Drew Pinsky on the danger of “science” not telling and finding the truth about COVID.