ESCHEW ALL MODALITIES OF COCKSUREDNESS: Morning Joe warns Democrats are doomed to more election failure in 2028 as party continues to embrace ‘extraordinarily loony ideas.’

MS NOW host Joe Scarborough devoted a sizable chunk of Monday’s Morning Joe to warning about the rise of Democratic Socialism within the Democratic Party.

Scarborough, 63, said the party was at risk of alienating voters if the support continues into the next Democratic presidential race.

‘I mean, there have been some extraordinarily loony ideas coming from some of these people that have actually won races and are going to be seated in Congress, most likely,’ the former Florida Republican said.

‘Like, you know, getting rid of prisons, getting rid of cops.’

Scarborough said such policies ‘didn’t work well for Democrats before’ and ‘didn’t work well for American cities, either.’

He warned that years of success seen since were at risk of becoming undone.

‘America is getting safer again, in good part because both parties have come to the conclusion that police officers are a good thing,’ the host proclaimed.

‘Police officers make communities safer, make our children safer, make our schools safer.’

Scarborough admitted that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization was just ‘one extreme’ of a political spectrum that’s widened on both ends.

‘I guess my question is why the Democratic Party is so ill equipped to deal with those extremes, brush them off, and instead focus on candidates that are mainstream who are going to end up winning most of these primaries.’

Flashback to a pre-Covid February 2020: Why is Anyone Surprised That Chris Matthews Went All Nazi Comparison About Bernie?

Matthews came on after Democratic strategist James Carville went on a diatribe against Sanders, and as the MSNBC host made reference to that, he invoked the historical episode when the Germans overran the Maginot Line and forced France to surrender in the middle of World War II.

“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lies ahead in November. They’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie.”

A week later, Matthews was caught in a putsch, err, pushed out of MSNBC near the end of #MeToo’s reign of terror, but as Glenn wrote at the time, “In 2020, He’s Not Crazy Enough for Them…It’s really because he dissed Bernie. The rest is just window dressing.”

And speaking of crazy!

Fun facts about Mao's Little Red Book.

Ok, so first of all, it's not even a book in the sense of making an argument or whatever. It's not even a piece of propaganda. It's a collection of quotations allegedly from Mao Zedong. It's basically Brainy Quotes Mao Edition.

But let's… https://t.co/PKTZ9hxn6a

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 20, 2026

Exit question: Obama, Where Art Thou? “The day will come when Mr. Obama will have to speak for himself. He’ll have to take up the question posed in the famous labor union anthem, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I think we know the answer, but it will be instructive to hear it from him.”

UPDATE:

In which Democrats voice concern that dropping all pretenses might not be viable election strategy https://t.co/27IdTKjr4Q

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) July 21, 2026

SKYNET SMILES: Introducing Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft for the Near-Surface Fight. “The advantages that Thunder brings to the battlefield extend beyond its hardware – they are also defined by the centrality of software and autonomy to its performance. Anduril’s core Lattice for Mission Autonomy software delivers the trusted, flight-proven formation behaviors, separation management, and flight logic necessary for Thunder to remain useful, predictable, and safe around crewed aircraft. By translating operator intent into trusted machine-speed route, timing, tasking, and deconfliction decisions, Lattice eliminates the need for pilots to manage Thunder with a stick and rudder, enabling them to focus instead on the most important decisions at hand.”

Full autonomy is coming to the battlespace whether we like it or not.

REALITY IS RIGID: Yale scholar says patriarchy creates ‘rigid,’ ‘mythological’ categories of ‘Man, Woman.’

COURT: ‘Smithers, Release the Biden Tapes!’ “Prepare yourself for the Mother of All I-Told-You-Sos.”

IMPROVE YOUR GAME: SKLZ Golf Grip Trainer, Club Attachment for Correct Hand Positioning and Muscle Memory. #CommissionEarned

FASCISM BESTRIDES OUR CAMPUSES: Denver SDS says TPUSA ‘needs to be smashed’ amid university investigation: Denver Students for a Democratic Society, a left-wing student group, says it ‘will not tolerate’ TPUSA’s presence on campus.

18 USC 241.

HMM: Judge pauses Paramount-Warner merger.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order barring Paramount from closing the transaction, a corporate tie-up that would unite two movie studios, two streaming platforms and two news organizations under the control of David Ellison, the son of billionaire technology tycoon Larry Ellison.

Martínez-Olguín’s order said the restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days. The judge, who is presiding over the case, scheduled an Aug. 3 hearing on the states’ motion for a preliminary injunction, which would freeze the transaction while the legal process plays out.

The plaintiffs, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block the merger July 13, arguing in a 38-page complaint that it would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood.

I’m more or less agnostic on the merger, other than it might be the only way for two storied studios to survive outside the Netflix behemoth. But there’s no end of entertainment to be found in California using every means at its disposal to create a more and more hostile business climate.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP:

"a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California"

Don't let communists run your state. pic.twitter.com/CWF6nSTabH

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 20, 2026

CDR SALAMANDER: Cuba Libre: The Department of State’s Cuba Report.

Nice to see our foreign policy apparatus standing up to commies instead of supporting them.

Related:

And here it is…

USAID more than doubled its spending on Brazil as soon as Bolsonaro won the 2018 election. This wasn’t because Brazil suddenly needed twice the aid; the money was spent on operations aimed at overthrowing the Brazilian government.

The 2022 Brazilian election… pic.twitter.com/FKXkeTvWwJ

— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) July 20, 2026

YES. THEY’RE THE MOST OBNOXIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE OF ALL THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS: Teachers’ Unions Must Be Banned.

DON SURBER: The Boasberg boomerang: He inadvertently led Trump to a court that may expedite deportations.

THEY’RE PANICKING:

Fox’s @BretBaier: “If Van Jones and Bill Maher are sending up the red flares, is that what’s happening inside the traditional Democratic Party?”

Former Biden senior advisor: “Yes, and there should be more of it to be honest. The opinions that are being taken up by these… pic.twitter.com/ceCYYAH4RW

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) July 20, 2026

Of course, that’s probably what happens every time the Mensheviks realize the Bolsheviks are about to slaughter them.

And the Mensheviks never, ever learn.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Bristol Myers buys Nvidia’s latest AI computing system for drug research.

The drugmaker said it will be the first life sciences company to buy an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD ​based on its Vera Rubin systems. The chipmaker unveiled its Vera Rubin architecture earlier this year as the successor to its current generation of AI computing systems.

Financial terms of the Bristol Myers investment were not disclosed. It builds on a smaller SuperPOD system the drugmaker ‌bought from Nvidia, which is ⁠around two or three generations behind Vera Rubin, BMS executives said in an interview.

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly investing in AI infrastructure to try ⁠to identify drug targets faster and improve the odds that experimental drugs succeed in clinical trials.

We sure could use some new antibiotics in a hurry.

CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIALIST PRISON ABOLITIONISM: Many “democratic socialists” want to abolish prisons. But this is in conflict with their objective of making many more activities illegal.

WHAT DECADE ARE WE IN?

BREAKING: Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega declares the country will no longer hold elections, eliminating any future electoral challenge to his rule.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 20, 2026

WHERE’S OUR MONEY: Open the Books says at least $400 billion in COVID Pandemic relief funds has been stolen by fraudsters, but the federal government has recovered less than 1 percent of it. The actual total lost to fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and other Pandemic relief programs is almost certainly much higher than $400 billion.

ICYMI: Can Elon Musk Really Put ONE MILLION Data Center Satellites in Orbit?

CDR SALAMANDER: Do You Know Why the PRC Has a Polar Strategy? Do We?

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

One of the many explosive revelations in this new State Department report is that the Venceremos Brigade—which has brought 10,000+ American left-wing activists to Cuba, including high-profile Democratic politicians like LA Mayor Karen Bass—was built and run by actual Cuban spies. https://t.co/6X7evXNifT pic.twitter.com/piW0lK2w6b

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) July 20, 2026

WHEN THEY TELL YOU HOW THEY WIN, BELIEVE THEM:

The D.C. Circuit didn’t rule that fraud happened.

It ruled that freezing a basic ballot-tracking rule would cause irreparable harm before the November election.

Read that again.

A federal appeals court just said the administration needs time to implement serialized barcodes…

— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) July 20, 2026

More:

A federal appeals court just said the administration needs time to implement serialized barcodes and voter-list submissions for mail-in ballots. Not mass purges. Not voter ID theater. Simple chain-of-custody tools so the Postal Service can track what it carries.

And the reaction? Full institutional meltdown.

The NAACP is in open panic. California is fighting tooth and nail against submitting its rolls. The same people who spent years lecturing the country about “sacred democracy” are treating a barcode on an envelope like a constitutional crisis.

This is the tell.

Indeed.

MORNING IN AMERICA: US experiences entrepreneurship revival fueled by AI.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Compressed Air Duster-3 Gear Adjustable 100000RPM Electric Air Duster. #CommissionEarned

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX targets July 23 for crucial Starship Flight 13 test launch after abort.

If all goes to plan, the 408-foot-tall (124.4 meters) Starship will lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday during a 90-minute window that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT; 5:45 p.m. local Texas time). You can watch the action live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX.

It will be the second launch attempt for Starship Flight 13. The first came last Thursday (July 16) and ended in an abort, which occurred just as the giant rocket’s 33 first-stage Raptor engines were firing up.

Better luck with this one, fellas.

BLUE STATE UPDATE: California city chief arrested on a yacht just three weeks after taking over top job. “According to the Marin County Sheriff’s Office, Forbes initially told deputies the yacht belonged to her. Investigators later contacted the vessel’s owner, who said Forbes was not authorized to be aboard. Forbes was booked into the Marin County Jail on suspicion of felony burglary.”

EVERYBODY IS SICK OF PUTIN’S STUPID WAR:

Russia's Defense Ministry recruited just over 8,000 drone operators for its Unmanned Systems Forces in the first half of the year, despite an annual target of 78,800. Analysts calculated that recruitment should have reached about 34,400 by then, leaving the ministry at roughly a… pic.twitter.com/thAEBwmkTj

— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) July 20, 2026