TAPPER THOUGHT HE WAS LOBBING HIM A SOFTBALL:  CNN’s Jake Tapper Asked This Leftist Michigan Senate Candidate About Israel and Iran. It Didn’t Go Well.

ANYTIME THE GOVERNMENT HAS POWER TO KILL ITS BATCH LOTS OF ITS CITIZENS, THE RESULT IS DEATH. ALWAYS:  Keep Studying While It Solves Itself. The conspiracy theory about European AC policy isn’t crazy. It’s just underdocumented. Here’s the same mechanism with receipts.

I FIGURED THIS OUT DECADES AGO: Disillusionment Is Also a Product. The people who told you “everything you know is a lie” had a business model that required you to believe them instead.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  The thousands of comments on my voter fraud post remind me of one very important thing. The issue isn’t about Trump. It is about the perception of the citizens. But they need to make it about Trump.

A DREAM WELL LOST:  Because no defense was possible.

TRUMP MIGHT? I MEAN IT WOULD EXPLAIN GREENLAND:  Do You Know Why the PRC Has a Polar Strategy? …do we?

THEY SHOULD COLLAPSE:  Nearing Structure Collapse.

THE ORTHODOX AND THE AMISH (OR EVEN THOSE WACKY EPISCOPALS WITH THEIR NO CONTRACT BRIDGE RITUALS) DON’T TEND TO EXPLODE:  Getting It Right.

And my people? We just genuflect, genuflect, genuflect. (Yes, it’s the song.)

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Hamas attacks Gaza aid sites, holds Palestinians ransom for expended ammunition expenses – report. One source also said that Hamas had been smuggling various goods inside trucks belonging to aid organizations, as well as commercial ones, in order to generate funds.

THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO GET OFF THE LOAN BUSINESS:  As defaults on student loans surge, millions are trying to get their lives back on track.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

SPACE: Space Force orders 36 more Golden Dome missile-tracking satellites, for $1.75 billion.

I’M NOT EATING THOSE CHIPS: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Has Been Recreated on a Chip, And Scientists Could Finally Figure Out Its Cause.

DOES MOSS DREAM OF FUZZY GREEN SHEEP? Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network.

TALK ABOUT YOUR EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon.

THEY’RE AROUND, YOU JUST CAN’T SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY BLEND: Scientists Discover Four Chameleons Found Nowhere Else on Earth.

READER FAVORITE: Airmoto Tire Inflator Portable Air Compressor. #CommissionEarned

FATNESS IS BECOMING OBSOLETE: GLP-1 use rising rapidly among US adolescents and young adults, study finds.

IT ISN’T THE PEARL-CLUTCHING THAT’S WORRISOME — IT’S THE ENABLING: The Great American Demographic Shift. “Import the third world’s populations without assimilation, and you import the third world’s problems along with them. Nobody should clutch his or her pearls over this.”

REVIEW: I Drove The Volvo EX30: It Feels Like The Right Ideas In The Wrong Car.

YES: Doug Burgum to Newsmax: ‘Geopolitics of Energy Have Changed Forever.’

“President Trump, when we take a look at the global factors that are going on here, and whether it’s the conflict in the Middle East, whether it’s diplomatically, we’ve got alignment now with Arab countries that for forever were our adversaries,” he said.

Burgum said that will turn into new markets and business partners for the U.S.

“Now, they’re aligned, moving ahead with Abraham Accords, other things that are there. Great partnerships,” he said.

“Countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE [United Arab Emirates] … UAE has taken over 3,000 attacks from the Iranians,” Burgum continued.

“So the diplomacy in the Middle East has changed forever. The geopolitics of energy have changed forever,” he said.

American energy dominance plays a huge role, too, freeing up policy options that were previously unthinkable.

Turns out, we could drill our way out of several problems.

NOT THE END OF THE WORLD — THE SUEZ WAS COMPLETELY CLOSED FROM 1967-1975:

BREAKING: At least 8 oil tankers have aborted transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait following the Houthi naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, including 3 Chinese VLCCs carrying Saudi crude.

Three tankers loaded with Saudi crude bound for China and one for India have made… pic.twitter.com/enyAb3CYgy

— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) July 21, 2026

Alternate take:

So let me get this straight…

China, who is an ally of Iran, has decided to participate in a magic show by not sending boats through a corridor that Iran and its ragtag psycho pals in Yemen say is closed

From this I am to infer the ragtag psychos closed it? https://t.co/KJ4nCNzmIr

— IQ 594 | Cody Penn-Dent | Effluencer (@codypd) July 21, 2026

More: “It isn’t closed and those claiming it’s closed are retarded.”

ICYMI: ‘Smithers, Release the Biden Tapes!’

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Shake | Milk Chocolate. #CommissionEarned

WELL:

A B-61 variable yield nuclear bunker buster detonated at 5 KT, and 30-foot subsurface, would wipe Pickaxe Mountain off the map and have minimal fallout.

Iran is either a nuclear threat, or it's not. If Iran is, POTUS maintains 1st-strike option.

Enough games already. pic.twitter.com/9jp9B81oBN

— Matt Tardio (@angertab) July 21, 2026

All things considered, I think I’d rather keep that genie in the bottle where it’s been since 1945.