OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
July 21, 2025
The news of the cancellation came weeks after Paramount — CBS’s parent company — agreed to a $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump over a Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes. Critics of the move have speculated that the cancellation was done to appease Trump.
Stewart, who also works for Paramount as the host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, revealed hours later that he wasn’t sure about the future of the show in light of the Colbert news.
On Sunday’s episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, Simmons — joined by Puck’s Matthew Belloni — mulled over the possibility of Stewart quitting the show on-air Monday night[.]
Insert Jeremy Clarkson meme here:
THE NEW SPACE RACE: South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045.
GREAT DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL SLOGANS OVER THE DECADES:
FDR in 1932: “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
Harry Truman in 1948: “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!” and “The Buck Stops Here.”
JFK in 1960: “A time for greatness.”
LBJ in 1964: “All the way with LBJ.”
Jimmy Carter in 1976: “A Leader, for a Change.”
Bill Clinton in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Obama in 2008: “Hope.”
The Harris campaign, beginning one year ago today:
As the Grauniad breathlessly reported the next day, ‘Kamala IS brat:’ Harris campaign goes lime-green to embrace the meme of the summer.
And also something to do with coconuts, apparently:
A month after the “Brat” rollout, even Harris’ fellow Democrats like Bill Maher didn’t get it: Bill Maher Is Confused Why Charli XCX Labeled Kamala Harris ‘Brat.’
Back during the PJTV days, Bill Whittle did a brilliant segment on the iconography of Obama’s campaign graphics. Future generations will look at the branding choices made by the Harris campaign and wonder, what on earth were they thinking?
KONSTANTIN KISIN ON THE WOKE RIGHT: Look at What You’ve Become, Tucker Carlson.
I knew it. As soon as I saw that cast member of the Royal Opera House smugly unfurl his Palestine flag, I knew he’d be some privileged they / them with either blue blood or blue hair. And I was right. His name’s Daniel Perry, he’s a they / them, he was educated at a £48,000-a-year high school, and he calls himself a ‘queer dance artist’. Now all we need to discover is that he has ADHD and he really will be a walking checklist of middle-class twattishness.
Mr Perry has got the pro-Palestine set salivating with infantile glee after he whipped out his flag during the curtain call for Verdi’s Il Trovatore on Saturday evening. A stage manager tried to snatch it from him but Perry yanked it back with all the wild-eyed frenzy of a bloke determined to trend online. He got his way. He’s being gushed over by the internet’s Sun-starved army of armchair Israelophobes. ‘Hero!’, they yelp from their bedrooms, the unbelievably sad bastards.
The Telegraph has Perry’s backstory. He attended an eye-wateringly expensive school in leafy Hertfordshire. He’s nonbinary – sorry, they’re nonbinary. He’s a self-styled ‘queer’ dancer. He seems blissfully unaware that if he ever set foot in Gaza the only pirouette he’d be doing is a mid-air one as Hamas hurled him off a tall building. He recently wore a ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt to a performance of Cabaret, the musical about the Weimar Republic that foreshadows the rise of the Nazis and the burning of the Jews.
Who is he rooting for during the “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” number?
CHANGE:
Megyn Kelly: “Can a man become a woman?”
Rahm Emanuel: “No.”@megynkelly: “That’s so easy! Why don’t more people in your party just say that?”@RahmEmanuel: “Because I’m now going to go into a witness protection plan.” pic.twitter.com/r0WUg43ULq
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) July 21, 2025
Much more like this, please. “I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
ROGER KIMBALL: I have a bone to pick with Tulsi Gabbard.
Lee Smith, author of Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, zeros in on the role of John Brennan in fomenting the plot against Trump, concluding that, “It seems appropriate that Russian intelligence may lead to the prosecution and conviction of Brennan and the intelligence officials responsible for the biggest political scandal in US history.”
The coming weeks will tell us whether any indictments and prosecutions will be forthcoming. Tulsi Gabbard says that more evidence is coming. The mood of country seems to favor accountability. Were I a betting man, I would say the odds favor some high-profile prosecutions. I acknowledge that all of our experience regarding the campaign against Trump, which was also a campaign against the American voters, argues that we’ll have excited palaver, not prosecutions. But those wishing measured people like John Brennan for an orange suit, I suspect, will not be disappointed.
If that happens, I will be grateful to, not irritated with, DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
We’ll see where this goes next; America’s Newspaper of Record suggests one way that former President Obama could game the system:
I DON’T KNOW WHY HE THINKS THIS B.S. WILL HELP:
There’s an increasing chance @MarkWarner has been notified that his correspondence in RussiaGate are about to be disclosed https://t.co/cb5CQzcGUL
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) July 21, 2025
HEH:
I'm not a marketing whiz, but they may want to workshop "fantastic four skins." https://t.co/rFknYUl9X7
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) July 15, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK COLUMN IS UP: Slouching Toward War? Foreign or domestic.
HMM: Natural Compound Found in Mushrooms Delays Aging and Extends Lifespan, Study Suggests. I dunno, the hippies I know don’t seem to have aged especially well.
CONCISELY STATED:
No American Indians are actually offended by it. Only stupid white people who have to invent problems to fill their meaningless lives with fake outrage are offended by it, and even then they’re only pretending. https://t.co/ZXMnT0soZW
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 21, 2025
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Global study links early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults.
FREEDOM WORKS:
Breaking 🚨 | Extreme Poverty Drops 18.2% YoY to 7.4%, Driven by Real Wage Growth Outpacing Inflation for First Time Since 2020 pic.twitter.com/ZKa7cEcDWc
— ShellBanger (@Bangershell11) July 20, 2025
The world’s congenitally wrong credentialed class hardest hit.
THE ATLANTIC KEEPS KNOCKING IT OUT THE PARK:
Nothing says “dictator” like the elected president using his lawful powers to do what he promised voters https://t.co/XdKTP7AtW3
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 21, 2025
Related:
The woman on the right is Ghislaine Maxwell. She trafficked children for Jeffrey Epstein. The woman on the left owns your magazine. https://t.co/rNWc7gcnj4 pic.twitter.com/dl7V7E6km7
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 20, 2025
DON’T LET’S BE BEASTLY TO THE GERMANS, EH?
Canada is experiencing a massive measles outbreak and health authorities are blaming the country’s tiny population of German Mennonites so they don't have to look at the millions of immigrants flooding in from India, which is a global measles hotspot.
terminally retarded country https://t.co/xwqRSJfm2w pic.twitter.com/b7K2cRpiLw
— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) July 21, 2025
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Blame an unpopular, powerless minority for government-caused problems? Where have I heard that before?
SARAH ANDERSON: The Truth About Tariffs, Tomatoes, and America’s Farmers.
STAY STRONG: Toniiq NAD+ Supplement 1500mg. #CommissionEarned
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New Tactical Shotguns for 2025.
ALMOST NOTHING FOR SURE: Here’s Everything We Know About the F-47 Program.
ARE THE WALLS AT LAST CLOSING IN? Bombshell Report Reveals What We’ve Known All Along About Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal.
