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Steve MacDonald 
If you’ve never read The Man in the High Castle, you can, but (IMO) the Television series based on it is better. The story tells the tale of an alternate 60s-era reality in which the Axis won World War II, and America is divided between Germany and Japan. I barely recall the book, which is … Read more
If you missed it, soon-to-be former Congressman wanna-be US Senator Chris ‘ sock-puppet’ Pappas is selling himself as a moderate. Before we cite any evidence to the contrary, let’s dissect why not lying about being a moderate might actually be worse for democrats. The only moderate-ish Democrat in the Senate is John Fetterman, from Pennsylvania … Read more
Ticks again? Yes. It’s important to measure and contrast media narratives with reality. As you may recall, in April 2026, we had three more reported ER visits for tick bites than in any previous year (per the CDC). The result was a cavalcade of fearmongering headlines about the coming apocalypse. My response was to find … Read more
Remember the Cleveland Clinic Flu Shot Study? You don’t have to. I remembered it for you. 53,000 employees, of whom nearly 44,000 got the flu shot? Cleveland Clinic. World-renowned. They tracked their employees and found that the flu shot increased their odds of getting the flu by almost 30%. Lived up to its name. What’s … Read more
Way back when Barry Obama created what we still call The Opioid CrisisTM (no mention of that in his Lie-Barry, I’d guess), I said, without reservation, that its purpose was to grow government and bloat budgets. Create a therapy and treatment dependency class (occupational and patient). What we’ve taken to calling a government jobs program. … Read more
We’ve been teasing this here or there for weeks, but the time has come. Starting July 1, for every $50 to GraniteGrok, supporters can choose one PDF edition from the entire Bare Minimum Books collection by Ian Underwood. 19 books. Short. Provocative. Deeply thought-provoking. For each 50$ of support you can request another thought provoking … Read more
The diversity pablum we’ve been force-fed for years is air cover for the legalized discrimination ground game. No one promoting this garbage wants you pushing against their guardrails. Anyone who tries to question the approved orthodoxy is the enemy. What they are after is hegemony. What I like to call a room full of people … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers, even if they make the Demhorroids irritable and angry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read more
Click the link and let them know you listened! WFEA Copy: Granite Grok – Steve MacDonald: Major Stories Missed by Corporate Media. Steve MacDonald, from one of the nation’s top online political publications, GraniteGrok, joins The WFEA Morning Update with Jeff Chidester to talk about the top stories that are either under-reported or just not … Read more
I stumbled across an article at Townhall written by Derek Hunter. It’s titled “How Democrats Sell Themselves. I’m not even sure how I ended up there, but the featured image is our very own Sock Puppet Chris Pappas. He’s the lead in the article. And how does he sell himself? According to Derek, well, he’s … Read more
While the star-studded A-listers fawned over Barry Obama and everyone spoke eloquently about this or that, and Obama talked about a world where politics wasn’t so contentious (despite being the great divider), a dirty little secret and an open lie went underreported. Jackson Park and the 19-acre “campus” surrounding that ugly-ass building include an Indigenous land acknowledgment. … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers, even if they make the proglodytes cry like little girls or pitch fits like overstimulated toddlers. Might be some duplicates from Monday … Read more
Let’s open by applauding Europe and the EU for a significant change in direction. After years of badmouthing, trolling, and jailing its own people for objecting to the third-world invasion of the continent, EU ministers just approved a sweeping reform. It is time, it appears, to send them back. Too little too late, perhaps, but … Read more
I just read a great piece on Substack about what it’s like to break the chemical addiction cycle of the internet, and specifically, social media. The dopamine loop. The pleasure-pain balance. Interesting stuff. You all likely know by now that when your phone does that little alert thing, be it a beep, tweet, chirp, or … Read more
The UK Rape Gang Inquiry Report is public, and it is worse than even the so-called conspiracy theories. As summarized by Libs of TikTok. The report notes that the rape gang problem has been about and ignored since the 1950’s (1955 being the more official start), which explains the vast number of victims whose rights … Read more
Editor’s note: I have regained control of the website, but there’s still some work to do. Monday memes have been preempted, but there is a version on my Substack (I wasn’t expecting to have access yet). One of the things that sets GraniteGrok apart, and no, I don’t mean getting hacked and not updated all weekend (sigh), was our … Read more
In year one of Trump 2.0, the DOJ made it clear that Antifa was not, as the progressives who benefited from its intimidation tactics, the Keebler Elves. It was real, and rather than a disconnected coincidence like Book Club (as the proglodytes kept claiming), Antifa was a well-funded, well-trained, well-organized militant guerrilla group. Everyone paying … Read more
Two features of the progressive cult that appear obvious, but which don’t get enough attention, are the othering of people and the justification of violence, including murder. They’ve both been featured on these pages and in past morning updates, but the message needs to seep into the so-called political middle. The middle likes to ignore … Read more
Reminder: Memes are memes and are neither vetted nor “fact-checked,” nor to be considered “research,” or taken seriously, nor do they (necessarily) represent the opinion of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers, even if they make the proglodytes cry like little girls or pitch fits like overstimulated toddlers. . . . . . . … Read more
The Left Coast Lunatics are setting a new standard for bureaucratic red tape. Rainbow colored tape, actually. The State has a program that awards energy “supplier-diversity benefits,” which has been expanded to encourage the energy sector to award contracts to gay businesses. By 2022, CPUC had fully implemented the expansion. In practice, this meant establishing … Read more