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Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat of standing armies. This was a heritage of British legal thought and history, and it became an underappreciated part of American political thought and experience. Why were peacetime standing armies … Read more
Unless there is a major meltdown or a situation nobody sees coming, the Republicans have a potential ticket that should beat any combination of Democratic candidates. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio continue to impress anyone paying attention with their handling of any situation President Trump assigns them. With every public … Read more
Recent website issues made it impossible to do a new GrokTALK! But it will return next week – and since AJ got bumped on Saturday, I’m sharing that now. A. J. is joined by NetChoice’s Patrick Hedger to push back against data center misinformation, including how this goes beyond artificial intelligence, the importance of the … Read more
About this time every year, and more so this year as we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, our friends on the Left tell us that our nation’s founders were either enlightened freethinkers who thoroughly rejected the tenets of Christianity or that they were evil, exploitative Eurocentric white men whose only purpose in life was to … 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
Today, on The Morning Update, Trump got Congress to block FISA Section 702, and now he’s holding it hostage while the guy they didn’t want at DNI guts the deep staters in the Intelligence Community. Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel Ep 200 Link(s): . Transcript [edited]: Welcome to your Monday, June 22nd morning update. … 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
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences.” From the Declaration of Independence, one of the charges against the King that justified secession. It was built on a violent American raid on a British ship years earlier that few of us are ever taught about. In the early hours of June 10, … 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
Every June 19, the same paragraph gets read aloud. Granger, Galveston, General Order No. 3, freedom at last. All true. On that morning in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger landed on Galveston Island with more than two thousand troops and declared the enslaved free. He also voided every act of the Texas legislature since secession, … 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
I confess that I was more than angry on Monday morning at the Democrats and the stupid talking heads on the legacy media outlets. That statement may be harsh, as ‘stupid’ is a difficult word to use to describe a mature adult, but in this case, it may not be harsh enough. My statement is … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, great news for taxpayers. The DOJ has charged 324 defendants connected to $ 14.6 billion in alleged fraud, including licensed medical professionals, transnational criminals, and drug dealers, defrauding our safety-net programs across 12 states. So, Dems, why did we need to wait for Trump to find and indict all these … 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
The 2026 FIFA World Cup in the U.S. has brought millions of visitors from around the world to American stadiums, inadvertently proving the point for closed borders. Fans in jerseys from Argentina, Germany, Japan, England, and dozens of other nations fill the stands, chant in their languages, and showcase their traditions. The Scottish fans walk around in their … Read more
Congress accidentally protected the American people’s liberty this week when it failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. However, it has been “interpreted” by the FISA court to allow US intelligence agencies to wiretap conversations between a US citizen and a foreign … Read more
Last Friday, SpaceX went public and began offering shares on the NASDAQ. It was the largest IPO in history, which generated a lot of buzz and attention. But one of the more dramatic angles of SpaceX going public concerned Elon Musk, the company’s chairman, CEO, and chief technical officer. Musk already had the highest net worth … Read more
Today, on your Morning Update, a local Marxist professor says the US ‘left’ is Magafied populist trash in possession of zero brain power. He’s not wrong, and he’s not happy, but it isn’t necessarily a cause for celebration. 00:00 A Discontent Leftist03:56 The Challenge of Leftist Populism Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the … Read more
The people who insist that there is no such thing as sex and that gender is fluid have gotten their boxers bolloxed over a recent NASA announcement. All four of the astronauts assigned to the Artemis III mission appear to be male (whatever that means). Before you start running into ICE agents in your SUV, … 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. Got a meme you want us … Read more